LiteDoge (LDOGE) Scrypt-based alternative cryptocoin

1 Jun
2015

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LiteDoge (LDOGE) is a lite version of DogeCoin with zero premine. The coins is a hybrid PoW + PoS one with a short mining period that is now over moving to proof of stake having a variable reward that is constantly dropping over time. The coin is trying to follow in the successful footsteps of the original DOGE coin, but will it manage to do so…

Website:
– http://www.litedoge.org/

Block Explorer:
– https://www.blockexperts.com/ldoge

Coin Specifications

  • Scrypt Algorithm PoW + PoS
  • PoS 2.0 like Blackcoin, PoW ended at block 8,000
  • Variable PoS block reward, currently 16,000 going down to 6000 LDOGE
  • Max Coins: approximately 35 billion
  • Block Time: 64 Seconds
  • Min age: 8 hours
  • Maturity: 510 blocks
  • Difficulty Retarget: every block

Wallet:
– Windows
– Mac OS

Source Code:
– at BitBucket

Ports:
– RPC Port: 17015
– P2P Port: 17014

Mining Pools:
No pools available, the coin is now PoS only.

Coin Exchanges:
– Yobit

Crypto Mining Performance of the New Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti

1 Jun
2015

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Nvidia has just announced their new GeForce GTX 980 Ti GPU, a model that should take the space in between GTX 980 and the Titan X both in terms of performance and in terms of price. The GTX 980 Ti is essentially a slightly stripped down version of the Titan X GPU with slightly less CUDA cores that are 2816 here and with a bit less TMUs – 176 units. The other significant difference in comparison with the Titan X is that the GTX 980 Ti comes with 6GB of video memory instead of 12 GB. The recommended end user price of the new GTX 980 Ti GPUs is $649 USD so it is significantly better priced as compared to the Titan X and considering that it should be showing a very similar performance it sounds like an interesting product not only for gaming, but for crypto mining as well.

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So we are taking for a spin a single Nvidia GTX 980 Ti to compare it to the the GTX 980 and the Titan X GPUs using ccMiner 1.5.45 SP-MOD. Note that we are not using the latest version of ccMiner in order to compare the results in terms of hashrate on the other GPUs that we ran a bit ago. We’ve compared using the latest ccMiner as well and there is notable performance increase in some algorithms such as Quark, but for most others there is no significant difference. Just as a reference the GTX 980 Ti using the latest ccMiner 1.5.51 SP-MOD manages to provide a 23230 KHS hashrate for mining Quark, but as we’ve said there is not much of a difference with other algorithms. Other than that as you can see from the results the GTX 980 Ti GPU is very close in terms of performance as compared to the Titan X and much faster than the GTX 980. So if you are looking for a new high-end Nvidia GPU for gaming and crypto mining when not using your PC, then the GTX 980 Ti does seem like a great choice…

Updated Windows Binary of the ccMiner 1.5.51-git Fork by SP for Maxwell

29 May
2015

ccminer-1-5-51-sp-mod

New update in the form of a Windows binary compiled from the latest source code of ccMiner 1.5.51-git SP-MOD fork of the Nvidia GPU miner optimized for the latest Maxwell-based video cards by SP (source). This version includes numerous fixes and some performance improvements in Groestl and Quark as well as faster AES. The SP-MOD fork of ccMiner is designed for Nvidia Maxwell GPUs such as the already available GTX 750, 750 Ti as well as the newer GTX 960, GTX 970 and GTX 980. The Windows binary release we have made available here is compiled with support for Compute 5.0 and Compute 5.2 GPUs or with other words only for Maxwell-based cards with CUDA 6.5 and VS2013.

– To download the latest ccMiner for Maxwell version 1.5.51-git by SP for Windows OS…

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