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It seems that the OpenCL kernel for Darkcoin for sgminer has been optimized by a user called girino over at the Bitcointalk forum to bring some nice performance improvement in the hashrate when mining X11 crypto coins such as Darkcoin. Do note that you need to use a precompiled miner with no source code and there is a 2% developer fee on the mining (the miner is hardcoded to mine at another pool for the developer), but with 40-50% performance increase over the latest sgminer with support for DRK the 2% dev fee is acceptable. We have tested the new x11-sgminer on a Radeon R9 280x and and we are getting a boost from about 2-2.1 MHS to a little over 3.1 MHS with the new miner. The author has provided only compiled versions of the miner for both Windows as well as for Linux, but has breached the sgminer GPL license by not publishing the source of the miner! So we recommend to download the already available fork by lasybear with the same kernel that provides the same higher performance, but also has the source of the sgminer available and no forced fee.
– Get the new open source sph-sgminer_x11mode with performance increase for X11 crypto mining instead…
- In: Mining Software
- Tags: Darkcoin, Darkcoin miner, Darkcoin mining, X11 mining, x11-sgminer
Just a few days since Blakecoin and Photon crypto coins got merged mining support and now there is a third coin available as well – BlakeBitcoin, so you can now mine Blakecoin and get Photon and BlakeBitcoin as well. These coins all use the Blake-256 algorithm and need a specific miner with support for the algorithm, you can find the required software below. BlakeBitcoin is still a very new coin and there are still no exchanges, but BLC and PHO are already traded. Furthermore we are soon most likely going to see two more Blake-256 crypto coins added in the mix of merged mining cryptos along BlakeCoin, these are Dirac and Atom, so you should be able to mine for BLC and get 4 extra cryptos as bonus 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 Blakecoin, Photon and BlakeBitcoin:
– http://eu3.blakecoin.com/
– http://ny2.blakecoin.com/
– http://la1.blakecoin.com/
Exchanges for trading Blakecoin and Photon:
– AskCoin
– Atomic Trade
As a long time and happy users of the LTC Rabbit mining pool we are happy to see that they have added support for X11 mining. The idea behind X11 mining support is pretty much the same as the pool’s idea for Litecoin mining – you mine X11-based crypt currencies such as DarkCoin and they get automatically exchanged for LTC and you are being payed in Litecoins. So people with GPUs that are moving away from Scrypt mining could consider mining X11 and still get payed in LTC as Litecoin mining is slowly moving to the ASIC mining domain and will continue to do so in the next months making it not so profitable to mine with GPUs anymore.
You are able to mine X11 at the pool by using the sgminer for DarkCoin on AMD-based GPUs as well as by using ccminer with X11 support that wwas recently released for mining with Nvidia-based GPUs. Currently we are seeing similar performance mining on AMD and Nvidia graphics cards, however we are soon expecting to see an updated for ccminer that will bring significant improvement to the hashrate we are currently getting on Nvidia. The most notable advantage of mining X11 is that the GPUs should be cooler and use less energy as compared to mining Scrypt for example, or at least we are seeing that on AMD GPUs. So now you have another interesting alternative available to mine no Scrypt-based crypto and still get payed in Litecoins.
– For more about the LTC Rabbit Automatic Altcoin Mining Pool with Direct LTC Payout…