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Dual Mining Karlsen (KLS) and ZIL Plus Autoconversion to Bitcoin

9, Dec 2023

If you are a miner that just wants to take a good profit if/while the Karlsen (KLS) craziness continues you might want to check out our quick tutorial on how to maximize your mining profit dual mining Karlsen (KLS) and Zilliqa (ZIL) with the latest Rigel miner 1.10.0 (Nvidia only) along with utilizing the Unmineable mining pool to autoconvert the mined KLS to Bitcoin (BTC) or KAS or any other of the supported crypto coins. This way you don’t have to rely on a local console Karlsen wallet or have to deal with exchanges to sell the mined coins. It is very similar to how NiceHash works, but NiceHash has not yet listed KLS, so there is no need to wait for them and you can act now. Apart from the Rigel miner, the latest GMiner (Nvidia only) has also added support for Karlsen and ZIL dual mining, and BzMiner, lolMiner and SRBMiner-Multi do support Karlsen only. We like the performance and ease of use of the Rigel miner and if you have used it for mining KAS on GPUs previously, then it is very easy to switch your config to mine Karlsen by changing the algorithm and the wallet address to a Karlsen one.

Here is command line example to get you started:
rigel -a karlsenhash+zil ^
-o [1]stratum+ssl://karlsenhash-eu.unmineable.com:4444 -u [1]BTC:WALLET_ADDRESS ^
-o [2]stratum+tcp://eu.crazypool.org:5005 -u [2]ZIL_WALLET_ADDRESS ^
-w WORKER_ID --log-file logs/miner.log --no-strict-ssl ^
--cclock 250 ^
--lock-cclock [1]1750 --lock-mclock [1]807 ^
--lock-cclock [2]1050 --mclock [2]1000

The above example is ready to be used and tweaked on RTX 3070 or similar GPUs, it uses the Unminable service with Bitcoin payouts (make sure you set your address) and Crazypool for ZIL mining (make sure you set your address), then also set your WORKER_ID as well. Just like KAS, Karlsen does not need much memory, so you can lower the clock to the minimum and keep the GPU clock higher utilizing the maximum offset your cards can sustain for reduced power usage.

You can check your mining status at:
For Unmineable: https://unmineable.com/coins/BTC/address/YOUR_BTC_WALLET_ADDRESS
For Crazypool: https://zil.crazypool.org/#/account/YOUR_ZIL_WALLET_ADDRESS

Make sure you set your mining wallet addresses in both of the above URLs in order to be able to see your own stats!

– To Download the latest Rigel 1.10.0 Nvidia GPU miner…

Karlsen Network (KLS) is an ASIC-resistant Fork of KASPA (KAS)

30, Nov 2023

Karlsen Network and the Karlsen Coin (KLS) is a new project that is forked from Kaspa (KAS) with a a modified Proof of Work algorithm called KarlsenHash that prevents KAS ASICs to mine the coin. The project is still new and early and not much information is available, so you should treat with caution as always and if installing a local wallet and node you should do it in a sandbox environment just to be on the safe side. The project has caught a lot of attention from crypto miners and a lot of GPU mining power is being sent over to mine KLS coins (50 coins per block with 1 second block time). There are still no exchanges available with support for KLS, but you can mine with a local node and wallet and there are already pools supporting Karlsen Network mining popping up like Herominers. The latest version of SRBMiner-Multi has added support for mining KLS coins with the new algorithm (1% dev fee) and you can use the same settings you used for KAS mining on your GPUs. Below you can find a quick guide that we’ve prepared on how to setup a local Karlsen Network node and create a local wallet that you can mine KLS coins to if you are interested in getting started with mining.

Quick Getting Started Guide:
1. Download the latest Karlsen Network node and wallet from GitHub.
2. Unzip the downloaded archive that contains 5 different executable files.
3. Run "karlsenwallet create" to generate a local wallet, you will be prompted to create a password for encryption (remember it!)
4. You will get a keys.json file created with the encrypted private key (back it up!) and you will be shown a public key (this is not a wallet you can mine at, you will need to create wallet!)
5. Run "karlsenwallet dump-unencrypted-data" to get your 24-word mnemonic phrase for recovery (write that down and store securely).
6. Run "karlsend --utxoindex" to start a local node on your computer.
7. Run "karlsenwallet start-daemon" to get the wallet ready.
8. Run "karlsenwallet new-address" in order to generate a wallet address that you can point your miners at the mining pool.
9. Run "karlsenwallet balance -v" to check the balance of your wallet(s) when pools send you payments, you need to wait for the blockchain to sync for the balance to appear.
10. Run "karlsenwallet send -v amount_of_Karlsen_to_send -t wallet_public_address" to send coins from your local wallet to a different wallet, make sure you set the amount and the wallet to send to.

Example SRBMiner-Multi Karlsen mining command line:

SRBMiner-MULTI.exe --algorithm karlsenhash --pool stratum+tcps://de.karlsen.herominers.com:1195 --wallet karlsen:YOUR_WALLET_ID --password WORKER_ID --gpu-cclock0 1710 --gpu-mclock0 810 --gpu-coffset0 250

Make sure you update the wallet and worker ids in the example command line above as well as change the GPU clock, Memory clock and offset according to what your GPUs can handle. Again, using the same settings you have used for mining KAS on your GPUs (if you did) is a good starting point. The example shows a good average for use on Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 GPU.

– Visit the official Karlsen Network (KLS) project website for more info…

The MASQ Web3 Privacy Browser is Now Out in Public Beta for Everyone to Try

11, Oct 2023

The MASQ web3 browser has been released on a Public Testnet and is now available for everyone to download and try, so we just did that. We have introduced the MASQ project to you last year, but it has taken quite some time for it to move from private to public beta, though that has finally happened. The main purpose of the MASQ browser is to safeguard your privacy while you are online, giving you features like no history and adblocking built-in, encrypted 3-hop routing in across other countries to provide censorship-resistance, the ability to interact with web3 services using official Metamask and Frame browser extensions, an in-built web3 dApp store and the ability to earn passive crypto by sharing your bandwidth with other users across the MASQ Network. Do note that since this is a beta version on a testnet, you are utilizing tMASQ and tMATIC tokens and not the actual tokens that will be used just for testing…

Now, our initial experience after downloading the MASQ Beta was a bit mixed as Windows Defender immediately gave a warning that we are trying to run an unrecognized app and prevented us from doing so. So, going to More Info and Run anyway has easily solved that on the annoying blue window we got as a warning… it is for your safety and privacy not to install privacy browsers… right… just kidding. The more serious issue came right after we finished the installation and started the MASQ browser for the first time – a “Daemon is not running” error that kind of puzzled us. After heading out to the Troubleshooting part of the Official Documentation of the MASQ Network to look for answers there were some ideas to try such as firewall or antivirus or reinstalling the app, though none of these did work out. Going for the MASQ Node executable and trying to run it manually immediately revealed what the issue was, a missing library that is a part of the latest Visual Studio Redistributable. So, downloading and installing the 64-bit version of the Latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable did immediately resolve the Daemon is not running error message and we were able to continue with the setup procedure.

As already mentioned, the Public Beta version of the MASQ browser is running on the Polygon Testnet and does not utilize the actual MASQ tokens that are already in circulation and can be purchased of an exchange, these tokens are just for testing the browsers functionality for now. The next step is to setup a new wallet if you do not already have one or import an existing wallet. Generating a new wallet will give you 12-word recovery phrase that you need to write down and confirm in the next step by properly ordering the words. After your new wallet is generated you will get some test tokens (tMASQ and tMATIC) available in it, so that you can test the functionality of the browser using them. Then there is a quick internet speed test performed in order to confirm that you meet the requirements to be used as a node to serve data to other users passing through you.

Now, the functionality to “Serve Data” using the MASQ browser is what allows you to earn MASQ tokens in return for helping other users be anonymous. This is you becoming a node in the mesh network of users that passes the encrypted user data around, so that the important privacy functionality can be achieved and you are incentivised to do it by getting MASQ tokens in return (test tokens in the Beta). You can decide not to Serve Data and you should still be able to use the MASQ browser, though you will not be earning the tokens this way and you can apparently decide to change your opinion later on and switch on/off. What caught our eye here in that setup page was that “By choosing to serve you accept legal responsibility of doing so”! This is important to note as serving other users data, even though encrypted and not in your control, you should still be somewhat legally responsible for that should someone utilize MASQ for illegal purposes.

A quick test of opening google.com and apparently going out through a user in Netherlands we get Google NL greeting us in Dutch. Speed wise it works quite well going through 3 hops apparently based on our first impressions. Unfortunately for the moment you are unable to choose an “exit” country to get your traffic through and that is a bit of a bummer as sometimes you need to use exact country for a website or service that has limited functionality for certain regions. That functionality should be becoming available though, remember that MASQ is still in beta. You can choose from direct to up to 3 Node hops varying your speed and privacy levels, though apparently up to 5 Node Hops would be available in the near future for additional privacy.

Here is how the Web3 Store with the Dapps looks like, some you probably are familiar with, others you might need to look up. They are categorized and you might want to look around, not that much are available for the moment, but the number should increase in the future. In general things are looking good and work quite well in the current MASQ Public Beta in our own opinion, though there are still some hiccups and things that might be polished a bit. Still, you can already get a good glimpse into how the final version will work and it does look promising as yet another privacy layer that will be available to you keeping you safer online with the added benefit of getting rewarded MASQ crypto tokens for sharing your bandwidth with other users of the network.

You can also already purchase MASQ tokens (non testnet ones) ERC-20 tokens on Ethereum through Uniswap, SushiSwap, Quickswap and they are also listed on the Probit Global exchange, however our advice is to avoid that exchange as it has a really slow support should you encounter an issue there. Resolving a simple problem that could’ve been done for a couple of days with time difference and delay and work hours etc has taken something like 3 months for Probit and it was really awful experience, so do avoid that exchange at all costs!

– To Download the MASQ Web3 Privacy Browser Public Beta and give it a try…


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