What that means is you can control the mining processes from one computer while 1 or more computers run the actual mining programs. If it normally takes you a week to earn enough for a payout on 1 pool and you're switching to other pools half the time then it will take you longer to see the payouts to your wallet(s).Īwesome Miner itself runs on Windows, but they have remote software that can run on Windows or Linux. I've got a few rigs so it doesn't take me long to reach the payout threshold, but if you're just starting out with say 1 GPU and a 1 CPU you'll want to weigh that with profit switching. You can also turn them on/off on the fly if you decide you want to just do NiceHash for a bit or maybe mine a specific coin. ZergPool and MPH allow you to choose what coin you want to be paid in (I normally do LTC to decrease fees and payout thresholds). It will profit switch between all of them based on what is most profitable at the time, that way you can take advantage of the spikes NiceHash sees from time-to-time but also go back to a pool when it's not as profitable. I personally use Awesome Miner with NiceHash, ZergPool, MiningPoolHub, and a few pools for individual coins (Beam & Raven these days).

You also add in the added work of managing multiple different wallets and finding exchanges to trade the coin on and all fees and minimums required to do all of that, I've mined on pools many times, I always end up back at Nicehash once they add the coin I was mining on a pool.ĭisclaimer: I'M NOT SAYING YOU MUST USE NICEHASH (Since some people here like to call me a shill), I'm just saying unless you find some 'new hot coin' that Nicehash hasn't added yet then you aren't gonna see a huge improvement in earnings if you even see an improvement at all. Well first off just remember if you do mine altcoins on other pools the actual dollar value of the coin won't be much different, you might get more 'coin' but it's not like you are gonna double or triple your dollar value by not using Nicehash, in fact if you look at for basically any GPU Nicehash is consistently within 5% or less the earnings of the top earning altcoins. Im also ok with alt coin payouts as NH only pays out in bitcoin and its not much.

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