This is usually not a question you should ask some who has an interest which might conflict with yours, but we will try to provide an honest answer nonetheless. In PacketCrypt mining, the first pool in the miner configuration/command line sets the mining difficulty for that miner. Due to conflicting decisions by pool operators, not all pool configurations are compatible as some pools require announcements to be mined at a specific difficulty, or have different payout classes for different difficulty levels. Generally each pool aims to make the configuration where it is listed as the first pool the most profitable, but results vary over time. Our recommended common configuration is:

• http://pool.pkt.world https://stratum.zetahash.com

If you appreciate our work and want to contribute to the continuations of our services to the project, please consider listing pkt.world as your first pool.

The Pkt.world wallet built-in miner currently only mines to the Pkt.world pool, because it requires a special configuration on the pool side and is provided mostly as a convenient method to start mining. Since there is no other funding for the development than our pool, we would appreciate it if you consider using the Pkt.world wallet built-in miner as-is, or list our pool first in your miner configuration to support further development of the Pkt.world and other services provided by Pkt.world.

Pool operators can contact us to add support for their pool in the Pkt.world wallet miner.

PacketCrypt is a bandwidth-hard proof-of-work mining algorithm. The way this works is that the announcement miner creates a proof of work using the CPU, and uses bandwidth to transport this work to the pool infrastructure, which then validates the work and uses it to mine the blocks. PacketCrypt announcement mining uses a lot more bandwidth than most other mining algorithms, but in the end it is still your CPU that has to produce the work. The amount of bandwidth used depends on how much work your CPU can produce on the difficulty level set by the first pool in your miner command (a higher difficulty results in less bandwidth), and is multiplied by the number of pools. Note that the amount of bandwidth does not necessarily correlate with profitability, as some pools provide higher rewards for more difficult work. Despite sometimes generating little bandwidth on a single miner, the total bandwidth required for the PacketCrypt mining network is currently over 100 Gbps!

While there has been a lot of talk about people having GPU miners, and even reports of people selling GPU mining software, no such software has actually been published. Be careful when trying to invest in such software, as it might be a scam promising unrealistic yields.