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There is a new release of the official merit miner 0.5 that brings some improvements in terms of stability, usability and maybe even some extra performance in some cases (Nvidia GPU miner). The interface of the new miner is now color coded, so it is easier to read, it also seems to be more stable on mining rigs with slower CPUs, though we are still seeing occasional crashes (we have a solution for that below). Performance wise we are seeing a slight improvement on mining rigs with mid-range and high-end processors (Pentium and iX), on slower Celerons there is not much of a difference in terms of hashrate compared to previous versions. Currently the merit miner 0.5 is available only for Windows, and you also have the alternative in the form of zjazz Merit CUDA miner (closed source with 2% dev fee), also only available for Windows. Linux users can download and use the previous release 0.4 for now and since both miners are only for Nvidia GPUs, AMD GPU miners will need to wait a bit more for a miner to be available for them (currently in the works). Below is an example batch (BAT) file for using the miner:
:loop
start merit-minerd-0.5.exe --url stratum+tcp://mine.icemining.ca:3333 --address MAxoXFtCLBscARXLUoKhKnT96aL8BYNh2m --gpu 0 1 2 3 4 5 --cores 0
wmic process where name="merit-minerd-0.5.exe" CALL setpriority 16384
timeout /t 1800
taskkill /f /im merit-minerd-0.5.exe
goto loop
We have introduced the Merit (MRT) project a couple of days ago as a still under the radar interesting crypto currency that you can mine, but it seems now that the cat is finally out of the bag with an official announcement thread getting posted today on Bitcointalk. There is still time before a large number of users get in as the project is still invite only, so you need to get an invite in order to register and have your wallet unlocked and the good news is that we still have a few invites left to share. We have a limited number of invites available to give away, so please do not waste them, we are going to send invites as soon as possible on a first-come, first-served basis. Sending multiple invite requests will not get you accepted faster, in fact will have the opposite effect!
We have some more invites available for the invite-only Merit project that we have recently introduced, so if you are interested in joining it and trying it out feel free to apply using the link below. Merit (MRT) coins can currently be mined with Nvidia GPUs only, though AMD miner is in the works, there is already a third-parity Merit CUDA miner available that you can try as well. Merit has its own trading market for BTC with escrow that works fast and reliable, so you can trade what you mine already. Since it is invite only and invites need to be mined and it is not yet listed on any major exchange it is still kind of under the radar, but last month there has been significant growth with increased interest and more people learning about the project. We have a limited number of invites available to give away, so please do not waste them, we are going to send invites as soon as possible on a first-come, first-served basis. Sending multiple invite requests will not get you accepted faster, in fact will have the opposite effect!
– Click here to get your invite and register a wallet at Merit in order to be able to try it out…
Open and Closed Source PHI2 AMD GPU Miners Available
21, Aug 2018
If you are interested in mining LUXcoin (LUX) on AMD GPUs you might not be very happy that there are actually not that much miners available for the new PHI2 algorithm it currently uses, not to mention that Nvidia is dominating it performance wise. Still there is work being done to make AMD GPUs provide ood performance for PHI2 as well and there are currently two options available for you to try, one is closed source available only for Windows, but faster – the zjazz AMD miner, while the other one is an open source fork of sgminer with PHI2 support currently catching up in terms of performance – the sgminer-phi2-fancyIX with binary releases for Linux and Windows and source code.
The zjazz PHI2 AMD miner is really a new release in the form of a closed source miner with 1% developer fee and available only for Windows for the moment. The miner only supports newer AMD GPUs like the RX 400/500 series and VEGA and is currently the fastest performance wise. The open source release being developed by fancyIX as an sgminer fork is a little bit slower performance wise, but every new beta seems to be catching up pretty good in terms of performance improvement. There is no devfee and a Linux version is also available, though you also have the source code and can compile yourself as well, the miner also works on older AMD GPUs, though performance is not that good on them anyway.
– You can track the development of the opensource sgminer-phi2-fancyIX here on Bitcointalk…