Quote from: jmayniac on May 31, 2018, 02:20:05 PM

I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but on a rig with 2x1060, 2x1070, and 2x1080 cards, I'm only making about 0.00092728 BTC/day. This is about 0.0004 BTC lower than what I was making just mining Ravencoin. I'm currently on Blazepool, but I've tried Zergpool as well and have gotten similar results. My rig is pretty small, so it takes days to build up enough BTC to cash out.

I'd really like to figure out if I'm doing something wrong, or if this is just the best I'll get doing algorithm switching (most likely). If that's the case, I'm probably better off just going back to mining one coin.

I'm sincerely sorry to hear that you are disappointed in your results. Many users have seen significant increases in their earnings on Blaze and other auto-exchange pools with the Build Larger Shares feature enabled. For me personally, it has decreased my payout time on Blaze by a day. Unfortunately, though, mining individual coins is often more profitable than auto-exchanging because the miner is in control of more factors, such as when and where the coins are sold. Auto-exchange pools are under pressure to make quick payouts, so the mined coins are not always exchanged to BTC/LTC at the optimal prices. This especially true when the price of BTC drops significantly and the final value of the coin is less than what its estimated value had been during mining. When you are not auto-exchanging, you have the flexibility to hold on to the coins until the exchange rate is higher and pick an exchange that may have better rates.

That is why I invest a bit of development time in including pools that do not auto-exchange such as Icemining.ca and Quantum Mining Pool in Hash Auger even though most users prefer the convenience of auto-exchanging. Including support for the dedicated coin ports that more and more of these pools are using took some time as the feature is not currently supported by the Yiimp API. Yet, this provided Hash Auger users with greater flexibility. If you just wanted to mine just Raven, you could create a new wallet in HA with your Raven wallet address and then enable a few pools that mine Raven and do not auto-exchange. The software will then compare prices and switch Raven mining to whichever pool has the best estimate. Similarly, if you wanted to mine Raven and a few other specific coins without auto-exchanging, the software can switch among just those coins whether they are on the same pool or different pools. I've spent a lot of development time trying to make mining individual coins as seamless as auto-exchanging.

In fact, you can even mix the two types of mining in Hash Auger. For example, add a Raven wallet and enable a couple of pools that do not auto-exchange and then keep Blaze or another auto-exchange pool enabled. The software will switch among the work based on current estimates. However, given the volatility of Raven prices on some auto-exchange pools, you may want to disable x16r on the auto-exchange pool if you try this approach.