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

[nicehashdev]

It is just a display bug, nothing to worry about. It is important what you see on NiceHash frontend stats page.

[Bill48105]

Payments are issued four times a day if your unpaid balance is greater than 0.01 BTC. Every fourth payment (once per day) is issued if balance is greater than 0.002 BTC. We will do payments for balances greater than 0.0001 BTC once every few days.

Payment threshold is checked for each algorithm even if you use the same BTC address for different algorithms. Each algorithm balance must correspond to the criteria above to be included in the payment. All balances for the same BTC address, matching the criteria above, will be combined into single payment.

Example:

User under BTC adress "xxx" has such balances:
a) Scrypt: 0.11
b) Scrypt-Adaptive-Nfactor: 0.04
c) X11: 0.0001

At the next payment round, total balance will be 0.11 + 0.04 = 0.15 BTC since a) and b) matches the criteria, however c) doesn't. User will receive 0.15 BTC in a single transaction. The X11 balance from c) will be paid in one of the next rounds, when it reaches the criteria above.

Note: We will implement a combined summarized threshold checking in the future upgrades to allow aggregated payout. It's in our TODO list we just haven't got time to implement it yet - it is not a trivial task since we have to do QA testing to make sure payments are 100% correct and exact.

Took some searching to find this very important info.. Should probably be put on the nicehash site.   It says payouts 4x per day but no mention of minimums or the other info given here. Unless i'm blind & if so I apologize but i checked faq and getting started areas.
Thx
Bill48105

[kada]

Payments are issued four times a day if your unpaid balance is greater than 0.01 BTC. Every fourth payment (once per day) is issued if balance is greater than 0.002 BTC. We will do payments for balances greater than 0.0001 BTC once every few days.

Payment threshold is checked for each algorithm even if you use the same BTC address for different algorithms. Each algorithm balance must correspond to the criteria above to be included in the payment. All balances for the same BTC address, matching the criteria above, will be combined into single payment.

Example:

User under BTC adress "xxx" has such balances:
a) Scrypt: 0.11
b) Scrypt-Adaptive-Nfactor: 0.04
c) X11: 0.0001

At the next payment round, total balance will be 0.11 + 0.04 = 0.15 BTC since a) and b) matches the criteria, however c) doesn't. User will receive 0.15 BTC in a single transaction. The X11 balance from c) will be paid in one of the next rounds, when it reaches the criteria above.

Note: We will implement a combined summarized threshold checking in the future upgrades to allow aggregated payout. It's in our TODO list we just haven't got time to implement it yet - it is not a trivial task since we have to do QA testing to make sure payments are 100% correct and exact.

Took some searching to find this very important info.. Should probably be put on the nicehash site.   It says payouts 4x per day but no mention of minimums or the other info given here. Unless i'm blind & if so I apologize but i checked faq and getting started areas.
Thx
Bill48105

Almost the same text is in the FAQ ^^
https://nicehash.com/?p=faq#faqs4

[Bill48105]

Almost the same text is in the FAQ ^^
https://nicehash.com/?p=faq#faqs4

dang my bad. was that just added? i searched & scrolled that page for 1/2 hr. lol well thx

[paniczklos]

why is my order not active ? isn't it automated ?

[BitcoinGeekBoy]

I wonder what people are scrypt mining right now that they are paying such high prices to use nicehash for mining?  Is there a new coin out or what?

[int3ractivodular]

So glad I stumbled upon this awesome site/service. Very well done, super excited to be mining with you guys!

[elpsycongro]

I wonder what people are scrypt mining right now that they are paying such high prices to use nicehash for mining?  Is there a new coin out or what?

i also wonder ,  what the next hype coin is?

[ajw7989]

I wonder what people are scrypt mining right now that they are paying such high prices to use nicehash for mining?  Is there a new coin out or what?

i also wonder ,  what the next hype coin is?

vericoin became very popular and in the last day or two jumped from 0.00000500 to about 0.00001674 currently.

[nicetry]

You can tell nicehash is trying hard to price fix, because any time the prices fall below a certain level (especially for scrypt-n), this one order gets *revived* somehow.  Which would be impossible for normal users.  Nice try guys, nice try.  How about let the market determine the price?  What's the point if you keep messing and propping up the price?

[nicehashdev]

We do not interfere with orders and pricing. But many pools do drop inactive connection after a while thus order appearing dead. When order is filled with miners, you won't see this happening (except when pool is unstable).

[Humancell]

Hello,

I wanted to say there is still an issue with NiceHash and cgminer.  I'm still trying to narrow down the specifics, but here is what I am seeing from my side:

1. I have two identical AntMiner S1, both running the updated cgminer (Kanoi builds) v4.3.2a
  - https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS1

2. I have both configured with pools identically - the primary pool is set to:
 - stratum.nicehash.com:3334
 - {my address}
 - p=0.065;d=128

3. I have secondary and tertiary pools defined - Eligius and GHash.io

4. Today, when the contract ran that was 0.08 they both switched to NiceHash properly.

5. When the contract completed, and then next was 0.06, both AntMiners went to the second pool - Eligius - as they should have.

6. About an hour ago, you had a contract for 0.07 show up ... and I noticed it showed as Alive and Dead ... on and off.  Both AntMiners mined, and fell back, several times ... but then one fell back to Eligius and the second hung mining nothing.

7. You home page showed the 0.07 contract dead ... that AntMiner still showed the pool alive.  It was mining nothing for 4-5 minutes ... and then I restarted it.  Once I did that the pool showed dead ... like your home page did.

I've checked the code in Github, and the Kanoi builds for the AntMiner have the same fix as ckolivas for the idle bug:

https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/blob/master/NEWS#L25


Would you expect that when you have a bad contract/pool that I would see the miner hang for that long?

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I'm adding this about an hour later ... same thing just happened to my OTHER AntMiner ... I noticed it was stopped mining on both pools!!  NiceHash as the first priority was showing as ALIVE in cgminer ... even with my threshold of 0.065 ... with no contracts visible.

Why?

I had to restart the miner ... and NiceHash went to "DEAD" ... now it's working again.

[suchmoon]

I'm confused about this whole extranonce thing now. Do you have a working cgminer version for Gridseed? I tried compiler jmordica's version that you linked to on your software page, it does not submit any shares. I tried the precompiled binary downloaded from your software page and it only does "Share above target". So is there a working one or not?

[fivejonnyfive]

I'm confused about this whole extranonce thing now. Do you have a working cgminer version for Gridseed? I tried compiler jmordica's version that you linked to on your software page, it does not submit any shares. I tried the precompiled binary downloaded from your software page and it only does "Share above target". So is there a working one or not?

Sandor's cpuminer-gc3355 works great with the gridseeds and clevermining.

If you have a raspberry pi, Minera is a web interface that works flawlessly (for me) with gridseed 5-chips and nicehash.

Only have been using nicehash for a few days but so far so good.


The only thing I've had trouble with is setting minimal price and diff in the same password field. But maybe I have the syntax wrong.

[suchmoon]

I'm confused about this whole extranonce thing now. Do you have a working cgminer version for Gridseed? I tried compiler jmordica's version that you linked to on your software page, it does not submit any shares. I tried the precompiled binary downloaded from your software page and it only does "Share above target". So is there a working one or not?

Sandor's cpuminer-gc3355 works great with the gridseeds and clevermining.

If you have a raspberry pi, Minera is a web interface that works flawlessly (for me) with gridseed 5-chips and nicehash.

Only have been using nicehash for a few days but so far so good.


The only thing I've had trouble with is setting minimal price and diff in the same password field. But maybe I have the syntax wrong.

I know cpuminer works, I'm using it now, but I need cgminer for one specific project. I have a PC with other cgminer-controlled hardware on it, and cgminer doesn't play nice with cdc_acm driver needed for bfgminer/cpuminer. So I either need to run cgminer for all USB devices including gridseeds, or fiddle around with rmmod/modprobe on every boot to load cdc_acm for bfgminer/cpuminer at the right time. Looks like fiddling it is for now.

[fivejonnyfive]

I'm confused about this whole extranonce thing now. Do you have a working cgminer version for Gridseed? I tried compiler jmordica's version that you linked to on your software page, it does not submit any shares. I tried the precompiled binary downloaded from your software page and it only does "Share above target". So is there a working one or not?

Sandor's cpuminer-gc3355 works great with the gridseeds and clevermining.

If you have a raspberry pi, Minera is a web interface that works flawlessly (for me) with gridseed 5-chips and nicehash.

Only have been using nicehash for a few days but so far so good.


The only thing I've had trouble with is setting minimal price and diff in the same password field. But maybe I have the syntax wrong.

I know cpuminer works, I'm using it now, but I need cgminer for one specific project. I have a PC with other cgminer-controlled hardware on it, and cgminer doesn't play nice with cdc_acm driver needed for bfgminer/cpuminer. So I either need to run cgminer for all USB devices including gridseeds, or fiddle around with rmmod/modprobe on every boot to load cdc_acm for bfgminer/cpuminer at the right time. Looks like fiddling it is for now.

I hate to say it but Micro Center is selling the rPI for $30 and you'd probably be better off. I have one for SHA and one for Scrypt and they use barely any power at all whereas the PC that was controlling them before used 100-200 watts versus 3 to 5 watts for each of the Pi's. Where I live each paid for themselves in about a month. Such savings. Very efficiency.

Now, that doesn't answer your question - there ought to be a CGminer that works for nicehash, and it's frustrating that the links provided don't work.

[Humancell]

Is there a JSON API for the stats on the home page?

I want to be able to fetch the Statistics table of the four Algorithm pools without having to scrape the page?

I'm working on a way to autoswitch my miner between configs, to switch from Scrypt to X11 and back based on calculated profitability with my hash rates.

[nicehashdev]

Is there a JSON API for the stats on the home page?

I want to be able to fetch the Statistics table of the four Algorithm pools without having to scrape the page?

I'm working on a way to autoswitch my miner between configs, to switch from Scrypt to X11 and back based on calculated profitability with my hash rates.

On todo list.

it's really annoying i constantly get X11 diff 0.08-0.1
which is waaay high for one 280x, so WU is negligible.
normally an X11 pool gives me 0.004-0.01

Read here: https://nicehash.com/index.jsp?p=faq#faqs7

[Degolep]

Is there any info for profitability between scrypt, scrypt-n and x11?

[suchmoon]

Is there any info for profitability between scrypt, scrypt-n and x11?

You mean like this on the front page?