I'm still dragging my feet on this. All the different software and 'pools' and such make it sound quite complicated. I'm sure it isn't, but it's confusing enough that I keep setting it aside. I have the 5700XT and a spanking new 750W Gold PSU, and my system runs quite cool already. This video seems like a good starting point, but I still have questions:
Questions:
1) Does it matter what 'miner' you use? Should I just use 'Nicehash' and be done with it?
2) Does using that automatically put you in a 'pool', or is that a separate thing you need to do/download/pick?
3) In another video he talks about using 'Hiveon', which seems to be a 'pool'. So you use Nicehash to mine on Hiveon?
4) In this video he mines ETH but gets Bitcoin. Is this the normal way of doing it?
5) These coin 'wallets'...are they secure and am I then able to convert them to my currency (CAD) and deposit them as real money in my real bank account, without having to wait several weeks/months?
6) Do I need to open a separate, actual bank account at a real bank, or can I just use my existing chequing account?
I obviously don't want to give my account info to any of these sites or have to download spurious, possibly malware-infected software to my PC as it's my main PC, not a separate 'rig'. Surely if I can figure out modern jets in DCS World I can figure this out
I think I'm more interested in the 'efficiency-tweaking' aspect of it than the mining...although paying for my video card would be nice!