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

[xjp]

Hello NiceHash,
I am trying your API to get information about my orders, but I am not able to get the expiration date. I expect that I cat see it in the "end" keyword. In your example I see an integer value. If I try it in my browser I get "end":0. In the "start" keyword is the zero value as well. What I am doing wrong?
Jiri

[nicehash]

New small feature: you can now decrease price of existing orders, see details in FAQ: https://www.nicehash.com/index.jsp?p=faq#faqb6

[lulu2003]

what's up with the 17:00 UTC payment today? still unconfirmed after 1 hour?

[yan7181]

rent for scrypt went up
any idea what is going on?

[alienesb]

rent for scrypt went up
any idea what is going on?

Faith in ltc restored?

[kevin1234a]

could ssomeone advise me how to hire rigs from MRR and fill some orders of NH; problem i am facing that MRR wont authenticte NH or WH servers? is it normal or i am doing something wrong

[kilo17]

Nicehash has become a Joke...If the asshole that sits on the Scrypt miners 24/7 doesn't want you to have any hash rate he drives the price up by switching his 200 ongoing accounts to a price slightly above the one being rented and will continue to do so till he runs people off.  NiceHash lets this guy continue until it is just not worth fighting the guy and he ends up with tons of Hashrate at extremely low prices.  It is either a bot controlling it or its the NiceHash owners doing it.... either way its a joke and if you want to have a stable rental it cannot be done on NiceHash- so as a frequent renter I would rec. sticking with the other guys rental place MRR
Keith

[kilo17]

It also ends up ripping off the guys that are renting out their rigs because they could be getting more money if it wasn't for the asshole running everyone off....

[nicehash]

Hi,

Regarding bots and activating/deactivating orders: We are aware of these issues and today we implemented another feature that will prevent or demotivate usage of such massive and bullying-style of activating/deactivating orders (placeholder orders will simply be auto-canceled in case of inappropriate usage).

We would also like to announce that we have in development two new features which will be great for users, looking for stable rentals of smaller amounts of hashing power:

1) Dynamic orders: dynamic orders will allow you to set an optional maximum price besides default bidding price. This will make your order dynamic. Such an order will auto-increase price (up to maximum price set by the user at order create time) if other orders would overtake your place and you would be loosing hashing power. And it will also auto-decrease price in certain intervals if hashing power for lower price will be available (up to default bidding price). In other words - system would make sure to keep your limited hashing power at the best possible price in the price interval, set by you. Of course, this would still not guarantee for other orders not to overtake your order by rising price above your maximum price. This is what Fixed orders are for.

2) Fixed orders: Users will be allowed to create fixed hashing power orders. What we noticed is that users are willing to pay a bit over average price (let's call it premium price) to have a guaranteed alive order with a dedicated hashing power. Fixed orders will allow this to set order type as "fixed" order - in this case your order will stay alive with your limited hashing power even if all other orders are set at higher price. A few rules will apply:
- fixed orders will be time bound (duration minimum 24h and maximum 7 days), but you will be still able to cancel order at any time without penalty and of course order might be finished/completed if funds on order are exhausted before order expiration time;
- one will have to pay premium price for fixed order; we haven't yet decided on formula, but will probably be: (current_avg_price_for_algorithm + 20%); that said a dynamic minimum acceptable price threshold will be applied at order create time: if you would set lower price then the threshold, your order wouldn't be accepted - threshold will be displayed (in most cases this would still be below market price of competitive rig rental sites but with much easier management of renting hashing power);
- only a percentage (probably 30%) of all available hashing power will be available for fixed orders; once the global quota for fixed orders will be filled, you won't be able to create additional fixed orders (this is to maintain the core feature of our service - get massive hashing power on demand).

With the introduction of Dynamic and Fixed orders we would like to improve our service especially for smaller customers, looking for smaller/medium amounts of hashing power that would look&feel just like renting an actual rig, but still with all the great features of hashing power rental (cancel at any time, pay for accepted shares only, no worries for faulty rigs) - this would make traditional rig rental truly obsolete and there would be no reasons to simply rent hashing power at NiceHash.

Please let us know your opinion on these proposed features - we still have time to make some modifications based on your feedback!

Thank you for using our service!
NiceHash/WestHash

[bitsum]

It is nicely said 'Too much of everything is bad'.Too much of such abrupt developments made only keeping in mind the interest of the miners whereas renters are too an integral part of the community,it has now made nicehash a bad place for renters.I'm leaving nicehash for good.Hope others will follow soon.

[manfred87]

you cancelled all my rental orders 2 hours ago - without telling me via mail - without having new method finished ( i see still the old order form )
this is very bad behaviour..


i mean: i am a "good guy" - static orders i never touch .. so you destroyed my orders.. but in this very moment the ugly bot with his "0.1 gh" orders for every price is alive again!


your new system seems to very complex.. i don't really understand what this would improve..
why do you care about bots? they help the free market to find the real price.. miners are paid, you get your fees.. every complex rule would destroy that function.. and then you probably will loose sellers and buyers.. and then you will loose fees.. think about it!
i don't like them too.. but accept them as part of the game..

[Automatic Monkey]

It is nicely said 'Too much of everything is bad'.Too much of such abrupt developments made only keeping in mind the interest of the miners whereas renters are too an integral part of the community,it has now made nicehash a bad place for renters.I'm leaving nicehash for good.Hope others will follow soon.

It is a fair place for both renters and hashers. Some of us use it for both.

When you think about it, spending BTC to mine BTC is going to have to be a bad deal for one party or another unless it is used strategically. You can use it for alts that are mining more profitably than BTC, or use it to mitigate the gambling aspect of PPLNS or solo mining. Don't try to use it for a free lunch.

[pringles1901]

why are we not receiving payments today mine is now 7 hours late...anyone

[alienesb]

why are we not receiving payments today mine is now 7 hours late...anyone

Just showed up

[lulu2003]

why are we not receiving payments today mine is now 7 hours late...anyone

same here, the once-a-day-window for below 0,04 sometimes shifts...
but orders are currently too much below new difficulty conditions.

[TracerX]

why are we not receiving payments today mine is now 7 hours late...anyone

When they bounce the servers it appears to reset the payment clock.  I've seen it do that a few times in the past after maintenance of the front end.

Cheers.

[manfred87]

anoher question:
 
do you have any plans to implement "extranonce.subscribe" for pools!?
 
you have it for the sellers(miners).. but you do not have it when your service connects to the pools of the buyers..
 
wouldn't that be usefull? so there would be less bots killig connections.. we could switch coins!

[Dilemma]

i want to try this service
i want rent a ring for mining..
Will u advice me NiceHash?

[nicehash]

i want to try this service
i want rent a ring for mining..
Will u advice me NiceHash?

It's very simple, please follow these instructions: https://www.nicehash.com/?p=gstarted#buyer

[nicehashdev]

anoher question:
 
do you have any plans to implement "extranonce.subscribe" for pools!?
 
you have it for the sellers(miners).. but you do not have it when your service connects to the pools of the buyers..
 
wouldn't that be usefull? so there would be less bots killig connections.. we could switch coins!

Unfortunately, the majority of our miners still don't use this feature. If we implement it, then these miners still have to perform reconnect which in turns mean going to "another order" aka as if your order got disconnected.

Besides, for coin switching, you don't have to change extranonce1. Most multipools switch coins without extranonce1 change.