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NiceHash Ethereum Pool

Introduction

NiceHash Ethereum Pool is standalone simple, easy to compile, build&run pool for mining all Dagger-Hashimoto based coins such as Ethereum. This pool is made in C# .NET with share checker written in C/C++ and will easily compile and run on Windows X64. All what you need besides this pool is Ethereum wallet.

This pool only works with EthereumStratum/1.0.0 which is supported by NiceHash. Specifications are in file EthereumStratum_NiceHash_v1.0.0.txt.

Compatible miners:

To connect miner to the pool, you can use any username and password. Example for ethminer:

ethminer -S mypool.com:3333 -O anyuser:x ..other parameters..

Features

  • Very small server side load.
  • Support for single or multiple Ethereum wallets.
  • Single RPC getWork call can support up to 32k miners.
  • Compatibility with EthereumStratum/1.0.0, which is supported by NiceHash. Buy hashing power from NiceHash.
  • Easy to setup solo mining pool.

Requirements for running

Requirements for building

Config options

Example config file:

{
  "LogConsoleLevel": 4,
  "LogFileLevel": 5,
  "LogFileFolder": "logs",
  "Instances": [
    {
      "WalletHost": "localhost",
      "WalletPort": 8545,
      "WalletUsername": "user",
      "WalletPassword": "pass",
      "MaxMiners": 1024
    }
  ],
  "DAGFolder": "D:\\DAGs",
  "WalletRPCIntervalMS": 500,
  "StratumPort": 3333,
  "StratumExtranonceSize": 2,
  "StratumDifficulty": 0.1
}

Troubleshooting

TODO