NiceHash Ethereum Pool

• Introduction
• Features
• Requirements
• How to get&run it?
• Config options
• Troubleshooting

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:

• https://github.com/nicehash/cpp-ethereum (WIN builds: https://github.com/nicehash/cpp-ethereum/releases)

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

• X64 based Windows operating system
• .NET Framework 4.5: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30653
• Visual Studio 2013 redistributable: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784
• Latest release from here: https://github.com/nicehash/nhethpool/releases
• This pool is unable to build DAGs on it's own (yet). You need to prebuild DAG files (using ethminer for example) and put them in some folder.
• After you have established Ethereum wallet and configured it's RPC, configure config.json and run nhethpool.exe.

Requirements for building

• Get Visual Studio 2013: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/vs2013-community-vs.aspx
• Unpack lib.7z in folder 3rdparty\cryptopp\lib
• Open solution with Visual Studio 2013
• Build

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