Quote from: dragonmike on January 12, 2018, 03:47:09 PM

Quote from: citronick on January 12, 2018, 03:41:02 PM

Quote from: dragonmike on January 12, 2018, 03:08:12 PM

Guys, would like your opinion on the following please.

I'm going to help two work colleagues set up their first respective mining rigs next week (both identical 6x1080).
I'm struggling on what to set them up to mine, basically. As they have very little knowledge of the whole mining experience, the logical thing would be to get them an account on Nicehash and forget about it.

Unfortunately I don't like that option for 3 reasons:
- NH is taking massive fees
- They'd have to setup an account because mining to external addresses would just take ages for them to see their gains
- NH is not my friend anymore, generally, for well-known reasons

I could set them up with DSTM and mine ZEC, but they'd potentially be forfeiting 30-40% of potential earnings.

What do you reckon? Zpool equihash hub? Ahashpool Neoscrypt hub?

Why dont you mine direct to pools like nanapool -- send them to Bittrex and set the auto-sell on to convert to BTC automatically (or turn it off, and sell it when price is right).

NH do have steep charges for payouts but that's the price to pay to get BTC upfront and cut thru all the confirmation etc etc. NH is afterall a buyer/seller marketplace ... sometimes they will be very high payrates for certain hot coins etc. NH is not a mining pool....

No, NH isn't a mining pool per se. And I am likely going to avoid it.
Nanopool to Bittrex isn't a bad idea. What would you mine there?
Currently I'm leaning towards auto-switching algo on zpool or ahashpool (EDIT: or Miningpoolhub indeed).

A little off-topic, but has anyone tried out HiveOS? The unified pool/wallet template looks confusing at first, but the YouTube videos explain it. Very flexible, up to date on new miners. Just wondering how stable it is vs. SMOS.