New lolMiner 1.0 alpha 1 OpenCL Miner With Support for Cuckaroo-30 for Cortex (CTXC)

18 Apr
2020

The latest update of the AMD OpenCL GPU miner lolMiner1.0 alpha 1 brings support for mining Cuckaroo-30 used by Cortex (CTXC). For mining Cortex (CTXC) on Nvidia GPUs you might want to use the latest GMiner, though lolMiner 1.0 alpha 1 should also work using OpenCL on Nvdia-based video cards as well, but the performance may not be optimal as with a mining software relying on CUDA. Do note that the Cuckaroo-30 algorithm needs 7.6 GB of GPU memory, so video cards with less than 8 gigabytes of video memory will not work, also the dev fee is 2.5% for Cortex (CTXC) and not the normal 1% like for for other supported algorithms by the mining software.

Expected Performance for Cortex (Cuckaroo-30):

– AMD Radeon VII: 3.05 g/s (0.073 h/s)
– AMD Vega 64 2.2 g/s (0.053 h/s)
– AMD Vega 56 2.0 g/s (0.048 h/s)
– AMD RX 5700 1.85 g/s (0.044 h/s)
– AMD RX 580 1.25 g/s (0.030 h/s)

We remind you that lolMiner is a closed source AMD OpenCL GPU miner available for Windows and Linux as pre-compiled binaries only and that there is a 1% developer fee for using the software for all supported algorithms. The miner should also work on Nvidia GPUs with OpenCL, however stability and performance could be far from optimal, so it is best for use with AMD GPUs.

– To download and try the latest lolMiner 1.0 alpha 1 OpenCL miner for Windows or Linux…

MicroBT WhatsMiner M30S+ 100 THS and M30S++ 112 THS ASIC Miners

18 Apr
2020

MicroBT has announced their latest Bitcoin ASIC miner models – WhatsMiner M30S+ capable of 100 THS and WhatsMiner M30S++ capable of 112 THS, bringing strong competition to the already announced earlier this year AntMiner S19 and s19 Pro from Bitmain as far as hashrate and power efficiency is concerned. The 100 THS WhatsMiner M30S+ is supposed to be offering 34 J/THS power ratio with 3400 Watts of power usage, while the higher priced and better in terms of hashrate ad efficiency model with 112 THS WhatsMiner M30S++ is rated at 31 J/THS with 3472 Watts of power usage. It is most definitely good to have competition in Bitcoin ASIC mining, as otherwise things are not good when a single entity has control over most of the mining hardware being offered on the market for sale, fortunately Bitmain has long lost their market domination and we have a decent level of competition.

Both new miners from MicroBT are listed on their website already and are supposedly shipping, but are already sold out. The M30S+ is priced at $2740 USD and the M30S++ is $3900 USD wit deliveries starting it two weeks for the first orders. These prices are higher than what Bitmain is selling their S19 lineup, however they currently are selling miners for June delivery, so it is normal for the price to get lower for pre-orders that can be delivered in more than a month or even two from now. Do not forget that in less than a month there will be a Bitcoin halving meaning that by the time you get these miners delivered their efficiency in terms of Bitcoin mining will most likely be the half of what they are currently capable of mining.

– For more details about the latest MicroBT WhatsMiner M30S+ and M30S++ ASIC miners…

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…

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