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@salfter
Is it possible for you to write a switch based on WhatToMine.com json api?
MPH switch with its high 30 minute api update time is almost useless,
by the time MPH api updates the coin difficulty has changed and there is no profit most of the times.

I'm not so good with programming but if you show us the way I think there are many here better than me that will help make it happen.
WhatToMine api can give tailored results and I think its api update time is 3 minutes (just posted to ask on its page)
We just need to set the cards, click calculate, then add a .json after coins with the rest of the address.
That way mixed card rigs gets the best results based on what they set too.

I was thinking of a way that WTM_Switch read from the given link, and the coins we set it to switch in 1bash
then it switch between the coins with whatever pools it is set in 1bash.

P.S.
I tried to give it a shot from your MPH_SWITCH, but its way over my league.

+ 1 000 0000

I have awkwardly tried to write what you propose in one of my previous posts, but I am for this proposal. I was starting to make up my mind to do it myself, but like you, I do not have enough programming skills for it.
And I did not dare to ask Scott Alfter as Newbie of this forum.

Indeed, if we could directly switch to any crypto that is in the 1bash in focus of the calculations of profitability given by WTM, it would be top ++++!

I will add a request to your proposal: May also use additional parameters to this WTM_Switch.
For example, choose between average income over 3 days or 7 days or even immediate (the 3 minutes you quote). Or choose between average profitability (last column of their web page).

So today I found that "greencoin" (VTC) is more profitable hash over a week than Zencash which was largely ahead of ETH when I made this query of average profitability over 3 days and 7 days (91,000 Satochis of average over 7 days at 17:15).

Problem with average 24, 3 days and a week is they are for the past based on current price.
And some times shown great profit when there is a big price spike.
So it means if you have been mining them for past week and now you sell them you get that profit.
I believe best calculate is based on current difficulty and price because you are mining now, not in past.

What about mining for best BTC exchange - since most of these pools pay in BTC? Example: SIGT/SKUNK is nowhere near the top on the profitability list on WTM but it gives almost the highest BTC result. If we calculate fiat profitability we deal with variables often moving in different directions (altcoin to btc and then btc to fiat exchange). We end up with a unit of measure that expands and contracts. That is like measuring different things while your ruler expands and contracts randomly between measurements in response to unrelated events, possibly even the wholesale price of bacon Wink

Just thinking out loud, but recently I've been focusing on btc exchange.

I think the problem with pools like zpool and MPH with auto exchange is that usually it takes 2-3 hours till you get a share to send for exchange and then again it take 2-3 hours for your coin to get exchanged.
You dont know if the rate when you mined is the same as the rate when pool auto exchange it for you.
I have tried the auto exchange pools for over a month and usually I did not get what I use to get when exchanging them myself.
Usually coins get higher rank in WTM when their difficulty drops.
see the top coins difficulty just now
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sua6w5nbtjs1iq5/Screenshot%202017-09-22%2015.50.40.jpg

So I think its best if we can set our favorite coins to mine, then WTM_SWITCH pick the highest profit based on Rev BTC at the right time and mine them for us.

Agreed - there is that delay with btc pool exchanges (not sure about nicehash since they charge the purchasers in btc) when I wrote my paragraph, SIGT was at 0.00031 btc and an hour later is at 0.00023 btc...

I was checking WTM api and saw that it gives 2 difficulties current and 24,
So I think best approach is if the WTM_SWITCH can pick most lowered difficulty (current/24 %) from our set of coins and mine that so we get the most share of coins.
No rev btc, fiat benefit, ....
Usually more coins means more profit in time.
Edit :
But I think that gets to some problems too.
as from my screen shot karbowanec has more dropped difficulty than signatum, but it shows signatum more profitable.
So I think best approach would be the mix of both which will get us to Rev BTC.

This is where I've struggled little, but decided to go with the current lowest difficulty drop compared to 24h difficulty, calling it a hodler's switch Cheesy

I had a field to mention what coins need to be excluded from mining even their difficulty has dropped, so coins not worth mining like XDN prob.

But main thing I would like to address is, WTM doesn't show every profitable coin available; there are still some coins missing. Still not sure how to overcome it, probably by creating WTM like website and include all the coins with respective to their 24h and current profitability!! Then pick that coin and mine.