Well, just had another play with this program,
Seems that it just pulls the profit calculations from whattomine and the rates from coinbase.

I didn't know that,
I had assumed that if you were mining on just one pool, it would mine the most profitable coin on that pool.

I'd imagine you would have to have all the pool options selected for the average profitable coin to be in concurrent agreement with whattomine site (and really? why them, it has to be the most inaccurate place to get that info)

Also why coinbase for exchange prices, surly a better average price would be from coinmarketcap, cryptofinance, or even google.

That was probably the reason for identical miners being so different and one steadfastly selecting Lara2 despite me unselecting it in three seperate places in the program.

Anyhoo. after much messing about it seems I can just set up a ManagedMiner and once "makepredefinedpoolsavailubleeverywhere" is selected, can switch to the algo I want dependant on actual profits on the pools I use easily.


It's a shame it's such a winXP program with little thought to modern user interface, and only really understood after many weeks of use, I'm still totally unhappy with how the profit switching is difficult to parse and see what's going on, so I'll just use it for single Algo mining until I have a folder of miners and batch files, which will serve the exact same purpose.

Shame these type of programs can/could be rather useful, but it's grown into such a behemoth full of quirks and settings that only the programmer know how they interact with each other. So many tooltips trying to explain what a setting does - when it should be self evident. So many places for the same things, three different ways to deselect an algorithm in Algos in profit profiles, in managed miners - it's dam near crazy.

If you use this, just make sure you test pools and miners directly occasionally to make sure you are getting the best profit for your hashrates - stay safe out there.
To the programmer/owner, no offence meant, this is just a frustrating program, and I imagine you are insanely busy with helping people, answering the same questions over and over, and trying to track down issues in the code, let alone new feature requests, and certainly have no time for improvements in the UI, all the best, just thought I'd give you an overview of a random persons impression after a month using AM.