Guys I've been ignoring my rig lately just letting it chug away in the garage, awesome miner has been very stable however just taking a look at actual payout vs the predicted payout for MHP and ZergPool it is way off. I'm probably ending up with <50% of predicted earnings which seems substantial even taking into account exchange rates etc.
Given this is happening on two separate pools is there anything daft I need to start with in Awesome miner? I have a 7 x 1060 6gb rig benchmarked every two weeks set to profit switch every 10 mins between MPG and Zergpool with 1% difference.
Understand its difficult times mining but want to make sure the configuration is optimal and predictions as accurate as they can be.
many thanks
There are no golden rules for mining, especially for each miner's circumstances vary. I won't go into depth on all the things you have to consider but let's focus on MPH and Zerg along with other predefined online services.
Firstly, reduce the number of algos you are mining, skip ones with huge difficulty fluctuations (such as DGB-skein on MPH for example), cause once AM switch you to those, you are mining for at least 8/10 minutes cycle you defined....next to nothing. You need to filter out, those "bad for you" algos first and foremost. Aim to look for ones that has little difficulty fluctuation, yet still show profitable in your profile and just focus your hashrate to them. A good example is RVN, difficulty is steady around 25k...and coin value is also pretty stable.
Secondly, your hash power is low compare to the payout threshold at ZergPool if you only have the 1 rig of 7x1060s, you are probably using auto exchange to accumulate them into the coin of your choice to reach minimum payout faster. However, that brings in the delay factors and worst is that some funds simply just got stuck if exchange wallet is in maintenance mode, and it happens to happen...a lot. In itself, it all balances out in the long term if future prospects are bright.
In the difficult times that we're in, say, like 2 weeks ago when market is in continuous decline that most coins lose value 10% a day...that will give a very hard toll on what you finally gets. Imagine since almost all coins trades with the BTC pair, it's especially bad when both of the exchange rate of BTC/USD and YOURCOIN/BTC drops at the same time, it takes double toll on your earning figures...especially with Auto Exchange.
If you have the spirit to experiment a little, try stick with RVN 24/7 and see if the earnings stablizes, I would suggest since no auto switching needed, try sign up on SuprNova's RVN pool or some other pools with fairly fast block finding rates (Zerg only does 1.5 block an hour roughly, hashrate is less consistent and worst of all, high minimum payout threshold, you can't sell as fast even if you want to). Most importantly however is that on Zerg, even if you used the mc=RVN parameter in password field, it still will mine other coins using the same port and does conversion (in this case, with PROTON)...so you can test on both pools for extended period of time and compare which earnings are more consistent among the 2, note that SuprNova doesn't do auto exchange though, and your earnings can't really be compared if you still do auto exchange on Zerg.
cheers,
