it is probably coded into the application, what you changed were probably the logs.

as for the 44BTC and the account not showing movement, as i haven't gone back to check on older versions, i don`t know if that is the only address they used(not blaming they did), but i have only their word as this is hidden most of the time and only by looking at the logs i found out by chance that the address is still used when the users has already been entered, in any case this should not be happening at all or come with stricter notification that ALL benchmark time goes to nicehash at the very least, it is not hard to change in the code at all, so arguing against such change should have a proper explanation.

@bathrobehero, you are required to benchmark with every update as miners change, if u have 3 mining tools, each takes about 10 minutes, thats 30 minutes roughly every week for all the users, that adds up.

@Eyedol-X, im still discussing this with one of the devs, maybe if others weighed in on the discussion it would have more of an effect.

https://github.com/nicehash/NiceHashMiner/issues/556

NiceHash is using the CPU&GPU time of our benchmark testing with every new version with their own wallet, as one of their devs claimed, out of convenience, although a simple pop-up would have sufficed in case no BTC address is given, this is not changed if there is an address given by the user.

personally i wont benchmark until this is changed to at least warn the users, one pop-up to remind the user to enter an address or to simply ASK his permission to mine to your account would have sufficed at least to a point of proper legal conduct.

this is the address shown in the logs 34HKWdzLxWBduUfJE9JxaFhoXnfC6gmepg

https://www.nicehash.com/?p=miners&addr=34HKWdzLxWBduUfJE9JxaFhoXnfC6gmePG

as it is clearly making an income from all the users this is a second source of income for NiceHash, one which is not upfront with its user base.

this is the reply of one of the devs on github to a ticket on the matter, i found the reply rather lacking as a simple pop-up or if/while function would suffice and so claiming complexity and convenience looks more like an excuse.

S74nk0 commented 3 hours ago
@netswalker1 @Scorpers that is the DEMO user address. It is used for convenience, most new users don't have a BTC address and since some miners need a direct connection to do a benchmark this address is used because it is always known, no need for handling and prompting the users to first enter the address to do a benchmark it reduces unneeded complexity.
Closing issue...