ZKPolyhedra Network - a new JumpStart on OKX
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- Created: Friday, 15 March 2024 01:08
JumpStart is a marketplace for new blockchain projects from the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume - OKX, similar to Binance's LaunchPad service. It's an optimal way for crypto miners, hodlers, and traders to earn extra income. This tool allows anyone to participate in the token distribution of new top-tier projects meticulously selected by the OKX exchange. To do this, you need to freeze (stake in the pool) your Bitcoin (BTC) or Ethereum (ETH) balance for a short period (usually 1-4 days). The main advantage of OKX's JumpStart over Binance's LaunchPad is the maximum staking limit (up to 0.3 BTC or up to 3.5 ETH), which allows for a fairer token distribution by deterring "whales," thus increasing the profitability of participation in such events. Read more about the ZKPolyhedra Network project and how to participate in JumpStart below.
Jasminer X16-Q PRO: The New Generation ASIC for Ethash
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- Created: Thursday, 14 March 2024 23:42
Jasminer Company releases ASICs for the Dagger Hashimoto mining algorithm, also known as Ethash (ETCHash) for short. Information about the new model designed for home use, the X16-Q PRO, has appeared on the company's website, Jasminer.com. This time, it's not just an improvement over last year's X16-Q model; it's an entirely new generation, as the energy efficiency of the PRO version has increased significantly by 22%.
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ASIC Goldshell KA-BOX for Kaspa cryptocurrency
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- Created: Thursday, 14 March 2024 23:36
Kaspa cryptocurrency has long been considered a reliable alternative to Bitcoin for ASIC miners, as the value of the cryptocurrency has increased significantly over the past year, and there is a large number of different ASIC miner models available on the market for the kHeavyHash algorithm from various manufacturers. Recently, Goldshell company reported on its plans to release ASIC for Kaspa on its X.com account.
HiveOS changes payment tariffs for GPU rigs
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- Created: Thursday, 07 March 2024 00:08
Starting from March 11, 2024, the most popular mining operating system, HiveOS, is changing payment conditions for GPU rig owners. The main differences from the previous tariffs include the introduction of differentiation based on the number of graphics cards in the rig, as well as an additional fee for using CPU in mining. Previously, as a reminder, the fee was only charged based on the number of mining rigs, regardless of the number of graphics cards used, and amounted to $3 per month for each mining rig if you had more than 4. The first 4 GPU rigs were serviced for free.
New validator requirements after the Dencun upgrade on the Ethereum network
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- Created: Tuesday, 05 March 2024 00:05
On March 13, 2024, at epoch 269568 in the Ethereum blockchain, a hard fork named Deneb-Cancun or simply Dencun will take place. This upgrade is primarily aimed at enhancing security, optimizing gas expenditures, and improving network scalability. Some even speculate that with the implementation of Dencun, we will transition into the era of DeFi 2.0.
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Mining Qubic under Windows using WSL2 (for those who do not working GPU mining)
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- Created: Saturday, 02 March 2024 14:14
In the previous article, we already talked about how to set up Qubic coin (QBIC) mining for Windows and HiveOs, as well as how to register a wallet and connect to the pool. However, most people who tried to set up Qubic mining on Windows experienced some problems, namely mining on the video card did not start. When starting the miner, a hardware detection error was displayed and mining started only on the CPU, which is exactly what happened in our case. For those who have a similar problem, we are posting an alternative guide on how to set up Qubic mining in GPU+CPU mode under Windows using the Linux Subsystem for Windows version 2 or WSL2.
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Mining Team Work (TW) - BSC-20 token for Qubic mining
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- Created: Friday, 01 March 2024 11:02
If you are on the topic of “profitable mining” at the beginning of 2024, then you are probably already mining Qubic, since this is one of the most profitable options for these coins (if not the most profitable at all) and is many times more profitable than what various calculators offer. Perhaps you have heard something about such a coin as TW in different telegram channels for mining and that some people mine the “mysterious” TW instead of Qubic. Let's try to figure out what kind of beast this Team Work is and how to mine it under HiveOS and Windows.
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Mining Ursula (URSA) - a new coin based on the HeavyHash algorithm
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- Created: Friday, 01 March 2024 04:48
A few days ago, a new coin called Ursula (URSA) was announced and launched, just yesterday, 02/29/2024, the coin was listed on the Xeggex cryptocurrency exchange and it began to be traded there. At the moment, the complexity of the network is still not very high and the profitability of mining on video cards is excellent. Of course, it is not yet known how long this will last, and how quickly miners will rush to this coin and raise the difficulty. By the way, do not confuse the HeavyHash algorithm (which is used to mine URSA) and KHeavyHash which is used by Kaspa (KAS). Ursula coin (URSA) is not mined on ASICs for Kaspa.
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ZLUDA - launching Nvidia miners on AMD graphics cards
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- Created: Wednesday, 28 February 2024 17:37
AMD graphics cards were considered the best choice for mining ten years ago because they offered higher performance on popular mining algorithms of that time such as SHA-256, Scrypt, Ethash, Cryptonight, while being noticeably cheaper. Additionally, mining software (miners) usually debuted for AMD graphics cards initially, before Nvidia. This allowed for early exploitation of new cryptocurrencies. However, at present, AMD has lost its leadership in mining to Nvidia as Nvidia graphics cards are more efficient for mining. Miners for new algorithms are primarily released for Nvidia cards first, and then for AMD cards. The only remaining advantage of AMD products is their price, although the cost gap between graphics cards is not as significant as it was ten years ago.
This doesn't mean that AMD products are completely ineffective for mining at present. Especially with the ZLUDA program, owners of Radeon graphics cards can overcome one disadvantage and start mining cryptocurrencies even if there's only miner software available for Nvidia cards.
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Mining Qubic (QBIC) - setting up the mining of that very “secret” coin on Windows and HiveOs
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- Created: Monday, 26 February 2024 13:49
In this article we will set up Qubic coin (QBIC) mining on Windows and HiveOs. In fact, in this case, this is not even mining in the literal sense of the word, the developers of the Qubic project essentially rent your equipment to train their neural network and pay you a reward in QBIC tokens once a week in proportion to the power of your equipment and how much time during this week (that’s how long one Epoch epoch lasts in the blockchain of this network) you participated in training the neural network. Due to the fact that it is difficult to immediately determine the profitability of Qubic mining (a week-long delay in payments), the setup is not as simple as is usually the case with classical mining and the small amount of information on the Internet, as well as the high requirements for equipment, the profitability of such mining is a very high level (some even consider this coin to be “secret”), in addition, both GPU and CPU are used equally for mining. For Qubic mining, it is highly recommended to have a high-performance processor and a powerful video card, as well as a sufficient amount of RAM. Further in this article you will find information and detailed step-by-step instructions on how to start the Qubic mining process under HiveOs (GPU + CPU) and under Windows (CPU), as well as more information about the coin itself.
Bitmain Antminer KS5 - a new milestone of efficiency in Kaspa mining
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- Created: Sunday, 25 February 2024 02:39
Bitmain has officially introduced the next generation of its ASIC miners for the kHeavyHash algorithm (Kaspa cryptocurrency) on its X.com account. While ASICs for Bitcoin see energy efficiency improvements of 10-20% with each new generation, the new Antminer KS5 boasts energy efficiency two and a half times better than its predecessor, the Antminer KS3, which, I remind you, was introduced not so long ago - in August 2023. This entire situation with ASICs for Kaspa resembles the era of the first SHA-256 ASIC models, when the energy efficiency improvement of new mining devices was measured in hundreds of percent.
Read more: Bitmain Antminer KS5 - a new milestone of efficiency in Kaspa mining
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