This is a comparison between Nicehash and this Nemosminer/Zpool.
I've been following this thread for a while now and finally decided to try out this miner script. I currently use Nicehash and have seen profits dip, like everyone else, so I decided to try out some alternate scripts.
I ran Nicehash on a single 1060 6GB for 12 hours, then alternated to Nemosminer for another 12 hours. This would run Nicehash for 12 hours, then Nemosminer for 12, Nicehash for 12 hours and then Nemosminer again for 12.
Setup:
Nicehash 1.8.0.1 - All algorithms enabled, but Nicehash always chose to mine using Claymore's dual-miner
Nemosminer 2.0.7 - All algorithms enabled, interval set to 3000
What I saw was that Nicehash would give me $0.10 or 0.0363 mBTC an hour consistently. Nemosminer/Zpool would give me $0.05 or 0.0161 mBTC an hour.
So, it would seem that Nicehash, even though it has a higher fee and the Claymore dev fee, I still make almost double with this one 1060 card.
NOTE: I did try other intervals for Nemosminer, such as 300, 600, 900 and 6000, but they all gave the same mBTC rate, no change.
NOTE2: The mBTC rate prediction that Nicehash displays turned out to be pretty close, but Nemosminer shows double what I actually made. I wouldn't trust that.
NOTE3: For Nemosminer/Zpool, I used the total unpaid balance, including inmature funds that I hadn't received yet, so I didn't calculate just on what had cleared. If I calculated on just cleared and mature funds, then the outcome would have been much lower for Nemosminer/Zpool.
You cannot compare the results on the same rig at different time periods. You need to test this at the same time on different rigs. I have personally tested running Nicehash and Zpool on Completely different rigs with same brand and type of cards, both had 4 x gigabyte 1080ti's running same settings. after running this for nearly a week my zpool rig averaged about 10% more in daily earnings on MOST days... some days it was very close.. but on MOST days it made more. The reason you see consistent profits on nicehash vs zpool with nemo is because nicehash you are providing hashing power to them for a specific algo when needed, the mined coins are not pending transfers on an exchange every so many minutes like they do on zpool, nicehash is RESELLING your mined coins to someone who buys hashing power from them to try and make some coin off the rental game... so literally all nicehash does is transfers the coins you just mined into someone elses alt coin wallet, then you get payed in return in BTC which the renter paid to rent your hashpower, there is no delays like zpool has with the exchanging of coins. The reason nicehash has higher pool fees compared to others, is because they keep a buffer in alt coins in their account, so the transfer of coins is instantly to clients, but throughout the day this causes slight losses and gains in coins they have to maintain in their buffer stash, so they charge higher pool fees to maintain this buffer, from my understanding is zpool sells off all mined coins everytime an exchange process occurs on his servers, so he has no buffer to maintain, so there is a delay in payouts as his exchange server processes the alt coin transactions. If he was to maintain a buffer, his fees would go up to the rate of nicehash and you would then have consistant earnings...
The benefit of zpool is he is CONSTANTLY adding new coins and algo's, nicehash only adds when their is enough demand from renters to rent your hashing power... so when a new coin comes on zpool the profits can be nearly 2x of nicehash for a short period tell that coins prices stabilizes...
Nicehash is probably best to mine when the market is slow, but zpool is better when there is a lot of volatility in coins
