The First Lyra2REv2 ASIC Miner is Available – DAYUN Zig Z1

15 Sep
2018

We can’t confirm for sure yet, but we are seeing a lot of reports coming from Asia about what seems to be the first Lyra2REv2 ASIC miner called DAYUN Zig Z1 getting released. A 28nm-based ASIC miner that is capable of producing 6.8 GHS Lyra2REv2 hashrate with about 1200 Watts of power usage (176.5 W/GH efficiency) is apparently already available for sale with a price range of about $8000-9000 USD. This would mean that profitability for GPU mining coins like Monacoin (MONA), Vertcoin (VTC), Verge (XVG) and others using the Lyra2REv2 algorithm will start dropping further making them unprofitable to be mined with GPUs really soon. It is interesting to note that none of these popular Lyra2REv2 coins is showing significant change up in their network hashrate lately, meaning that either these devices are just getting out of production now and on sale, or they are being produced just now…

Bitcoin Interest (BCI) and the New ProgPoW Mining Algorithm

15 Sep
2018

A few days ago the Bitcoin Interest (BCI) fork of Bitcoin has successfully switched to the ProgPoW algorithm, becoming the first crypto coin to actually utilize this new algorithm. ProgPoW is a proof-of-work algorithm designed to close the efficiency gap available to specialized ASICs. It utilizes almost all parts of commodity hardware (GPUs), and comes pre-tuned for the most common GPU hardware utilized in the Ethereum network. The design goal of ProgPoW is to have the algorithm’s requirements match what is available on commodity GPUs, so if the algorithm were to be implemented on a custom ASIC hardware there should be little opportunity for efficiency gains compared to a commodity GPU. This all means that in theory the ProgPoW algorithm will not see ASIC mining hardware, due to no opportunity to get much faster speeds compared to what a GPU is capable of delivering. This essentially means that ProgPoW should in theory be a really ASIC-resistant proof of work algorithm…

If you are interested in more details you can check the official BCI website, and miners would most likely be interested in the mining software, pools and a Bitcoin Interest mining calculator in order to see what is the current mining profitability of your GPU rigs. Here you can also find a BCI Block Explorer to see how are things progressing with the Bitcoin Interest blockchain. You might also be interested in the Bitcoin Interest GitHub repository for the official wallets, miners and so on.

BCI ProgPoW Miners:
– Nvdia ProgPoW miner for Windows
– AMD ProgPoW miner for Windows
– ProgPoW miners for Linux

BCI Mining Pools:
– LuckyPool
– AltPool
– Suprnova
– CoinBlockers
– ProgPool
– NibiruPool
– BasementPool

BCI Exchanges:
– HitBTC
– Stex

Updated z-enemy 1.20 Miner With Better Performance and BCD Support

14 Sep
2018

Another quick update for the z-enemy 1.20 Nvidia GPU miner that adds more performance improvements of about 5-10% for various algorithms that the software supports. The new version also brings support for a new algorithm and more specifically BCD used by Bitcoin Diamond that has been generating a lot of attention lately, so you might want to check it out. Other popular miners are also introducing support for BCD, so there is demand and a good profit to be made apparently, and the z-enemy apparently is 20-30% faster than than the previously available solutions.

The latest z-enemy version 1.20 is available for CUDA 9.1 and 9.2 for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows versions as well as CUDA 9.0, CUDA 9.1 an CUDA 9.2 binaries for Linux (HiveOS, PiMP OS, EthOS & Ubuntu), the 32-bit version does seem to be faster in some of the algorithms. Do note that for maximum performance it is recommended to have the latest drivers installed (ver. 398+). We remind you that z-enemy is a closed source miner available only as a binary release and it contains a 1% developer fee built-in to support further software development.

Windows Downloads:
– Download z-enemy 1.20 Windows CUDA 9.1 32-bit
– Download z-enemy 1.20 Windows CUDA 9.1 64-bit
– Download z-enemy 1.20 Windows CUDA 9.2 32-bit
– Download z-enemy 1.20 Windows CUDA 9.2 64-bit

Linux Download (HiveOS, PiMP OS, EthOS & Ubuntu):
– Download z-enemy 1.20 Linux CUDA 9.0
– Download z-enemy 1.20 Linux CUDA 9.1
– Download z-enemy 1.20 Linux CUDA 9.2

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