Topic: Nicehash miner alternatives? - page 2. (Read 38485 times)

The closest thing to NH seems to be MiningPoolHub - there you can actually let it choose which coin it mines (most profitable one for specific algo), you just set up claymore to run an algo... also, you can set up auto exchange to BTC. Downside, no way in hell to actually know approx how much you're making per day other than check the BTC balance every day at the same time.

If you for example mine ETN, set up wallet and Cryptopia and want to convert to BTC and send BTC to where you make USD withdrawals, oh my, 34$ BTC wallet to BTC wallet fee, wtf!

Which equipment/pool are you using?

I hear they just dropped the block value by half 2 hours ago.

Fixed it for you ...

https://www.kryptex.org

I'm mining VTC now because the payout is around twice that of ETN on WTM.

Electroneum is based on CryptoNight, not Equihash

Not sure about desktop wallet(if there's one), but paper wallet can be generated in seconds and extremely easy from their official site: https://downloads.electroneum.com/- no technical knowledge required.

@cryptokrazy- Try electroneum.vip pool, it worked great for me over the weekend(unlike the official pool which wasted my time and hashing power).

We tried Suprnova and other BTG pools and always had issues with the payout amounts, which always seemed to disagree with their own calculators. That's why we stopped mining it.

I have not found any decent alternatives. I will share what I have converted over to for the time being and hope it helps someone. My solution for now is as follows:

My rigs run the equihash algo very efficiently. For this reason I have chosen to mine bitcoin gold and electroneum. I am using the suprnova pool. Pool stability has been good and I like the low fees. I have been using ccminer software and I feel it is the easiest option to setup and configure. Also, I have found most of the downloads for it are free from malware.

You may want to forgo the electroneum coin. I consider myself very technical when it comes to all things IT. I am a new to average user when it comes to cryptocurrency . The wallet is very difficult and I am not sure I can gain access to my original one. I have made a 2nd wallet with a gui implementation and so far I am still able to access that one. So if you like a challenge then give this a shot.

I didn't know of any onion pools, thanks

Something strange with my cards or whattomine calc. Profitability differs a lot from what it is showing. On some coins that looks very profitable on whattomine its very low. But on some that looks not very profitable its higher o_0. Or whattomine is cheating?

Started using https://onionpool.youngwebsolutions.com.

Let me know if you know of a better pool.

Which pool do you use?

I started mining DeepOnions with my Baikals as well. X13 was the most profitable algo on Nicehash for them as well.

Does not seem to recognize multiple GPUs? I did benchmarks, and it says that a combo of my CPU and GPU can earn $33/month lol

Take your spam somewhere else!

Yeah, stats seems buggy on official pool. Hopefully they will update at one point.

I have a co-worker who is mining that with a CPU.  Stats were not updating on the pool site.  Maybe it was just the pool he is using?  I really don't know.  Haven't had time to look at it.

If your rig is good for XMR, try mining Electroneum. Right now it's giving 250% more profit than XMR(although no one can tell you for how long that's going to be). I know it's true for the last few hours lol.

He's probably just screwing with you and I doubt he's going to give you any useful information (he can correct me if I'm wrong).  He doesn't want you using NH, because he feels that it's hurting him.  But he also doesn't want to help you, because more people mining the same coin is going to drive difficulty up as well.  There are a lot of people on here like that, because they are of the opinion that anyone who ever used NH is stupid and lazy ... Lol.  To a certain point, I can understand that, but everyone starts somewhere.

I'm mining XMR right now and I can tell you that I'm making less than I was with NH.  Is it way more profitable than letting a six gpu rig just sit and do nothing?  Yes.  But I was making more on NH by at least $1.50usd/day per card.  I'm no expert and I don't have all of the answers (YET, LOL) ... In fact, I just built my first rig on Monday and Tuesday night.  I used NH on my rig for 6-8 hours maybe, before they went dark.  In a way, that was a blessing.  I've spent countless hours after work this week learning more than I ever thought I would during my first week of having a mining rig.  I'm very tired, but that isn't a complaint.

On the other hand in terms of mining singles ... If you mine 1 XMR straight up with XMR-STAK or Yadda Yadda Miner while the price is at 250 and hold it until the price is at 500, of course that is going to be more profitable than selling your hashing power to NH (unless of course you hold your nh payouts in btc and the price of bitcoin triples).  Same as straight up buying the coin to sell it later at a profit if and when the value increases.  The difference there is that you put the money in hardware that is way more versitle than just buying a specific coin to hold.  No one knows what the crypto markets are going to do.  The choices that you make and the tools that you use to make it a profitable adventure are up to you.

I found an alternative that earns more than nicehash.

I downloaded awesome miner and pointed it at ZPool. almost a 1$ a day increase on a single 1070 maybe i can earn my 27$ back lol.