The Bitcoin Network Hashrate Has Passed 1 Exahash

25 Jan
2016

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The total network hashrate of the Bitcoin network has reached another major milestone, passing over 1 Exahash per second or 1000 Petahashes per second peaking at 1,008,642,232 GHS according to the data from Blockchain.info. Interestingly enough the total network hashrate at the previous difficulty adjustment on January 13th was just about 811 Petahashes and back in November last year the hashrate was just about 500 Petahashes per second or half than what it is now. This is really serious and fast growth of the total network hashrate that Bitcoin is experiencing doubling in just about two months. So what comes next after Exahashes per second, can you guess when the network hashrate will get to Zettabytes or Yottabytes… maybe we are going to see these in the near future if it continues to grow at such fast pace.

New ccMiner Fork from DJM34 With Faster NeoScrypt

24 Jan
2016

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After a crowdfunding effort to accumulate 2.5 BTC from users DJM34 has released a faster open source NeoScrypt kernel (source). Apart from the NeoScrypt the rest is based on the latest ccMiner form from SP version 1.5.78 that uses CUDA 7.5, so it is pretty much useful only if you are mining NeoScrypt-based altcoin. We have compiled a Windows 32-bit binary of the new ccminer djm34 neoscrypt fork with faster NeoScrypt using VS2013 and CUDA 7.5 as well as CUDA 6.5 (two versions available), compatible only with Nvidia Maxwell GPUs (Compute 5.0 and 5.2). Below we have compared the Neoscrypt performance using GTX 970 of this new release with the ccMiner 1.5.74 from SP with CUDA 6.5 and ccMiner 1.5.78 from sp with CUDA 7.5 to see what is the performance gain. Note that the initial ccMiner releases from SP with CUDA 7.5 had brought a significant drop in performance in the NeoScrypt algorithm, so it was best to use 1.5.74 with CUDA 6.5 for NeoScrypt.

NeoScrypt GTX 970 hashrate performance:
– ccMiner 1.5.74 CUDA 6.5 SPMOD fork: 525 KHS
– ccMiner 1.5.78 CUDA 7.5 SPMOD fork: 275 KHS
– ccMiner djm34 neoscrypt 6.5 from djm34: 632 KHS
– ccMiner djm34 neoscrypt 7.5 from djm34: 611 KHS

Note that the comparison with 1.5.78 is with an earlier release that did not include the latest NeoScrypt kernel from djm34, because it seems that SP has integrated it in the latest GitHub code after the code has been released by djm34.

– To download the new ccMiner for Maxwell with faster NeosCrypt by DJM34 for Windows OS…

Ethereum on the Rise, List of Useful Resources

24 Jan
2016

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In the last few days Ethereum (ETH) has been on the rise even though the price of Bitcoin has dropped below $400 USD, we’ve seen ETH rise over $2 USD and surpassing Litecoin, fighting for the second place with Ripple, right after Bitcoin in terms of Market Capitalization. It is still not very clear what is the reason of the peak we are seeing, but if you haven’t been paying enough attention to Ethereum, then now you might want to get up to speed. Below is a list of updated resources to get you started if Ethereum is still a new altcoin for you…

Ethereum Mining:
– Quick Guide on How to Mine Ethereum on Windows…
– Quick Guide on Solo GPU Mining Ethereum on Windows…
– Ethereum ETH mining on Ethpool with a Stratum-enabled qtminer…
– Getting Started with Ethereum Using cpp-ethereum…
– List of the major Ethereoum Ether coin mining pools…

Ethereum Additional Information:
– Where You Can Buy and Trade Ethereum’s Ether (ETH) Coins…
– Track Ethereum (ETH) Prices with Ethereum Wisdom…
– Blockchain Explorers for the Ethereum Network…
– How to Backup Your Ethereum Wallet and the Blockchain…

Ethereum Extra Software:
– Download the latest official Ethereum GUI wallet…
– AlethOne desktop GUI and client for mining ETH…
– Ethereum Solo Mining Proxy for larger mining farms…

Other Ethereum resources:
– Get started with Ethereum cloud mining from Genesis Mining…
– Ethereum Faucet giving away free ETH coins…
– Another Ethereum Faucet giving away free ETH coins…
– Ethereum Mining Profitability Calculator…

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