Criteria for selecting mining pool

Pool Size

Pools with larger hash rates will find more blocks, giving you more frequent rewards, but smaller relative to pools with fewer miners. Over time, it averages out as the discovery of blocks is entirely based on luck.
We encourage miners to spread their mining power so that no one pool has too much of the network hash rate.

Here is a convenient link to view the size of different pools. This is the block explorer maintained by the valued community member psyrax. He maintains a very useful website called Psyraxpedia where he blogs about Horizen node development, Horizen mining, and all things Horizen.

Pool Features

Does the pool allow anonymous mining? Or must you register as a user?

What are the payout terms. Some pools will such as zen.Zhash.pro will autopay into your wallet every 0.1 ZEN. Some people will prefer that they have all their ZEN delivered to their wallet as soon as possible. Other pools such as Luckpool allow you to set a threshold balance before you are paid. In the middle is Luxor that pays every 1 ZEN. 

Pool Fees

Pool fees are retained by the pool operators to defray their expenses and compensate them for their efforts, They can range from 0 to 4% based on the pool. 

Pool Support

Are the managers of the pool available for technical support? What is there preferred channel for technical support? Most miners will need timely support, so support via Discord, Telegram, Slack etc is important. 

 Please see our home page for a list of ZEN Mining Pools and explore their websites to see which best fits your needs.