A: No. While the main goal of RaptorHash is to give you an option to earn as much Raptoreum as possible, you can choose to be paid in any coin supported on the site. Fees vary depending on your chosen payout coin; see the next question for more information.

A: RaptorHash offers multiple different payout options with different fee policies, as such the fee you pay depends on your choice of payout. The fees for each payout type are listed below:

• RTM payouts: 0% fee
• Native coin payouts (no exchange): 1% fee
• Non-RTM, non-native payouts (exchange to a different coin): 5% fee

We highly recommend using RTM payouts for the most consistent experience and lowest fees. Fees were chosen in accordance with the complexity, cost, and risk to the pool.

A: The fee you pay is tied to your chosen payout coin as covered in the previous FAQ question. For the lowest fee (0%), we recommend switching to using Raptoreum (RTM) payouts!

A: It is simple, choose a coin your hardware performs the best on, configure a miner providing your Raptoreum (RTM), native coin, or other coin's wallet address and you are good to go. If you are having trouble getting started, visit our friendly Discord community.

A: Every hash matters, it doesn't matter if you have geforce 1050 or radeon rx7900xtx, as long as you want to get Raptoreum (RTM) just join our pool! For minimum requirements we highly recommend any 4GB GPU. As for CPUs AMD Ryzen or even Threadripper and Intel Xeon with large L3 cache are recommended but you can mine with any CPU you have available. Actual requirements depend on coin of your choice.

A: As for OS your regular Windows or Linux is definitely ok. Dedicated mining distro like HiveOS is recommended, especially if you have dedicated mining rigs. As for mining software our main recommendations are TeamRedMiner for AMD GPUs, T-Rex miner for nVidia GPUs and either Cpuminer-GR or Xmrig for CPU mining. Any other miner like Gminer, LolMiner, BZminer, SRBMiner, Wildrig... and many more, any of them are good as long as they support coins supported by our pool and your hardware. Villains Overclock Center is a good place to look if you want to dig in a little deeper to optimize your mining setup.

A: If you have any problems with any functionality of mining pool please visit our Discord and describe your problem as accurately and detailed as you can.

A: This is something what changes constantly based on nethash and the cryptocurrency market. This also varies between hardware, as some GPUs and CPUs are better or worse in some coins compared to other models.

A: Raptoreum (RTM) yields or actual yields in mining of any cryptocurrency are not constant and continuously change as they depend on many factors. This is even more dynamic with a pool such as RaptorHash that is an autoconverting pool. The two main factors however are network hashrate and current price of cryptocurrencies. Network hashrate affects crypto yields a lot. In short: the more miners that are mining a particular coin, the less you will individually receive as the same reward is split between more miners. This was especially noticeable after Ethereum's (ETH) "The Merge" where all gpu mineable coins instantly got flooded with more hashrate and yields of these coins for individual miners dropped to almost nothing, rendering GPU mining basically a speculative mining concern. Price of coins supported by our pool impacts how much RTM RaptorHash can buy from selling these other coins. For example, if you are mining Ergo and your Ergo yields are basically the same but ERG's price dropped then RH can buy less RTM for the same amount of Ergo. Also, many miners, despite mining, do not always understand how cryptocurrencies and mining actually work. Many miners just perceive crypto as easy money, which it is not. We highly recommend learning how mining works, and by that I do not mean "how to set up mining", but rather theory of cryptocurrencies, specifically what are blockchains, blocks, miners, pools, stratums, consensus, Proof of Work, halving, etc. Read/watch materials about the history of Bitcoin. It may be boring and tedious but we highly recommend reading Raptoreum's official documentation. With knowledge comes better understanding of things, and if you understand things better, you will be able to optimize your mining to make it yield more than it already does.

A: No, the auto-switch functionality is handled entirely by the pool and is transparent to your miner. As such, all you need is the same parameters as if you were mining on a non-switching port (url, address, rig name).

A: Most of the time when users report to us this kind of issues they can be resolved by replacing default DNS with custom one. Do it either on router or your mining rig level, router being preferred. We recommend using these, preferably one as main and another as a backup:

• OpenDNS: 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220
• Cloudflare: 1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1
• Google: 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4

A: There are two main factors auto-switch and auto-exchange are affected by: mining and market. When mining on an auto-switch port, our algorithm analyzes your individual hashrate and its ratio to our pool's hashrate, network hashrate of coins we have available in auto-switch rotation, and price of these coins. All these factors affect what coin will be selected to mine at any given point in time. Due to confirmation times, there is a delay between mining a block and being able to send it to an exchange. Depending on the coin (and few other factors of mining) that period can be few seconds up to few hours. During that time period price of the mined coin and your payout coin can change, sometimes in favor, sometimes opposite way. Once the exchange is done the amount of coins you receive will no longer change. Knowing all these factors, differences between predicted yields and actually earned yields come from market action and variances in mining.

A: There is plenty of options, starting with native Core Wallet that is original wallet to support RTM. You can download it from Raptoreum's github. Another interesting option is kind of "web wallet" called Stacey, it is a wallet you can get on official RTM discord. This wallet provides you with private keys so you can import it in any other wallet supporting such option. Other options are AtomicDex Komodo Wallet, Vidulium, Zelcore and more to come. Another popular option is to mine directly to address provided to you by shared nodes providers such as sullynode.com or inodez.com.