If you are looking for a full list of Ethereum mining pools, you have come to the right place. We cannot personally vouch for each and every one of these pools, but they are all fairly popular in the community and likely to be trustworthy. That said, we take no responsibility if one of them takes your money and runs.
Personally, we have used Ethermine and Nanopool, both of which we would highly recommend and both of which we have successfully received a full and fair payout from at least once. Others on this list are known to be trustworthy in the community, including f2pool and Ethfans.
The full list of pools
- f2pool
- Ethermine
- Ethfans
- MiningPoolHub
- Nanopool
- dwarfpool
- BW
- coinotron
There are surely plenty of other Ethereum pools that we are not aware of, but these are a pretty good collection of the most popular ones. If you run a pool, or are a member of a pool that is not on this list, be sure to leave a comment below.
Why you should spread the hashrate around
For a variety of reasons, it is a good idea to support pools that are not the two or three most popular ones. When the production of Ether and the hashrate falls under the control of only a few people who administer the largest pools, the chances of the network being compromised are slightly increased. Spreading your hashrate across smaller, reputable pools is a small act of network hygiene.
Ethereum is best mined using a GPU rig, and you can learn how to build one of those in our GPU mining rig guide. Once your hardware is ready, our walkthrough on setting up Claymore's Ethereum miner on Windows covers the software side of getting your pool configured.