SRBMiner-MULTI v2.2.0 Released with Dynex Mining Support for AMD, Nvidia and Intel GPUs

8 Mar
2023

The latest update version 2.2.0 of the SRBMiner-MULTI miner comes with support for mining Dynex (DNX) that covers the not only already available Nvidia GPUs (via the official DynexSolve miner), but also adds support for DNX mining on AMD and Nvidia GPUs. The mining fee for mining Dynex with the SRBMiner-MULTI v2.2.0 is currently set at 3%. Earlier this year SRBMiner-MULTI added support for Nvidia GPUs in its major release 2 and since then the miner has introduced and gradually improved support for Intel’s ARC GPUs as well. SRBMiner-MULTI v2.2.0 is the first mining software to offer AMD and Intel ARC miners the ability to mine DNX, though mining DNX is still having issues with pools, so do not be discouraged if you have trouble connecting to a mining pool. This should hopefully soon be resolved as we also do have some trouble properly testing the new release at the moment.

A nice addition to the features for DNX miners from SRBMiner-MULTI is the ability to use multiple mining pools and mallobs, that can help you if you are having pool connectivity issues. There is currently no “adj” option available to set manually the number of Dynex chips to be simulated like on the official DynexSolve miner, but you can use the “--gpu-intensity” parameter for that. Another useful feature is the ability to dual-mine Dynex (DNX) and Zilliqa (ZIL) with SRBMiner-MULTI, so that can help in getting some nice extra profit as opposed to just single mining Dynex. Nvidia users might also try and compare the performance of the official DynexSolve 2.2.5 miner (no dev fee here) to what SRBMiner-MULTI v2.2.0 miner offers on their hardware (3% dev fee), feel free to share your results in the comments below if you do so.

– To download and try the latest SRBMiner-MULTI GPU miner now with Dynex support…

Better Mining Efficiency of ZIL with ASICs and Old Low-VRAM GPUs on Ezil.me

7 Mar
2023

The Ezil.me mining pool has introduced a new beta feature targeted at miners using ASIC miners such as iPollo or older GPUs with less video memory onboard that would allow them to make more profit when dual-mining Zilliqa (ZIL). These devices do not allow to cache a DAG file for ZIL in advance to avoid creating a new file for every ZIL round. So, ASICs and old GPUs could not fully participate in the ZIL round which is only 1.5 minutes long because the creation of a DAG file had been consuming most of the time that they should normally be mining ZIL during this short window. The new beta feature is new dedicated ports for these miners for dual-mining ETC/ZIL and ETHW/ZIL.

These new server ports allow for more time before the actual start of the ZIL mining round, so when the mining starts the hardware has already generated the DAG for Zilliqa and can start mining on time during the whole mining round. Your equipment will be receiving a specific job that activates DAG file generation prior to the actual ZIL round, so you won’t be missing a second of the round due to DAG file creation. It seems that preliminary testing shows a significant income increase for ASICS such as iPollo miners or GPUs with less video memory, so if you have such you might want to give it a try. There is no need to use these ports on GPUs with large size of video memory that can pre-cache the DAG for Zilliqa just fine.

– New Ezil.me Beta-test ASIC ports for ETC/ETHW and ZIL dual-mining…

Now You Can Mine KASPA (KAS) on f2pool With 500K KAS Contest for Miners

2 Mar
2023

The f2pool has just launched its Kaspa mining pool today with a 1% PPLNS payout scheme for KAS mining and the pool is running a contest to attract miners who will be competing for 500,000 KAS in total prizes. The Kaspa (KAS) mining contest will run starting on 2022-03-02 10:00 UTC until 2022-03-12 10:00 UTC, with the Top 20 miners by daily average KAS hashrate at f2pool going to receive rewards in proportion to their hashrate contribution from a total prize pool of 500,000 KAS coins. Apparently, the contest is favouring the bigger miners and not the small home miner, so a fairer distribution of the reward among miners could be used in order to attract all kinds of KAS miners… still it is nice to see that more of the crypto ecosystem is now slowly starting to adopt KAS support.

With the recent price increase for Kaspa (KAS) going past 1 US cent and keeping it there for a while there is increased interest in the project that is still generally kind of on the sidelines for many people into crypto. It is good now that GPU miners are making profit mining KAS and it is not only Kaspa, but some other new POW project are on the positive side regarding actually making profit after you pay for the electricity used. And Kaspa, although really good already in terms of speed has even more to offer with the upcoming upgrades, so if you still haven’t checked it out you might want to dig a bit deeper on blockDAG and the GHOSTDAG protocol and what KAS has in store for the near future as well.

– To read more about the addition of Kaspa on f2pool and their 500K KAS competition…

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