NICEHASH confirmed - hacked - Any legit alternatives?

[silios]

It is official Nicehash got hacked https://www.justcryptonews.com/291/breaking-nicehash-has-been-hacked-50mln-missing
They have announced it on facebook, twitter, Reddit, etc , so there is no more point arguing if they were hacked or not, and they won't be back online anytime soon (if ever)...

The question is: Anyone has a good alternative to suggest?
My miners are already on alternative single coin pools, but I would prefer the BTC payout.
Thanks

[D1VE]

Mining Pool hub can be configured to auto exchange all coins to any coin of your choice, so you can set it to change to BTC.

[bathrobehero]

Being a miner; hopefully not. Lazy people shouldn't earn as much as they do with nicehash (which is still way too low compared to "manual" mining).

Call me what you want, but difficulty across the board has dropped significantly already and if a nicehash hack is what it takes to shake at least some of the plug and play miners who doesn't even have any idea of the coins they mine, as they only get paid in BTC, I'm all for it.

[treanski]

Being a miner; hopefully not. Lazy people shouldn't earn as much as they do with nicehash (which is still way too low compared to "manual" mining).

Call me what you want, but difficulty across the board has dropped significantly already and if a nicehash hack is what it takes to shake at least some of the plug and play miners who doesn't even have any idea of the coins they mine, as they only get paid in BTC, I'm all for it.

100% agree...i hope this nicehash and this lazy fucktard miners will never return

[PranDoW]

Sad event for Nicehash. I would not be surprised if very high fees gonna be higher. In general, there will be a lesson for everyone else that you need to be more careful about security of your wallets

[CharlieCox]

This #NiceHack turned out as a perfect example why centralization is bad. I feel sorry for everyone who got hacked today thanks to NH.

[Eyedol-X]

It is official Nicehash got hacked https://www.justcryptonews.com/291/breaking-nicehash-has-been-hacked-50mln-missing
They have announced it on facebook, twitter, Reddit, etc , so there is no more point arguing if they were hacked or not, and they won't be back online anytime soon (if ever)...

The question is: Anyone has a good alternative to suggest?
My miners are already on alternative single coin pools, but I would prefer the BTC payout.
Thanks

I know some people that switched to winminer on the Windows side, I suspect I will try it out on a small rig to see what it's about.

[Pennywis3]

Its sad, how people never learn. So many sites and exchanges have been hacked, millions gone, and people still use online wallets.

Why would you do that? Its just common sense not to do it.

There are really only two things infinite - peoples stupidity and the universe - and we're not sure about the universe.

[cryptbro]

Actually mining

[GeePeeU]

This #NiceHack turned out as a perfect example why centralization is bad. I feel sorry for everyone who got hacked today thanks to NH.

Kinda was a good little lesson.

Its going to be interesting watching difficulties and prices of Alts fluctuate from the fallout.

[shield132]

It is official Nicehash got hacked https://www.justcryptonews.com/291/breaking-nicehash-has-been-hacked-50mln-missing
They have announced it on facebook, twitter, Reddit, etc , so there is no more point arguing if they were hacked or not, and they won't be back online anytime soon (if ever)...

The question is: Anyone has a good alternative to suggest?
My miners are already on alternative single coin pools, but I would prefer the BTC payout.
Thanks

Nicehash was seling your hashrate to the highest bidders and getting bitcoin in return, am I right? Because I have never used nicehash. What about to try Minergate? As I know they aren't so good but it can be considered as an alternative of nicehash.
It's sad they didn't care about security, hope they'll come back.

[xleejohnx]

It is official Nicehash got hacked https://www.justcryptonews.com/291/breaking-nicehash-has-been-hacked-50mln-missing
They have announced it on facebook, twitter, Reddit, etc , so there is no more point arguing if they were hacked or not, and they won't be back online anytime soon (if ever)...

The question is: Anyone has a good alternative to suggest?
My miners are already on alternative single coin pools, but I would prefer the BTC payout.
Thanks

Nicehash was seling your hashrate to the highest bidders and getting bitcoin in return, am I right? Because I have never used nicehash. What about to try Minergate? As I know they aren't so good but it can be considered as an alternative of nicehash.
It's sad they didn't care about security, hope they'll come back.

I don't see them crashing out..

this could happen to anyone and everyone is killing them right now over this

granted they shouldn't have keep all the btc in one wallet but that wallet is already blacklisted

did it set me back
yes
is my life over
no
am I going to go back
yes if they change how they handle our btc

[silios]

It is official Nicehash got hacked https://www.justcryptonews.com/291/breaking-nicehash-has-been-hacked-50mln-missing
They have announced it on facebook, twitter, Reddit, etc , so there is no more point arguing if they were hacked or not, and they won't be back online anytime soon (if ever)...

The question is: Anyone has a good alternative to suggest?
My miners are already on alternative single coin pools, but I would prefer the BTC payout.
Thanks

Nicehash was seling your hashrate to the highest bidders and getting bitcoin in return, am I right? Because I have never used nicehash. What about to try Minergate? As I know they aren't so good but it can be considered as an alternative of nicehash.
It's sad they didn't care about security, hope they'll come back.

Indeed that is how it was supposed to work, though I'm not quite certain how they did it internally cause I have never seen any of the miners idle-ing (as in waiting for some order from a buyer).
Minergate looks like an option at the moment, and i will be reading into it, as is the Mining pool hub mentioned earlier,
thanks for the input everyone

[Pulsarin]

The question is: Anyone has a good alternative to suggest?
My miners are already on alternative single coin pools, but I would prefer the BTC payout.
Thanks

Of course it's too bad that it happened. I did not use NiceHash.
But I know a good alternative - minergate.com
Good luck!

[minerx117]

NEMOSMINER multi algo profit switching NVIDIA miner
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1777336.0


Download: https://github.com/nemosminer/NemosMiner-v2.2/releases/download/NemosMiner-v2.2.1/NemosMiner-v2.2.1.7z
v2.2.1 (tested with 1060's , 1070's , 1070ti's and 1080ti's)

Enabled: Xevan,Hsr,Phi,Polytimos Algo's
Updated: ccminers
Added: -SelGPU
Added: USD/AUD/GBP/NZD etc per day
Added: Current BTC price

NemosMiner-v2.2.1 Monitors mining pools in real-time in order to find the most profitable Algo / Auto Benchmarks Each algo to get optimal speeds / Fully automated / Auto Downloads Miners

edit: start.bat

1.change BTC address to yours

2.select how many gpu's you have eg: (1gpu ewbf 0 cc 0) (default 2 gpu ewbf 0 1 cc 0,1) (6gpu ewbf 0 1 2 3 4 5 cc 0,1,2,3,4,5)

3.remove any algos you do not want to mine (default all supported algos enabled)

4.there is a default 5minute per day fee, that can be disabled by changing -Donate 5 to 0

5.run start.bat

If you have Windows 7, please update PowerShell: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50395

CCMiner may need 'MSVCR120.dll' if you don't already have it: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=40784

CCMiner may need 'VCRUNTIME140.DLL' if you don't already have it: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

running multiple cards its recommended to increase Virtual Memory 64gb is optimal

requires Nvidia Driver Newer than 384 for cuda 9

this is a free project feel free to donate be much appreciated:

aaronsace = 1MsrCoAt8qM53HUMsUxvy9gMj3QVbHLazH

nemo = 1QGADhdMRpp9Pk5u5zG1TrHKRrdK5R81TE

Best Regards
Nemo

p.s- note instruction number 1 is different for miningpoolhub you need to change user and worker name

[JPP1972]

NEMOSMINER multi algo profit switching NVIDIA miner
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1777336.0


NemosMiner-v2.2 Zpool / NiceHash / ahashpool / hashrefinery / MiningPoolHub

https://github.com/nemosminer/NemosMiner-v2.2/archive/master.zip

v2.2 (tested with 1060's , 1070's , 1070ti's and 1080ti's)
Enabled: Xevan,Hsr,Phi,Polytimos Algo's
Updated: ccminers
Added: -SelGPU
Added: USD/AUD/GBP/NZD etc per day
Added: Current BTC price

NemosMiner-v2.2 Monitors mining pools in real-time in order to find the most profitable Algo / Auto Benchmarks Each algo to get optimal speeds / Fully automated / Auto Downloads Miners

edit: start.bat
1.change BTC address to yours
2.select how many gpu's you have eg: (1gpu ewbf 0 cc 0) (default 2 gpu ewbf 0 1 cc 0,1) (6gpu ewbf 0 1 2 3 4 5 cc 0,1,2,3,4,5)
3.remove any algos you do not want to mine (default all supported algos enabled)
4.there is a default 5minute per day fee, that can be disabled by changing -Donate 5 to 0
5.run start.bat

If you have Windows 7, please update PowerShell: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50395
CCMiner may need 'MSVCR120.dll' if you don't already have it: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=40784
CCMiner may need 'VCRUNTIME140.DLL' if you don't already have it: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145
running multiple cards its recommended to increase Virtual Memory 32gb-64gb is optimal
requires Nvidia Driver Newer than 384 for cuda 9

this is a free project feel free to donate be much appreciated:

aaronsace = 1MsrCoAt8qM53HUMsUxvy9gMj3QVbHLazH

nemo = 1QGADhdMRpp9Pk5u5zG1TrHKRrdK5R81TE

Best Regards
Nemo

Do you think that in the future will be possibile to insert ATI GPU?

[minerx117]

https://github.com/aaronsace/MultiPoolMiner

Latest release
 v2.7.0.2
 214b0a4
MultiPoolMiner V2 - Claymore / NiceHash / DSTM / FireIce-UK / XMRig
@aaronsace aaronsace released this 17 days ago · 20 commits to master since this release

Supports benchmarking, has multi-chip support (AMD, NVIDIA and CPU) and includes built-in watchdog timer.

The 'start.bat' files are examples of how you may run the script (and are editable in notepad).
Advanced users can add more miners in the ‘miners’ folder either as JSON or PS1.

Please see readme for further instructions, sample usage, command line options and check FAQ before submitting bugs and feature requests in the 'issues' section on Github.
Logs and Stats are produced in text format; use them when submitting issues.

Any bitcoin donations are greatly appreciated: 1MsrCoAt8qM53HUMsUxvy9gMj3QVbHLazH

Notes

You will need 'excavator.exe' if you don't already have it:
https://github.com/nicehash/excavator/releases
It is not recommended but to upgrade from a previous version of MultiPoolMiner, you may simply copy the 'stats' folder.
If you have Windows 7, please update PowerShell:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50395
CCMiner may need 'MSVCR120.dll' if you don't already have it:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=40784
CCMiner may need 'VCRUNTIME140.DLL' if you don't already have it:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

download latest release:  https://github.com/aaronsace/MultiPoolMiner/releases/download/v2.7.0.2/MultiPoolMinerV2.7.0.2.zip

Best Regards
Nemo

[silios]

Will be looking to nemosminer as well, thanks for the suggestion.
In the meantime, the plot (bad news?) thickens according to the post from earlier https://www.justcryptonews.com/291/breaking-nicehash-has-been-hacked-50mln-missing and Reddit :

According to a reddit user the owner of Nicehash company with a share capital of half a million euros is Bitorious (45%) based in Dornberk, its director is Marko Kobal, and 55% of the company is owned by H-Bit. The owner of H-Bit is Martin Škorjanc. An interesting fact is that Martin Škorjanc is the father of Matjaž Škorjanc, who was arrested by Slovenian police for an online cyber crime with the help of the US FBI in Maribor. According to BBC Matjaz Skorjanc was arrested in 2010 after a two-year investigation into malware that had hijacked about 12.7 million computers around the world.

Are things getting wild?

[minerx117]

https://imgur.com/a/t36Ia

[sundownz]

Will be looking to nemosminer as well, thanks for the suggestion.

I switched to NEMOS / Zpool a while back from Nicehash for all my NVidia hardware... never looked back.