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RainbowMiner / RainbowMiner

GPU/CPU Mining script with intelligent profit-switching between miningpools, algorithms, miners, using all possible combinations of devices (NVIDIA, AMD, CPU). Features: actively maintained, uses the top actual miner programs (Bminer, Ccminer, Claymore, Dstm, EnemyZ, Sgminer, T-rex and more) easy setup wizard, webinterface, auto update.
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Support question about general ZIL dual mining #1943

Open ZZCoder1 opened 2 years ago

ZZCoder1 commented 2 years ago

I like to dual mine ETH+ZIL using Shardpool.io as proxy to Ethermine. I have created a custom pool ShardPoolEthZil for this, but I think it would be nice if RainbowMiner could select the ETH pool (or ETC pool) to dual mine with. I have seen about 5% more profit long term (6-9 months) than expected just based on Eth calculators.

That said, it would be even better to be able to dual mine ZIL with other algorithms besides Ethash. Zilliqa-Switcher looks promising.

Could you investigate how to support Zilliqa-Switcher in RainbowMiner? It seems like this would work with most mining algorithms to dual mine ZIL, not just with Ethash types. https://github.com/da-tai/Zilliqa-Switcher

coolbreeze21 commented 2 years ago

I started a thread about ETH +ZIL dual mining in the Discussions section about an hour before you posted this: https://github.com/RainbowMiner/RainbowMiner/discussions/1941. I think there are probably quite a few RBM users who might be interested in this.

ZZCoder1 commented 2 years ago

Hey @coolbreeze21 thanks for the info. That is quite a writeup! My pool is Shardpool + Ethermine. Last time I checked my ZIL rewards were about 5% of the ETH rewards. I am not sure how much of a loss I took in ETH fort that, but math says it is less than 5%. In my custom pool I set the profit factor to 1.05 to account for the extra ZIL income. That seemed to make RBM choose this pool over other Eth pools such as at Moneroocean.

coolbreeze21 commented 2 years ago

I mined ETH + ZIL on Ethermine and Rustpool until the London hard fork and NFTs sent ETH gas prices on payouts to the moon. So, I got out of Ethermine and moved my ETH mining to 2Miners, which pays out in BTC for around 10 cents a payout, or in NANO for free.

I never trusted Ethermine’s Level 2 payout alternative, Polygon. I feel vindicated in this. Getting payouts out of Polygon was mind-numbingly complex or expensive. They have been hacked for millions, most recently last month. This month, one pathetic play-to-earn game, Sunflower Farm, caused Polygon’s gas prices to skyrocket and their transaction rate to grind to a crawl, erasing the purported benefits.

I posted my ETH +ZIL results in the discussion section because I really appreciate the responsiveness of the RBM dev, but felt this was something I could address myself and share with others, rather than asking him to address it in the Issues section.

ZZCoder1 commented 2 years ago

You've inspired me to try another Eth pool. I also tried Polygon and dislike it.

The main reason I made the feature request is not to dual mine ETH+ZIL. We can add that functionality ourselves, as you say. It is to dual mine ANY_COIN+ZIL. I would like to not have to configure multiple custom pools (one per ANY_COIN) for that. Plus my understanding is that the profit calculation is based on WhatToMine for custom pools, so won't get much profit-switching benefit.