SmartCash SMART Mining Is Dead here. I've been using nanopool.org Don't know if that is the best one. Don't know that it matters. But, they had simple configuration instructions on their website, so I just went with that. It took about 3 weeks of tweaking the settings for mining software and GPUs to tune it for the best results I've been able to get. Do other miners get more? But this was more of an experiment for me than anything else, as it certainly isn't going to earn a whole lot, so I'm not too concerned if I don't get the last 1% or 2% of performance out of it.

I don't think solo ETH is really viable. If I remember right, block rewards are 5 ETH. I mine 0.1 ETH from pool in a little over 5 days, so on average I'd have to mine 250+ days to find one block if I tried it solo. BTW - I did switch rig to ZEC mining for a few weeks, and it actually earned slightly more.

But then two things happened. First, ZEC price fell. Then, one of my GPUs started throwing constant errors.

So I switched it back to ETH and errors vanished. Must have been something related to the hashing algorithm. I didn't feel like trying to resolve the issue, so just left it mining ETH again. • • • • • • •.

Maximum clock drift for Nexus is 10 seconds. Mining LLP: Dedicated Mining Protocol outside of JSON-RPC Server to allow the greatest performance for mining. Protocol can handle 5k + connections allowing solo mining of any magnitude. No Reward Halving: Rewards are calculated along an exponential.