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The Latest lolMiner 1.66 Adds support for NEXA Mining as Well

26, Jan 2023

The just updated lolMiner 1.66 has also introduced support for the nexapow algorithm used by the NEXA project, something we kind of expected after the recent release of BzMiner v13.0.1 that included a mention of that NEXA support has been jointly developed with the developer of lolMiner. And now the release of lolMiner 1.66 brings that along with a mention of an upcoming BzMiner update to bring better performance of about 20% and lower development fee of 2%, the same as what we are expecting to see from this release in lolMiner.

Prior to this release of lolMiner the fastest NEXA miner out there was the newcomer Rigel Nvidia GPU miner, so the big question is if the lolMiner is managing to surpass its performance and get the new top spot? Well, the answer is that it did manage to outperform slightly even the just updated Rigel miner 1.3.1 that also brought some 3-5% extra since the initial 1.3.0 release. So, the new lolMiner 1.66 is now the to go NEXA miner for Nvidia GPUs fi you are looking to get the optimal mining performance at the moment. The hashrate that the new lolMiner offers for NEXA mining is a bit faster than what the Rigel miner currently does and it is with the same developer fee of 2% for both and the next update of BzMiner should also do similar level of performance when it is updated. The performance boost for lolMiner is around 5% on commonly used Nvidia GPUs like the RTX 3070, though some like the RTX 3070 Ti, RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 might show the about same level of performance as with the latest version 1.3.1 of the Rigel miner!

lolMiner 1.66 Latest Changelog:
– Added support for mining Nexa on Nvidia Pascal or newer generation GPUs (1). Use --algo NEXA to mine it. Fee is 2%.
— Note: The pool protocol supported matches the one introduced by rplant pool. That said pools tested by this version are in alphabetical order: acc-pool.pw, rplant.xyz, vipor.net and woolypooly.com. That said this list is not exclusive and every other pool following this protocol should work.
— Note 2: This code is joint work with Iedoc from BzMiner and it is a refined version with approximately 20% higher speed then the code released in BzMiner v13.0.1. An updated version of BzMiner featuring the improvements of this kernel as well as the same fee level will be released soon.

— (1) Primary focus in optimization were the low to medium range Nvidia Ampere GPUs. The performance of other generations may vary, but certainly improve the next versions.

Do note that lolMiner’s support for NEXA mining is only for Nvidia GPUs and it covers Nvidia Pascal or newer generations, it should work with all of the major NEXA mining pools, so you are more than welcome to spread the hashrate if you are mining NEXA and not go straight to the largest pool as many people normally do. AMD GPU miners do seem to be kind of left out for the moment unfortunately as far as NEXA mining is concerned and the focus seems to be on Nvidia GPU miners for the moment.

– To download and try the latest release of the lolMiner 1.66 mining software…

The Rigel Nvidia GPU Miner Has Introduced Support for NEXA Mining

24, Jan 2023

The Rigel Nvidia GPU is a newcomer on the mining software front and apparently is less than two months old since its initial release, supports just a few crypto algorithms, but looks nice with it the terminal user interface it provides. We haven’t used it up until now, but it has attracted our attention with the addition of support for the nexapow algorithm used by the NEXA project that is lately ginning quite a lot of attention among miners and crypto traders. The Nexapow mining supports comes with a 2% developer fee, but it is apparently well worth it as the miner manages to bring up the hashrate on average about 10% in our quick tests compared to the performance that the previous best performer BzMiner manages to get you at the moment. Both BzMiner and the Rigel miner do only support Nvidia GPUs for mining NEXA, if you want to mine it on AMD GPUs you need to stick the third option which is WildRig Multi that supports AMD and Nvidia GPUs for mining NEXA.

At the moment the Rigel GPU miner is available for both Windows and Linux operating systems, supports only Nvidia video cards and supports mining of etchash (ETC), ethash (ETHW), kheavyhash (Kaspa), nexapow (Nexa) and zil (Zilliqa). The miner does support dual and triple mining with a GPU and memory intensive coins from the supported algorithms and/or ZIL, but it seems that currently nexapow + zil dual mining is not working properly, so you might want to hold it and mine only NEXA until an update is released (ZIL mining is apparently broken in the 1.3.0 release, use older version if not mining NEXA). The miner also has support for command line overclocking and optimizing the performance of the GPU, and these also do seem to work quite well. If the Rigel miner is new to you just like for us, then you might want to play around with it not only for NEXA mining. Kaspa (KAS) miners might also want to take a look at the miner, especially Windows users as they can get slightly better performance with a very slightly lower developer fee compared to lolMiner and still get the same command line overclocking options to maximize performance and lower the power usage.

– To download the latest Rigel 1.3.0 Nvidia GPU miner with NEXA mining support…

Mine CLORE Coins Used by the CLORE.AI Distributed Computing Platform

22, Jan 2023

The CLORE AI platform is trying to build a distributed supercomputer where regular users can offer their computational power and get paid in BTC for the use of their hardware as well as being rewarded with CLORE coins. The project runs a marketplace that can offer computational power from distributed network of providers all around the world at unbeatable prices and you can join in with your hardware as well as long as you have an Nvidia GPU-equipped computer. There is also the CLORE Blockchain where CLORE coins can be mined using the KAWPOW algorithm (the same one used by RavenCoin – RVN) that are a part of the project’s ecosystem.

The CLORE Blockchain has total supply of 1,300,000,000 coins with the block reward decreasing a little bit with every new block (starting at 542 coins per block and currently around 527 at block 64000), the block time is 1 minute. Do note however that the block reward is being split at 50% for the GPU miners, 40% as rewards for the hosting providers and 10% as developer fee to be used for the growth of the platform. CLORE AI already has a fully functional GPU compute marketplace, that can be used for any workload that runs on Linux, basically any AI workload, rendering, transcoding, password recovery etc.

There are already more than 10 mining pools supporting CLORE mining with the largest in terms of hashrate being rplant.xyz, newpool.pw and fastpool.xyz. CLORE is already available for trading on Exbitron and TxBit along with some smaller ones as well. You can mine with any of the GPU miners that have support for the KAWPOW algorithm such as GMiner, T-Rex, WildRig Multi, NBMiner etc. depending on your mining hardware you can choose what performs best in terms of hashrate. KAWPOW is both a GPU and memory intensive algorithm, so a higher power usage is to be expected from the GPUs for best performance unlike some other GPU only or memory only intensive algorithms where you may optimize power usage.

– For more details about the CLORE Blockchain as a part of the CLORE.AI platform…


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