New Pools for Mining Ethereum (ETH) Now Available

27 Apr
2016

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Ethereum (ETH) has been experiencing some serious price fluctuations dropping significantly below its maximum top from a while ago, but still the network is strong and the number of miners is increasing. The same goes for mining pools with some new pools for mining Ethereum becoming available, so there is now more options available for you and the new pools are running promotions to attract more miners. You can find some more details about two of the new pools along a list of other Ethereum mining pools that have been available for longer time. Now that the latest miner software for Ethereum is getting failover support setting a backup pool or more than one might be a good idea as well, though the big mining pools rarely have issues it cans till happen.

The first pool you might wan to check out is PooLTo.Be Ethereum Pool. Still not a large number of miners and a lot of hashrate, but it supports ETH Stratum proxy as well as regular getwork mining and there is still zero pool fee for some time. The minimum payout threshold is 0.2 Ether and payouts run every 2 hours and the pool has already found a couple of blocks.

The other more recent launch in the fork of a dedicated Ethereum mining pools that you might want to check out is DonkeyPool. The pool apparently only supports getwork for the moment and it has found a few blocks already, though the number of miners and the hashrate is not that big yet. The pool will run without a mining fee until June 15th, 2016, then the fee will be 0.5%. The payouts are made once a day if a minimum 1 ETH balance is available.

List of other Ethereum (ETH) mining pools:
– ethpool.org
– ethermine.org
– eth.nanopool.org
– dwarfpool.com/eth
– www2.coinmine.pl/eth/
– eth.suprnova.cc
– www.coinotron.com
– eth.pp.ua
– ethereumpool.co
– weipool.org
– ethpool.utocat.com
– ethereum.cryptopool.online
– ethereum.miningpoolhub.com

Web-based Monitoring for Windows Ethereum Mining Rigs

25 Apr
2016

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There are many tools for Linux including some specialized Linux-based mining distributions for monitoring different GPU mining rigs, but when talking about Windows-based mining rigs things are usually very different. With Windows mining rigs most people either rely on Team Viewer or another method of remotely connecting to the computer and monitoring directly the console window of the miner the PC is currently running. So here comes something useful for Windows-based Ethereum mining rigs that can save you the trouble of using remote connections all the time just to check the status of a mining rig – the Ethereum Windows monitoring tool. It is actually a set of tools and scripts that make it possible to open just a single webpage and see the status of your Ethereum mining rig in a short and useful way along with the mining hardware status such as operating temperatures, load, clocks and fan speed. The monitoring tool is designed to work with the standard ethminer, but it might be adaptable to other miners as well, though that might not be an easy task for novice users. The tool is still currently in an early version and might not be completely free of bugs and might not be that user friendly for everyone, but it is an interesting thing to try if you are mining Ethereum on Windows GPU mining rigs.

– For more details, to download and to try out the Ethereum Windows monitoring tool…

New Hodlminer AES-NI Wolf0 Optimized Miner Windows Binaries

23 Apr
2016

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We have compiled a new range of windows binaries of the hodlminer fork optimized by Wolf0 (source) with support for Intel AES New Instruction set (AES-NI). This is the faster CPU miner for mining HOdlcoin (HODL) than the standard release for processors without AES-NI support. Do note that the binaries below are available only for 64-bit Windows and will work only on compatible AMD or Intel processors with AES instruction support, for other processors you should stick with the standard hodlminer that is slower, but should work on much wider range of CPUs.

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If you are not sure if your CPU does have support for AES-NI and what it the architecture it is based on you can easily check with the help of the free tool CPU-Z. Intel’s CPUs with AES-NI support start from the first models based on the Westmere microarchitecture that was introduced in early 2010 while AMD’s processors that do come with AES support start with the AMD Bulldozer Family 15h introduced in late 2011. This means that if you have a CPU later than that it will most likely have support AES-NI, though there is a catch, not all lower-end CPUs come with Advanced Encryption Standard Instruction Set supported. Intel has a list of all CPU’s that have support for AES-NI available here, so you can also use that to see if your CPU is in the list.

In the archive below with the different binaries there are number of executable files that have the type of michroarchitecture they are compiled for, so you just need to rename them to hodlminer.exe and try to run them depending on the type of CPU you have. The binaries with bdver1, bdver2 and bdver3 are for AMD CPUs with Bulldozer or later michroarchitecture while the others are for Intel starting with Westmere, then Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge and then Haswell and Broadwell. The Silvermont michroarchitecture is for specific set of low-power Atom, Celeron and Pentium branded processors used in systems on a chip (SoCs) made by Intel that aslo have support for AES-NI. If these binaries do no work on your processor, the standard hodlminer release should still be able to provide you with the ability to mine HOdlcoin (HODL).

– To download and try the optimized hodlminer-wolf AES-Ni CPU miner for Windows…

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