Sellers of hashrate are also named miners or rig owners. A miner can be anyone who owns the appropriate hardware for mining and wants to mine and earn Bitcoins at NiceHash. If you do, you can start in under 10 minutes.
- If you are a beginner, we recommend using NiceHash QuickMiner. NiceHash QuickMiner is a next-generation miner developed by NiceHash. NiceHash QuickMiner uses only Excavator for GPU mining and XMRig for CPU mining. Excavator is an in-house developed miner and is 100% free of any malware, and XMRig is an open-source CPU miner.
- If you own a computer or a mining rig and want to use CPUs and GPUs for mining, we recommend that you use NiceHash Miner. NiceHash Miner is a free piece of software, which automatically selects the most profitable algorithm for you. This means that you don't have to worry about monitoring the market and multiple wallets. All you need to do is download NiceHash Miner, set it up, and let it run. You can start by registering at NiceHash here.
- If you are an advanced user with dedicated mining rigs, we recommend using NiceHash OS. NHOS is based on Linux.
- If you are already using some other software, but you would still like to mine with NiceHash, you can connect directly to our stratum servers.
- If you own one or more ASIC machines, you can find special instructions here.