Miningrigrentals price competitive?

[KingZee]

I've been experimenting a little with miningrigrentals, but I'm not sure where their prices stand from the community's point of view. Is the price per TH of sha256 good? Am I better off getting it from somewhere else?

Also related, I'd also be interesting in renting an small amount of hashrate (anything between 3 - 10 TH/s). So if anyone would be willing to lend me some TH for a few weeks send me a PM!

[mikeywith]

last i checked it was more expensive than nicehack nicehash, plus those prices change always, so make sure to check them both before making a decision.

[KingZee]

last i checked it was more expensive than nicehack nicehash, plus those prices change always, so make sure to check them both before making a decision.

Thanks! Turns out the ckpool solo pool might have something wrong? .. I'm not sure as I'm totally not knowledgable so I had to ask, here!

[leowonderful]

Yup, just did a comparison of prices with Nicehash and Miningrigrentals and it seems Miningrigrentals is indeed more expensive than Nicehash by a bit, as the average price per PH daily on MRR is currently around 0.05, whereas you'll get something like 0.046-0.48 with standard Nicehash contracts. Here are the links to the SHA256 rental pages for both services if you'd like to compare yourself, just click on the bolded words to go to the links. Nicehash MiningRigRentals. I personally use both services, but I like to use MRR more than Nicehash usually as I feel the site interface is better (I've used the service for a few years), and I can see lots of specifics on the rig I'm renting on MRR. If you're looking for the cheaper option, though, Nicehash is the way to go.

[KingZee]

Yup, just did a comparison of prices with Nicehash and Miningrigrentals and it seems Miningrigrentals is indeed more expensive than Nicehash by a bit, as the average price per PH daily on MRR is currently around 0.05, whereas you'll get something like 0.046-0.48 with standard Nicehash contracts. Here are the links to the SHA256 rental pages for both services if you'd like to compare yourself, just click on the bolded words to go to the links. Nicehash MiningRigRentals. I personally use both services, but I like to use MRR more than Nicehash usually as I feel the site interface is better (I've used the service for a few years), and I can see lots of specifics on the rig I'm renting on MRR. If you're looking for the cheaper option, though, Nicehash is the way to go.

I tried both and you're kind of right on average. But there are two other factors :

Nicehash only rents a minimum of 50 TH/s, I'm just hobby mining so at that rate I might as well just buy my own antminer.

Average prices are lower on nicehash, but there are quite a bit of outliers on mrr too, since I'm only looking for a few THs , it's actually a lot more competitive too. But I agree that if you plan to rent a PHs or more nicehash would be more profitable.

[mikeywith]

Nicehash only rents a minimum of 50 TH/s, I'm just hobby mining so at that rate I might as well just buy my own antminer.

this is not true, you can rent just about any hash power you want. however the minimum amount of btc is 0.005 btc , then using whatever amount you want you can declare the amount of hashing power you want, the more you ask for the less time you'l get it

for example at the time of typing this, the price per PH per Day for sha256 is  0.0447 btc

so assuming you want 2ph for the same price, then you will have that power for only half a day (12 hours )
say you want to mine for 2 days for that same amount of money then you will request 0.5 PH.

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also notice that many pools give you a specific port to mine when using a rented hashpower, make sure you use the port.

before you start hashing, there is something like a pool-check on NH , you just need to enter your worked, port, statrum and it will till you if NH is compatible to mine on the pool with the specific inputs you gave it. whenever thing is settled, hash away.

notice there is also standard and fixed renting, read about them, pick the one that suits you. if you have any question ask away.

[KingZee]

Nicehash only rents a minimum of 50 TH/s, I'm just hobby mining so at that rate I might as well just buy my own antminer.

this is not true, you can rent just about any hash power you want. however the minimum amount of btc is 0.005 btc , then using whatever amount you want you can declare the amount of hashing power you want, the more you ask for the less time you'l get it

for example at the time of typing this, the price per PH per Day for sha256 is  0.0447 btc

so assuming you want 2ph for the same price, then you will have that power for only half a day (12 hours )
say you want to mine for 2 days for that same amount of money then you will request 0.5 PH.

Thanks for all the info! I already found out about the different ports for different difficulty and nicehash compatibility, but I honestly don't understand how their UI works.



What does the minimum hashrate mean? Where do I set the duration? I understood from their FAQ that I just put my order and let it fill. I can understand how this could work for a classic pool, where you buy an amount of hash, burn it all on pool shares, and that's that.

It's just that for a pool like solo ckpool, mining for 1 hour with 100 PH/s or mining for 100 hours with 1 PH/s is not the same..