Check Your Profitability with the Siacoin Mining Calculator

14 Jul
2016

siacoin-mining-calculator

In the last few days Siacoin (SC) mining has been picking up with the release of the first public mining pools as prior that only solo mining was possible. The profitability for mining Siacoin and then selling immediately is quite good, so some miners have moved away from mining Ethereum and other altcoins to check out SIA. To get a better idea on what profit you can expect mining Siacoin you can use the simple Siacoin Mining Calculator, all you have to do is enter your hashrate, we would recommend using the Siacoin Go pool miner for AMD and Nvidia GPUs and below you can find some benchmarks for the expected hashrate from various AMD and Nvidia GPUs using the miner (non overclocked):

Siacoin Go Pool miner hashrate:
– GTX 1080 – 1945 MHS
– GTX 1070 – 1466 MHS
– GTX 980 Ti – 1220 MHS
– GTX 970 – 803 MHS
– GTX 950 – 385 MHS
– GTX 750 Ti – 301 MHS
– RX 480 – 872 MHS
– R9 280X – 849 MHS
– R9 290x – 1116 MHS

There are already two public mining pools available – Siamining (Pay Per Share) and Sia Nanopool (PPLNS) that you might want to check out. There are also a couple of different miners, but the best one for the moment seems to be the Siacoin Go pool miner that uses OpenCL, but works on both ADM and Nvidia GPUs. Do note that what makes Siacoin even more attractive not just to mine and sell your coins, but to keep them is that there is a decentralized storage service that actual already relies on these crypto tokens to operate.

– Visit the Siacoin Mining Calculator to check your expected mining profitability…

Windows Binaries for the cpuminer-opt 3.3.7 CPU Miner

14 Jul
2016

cpuminer-opt-3-3-7-windows

Here comes a cpuminer-opt Windows binary compiled from the latest (source) of the CPU miner with added optimizations for many algorithms using the AES-NI instruction set, though the miner also works on older SSE2 capable CPUs with lower performance. Up until recently the cpuminer-opt was available only for Linux users, but starting from version 3.3 there is also Windows support and we have compiled 64-bit binaries of the miner for Windows for the latest released version 3.3.7. The latest update brings some performance improvements such as the Lyra2 now being AES optimized and having +7% higher performance, a small increase of about 1% in most chained algorithms (X11, Quark, Lyra2v2, etc) and some fixes such as Lyra2v2 now being properly reported as AES optimized.

In the archive below you can find multiple executable files that are compiled for different CPU architectures that support AES-NI instructions, so you are welcome to try them to see what works best for you. If your processor does not support AES-NI (CPUS introduced 5 or more years ago), then you might want to use the cpuminer-sse2.exe binary. The default cpuminer.exe is compiled for Intel Westmere, the first Intel architecture that has support for the AES-NI instruction set and cpuminer-amd.exe is bdver1 which should work on all AMD processors with AES-NI support. If you have a more recent Intel Sandybridge, Ivybridge, Haswell or Broadwell-based processor you can try the respective binary to see if that will squeeze some extra performance, or you can compile directly on your PC with the native instruction set supported by your CPU.

– To download and try the cpuminer-opt 3.3.7 CPU miner 64-bit Windows binaries…

List of Top Largest Holding Bitcoin Wallet Addresses

13 Jul
2016

bitcoinrichlist

Do you wonder how much actually the top bagholders of Bitcoin have? Here is a fun fact – the top 100 wallet addresses hold over 3 Million BTC or with other words close to about 1/5 of all of the available coins. The USD equivalent of these Bitcoins is estimated at over 2 Billion USD, so definitely a very serious amount held by just 100 persons (or less actually). Moving over to the top 500 richest persons in Bitcoin we see tat the total amount of BTC they hold is close to about 5 Million or about 1/3 of all BTC estimated at about 3.3 Billion USD at the moment. So you can say that Bitcoin wealth distribution is similar to that of the fiat distribution, there are a couple of hundred people that are holding a serious amount of BTC and a lot more smaller owners of the rest.

– You can dig deeper into the richlist of Bitcoin wallet addresses here…

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