The Latest ccMiner 1.4.9 Fork by tpruvot With API, Config and GPU Monitoring

13 Nov
2014

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The ccMiner for Nvidia GPU mining for crypto coins is finally getting more like cgminer for AMD in terms of supported features thanks to developers like tpruvot. The more recent versions including the latest 1.4.9 of his ccMiner fork (source) have introduced features such as the ability to control the intensity of the GPU load, basic API functionality to get stats available to other software, support for JSON-based config file and now also nvapi/nvml support for GPU monitoring and possibly control. We have compiled a Windows binary from the latest source since there is still no official one released with the latest features and you can find a link to download it below. The binary is compiled with VS2013 and CUDA 6.5, however it includes support for Compute 3.0, Compute 3.5, Compute 5.0 and Compute 5.2 GPUs and not only for the new Maxwell-based cards. The latest version also does include some of the optimizations from SP’s ccMiner fork optimized for Maxwell, so you can expect to get similar performance on Maxwell cards such as GTX 750 Ti or GTX 970/980 with this release from tpruvot. The only thing that we still haven’t figured out is how to make GPU monitoring work as we are getting an error message saying that it i not available.

Update: There is now an official release of 1.4.9 available with some additional fixes and changes in the API, so you can download it directly from tpruvot’s Github repository, link below is updated to point to it.

– To download the latest ccMiner version 1.4.9 by tpruvot for Windows OS (CUDA 6.5)…

Bitcoin Billionaire, a Bitcoin Mining Themed Free Game for iOS

13 Nov
2014

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Here is something interesting for you to get a bit of rest from the real world Bitcoin mining with a game for iPhone and iPad called Bitcoin Billionaire that has a virtual Bitcoin mining operation. The game is free and fun, a real time waster that is highly addictive, so be very careful with it. It has a retro style game graphics that could appeal to some of you that remember the time when all games looked like that, but that fact does not hurt the game at all. The goal of the game is to become a Bitcoin Billionaire by mining for Bitcoins and you do that by tapping on the screen of your mobile device, the more you earn the more options you have to earn even more – you can upgrade your miner for higher performance, do investments that bring you extra profit and so on. Simple concept that is no entirely relevant to actual Bitcoin mining, but instead taking a fun and addictive tap, tap, tap on your screen implementation with the ultimate goal of getting from geeky Bitcoin miner to geeky Bitcoin miner who owns a private island and is a Bitcoin Billionaire.

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As we’ve said the game is free, though you can still buy in-game resources with real money inside it when your fingers start hurting from too many taps on the screen mining Bitcoins. Since the game is pretty addictive, though not overly realistic, we are going to warn you again to be careful with it, unless you have a lot of spare time you need to fill with something. Some of us already spent quite some time yesterday just trying out the game so that we can share some personal feedback from it, it can be quite addictive even for people that usually do not play mobile games on their smartphone or tablet devices. But then again it was fun thing checking it out and mining a few Gb of Bitcoins in our virtual tapping BTC mine with Bitcoin Billionaire.

– For more information about the free game Bitcoin Billionaire for Apple iOS mobile devices…

ZeusMiner Now Also Offering AntMiner C1 Water Cooled ASICs

13 Nov
2014

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ZeusMiner is now also selling the BitMain AntMiner C1 water cooled Bitcoin ASIC miner after a while ago the company has partnered with RockMiner to also sell their Bitcoin ASIC miners. Zeus is selling the full kit of the AntMiner C1 miners that includes the water cooling kit, so it seems that they are offering the Batch 2 from Bitmain announced a few days ago. The price from ZeusMiner however is higher than if you order directly from Bitmaintech (the manufacturer), but we do have some still unused coupon codes for Zeus that you can find listed below. Do note these are on a fist come – first serve basis. So if you plan on ordering one of these miners you can do so with a bit of a discount using one of the promo codes below by ordering from Zeus…

Some still unused coupon codes for ZeusMiner:

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$115 Off Cart Total – rafa9815fc9
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$2 Off Cart Total – raf38aabaae
$2 Off Cart Total – raff1e4c864

– For more information about the AntMiner C1 Water Cooled ASIC sold by ZeusMiner…

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