Hello, I have heard of minergate before and I was interested in getting it to mine on my computer. It looks like a very nice gui however, some people are saying that it was a scam and will use your computer. So I was wondering before I get it is it a scam or should I be fine using it just like any other software.
It appears to be in some form at least. The hashrate you get for your mining devices is lower compared to other automatic miners like Winminer and Nicehash. I consider this a scam as they are getting a good part of your hashrate from your devices for themselves. While you may not care about this as you are a newbie and only want to try mining there are also a lot of complaints against them regarding withdraws. So Minergate if it is not a total scam is at least 50% scam. You can try Winminer as the easiest way to mine with your PC or Nicehash if you are an intermediate user as Nicehash does real benchmarks while Winminer does a very fast one.