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With mining profits diminishing lately it is always a good idea to be on a lookout for new and profitable coins to mine, regardless if you are using GPUs or ASIC miners. So you might want to give the Coin Claculators service a try and see if you can find something new and interesting. It tracks close to 300 crypto coins and can mining profitability calculators available for GPU miners with presets for the hashrate for the more common AMD and Nvidia GPUs as well as ASIC miners with presets for S9, L3+ and D3. You can of course also set your own hashrates for each algorithm, so you are not limited only to the presets available, though they help for a quick check. There is also a Dual Mining profit calculator, however it is a bit limited in functionality. There are also individual mining profitability calculators available for the supported coins for when you are not looking what is most profitable to be mined. There is also a mobile app available for Android on the Google play store (no iOS for now), so you might check it out as well if interested.
– For more information and to check out the Coin Calculators mining profitability service…
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WE have already covered the Bminer mining software, though lately it wasn’t so interesting with only Equihash and then Ethash support, even the dual-mining option did not help much as there are already moving to the ASIC miner domain. The latest version 9.0.0 of Bminer however adds something new and interesting, we are talking about experimental Bytom (BTM) mining support for Nvidia GPUs and the performance is really good when things work. We are seeing significantly better results with the new Bminer 9.0.0 compared to the already available NebuTech BTMiner On Nvidia GPU Mining Rigs… we are talking 50% faster performance on GTX 1080 Ti. The drawback here however is that since it is still experimental it may not work on all mining pools, but if you are interested in BTM and are mining it, then you should give it a go and see what improvement you can get. We are reminding you that Bminer is a closed source miner available for Linux and Windows and it has a 2% developer fee built in for Bythom (BTM) mining.
– For more details and to download the latest Bminer 9.0.0 with BTM mining support…
Bitcoin Gold’s New Equihash-BTG PoW Algorithm
13, Jun 2018
Bitmain’s Equihash ASIC miners Z9 mini as well as Innosilicon’s A9 ZMaster are apparently being shipped and are getting into the hands of some users already. This essentially makes mining Equihash with GPUs pointless and not very profitable, so ZCash (ZEC) is already in the territory of ASIC miners, but not all of the crypto coins that used Equihash are going to just move from GPU mining to ASIC miners. Bitcoin Gold (BTG) for example is going to switch to a new proof of work algorithm they call Equihash-BTG which is essentially a modified version of the Equihash algorithm that will not be ASIC mineable.
Equihash-BTG is essentially going to fork to a modified version of the Equihash PoW algorithm with parameters that will require significantly more memory thus making ASIC miners harder to be made for it and no so efficient. We have already seen that with ASIC miners having a higher memory requirement makes it not impossible, but more like much less efficient performance wise if we consider as an example the Bitmain Antminer E3 ASIC miner for Ethereum’s Ethash algorithm. So Bitcoin Gold (BTC) will not become ASIC resistant forever with its algorithm change, but it will be safe for quite some time at least as we all know when there is an incentive (a lot of money involved) nothing can stop the ASIC miners.
The change of the PoW algorithm used by Bitcoin Gold will become active with a Hard Fork, though there is still no information or a planned block number or date when the fork will happen. So for the moment BTG is still using Equihash and can be mined using ASIC miners designed for this algorithm, but when it switches to the new algorithm it will be GPU mineable again and hopefully it will be still worth mining it by that time.
– For more details about Bitcoin Gold’s new Equihash-BTG PoW algorithm…