Ethereum Mining is Getting Way Too Centralized

15 Mar
2016

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In the earlier days of Bitcoin mining there were also concerns about too much hashing power getting centralized in the hands of a single entity or a mining pool and it seems that we are seeing similar thing happening with Ethereum at the moment. Almost half of the mining hashrate for Ethereum seems to be currently controlled by Dwarfpool, so it is advised that users switch to other pools to balance out things. New users that are just starting to get into Ethereum mining should also consider any of the other pools for mining ETH instead of Dwarfpool. Dwarfpool is also trying to encourage users to distribute hashrate more evenly with the pool fee increase from 1% to 2% to new users if the hashrate goes over 50% of the total network, though that apparently is not doing that great job. Below you can find an up to date list of Ethereum mining pools other than Dwarfpool where you can mine ETH and get a more even hashrate distribution.

– eth.suprnova.cc
– eth.nanopool.org
– www2.coinmine.pl/eth/
– ethpool.org
– www.coinotron.com
– eth.pp.ua
– ethereumpool.co
– weipool.org
– ethpool.utocat.com
– ethereum.miningpoolhub.com






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8 Responses to Ethereum Mining is Getting Way Too Centralized

d

March 15th, 2016 at 17:24

Any particular reason why dwarfpool became so large? Were they offering lower fees then everyone else? Were they one of the first pools to offer Ethereum mining? Just curious…

admin

March 15th, 2016 at 19:05

Probably because of the Ethereum stratum proxy they have released that improved the coins earned, but other pools have also added support later on or implemented their own stratum solutions… people are probably just too lazy to switch pools when everything is working well and they are happy with the results. Some of the other pools had various issues along the way, or lower than expected profit etc.

d

March 15th, 2016 at 19:56

Makes sense, and thought that would be the case. Set it and forget it.

Tadej

March 15th, 2016 at 20:10

Well, I didn’t even hear about dwarfpool, I believe oneof the first was nanopool and then went to suprnova, where I already had an account, Have to check them out (not going to mine over there of course) ;)

PerfectMine

October 25th, 2016 at 12:18

eth pool 0.5% fee
http://eth.perfectmine.io/

connecti using de1.eth.perfectmine.io:8008

sebcorse

October 28th, 2016 at 13:43

Hello , please add my pool in your list :
http://ethpool.from.corsica/
Ethereum Free Pool : 0% fee, server located in France with high bandwith and redundant Ethereum client (geth and parity)
Minimum of 60 Mh/s required

ethertrench

November 2nd, 2017 at 23:51

Why not giving it a try to a rather smaller pool: http://eth.ethertrench.com

They offer twitter notification on new blocks. Furthermore drop a mail to the admin, and they monitor your workers and notify you if the go down.

The pool proved to be working with Expanse. So give it a try :-)

yegor

September 20th, 2018 at 16:31

Our pool minerall.io gives up to 30% more than others, tested and proven.
You guys welcome to try

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