Why I recommend AntPool among domestic Bitcoin mining pools. When writing this article, Bitcoin had gone through 6 years. By chance I became interested in Bitcoin and started to get into the coin circle of mining — miners, pools, wallets, exchanges. There are so many choices it’s dazzling. I’m just expressing my personal opinion for reference; everyone feels differently.
My contact with Ant began with Bitmain miners. As a newbie, in a network with hundreds of PH/S hashrate, CPUs and graphics cards can no longer mine, and you need a miner to mine. But miners cost over ten thousand yuan. Through searching I accidentally found Ant’s U3 miner, 60 yuan, 60GH/S hashrate — great as a newbie’s entry point, cheap, and lets you learn about this coin circle, so I chose Bitmain’s AntMiner, and also learned about its AntPool and the computing-power nest.
When I first got into mining, the pool hashrate ranking had F2Pool (Fish Pool) first and AntPool (Ant Pool) second. But now AntPool (Ant Pool) is first. Everyone would definitely choose first, but after my comparison: first, F2Pool’s fee is 4%, while AntPool’s fee is 2.5%. The 1.5% difference may seem small, but over the long term it’s also a considerable sum. Another important reason: AntPool supports switching between PPS, PPLNS, and SOLO settlement methods, while F2Pool only supports PPS — AntPool is more flexible. Also in customer service: F2Pool has a Q group, but I never got in because it was always in a state of not allowing anyone to join, so I don’t know F2Pool’s service; on the contrary, AntPool has a very active group and customer service — when you raise a problem many enthusiastic friends help answer, and there are official Bitmain people helping you. If you doubt the truth of what I say, you can join the AntPool group: 227819626, with 700 people, to exchange ideas. 700 people can’t be faked — listen to the users’ voices; only when everyone is happy is it truly good.
Enough talk, let’s compare AntPool (Ant Pool) and F2Pool (Fish Pool) one by one. Friends with choice anxiety are in luck, haha.
[Comparison 1] Settlement Fee
AntPool (Ant Pool): 2.5% F2Pool (Fish Pool): 4% AntPool’s fee is lower, getting more Bitcoin, as written in each family’s stated deduction rate. Over time, the 1.5% difference is also a considerable sum.
[Comparison 2] Settlement Method
AntPool (Ant Pool): PPS, PPLNS, SOLO F2Pool (Fish Pool): PPS From the screenshot above you can see AntPool supports three settlement methods and can switch at any time, while with F2Pool you can only choose PPS — no discussion.
[Comparison 3] Website Operator
AntPool (Ant Pool): Shenzhen Century Cloud Core Technology Co., Ltd. F2Pool (Fish Pool): individual filing According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) filing of websites, AntPool is an enterprise filing, F2Pool is an individual filing — that is, AntPool is run by a company, F2Pool may be run by an individual team. This is also one of the reasons I chose AntPool.
[Comparison 4] Customer Service
AntPool (Ant Pool): an active Q group and customer service you can enter at any time F2Pool (Fish Pool): never got in, don’t know the service Before, at F2Pool, I couldn’t even join a group, feeling like I was mining alone with no communication. Later at AntPool, there are hundreds of people, and coin-circle info spreads very fast, plus several official people inside who often help miners solve problems — very commendable!
[Comparison 5] Product Line
AntPool (Ant Pool): products cover miners, pools, computing-power mining farms F2Pool (Fish Pool): so far only seen the pool Bitmain’s products cover miners, pools, computing-power mining farms. Using your own miner with your own pool should be better; allegedly there’s optimization for your own pool.
So I chose AntPool, but AntPool also has shortcomings. Because AntPool’s system uses a distributed system, data synchronization between servers has delays and isn’t real-time. So friends who just connected to AntPool need to wait half an hour to see the hashrate on the website, and the data seen now is from half an hour to an hour ago, not real-time data. But this doesn’t affect income; it’s just that data display is a bit slow, which is tolerable.
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