equihash is equihash   You can use it for any coin with same algo.

Thank you DSTM For now I could not realize a big difference with my 1060's but my 3GB's are a few percent faster now without to change anything.
Before 300@89W
Now 310@89W

and maybe a few invalid shares less. but for that its maybe to early to say. Will update soon.

Even it is an old thread I just want add my numbers to clarify. If you saw much higher hashrates for cryptonight on older cards then I think that were just wrong information. with older nvidia cards you get normally only up to 400h/s which is also not that bad but they are also more power hungry.

Cryptonight is a mem intensive algo. you do not need that much gpu ram, but a high mem bus speed. The only important start param for ccminer for me was "-bfactor=5". but the number depends on your CPU so you have to play around and can be between 0-12. without bfactor my slow celeron with 2 cores was avg at 40% load and with bfactor between 0-8%. big difference and also a few more hash. All other settings than important like username etc were stnadard miner settings when you do not use the conf file. I did not specify threads only bfactor as extra param. Of course I also tried but the settings were the best to go. I have 4 different card types and added hynix experiences from other miners:

1060 6GB Samsung mem with bus speed 240 GB/s - 570 h/s
1060 6GB Samsung mem with bus speed 230 GB/s - 550 h/s
1060 6GB Micron mem     with bus speed 225 GB/s - 540 h/s
1060 6GB Hynix mem      with bus speed n/a           - 500 h/s
1060 3GB Samsung mem with bus speed 240 GB/s - 570 h/s

mem clock is set as high as possible - until you do not get any result does not validate on CPU
core clock is not that important +100 is normally more than enough
power target you can set but even with 100% it will only use 65W avg

I normally like this algo because of low power consumption and so cooler gpu's. some are staying at 54 degree with low fan speed. thats incredible and nice for long life. but it shows also that there is maybe a lot of potential to get higher hashrates with a more optimized miner. So your hashrate is normally perfect and shows me that u were lucky with a good samsung mem

I was also a little bit upset yesterday but I am also using http://www.electroneum.space/ again because of the awesome community and payouts are fast > 10 ETN.

I do not think there are DDOS attacks. I think there are only sometimes som ETN network problems which results in Invalid shares. Admin think then that are DDOS but its not because the shares were actually valid but there is a problem with the Proxy or ETN network itself. Just my opinion about that or what I was able to see at my miners

yes I got for 5 hours only rejected shares without a reason around 12h ago. I also had to switch. But more than 12 hours down is also a no go for me, too unprofessional.

Only because 2 scanner say that it is not clean does not mean that is is not clean. all big players say it is clean. Falcon is based on machine learning so you never can be sure if it is trained wrong and the other was just heuristic. But of course when you have a new virus with a new signature then you never can be sure. no scanner will find it when it uses random source code and vm/scanner detection etc.

I did not test it but when you look into the documentation then just add the param "-api 127.0.0.1:1880" or if you do not want access local then "0.0.0.0:1880" or which ever network you have configured. "0.0.0.0" means all networks so there you have to take care more for security so that no other can access it. The port number after the ":" can be any but greater than 1000 if not already used.

Scanning a miner for virus/backdoor is not an easy task because most virus scanner mark programs as virus when they use crypto libraries and miner like monero for CPU are often used by hackers to earn money these days.

At least you have to set the address and the pool. the username is just the address + worker name like in your example %ADDRESS%.w where %ADDRESS% is the address variable and ".w" is the workername. the SCHEME depends on your pool. If you use ssl then just change to "stratum+ssl" otherwise it is fine. But I would remove the "START" because otherwise you are unable to see any error when the miner stops, because it will open a new window.

Unfortunately my CPU is at 100% always and a GTX 1060 @ around 240 Sol, but that can be because I have only a Celeron CPU and that is maybe too slow for your miner. But generally we need as less power as possible. If your app do not do other things than mining then please have a look for loops inside your source code, because a 100% CPU is often the result of a loop without a minimal sleep if you are using c or c++. That was tested on a fresh restarted server and the nvidia driver was also not blocking, tested with nvidia inspector. generally a miner would not need more than 10% for all. My watchdog written in Go do not need more than 1% and also get all data via nvml and looks a bit more readable: