The value is per day not per month

Well, Phoenix miner(s?), as long as you are in wish fulfillment mood, what about my suggestions? 

After running phoenix miner for a little over 48 hours on my rig (6x ASUS Strix 570 OC), here is a comparison with my other rig (5x ASUS Strix 570 OC) which mines on the same pool but with claymore dual miner. All cards are running at 1100/2040 with BIOS mods:

Phoenix miner (6 cards):


Claymore miner (5 cards):


The average reported speed per card is 29.090 vs 28.696 mhs. The real question however is the average speed reported by the pool. There an accurate measurement is impossible but the 24 hour average speeds were about 170 vs 140.5, so the difference per card is a little bit less than 1% at least in my case.


So, if I had 500 posts and tell you to install my giga-super-duper software that will make you rich, you will do it?  Don't be an idiot - the security is NEVER based on trust, especially not on trust based on the number of posts in a forum    The whole point of crypto is to have a system that doesn't require trust as base for security


What a dumb statement! You should never install ANY software that is not open-source on the machine where you keep your wallets or passwords, period. Heck, you should probably not even use Windows for this machine! I don't care who it is, even if the pope himself publishes a miner or a wallet that is not opensource, I'm not going to touch it with ten foot pole!

But the way the crypto-currencies work, and the pools work, you don't need to trust your mining software that much - it can't do anything too harmful as long as you do not keep any vital information on that machine. Once you set it up properly, you don't have to trust anybody to feel secure. I don't trust Claymore miner, nor Phoenix miner, and I certainly don't trust someone with the user name P00P135 to tell me who to trust Yet I'm able to mine with them and feel safe because I know what I'm doing

Well, I'm not sure I qualify as "security expert" but I certainly am a "full-time security paranoic"  And as no one else seem to risk it, I downloaded and tested the miner as well as I could.

First, I used an online virus scanner to check the file.
The results are: 2/67 detected (https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/74cfd6a34e158c2f5fe1b8422d6b8daee304394eeaf85992b117bf5de315d569/detection), which is actually an excellent result, given that the Claymore's miner gives 41/68 positives (https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/7852c50c835d7110ab8d055cccad06674e94d85324414f91366852bed9be29cc/detection).

And even the open-source ethminer 0.12.0 gives 26/67 positives, which is ridiculous (https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/4aa1082b5581540eced3acb18ee52cd06ee062772a5d386cf7501b2a8b7af094/detection) 

So, I prepared a backup image of the SSD of my rig (in case that this new miner turn out to be malicious) and then ran it for about 18 hours while monitoring the PhoenixMiner.exe network, file system, and registry activity with Wireshark and some advanced system calls monitors. It connected to my mining pool as it should and then opened port 3333, which turned out to be the port for remote control similar to Claymore's miner. I disabled to remote port with the "-cdm 0" commnad-line switch and restarted the miner. Sure enough, this time port 3333 wasn't opened and the only connection was the one to my pool.

The first new connection was observed after 16 minutes of mining, which connected to another pool (ehtermine.org) and the miner showed that it was mining for developer fee. It disconnected after 35 seconds as advertised. After that I left the rig alone and analyzed the Wireshark and the other logs the next day.

The miner connected to the devfee pool every 90 minutes, with one exception when it wasn't able to connect to the ehtermine.org. It then tried again after 13 minutes and then resumed the normal 90 minutes period between devfee connections. No other network activity was recorded. The registry activity was also normal (no keys were created and no suspicious registry key reading was detected). Also, no files outside the current folder were opened or touched.

As for the mining speed, my rig has 6x ASUS Strix 570 OC (with BIOS mod) and under Claymore's miner it makes about 173 mhs. With Phoenix the speed was about 174.5 mhs, which is not much better but I guess is still something. The power consumption from the wall was about the same (755-765W). According the the pool, the speed was even better (169 vs 166 with claymore) but this doesn't mean much as I've seen this numbers change a lot without any apparent reason, so it would take some more time before declaring PhoenixMiner to be faster.

Of course, there is no guarantee that the PhoenixMiner won't "decide to go bad" at some point of the future, but right now it seems legit. 

Some suggestions for the devs: the share difficulty is a nice touch but it would be better to directly show the number of blocks found. Most pools doesn't report this and even when they do, I'm always suspicions. Also, your miner does seem to be compatible with Claymore's manager, which is nice, but I hope that you will produce a better manager (and maybe even a mobile app for Android), because the claymore's manager is rather simplistic and I miss a lot of features.

It seems that the DB refresh or update on ETH pool has finished (it has caught up with the latest mined blocks) but now I'm missing 0.17 ETH that were in my account before the refresh.

It seems that the refresh has started from 0 from about block 3854626, and the ETH mined before that (from block 3853768 to block 3854613) are missing from my wallet amount. I don't use auto payments and I haven't received any additional transactions, so this has to be an error.

Sorry to bother you with such small amount but I'm renting hashing power and this can ruin my profit for a day or two.