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Re:I heat my home by mining crypto currencies by gkfasdfasdf on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:43PM (#26244612)
This is interesting, so I could run the NiceHash app (which doesn't require an AV exception) and have it mine using open source miners which I have built myself?
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Re:I heat my home by mining crypto currencies by mtone on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @09:55PM (#26246091)
Not really - each miner (and versions of them) may have different command line arguments or monitoring APIs Nicehash wouldn't know about, so it's going to be more trouble than it's worth. I meant just starting them from the command line:

ethminer.exe -P stratum2+tcp://<your nicehash wallet address>@daggerhashimoto.usa.nicehash.com:3353

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Re:I heat my home by mining crypto currencies by Sohcahtoa82 on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:34PM (#26245027)
Possibly.

Depends on whether or not the heuristics scanning in Windows Defender would still flag the miners if you compiled it yourself.

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