Cryptotag Zeus Bulletproof Titanium Crypto Hardware Wallet

11 Nov
2019

Securely storing your private wallet key is possible in a lot of ways and we are seeing new and cool ways to do that all the time. Cryptotag’s Zeus titanium crypto wallet for offline storage of private keys is just one of these examples. It is a 6mm thick bulletproof Titanium plate where you engrave your recovery seed making it practically indestructible even in extreme conditions such as a fire or a flood that can easily destroy paper wallet backups for example. Cryptotag’s Zeus crypto wallets are designed to last a lifetime being corrosion resistant, pressure resistant, heat resistant up to 3050°F / 1677℃, impact resistant bullet proof and hacker proof.

With Zeus the backup words of he private key must be stamped in titanium using the components that are included in the package. First you need to write down your recovery words on the included Conversion Sheet, then you find the correlating numbers in the BIP39 word list (every word has a short 4-number code), then write down the numbers on the Conversion Sheet and in the end punch the numbers in the CRYPTOTAG Plates. BIP39 is the open-source industry standard used by cryptocurrency wallets since it is easier to write just 4 numbers per word instead of many words with different length. Cryptotag is a Dutch company and they are shipping their wallets from Europe, the price is 99 EUR or around $110 USD.

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Have You Updated to Claymore Dual Miner 15.0 for Ethash Mining

10 Nov
2019

The latest version of Claymore’s Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 has been released a while ago, but there seem to be quite a lot of people mining Ethash-based coins using older versions of the miner on their GPUs. If you are one of these people that update their GPU mining rigs less often and do not touch them while they are working just fine without always updating to the latest mining software, you should plan to upgrade to the latest version 15 of the miner. The reason for that is quite simple, Ethereum (ETH) is reaching DAG Epoch 299 very soon (currently at 296) and older versions of the miner will simply stop working as prior version 15 of the Claymore Dual Miner DAG Epoch support is until 299. Some of you might have actually experienced issues with that if trying to mine Ethereum Classic (ETC) as it is a bit ahead of ETH in terms of DAG Epochs and already past the 299 mark (currently at 305), so for ETC version 15 is a must. This problem is specific for the Claymore miner as there are other Ethash miners that do not have the limitation out there, but this is still the most popular GPU miner for Ethash, so make sure you re up to date to avoid any possible downtime when ETH reaches Epoch 299. Other forks of Ethereum are way behind on their DAG Epochs, so they do not have a possible problem with older versions for now, though you should still update just to be on the safe side. It is especially important to be up to date with version 15 if you are using services such as NiceHash where you might be mining a lot of different coins with your Ethash hashrate, including ETC.

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Mining Nervos (CKB) Using the Eaglesong Algorithm With AMD and Nvidia GPUs

9 Nov
2019

The Nervos project is nearing its CKB v1.0 Mainnet launch called Lina planned for November 16th or in a week from today, though even in the last days of the testnet you are still able to mine CKB coins thanks to the testnet mining competitions being ran. If you take part in any of these mining competitions the testnet tokens mined will be moved to the mainnet when it launches, though there are some specifics things that you may want to read carefully. The Eaglesong algorithm is more GPU intensive and thus works better on more powerful Nvidia GPUs than on what most widely used AMD cards can deliver, though mining is possible on both AMD and Nvidia hardware. Some good crypto exchanges to trade CKB coins include Bittrex, Citex and Gateio.

There are a number of miners available with support for the Eaglesong algorithm available, though probably the most interesting for Nvidia miners will be NBMiner 26.0 (AMD is also supported) for the moment as it supports dual mining of ETH and CKB. If using dual mining on GDDR5X GPUs make sure you also have the OhGodAnETHlargementPill running as it will help you maximize both the Ethash and Eaglesong hashrates. For instance on GTX 1080 Ti you may be getting 400 MHS on Eaglesong and 33 MHS for Ethash without the pill, and when you run it the performance should go to something like 500 / 42. Mining only CKB should get you around 1100 MHS as hashrate on the same hardware. The latest GMiner 1.73 has also added support for CKB mining for both AMD and Nvidia and it delivers pretty much the same hashrate on 1080 Ti as the NBMiner, though no dual mining in this release (ETH + CKB dual mining should most likely come in next GMiner release). AMD GPU miners have another option for a miner and it is SRBMiner-MULTI that also supports Eaglesong mining. If you are interested in a pool where you can mine CKB, then you might want to start with f2pool, hashpool or spark pool for a start.

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