Renting rigs on MiningRigRentals
How MiningRigRentals differs from NiceHash, how to check whether your coin is rentable, how to point a rented rig at this pool, and if it pays.
What is MiningRigRentals?
MiningRigRentals (MRR) is a marketplace for renting mining rigs. Like NiceHash, it has been running since 2014.
Rig owners list whole rigs under the algorithm they mine. Renters take over a rig for a fixed period.
The key difference from NiceHash is who picks the pool. On MRR, the renter sets the pool the rig mines to for the rental. So a rented rig works like one of your own workers.
Can you rent hashrate for your coin?
Only if someone lists it. Hashrate is mining speed, and MRR sorts its listings by algorithm. You can only rent what owners have listed.
Whether Qubitcoin power is rentable depends entirely on rigs listed under its algorithm.
If there are none, MRR cannot help for Qubitcoin.
Use whole-machine GPU rental instead, covered in the Clore.AI article in this section. Always check the live listings rather than assuming.
How do you point a rented rig at this pool?
When a listing for your coin's algorithm exists, renting is straightforward:
- Add this pool as the rig's pool.
- Enter the stratum host and port of your closest region. Stratum is the protocol miners use to talk to a pool.
- Set your wallet address as the username. To label the rig, add a worker name after a dot.
- Save the settings.
For the rental period, the rig's shares land on your dashboard like any other worker. Its earnings pay out to your wallet on the normal hourly schedule.
Is renting worth it?
A rental only makes sense if the coins you earn are worth more than the rent. Check before you pay:
- Open the mining calculator.
- Enter the rig's advertised hashrate.
- Compare the estimated earnings with the rental price.
- Remember that difficulty and price move.
Treat the advertised hashrate with mild skepticism. Watch the first minutes of the rental on your dashboard to confirm the rig delivers what the listing promised.
