Anyone else mining Nicehash with Cast XMR suddenly have the Nicehash interface reporting zero hashes, despite the miner at full speed running for hours since the last detected hash on the interface?
hmmm, I didnt know Nicehash uses Cast XMR. I set it up another 6 Vegas rig, this time all of them are Vega 64, so I tested the 6 Vega 56 rig I started with and Nicehash is using sgminer, but the speed and profitability is really good, like 48€ day -I am saying euros here, to clear things up, do the math...-.
I performed the precise benchmark prior to start using Nicehash, it took several hours but it was worth it.
Hopefully Winminer is going to work with Cast XMR in the future, I really like that program.
Hi,
You can just use Cast miner and point it to nicehash servers like with any other pool. I have been doing it for 1 month and it just works.
It may well be more profitable than using their software and going through their interface.
I would not touch Winminer with a rig like yours, you just loose profits compared to mining with dedicated software to a pool.
Beside, the ROI you can have with Nice Hash beat Winminer by a wide margin.
Winminer needs to work with virtually any computer that it is used on, therefore they use software that can automatically detect your hardware and begin working, yet for doing so, it does not take full advantage of your hardware.
Just use Cast to Nicehash pool and you will probably make more than 48euros a day.
take care!
ah okay thanks! From your experience it is obvious that it works very well for youso it might be worth it to give it a try and point Cast XMR to use Nicehash pool. I installed the most recent version of Nicehash Legacy -which is the fastest, btw, whether you use nVidia or AMD cards- and never thought it would use Cast XMR, which in my case doesn't. I performed the Precise benchmark and after several hours of testing, when it started mining it used Sgminer, with great results that aren't far off from what you can achieve with Cast XMR, that has to be said. When I mentioned that I meant that I'd like to have Cast XMR listed among Nicehash miners, but haven't seen it. Sgminer is doing a very good job though, only a tad slower, but quite fractionally slower! Surprisingly so.
As for WinMiner, well, it has its advantages and disadvantages, but you can cash out pretty easily using Paypal (that's huge for me) or convert the money into an investment in Litecoin, Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc. Their web interface is also very good, and it kind helps to check market tendencies. It's not perfect and as you say meant to be easy to use, so it's not the fastest. It'd be great if Cast XMR creator could integrate his program into WinMiner list of miners.
For now, both programs can work at the same time but I tested both simultaneously, having WinMiner just in memory, actually not mining, not doing anything, and Cast XMR gets to a point where it hangs when WinMiner is in memory even if you aren't using WinMiner to mine and everything says idle in it.
As for the money..., well, Nicehash can be relatively fast, 2 days ago was mining at an average of 55€ (EUROS) a day, however it also heavily depends on the market tendencies, like WinMiner. It's better to use Cast XMR and a dedicated pool and..., well, that's what I did until very recently.
Mined for about 2 months using Cast XMR (sometimes other programs depending on the coin, but mostly Cast XMR) and now I am hodling what I mined, so I am having lots of fun trying easy to use programs like Nicehash and WinMiner. Just for testing purposes or simply to cash out and buy more GPUs. Plus I study programming so sometimes it's easier for me to just let the rigs I've built mine, not worrying about coin prices and market movement. Total war to distractions, at those times.. Best regards