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It is nice to have easy to use services like NiceHash or Cudo Miner, but we kind of miss the good old days days of Miner Control before everything became overcomplicated to make it simple and easy for novice miners and not easy at all for more advanced users. A bit of fresh air is the NPlusMiner software that really bring us back a blast from the past as a user interface and functionality, but is up to date in terms of mining software and functionality. NPlusMiner is a nice and functional graphical user interface with a powerful backend that monitors various mining pools in real-time in order to find the most profitable pool and algorithm to mine at the moment. It supports CPU mining as well as AMD and Nvidia GPUs and of course uses the most popular miner software that you would normally use for mining manually on a particular pool and for a particular algorithm.
The software works surprisingly well and is easy to be sued by both novice and more advanced users, a small download that is easy and quick to setup based on your available mining hardware. It downloads required miners quickly and automatically, then does a benchmark and automatically switches to what is most profitable for your hardware. It supports a number of popular mining pools and is updated quite often to reflect changes and improvements as well as fixes to help you make better profit. The mining algorithm and pool switching is done quite well and is advanced, so that the software is not mislead easily by short spikes in profitability. The NPlusMiner software also has some useful advanced features for users that want to have more control over the mining process. There is a small developer fee for using the software – 8 minutes per day fee (0.5%), that can be changed in the config (Minimum is 3).
– For more information and to try out the NPlusMiner software solution for maximizing mining profit…
The latest GMiner 2.07 Nvidia and AMD GPU miner continues improving the Cuckatoo32 performance with the latest update capable of delivering up to +20% performance boost depending on the GPU and OC mode used according to the developer. Definitely a nice improvement worth an updating if you are mining anything that uses the Cuckatoo32 algo, but also have in mind that the default developer fee for the Cuckatoo32 algorithm is set at 3% and is not the standard 2% as for most other algorithms supported by GMiner.
The GMiner miner software was originally only an Nvidia GPU miner, although some algorithms are already supported on AMD GPUs as well. Do note that GMiner is a closed source miner for Nvidia and AMD GPUs with binaries available for both Windows and Linux, there is a 2% developer fee built-in the software.
– To download and try the latest release of the Gminer v2.07 Nvidia and AMD GPU miner…
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Pascal Coin (PASC) is not a new crypto project, it has been around for a while already and is getting very close to its second block reward halving (it is halving every 2 years, not four like Bitcoin). You can say that PASC had its prime in early 2018 and lately it seems to be loosing traction, even though the project itself has some really good advantages and features available. We also haven’t been following it actively for more than a year already, but the upcoming second halving of the block reward – initially 100 coins, currently 50 coins (20% goes for development, so 40 to miners) and going down in half to 25 PASC coins is what reminded us about the project. The next halving is going to happen in about a week from now starting at block number 420480 the block reward will become 25 PASC coins, so we have decided to check the situation with mining at the moment.
There are currently two different miners available for Pascal Coin (PASC) and the RandomHash Proof of Work algorithm that it uses – rhminer and nanominer. We have tested both miners on AMD and Intel platform and below you can find the results we got, do note that rhminer’s built-in donation is 1% while nanominer has a 5% fixed fee for RandomHash2 mining used by PASC. Do note that Pascal Coin is mineable only on CPUs, there are currently no GPU miners available for that algorithm and coin as far as we are aware.
rhminer 2.3 version 3:
AMD Ryzen 3900X (12C-24T) – 410 KH/s
Intel Core i7 6850K (6C-12T) – 163 KH/snanominer v1.8.2:
AMD Ryzen 3900X (12C-24T) – 363 KH/s
Intel Core i7 6850K (6C-12T) – 110 KH/s
The AMD platform has double the CPU cores, so it is not surprising that it performs faster, but it also seems that the RandomHash algorithm that Pascal Coin (PASC) uses does manage to perform a bit better on the latest generation of AMD Ryzen CPUs. Out of the two miners the nanominer is apparently not as well optimized as rhminer and the 4 percent extra dev fee it has makes the rhminer as the preferred choice for sure. Nanominer also performs worse on Intel as compared to AMD based on the performance we see in our comparison, but still rhminer is giving roughly 50 KH/s extra performance on both platforms and has significantly lower dev fee. You can trade any mined Pascal (PASC) coins on TOKOK and qTrade crypto exchanges.