Quote from: puwaha on July 23, 2018, 08:05:00 AM

Quote from: bitmucker on July 23, 2018, 12:44:30 AM

Question about Profit Switching with "unlisted" coins...

Please someone let me know how I can do this... If not then consider this a suggestion.

I focus my mining on new, low marketcap alt coins that often don't (yet) appear on any exchanges or WhatToMine (etc.). These coins may not have an exchange value, but they do obviously have "value", that I can manually enter into AM. Personally, I use a service like the new MCT trading platform to estimate a current value for new coins that are not on any exchanges yet.

Presently, I configure a user-defined coin in AM and enter the value and difficulty manually. However, I want to use Profit Switching, which (to do well) requires UP-TO-DATE info on difficulty (etc.). It is not practical to constantly change difficulty data like this manually. HOWEVER, the coins usually have a block explorer API that can feed out things like Network Hash and current Difficulty. So, while the coins' data are not listed in the conventional places that the profit switching algo checks, the necessary information IS out there and available through these APIs.

Is there some way to configure a coin to use a URL for an API to gather this data instead of WhatToMine (etc.)? This would not only let us configure profit switching for new coins, but frankly, it would be more accurate Net Hash and Difficulty data. I am sure that everyone has observed that the "current" difficulty data on WhatToMine lags behind current reality somewhat. If we could use the "official" source of info from the block explorer API, we'd be able to more efficiently switch.

Can this be done in AM now? If not, then consider this a suggestion.

Thanks!

Have you looked at AwesomeMiner Coin Updater plug-in from soothaa?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2979494.0