I've started mining early January this year and was using NiceHash until the end of February. I've started using Awesome Miner and mining in MPH pools. I wonder what is the best way to mine considering my setup of 6x 1070 GPUs. I've tried adding individual pools and combining that into a custom pool:
https://i.imgur.com/1vPq2D3.jpgI've also tried just ticking the MPH button as pointed to by the red arrow:
https://i.imgur.com/nopPech.jpgWhat I've noticed is that pools from the MPH button are ports 17XXX while the ones that I've added are ports 20XXX and that the profit numbers do not match. I was told that the 17XXX port algos get their profit numbers from MPH whereas the 20XXX port algos get their profit numbers from WhatToMine. I have a feeling I'm doing things wrong but I can't exactly figure out what.
Is it better to be mining a specific coin, ie, ZEC for a long time considering PPLNS? Therefore using a 20570 port?
Is it better to be mining a specific algo, ie, Equihash for a long time considering PPLNS? Therefore using a 17023 port?
Is it better just to tick the MPH box and let it mult-algo, multi-coin for a long time considering PPLNS?
What exactly is "a long time"? Looking at MPH ZCL page, it looks like blocks are found every 2-3 minutes, so is 20 minutes a long enough time considering PPLNS?
Comparing ZCL with ZEC,
ZCL says Est. Avg. Time per round (network) is 2min 15sec, Est Avg. Time per round (pool) is 3min 2sec
ZEC says Est. Avg. Time per round (network) is 2min 47sec, Est Avg. Time per round (pool) is 27min 16sec
Why is the ZEC (pool) time much longer? What does that mean?
Thanks!
I don't know how Awesome miner works but ports 17xxx are for different coins on the same algo and ports 20xxx are for individual coins so the profit numbers will be different.
A long time would be at least 24 hours, you will not get anywhere near an acurate reading from 20 minutes.
I've tried "multipool/algo switching" mining programs and didn't like them. There is an inherent delay in the switching time (time wasted losing you money) the small advantage you may have had switching is lost in the switching delay. Find a coin you like and use a miner specifically made for that coin, this will give you the best return (you can set each card to mine a different coin on a different pool with different/same mining programs - or any combination you want).
