Topic: Nicehash miner alternatives? (Read 38489 times)

https://www.miningrigrentals.com?ref=2597290

You can also use:

• MultiPoolMiner
• RainbowMiner
• NemosMiner

along with our cloud monitoring services. You can find more info at: www.brucomining.com

Did you guys try this one?
https://bitcoinminingsoftware2019.com/honey-miner/

Try http://www.uberminer.org/

UberMiner™ automatically mines the most profitable coin  and pays you directly in Bitcoin.

http://www.uberminer.org/assets/images/screenshot-uberminer-880x575.png

You can also try Hash Auger.  It has a complete GUI interface like NiceHash and it works with NiceHash and several other pools that support auto-exchanging to Bitcoin.  It helps to improve your profitability by running each device in its own miner process so that different devices, 1070 and 1080 cards for example, can run different algorithms at the same time instead of grouping all cards into the same algorithm. It also allows you to set custom overclock settings for each device as well as custom overclock settings for individual algorithms.

You can learn more at: https://hashauger.com

You might want to give NPlusMiner a try.
GUI, Simple, Support many pools with autoechange to BTC as well as NiceHash.

https://github.com/MrPlusGH/NPlusMiner/releases

This is not a suggested Idea.
Personal computers may face performance issue when you force your PC to mine continuously. Mining is more thirsty of CPU power eventually heat is generated more and impacts mother board. My personal advice is better not to mine with your personal computer.

I'm not sure about minergate, I just found this:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/minergate-experience-scam-or-not-2728812

In my opinion there is nothing wrong with Nicehash? The fees are really low compared to normal mining now if you: Mine into their local wallet, then transfer to Coinbase for free. Then from Coinbase to GDAX for free, And GDAX got free BTC withdraw. So basicily the only fee is the mining to the internal nicehash wallet which is about 2% if im not mistaken. Thats not high.

For beginners and those who have 1-2 GPU, best options:
1) minergate
2) micromining
3) kryptex
Of course if You have 6 or more GPU, then you need a more serious pool!

Computta https://goo.gl/cmZ1Bq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AP4pq72N80

I know I said I didnt have any results, but that wasnt really true. Ive been mining inconsistently like 12 hours a day (maybe as much as 15-16 on a few days), but i've already made 34 bucks on ahashpool with 1x1080ti using sniffdogminer. standard overclock settings. 70 percent TDP. +150 core clock. +500 mem.

minergate is a semi-scam, at the minimum they are stealing some of your hashrate. I would stay away.

For me it's reporting $75/month with 2 x RX 470 and 1 x 270x lol

You can try Kryptex.org

I have been using that for a while now and making about 2 dollars a day on GTX 1070.

I am currently using This website and so far am very happy.  

It supports mining of:

• Zcash
• Bitcoin Gold
• Ethereum
• Ethereum Classic
• Bitcoin
• Litecoin
• Bytecoin
• Monero
• DigitalNote
• Aeon coin
• FantomCoin
• QuazarCoin
• MonetaVerde
• Dashcoin
• Infinium-8

Surprised nobody has mentioned sniffdogminer yet? Its for 1080ti's.

Thank you to aaronsace for devoloping and maintaining "MultiPoolMiner" and Thank you nemosminer for maintaining "NemosMiner"


https://github.com/Sniffdog/Sniffdogminer

Monitors MiningPoolHub, Zpool, and HashRefinery mining pools in real-time in order to find the most profitable Algo

Auto Benchmarks Each algo to get optimal speeds and benches throughout monitoring

Fully automated / Set And Forget in Startsniff.bat/


Im just getting started mining myself, but i'm using this. I dont have enough hours mining yet to give results.

i think better we mining directly to our altcoin, like etheremine for mining ethereum, or mining at other currency like zcash, monero etc.
then holding the altcoin, i do it, mining ethereum at last year and sell the coin right now.

I have tried kryptex too and it seem not as good as nicehash too.

So currently using awesome miner + mining pool hub but payout in LTC which is quite near to nicehash for my case.

Yeah ... Don't convert to BTC and then expect a low withdraw fee from an alt coin exchange like Cryptopia.  HitBtc (no idea if they have etn) is much lower, but still very high unless you're doing large amounts.  I've found that other big name coins have much lower withdraw fees to get you into your wallet.

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.

Hmm, which coin?

If you want to sell hashpower and not mine altcoins, then there's no alternative.
I'm not "challenged" when it comes to setting up miners, optimizing (AMD) GPUs, bios modding, cloud mining, ... but quickly noticed that 1% there, 2% there, 2% there, conversion to BTC, network fee etc. make the entire enterprise unpredictable & extremely risky. Enter Nicehash... get paid for hashrate in BTC to external wallet, 9 cents wire to EU bank account and that's it. And Nicehash Legacy miner gives you all the options you need for undervolting, overclocking AMD cards (for claymore), eliminating even overclocking tools.
The only way to make the concept better is to offer payouts/purchases in USD/EUR!

Mining difficulty just got reduced by 30% now so, stop using nicehash and minergate to baby ur asses now its time mine reral coins and see some gains.

I did too and the payout sucks, like a third of what it was on Nicehash.

I switched my L3+ and D3 to https://prohashing.com

I am investigating 2 - 3 days and still have not found a serious alternative to Nicehash. I do not want to go back there again because Nicehash is hacked. I look forward to your suggestions.

Yeah, NiceHash was one of a kind. Did you try some alternatives mentioned here, like WinMiner and Kryptex? I still don't know if Kryptex have low profitability just for me or everyone out there...

Please post your questions on Megaminer thread (here are hidden between other messages and it can go unnoticed) and we will help you.

I have read all the posts and realized that at the moment a decent alternative to nicehash does not exist. This is the answer to those haters who gloat regarding the termination of work nicehash. They have created the best service in the world. I very much hope that they will restore its activity.

This is why I said $5+

I was saying that I was always getting $5 or more.

A lot of times I would get $8 to $10 on just my GPU.


Can someone please help me with NEMOS or MegaMiner?

With NEMOS miner I get....


and MegaMiner just has an overly complicated config.


It seems like the only 2 things that are as easy as Nicehash are WinMiner which is not very good in my opinion.... and Minergate, and after using Nicehash... Minergate feels super annoying to use. The entire Minergate client is not simple at all. Even when I am mining what I want to... the profit is LOW.

Sorry, I typed that wrong.  Lack of sleep.  What I meant was my average per card is over 1800H/s.  My total is more like 11500H/s.

I recommend you use my software + Ahaspool, as easy as NH, you only need to fill config.txt with your BTC address.

This pool is giving me good profits results, it has autoexchange so you will receive BTC while software automine more profitable coin.


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2059039.new#new

https://github.com/tutulino/Megaminer

That's quite bad for 6 a card rig, a single vega 56 does more than that.

Is zpool down for anyone else?

Just got my 6 gpu rig mining XMR with XMR-STAK and running stable earlier tonight.  Averaging more than 1800H/s over six cards.  I'm happ(ier) now.

I just registered, and after install the WinMiner software it says that WinMiner Alpha is not accepting new members at the moment.

For now you guys have another alternative ?

Best Regards!

Could be slow and buggy because there were a lot of people coming from NiceHash. And it still is, but I do believe it will be a good enough alternative once they fix their scaling.

Did you always make $5 with NiceHash? Last few days before this disaster my hardware was making $5-8$, but it always fluctuated a lot, same as the price of cryptos.

This morning I was getting 6$/day with Winminer, and ATM I'm getting ~$3.5/day. But mining Monero ATM is not near profitable as this morning and days before...

Using WinMiner and appear to be making about 70%-80% of what I was making on NiceHash.

I'll stick with it for now as its pretty easy to setup and hope that NiceHash comes back from the dead soon!

Winminer is buggy as fuck.  Maybe part of it has to do with the surge in use yesterday.  I tested it on a 6 gpu rig last night.  Less profitable than NH was during few hours that I had it running.     

Is WinMiner really good at all?

I see people in this thread saying they are getting decent money per day with Winminer.... but WinMiner is very bad for me.

I have an Intel i7-6850k with a Titan Xp.

With Nicehash I was getting $5+ per day ($1+ for CPU and $4+ for GPU).... But with Winminer I am getting less than $3 per day for both CPU and GPU...

Why is Winminer so bad for me?... Also the app seems slow and buggy. Nicehash app (Legacy and the new Nicehash) both run very stable for me, but Winminer feels slow and buggy.

My preference is my Trezor, which is a hardware wallet. Paper wallets are good too, but you must take steps to make sure they are secure. I heard the Ledger Nano hardware wallet is even better than a Trezor.

For me it's a matter of both, but it boils down to profitability and usability

Why are you using nicehash? Because it has integrated switch between algorithms? or because it gives you payouts in BTC? Whats is the main reason for this?

Thanks alot! Exactly what i need now. Will try it tonight when i get home.

Hope bones261 won't mind if I try answering this question- desktop and mobile wallet give you full control, and are safer if you keep them safe. Hardware and paper wallet also give you full control, and are even safer. Paper wallet should be the safest wallet out there.

Thank you very much that makes perfect sense.
If you dont mind may I ask a follow up question since you seem very knowledgable.
What are a few safe places to store coin then where I would have full control?

Since NiceHash is officially down and hacked, I tried some other solutions and WinMiner seems to be a good alternative. The setup is very easy, interface intuitive enough, and most importantly- the profitability seems similar to what I was making with NiceHash.

Also tried Kryptex, but didn't work well in terms of profitability(50% less than NiceHash).

You can find more details about alternatives I found and tested here:
http://minerpath.com/nicehash-alternatives/

With Coinbase, you do not control the private keys. You are taking a counterparty risk by storing your coins there. If the convenience of storing your coins there is worth the counterparty risk to you, then it's perfectly fine to mine direct to Coinbase. If your intention is to sell off you BTC ASAP for fiat and then transfer funds to your bank account, then the counterparty risk is most probably worth it.

Can anyone expand on this? why is it not a good idea to mine directly into a coinbase address?

Nemos is basically a profit switching mining script for zpool.ca,  That site will have the relevant payout information.  No clue about coinbase but if you want a desktop wallet I would give Electrum a try.

I've only used nicehash for the past 4-5 months since I started and I get payouts to a wallet I setup at Coinbase.   To use the NEO miner do I need to setup a desktop wallet or am I still ok to use my coinbase address?  I read a lot that seemed to indicate mining directly to a coinbase wallet isn't a good idea.   Any recommendations on a desktop wallet with that miner or am I ok to mine to my coinbase address?  Also how do payouts work in general with this miner?

I have really been digging NEMOS... I would highly suggest it.

Whats that from?

https://imgur.com/a/t36Ia

Another alternative is https://miningpoolhub.com/.   You can set up to be paid out in pretty much any coin you want.  While I have not tested it out it seems to be pretty easy to set up and walks you through everything you need to do in order to get up and running and then receive a payout anywhere you want.

MultiPoolMiner V2 : AMD, NVIDIA and CPU

MultiPoolMiner V2 - Claymore / NiceHash / DSTM / FireIce-UK / XMRig

Supports benchmarking, has multi-chip support (AMD, NVIDIA and CPU) and includes built-in watchdog timer.

The 'start.bat' files are examples of how you may run the script (and are editable in notepad).
Advanced users can add more miners in the ‘miners’ folder either as JSON or PS1.

Please see readme for further instructions, sample usage, command line options and check FAQ before submitting bugs and feature requests in the 'issues' section on Github.
Logs and Stats are produced in text format; use them when submitting issues.

Any bitcoin donations are greatly appreciated: 1MsrCoAt8qM53HUMsUxvy9gMj3QVbHLazH

Notes

You will need 'excavator.exe' if you don't already have it:
https://github.com/nicehash/excavator/releases
It is not recommended but to upgrade from a previous version of MultiPoolMiner, you may simply copy the 'stats' folder.
If you have Windows 7, please update PowerShell:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50395
CCMiner may need 'MSVCR120.dll' if you don't already have it:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=40784
CCMiner may need 'VCRUNTIME140.DLL' if you don't already have it:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

download latest release:  https://github.com/aaronsace/MultiPoolMiner/releases/download/v2.7.0.2/MultiPoolMinerV2.7.0.2.zip

Best Regards
Nemo

NEMOSMINER multi algo profit switching NVIDIA miner
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/nemosminer-multi-algo-profit-switching-nvidiacpu-miner-1777336

NemosMiner-v2.2.2 Zpool / NiceHash / ahashpool / hashrefinery / MiningPoolHub

Download: https://github.com/nemosminer/NemosMiner-v2.2.2/releases/download/NemosMiner-v2.2.2/NemosMiner-v2.2.2.7z

v2.2.2 (tested with 1060's , 1070's , 1070ti's and 1080ti's)
small bug fixes over 2.2.1 (zpool connection fix, miningpoolhub ewbf -selgpu fix)

NemosMiner-v2.2.2 Monitors mining pools in real-time in order to find the most profitable Algo / Auto Benchmarks Each algo to get optimal speeds / Fully automated / Auto Downloads Miners

edit: start.bat

1.change BTC address to yours

2.select how many gpu's you have eg: (1gpu ewbf 0 cc 0) (default 2 gpu ewbf 0 1 cc 0,1) (6gpu ewbf 0 1 2 3 4 5 cc 0,1,2,3,4,5)

3.remove any algos you do not want to mine (default all supported algos enabled)

4.there is a default 5minute per day fee, that can be disabled by changing -Donate 5 to 0

5.run start.bat

note. instruction number 1 : is different for miningpoolhub, you need to change user name and worker name

If you have Windows 7, please update PowerShell: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50395

CCMiner may need 'MSVCR120.dll' if you don't already have it: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=40784

CCMiner may need 'VCRUNTIME140.DLL' if you don't already have it: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

running multiple cards its recommended to increase Virtual Memory 64gb is optimal

requires Nvidia Driver Newer than 384 for cuda 9

this is a free project feel free to donate be much appreciated:

aaronsace = 1MsrCoAt8qM53HUMsUxvy9gMj3QVbHLazH

nemo = 1QGADhdMRpp9Pk5u5zG1TrHKRrdK5R81TE

Best Regards
Nemo

TFW when Nicehash gets hacked, Storing 57+mil with on a hot wallet, and hacker gets away with 57 mil.. HODL overnight and already worth almost 65Mil..

who in their right mind stores that much BTC in a hot wallet..

On to find a nicehash alternative 

It seems to me that this can not be that in our time there is no alternative to nicehash. The alternative is definitely there. Only need to find her. I'll get right on that. If I find something will share his thoughts. All I saw at the moment, I don't like.

I do not use Nicehash miner but as far as I know there are no worthy alternatives. I think the alternatives will soon appear

I'm using Kryptex now. They're more robust with the payouts, you don't have much choice while nicehash is down anyway  

Thanks for tip. Works flawlessly!  

You are welcome to give our WiMiner a try (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/winminer-v1126a-auto-switch-windows-app-for-multi-miner-optimization-2004875)
It optimizes your revenue by automatically switching miners to the the most attractive one for your machine in real time.
(Password for the Alpha version download - alpha)
We will be happy to hear your feedback and address it.

 Because based on the benchmark you ran on that card, and nicehash CURRENT payouts, Nicehash thinks your card will make more on daggersia.

 IMO don't bother with their "short" or "medium" benchmarks, those give some really bad numbers a lot of the time.
 Even the long ones can be off at times, but they're USUALLY at least close.


 Also keep in mind that "daggersia" is not one of the algos WhatToMine lists on it's primary comparison page (nor is Skein, even though Skein has spent a LOT of time the last couple months being more profitable than at least half of the algos they DO list on most NVidia cards).

NH benchmark used to be crap, probably still is.  Manually benchmark it

2 things about nicehash: when I look at "whattomine" it says Nicehash equihash but I'm running nicehash and it's mining daggersia.  Why isn't it on equihash?

second, does the fact that the mining switche sback and forth affect profitability?  should I just stay on one or 2 coins?

I tried "awesome miner" (http://www.awesomeminer.com), it requires some time to configure if you want better results, but it works like nicehash miner.
For profit switching, you can point it to nicehash servers too, or other multialgo pools like zpool or mining pool hub.
You can also define your preferred pools and/or mine single coins.
Unfortunately, I didn't use it for a long time yet, so I cannot tell if the profit is really better, but using pools with lower fees should help.

Also, I've seen this one:
https://github.com/aaronsace/MultiPoolMiner
It is essentially a batch file for multialgo pools, but when I tried it, I got very high cpu usage for some miners during benchmarks, so I dropped it for now.

Currently, I am mining by myself, using whattomine to see which algo is profitable.

If you find better alternatives, please share.

Kind regards.

It is a good idea to mine with my personal computer? is a realy normal pc, and im going for DMB

Is there any multi algo miner with auto switch and btc payments like nicehash but with lower fees/higher profit?