Well... yes. 

Over the long term, it all evens out though.  Sure you can hit the lottery and win a few blocks quickly, but then you could go weeks without hitting a block.

They will see your public IP address, yes.  You do have a firewall on your edge router, correct?  Do you have any ports open or forwarded?  If not, then you are fairly safe.  Just never use your mining rigs for general internet surfing and you will be fine.

A VPN will increase your latency to the mining pool you are using.  You want your latency to be as low as possible so that you can submit the shares faster than your competitors.

If you want to use regular pools, you set up the pool in the Pools tab in the Options.  Then setup a regular Managed Miner, not a Profit Miner.  Assign the pool to the Managed Miner, and off you go.


Yes, in a way.  You have to setup all the coins/algorithms for your non supported switching pool as individual pools, then put them in a pool group.  You can then do profit switching on the pool group.  On the Profit Switching tab in options, there is a section for a Custom Pool... you select your newly created pool group.

I did this for all the Suprnova pools.  I setup all the coins that Supernova support as individual pools, put them in a pool group, and now I can do profit switching on Suprnova even though it's not officially supported in AM.  This shows you how flexible AM can be.

I think Granatgas was disabled due to instability in version 4.2.9, and hasn't been reinstated yet:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=676942.msg7668725;topicseen#msg7668725

On the surface, it looks like Bitcoin Private is a marriage of Bitcoin Cash and Zclassic... but doesn't seem to offer anything new except to merge zk-snarks to a derivative of Bitcoin.

The next "big thing" in privacy for cryptocurrency will probably be the "Bulletproof" technology.  It can be added to most non-private coins like Bitcoin proper:  https://www.coindesk.com/aim-fire-bulletproofs-breakthrough-privacy-blockchains/

It will hide the values in the transactions, but still leave the sender and receiver open on the blockchain.  I think most common folks will find this psuedo-anonymous ability acceptable.  It will certainly have it's place in cryptocurrency space.  Of course the full private transaction using zk-snarks and someday zk-starks will still be the gold standard of private transactions, but as we all know... this has it's own problems, as you have to accept the trusted-setup ceremony was done legitimately, and the processing power/time required for those transactions make them slower.

All this makes it tough for the "common man" to use cryptocurrency... But I think in the near future, there will be services where that common man goes to a website, and chooses the level of security they would want, pay a small fee for the back-end switch from Bitcoin to ZenCash for a "full private" transaction"... and it ends up back as Bitcoin at the receiver's end.  All fully transparent to the common man.  Payment processors and payroll transactions would probably happen on Bitcoin using Bulletproofs, as the amounts need to be private, but the sender/receiver shouldn't be obscured.  Of course, a lot of this depends on Bitcoin solving their scaling problems... otherwise other coins can overtake them with better technologies.

I've never used Hamachi before, but I have used Neorouter and OpenVPN on a personal level.  Of course at an enterprise level, I've setup and used much more advanced VPN implementations.

That being said, the instructions for Hamachi look like they have you change the metric of the network adaptor, using a 3rd party tool to create a mesh network, and adjusting your OS level firewall, and finally doing port forwarding on your edge firewall.  That's a lot of instructions... and seems like it's easy to miss something.

Have you tried Neorouter?  I haven't used it in a few years, but I remember it was pretty much plug and play.

These days I use OpenVPN, which requires a little more knowledge on how to set it up on your edge routers, but once it's setup... it just works too.  I use OpenVPN to remote back into my home network when I travel.  It's very robust.

Are your 2 rigs behind another router/firewall?  If so, then you might be able to setup a site-to-site OpenVPN tunnel between your two routers.  There are plenty of guides out on the internet for this.

Are you getting the expected hashrate out of your 1060s considering the algorithm and over/underclocks you are running?  If so, then it may be that AM isn't able to read the activity of those cards well.  I've seen this on HWInfo as well.

What mining software, coin, and algorithm were you mining when you were getting crashes?  Using any over/underclocks?

It seems that the stratum implementations that a lot of pools use is not compatible with ccminer.  Just as a test, leave off the "stratum+tcp://" part... and just use the servername:port.

Or, try to use Excavator as your mining software, as Nicehash's miner would certainly be compatible with their own stratum one would think.

If you right-click the miner from the base station and select Diagnostics, what does it say?  Can you post it here?  Also, what kind of GPUs are you running?

I suppose, I should tell you how to do this?    Go to the Managed Software tab in the Options, go into CCminer Alexis and disable Blake2B.  Then go into Excavator and enable Blake2B.  Finally, make sure your Profit Profile has Excavator enabled as software it can use.

Did you add the "-sia" somewhere?  Sia is Blake2b.  And I'm not sure Alexis supports Blake2b.

EDIT:  the -sia is correct, and Alexis does support it.  It is a stratum problem with Nicehash.  It probably doesn't support ccminer.  Nicehash says to use their excavator mining software.

The conf file on your wallet needs to allow incoming traffic from your network.  When you only have 127.0.0.1 that's the local loopback address, so the wallet will only listen to traffic coming from the machine that the wallet is running on.

Change it to this:

rpcallowip=127.0.0.1,192.168.0.0

If your local network subnet is on 192.168.0.x.  If it's different, adjust accordingly.

Then on your ASIC, point the mining software to the IP address of the computer that runs the wallet and the port that's in the config file.  You'll also need to use the same username and password you have listed as the RPCUSER, and RPCPASSWORD in the configuration file.

You can get cables that start as 6 pin to connect to the breakout board, and then end in 6+2 pin.. just like the link you posted.

You can power the risers with one of these cables if you have enough spots on your breakout board, or get some splitters and power 2-3 on each 6 pin from the breakout board.

The article also says that Baikal partnered with Samsung... that's good news.  I really like the fact that their ASICs can do multiple algos.  Baikal have also been first to market for novel algorithm ASICs, so your 1GH Monero miner might not be far off.

But the bigger news was that Bitmain will be using TSMC's 7nm process this year.  We should see some nice incremental ASICs from Bitmain, like maybe an S10, L4, or D4.

Zpool, MiningPoolHub, AHashPool, and Hash Refinery are a few popular ones.  There's tons of other smaller ones that cater to a smaller set of coins and algos like Masterhash, BSOD, and many, many more.

I know a couple are based in the USA, and one in Hong Kong.

Is the number of coins for a master node not already set in stone at 5000?  I'm wondering why you have so many different levels of collateral.

To be honest, I didn't know Alexis was broken until it was mentioned here... then again, I don't use it.  I use the more customized versions of ccminer for the specific algorithm or the built-in ccminer 2.2.3.

But as I said, notify Patrike, and he will fix it.