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ZCash ZEC mining
https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/guides/how-to-mine-zcash/
ZCash uses Equihash as an hashing algorithm, which is an asymmetric memory-hard PoW algorithm based on the generalized birthday problem. It relies on high RAM requirements to bottleneck the generation of proofs and making ASIC development unfeasible, much like Ethereum.
How to mine Zcash with GPU and CPU (Windows) | CryptoCompare.com
Mining Guide
https://github.com/zcash/zcash/wiki/Mining-Guide
Miner Software
https://github.com/nicehash/nheqminer/releases
https://forum.z.cash/t/miner-nicehash-zcash-cpu-gpu-for-linux-and-windows/2861
Install nheqminer on Ubuntu 16
Follow the steps here: https://github.com/nicehash/nheqminer
NV24 VM with Windows Server 2016
4x Tesla M60 video cards — http://www.miningspeed.com/page.php?id=300341&hash=950sol/s
Performance:
- 60 I/sec
- 112 Sol/sec
Ethminer on Win 2016 NV12 Azure VM
Benchmark using ethminer running on Windows Server 2016 inside a NV12 VM in Azure.
Change the number of streams
ethminer.exe -U -F http://eth.pool.minergate.com:55751/your@email.com --cuda-streams N -M
Test result with –cuda-streams 4
Trial 1... 33554432 Trial 2... 34952533 Trial 3... 34940886 Trial 4... 33554432 Trial 5... 33554432 min/mean/max: 33554432/34111343/34952533 H/s inner mean: 23297806 H/s
Test result with –cuda-streams 2
Trial 1... 33554432 Trial 2... 33554432 Trial 3... 34253482 Trial 4... 34253482 Trial 5... 33554432 min/mean/max: 33554432/33834052/34253482 H/s inner mean: 11417827 H/s
Test result with –cuda-streams 8
Trial 1... 33554432 Trial 2... 33554432 Trial 3... 33554432 Trial 4... 36350634 Trial 5... 34694390 min/mean/max: 33554432/34341664/36350634 H/s inner mean: 23681674 H/s
Test result with –cuda-streams 16
Trial 1... 27962026 Trial 2... 27952709 Trial 3... 22362167 Trial 4... 27934092 Trial 5... 27962026 min/mean/max: 22362167/26834604/27962026 H/s inner mean: 27949609 H/s
Test result with –cuda-streams 32
Trial 1... 33554432
Trial 2... 27197108
Trial 3... 42570961
Trial 4... 27164081
Trial 5... 34065413
min/mean/max: 27164081/32910399/42570961 H/s
inner mean: 31605651 H/s
Test result with –cuda-streams 64
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Minergate cli in Ubuntu 16
You can download Ubuntu (Debian) console of Minergate from official website
Link to latest version is:
https://minergate.com/downloads/console
From Ubuntu console, download the package
wget https://minergate.com/download/deb-cli -O minergate-cli.deb
Install the package via dpkg
sudo dpkg -i minergate-cli.deb
Then you can use the console as reported in official guideline
minergate-cli -user your@mail.com -fcn+xmr
Ethereum block – reward
My first Ethereum block reward! ❤
Thanks to MinerGate!
- Windows mining client = https://minergate.com/
- Convert between currency = https://changelly.com/
- Manage accounts = https://www.coinbase.com/
Full guide to Etherium
https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/wiki/index
GPU Ethereum mining on Ubuntu 16 VM in Azure
Only NC-series VM are supported running Linux – Source article
Instead of attach a data disk – resize OS disk from portal and expand File System
sudo resize2fs /dev/sda1
Install Nvidia video driver for Ubuntu VM – Only NC driver
Install GETH via PPA
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ethereum ethminer
Copy the account file in “/home/<user>/.ethereum”. You can use a data disk as Putty doesn’t allow copy/paste or use wget to download if it’s reachable from internet
sudo mkdir /datadisk sudo mkdir /home/<user>/.ethereum sudo chmod go+w /home/<user>/.ethereum sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /datadisk cp <UTC--yyyy-mm-ddTnn-nn--xxxx> /home/<user>/.ethereum sudo umount /datadisk sudo rm -d /datadisk/
Run GETH to sync the node with network =
geth --etherbase '0x47A7C11aBee697bBA83F2ea1Ec072dc937584998' --syncmode "fast" --cache 4096 --trace "geth.log"
You can verify the size of geth folder using this cmd (size should be 18+ Gb) =
du -hs ~/.ethereum/geth
Run GETH in a dedicated screen to start mining using CPU ( about 18Gb of DB files )
screen -S gethminer geth --etherbase '0x47A7C11aBee697bBA83F2ea1Ec072dc937584998' --mine --minerthreads 12 --trace "geth.log" screen -r -S gethminer
CPU & GPU using ethminer
Make sure ethminer is installed and geth is synched correctly:
sudo apt-get install ethereum ethminer
Configure ethminer to CPU mining
screen -S ethminerCPU ethminer -C -F http://eth.pool.minergate.com:55751/your@email.com --disable-submit-hashrate
Configure ethminer to GPU mining following these steps
screen -S ethminerGPU ethminer -G -F http://eth.pool.minergate.com:55751/your@email.com --disable-submit-hashrate
View current status of mining processes =
screen -r -S ethminerCPU screen -r -S ethminerGPU
Monitoring CPU and GPU resource usage
Open a new Putty session
CPU usage
sudo apt-get install htop htop
Network usage
sudo apt-get install iftop sudo iftop
GPU usage
watch -n 0.5 nvidia-smi
Disk usage
sudo apt-get install iotop sudo iotop
GPU Ethereum mining on Windows VM in Azure
Download Genoila ethminer 0.9.41 fork 1.1.6
Configuration as reported in MinerGate
ethminer.exe -U -F http://eth.pool.minergate.com:55751/your@email.com --cuda-grid-size 8192 --cuda-block-size 128
Use Ubuntu Linux as performance are way better than Windows
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