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Great start of the new 2017 for Bitcoin (BTC). The crypto currency is now trading at over $1000 USD per coin and today also marks the 8th year since the first block with 50 BTC was generated. That was the genesis block of Bitcoin or with other words the first ever block generated for the BTC blockchain. Time sure does fly fast and Bitcoin has been doing very well lately with predictions raging from $2000 USD exchange rate by the end of this year to much more, especially if the economic situation all around the world does not improve significantly in a short period of time. So happy birthday Bitcoin and may be the force be with you or something else along those lines.
– For more details about the Genesis Block of Bitcoin on a block explorer…
- Published in: General Info
- Related tags: Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin birthday, Bitcoin genesis, Bitcoin genesis block, BTC, BTC birthday, BTC genesis, BTC genesis block
Monero (XMR) has been rising up lately in terms of price and user interest and lately it even started rivaling the total market capitalization of Litecoin (LTC) as well as Ripple’s (XRP). In fact XMR, LTC and XRP and currently pretty close in terms of market capitalization and are seriously fighting for the 3rd place among the top crypto currencies in terms of market cap. With Ripple not mineable it is up to Litecoin and Monero to fight for the miners’ interest and Monero is doing much better lately when compared to Litecoin (ASIC mineable). Even with the availability of the new Innosilicon A4 ASICs being available for a while the interest in mining Litecoin hasn’t picked up much.
Monero (XMR) is gaining more interest however and people are getting back to mining it and trading it even more with new big exchanges such as Kraken adding XMR trading pairs as a result of the huge boom in the exchange rate of the altcoin. If you are interested in mining Monero and it is a coin you are still not very familiar with, then you can check a website dedicated for benchmarks with different hardware and miners to see what works best and what you can expect from your hardware. Also feel free to submit your own benchmark results as well…
– To take a look at the website with GPU & CPU Benchmarks for Monero Mining…
- Published in: Crypto Coins
- Related tags: monero benchmarks, monero hashrate, Monero mining, xmr benchmarks, xmr hashrate, xmr mining
Just in time for Christmas a new NiceHash EQM 1.0.4a miner is available with about 10-15% speed boost for owners of Nvidia GPUs mining Zcash (ZEC). Like previous versions of the EQM miner it will only work for selling your hashrate on NiceHash, so not able to mine on another pool with it. The latest speed bump is intended for SM52 and SM61 capable Nvidia GPUs (that means only 9xx and 10xx cards), so no speedups for owners for first gen Maxwell GTX 750 (Ti) unfortunately. Currently only a Windows version is available. We are seeing a nice bump from about 320 H/s with the previous version to a little over 360 H/s on a stock GTX 1070 GPU with the 1.0.4a, overclocking brings even more hashrate.
– For more information and to download the NiceHash EQM Zcash Nvidia Optimized Miner…
- Published in: Mining Software
- Related tags: Claymore Zcash miner, EQM, Nicehash, NiceHash EQM miner, Nvidia Zcash miner, Nvidia ZEC miner, Silentarmy, Silentarmy AMD, Silentarmy NVidia, Windows Zcash miner, Windows ZEC miner, Zcash GPU miner, ZEC GPU miner