[POOL] NiceHash.com Z.CASH/Scrypt/X11/PASCAL/etc. profit switch Bitcoin payout

[nicehash]

Sell your hashing power as simple as using a multipool!

www.nicehash.com

Z.CASH IS SUPPORTED

We were asked by several users to present our service in this Mining (Altcoins) / Pools (Altcoins) bitcointalk section. This thread is intended for a quick overview and debate for miners (sellers/providers) of hashing power, who can use NiceHash.com as simple any other multipool. The complete description of NiceHash.com service is available in this topic.

Why use NiceHash.com?
- It is as simple as using a multipool with PPS
- Above average payments, detailed in statistics
- Automatic payments in Bitcoins up to 4 times a day
- No registration needed
- Automatic multi-algo profit-switching mining (invented by NiceHash.com - the first service to provide this feature)
- Stable and reputable service from April 2014

NiceHash.com is the most suitable service for miners who are looking for easy and profitable mining experience without worrying too much of the profitability of a particular coin or particular algorithm.

Take a look at our Getting started guide and start earning some Bitcoins ASAP.

[nicehash]

We welcome all Scrypt miners to try our pool. It pays in average 20% more then direct Litecoin mining. Check stats at https://www.nicehash.com/index.jsp?p=stats (Scrypt tab) and point your miner to stratum+tcp://stratum.nicehash.com:3333 or stratum+tcp://stratum.westhash.com:3333!

[nicehash]

KnC Titan users:

We suggest you to use #xnsub AND #skipcbcheck parameters to get stable mining on NiceHash or WestHash, example:

stratum+tcp://stratum.nicehash.com/#xnsub#skipcbcheck

With those settings you'll be able to get a stable 350 Mh/s average speed with fw 1.95 overclocking at 325MHs.

Proof:


btw: average NiceHash/WestHash Scrypt profitability is aprox. 25% more then direct Litecoin mining.

[nicehash]

We added support for using multi-sig Bitcoin addresses as username for sellers/providers (miners) with full validation of addresses.

[Bombadil]

Is there a difference for us miners between mining on nicehash or on westhash? I know that you've already "merged" the payouts, but will those who mine to westhash get better pings when they're actually on the west-coast? If so, is there a way, ping-wise or api-wise, to get the best stratum a user should connect too? If not, I bet you're already doing the rerouting behind the scenes

[nicehash]

Is there a difference for us miners between mining on nicehash or on westhash? I know that you've already "merged" the payouts, but will those who mine to westhash get better pings when they're actually on the west-coast? If so, is there a way, ping-wise or api-wise, to get the best stratum a user should connect too? If not, I bet you're already doing the rerouting behind the scenes

We have ping disabled on our stratum servers, but you can ping the endpoints of our provider's datacenters:

"ping speedtest.ams01.softlayer.com" for NiceHash
"ping speedtest.sea01.softlayer.com" for WestHash

this will give you ping results, use the one that gives you lower ping results (lower ms).

[Bombadil]

Is there a difference for us miners between mining on nicehash or on westhash? I know that you've already "merged" the payouts, but will those who mine to westhash get better pings when they're actually on the west-coast? If so, is there a way, ping-wise or api-wise, to get the best stratum a user should connect too? If not, I bet you're already doing the rerouting behind the scenes

We have ping disabled on our stratum servers, but you can ping the endpoints of our provider's datacenters:

"ping speedtest.ams01.softlayer.com" for NiceHash
"ping speedtest.sea01.softlayer.com" for WestHash

this will give you ping results, use the one that gives you lower ping results (lower ms).

Thanks Implemented it in my mod of MinerControl: https://git.io/NDtO
Will pick the one with best ping time at init.

[nicehash]

For those interested in mining WhirpoolX on NiceHash/WestHash: WhirpoolX algorithm has been added

You can download sgminer with whirpoolx support here:

https://www.westhash.com/index.jsp?p=software#whirpoolx

MULTIALGO note:
WhirpoolX is disabled on multilago by default (because currently you have to use a special sgminer fork and the transition will probably take a while). But nevertheless if you want to use multialgo you can still use it by manually adding WhirpoolX factor to your pool's password setting, for example:

"pass" : "f0=0;f2=0;f3=8.5;f4=4.5;f5=500;f6=3.5;f7=14;f8=0.35;f9=1.25;f10=135",

(as always, remember to add this to ALL your NiceHash/WestHash pools entries, not only for the new WhirpoolX entry).

p.s: we haven't tested sgminer-whirpoolx fork with other algorithms

[nicehash]

For those interested in mining Qubit algorithm coins (GeoCoin, etc.) on NiceHash/WestHash: Qubit algorithm has been added

You can download sgminer with Qubit support here:

https://www.nicehash.com/index.jsp?p=software#sgminer

MULTIALGO note:
Qubit is disabled on multilago by default (transition will probably take a while). But nevertheless if you want to use multialgo you can still use it by manually adding Qubit factor to your pool's password setting, for example:

"pass" : "f0=0;f2=0;f3=8.5;f4=4.5;f5=500;f6=3.5;f7=14;f8=0.35;f9=1.25;f10=135;f11=6.5",

(as always, remember to add this to ALL your NiceHash/WestHash pools entries, not only for the new Qubit entry).

[nicehash]

If you own some Scrypt miners you should really check the latest profitability on Scrypt NiceHash/WestHash which is more then 100% above direct Litecoin mining - point your Scrypt miners to NiceHash/WestHash!

[NiceHashSupport]

If you own some Scrypt miners you should really check the latest profitability on Scrypt NiceHash/WestHash which is more then 100% above direct Litecoin mining - point your Scrypt miners to NiceHash/WestHash!

It is more than 300% more than ideal Litecoin mining now.

[nicehash]

For those interested in mining Quark algorithm coins (Quark coin, etc.) on NiceHash/WestHash: Quark algorithm has been added

You can download sgminer with Quark support here:

https://www.nicehash.com/index.jsp?p=software#sgminer

MULTIALGO note:
Quark is disabled on multilago by default (transition will probably take a while). But nevertheless if you want to use multialgo you can still use it by manually adding Quark factor to your pool's password setting, for example:

"pass" : "f0=0;f2=0;f3=8.5;f4=4.5;f5=500;f6=3.5;f7=14;f8=0.35;f9=1.25;f10=135;f11=6.5;f12=2",

(as always, remember to add this to ALL your NiceHash/WestHash pools entries, not only for the new Quark entry).

[joblo]

Mining quark at westhash and my balance has been stuck for 30 minutes and the graph
shows the payout drop to zero. Is this just a problem with the stats page or am I hashing
for nothing?

[NiceHashSupport]

Mining quark at westhash and my balance has been stuck for 30 minutes and the graph
shows the payout drop to zero. Is this just a problem with the stats page or am I hashing
for nothing?

Contact support@nicehash.com and provide your mining BTC address.

[joblo]

Mining quark at westhash and my balance has been stuck for 30 minutes and the graph
shows the payout drop to zero. Is this just a problem with the stats page or am I hashing
for nothing?

Contact support@nicehash.com and provide your mining BTC address.

Thanks for the very quick reply. When stats are available by balance jumps to where it should be.
Looks like it's just a problem with the stats page.

Since nothing seems to be lost I'll ride it out

[nicehash]

IMPORTANT notice for sellers (miners): we're switching to new DNS structure for stratum servers

Hello,

To make our service even more scalable as well as future proof for new algorithms and fluctuating hashing power among different algorithms, we've prepared new DNS naming for our stratum servers.

Please note that there will be no hard switch to the new naming structure, we are using a soft grace period in which old and new naming coexists, and both, old and new stratum addresses works.

Nevertheless, we are asking you to make the following changes to your miner's configurations as soon as possible. The new DNS naming is already active and can be already used. Here are two major changes:

1) westhash.com is being renamed to usa.nicehash.com. This is ONLY true for stratum server addresses, WestHash web interface will still be available at https://www.westhash.com. However, we'll be merging both markets (and later adding also an Asian market) into single web interface in the future updates (of course, still with geographically separated physical locations of servers).

2) Each algorithm is having it's own unique stratum mining DNS address.

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Here is a list for EU location servers (aka NiceHash):

Code:

scrypt.eu.nicehash.com
sha256.eu.nicehash.com
scryptnf.eu.nicehash.com
x11.eu.nicehash.com
x13.eu.nicehash.com
keccak.eu.nicehash.com
x15.eu.nicehash.com
nist5.eu.nicehash.com
neoscrypt.eu.nicehash.com
lyra2re.eu.nicehash.com
whirlpoolx.eu.nicehash.com
qubit.eu.nicehash.com
quark.eu.nicehash.com

And here is a list for USA location servers (aka WestHash):

Code:

scrypt.usa.nicehash.com
sha256.usa.nicehash.com
scryptnf.usa.nicehash.com
x11.usa.nicehash.com
x13.usa.nicehash.com
keccak.usa.nicehash.com
x15.usa.nicehash.com
nist5.usa.nicehash.com
neoscrypt.usa.nicehash.com
lyra2re.usa.nicehash.com
whirlpoolx.usa.nicehash.com
qubit.usa.nicehash.com
quark.usa.nicehash.com

Note that there is no more "stratum" string, the name of the algorithm implies this. Therefore you have to replace the string "stratum" with "[algorithm].eu" or "[algorithm].usa".

Essentially you have to delete the string "stratum" and then copy-paste "sha256.eu", "scrypt.eu", "x11.eu", "x13.eu", etc. or for USA location (aka WestHash) "sha256.usa", "scrypt.usa", "x11.usa", "x13.usa", etc.

For example, replace:

Code:

stratum.nicehash.com:3333
stratum.nicehash.com:3334
stratum.nicehash.com:3336
stratum.nicehash.com:3337
... etc.

with

Code:

scrypt.eu.nicehash.com:3333
sha256.eu.nicehash.com:3334
x11.eu.nicehash.com:3336
x13.eu.nicehash.com:3337
... etc.

And for USA (aka WestHash) location, replace:

Code:

stratum.westhash.com:3333
stratum.westhash.com:3334
stratum.westhash.com:3336
stratum.westhash.com:3337
... etc.

with

Code:

scrypt.usa.nicehash.com:3333
sha256.usa.nicehash.com:3334
x11.usa.nicehash.com:3336
x13.usa.nicehash.com:3337
... etc.

We HIGHLY RECOMMEND you to use the copy-paste (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V) function for replacing individual strings instead of typing it manually to avoid typing mistakes - keep in mind that incorrectly typed address will result into dead/inactive pool connection.

And we kindly ask you to make these changes until June 15th, 2015. After this date the old naming of stratum servers will be deprecated.

Thank you for using our service and hopefully these changes won't cause you too many troubles. If you have any additional questions or troubles with making the required changes, please let us know to support@nicehash.com.

Thank you for using our service!


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Kind regards,
NiceHash.com

[5w00p]

Nicehash/Westhash

is

down.

 

[smokiepot]

Code:

Scheduled maintenance for servers upgrade: 15/06 @ 16:00 UTC/GMT. Web frontend will be unavailable and stratums interrupted for approx 1h.

but its near to 2h now.

[5w00p]

It's baaaack!
 

[nicehash]

Hardware upgraded, service back up&running. Sorry for the extended downtime and thanks for using our service! Keep on hashing