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Novice’s Guide to Setting up a Crypto-Currency Mining Pool

23, Feb 2015

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If you want to try to make up your own crypto currency mining pool, but are not a Linux sysadmin or too much into crypto currencies you may have a hard time figuring out how to do it as it is not as easy as it may seem. Thankfully there are resources that are as detailed as they can get to guide you through all of the basic steps you need to take to setup your own mining pool even if you are a novice with some very basic Linux knowledge. We are going to direct you to a detailed step by step guide on setting up a MPOS (Mining Portal Open Source) mining pool using NOMP as stratum (Node Open Mining Portal) on Linux, then another guide on how to do some basic things to harden your server and secure it and in the end another guide on how to setup Cloudflare as a DNS server for your pool. You can thank a user called profall for writing up these detailed guides suitable for novice users that are willing to setup their first crypto mining pool server and the links for the guides are below. These detailed guides will help you get a good start in making your first mining pool a reality, but then again you will have to be ready to learn more on the go as a pool operator, so be ready for that as well.

– Novice’s Guide to Setting up a MPOS/NOMP Crypto-Currency Mining Pool…
– Novice’s Guide to Hardening/Basic Security for your Mining Pool…
– Novice’s Guide to Utilize Cloudflare as a DNS Server…

NiceHashBot Tool for Easier Order Management

13, Feb 2015

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The NiceHash service for leasing and for purchasing crypto mining hashrate has released an useful tool for people that use NiceHash or WestHash for purchasing hashrate – NiceHashBot. The tool is in an open source and simple standalone Windows application for automatic order and profit management on NiceHash/WestHash. It is meant to ease the management of your orders on NiceHash/WestHash by automating some common operations which you would else have to carry out manually as well as to provide a basic platform for further development by anyone who would like to extend this bot into fully featured bot with advanced functionality thanks to the open source code. The tool uses the NiceHash API, so you need to enter your API key that you can find in the Account settings when you login in your NiceHash account and then you are ready to use it. If you are only using NiceHash or WestHash for selling your mining hashrate, then at the moment you don’t need the NiceHashBot tool, but you might want to check out the Miner Control tool instead. The source code of the NiceHashBot tool is available on GitHub and you can also find the compiled Windows package as well under the Releases tab.

– To check out the NiceHashBot tool and to download the application or source code…

New Lyra2RE VertCoin Optimized OpenCL Kernel Crowdfunding Project

7, Feb 2015

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There is another interesting crowdfunding project available on the Bitcointalk forum for GPU miners that are interested in mining VertCoin on AMD-based video cards. A user called pallas has made an optimized Lyra2Re kernel for VertCoin (VTC) and is taking donations and sending a compiled binary if you donate minimum of 0.02 BTC an if the total donated coins reach 3 BTC by May 1st he is going to release the source code of the kernel public. The only drawback is that apparently the binary is available only for AMD Radeon R9 290 cards where it is able to produce about 1740 KHS hashrate mining Lyra2RE coins. There are a lot of people that still use Radeon R9 280X, 7970 and others and for them a binary for the 290 is not very usable (it might work on 290X though), so this will limit the use of a compiled BIN, unless binaries for other cards are also made available. The compiled kernel binary is designed to work with latest djm34 sgminer for Lyra2RE that needs to be compiled for 64-bit.

– For more details about the new Lyra2RE Vertcoin optimized OpenCL kernel…


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