I've been using this miner, mining with Nicehash. I've been taking a look at it. I notice that the miner is mining on the equihash pool. The config file say it's flypool. How does the miner bypass the config file and mine on equihash even though it says flypool? In the epools.txt file they are all # out. I am sure some people know what's going on here!
Does it make sense for me to try and figure out how to mine ZCash directly to a pool myself rather than go thru Nicehash? If so, how do I do that? I tried just substituting my own ZCash address in the config file. But I could get no accepted shares, and really wasn't even sure what pool I was mining on. Again, I thought it was flypool because that's what the config file says but now I see it's using the equihash pool.
It seems to me that if I go directly to a pool I can avoid the Nicehash fees. I must be getting fee'd by pools twice, once from the actual pool and then again from Nicehash.
Claymore's miners ingore anything in the config file if there are two, or more options, in the .bat file (I don't know if the .exe is considered an "option"). See OP for more on this.
You may be getting burned not two times but three times; a fee from Nicehash a fee from the pool AND a fee from Claymore's miner.
Yeah I thought of that. There's nothing in the .bat file other than a command to start the miner. I'll just have to read up more on the miner and see if I can get it to work without the Nicehash front end. The thing is, Nicehash provides a windows-friendly front end to the miner. That makes a big difference to people like me.