There is a GPU miner for YAC: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=247782.0

Yeah, you care to expand on that? 

Sorry about your luck with the other pools.

My experience has been the opposite and yes you could always tweak cgminer every time you changed coins if they were different enough.

At times it seems I'm not getting enough work and/or not getting work in a timely manner. Is there some kind of bottleneck?

I say this because sometimes my hash just disappears from the main stats page. While cgminer doesn't DC or go into failover mode the timestamps are clearly showing some gaps.

While running load balance between middlecoin (24ms) and another pool (200+ms) I noticed the other pool always having the work priority on both rigs despite 8x the latency.

To be fair though I need to run these comparisons between 2 auto switching  pools and will test against multipool when I get the cryptsy autosell api working.

-He does NOT support SHA-256 based coins. Only scrypt coins. Now, getting more specific...


http://middlecoin.com/faq.html: What currencies do you mine?

I can't make that information public either. But I consistently check the profitability of coins that are put on exchanges. So the basic answer is "the most profitable ones".



https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=259649.msg2854693#msg2854693 - 02-Aug-2013: We are now trading on three exchanges. And we have 26 coins in the rotation.

As to more specific than that, you can peruse posts by h2odysee to get hints as to which coins have been mined at some point. He won't give us a list, its in the FAQ (as listed above), but some that he has either directly or indirectly confirmed are: FTC, CAP, LTC, CGB, NVC, LKY, FST, and perhaps CHN. Note that all these hints were gathered from past posts by him here on Bitcoin Forum, and are only indicative of what may have been mined at that point in time, and may have been suspended from active use... or may still be a possible option if his script picks them.

The official answer, as the FAQ says, is that he won't reveal it.



H20 is mining with 2x 7970s, which is about 1.2MH. I've personally got three 6970s pointed there, about 1.4MH, and as soon as I get a new power supply on Tuesday, will setup my three 7950s for another 1.7MH.

You don't have to have a ton of processing power to mine on pools... in fact pool mining is preferable for smaller farms like yours or mine, because most coins, solo mining with a small farm is unfeasible with regards to the price of power to the rarity of block reward. The question is if a profitability switching pool like this (much like the pool hopping clients of old) is more profitable than just pointing at a consistently profitable coin  (averaged over time... see also coinchoose, sort by the 7-day column) and staying the course for a long run. Some people are running those checks, but it still will take some time.

As for me, even though I only have 2-3MH invested (which is a lot of money for me, between buying cards, motherboards, PSUs, and the power itself used), mining on a switcher site is easier in the short run. I've been mining on multipool for about 3 or 4 weeks until I decided to get a baseline over the past week, and now I'll check how I far on this site with the same machine. Judging by an average of the 5 people above and below my hash rate, at very worst... I'll make slightly better than I was at Multipool. At best... I'll make a HELL of a lot better than I was at Multipool. One upside is I don't have to worry about selling off my coins manually, I'll just get them off the bat.

With the number you said... I'd guess you are bringing a 6870 to the table... thats what my first mining card was in my desktop, and I still mine with it from time to time.

On the rig I game with I often hash at 230 KH/s or so (I tone it down a lot when I game, and run it full-speed when I'm away from the PC). Even so, I've had no real problems with lost shares above and beyond what we experience normally here (which is the same even if you run 50 million MH/s). My share rate is around 0.3/minute at 230 KH/s, but it's still something. And it's more profitable than mining other coins so far as I can tell!

There is a GPU miner for YAC: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=247782.0

Maybe YAC? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Agw1n7jxRPfRdDFuSUlicFVxY2MzQUdqMURyMHdvZ2c#gid=0 

It depends on what your goals are, and how involved you want to get.  The 2 pools mentioned are ok if you want a 'set and forget' solution (middlecoin especially), however its not going to maximize your potential profits.  

Middlecoin is mining what is profitable and selling it in batches at market value at that time (my assumptions here, could be mistaken). Its basically letting someone else do the trading for you.  No holding, no potential to speculate or ride a coin to an increase in value (or a loss, of course).  In theory payments should be rather steady and consistent.

Multipool is giving you 'most profitable' at the time of mining, but of course that doesn't mean it translates in any way to when you actually have accumulated enough coins to sell them.  You end up with a bit of everything, and if you like to play the markets, and rode all the right swings, it could work out well for you.

Both these pools share the same characteristic; they are in it for short term small gains at the expense of potential significant long term gains.  Think of it this way, you could make an extra 5-10, maybe 15% profit mining many different coins and cashing them in, but what if you happened to mine nothing but 'the next ltc' (or even something that ends up half the price), while it was in its infancy and held them for long term growth.  The profit potential could be astronomical in comparison, but of course finding said coin isn't easy these days (hence this thread in the first place)

The other thing with these 2 pools is they are also more or less looking at coins already on an exchange (as far as I'm aware).  As was mentioned previously, its often newer coins not yet on an exchange that can lead to some very nice profits if you've picked the right one.

On a side note, my personal opinion is both of the above pools are doing harm to the current alt-coin crypto environment.  Middlecoin is trading bulk amounts of many different coins at market value on a daily basis, generally driving down prices, and multipool (and middlecoin) hammer coins when diff drops, leaving steady miners looking for long term gains slogging through higher difficulty times.  They both squeeze out room for speculation and real gains I mentioned elsewhere in this post, for the sake of much smaller short term profits.  They are both new enough that we may not see the longer term effects of this for awhile, but it may end up driving many coins to a 0 value game.  For this reason, I personally stay away.   However this personal opinion doesn't really change the rest of this reply, tried to give an unbiased view.

In the end, like most things, your probably going to get what you put into it.  If your able to put in the time, sift through a lot of noise, to find some diamonds in the rough, learn to understand and spot why one coin may end up worth more than others, the rewards are definitely there for the taking, and likely much greater than multi-pool solutions.  But if you don't have this time or aren't interested in getting your hands dirty with it, above 'set and forget' options are available!

Use middlecoin and avoid the headache of having to set up your own system to switch coins every few minutes. You should be using a pool that automatically switches to the most profitable coin unless you have a hunch that some coin is going to dramatically increase in price.

There's a few ways about it. One is that you mine stuff that is not even on exchange yet, hoping that it is more profitable than anything on coinchoose/coinwars/wheretomine/etc.

There's another way, where you mine the coin that you want to support the most, despite how profitable it will be. At this point, you're only mining it because you support the coin and its services that it offers (or may offer in the future).

And lastly, there's the purist that only mines LTC and BTC because they're the "originals".

So obviously it depends what you're in this for. Myself, I need to make a few extra bucks... so it's rare that I mine something that is on an exchange already (because by that time it's less profitable for me to mine). More often, I mine something that looks promising that is not on exchanges yet (so it has not caught a whole lot of attention... yet). As most things in life, it's a you win some you lose some kind of game...

Digitalcoin (DGC) and Worldcoin (WDC)
$.02 ymmv etc

That is indeed the game we are playing. You'll get a different answer to that question from everyone that answers it, and a good portion of those answers will likely fall into the category of dis-information. Everyone has a bias of some sort and some can't help but to try and steer readers in a direction that profits themselves more than the readers.

The most profitable advice given to me was to try everything (pool, solo, pick one coin, try lots of coins) and see what works best for you. Everyone has different resources to invest, costs to maintain, and expectations for the results, and differing amounts of patience. The best advice I have been given is to do the research on the different coins and only support the ones in which you truly believe.

Try:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=259649.0

Bitcoin + the merged coins (DVC, iXC, and NMC) are always a good choice. PPC, LTC, and XPM are also not bad ideas.