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Comparison of mining pools
- Proportional - When a block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how many shares each of them has found.
- PPLNS - Pay Per Last N Shares. Similar to proportional, but instead of looking at the number of shares in the round, instead looks at the last N shares, regardless of round boundaries.
- PPS - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth a certain amount of litecoins. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.
- RBPPS - Round-Based Pay Per Share. Like PPS, but payouts are delayed till a block is found and confirmed by the network. If a found block gets orphaned, earnings relative to it are not paid.
- SMPPS - Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like PPS, but never pays more than the pool earns.
- RSMPPS - Recent Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but aims to prioritize the most recent miners.
There is no "normal" or "standard" or "base" difficulty for Litecoin pools. Difficulty is measured in the same way as Bitcoin difficulty, but since the hashing algorithm used by Litecoin is much more complex (and therefore slower), pools need to use a share difficulty lower than 1.
In the first months after the launch of Litecoin, most pools used a share difficulty of 2-16 or 2-15. They could have used even lower values, but there was no point in doing that. After GPU mining became widespread, most pools moved to higher difficulties, such as 2-12. The reason behind this was to decrease bandwidth usage, as a higher share difficulty results in fewer shares being submitted. While this change doesn't affect mining rewards, there is a minor downside, and that's that the precision of speed estimates gets drastically reduced.
For this reason, slower miners may prefer pools with a lower share difficulty, so that they can get more precise statistics on their workers. To overcome this problem, some pools implement adaptive solutions that serve work units with variable difficulty depending on the speed of each miner.
Pools are sorted by reward system, then by launch date (for Litecoin).
The following is a list of pull/push pools. You are required to register an account on the pools and configure your miners on portal account pages before mining. Each pool may have different payment methods so select which ever is best for you. See above for payment methods.
| Name | kHash/s | Reward Type | Fee | PPS Fee | Launched | Forum | Website | Location | Difficulty | Transaction Fees | Stratum Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Litepool.in | 60,000 | PPLNS + 0% fee for block finder + Prizes | 1% | - | 2013-05-04 | Link | Link | SE, NL, EU | Adaptive | 0% | Stratum supported |
| lite.coin-pool.com | 35,000 | PPLNS - Next 20 block finders get 2 LTC BONUS | 0% | - | 2013-05-08 | Link | Link | US | 63 | 0.1 | YES |
| Litepool.ru | 32,000 | PPLNS + Prizes | 0% | - | 2013-06-12 | Link | Link | RU, EU | Adaptive | 0,02 | Stratum supported |
| ltcmining.de | 11,000 | Propotional + 11 LTC for the top 10 shares within first 4 weeks | 0% | - | 2013-05-28 | Link | Link | DE | Adaptive | 0% | Stratum supported |
| WeMineLTC.com | 4,100,000 | PPLNS | 0% | - | 2013-04-06 | Link | Link | EU, US | Adaptive | 0 | YES |
| NetcodePool.org | 550,000 | PPLNS + Prizes/Raffles - 1oz Silver Bar(s) Raffle Ongoing! | 2% | - | 2013-04-06 | Link | Link | USA/EU | Adaptive | 0% | Stratum supported |
| MinandoLTC | 3,000 | PPLNS + No registration required + Instant Pay + Transaction fees paid to miners + Prizes to Top 5 miners | 2% | - | 2013-06-07 | Link Link Link | Link | SPAIN | Adaptive | 0% | Stratum supported |
| PooledBits.com | 80,000 | PPLNS | 0% | - | 2013-04-12 | Link | Link | US | Adaptive | ? | ? |
| WeLoveLTC.com | 40,000 | PPLNS | 0% | - | 2013-05-29 | None | Link | US | 63 | ? | Stratum Supported |
| LitecoinRain.org | 10,000 | PPLNS | 0% | - | 2013-05-01 | Link | Link | UA | 2-12 | ? | ? |
| Coinat.com | 130,000 | PPLNS | 0% | - | 2013-04-29 | Link | Link | EU, DE | 63 | 0 | Stratum Supported |
| ltc.hashfaster.com | ?? | Proportional + 5 LTC block reward for finder. | 0% | - | 2013-06-17 | Link | Link | IL, USA | 16 | 0% | Stratum supported |
| Cryptoworld.eu | 30,000 | PPLNS | 0% | - | 2013-06-02 | Link | Link | EU, CZ | 63 | 0 | Stratum Supported |
| THeMiNDPooL.com | 15,000 | PPLNS + Prizes | 0% | - | 2013-05-23 | N/A | Link | US | 63 | 0% | NO |
| LTC24.com | 36,000 | PPLNS | 0% | - | 2013-06-05 | Link | Link | EU, NL | 16 | 0% | Stratum supported |
| give-me-ltc.com | 3,500,000 | PPLNS | 2% | - | 2013-03-11 | Link | Link | US, EU | Dynamic | ? | + |
| Cryptopool.info | 25,000 | PPLNS | 0% | - | 2013-05-15 | Link | Link | EU - Netherlands | Dynamic VARDIFF | 0% | YES, stratum fully supported |
| de.wurstpool.com | 3,000 | PPLNS | 0% | - | 2013-05-25 | Link | Link | DE | Adaptive | 0% | Yes |
| MiningPool.nl | 78,500 | PPLNS | 0%! | - | 2013-05-01 | Link | Link | NL, EU | Adaptive | ? | ? |
| LaTinCoin.org | 20,000 | PPLNS | 0% | - | 2013-05-08 | Link | Link | AR | Adaptive | ? | ? |
| Hypernova | 230,000 | CPPSRB (NOT PPS) | - | 1% | 2013-04-28 | Link | Link | EU, US | Choosable per worker | ? | Stratum supporte |
| bigltc.cc | 10,000 | PPLNS | 0% | - | 2013-05-01 | Link | Link | DE | 2-12 | ? | ? |
| yet another litecoinpool.de | 15,000 | PPLNS | 1% | - | 2013-04-16 | Link | Link | DE | 2-14 | ? | ? |
| Multipool | 220,000 | PPLNS | 0% | - | 2013-04-04 | Link | Link | North America | 32 | ? | ? |
| vvpool.com | 100,000 | PPLNS | 0% | - | 2013-05-5 | Link | Link | EU | 2-12 | ? | ? |
| MyLTCPool.com | 30.000 | PPLNS + 5 LTC reward for next 5 blocks | 0% | - | 2013-05-01 | Link | Link | EU | 2-12 | 0 | Stratum Supported |
| Coinotron | 3,900,000 | RBPPS | 2% | 5% | 2011-10-20 | Link | Link | PL | 192 | ? | + |
| Mine-Litecoin Stratum | 31,000 | PPLNS | 0% | 0% | 2012-05-2013 | Link | Link | US | 2-16 | 0% | + |
| CrypDough.com | 6,000 | PPLNS | 0.5% | - | 2013-04-13 | Link | Link | US | 2-12 | ? | ? |
| LiteBonk.com | 35,000 | PPLNS | 0% | - | 2013-03-20 | Link | Link | US | 2-12 | 0.1 LTC | YES |
| OzCoin | 40,000 | DGM | 2% | - | 2011-10-17 | Link | Link | US | 2-12 | ? | ? |
| suprnova.cc | 11,000 | Proportional | 0% | - | 2013-03-20 | Link | Link | DE | 2-12 | ||
| Pool-X.eu | 80,000 | PPLNS | 3% | - | 2011-10-17 | Link | Link | FR | 2-14 | ? | - |
| P2Pool | 824,000 | PPLNS | 0% | - | 2011-11-07 | Link | GitHub | P2P | Adaptive | None | + |
| Ecki Co LTD | 2,000 | PPLNS | 1% | - | 2011-11-21 | Link | Link | TH, DE | 2-14 | ? | ? |
| burnside's Pool | 153,000 | PPLNS | 0% | - | 2012-07-15 | Link | Link | US | 2-12 | ? | - |
| Mining Foreman | 75,000 | PPLNS | 0% | - | 2013-03-23 | Link | Link | EU | Adaptive | ? | ? |
| CoinPool | 22,000 | PPLNS | 2% | - | 2013-03-23 | Link | Link | EE | Dynamic | ? | ? |
| Invasion Mining Network | 280,000 | PPLNS | 1.5% | - | 2013-04-28 | Link | Link | US | 2-14 | ? | ? |
| Litepool.eu | 105,000 | PPS | - | 2% | 2013-04-04 | Link | Link | UK | Adaptive | ? | ? |
| litecoinpool.org | 1,660,195 | PPS | - | 4% | 2011-11-05 | Link | Link | UK | Adaptive | ? | + |
| LTCMine.ru | 2,700,000 | PPS | - | 2.5% | 2012-07-07 | Link | Link | RU | Dynamic | None | + |
| Elitist Jerks | 30,000 | PPS | - | 3% | 2011-10-17 | Link | Link | US | 32 | ||
| CoinRelay.com | 3,500 | PPS + No registration required | - | 3% | 2013-06-19 | Link | Link | US | Dynamic | ? | + |
The following is a list of P2Pool nodes that can be used by the public, all nodes require no registration and can be connected to by simply passing your LTC address as the username and anything as the password. The nodes are also interchangeable due to the nature of P2Pool and as such it is recommended to setup a more than one in your miner config as a fallback.
All P2Pool's payment methods are based on PPNLS - Pay Per Last N Shares. Similar to proportional, but instead of looking at the number of shares in the round, instead looks at the last N shares, regardless of round boundaries.
| Name | kHash/s | Fee | Launched | Forum | Website | Location | Difficulty | Transaction Fees | Stratum Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mine-Litecoin | 26,500 | 0% | 2013-04-26 | Link | Link | North America | Adaptive | Paid to miners | Yes |
| Carnth's | 21,100 | 0.5% | 2013-04-03 | Link | Link | USA | Adaptive | Paid to miners | Yes |
| Wincoin | 20,000 | 2% | 2013-04-12 | Link | Link | France | Lowered | Paid to miners | Yes |
| Dlunch | 3,130 | 0.5% | 2013-04-06 | Link | Link | South Korea | Adaptive | Paid to miners | Yes |
| Skyrim-Online | 354 | 0.5% | 2013-03-15 | Link | Link | France | Adaptive | Paid to miners | Yes |
| LitecoinP2Pool | 2100 | 2% | 2013-05-19 | Link | Link | Netherlands | Adaptive | Paid to miners | Yes |
| Syari | 19,000 | 1% | 2013-04-05 | Link | Link | France | Lowered | Paid to miners | Yes |
| Fabulous Panda Pool | 120 | 0.5% | 2013-05-27 | Link | Link | France | Adaptive | Paid to miners | Yes |
| CoinFactory | 1840 | 1% | 2013-06-08 | - | Link | Ireland | Adaptive | Paid to miners | Yes |
| Play4.co.uk | 5090 | 1% | 2013-06-08 | - | Link | UK | Adaptive | Paid to miners | Yes |