NiceHash QuickMiner is a next-generation miner developed by NiceHash. Currently, it is in the experimental phase!
- 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. There are some more open-source C# libraries used. Code running as NiceHash QuickMiner is either developed by NiceHash or used from public repositories, which means it is 100% safe, and you do not have to worry about exposing your PC's sensitive data or getting infected with malware. NiceHash QuickMiner will (in the future) NEVER use any closed source software, software of unknown or unverified origin. The list of modules & libraries is at the end of this page.
- No benchmarks. You start mining IMMEDIATELY.
- No third party tools for GPU overclocking needed. NiceHash QuickMiner has its own powerful and quick tool for setting overclocks and fan speeds.
- Determine best overclock easily and quickly as never before with OCTune.
- Watchdog takes care of restarting the mining process if something fails.
- Windows autostart methods. Automatic updates.
- No developer fees.
You can download the latest version of NiceHash QuickMiner here.
For NiceHash Miner to fully work, it relies on 3rd party plugins and miners. In most cases, these are programs of unverified and unknown origin. The real names of the authors of these programs are not known, or no company stands behind the software. Why the developers of these programs keep their identity so private is unknown to us. There could be various reasons. The reasons are most likely not to harm miners because they charge developer fees for using their miners. But we cannot be entirely sure that they have no intention of ever putting anything harmful inside their programs. Trusting them blindly would be a big mistake.
That is why, if you want to use NiceHash Miner, you need to agree with that, confirm and acknowledge that, and if these unknown developers really do something stupid one day, NiceHash cannot be held liable. That means, if you use your PC for serious business, have important information on it, or even coins or money, it is best NOT to use 3rd party miners of unknown origin. Luckily, NiceHash has created its own miner in the past called Excavator. The code running it was entirely developed in-house, and NiceHash can vouch that there is nothing harmful inside. Another lucky factor is that the speeds Excavator reaches in Daggerhashimoto (Ethereum mining) are completely comparable to other miners with developer fees. When you also calculate in developer fees, Excavator can be, in most cases, even more profitable than 3rd party miners.
Using Excavator on its own is not so simple - you need to configure command files and prepare everything for your machine to work properly. That is why we created another product for end-users called NiceHash QuickMiner, which does all the hard and tricky configuration automatically. Hence, you click buttons and don't have to worry about too deep technical stuff. Because NiceHash makes all the Excavator plus wrapper (QuickMiner) code, there is no risk involved with anything harmful being put in.