

Here are a few things you need to have in order to install and use nuxhash. I have performed this tutorial on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS but it should be applicable for other Linux versions as well because it uses Python. Nuxhash consists of a headless daemon and a Python-based GUI so you can use it on servers or desktops, as you like. Nuxhash is such a NiceHash client for Linux. Since NiceHash application is not available for Linux, you’ll have to use some unofficial applications for this purpose. I am going to discuss one such software called nuxhash. There are a few applications that allow you to use NiceHash on Linux. Does that mean you cannot use NiceHash on Linux? No. Now the problem is that the NiceHash software is Windows-only. NiceHash Marketplace Concept | Image CreditĪpart from the marketplace, NiceHash also provides a free to use software that automatically connects the buyers and the renters. The renter gets paid (in cryptocurrency) for the use of his/her processor while the buyer gets to use more processing power for crypto mining without purchasing new hardware. This Slovenia based company provides a marketplace where an end-user can ‘rent’ out part of his CPU’s power to a buyer who wants to use more computing power to mine cryptocurrency. NiceHash uses a similar concept but in legal ways. This is why there are many crypto-miner malware that leech off the CPU from unsuspecting users. People with resources have built Bitcoin mining factories.īut not everyone can create a setup worth hundreds of thousands of dollars consisting of a cluster of high-end processors. Mining cryptocurrency requires huge processing capacity. NiceHash is essentially two things: a crypto-mining marketplace and a software to connect to this marketplace and use its service.

If you are looking for using NiceHash on Linux, you probably already know what is NiceHash.
