Genesis Mining Innosilicon A2 Scrypt Mining Farm

8 Dec
2014

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One of the things that miners are most concerned about when talking about cloud mining services is the fear that they may be a Ponzi scheme and that fear is fueled by the fact that many of these services are not very open and prefer to remain highly anonymous. Not all of the cloud mining services are like that however, there are some that want to be more open and not remain anonymous in order to make it clear to their users that they are serious and reliable. One such service is Genesis Mining, a service that was started just a few months ago, but has been developing constantly and is offering some unique and interesting new features in the industry.

A few days ago we have covered one of the latest features, the addition of Unobtanium (UNO) as a SHA-256 coin that you can choose to mine with Bitcoin cloud hashrate that you purchase. We have also covered the fact that the service has been out of stock of Scrypt cloud mining hashrate along with some concerns regarding ZeusMiner, one of the Scrypt hardware suppliers for the service. Genesis Mining however does not rely only on Zeus, who have announced that they are not going to be making new hardware a while ago, they do have other hardware suppliers like Innosilicon. As a proof we got a photo of Genesis Mining Scrypt mining farm of located in Iceland that is populated with a lot of Innoslicon A2 Terminator-based Scrypt ASIC miners and the company’s CTO in front of the mining hardware.

– For more information about the currently available services from Genesis Mining…

GPU Miners For the New Lyra2RE Algorithm Now Available

6 Dec
2014

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If you are getting ready for the upcoming VertCoin (VTC) fork from Scrypt-N to Lyra2RE algorithm that is planned to happen in about 10 days, then you might want to update your wallet. Since this is a hardfork you will need to upgrade your wallet to the new release 0.9.0.0 and also to be able to continue mining VTC you will have to get the new miners with Lyra2RE support. The good news is that we already have miners for both AMD and Nvidia GPUs available, even though they are early release candidates you cna try them out locally on testnet before the actual fork happens and pools will switch to Lyra2RE mining for VertCoin around 16th this month at block 208301. Below you can find links for the source code of the miners along with official windows binary releases available on GitHub, tpruvot has also added support for Lyra2RE to his ccMiner fork and we are probably going to be seeing more forks with Lyra2RE support getting added soon.

– To download and try the sgminer fork with Lyra2RE algorithm support for AMD GPUs…
– To download and try the ccMiner fork with Lyra2RE algorithm support for Nvidia GPUs…

Miner Control 1.5.5 Pack for AMD Radeon R9 280x

5 Dec
2014

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Just like we have recently prepared a Miner Control 1.5.5 Pack for Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti that can be used for other Nvidia-based GPUs as well it is also time to update the NiceHash Control Tool version for Radeon R9 280x to the new Miner Control. Do note that you can use this package with other AMD-based Radeon cards, however to ensure proper calculation of the actual profit and to use the most profitable algorithms for your miner you will have to edit the configuration settings for the supported algorithms.

So here it is, a Miner Control package with the latest sgminer 5.0.1 development version along with the OpenCL libraries from the AMD drivers 14.6 to ensure proper support for NeoScrypt if you are using newer drivers. The package is configured for a single Radeon R9 280X GPU with the settings for each algorithm based on a reference non-overclocked card and is configured to work NiceHash, TradeMyBit, Yaamp and Wafflepool, supporting only the more profitable X11, X13, X15, NIST5 and NeoScrypt algorithms.

To be ready to use the Radeon R9 280X package you just need to update the account settings for each pool to reflect your BTC payment address and only for TradeMyBit you would need to set your account worker id and your API key for the current prices (inside the configuration file). Do note that the default configuration that we have set is mining from time to time for the author of the software (Miner Control) as a donation alternative, but you can change that setting should you wish to.

– To download the Miner Control 1.5.5 AMD Radeon R9 280x ready to use pack for Windows…

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