So this might come across as an ad, if it does I am sorry.  Nicehash.com is a website where you sell the hashing power of your rig to other people, and you get paid in bitcoin.  Instead of dealing with all the wallets and confusing miner settings and stuff that can happen, as there are so many altcoins, nicehash has a nice little tool that will download the miners, benchmark your system, and then run the miners that your system is capable of.  You won't get paid in anything but bitcoin because nicehash sells your computers hashing power to other people.  This is basically the "dummies" way of making bitcoin.  You go to their website, if you don't have a bitcoin wallet, you can create an account and you will be given one (less fees and smaller payout option) and then you can use that address, or your own (larger payout required and more fees) in the nicehash miner software.  Download the software, configure it, let it benchmark your computer, and away you go.  They even have a profit calculator so you can roughly see how much money you will make per day/week/month. https://new.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator  You won't make as much as if you were doing the mining yourself, but it is a lot easier than having to switch miners every time something peaks, and having to have 10-15 different wallets and blockchains taking up space on your system.  You can always just use the bitcoins you earn to buy your favourite alt-coins on your favourite exchange :)  Go ETH!! and Litecoin is going pretty hard too!
 
I figure if we're here to toy around with crypto, might as well start with something basic, right?

Well they've been doing this since 2014, so I dunno.  It's still interesting, and gives you an easy way to do some mining.  As I said it's not as profitable as doing it yourself, but it means you don't have to manage a dozen or more wallets and currencies haha.

I started using nicehash to boost my savings since I spent it all on 1080Tis.
Since I can't make heads or tails of the other options I chose nicehash. Stopping it at anytime for other tasks is a great benefit and not having to worry about nitty gritty details of setting up altcoin crunchers. I figure I'll ride this gravy train while it's still there. Eventually it will tail off naturally unless the alt coins add some value. The bitcoin are good price but the others like etherium might stop being profitable soon as the price isn't going up as fast.

If you do that i doubt you'll get good hash rates and probably starve your F@H work units. Though I would be interested in knowing the results.

Trying to run cryptomining and folding on the same card is a bad deal - you get really bad performance out of both.
 
 

Ty

that comment makes me think of a system with two 1080ti's to fold on and using the 1x risers to AMD cards to nisehash on, getting the most bang for the buck  if you have spare PCI-e lanes just sitting around...

i get paid CURE coin daily and FLDC monthly. i have earned over 2.5 btc in the last two months this way.

QuintLeo
 I have achieved #1 in Moo - and should achieve consistant #1 on Dnet RC5-72 as a whole shortly - in time for y'all to challenge me in that MOO Sprint.

So I take it you will not be Joining in our Team for the POTM Then?

Chris21010
finally downloaded nicehash to see what kind of rates i would see... very disappointed. i would earn 1/5 that of folding, not to mention my GPU's would be doing mindless hashing instead of scientific research.

Idk anymore, FLDC is taking a BEATDOWN

OTher coins have recovered some but FLDC just keeps falling....

CURE hasnt moved one bit sense the delisting fiasco, i am not counting the pump/dump a few weeks back. yea it did kinda go up to ~7000 for a while there but for the most part its stayed flat. FLDC on the other hand has seen a lot of people pull out for the rise of BTC. and honestly has just now started reaching the point where i thought they would be last month. FLDC was a fad among investors sense it pumped over 1,200% in a single day. that said if you look at its volume history its actually over due for a pump. so i bet once BTC starts to stall you'll see a FLDC pump shortly after.
 
in regards to nicehash even at current rates, nicehash rates too, its still multiple times more profitable to fold than hash. which is why you see the folding difficulty continue to climb at an astonishing rate regardless of how far FLDC falls.

the top 20 is still just under 50% of the total pool. been this way or lots worse for a very long time. 

Ranmacanada
Yes you whales are making it very difficult for anyone with a modest rig to make a decent profit :P haha.  Ah well it's all for the good of science really, and if we make a little on the side, I am all for it.

 Trust me, us "whales" aren't making tons either.
 The jump in Team Curecoin PPD the last few days has been scary even to ME.
 
 Up over 90,000,000 PPD in the last 6 days - which is more than anyone else's TOTAL production except you EVGA folks.
 

My guess is certain folks are trying to ensure they stay on top.  If you notice, the battle for first place has gotten pretty hot.  And even at the discount rate for FLDC, someone is constantly buying it and is hoarding it.  Going to be a HUGE dump when prices increase.  

Keep in mind that
(1) CURE on a $ basis has been climbing the last couple weeks, since it's been pretty close to flat vs Bitcoin while Bitcoin has almost doubled in that timeframe.
(2) FLDC, despite it's drop vs Bitcoin, has been pretty close to flat on a $ basis over that timeframe.
(3) altcoins in general have been flat or dropping (especially the "good for NVidia ones") over that timeframe so nothing dragging folks OUT.