Vanillacoin (VNL) Sgminer Fork for WhirlpoolX Algorithm

21 Feb
2015

sgminer-5-1-0-whirlpoolx

Vanillacoin (VNL) is not a new altcoin, it has been available for a few months already, but up until recently it was only a CPU coin and now there is an sgminer 5.1.0 fork with support for the WhirlpoolX algorithm that the coin uses for mining on AMD OpenCL GPUs. You can still CPU mine the coin, but with the kind of performance that the GPU miner offers it will be a bit pointless as an Intel Core i7-5820K 6-core processor gets you around 4.4 MHS while with the GPU miner on a Radeon R9 280X you can expect to get something like 75 MHS with the default setup. Do note that the coin still does not have an exchange where it is traded, but soon after the release of the AMD GPU miner MiningRigRentals has added support for the WhirlpoolX algorithm and there are currently 6 mining rigs available for rent, BetaRigs also did that but still nobody selling hashrate there. There are currently two official pools available with no need for registration, but be aware that if you mine with more than 10% of the pool combined hashrate then 90% of your earnings will be sent to the Vanillacoin faucet. You can download and try the GPU miner for Vanillacoin’s WhirlpoolX algorithm from the link below.

– To download and try the sgminer fork for AMD GPU mining WhirlpoolX algorithm coins…

New ccMiner Fork for Nvidia GPU Mining Pluck Algorithm Coins

20 Feb
2015

ccminer-djm-pluck

The Supcoin (SUP) is a new altcoin that has just recently launched as a CPU only coin using a new algorithm called PLUCK, but it has quickly gotten a ccMiner fork from djm34 (source) adding support for GPU mining on Nvidia-based GPUs. The ccMiner fork with Pluck support for mining Supcoin (SUP) is available for download below, it is compiled for Compute 3.0 or newer Nvidia-based graphics cards, so it will not work on older. We have taken the ccMiner for a quick test to tee what hashrate you can expect to get from it and compare it to what the Pluck CPU miner from Wolf0 currently provides in terms of hashrate. There is still no AMD GPU miner available, but most likely we are going to soon seen one available considering that the algorithm was quickly ported on Nvidia it is apparently not very GPU resistant. The results cited below are for the hardware (CPU and GPU) running at their stock frequencies with no additional user overclock, do note that only the GTX 960 is an ASUS Strix card that is factory overclocked.

CPU miner hashrate:

AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition (6-core) – 0.78 KH/s
Intel Core i7-5820K Processor (6-core with HT) – 1.2 KH/s


Nvidia GPU miner hashrate:

Nvidia GTX 750 Ti – 1.89 KH/s (with throughput 3)
Nvidia GTX 960 – 3.38 KH/s (with throughput 3)
Nvidia GTX 980 – 5.25 KH/s (with throughput 3.5)

– To download and try the djm34 ccMiner fork for Nvidia GPU mining Pluck algorithm coins…

Supcoin (SUP) Pluck based Cryptocoin

20 Feb
2015

supcoin-logo

Supcoin (SUP) is a new alternative crypto currency that was just launched using a new algorithm called Pluck that is SHA256-based with more load on the memory and was supposed to initially be mined with CPU only, but we saw a very quick release of a ccMiner fork that added GPU mining support for Nvidia from djm34. The coin has a relatively small pre-mine that will mostly go for bounties and already has a few pools available for mining, though exchanges are not yet available. It is an interesting new project that you might want to check out and there is definitely an interest since you can already even rent hashrate from MiningRigRentals with the new Pluck algorithm. Betarigs has also apparently added the new algorithm, but there are no mining rigs available to rent there yet. So it is a project that you might want to check out as it might turn out to be an interesting alternative crypto coin.

Website
– http://supcoin.com/

Block Explorer / Crawler
Not yet available.

SPECIFICATIONS

  • Pluck Algorithm
  • PoW-only coin
  • 5 minute block time
  • ~580000 SUP coins total
  • 10 Coins per block
  • Block reward halves every 100 days, starting at 10 coins per block
  • Reasonably small premine of 100 blocks worth, with bounties

DOWNLOADS
– Windows
– Linux
– Mac

Source Code
– at GitHub

Miners
– Pluck CPU miner (source)
– Pluck Nvidia GPU miner (source)
– Pluck AMD GPU miner

POOLS
– https://sup.coin-miners.info/
– http://sup.hardcoreminers.com/
– https://sup.rnova.cc/

EXCHANGES
– Bittrex

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