User Friendly Crypto Mining

 

Greetings, welcome to my first blog post on my thoughts of a couple of popular user-friendly mining applications.

Before we begin, I just want to make a comment for anyone out there who might mention "MinerGate" which may as well be dead in my opinion. Pre-2019 it was great, it worked as expected. It had a nice UI and was actively managed. They paid out and everything. Now however the site doesn't always work, they no longer pay out, and it has become synonymous with the word "Scam".

Yes I know there are other mining pools and I'm sure I'm missing others, but I'm just going to focus on the ones that I've used thus far.

In this blog post:
EasyMiner
BetterHash
NiceHash

Ease of Setup:

As far as installer and setup. I give it to NiceHash, as once you setup your account online (or with mobile app) you can use the app to link your miner with your account by scanning a QR code.
BetterHash is a simple install as well and linking just requires you to log into your account (well enter your email at a minimum) after you have setup your online account.
EasyMiner isn't really a true installer so to say, it's more like just an executable and you just have to give it your wallet address in "easymoney" mode.

Usage and Compatibility:

I have found that BetterHash supports more of the slightly older harder and gives you a bit more of a fighting chance, so to say, on making something from a pool. The UI seems a bit more basic than NiceMiner, but given the extra flex, I don't mind it. The only annoying thing I have found with BetterHash is the option to allow it to change what it is mining automatically only works if it can control everything. Which if you are like me and have both integrated graphics and a GPU and CPU where it can't control the integrated (cause well it's not supported) it will say it can only do auto with controlling everything then not let you enable it.
NiceMiner on the other hand has a really modern feeling UI and good selection of miners. However unless you have something newer (outside of CPU) it may not recognize it and take more to get anything from the pools. Though it will do auto reassign miners based on periotic benchmarks.
EasyMiner doesn't really care about the hardware as long as it can find a compatible miner, otherwise it will warn you about slow CPU mining. I will say that EasyMiner is good if you want to start playing with more advanced custom pools and etc.

Referrals:

BetterHash: https://www.betterhash.net/?ref=151310 There's myself promotion, but on honest note, you get paid when your referral withdraws their earnings. Then you get a portion of the portion that would go to BetterHash. So they are taking the cut from their earnings rather than the person you referred getting more cut from them.

NiceHash: Limited referral program with guidelines to be granted referral abilities.

Conclusion:

Try them all and see what works best for you. These are just my takes on them. Hope it was useful :)