Can the removal of BTC from multipool.us be considered?
The switching speed of the pool doesn't coalesce well with the overall concept because of the overall low hashrate (compared to other pools), and the overall low amount of time that hashrate contributes to directly mining BTC.
The outcome of this is invariably 48h+ mining that achieves no return whatsoever, and a switch is made to an altcoin.
The only way a small(er) pool will be successful in mining BTC is with a dedicated and ongoing hashrate. This quite simply is not a realistic expectation from a profit-switching mining pool.
Rather than removal...is there "another way"...^^^ see above.
Is there anyway we can re-direct our hashing power to another pool for a "guaranteed" return...I am not technical, however, I would imagine there must be an option of some sort??
Hopefully Flound has that "other way"??
We're already doing this. We're mining with p2pool. as you can see there are often multiple BTC blocks found per day. Today there were 2, yesterday there were 3. The day before that there were 0. P2pool has about 200 TH on its network.
P2pool has critical mass to mine BTC. If you stay with Multipool, your rewards will have higher variance on BTC than if you were on another pool. However over the long term they should be similar.