How is hashrate calculated when all you know is luck/shares/difficulty?

I hear ya. Which one? There are hundreds.

I am having trouble getting eth-proxy to do anything.

I am using phoenixminer and currently and pointing all rigs to a machine on my LAN which hosts eth-proxy.

The proxy starts up just fine and it connects to my pool and starts waiting for jobs.

But when the rigs are pointed at it, nothing happens.

It sits there for a few minutes not really doing anything and then a timeout of some sort occurs and it all starts over again.

It's worth noting that I'm using the original Atrides/eth-proxy, which hasn't been touched in 5 years. There are 226 forks of that project. I'm worried that I need to be using one of the forks instead of the original.

If that's not the problem, it's got to be phoenixminer params or the config file settings.

Can someone who's using eth-proxy with success please provide details about how they got this working?

Thank you.

.... or maybe I can pause the rental and let it eek out a little at a time until the duration is reached:

1 hour, pause, 2 hours, pause, etc...

Good to know. Thanks.

On NH, if I specify that I'm willing to pay X BTC for a certain hashrate and the duration is set to let's say 5 days...

Is the full X BTC paid up front?

Maybe I can turn it off after a couple of hours and only pay for what I used.

Is that maybe a roundabout way to get a short/specific rental duration on nicehash?

Interesting. Thanks for the explanation.

So... miningrigrentals has a minimum of 3 hours per rental.

From what rentals website can I rent less than that?

I'm coming from another rentals website, which makes selecting a duration easy. It's not immediately clear how that's done on nicehash.

Anyone have any experience selecting a specific number of hours for a rental on nicehash?

It almost seems like nicehash is forcing me to accept a duration that they set, which can't be right.

I've been waiting on nicehash tech support to answer this for a few days.

Was hoping to hear from someone in here who's actually done it.

I'm sure it's something simple, but it's not immediately obvious in their ui... at least to me.