- Introduction
- What are the benefits?
- Features
- How to get&run it?
- Where is the profit coming from?
- Additional options
- Troubleshooting
- References
NiceHash Miner is an easy to use CPU & GPU cryptocurrency miner for Windows. With a simple an intuitive graphical user interface it allows you to quickly turn your PC, workstation or server into money-making cryptocurrency mining machine. Why leave you computer idle, whereas it could earn you Bitcoins with just a few clicks?
NiceHash Miner is essentially the only tool a miner needs. No need to go through tons of configuration files, various mining software versions, configuration tuning or cryptocurrency coins market analysis. Auto-tuning for best performance and efficiency, automatic selection and runtime automatic switching to most profitable cryptocurrency algorithm are all integrated into NiceHash Miner and will enable you seamless, joyful and profitable mining experience.
- Easy one-click CPU mining for CPUs that support at least SSE2 (only works on Windows x64).
- Easy one-click GPU mining for NVIDIA GPUs using microarchitecture (compute capability) SM 2.1/3.x/5.x.
- Easy one-click GPU mining for AMD GPUs using any AMD GPU devices that supports OpenCL.
- Support for multiple CPUs on multiple NUMAs with affinity adjustments to maximize mining speed.
- Integrated support for Simple Multi-Algorithm. Always mine most profitable algorithm.
- Integrated benchmarking tool. Run it only once before you start mining and after every hardware/driver/software upgrade.
- Optimized algorithms for AVX2 and AVX (CPU mining).
- Watch-feature - automatically restart miner if crashed or hanged.
- Display current rate and your balance in real time.
- Auto update notifications.
- Much more...
All you have to do is download, extract and run the miner (no installation needed), choose the server location that is the closest to your location, run built-in benchmark and enter your Bitcoin wallet address where you want to get your coins sent at - and you are ready to start mining and maximizing your profit.
Note: .NET Framework 2.0 or higher is required. No additional installations should be needed if you use Windows 7 or later. However if you encounter any issues when starting application (application would fail to start or errors/warnings about missing DLL files are displayed) you should download and install Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and/or Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable.
Detailed instructions:
- Download binaries from here: https://github.com/nicehash/NiceHashMiner/releases
- Extract zip archive
- Run NiceHashMiner.exe
- After first run, start benchmark test, otherwise Multi-Algorithm mining will not work properly; for AMD GPUs we suggest you to run Precise benchmark
- Make sure you select your own personal Bitcoin wallet to receive payments, see Bitcoin wallet guidelines and instructions here: https://www.nicehash.com/index.jsp?p=faq#faqs15.
- You will recieve Bitcoin payments according to our payments schedule: https://www.nicehash.com/index.jsp?p=faq#faqs6
As a back-end NiceHash Miner relies on the NiceHash.com service. By running NiceHash Miner you're essentially selling the hashing power of your CPUs & GPUs to hashing power buyers. Those are using the hashing power to mine various cryptocurrency coins and support decentralized blockchain networks - similar to cloud computing - only that by running NiceHash Miner you're actually being a provider for the cryptocurrency mining hashing power. You are being part of a global compute power network, empowering decentralized digital currencies.
Click 'Settings' button. NiceHash Miner will be relaunched with the ability to modify configs. Alternatively, you can manually modify config.json file (close NiceHash Miner first).
| Parameter | Range | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DebugConsole | true or false | When set to true, it displays debug console. |
| LessThreads | 0 .. 64 | Reduce number of threads used on each CPU by LessThreads. |
| ForceCPUExtension | 0, 1, 2 or 3 | Force certain CPU extension miner. 0 is automatic, 1 for SSE2, 2 for AVX and 3 for AVX2. |
| AutoStartMining | true or false | When set to true, NiceHashMiner will automatically start mining when launched. |
| HideMiningWindows | true or false | When set to true, sgminer, ccminer and cpuminer console windows will be hidden. |
| StartMiningWhenIdle | true or false | Automatically start mining when computer is idle and stop mining when computer is being used. |
| MinIdleSeconds | number | When StartMiningWhenIdle is set to true, MinIdleSeconds tells how many secunds computer has to be idle before mining starts. |
| SwitchMinSecondsFixed | number | Fixed part of minimal time (in seconds) before miner switches algorithm. Total time is SwitchMinSecondsFixed + SwitchMinSecondsDynamic. |
| SwitchMinSecondsDynamic | number | Random part of minimal time (in seconds) before miner switches algorithm. Total time is SwitchMinSecondsFixed + SwitchMinSecondsDynamic. Random part is used to prevent all world-wide NiceHash Miner users to have the exact same switching pattern. |
| Groups\ExtraLaunchParameters | text | Additional launch parameters when launching miner. |
| Groups\Algorithms\ExtraLaunchParameters | text | Additional launch parameters when launching miner and this algorithm. |
| Groups\Algorithms\BenchmarkSpeed | number | Fine tune algorithm ratios by manually setting benchmark speeds for each algorithm. |
| Groups\UsePassword | text or null | Use this password when launching miner. If null, default password 'x' is used. |
| Groups\Algorithms\UsePassword | text or null | Use this password when launching miner and this algorithm. If null, Groups\UsePassword is used. |
Do not change any 'Name' parameters - changing them will not have any effect. 'Name' parameters are there only for easier config management.
If your CPU has 8 virtual cores and you would like to mine only with 7:
Set LessThreads to 1.
If you would like to set lower starting difficulty for ScryptJaneNf16 algorithm because your CPU is slow:
Set UsePassword to "d=0.1" under Algorithms item that has Name "scryptjanenf16" for all groups with Name "CPUx".
If you would like to manually configure intensity parameters for your three NVIDIA video cards (Quark algorithm):
Set ExtraLaunchParameters to "-i 19,19,19" under Algorithms item that has Name "quark" for group with Name "NVIDIA5.x" or "NVIDIA3.x".
My NVIDIA video card(s) is/are not detected.
Make sure to install latest official NVIDIA drivers from here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx Also check weather your card has Compute capability (version) 2.1, 3.x or 5.x, check here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA#Supported_GPUs
My AMD video card(s) is/are not detected.
Make sure to install latest official AMD drivers from here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download Also check weather your card supports OpenCL, check "OpenCL" column here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units
I'm getting "Always ask before opening this file" when running NiceHash Miner
Make sure you un-check the checkbox "Always ask before opening this file" when NiceHash Miner is starting cpuminer, ccminer or sgminer back-end programs. This is needed because back-end programs will be executed several times while NiceHash Miner is running (auto-switching according to profitability and in case programs hangs) and you have to make sure these programs will be to executed automatically without your intervention.
My anti-virus is blocking the application
Some anti-virus software might block NiceHash Miner as well as supporting back-end programs (cpuminer, ccminer, sgminer) due to false-positive matches. All software, included into NiceHash Miner has been verified and checked by our team and is absolutely virus/trojan free. Our service is well established and trusted among users, therefore you can fully trust software releases that are downloaded from our GitHub repository: https://github.com/nicehash/NiceHashMiner/releases. However make sure you never download and run any files from other unknown sources!
- For CPU mining our tpruvot's forked cpuminer has been used from here: https://github.com/nicehash/cpuminer-multi (compiled with MingW64).
- For NVIDIA 5.x cards, sp's fork of ccminer has been used from here: https://github.com/sp-hash/ccminer.
- For NVIDIA 2.1 and 3.x (older cards), tpruvot's fork of ccminer has been used from here: https://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer.
- For AMD cards, sgminer has been used from here: https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer.