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Mining ZANO Using the ProgPoWZ Proof of Work Algorithm

22, Apr 2020

The Zano (ZANO) crypto project is relatively new, launched last year, as a hybrid PoW/PoS coin aimed at e-commerce related applications according to the developers with 1 ZANO block reward. The project executed a 1:1 Boolberry (BRR) coin swap, but what seems to be most interesting about it is the fact that it is the first coin to use a ProgPoWZ as a mining algorithm (based on ProgPoW) and as far as we know it is still the only one to use it. Even though it is one of the early ProgPoW-based projects out there it still does not seem to have attracted that much interest from users or have a very large user base. What attracted our attention is the fact that ZANO has just been added to Whattomine and you can track mining profitability easily there, though currently not in the first few in terms of profit.

ZANO can be CPU mined (pointless at the moment) or mined using AMD OpenCL or Nvidia CUDA GPUs and it is also available on MiningRigRentals where you can rent mining rigs offering ZANO hashrate or lease your own hashrate for others to mining ZANO. There is a Progminer fork (source) with support for ProgPowZ as well as official precompiled binaries for CPU, AMD GPUs and Nvidia GPUs and ProgPoWZ has also been supported for a while now by TT-Miner – a closed source miner for Nvidia GPUs with 1% developer fee. Performance wise TT-Miner does seem a bit faster compared to the Nvidia CUDA progminer, 23 MHS (TT-Miner) vs 21.5 MHS (progminer) on GTX 1080 Ti.

ZANO currently hovers a bit below the 500th place according to CoinMarketCap and is being traded on a few smaller exchanges with 4.4 Million USD market cap and almost 1% of that as daily volume at the moment. ZANO is available for mining on two mining pools with almost 95% of the hashrate focused on Lukypool and the remaining hashrate on Fairpool. If you are familiar with ProgPoW mining then mining ZANO should not be much different with its ProgPoWZ algorithm, and even though the two algorithms are not entirely the same you can expecte to get pretty much the same performance as hashrate on both algorithms with your mining GPUs. Just like with ProgPoW here there is also a fairer performance balance between AMD and Nvidia GPUs based on the level of the GPU you have available – lower-end video cards will be slower for both the red and the green camp, while higher-end will be faster – no unfair advantage due to different video memory specifics as the algorithm is actually more GPU intensive compared to Ethash for instance. The following to crypto exchanges offer support for ZANO trading at the moment: Stex, qTrade and Trade Ogre.

RavenCoin (RVN) Forking to New KAWPOW Algorithm on May 6th

16, Apr 2020

RavenCoin (RVN) will be switching mining algorithms from the currently used X16Rv2 to the new KAWPOW on May 6th 2020 at 18:00:00 UTC. The new algorithm called KAWPOW is a derivative of ProgPOW with parameters specific for Ravencoin, so performance wise you can expect similar hashrate as what ProgPow delivers. There is an official kawpowminer as well as some popular alternative miners supporting the new algorithm such as NBMiner and GMiner, TT-Miner is also testing support, though only in beta for now and other miners will most likely also add it soon. You can already try mining KAWPOW on RVN’s testnet and in just about 3 weeks from now KAWPOW will be on Ravencoin’s mainnet. In order to make sure you are ready to support the upcoming hardfork to the KAWPOW algorithm you must update to the latest Ravencoin v4.0.0 binaries that were just made available, have in mind that there could be additional fixes and updates released prior the fork, o make sure you stay up to date. The upcoming hardfork is supposed to drive away once more any FPGA/ASIC miners and provide fair mining conditions for GPU miners.

– To download the latest Ravencoin v4.0.0 binaries ready for the upcoming hardfork…

Mining Super Zero (SERO) Using the ProgPoW Algorithm on Nvidia GPUs

16, Mar 2020

The ProgPoW mining algorithm is still not widely used by crypto projects, some of you migh remember Bitcoin Interest (BCI) as the first to switch their PoW mining to ProgPoW, but now the project is pretty much dying a slow death. And while we are waiting to see when and if Ethereum (ETH) will finally switch from Ethash to ProgPoW as a mining algorithm, there is another project that has been using ProgPoW for a while now – Super Zero (SERO) that you may play around with if you want to see the current status of ProgPoW miners. There are of course some other projects using ProgPoW as well, but among them SERO is pretty much the most popular one. We remind you that ProgPoW or Programmatic Proof-of-Work was designed in a way that it utilizes graphics processors to their maximum in order to provide an equal level performance without favoring a specific GPU manufacturer or being able to actually provide much faster hashrate if implemented on ASICs. Some good places to trade the coin include Citex, Gateio and Hotbit.

Recently GMiner has added support for ProgPoW mining for SERO on Nvidia GPUs, however that was a bit problematic as it required the user to install the respective Nvidia CUDA Toolkit for the video drivers you have used. The latest GMiner 2.01 has addressed this problem by including the required runtime libraries needed for ProgPoW support, so things are easier and less problematic using GMiner 2.01 for mining SERO on Nvidia GPUs using the ProgPoW algo. GMiner however is not the only mining software to support ProgPoW, it is just the latest one to add support, prior to that you could mine using MBMiner and also prior to that with TT-Miner. In fact TT-Miner (Trade-Tec Miner) was one of the first to introduce ProgPoW support along with the controversial and now not available anymore Progminer software.

Now, the big question that remains is which mine of the three should you be using if you are mining SERO with the ProgPoW algorithm on Nvidia GPUs? Well, performance wise all of the miners are doing pretty much the same in our up to date tests done on GTX 1080 Ti… it seems that ProgPoW support is based on the same kernel in all of the miners and not much has been further optimized (maybe not much is possible) since last year. So how can you make the right choice if hashrate is the almost the same on all of the 3 available miners, you should simply look at other things, like the dev fee that these miners have. GMiner and NBMiner do come with 2% developer fee for ProgPoW mining while TT-Miner has only 1% dev fee for all of the supported algorithm, so it seems like the best choice for the moment.

– To download and try the latest TT-Miner 3.2.2 for SERO (Super Zero) ProgPoW mining…


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