US or EU Servers for Nicehash ?

[r0k0tr]

i was looking around the app and saw that the EU market is at 8.4 TH/s and USA market at 3.4TH/s...

all my miners are on USA, should i jump over to EU servers for more profit or it means nothing ?

[Wotan Wipeout]

You should pick the nearest server.

[philipma1957]

picking the nearest server if you are in new york is not easy as the usa server is in california.


I am in new jersey.  i often use the european one and get better results.

So if you are east coast you may be better off with the one in europe.

but if you are west coast pick the one in usa.


dont ask me what to do if you are in the middle of the usa.

[JayDDee]

In general the closer server will have the lower latency, which is a good thing but not a big thing.
The only benefit to lower latency is a lower risk of stale shares. It's not geographc proximity but topographic
(bandwidth, number of hops, congestion, etc) proximity that makes one server closer than another. The US server in CA
is much closer to NJ topographically than the EU server.

The issue with Nicehash is there are seperate order books for EU and US so they don't have the same orders
and don't pay the same to miners. The payout is the weighted average price of orders with active miners.
More miners pushes more work to lower priced orders and more orders pushes the price up. There is usually very little
difference between them but large changes in orders or miners can cause price volatility.

Order bots actually help reduce the price discrepency because they usually place similar orders on both boards.

[CucakRowo]

Picking the nearest servers is recommended. You can check your latency by doing pinging. If below 60ms, then you will have small rejection. Above 60, just forget it. Try to check other mining pool. Latency above 60 will bring lots rejections and less rewards. Since i am in south east asia, i only using viabtc, coz i have low latency when connecting to viabtc pool. While for alts, i use other pool.

[philipma1957]

In general the closer server will have the lower latency, which is a good thing but not a big thing.
The only benefit to lower latency is a lower risk of stale shares. It's not geographc proximity but topographic
(bandwidth, number of hops, congestion, etc) proximity that makes one server closer than another. The US server in CA
is much closer to NJ topographically than the EU server.

The issue with Nicehash is there are seperate order books for EU and US so they don't have the same orders
and don't pay the same to miners. The payout is the weighted average price of orders with active miners.
More miners pushes more work to lower priced orders and more orders pushes the price up. There is usually very little
difference between them but large changes in orders or miners can cause price volatility.

Order bots actually help reduce the price discrepency because they usually place similar orders on both boards.

I get more dropouts mining to USA then to Europe but not always.
I have used both and for me not much improvement with one over the other.

As for how it routes from NJ to CA (topographic path) I can tell you my ping times are about 75 to EUR AND 65 TO CA.  WITH Eur having less drop outs.  and as you said there are price differences.