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xmr-pool-choice

Toolkit for helping to choose the right Monero minging pool based off of latency and decentralization of the network. Also, a json database containing the most recent accepted pool names, mining addresses, and live stats APIs is included.

Requirements

Python 3
tabulate for seeing the results
requests for interacting with the pool APIs

Linux Usage

For a fresh Linux install, follow these commands to download the python3 packages required

	sudo apt install python3-pip
	pip3 install tabulate requests
	git clone https://github.com/timekelp/xmr-pool-choice
	cd /xmr-pool-choice
	python3 run.py

Windows Usage

Download Python3, I prefer the miniconda3 distrubtion from Anaconda. Download the Python 3.5 exe installer and follow the instructions. Download a copy of this repository to a location of your choice, then run

	cd "<repository-location>\xmr-pool-choice"
	conda install pip
	pip install requests tabulate
	python run.py

OSX Usage

Download Python3 if you don't already have it, I prefer the miniconda3 distrubtion from Anaconda. Download the Python 3.5 bash installer and follow the instructions. Download or git clone a copy of this repository to a location of your choice, then run

	cd <repository-location>\xmr-pool-choice
	conda install pip
	pip install requests tabulate
	python run.py

General note: it takes a few minutes to get the data from the network so please allow the script to run to completion. An example output (for an eastcoast based miner) would look like

The top 10 pools based on latency are listed below. 
It is recommended to chose a low latency, reliable, 
and small pool with <10 % Network Hashrate. 
The full results are written to the text file pool_results.txt 

  Rank  Pool                        Latency    Fee                    Network %  Hash Rate      Miners
------  --------------------------  ---------  -------------------  -----------  -----------  --------
     1  xmrpool.net                 17.28 ms   Variable 0.4 - 6.5%        0.412  218.3 kH/s         40
     2  xmr.coolpool.io             32.24 ms   0.9 %                      0.022  11.6 kH/s          35
     3  mixpools.org - us           45.55 ms   0.5 %                      0.229  121.4 kH/s          6
     4  MoneroHash.com              48.12 ms   1.6 %                      1.829  970.0 kH/s        523
     5  monero.us.to                75.64 ms   1.0 %                      0.001  448.0 H/s           4
     6  xmr.nanopool.org - useast1  78.89 ms   1.0 %                      1.932  1.0 MH/s          184
     7  xmr.nanopool.org - uswest1  79.41 ms   1.0 %                      1.932  1.0 MH/s          184
     8  mineXMR.com                 90.89 ms   1.0 %                      4.787  2.5 MH/s         1128
     9  mixpools.org - eu           92.43 ms   0.5 %                      0.229  121.4 kH/s          6
    10  monero.crypto-pool.fr       99.11 ms   2.0 %                     18.024  9.6 MH/s          946

Plans for recommendation

Looking to develop some metric that can be calculated from the data this script acquires. This could then provide a way to suggest top pools for a miner to join that is beneificial to the miner as well as the network decentralizaition.

Future features

Calculate average block per day to give a miner how many additions to their account they can expect
Choose pools from a certain region you would like to only choose from.
Incorporate tabulate and requests into the code base so they don't need to be installed ahead of time.

This code relies on the data gathered by the folk(s) at moneropools.com and supportXMR.com for maintaing all of the pool information. Check them out.

XMR Donations if you feel this was useful:

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Pool list updated: February 26th, 2017