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Nicehash (the app) is a convenience tool to manage miner executables -- it's mostly those that are flagged by AVs. You can connect most miner executables to Nic
by mtone 6y ago
Nicehash (the app) is a convenience tool to manage miner executables -- it's mostly those that are flagged by AVs. You can connect most miner executables to Nicehash (the service) or other pools directly, and some are open-source.
For instance I GPU mine with https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer and CPU mine with https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig, both built from source and I don't use Nicehash (the app). But I haven't looked at the source, so at some point I'm still trusting someone.
- gkfasdfasdf 6y agoThis is interesting, so I could run the NiceHash app (which doesn't require an AV exception) and have it mine using open source miners which I have built myself?
- Sohcahtoa82 6y agoPossibly. Depends on whether or not the heuristics scanning in Windows Defender would still flag the miners if you compiled it yourself.
- mtone 6y agoNot really - each miner (and versions of them) may have different command line arguments or monitoring APIs Nicehash wouldn't know about, so it's going to be more trouble than it's worth. I meant just starting them from the command line: ethminer.exe -P stratum2+tcp://<your nicehash wallet address>@daggerhashimoto.usa.nicehash.com:3353