Quote from: xChackOx on September 03, 2017, 02:41:12 PM

Quote from: puwaha on September 03, 2017, 04:46:37 AM

I get that FOMO when using Nicehash, because in AM, the daily rate it shows is usually much lower than the "profit" that MPH or Zpool show. I'll mine at NH for a few hours then ask myself why am I mining at such a lower rate than what I was getting at MPH for instance. Then I wonder, why am I even bothering chasing coins, and go back to mining my favorite single coins and turn off profit switching.

I want to like NH, but it's got big fees, you only get paid what the buyers "market" will pay out, and just doesn't seem as profitable as the others. I think there is a thread here, where someone put 3 equal rigs on NH, MPH, and ZPool for seven days and surprisingly ZPool came out ahead. I was always hesitant to use ZPool because it's had some bad reviews in the past of them "stealing" large percentages of hashrates, intentionally switching your rigs to less profitable algos because they need to level out others and more.

I think I'll give Zpool a go through AM for 24 hours and see what happens.

I tried MPH for two weeks and it didn't make the cut for me. I have 6 cards and my hashrate got divided into so many coins that it took forever to exchange on the first week. On the second week I manually limited the algos to Daggerhashimoto and Equihash and earnings were still lower than NH. I think the reason is what I stated before, by the time they exchange the price of the coin isn't the same. I barely made 0.010 BTC with MPH in one week, while I consistently make 0.017 BTC in NH per week.

The high fees are really an illusion produced by the "lower fees" of the other pools. Yeah, you mine at 0.9% in MPH, but you still pay a fee for exchange, cash out and miner fee. When you add all the fees it's pretty much the same (still lower, but not that much to say you're earning way more). Yeah, NH charges a 4% fee for payments to an external wallet, but that's it (of course there's also the miner fee). And if you have enough hash power to make about 0.03 BTC per day, then mining to the NH wallet gets cheaper and cheaper.

This is a really good point about the "veiled" processes going on with MPH and Zpool. It's just too hard to predict how your coins will be treated if you use their auto-conversion or auto-exchange features. That makes the simplicity of using NH a positive in it's favor.

EDIT:
Argh! Looks like Zpool is having troubles again today, so I won't be able to do a 24 hour analysis of them until they get a little more stable. I don't know what I would do without the notifications from Awesome Miner. I should really do a deeper dive on the rules to see if there's a better way to automate situations like this.