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The software bfgminer 4.0.0 has been released and now the latest version does come with official support for Gridseed-based ASIC devices built-in, among a lot of other new features and improvements. The miner is intended for mining Scrypt and SHA-256 crypto currencies and the biggest advantage is the support for many ASIC miners, though most of these are still for Bitcoin mining and not for Scrypt. If used for Gridseed ASIC mining the advantage here is that you don’t need to replace the virtual USB to COM drivers with WinUSB or to send as parameters the COM ports for the ASIC devices to the miner – they will be autodetected. Below you can download the compiled windows binaries for the miner (32 and 64-bit) and be sure to check the example BAT files for running on Gridseed ASICs or just for Scrypt mining with a GPU. You can also compile bfgminer from source if you are using other operating system for example.
– You can download the new bfgminer 4.0.0 binaries for Windows OS here…
- Published in: Mining Software
- Related tags: bfgminer, bfgminer 4.0.0, bfgminer 4.0.0 Gridseed, bfgminer Gridseed, Gridseed, Gridseed ASIC, Scrypt ASIC Miner, Scrypt GPU miner, SHA-256 ASIC miner, SHA-256 GPU miner
PoolPicker is an interesting service that keeps track of multiple automatic profitability switching pools and reports their profitability per MHS hashrate on a daily basis as compared to directly mining for Litecoin. With the help of that service you can get a quick glance at where it is more profitable to mine on and you have history to see if a specific pool’s performance is poor and not worth mining at all on the long run. Of course the service does not cover all of the automatic profit switching pools, in fact is only covers 12 pools from the many more available ones. But with the available data in PoolPicker you could also compare to a pool that is not listed based on your own earnings or based on the officially reported profitability by the specific pool (if it supports that). So definitely something worth checking out if you still haven’t seen the service and are currently mining on a multipool.
– To check the PoolPicker service on what is the profitability of automatic switching pools…
- Published in: General Info
- Related tags: automatic coin switching profitability, automatic profitability switching pool, Multipool, multipool profitability, pool profitability, PoolPicker
The Blakecoin (BLC) crypto currency seems to be advancing very fast on the merged mining front as the developer of the coin is constantly adding new coins to be merged mined along the main one. There are already 4 additional crypto coins that are being merge mined – Photon, BlakeBitcoin, Dirac and Electron and apparently even more are coming soon. All of these coins use the Blake-256 algorithm and need a specific miner with support for it, you can find the required software below. Most of them are already available for trading on some markets, though still not that many and the total network hashrate has been steadily growing along with the increased interest in these coins thanks to the merged mining support.
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/
Exchanges for trading Blake-256 coins:
– AskCoin
– Atomic Trade
- Published in: General Info
- Related tags: BBLC, Blake-256, BlakeBitcoin, Blakecoin, BLC, Dirac, Electron, ELT, merged mining, PHO, Photon, XDQ