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Updated Windows Binary of the ccMiner 1.5.69-git Fork by SP for Maxwell

25, Sep 2015

ccminer-1-5-69-spmod

Another update in the form of a new Windows binary release compiled from the latest Git source code of the ccMiner 1.5.69-git SP-MOD fork by SP optimized for the latest Maxwell-based video cards (source). This release has numerous fixes, but the most important is apparently the one resolving the issues that the last few releases had with solo mining. With the latest release the miner does not seem to be crashing when it finds a block anymore when solo mining, so if you had trouble before you can try with the latest release, it works for us. Do note that the SP-MOD fork of ccMiner is designed for Nvidia Maxwell GPUs such as the already available GTX 750, 750 Ti as well as the newer GTX 960, GTX 970, GTX 980 and GTX 980 Ti and GTX Titan X. The Windows binary release we have made available here is with support for Compute 5.0 and Compute 5.2 GPUs or with other words only for Maxwell-based Nvidia video cards compiled with CUDA 6.5 and VS2013.

– To download the latest ccMiner for Maxwell version 1.5.69-git by SP for Windows OS…

Updated Windows Binary of the ccMiner 1.5.68-git Fork by SP for Maxwell

18, Sep 2015

ccminer-1-5-68-sp-mod

One more update in the form of a new Windows binary release compiled from the latest Git source code of the ccMiner 1.5.68-git SP-MOD fork by SP optimized for the latest Maxwell-based video cards (source). This release has some fixes and minor hashrate improvements, but unfortunately we are still experiencing some issues with solo mining, so you might want to stick to an earlier version for local wallet mining, the miner seems to be crashing when it finds a block. Do note that the SP-MOD fork of ccMiner is designed for Nvidia Maxwell GPUs such as the already available GTX 750, 750 Ti as well as the newer GTX 960, GTX 970, GTX 980 and GTX 980 Ti and GTX Titan X. The Windows binary release we have made available here is with support for Compute 5.0 and Compute 5.2 GPUs or with other words only for Maxwell-based Nvidia video cards compiled with CUDA 6.5 and VS2013.

– To download the latest ccMiner for Maxwell version 1.5.68-git by SP for Windows OS…

Ethereum Solo Mining Proxy Now Available

17, Sep 2015

ether-proxy

Those that actually solo mine crypto coins are familiar with the not user friendly way that things happen and mostly the lack of details on your solo mining statistics over time unlike when using a mining pool. Ethereum is a no exclusion from that rule when solo mining and with not that many pools and some pools having issues, even though the difficulty of the network is not that small, there are still quite a lot of people that solo mine… especially if they have more than just a few GPUs. There is now a new open source project called ether-proxy which essentially is an Ethereum solo mining proxy that can help you keep track on how your solo mining for Ether is going on with multiple mining rigs, though it will work even with a single one. EtherProxy relies on Go and needs geth (the Ethereum Go client in order to function as a backend) with the mining part happening just like you do with ethminer pointed at a mining pool. In the local proxy url you set for ethminer to use you can set the share difficulty as well as an ID for each mining instance (or mining rig) that you are using. All the basic stats that you need is being displayed in a clean and simple web-based interface for you to keep track on things like running status of mining rigs, hashrate, blocks found and so on. If you want to try the project yourself, there is already a Windows binary release available to save you some trouble or you can compile from the source code yourself.

– To check out the official project page for the Ethereum solo mining proxy on GitHub…


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