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Raptoreum (RTM) Crypto Project and Its GhostRider CPU Algorithm

17, Apr 2021

The Raptoreum (RTM) crypto project has been in development for quite some time now and just recently has officially launched its mainnet. The goal of Raptoreum is to provides a fast and secure cryptocurrency that anybody can easily use, but even more than that it is building a simple to use asset platform that will allow anybody to tokenize anything (non fungible tokens) with just a few clicks. RTM features POW mining with a custom algorithm called Ghostrider, currently CPU-only as well as smartnodes. The Ghostrider algorithm is a combination of algorithms from the X16R and CryptoNight families, cycled in random and not so random patterns used to gain consensus on the on chain generation and transaction of coins. Although the Ghostride algorithm is currently CPU-only a transition to GPU mining is very likely in the not so distant future.

If you have some spare CPU mining power and what to try something new, then you might check out the Raptoreum (RTM) project and its GhostRider algorithm. There are a number of mining pools supporting RTM mining with RPlant being the largest in terms of hashrate, followed by Suprnova and the dedicated RTM pool R-pool. For a CPU miner supporting the Ghostrider Take2 algorithm you can check cpuminer-ghostrider-take2-support available for both Windows and Linux binaries for the most popular CPU architectures as well as in source. RTМ is being traded already on SoouthXchange, SafeTrade and AutradeX.

– More information about the Raptoreum (RTM) Crypto Progect and Its GhostRider CPU Algorithm…

Have You Been Mining VertCoin (VTC), Today the Price is Up 100%

14, Feb 2021

Today VertCoin (VTC) is on fire with the price going up with more than 100% already and that should serve as a good reminder that you might want to check out mining it after it forked to the new memory-intensive VertHash algorithm. Even though the price is significantly higher at the moment, there hasn’t been much of a change in the network difficulty and the number people mining VTC haven’t increased much… yet! Originally VertCoin (VTC) mining was interesting mostly for older GPUs that were good mining cards (with at least 2GB of VRAM), but are not capable of mining Ethereum due to the large DAG size. But now with the recent price spike even newer video cards that are being used for Ethereum mining can become very profitable if switched to mine VTC at the moment…

The VertHash algorithm is a memory-intensive one, though it has its differences from Ethash used by Ethereum for instance. The main advantage is that you can mine VTC on any GPU that has at least 2GB of video memory, so older mining GPUs can be brought back to life, so time to dust off that good old AMD Radeon R9 280X GPUs or Radeon HD 7970 GPUs and start mining VTC with them. Even Radeon R9 290 or Radeon R9 390 can do pretty good at the moment, although these might still be good for Ethereum mining under Linux with high mining hashrate. So, make sure you double check what works best for them and what not in order to maximize your mining profit.

The AMD Radeon RX 470 and RX 480 or RX 570 and RX 580 with 4GB VRAM were great for mining VTC using the new VertHash algorithm before the price spike, but now they will be even better in terms of profitability mining VertCoin. So much better that you should probably stop using them for mining Ethereum (ETH) in “Zombie Mode” at least for a while. With the doubled price at the moment, even the latest Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series of GPUs that do spectacularly in terms of VertHash hashrate for mining VTC can turn out to be more profitable than directly mining Ethereum.

– To Calculate Your Current VertCoin (VTC) Mining Profitability on MinerStat…

Get Even Better Profit by Dual-Mining Ethereum (ETH) and Zilliqa (ZIL)

10, Feb 2021

If you are a crypto miner you should be mining Ethereum (ETH) at the moment with any suitable video card that has more than 4GB video memory, or if you even have a 4GB ones that can still mine it in “Zombie Mode” due to the high profitability. There is a way to increase your profit even further when mining ETH and that is to dual-mine Ethereum and Zilliqa (ZIL). Thanks to Zilliqa’s consensus mechanism, the ecological footprint of mining has considerably been reduced in a way that only 1 minute out of every 1.5 hours is needed to mine ZIL, allowing you to dual-mine other crypto coins such as Ethereum (ETH) or Ethereum Classic (ETC) the rest of the time. Then the ZIL coins you have mine can be staked with about 6%-12% APY, so an extra profit if you plan on holding long term your Zilliqa coins.

Zilliqa is a high-throughput public blockchain platform designed to scale to thousands of transactions per second. It is built to deliver performance, scalability, and security. ZIL is the token that powers the Zilliqa blockchain, a token that can be used for smart contract execution, to reward miners, to cover transaction fees, and more. The company (and platform) has its roots in academic research, it was born at the National University of Singapore and was the brainchild of a team of academics, entrepreneurs, and engineers. With the launch of Zilliqa’s mainnet in January 2019, it became the first public blockchain platform in the world to successfully utilize sharding as a scaling solution. The current price of a single Zilliqa (ZIL) coin is a little over $0.09 USD or roughly 0.000001968 BTC or 0.00005237 ETH according to CoinMarketCap. Currently Zilliqa sits at number 56 in term of coin market capitalization and can soon take its place in the TOP 50 crypto coins based on their market cap.

The Ezil.me mining pool mines Ethereum (ETH) or Ethereum Classic (ETC) and Zilliqa (ZIL) simultaneously. Most of the time the pool is mining ETH or ETC, but just before a ZIL mining round starts, which is every few hours, the pool will automatically switch to ZIL mining for a minute, then it instantly switches back to mining ETH or ETC. From the individual miner’s perspective, no action is required as everything happens automatically in the background, and the reward is credited and paid the same way for both dual-mined crypto coins (ETH+ZIL or ETC+ZIL). The pool does not require a registration, you just need an ETH and ZIL wallet addresses as they are your user IDs for login. An easy way to get ZIL wallet address is to use a supported exchange such as Binance, though we do not generally recommend direct mining of crypto coins to an exchange.

The Ezil.me pool has a minimum payout for Ethereum set at 0.05 ETH and a minimum of 30 ZIL (you can increase them over these values) with daily payouts if the minimums are met. Mining rewards are credited to your pool balance every 30 minutes, so do not worry if you do not see any mined ZIL coins immediately after the mining round finishes. The pool has 1% default commission for miners though if you use the promo code 509cd, you will get an extra 0.10% cashback for two weeks, essentially lowering the initial mining fee of the pool from 1% to 0.9% for some time. You can dual-mine ETH + ZIL on AMD and Nvidia GPUS using a number of miners such as PhoenixMiner, the T-Rex or LolMiner and even should be able to use the More Epochs Мod v1.4 for Claymore Ethereum (ETH) Miner v15.

Example for Dual Mining ETH + ZIL on Ezil.me Pool:
PhoenixMiner.exe -pool stratum1+tcp://eu.ezil.me:5555 -proto 2 -wal ETH_WALLET.ZIL_WALLET -worker WORKER -stales 0 -log 0

Example for Dual Mining ETC + ZIL on Ezil.me Pool:
PhoenixMiner.exe -pool stratum1+tcp://eu.ezil.me:4444 -proto 2 -wal ETC_WALLET.ZIL_WALLET -worker WORKER -coin etc -stales 0 -log 0

* Make sure to replace the two WALLET lines with your ETH/ETC and ZIL wallets and also set WORKER to a unique name for each mining rig you point to the pool.

– To Get Started Dual-mining ETH and ZIL on the Ezil.me Mining Pool…


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