Thank you so much for this explanation. I had to read it a few times to kind of get it - I can't say it all makes sense at the moment, but that's also because I have no experience with any of it. I definitely will head over to the AM thread. Right now I've just changed everything to my Coinbase wallet address if it said to point it there, started a .bat file, and then hoped for the best. It would be nice to actually understand what is going on. Thanks!

Well that's good that at least I know that Awesome Miner will do it for me. The problem I have now is setting it up. Like right now, I've had that miner running for most of the day. In Awesome Miner (if you know at all?) do I setup a new miner? Is it a miner or is it setting up a monitor for the miner that is running?

I apologize if I'm making no sense. It's just the part I can't seem to get an answer to. For instance, I am mining from 4 pools - I'm assuming, because in the folder there are only 4 pools listed as .ps1 files. Do I just create a new miner and a new pool for each one listed?

Also, thank you for your answer, just trying to find out if Awesome Miner did that was a big task.

I’m new to mining, or running algorithms...whichever you prefer. I was using NiceHash because the barrier to entry was so low. I have 3 1080 Ti’s that I use for 3D rendering. However, when I’m not utilizing them I would just let them do their thing using NiceHash.

Well, after the entire debacle that took place recently - I went through the gamut of trying to find something that will just passively do it’s thing. I settled on (I think it’s ccminer) but I’m using this: https://github.com/Sniffdog/Sniffdogminer.

It’s running, I have it pointed to my wallet. What I can’t figure out, and spent the entire weekend looking - is if there is a way to monitor what is happening in a GUI? I thought(think that this is what awesomeminer does) but I keep getting lost in technical wording. It seems like every question I have is answered by another question.

I don’t mind doing the work, I just am so buried in confusion that I keep getting nowhere. Because I use my machine for work. The thing that was nice was that while working and not rendering, I would only utilize 2 graphics cards and then at night or downtime I would use my cpu and 3rd card - but that was through NiceHash.

So my long winded question is if there is something out there that lets me monitor what my machine is doing through a GUI and perhaps allows me to utilize selected cards depending on availability. I tried searching high and low for a guide/similar thing but have come up empty.

Honestly, any and all help is greatly appreciated.