This. I use their software for CPU mining for over a year already. Haven't had any problems so far.
Holy hell man, you've been using the MG miner for over a year and never bothered to try another miner?
You've mined at a 25-50% potential loss this entire time because you choose ease of use with a shit unoptimzed miner rather than spending 5 minutes to learn how to edit a config/bat file for a 3rd party miner.
Like ok, you're free to use the shitty pool everyone else thinks/knows is shit... But at least don't use their terrible miners that are pure junk and killing your potential profits even further.
I never took it serious since the returns were low, so why bother. You know you can't mine a lot with cpu right? Would be great if you can recommend specific alternatives though.
Thanks.
If you're doing the Cryptonote coins (XMR/BCN/and such) go for XMR-Stak-CPU
https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak-cpu/releases <---- binary files so you don't need to compile anything
https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak-cpu <------ Look at "Common Issues" section at bottom then do the "SeLockMemoryPrivilege failed" Windows tweak to boost performance. Depending on if you have Win Home or Win Pro there's 2 different routes to take to tweak it. And then besides that, just edit the config.txt file that comes along with the download. In there you'll put how many cores/threads you're using, configure the threads... And then just put pool address, wallet (which for MG would mean your email), and then pool password of "x"
For XMR atleast optimal setting is Total L3 Cache divided by 2mb. Can open Windows task manager then hit "Performance" tab to find out how much L3 Cache you have.
My cpu's have 8 cores, and 8mb L3 cache... So my XMR settings look like this:
"cpu_thread_num" : 4,
"cpu_threads_conf" :
[
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 0 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 2 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 4 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 6 },
],
So the 4 thread number means the 8mb / 2mb... And then the rest of those listings just selects the cores to be used, starting with 0.
If you get stuck with setting it up, just check out
https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/ and you'll find million xmr-stak posts of people asking how to set up. But it's essentially all I mentioned... Tweak the windows setting to optimize, then do the config file, then good to go. You'll see 25-50% better rates and be like "Fuck wish I did this sooner
"
* And if you're not mining XMR, but BCN or something... Then I don't think the L3 Cache / 2MB thing applies, so you can set whatever cores you want.
