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ZenMiner - Cloud hosted mining

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What is ZenMiner

To give a rundown of what ZenMiner cloud hosting is, it's basically a service that will host your mining rig for a cost per day. There are promotional deals at stores like GAWMiners where I got a 27MH/S scrypt machine with a free month of hosting by ZenMiner. Once I don't want them to host my machine anymore, i notify them and then they send it out to me with free shipping.


Payouts

Payouts are daily and are obviously based on your hashing speed as well as the pool you choose.


Pools

As a scrypt miner you have the option of choosing between COINKING, CleverMining, Multipool.us, NiceHash, and WafflePool. Now obviously these are multipools because the payouts are in Bitcoins but each one varies in payouts. If you see the "Miners" image above you can see it estimates what your miner will output per 24hours on the pool you selected based on previous payouts on similar miners. You can select these pools on the fly instantly, so no commitment.


Latest Activity

ZenMiner tracks your recent activity to give you a pretty readout of what's been happening through your account. Very good to have so you have a handy reference if you're cutious about things like if you've accidently withdrawn BTC from your account with an extra "0" (I've been there).


Balance

The balance page is a purely transaction based activity page. Once again just a handy thing to have as a reference.

Looks

I'd like to say that ZenMiner has a beautiful simple UI, and I've been a big fan of it's asethtic since the first time I checked it out.

Here's an overview of the site:

Dashboard

Miners

Activity

Balance

Results


Overall, beautiful site and a great service. For just under 24 Hours of mining on my 27MH/s rig (Half the time on CleverMining and half on NiceHash) I got 0.01086925 BTC. Overall I recommend this service, especially if you don't want to worry about the extra heat or power consumption that one of these miners are notorious for.

The second day of mining with the same hardware (Full 24 hours) yielded 0.02051448 BTC. Quite a large jump, but as expected since there was a full day spent this time.

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