New sgminer fork With X11 Evo Algorithm Support

29 May
2016

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There is now an sgminer fork for GPU mining Revolvercoin (XRE) that uses a new X11 Evo algorithm (source) for AMD GPUs. The new X11 Evo algorithm comes as a solution to the already available ASIC miners for the standard X11 algorithm, meaning that X11 Evo is only CPU and GPU mineable for the moment, though CPU mining with a GPU miner available is not very reasonable. The first altcoin to use the new X11 Evo algorithm is Revolvercoin (XRE). The hashrate you can expect to get from the X11 Evo algorithm is a few times lower than what the same AMD GPU could be capable of providing with the regular X11 algorithm, so something like 2-3 MHS is to be expected at the moment depending on your GPU.

– To download the Windows binary of the sgminer X11 Evo fork for Revolvercoin (XRE) GPU mining…

Updated ccMiner 1.8-dev fork by tpruvot With SM 6.0 and CUDA 8.0

28 May
2016

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Here comes another interesting update of ccMiner from tpruvot with a new Windows binary of the latest ccMiner 1.8-dev (source) that comes with Compute 6 (SM 6.0) and CUDA 8.0 support in time for the availability of the new Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070 GPUs. The release below includes two versions of ccMiner, one is 32-bit binary for Windows that is compiled with CUDA 8.0 and with support for Compute 2.0 or newer Nvidia GPUs, and another that is 64-bit Windows binary compiled with CUDA 8.0 for Compute 5.0 or newer Nvidia GPUs. In order to use the new ccMiner with CUDA 8.0 you will have to use video drivers 362 or newer that do come with support for CUDA 8.0, so if you have not updated yet you might want to do so now. We have not done any tests to see if the new CUDA 8.0 will bring better performance or not as we still don’t have access to the new Nvidia Pascal GPUs, but as soon manage to get our hands on the new hardware we are going to be doing some testing of GTX 1080 and 1070 with ccMiner.

– To download the latest ccMiner version 1.8-dev by tpruvot for GTX 1080 and 1070 for Windows OS…

Bitcoin Exchange Rate Going Up, Targeting $500+ USD

28 May
2016

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The Bitcoin exchange rate has jumped significantly going all the way up to $500 USD on many EU and US-based exchanges and skyrocketing even higher on some Asian exchanges. The jump seems to be caused mostly the Chinese BTC markets driving the price up as as the national currency apparently suffers another devaluation and people are moving to investing their money in Bitcoins. The side effect from this jump in BTC exchange rate however is the drop in price for many altcoins that might suffer loosing some of their value, but it might be just temporary. This creates a good opportunity for profiting by doing some arbitrage trading between different exchanges and buying the right altcoins at the right price, it is risky, but might result in a good profit later on. Another thing that might be influencing the recent uptrend in the BTC price on exchanges is the upcoming block reward halving that should hit in about a month and a half around the start on July. So be smart and do trades carefully during this turbulent moment…

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