Over the last few days, my effective hash rate has been fluctuating more than it ever has been before on ethermine pool.



Is it worth switching to a different pool, is this a graphics card issue (overclock too much?)?

I have been mining ETH at around 30-32 MH/s on each of my 6 GTX 1070's for a total of 180-185 MH/s using only 60% TDP, clocking me in at about 768W of usage. Power is a very big deal for me as it costs 0.43 KWh in Southern California.

I've tried mining ZCash but I've noticed significant drops in hash rate when I reduce the TDP to 60%... which leads me to my question

Is it because Equihash is reliant on GPU Core Clock while Ethash is reliant on Mem Core Clock that makes Equihash far more power hungry? Can't decide if I should switch over to ZCash

Have a few noob questions regarding hush wallet...

Is the username in the zdash.conf file just any username or does it have to match your address?

Do you need to keep your hush wallet open while mining?