- Understand how mining works. You can and should research different hardware and how to set your hardware up. Remember that for mining Scrypt, Sha256, Eaglesong or Blake2s, an ASIC miner is required, you will not make money with CPU or GPUs.
- Create an account at PowerPool. You can register Here.
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Configure your miners. Our servers use optimized routing, so it will route your miner to your nearest active server automaticaly, this reduces your rejected share rate. Moreover, it also balances load across the multiple servers within one region to reduce load and ping. Here are the the main servers:
Use the following parameters:stratum+tcp://scrypt.stratum.powerpool.io:3333 (Scrypt) stratum+tcp://sha256.stratum.powerpool.io:3333 (Sha256) stratum+tcp://eaglesong.stratum.powerpool.io:3333 (eaglesong) stratum+tcp://blake2s.stratum.powerpool.io:3333 (blake2s)
The worker name can be any combination of letters and numbers.Username: <your_username>.<workerName> Password: x
Moreover, you can set your miner password to "d=N" where N is your starting difficulty. -
Connecting with Nicehash To connect with Nicehash use the port 3334
Please read our FAQ for what other limitations Nicehash has on our platform. - Set your BTC, LTC, DOGE, DGB, ETH, CKB or KDA address. Once you have your account setup, please set a Bitcoin/Litecoin/Dogecoin/Digibyte address for payouts and your payout proportions, you can set the payment threshold as low as: 0.0001 BTC, 0.01 LTC, 20 DOGE, 20 DGB, 0.1 ETH, 1000 CKB or 2 KDA.
- Enjoy mining at the most profitable pool.