[ANN] NiceHash.com - sell & buy hash rate cloud mining service / multipool

[Blockheadz]

If you are a nicehash miner this is today's theme song. Like 7 bucks a day for a single vega56... I'm on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpnB0OArGHs

[kansloze]

Hi Guys!

I'm having trouble with Nicehash and Ethos, all the shares are rejected. Is there something I can do about it? Or is mine config not right?
Can someone take a look at it and maybe make adjustments to get it right?

## Nicehash Cryptonight

sgminer-gm-xmr=proxypool1 cryptonight.eu.nicehash.com:3355
sgminer-gm-xmr=proxypool1 cryptonight.eu.nicehash.com:3355
sgminer-gm-xmr=proxywallet BTCWALLET.WORKER
sgminer-gm-xmr=poolpass1 x
sgminer-gm-xmr=poolpass2 x

[scryptr]

Hi Guys!

I'm having trouble with Nicehash and Ethos, all the shares are rejected. Is there something I can do about it? Or is mine config not right?
Can someone take a look at it and maybe make adjustments to get it right?

## Nicehash Cryptonight

sgminer-gm-xmr=proxypool1 cryptonight.eu.nicehash.com:3355
sgminer-gm-xmr=proxypool1 cryptonight.eu.nicehash.com:3355
sgminer-gm-xmr=proxywallet BTCWALLET.WORKER
sgminer-gm-xmr=poolpass1 x
sgminer-gm-xmr=poolpass2 x

PROXYWALLET MUST BE ONLY A BITCOIN ADDRESS--

And, in ethOS' "sgminer-gm-xmr.stub.conf", use something like this:

=====<CUT LINE>=====
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
{
    "pools": [{
        "url": "POOL1",
        "user": "WALLET.WORKER",
        "pass": "PASSWORD"
    },
    {
        "url": "POOL2",
        "user": "WALLET.WORKER",
        "pass": "PASSWORD"
    }],
    "profiles": [{
        "worksize": "8",
        "name": "xmr",
        "algorithm": "cryptonight",
        "gpu-threads": "1",
        "rawintensity": "1016"
    }],
    "no-extranonce": false,
    "default-profile": "xmr",
    "no-submit-stale": true,
    "api-listen": true,
    "api-port": 4028,
    "api-mcast-port": 4028,
    "api-allow": "W:127.0.0.1,W:192.168.1.1/24",
    "temp-cutoff": "MAXTEMP",
    "temp-overheat": "MAXTEMP"
}

=====<CUT LINE>=====

Of course, do not include the cut lines.  If you change "gpu-threads" to "2", reduce "raw intensity" to "508".  If you have 2GB GPU cards, use values of "508"  or "254" for "raw intensity", and for "gpu threads" use "1" or "2", correspondingly.  Be sure to set "no submit stale" to "true", or you will get more stale share rejects.  The "api allow" line is set up to allow any PC on my local net to access the miner.  You can vary the "raw intensity" values slightly, but the code authors suggest remaining less than 256, 512, or 1024, respectively.

Variables in all caps, like "PASSWORD", will be read from ethOS' internals, or "local.conf" or "remote.conf" file.  That is why you should only place a BitCoin address in your ethOS configuration.

You may also need to use "sgminer-gm-xmr 5.5.5-gm-nicehash-8" rather than the default "sgminer-gm-a" installed on the ethOS distribution.  It is not too difficult to change out the default SGminer-GM, I have to do it each time that I upgrade ethOS.  If you need detailed instructions, PM me, I'll help.  The original SGminer-GM from the Genesis Mining GitHub site is not NiceHash compatible.  NiceHash re-wrote the code, and has a compatible version on the NiceHash GitHub.

I have a miner running 48 days with SGminer-GM, and the last time it was down, I brought it down deliberately.  It is mining on NiceHash.       --scryptr

[FFI2013]

Hi Guys!

I'm having trouble with Nicehash and Ethos, all the shares are rejected. Is there something I can do about it? Or is mine config not right?
Can someone take a look at it and maybe make adjustments to get it right?

## Nicehash Cryptonight

sgminer-gm-xmr=proxypool1 cryptonight.eu.nicehash.com:3355
sgminer-gm-xmr=proxypool1 cryptonight.eu.nicehash.com:3355
sgminer-gm-xmr=proxywallet BTCWALLET.WORKER
sgminer-gm-xmr=poolpass1 x
sgminer-gm-xmr=poolpass2 x

PROXYWALLET MUST BE ONLY A BITCOIN ADDRESS--

And, in ethOS' "sgminer-gm-xmr.stub.conf", use something like this:

=====<CUT LINE>=====
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
{
    "pools": [{
        "url": "POOL1",
        "user": "WALLET.WORKER",
        "pass": "PASSWORD"
    },
    {
        "url": "POOL2",
        "user": "WALLET.WORKER",
        "pass": "PASSWORD"
    }],
    "profiles": [{
        "worksize": "8",
        "name": "xmr",
        "algorithm": "cryptonight",
        "gpu-threads": "1",
        "rawintensity": "1016"
    }],
    "no-extranonce": false,
    "default-profile": "xmr",
    "no-submit-stale": true,
    "api-listen": true,
    "api-port": 4028,
    "api-mcast-port": 4028,
    "api-allow": "W:127.0.0.1,W:192.168.1.1/24",
    "temp-cutoff": "MAXTEMP",
    "temp-overheat": "MAXTEMP"
}

=====<CUT LINE>=====

Of course, do not include the cut lines.  If you change "gpu-threads" to "2", reduce "raw intensity" to "508".  If you have 2GB GPU cards, use values of "508"  or "254" for "raw intensity", and for "gpu threads" use "1" or "2", correspondingly.  Be sure to set "no submit stale" to "true", or you will get more stale share rejects.  The "api allow" line is set up to allow any PC on my local net to access the miner.  You can vary the "raw intensity" values slightly, but the code authors suggest remaining less than 256, 512, or 1024, respectively.

Variables in all caps, like "PASSWORD", will be read from ethOS' internals, or "local.conf" or "remote.conf" file.  That is why you should only place a BitCoin address in your ethOS configuration.

You may also need to use "sgminer-gm-xmr 5.5.5-gm-nicehash-8" rather than the default "sgminer-gm-a" installed on the ethOS distribution.  It is not too difficult to change out the default SGminer-GM, I have to do it each time that I upgrade ethOS.  If you need detailed instructions, PM me, I'll help.  The original SGminer-GM from the Genesis Mining GitHub site is not NiceHash compatible.  NiceHash re-wrote the code, and has a compatible version on the NiceHash GitHub.

I have a miner running 48 days with SGminer-GM, and the last time it was down, I brought it down deliberately.  It is mining on NiceHash.       --scryptr

I have a question maybe you can help I keep getting stratum disconnects from nicehash on sgminer mining xmr and its turning into a real pain I even tried to download and run nicehash miner still the same on all my rigs I noticed sgminer is using api port 4000 or 4001 I have those ports open for my pc running storj farming could this be interfering with sgminer I no Im not the only one having trouble just not sure if my trouble is this reason thanks for any input

[scryptr]

===<BIG SNIP>===

I have a question maybe you can help I keep getting stratum disconnects from nicehash on sgminer mining xmr and its turning into a real pain I even tried to download and run nicehash miner still the same on all my rigs I noticed sgminer is using api port 4000 or 4001 I have those ports open for my pc running storj farming could this be interfering with sgminer I no Im not the only one having trouble just not sure if my trouble is this reason thanks for any input

DISCONNECTS ARE NOT MINER-SPECIFIC--

I have the same problem.  Currently, I am mining CryptoNight with CPUminer-OPT, CPUminer-Multi, CCminer, and SGminer.  All the miners disconnect every few minutes.  The statistics on NiceHash are not consistent, either, as the miners are not connected long enough to obtain a good average.  I also notice that the pool difficulty is set at 300 thousand, rather than 40 thousand or 80 thousand.

I am earning more this week than last, but the live stats are not reliable.  NiceHash should comment.       -scryptr

[Elder III]

===<BIG SNIP>===

I have a question maybe you can help I keep getting stratum disconnects from nicehash on sgminer mining xmr and its turning into a real pain I even tried to download and run nicehash miner still the same on all my rigs I noticed sgminer is using api port 4000 or 4001 I have those ports open for my pc running storj farming could this be interfering with sgminer I no Im not the only one having trouble just not sure if my trouble is this reason thanks for any input

DISCONNECTS ARE NOT MINER-SPECIFIC--

I have the same problem.  Currently, I am mining CryptoNight with CPUminer-OPT, CPUminer-Multi, CCminer, and SGminer.  All the miners disconnect every few minutes.  The statistics on NiceHash are not consistent, either, as the miners are not connected long enough to obtain a good average.  I also notice that the pool difficulty is set at 300 thousand, rather than 40 thousand or 80 thousand.

I am earning more this week than last, but the live stats are not reliable.  NiceHash should comment.       -scryptr

We have the same situation here, both CPU and GPU mining gets frequent disconnects and stratum interrupts. The miners reconnect quickly, but it's definitely not working quite right.

[restless]

Bug in 1.8.1.4
Tahiti (7950/7970/280/280x) cards can't be used with cryptonight
These cards have 3GB ram, by default your bench uses -h 896 -dmem 1 - which is >3GB
Can't set -dmem 0 - nothing happens if set as additional parameter

"Old" Claymore cryptonight doesn't work at all - no switch and obviously the program uses new "xpool" switches for 10.x

[scryptr]

Bug in 1.8.1.4
Tahiti (7950/7970/280/280x) cards can't be used with cryptonight
These cards have 3GB ram, by default your bench uses -h 896 -dmem 1 - which is >3GB
Can't set -dmem 0 - nothing happens if set as additional parameter

"Old" Claymore cryptonight doesn't work at all - no switch and obviously the program uses new "xpool" switches for 10.x

SUPPORT FOR 3GB CARDS DROPPED--

NiceHash has dropped support for 3GB (or less) GPUs in NHM and NHML.  It is a feature, not a bug.  The word was out in the Excavator thread.

I am using SGminer-GM 5.5.5-8, NiceHash version.  My 280x and 380 (2GB) cards mine for weeks.      --scryptr

[restless]

Can you help with setting sgminer ?

I have no problem running these cards manually, but want to properly use auto-switching...

ALL whats needed in case of cryptonight from NH is allowing -dmem 0 ... or some way to use older Claymore miner :S

[scryptr]

Can you help with setting sgminer ?

I have no problem running these cards manually, but want to properly use auto-switching...

ALL whats needed in case of cryptonight from NH is allowing -dmem 0 ... or some way to use older Claymore miner :S

USE EXTERNAL MINING MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE--

There are several, I don't use them.  There are SGminer algo-switching configurations, but I believe that they are deprecated on NiceHash, and use the classic version of SGminer rather than SGminer-GM.  The example scripts were available on the classic NiceHash website.  Many of the algorithms within the examples have become ASIC-only, no longer profitable for GPU mining.

The AMD cards may be phased out of NHM and NHML.       --scryptr

P.S.  There is an example configuration script for CryptoNight using SGminer-GM posted less than a page back in this thread.       --scryptr

[tbearhere]

@nicehash
I'm hashing cryptonight ago at 525 h/s and the worker difficulty is 300,000  
I want to use my mining app. that has no adjustment for starting difficulty. xmrMiner. bSleep=100
Stats are showing 1 h/s what can I do plz..... thx  


EDIT: [2017-11-04 11:43:06] Stratum detected new block
[2017-11-04 11:43:06] GPU #1: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 277.77 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:43:06] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 249.52 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:43:32] Stratum detected new block
[2017-11-04 11:43:32] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 249.23 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:43:32] GPU #1: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 278.65 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:43:53] Stratum detected new block
[2017-11-04 11:43:53] GPU #1: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 277.17 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:43:54] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 247.31 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:44:49] Stratum detected new block
[2017-11-04 11:44:49] GPU #1: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 279.08 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:44:49] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 249.64 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:45:33] Stratum detected new block
[2017-11-04 11:45:33] GPU #1: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 278.52 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:45:33] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 250.02 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:46:34] GPU #1: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 275.06 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:46:35] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 244.65 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:47:03] Keepalive send...
[2017-11-04 11:47:34] GPU #1: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 278.82 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:47:34] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 251.06 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:48:33] Keepalive send...
[2017-11-04 11:48:35] GPU #1: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 273.50 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:48:35] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 245.59 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:49:35] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 248.85 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:49:35] GPU #1: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 275.05 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:50:03] Keepalive send...
[2017-11-04 11:50:32] Stratum detected new block
[2017-11-04 11:50:33] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 241.24 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:50:33] GPU #1: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 270.49 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:51:19] Stratum detected new block
[2017-11-04 11:51:20] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 243.97 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:51:20] GPU #1: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 273.50 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:52:19] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 249.41 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:52:20] GPU #1: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 277.09 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:52:49] Keepalive send...
[2017-11-04 11:53:19] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 251.80 H/s
[2017-11-04 11:53:20] GPU #1: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 278.54 H/s

[BSAlex]

The AMD cards may be phased out of NHM and NHML.       --scryptr

Already phased out for NHM.

[restless]

What? Nicehash want to be Nvidia only?!?
Ha, 10x for all the fish then.

[FloppyPurpleGherkin]

To say you guys charge a 3-4% fee, The service is SHOCKING.

If it's not the 'Maintenance mode' every 5 minutes, It's rigs failing to connect 'connection refused' all the fking time.

You just lost a customer with a LOT of hash.

[achillez]

Thought I'd try nicehash to see how it works to mine electroneum. Did all the calculations, using a pool I've used before. Calculated I should get around 1k ETN. Put in my payment, takes a long time to finally get accepted and I come out with 350 ETN.  Something is massively sketchy with the way hashes are provided for BTC. There's no way to actually confirm you got the hashes you paid for, and once it's done... sorry you lose. Not cool.

[goodminer]

Hi, can someone please tell me how to set an static diff on nicehash server, because I'm mining with amd nicehash miner, cryptonight algo with my cpu and amd r7 370 for about an hour and no shares detected, because of diff on site is 300 000??
How to solve this problem?
Thank you forward.

[restless]

Is there a way to ask for support with configuring legacy NH miner?

[Most Unclean]

Have been selling my hashing power on NiceHash for a little bit.  Started looking into buying hashing power and can't figure out how it is profitable.  I have listed some details of me research below.  If there is someone that can tell me how they are making a profit that would be helpful, thanks in advance.

Looked in LTC
Was going to spend 0.01 BTC @ 0.0046 BTC/GH/Day for 1 day.  This works out to 2.1739 GH for the day.
Current total hashing power is about 31,000 GH/s, my purchase would mine about 1.01 LTC for the day.
That converts to about 0.0075 BTC when the initial buying price was 0.01, a 25% loss, and all the various fees haven't even been factored in.

A little bit later I notice the low end buying prices were up to 0.0056 BTC/GH/Day, even worse and the price of LTC hadn't moved.
How is this profitable, what am I missing?
If this is not profitable no one would be doing it.

Thanks in advance

[alekvn]

Have been selling my hashing power on NiceHash for a little bit.  Started looking into buying hashing power and can't figure out how it is profitable.  I have listed some details of me research below.  If there is someone that can tell me how they are making a profit that would be helpful, thanks in advance.

Looked in LTC
Was going to spend 0.01 BTC @ 0.0046 BTC/GH/Day for 1 day.  This works out to 2.1739 GH for the day.
Current total hashing power is about 31,000 GH/s, my purchase would mine about 1.01 LTC for the day.
That converts to about 0.0075 BTC when the initial buying price was 0.01, a 25% loss, and all the various fees haven't even been factored in.

A little bit later I notice the low end buying prices were up to 0.0056 BTC/GH/Day, even worse and the price of LTC hadn't moved.
How is this profitable, what am I missing?
If this is not profitable no one would be doing it.

Thanks in advance

It depends on what coins you mine, LTC may not be the most profitable coin in average. Purchasers can mine coins you do not know about, even at some private pools. There are 1200 coins after all. It's also a common tactic to monitor difficulty of coins and make hashpower surges when difficulty drops. At those moments you can buy really high. Anyway, most purchases are done by robots.

[Most Unclean]

I get it  other coins are also running Scrypt and are more profitable than LTC driving the price of Scrypt up, along with the other factors you mentioned.
Thanks