When deciding between minerstat and any alternative mining management software we will always encourage and suggest you try all the options and make a decision based on your impressions and needs. To make it easier to test minerstat we offer a free plan which includes most of the features. Some features that are more suitable for farm managers are unavailable in the free plan (such as control room, scheduler, triggers, and users management; whole list) but that’s only because they aren’t really necessary for the purposes of testing the system and don’t present any significant value for miners with one or two rigs.
Because you are here, you must be interested in minerstat, so we will take a step further and show you 7 things that only the minerstat can do - the things that make us different.
Estimated profitability based on our own profitability calculations
You have several mining calculators out there where you can see what is the estimated profitability based on your hashing power for the selected algorithm and coin. Even we have presented our own mining calculator that is based on block reward and current difficulty calculation for more than 200 coins.
But what none of the mining management and monitoring software have is a display of the estimated profitability in real time. So if you are mining Ethereum with 100 MH/s, we will show you the estimated amount of ETH you will mine per day and how much is this in your local currency. You will have an option to see whole statistics - global and per worker.
If it happens that there is no data, you can simply contact us on Discord and we will try our best to ensure the support for the pool and coin you mine.
Triggers
Any mining management and monitoring software usually have some sort of alerting system in place. Either it is by e-mail, Telegram notifications, SMS, or mobile alerts. We have it too, but we also went a little bit further and created triggers.
Triggers are actions that are taken after a certain event occurs. For example, if you hashrate dropped for 20%, you can trigger a reboot of your machine. Or if your temperature increased to 85°C, you can trigger fans and increase them to 80%. You can apply triggers for all workers or only a certain group of workers (for example, AMD needs machine reboot, while Nvidia needs only software restart).
With triggers, you can create your own auto-fan curve or use it with your IFTTT system to reboot your rig via smart switch even if the rig is disconnected from the internet or system freezes (stops responding).
To learn more about triggers, read our tutorial.
Control room
We saw different view options on some mining management and monitoring software, but minerstat again took a different approach. We didn’t want to just offer you a different view, but a correct view. You have a lit of your rigs at the workers’ page and you can sort them and filter them any way you like. But you also have a control room.
The purpose of the control room is to organize your workers to fit your actual establishment. You can order rigs in columns and rows or add multiple rigs on the same shelves - like in real life. Control room gives you all the important information about your rig and allows you to quickly take action. There is also a compact view available that will generate a heat map out of it.
To learn more about the control room, read our tutorial.
Scheduler
A scheduler is another unique feature that will mostly benefit mining managers. The idea behind it is to dedicate a certain amount of time in the day to mine custom settings. You can either do that because you want to mine with profit switch half of the day and the other half of the day you won’t take a risk but mine one specific coin you are interested in. Another use-case for scheduler is a mining manager’s fee. If you are managing rigs for your customer and you have a deal that X% of mining time can go to you, you can simply set a scheduler and mine for X% amount of time to your own pools and wallets. It can also be used between partners as shared mining.
To learn more about scheduler, read our tutorial.
Complete software coverage
Mining management and monitoring software usually offer only one type of software or limited versions of other choices. When we have outlined our goals for re-launch, we wanted to offer the complete package: a mining software for Windows, mining OS based on Linux, ASIC Hub that can be installed on the various mining hardware, and mobile apps that are available for both iOS and Android.
We managed to do just that and we assure that we are not done yet - our software will only get better.
Customized profit switch
Profit switch is a function that most miners want even if they won’t use it. Currently, we know only about one mining management software that allows you to profit switch beside us - Awesome Miner (Windows only). However, we again took a unique approach to profit switch and make it more advanced.
You can create a profit switch that is very customized:
- Define the coins you want to mine;
- Define the pools on which you want to mine;
- Take into account the pool’s fee;
- Select custom miner and create a custom config for it;
- Take into account electricity costs;
- Select a custom overclocking profile for each algorithm separately;
- Decide when to switch in regard to how much better the new option has to be;
- Decide when to switch in regard to the minimum time that you want to spend mining on a current option.
Users management
Creating new users and giving them different kind of access types is not a new idea. But it is an idea that hasn’t been so thoroughly implemented in any mining management software yet.
When we designed the user management system we decided to go with two types: team members and customers.
Team members are those that you grant access to different parts of your account, such as accounting for billing, a technician for workers and overclocking, and a guest to only see workers list and statistics.
Customers, on the other hand, are an entirely independent account to which you give a certain amount of workers. They get their own access and they don’t have any access to your account or to the accounts of other customers. When you give workers to your customer, we will acknowledge it and treat these workers as taken. You will be able to use them by switching to the customer’s account and manage it from there.
To learn more about user management, read our tutorial.
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