Ethermine Alternatives for GPU Miners After the Merge

Ethermine, run by the Austrian company Bitfly, was the largest Ethereum mining pool. It stopped Ethereum mining at the Merge (September 15, 2022). A day before, Ethermine said it would not run a pool for any Ethereum proof-of-work fork, that "all Ethermine stratum servers will be shut down" and that the pool would move to withdraw-only mode, CoinDesk reported on September 14, 2022. Since the Merge, mining produces no Ethereum blocks. Its Ethereum Classic pool kept running for a while after that, until Kryptex reported Ethermine and Flypool closing in June 2023.

Today ethermine.org promotes Bitfly's Ethpool staking service instead of a pool. Bitfly's own site presents Ethpool, the beaconcha.in explorer and the ETH.STORE rate, with no mention of Ethermine mining.

The seven picks below are for people who still own a GPU and want to put it to work. Mining Ethereum Classic, Ergo, Ravencoin or other coins earns far less than ETH did in 2021, and income depends on coin prices, difficulty and power costs. None of these tools guarantees a profit, and this list is not investment advice.

Prices below are as of November 6, 2026. Our method is on How we review tools.

Quick comparison

2Miners

2Miners is the closest thing to Ethermine's old dashboard: a plain GPU pool where the homepage lists 1.0% for pool mining and 1.5% for solo, with automatic payouts every 2 hours.

The coin list covers Ethereum Classic, which still uses the Etchash algorithm close to old Ethash, plus Ergo, Ravencoin, Zcash and Nexa. Several coins can pay out in BTC, so you mine Ravencoin and receive bitcoin. Minimum payouts are set per coin, for example 0.1 ETC.

Best for: Ex-Ethermine users who want a simple PPLNS pool with a low fee.

Pricing:

• Pool (PPLNS): 1.0%
• Solo: 1.5%
• Minimum payouts by coin, such as 0.1 ETC or 10 RVN

Watch out for:

• PPLNS income swings with the pool's luck on small coins, and the stats server can go offline for maintenance, though the 2Miners homepage says mining continues.

Official site: 2Miners.

ViaBTC

ViaBTC is a large multi-coin pool with an ETC pool and a choice of payout methods. PPS+ pays a steady rate per share plus a cut of transaction fees, so a small rig does not wait for the pool to find blocks.

Its payout explainer from August 27, 2026 lists a 4% fee on the block reward under PPS+, 2% on the fee share, and 2% for PPLNS. Not every coin offers both methods.

Best for: Miners who prefer predictable daily income to PPLNS variance.

Pricing:

• PPS+: 4% on block rewards, 2% on transaction-fee share
• PPLNS: 2%
• Coin-specific minimums on each coin page

Watch out for:

• The 4% PPS+ fee is four times 2Miners' 1%, a real bite out of thin GPU margins.

Official site: ViaBTC.

lolMiner

Ethermine never shipped its own miner; you ran third-party software and gave it a pool address. lolMiner is one of those programs that is still updated: build 1.98a supports Etchash, Autolykos V2, KarlsenhashV2, FishHash, Sha3x and Cuckaroo-29.

Hardware support runs from NVIDIA's GTX 1000 series to the RTX 5000 and AMD's RX 400 to RX 9000, so the RX 580s and RTX 3070s of 2021 still work.

Best for: Rig owners who just need a new pool address in their existing setup.

Pricing:

• Free download
• Dev fee: 2% on Cuckaroo-29 and Octopus, 1% on Sha3x

Watch out for:

• Only 64-bit Windows and Linux builds, and the source is closed, per the releases page.

Official site: lolMiner.

NiceHash

Picking the next ETH is the hard part, and NiceHash lets you skip it. You sell hashrate to buyers on its marketplace and get paid in bitcoin, whatever algorithm they want.

Fees from its public API: 2% of sales, and 0.00003 BTC to withdraw from 0.001 BTC. It runs on Windows and as NiceHash OS on rigs. Our NiceHash alternatives guide compares other marketplaces.

Best for: Former ETH miners who would rather hold bitcoin than a basket of small coins.

Pricing:

• Seller fee: 2%
• BTC withdrawal: 0.00003 BTC, from 0.001 BTC

Watch out for:

• Your balance is custodial until you withdraw. After the December 2017 hack, NiceHash finished repaying 4,640 BTC only in December 2020, per CoinDesk.

Official site: NiceHash. Our listing: NiceHash.

Kryptex

For a single gaming PC that used to mine ETH overnight, Kryptex is the low-effort route. The Windows app chooses the coin, switches when another pays more and can convert everything to BTC.

Kryptex Pool sits behind it with PPS+, PROP and SOLO modes, and it also accepts external miners if you prefer your own setup. Payouts start at 0.00025 BTC.

Best for: One-GPU owners who do not want to research coins every week.

Pricing:

• App: free
• Pool fee: 1%
• Minimum payout: 0.00025 BTC

Watch out for:

• Windows only on desktop, and earnings examples on the Kryptex homepage do not subtract electricity.

Official site: Kryptex. Our listing: Kryptex.

Hive OS

Hive OS was a common way to run ETH rigs, and it still works for the coins that remain. Switching from ETH to ETC or Ergo is a matter of editing a flight sheet, which stores coin, wallet, pool and miner together.

The dashboard handles overclocks, fan curves and remote reboots, and the same account can manage ASICs.

Best for: Owners of several GPU rigs who want to restart them without visiting each one.

Pricing:

• Free for 2 workers
• GPU rig: $0.50 per card per month, up to $3.00 for 6 or more
• Volume discounts from 50 workers

Watch out for:

• Paid plans are crypto only through CoinPayments, and three workers means paying for all three, per the Hive OS pricing page.

Official site: Hive OS.

Salad

A lot of GPU power that once went to Ethermine now runs AI jobs. Salad's desktop app rents out an idle PC for image generation, transcription and LLM inference, and pays in Salad Balance redeemable for PayPal, games or gift cards.

Each GPU is benchmarked first and given a trust rating, and recent NVIDIA RTX cards from the 3060 to the 5090 qualify along with some AMD classes.

Best for: RTX owners who want income without picking a coin or a pool.

Pricing:

• App: free
• Salad's share and payout thresholds: not published on the homepage

Watch out for:

• Older mining cards such as the RX 580 or GTX 1060 fall below the hardware list on the Salad homepage, and work depends on customer demand.

Official site: Salad.

How to choose

When to stay with Ethermine

There is no mining reason to stay. What remains under the Ethermine name is staking: ethermine.org points ETH holders to Bitfly's Ethpool service, which is a different product for a different reader than a GPU owner. Staking carries its own risks, including validator penalties and ETH price moves. If you mined there and never withdrew a balance, contact Bitfly about it.

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