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YentenCoin (YTN) – The Best CPU Coin or Not Yet At Least

18, May 2020

YentenCoin (YTN) is an interesting project that we have stumbled upon when looking around for CPU-only crypto coins and we were pleasantly surprised by it – a good presentation, ongoing development, large number of pools and listed on a number of smaller crypto exchanges. It all seems great, until you look at the trading volume – almost one, yet there seems to be a few hundred people mining the coin. The project describes itself as “the best CPU coin” that can be mined wit everyone that has a computer (CPU crypto coin) and that could’ve been true if it had larger user base and more trading and usage going on as the rest seems quite OK already. So we wanted to give our readers an idea of the project, so maybe it could get some more attention that it deserves.

YTH uses the YespowerR16 mining algorithm, meaning it is intended to be mined with processors only, no GPU mining here, sorry. A good choice of a mining software would be cpuminer-opt or SRBMiner-MULTI, though there are other options available as well. The YespowerR16 algorithm is Intel friendly, meaning that AMD Ryzen CPU owners might want to go for RandomX-based projects in order to maximize their processor’s potential instead. YentenCoin (YTN) even has its own simple GUI miner that might not be the best performing one, but sure seems easy enough for everyone to use.

The largest mining pool for YTN currently is CPU Pool that has some other small CPU-only crypto projects available for mining. You can also try Yenten Pool and the coin is also available on the Zergpool and Zpool where it can be autoexchanged to BTC if you do not wish to mine YTN coins directly. As for exchanges, a good starting point would be Graviex and Crex24, though as we have already mentioned there is currently not much trading going on for YentenCoin.

– To visit the official YentenCoin (YTN) crypto project website for more details…

CPU Mining MicroBitcoin (MBC) Using the Power2b Algorithm

7, May 2020

MicroBitcoin (MBC) has started as a hard fork from Bitcoin at block 525000 some time ago, but since its inception it has moved through some changes and it its current form it is interesting for everyone that has spare CPU resources for mining. MBC currently employs a CPU-only mining algorithm called power2b which is essentially a yespower modification which is replaces sha256 with blake2b. Power2b or yespower2b is a CPU friendly algorithm with no GPU miners available and no apparent FPGA or ASICs miners available. So while a single CPU might not earn a lot of MicroBitcoin per day it is still something useful to do instead of having your CPUs sitting idle, and if you want to exchange the bitcoin into dollars there are tools as the Bitcoin to paypal services which help a lot of this.

There are a number of miners available with support for the power2b (yespower2b) algorithm with two of them that seem the most reasonable to be used. The fastest one at the moment of all variants that we have tried is the latest SRBMiner-MULTI miner closed source miner that has a 0.85% development fee and the bit slower cpuminer-opt that is open source and has no development fee (supported by user donations). Feel free to try them both on your hardware and see what works better, though in all our tests SRBMiner-MULTI has proved to be faster even with the extra dev fee. It is worth noting that Intel CPUs do manage to perform significantly better compared to their AMD counterparts, in fact an Intel Core i7-6850K (6C-12T) processor manages to get about 1550 H/s while an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X (12C-24T) surprisingly manages to get us just about 1000 H/s. So AMD Ryzen CPU users might be willing to stay away from this algorithm and use their CPU mining resource for RandomX and RandomX variations where the Ryzen CPUs do manage to get significantly better results compared to most Intel processors.

There are a number of mining pools available with support for MicroBitcoin (MBC) mining, but the top ones you might give a try are HashPool, Rplant, Zergpool, Zpool and SkyPool. Zergpool and Zpool support the option to mine MBC and get paid in MBCg or to mine MBC and have the coins autoconverted and sent as their BTC value, the other pools are just for mining MBC coins. The preferred crypto exchange with support for MBC to trade coins is Stex that has two trading pairs – MBC/ETH and MBC/USDT.

– For more details about the MicroBitcoin (MBC) crypto project on the official website…

RandomX Mining On MacOS Using XMRig MacOS Build

16, Apr 2020

Apple’s MacOS computers aren’t really a popular choice as far as GPU mining is concerned, but for CPU mining they may still be usable… if you manage to find a miner with a MacOS binary build or if you manage to compile it yourself. So how about mining RandomX, a variation of the RandomX algorithm? You will quickly find out that neither of the popular RandomX CPU miners such as XMRig, SRBMiner-Multi and XMR-STAK-RX have a MacOS binary available and you may have some hard time compiling one yourself. Fortunately there is a solution available, at least for XMRig where a user has made a MacOS build of the latest XMRig 5.11.0 that may be exactly what you need if you have an Apple computer you ant to try CPU mining with.

– To download and try mining RandomX on using the latest XMRig 5.11.0 MacOS Build…


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