Universal Molecule (UMO) Added to BlakeCoin Merged Mining

24 Jul
2014

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The Blake-256 based crypto currencies merged mining now has another new addition, the new coin is called Universal Molecule (UMO), bringing the total number of merged mined coins to 6 (including BlakeCoin). UMO is still pretty new coin, but it is already available for trade on an exchange and the previously released coins are also traded on multiple exchanges, so if you still haven’t tried merged mining for BLC + 5 other Blake-256 coins, then you might want to check things out. The merged mining of Blake-256 is not a good idea on Nvidia GPUs, even though there is a miner available, it is not that good performance wise, however the AMD GPU miner is working well.

Blake-256 Algorithm GPU miners:
– Cgminer 3.7.2 with Blake-256 support for AMD
– Cgminer 3.1.1 with Blake-256 support for AMD
– CudaMiner with Blake-256 support for Nvidia
– ccMiner with Blake-256 support for Nvidia

Pools for Merged Mining of Blake-256 coins:
– http://eu3.blakecoin.com/
– http://ny2.blakecoin.com/
– http://la1.blakecoin.com/
– http://cg1.blakecoin.com/

Exchanges for trading Blake-256 coins:
– Atomic Trade (BLC, BBTC, XDQ, ELT, PHO, UMO)

New sgminer 5.0 beta Fork with Faster Whirlpool Algorithm Support

24 Jul
2014

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There is now a new fork of sgminer 5.0 beta that brings Whirlpool algorithm support for mining crypto currencies such as Whirlcoin on AMD-based GPUs. The new fork by a user called uraymeiviar (source) and it brings a nice hashrate improvement over the previously available sph-sgminer fork by djm34. We have compiled a windows binary from the new source and have already tested it on an AMD Radeon R9 280X GPU, the result we got was 9400 KHS, so about twice as fast than previously in terms of hashrate. You can download and try the windows binary yourself from the link below. Do note that this version of sgminer also supports most other new algorithms, so you an use it for mining not only Whirlpool coins, but others as well. Also make sure to be using the latest 14.6/14.7 beta drivers from AMD in order to get the best performance.

– To download the new faster sgminer fork with Whirlpool algorithm support for Windows OS…

Updated ccMiner Fork with Support for the New X17 Algorithm

23 Jul
2014

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If you are looking for a GPU miner for Nvidia video cards supporting the new X17 algorithm, then you don’t need to look for it anymore as djm34 just added X17 support to his fork of ccMiner (source). We have compiled a windows binary of the new release (using CUDA 5.5) and on a GeForce GTX 750 Ti video card we are getting a hashrate of about 1700 KHS and about 3200 KHS on GTX 780 Ti. Have in mind that this ccMiner fork does support other algorithms as well, including whirlpool that was just recently added. There are still not much crypto currencies using the X17 algorithm as it is really new, but you can already try mining People’s Coin (PPL) for example.

The windows binary available here is compiled for Compute 3.0, 3.5 and newer cards (32-bit version only) in a single binary, so it will not work on older cards. If you are unsure what version of Compute does your video card support check the included GPU Compute Capabilities List file. The binary is compiled with Visual Studio 2010 and is backwards compatible with Windows XP as well if you are using it on your mining rig.

– To download the updated ccMiner fork with Whirlpool algorithm support for Windows OS…

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