Nobody? Are there really no decent altcoin / crypto trading web portals?

Hi,

I would like to compile a list of altcoin / crypto trading web portals. That is, not just forums (i.e. bitcointalk, litecointalk, forum.gethashing, etc.) or general news portals (i.e. coindesk, newsbtc, ccn, etc.), but rather web portals that are specifically dedicated to altocins and/or crypto coins trading. Anybody knows of any such portal?

Thanks!

Huh, hopefully they will implement driver into cgminer and bfgminer as soon as possible since the original minerd is a rather ancient piece of software ...

Sfards, you said that miners will be available for purchase in July ... we're almost there ... any new exact date? And what quantities will be available?

Also, I'm curious, since you'll be using dual mode, which software will you use, cgminer or bfgminer?

I'm running a small scale Bitcoin Pool Payouts experiment ... see here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1059040.0 ... antpool, nicehash and kano are doing very very well, NiceHash.com service is interesting as it gives above direct Bitcoin mining payouts in particular intervals.

+3.76 to 4.00 for me, thanks!

I'm running some small scale pools payouts experiment (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1059040.0), is anyone else observing very bad luck on BTC Guild lately?

Results after 5 weeks of uninterrupted mining are online, here is also the graph:

http://www.poolpayouts.com/after_week_005_normalized_graph.png

Antpool, NiceHash and kano have cumulative top payouts, obviously kano had some very good luck in the last week. btcguild is surprisingly low, I wonder if it can recover in payouts since it has quite big hashrate (aprox 12 ph).

It will be interesting to see the stability of this 16nm 3D chip ... chips, based on this technology have failed on several experimental products in other IT areas ...  would really love to see some independent review once these miners are actually supposed to be hashing (not just on photo).

Results after 4 weeks (1 month) of uninterrupted mining are online, here is also the graph:

http://www.poolpayouts.com/after_week_004_normalized_graph.png

So far NiceHash has the highest payouts, Antpool just slightly lower, following f2pool, kano and btc guild. Also, NiceHash, Antpool, f2pool and btc guild are providing constant daily payouts.

Today we've seen another diff adjustment (this time a negative one, -2.50% ). I've gathered and summarized payments so far and compared them to theoretical ideal earnings considering diff in previous periods:

first period up to May 17 2015: (0.0105558 diff*1.33 Th/s*12 days=0.168470568 BTC)
from May 17 2015 up to May 31 2015: (0.01030404diff*1.33 Th/s*14 days=0.191861225 BTC)

http://www.poolpayouts.com/after_may_31th_difficulty_change.png

It's cool to see that AntPool and NiceHash are almost at 100% of theoretical ideal payouts

I'm not using any p= parameter for nicehash, I'm using "x" for password.

And as far as backup pools - I'm using backup pools for the same pool if it is available (for example, usa and eu stratum servers for the same pool).

If pool would go completely down (all it's stratum servers goes down), then an additional backup pool is set to nicehash stratum since it pays on PPS and it looks like best paying PPS so far -> but this is set on a different payout address (not the one used for experiment). This would also mean that if one pool would go completely down, miners would still be hashing away (I don't want to waste them ). However I'm also monitoring miners with miner's dashboard (https://github.com/selaux/miner-dashboard) and I'm barely seeing any switches to this last-resort pool, therefore I can say that all pools, chosen for this experiment are very very stable, near to 100% stable.

And yes, I'm happy to see that 100% payouts can be achieved, we'll see how will this go on long term, I'll do another comparison to theoretical payout after the next diff adjustment.

Results after 3 weeks of uninterrupted mining are online, here is also the graph:

http://www.poolpayouts.com/after_week_003_normalized_graph.png

While Antpool is still having good luck, NiceHash is now on par with Antpool, suggesting it was paying above 100% luck mining for the past period.

This will be cool

http://www.coindesk.com/21-inc-confirms-plans-bitcoin-distribution/

When each TV, smartphone, dishwasher, etc. will have it's own Bitcoin miner integrated, difficulty will truly skyrocket 

+3.01% to +3.25%, please ... thanks!

Results after 2 weeks of uninterrupted mining are online, here is also the graph:

http://www.poolpayouts.com/after_week_002_normalized_graph.png

Antpool is obviously having a round of extreme luck, paying near or even above 100% luck mining

Once again I'd like to point out that the idea of this experiment is NOT to get the best pool or to say which pool has the best payout. The main idea is to show what kind of payments miner can expect and how often these payments arrive in miners pocket. And also to get an insight about how close to ideal theoretical payouts we can get. Regarding switching pools - one thing that is already showing up is that switching pools can lead to serious profit loss, especially if one is switching between PPLNS pools.

The current pattern of increase is similar to the one after Mar 22 2015 adjustment ... signaling another decent diff increase ... yep, it is more than obvious that new mining hw is still being deployed despite summer and stagnating BTC/USD price.

Today we've seen another diff adjustment (unfortunately it was a positive one, +2.44%). I've gathered and summarized payments so far and compared them to theoretical ideal earnings considering diff in previous period (0.0105558 diff*1.33 Th/s*12 days=0.168470568 BTC):

http://www.poolpayouts.com/after_may_17th_difficulty_change.png

kano, thanks for your feedback. Yes, my goal is to run this experiment on a long-run basis (several months). My intention is not to compare PPS/PPLNS, but primary to give insight into how payments are delivered to users when mining on various pools. And also the obvious difference between various pools performance (related to pool's location, software used, etc.). Me, as well as many other users, too, are looking to get as much as possible profit out as mining. And since mining is not as profitable as it was a year ago, a 5% can make a difference. In an ideal world it should be essentially the same on which pool one is mining. I'd like to see if my experiment can prove or deny this ... we'll see in few months.