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How i started mining using NiceHash Miner

I was trying to mine the Dogecoin using unmainable but i see the mining take longer we dont get benifit unless you have GPU, while exploring i found other place called nicehash which was easy to do mine and they attach your machine to mining pool and you get rewared as per your machine CPU power.

Requirement

  • Windows 10
  • internet
  • uninterrupted power

before starting here you can check the probablity of earning for your hardware.

Steps to configure NiceHash Miner

  1. Create a account in nicehash.com, verify the account using email.

  2. Login into the account and just click on mining tab there you can see Download miner option

  3. Download NiceHashMiner or if you wish you can use the NiceHash OS also[which can be booted from flash drive] I just tried and got flop becasue i use the wireless for network.

  4. The NiceHashminer when click download it will direct you to the github just download the zip file [before download just exclude the one directory in your windows defender and download the file into that dir]

  5. unzip the file and run the excecutable nicehash miner file

  6. click on setup the wallet address manually and copy the wallet address from your nicehash wallet and click next.

  7. It will autodownload the miner tools when it ask for permission just allow it.

  8. Once the NiceHashMiner app open go to Benchmark tab and start benchmark once the benchmark completed you will see the mining will start auto.

  9. You will see the image [2] kind of terminal open and showing the mining logs and the speed.

  10. If you go to settings you can just enable someother settings like autostart mining .. etc,

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on XMrig you can also check the hashrate and the accepted answers + connection details by pressing keys like

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h - shows the hashrate
s - Shows the result
c - shows the connection details

Dashboard tab shows you the profitability with the current config machine it can vary sometime.

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NiceHash Dashboard on the website shows all the details and your wallet payout everything, even if your node is down also the dashboard shows up rig is inactive & if you have mobile app the notification is sent. Also you can modify the notification settings can be modified.
here is my wallet for one day mone they gave $0.01

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How NiceHash make Payment

  • Mining using cpu really give very less rewards but still ok to learning and understand this things.
  • NiceHash give you the payment as Bitcoin which is Good.
  • They initiate payment when you unpaid added 0.00001000 BTC

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How to sell a bitcoin

  • You can use the the bitcoin to trade in exchange or else if you have any other wallet like coinbase, etc you can just link and do transfer there then sell the bitcoin.
  • Login into the the NiceHash dashborad and go to wallet then click on withdraw. There you can select the option and do what you wanted. NiceHash charge 2% on withdrawal

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Hoping for the best and let see if possible we will add GPU and test.

Thanks for reading

tags: Cryptocurrency bitcoin NiceHash mining