Guys,
Should I be worried that the Hashrate is dropping and we haven’t mined a block in over a day?
Also, I am using Str4d"s Miner - any opinions on whether I should change to the Nheqminer?
Thanks
I’m getting about a third more with https://github.com/sarath-hotspot/nheqminer
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Also a zero fee campaign for a day or maybe even a week might work.
With some advertising I’m sure it would get lots of miners interested on trying the pool.
And after enjoying how well and streamlined it works I’d bet some of them might stay.
If you don’t want to spend on that then maybe you could take marketing fund donations and do it with them. 
Just my two cents.
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Quick question from a noob. zmine.io says under “Last Rounds” that my reward is 0.00176274 (+ 0.00000000 unconfirmed). Then under payments it says “No payments were found.” Similarly, zcash-cli getinfo shows a zero balance. Is this expected? My impression was that once I reached 0.001 or greater, I’d get a payout. I’m new to cryptocurrencies (but not crypto or tech in general) so please explain. Thanks!
I think I’ve seen modern core i5s getting 20 sol/s using the nheq with avx2 (sarath’s as linked a couple of times in the past few posts). If you’re not getting that much and your core i5 is modern, you should switch.
The drop in hashrate means fewer rewards per day but a larger cut. That’s only worrisome if you’re looking to sell your rewards fast for fear of the price dropping. If you want to hold for any period of time, even a couple of days, your return in ZECs isn’t affected.
@NNN Fear not, the payout is coming. Once it does, that portion in the header will go back to zero and you’ll see it in the payments section. Zmine is quite fast and reliable with payments, but they don’t happen immediately upon confirmation.
Awesome, just saw the payout went through like you said.
For all those whom might be interested on a working silentarmy gpu miner for this pool, I’m glad to inform that this works well for me on linux and with zmine. Getting 25sol/s on 7950’s.
hi @razakal
is your zcash pool (zmine.io ) allowed botnets ?
botnet means several ipis (vps ) that mining for 1worker/wallet at the same time .
wait, you’re asking if you can use a net of bots to mine and then miserably fail to define even remotely what a botnet is. what even 
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Odd, but could easily be something lost in translation.
imagine so. at least hope so.
drop in hashrate means fewer rewards per day but larger cut? what?!
A drop in the hashrate of the pool (what JayDubSA was asking about when I replied to them) means larger cut for each pool member (whose own hashrate is presumably stable) of fewer solved blocks.
Ohhhh, sorry, didn’t understand you were talking about a drop of the pool’s hash rate.
Can you answer a few questions for me? Will the amount of RAM a system has effect the system’s mining capability to any degree? Do you know of any guides or have any suggestions regarding wallets, pools, and mining for a newbie like myself?
Thanks
P.S. I’ve made a few posts to the forums, but to no avail despite the many views each post received (which is why I’m now resorting to asking you lol)
I don’t know about the amount of RAM. I don’t know of a guide, though I believe there are a couple of threads you could search for that list pools and might have some user experiences in them. Advice generally is scattered far and wide, but reading threads from pools and miner software is where a lot of it is concentrated, still a lot of posts to read in many different threads. That’s the curse of early adoption. Things change so fast, a guide might be obsolete before it was finished being written. Good luck.
I like this pool and generally recommend smaller pools to keep zcash healthy and safe.
Cool thanks! I will probably just sign up to this pool for the time being. One can leave whenever, right?
You can leave whenever.
You’d still get paid out for the work you had put in if the admins are reasonable people?
You get paid after you reach the minimum payout. True for all pools. If you’re not at the very reasonable min payout, stay long enough to get there and you get paid. That’s perfectly reasonable so no one incurs unnecessary transaction fees.
amen. do you know of any guides to set up the zcash.conf file? i know on the github documentation you’re supposed to set:
rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password
are we supposed to change username and password?