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

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