XmRig monero v7 nicehash

Miners
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I’m having trouble mining to nicehash with xmrig on my CPU

So I’ve got the following in the settings of my wallet.

Wallet and worker template: %DWAL%.%WORKER_NAME%
Pool URL: cryptonightv7.usa.nicehash.com:3355
Config override: "nicehash"

I guess hiveos is not translating

nicehash

into the proper format needed for the command line options. I’ve also tried

 "nicehash" : true

but I get no hashrate. How am I supposed to enter the additional options here? In the example it says to do the parameters like

"max-cpu-usage": 50
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What exactly is your error? I think that for CN v7 you should use port 3363 when defining pool.

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@givo totally right!

For now NiceHash has several pools for different cryptonight variants

Cryptonight (now profitable only for ASICs)
Europe stratum+tcp://cryptonight.eu.nicehash.com:3355
Europe (secure) - stratum+ssl://cryptonight.eu.nicehash.com:33355
USA - stratum+tcp://cryptonight.usa.nicehash.com:3355
USA (secure) -stratum+tcp://cryptonight.usa.nicehash.com:3355
…
and so on

CryptonightV7 (Monero, Electroneum, …)
Europe stratum+tcp://cryptonightv7.eu.nicehash.com:3363
USA stratum+tcp://cryptonightv7.eu.nicehash.com:3363
…

Cryptonight Heavy (Sumokoin, Ryo, Loki, Have, etc…)
Europe stratum+tcp://cryptonightheavy.eu.nicehash.com:3364
USA stratum+tcp://cryptonightheavy.usa.nicehash.com:3364
…

Full list of NiceHash pools you can always get from https://www.nicehash.com/cpu-gpu-mining

4

I’ve put every cryptonight URL I could find in my settings for this wallet trying to get this to work, and I made a typo in this post. This is what I get -


 * VERSIONS:     XMRig/2.6.2 libuv/1.20.2 gcc/5.4.0
 * CPU:          AMD A4-5000 APU with Radeon(TM) HD Graphics     (1) x64 AES-NI
 * CPU L2/L3:    4.0 MB/0.0 MB
 * THREADS:      2, cryptonight, av=0, donate=1%
 * POOL #1:      cryptonightv7.usa.nicehash.com:3363
 * API BIND:     0.0.0.0:60050
 * COMMANDS:     hashrate, pause, resume
[2018-06-11 08:24:27] READY (CPU) threads 2(2) huge pages 2/2 100% memory 4.0 MB
[2018-06-11 08:25:31] speed 2.5s/60s/15m n/a n/a n/a H/s max: n/a H/s

If I put the setting

nicehash

into the config override I get an error about invalid syntax. So I am trying “nicehash”: true in the config override and it doesn’t seem to do anything.

5

If you go to https://config.xmrig.com/ you can create json config file for your exact need. Since I am not using xmrig, I can only comment on what I read there - you need to put this “nicehash”: true within “pools” segment of config file.

You can try to start the miner from command line and work your way from there. Once you start it that way - try creating config file, and then you can try through HiveOS dashboard.

6

How do I get “nicehash”: true into the pool section via the hiveos gui?

7

This option add to config file by HiveOS if nicehash address found in pool URL .

8

Thanks @HaloGenius I see that now. I am still having trouble getting it to mine anything be that cryptonight or cryptonightv7. Here is my current configuration file and my output.

* VERSIONS:     XMRig/2.6.2 libuv/1.20.2 gcc/5.4.0
 * CPU:          AMD A4-5000 APU with Radeon(TM) HD Graphics     (1) x64 AES-NI
 * CPU L2/L3:    4.0 MB/0.0 MB
 * THREADS:      2, cryptonight, av=0, donate=1%
 * POOL #1:      cryptonight.usa.nicehash.com:3355
 * API BIND:     0.0.0.0:60050
 * COMMANDS:     hashrate, pause, resume
[2018-06-12 20:45:21] READY (CPU) threads 2(2) huge pages 2/2 100% memory 4.0 MB
[2018-06-12 20:46:25] speed 2.5s/60s/15m n/a n/a n/a H/s max: n/a H/s
[2018-06-12 20:47:25] speed 2.5s/60s/15m n/a n/a n/a H/s max: n/a H/s

{
  "algo": "cryptonight",
  "av": 0,
  "background": false,
  "colors": true,
  "cpu-affinity": null,
  "cpu-priority": null,
  "donate-level": 1,
  "log-file": null,
  "max-cpu-usage": 75,
  "print-time": 60,
  "retries": 5,
  "retry-pause": 5,
  "safe": false,
  "syslog": false,
  "threads": null,
  "pools": [
    {
      "url": "cryptonight.usa.nicehash.com:3355",
      "user": "<ADDRESSOBSCURED>",
      "pass": "x",
      "use_nicehash": true,
      "keepalive": true
    }
  ],
  "api": {
    "port": 60050,
    "access-token": null,
    "worker-id": null
  }
}
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