New XMRig 5.9.0 Miner With New RandomKEVA Algorithm Supported

8 Mar
2020

The latest release of the XMRig 5.9.0 comes with support for a new RandomKEVA algorithm to be used by and upcoming Kevacoin (KEVA) fork as the relatively new crypto project currently uses CryptoNoght R as proof of work algorithm. The new version of XMRig also continues fixing various issues as well as improvements such as better AstroBWT support that was recently also announced in the mining software.

– To download and try the latest version of the XMRig miner with RandomX algorithm support…

Bitmain AntMiner K5 ASIC Miner for Eaglesong used by Nervos (CKB)

6 Mar
2020

It seems that the Todek TODDMINER C1 is not going to be the only Eaglesong ASIC miner out there, Bitmain is also joining the fun with their Bitmain AntMiner K5 ASIC miner. The TODDMINER C1 promises to deliver 1.6 TH/s hashrate with 1100 Watts of power usage with $4100 USD price and supposedly already shipping, while the Bitmain AntMiner K5 is rated at 1130 GH/s hashrate with 1580 Watts of power usage and a price of about $1400 USD or significantly cheaper. Bitmain plans to start shipping the K5 Eaglesong ASIC miners in the first half of April and they are only available on their Chinese website for the moment. Eaglesong mining has started with GPUs and has relatively quickly moved onto FPGA mining and now it seems the transition to ASIC mining is starting to take place. Hashaltcoins BlackMiner F1+ does 22 GH/s and F1-Ultra does manage t get you 26 GH/s hashrate at the moment, so ASIC miners will really offer much faster performance when they become available and will significantly increase the total network hashrate.

– For more details about the Bitmain AntMiner K5 Eaglesong ASIC Miner (CN)…

DERO is Forking to AstroBWT CPU Mining Proof-of-Work Tomorrow (March 7th)

6 Mar
2020

The DERO project is another crypto that last year had announced their plans to switch the mining algorithm to a RandomX variant and they are finally doing it. Tomorrow, March 7th at block 4550555, marks the time that DERO will be switching to the new CPU mining POW called AstroBWT. So if you are into CPU mining you might want to give it a try after the fork and see what DERO will do with the new algorithm. The project itself has been available for quite some time and has been in constant development, relying on the CryptoNight algorithm prior the upcoming fork to their new AstroBWT algorithm

AstroBWT is a CPU mining only algorithm and apart from the official miner for the algorithm, there is also the latest XMRig 5.8.x major release that added support for the algorithm a few days ago and the minor releases since then have improved it by fixing issues and significantly increasing mining performance. So make sure you try XMRig on your CPU mining hardware it time for the fork in order to be ready when the hardfork happens, that is if you do plan to try mining DERO with the new AstroBWT algorithm. Trading of DERO coins can be done on the following crypto exchanges: Stex, Crex, TOKOK and Citex.

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