Posts Tagged ‘Blake 256 miner’

New Materia1 Decred (DCR) ASIC Miners in the Works

17, Nov 2017

It seems that there is a second company working on a Decred (DCR) ASIC miner, so it will not only be the recently announced Obelisk DCR1 apparently. There are two models announced for the moment from DCRasic – Materia 1 supposedly capable of offering 400 GHS (Blake-256) with 275 Watts of power and priced at $1099 and Materia1-TURBO to offer 3 THS (Blake-256) with 2.1 kW of power usage and a hefty price tag of $7500. Materia1 ASICs are still not available for order as their development is supposedly currently ongoing, but the pre-sale should start by the end of this month according to the available information. The delivery of the final product will most likely not be earlier than 6 months from the start of the sale, if the project is successfully funded and sometime in 2018 we might end up with multiple Decred (DCR) ASIC miner options.

We’ve had some concerns after the recent announcement of the Obelisk and so we do here, so while are going to keep an eye on the project with interest we advice a lot of caution should you decide to invest in any of the two options at the moment. Both companies haven’t delivered any ASIC miners so far and their projects are apparently both still in development and the risk that they may not deliver is real. For the moment both projects seem like high risk ones, but in the world of crypto often if the risk pays off it pays a lot.

– For some, though not much, more details about the Materia1 Decred (DCR) ASIC miners…

Windows GPU Miners for the More Commonly Used Crypto Algorithms

2, Jun 2014

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Below you can find a list of the more common crypto algorithms with some example coins that use them along with a link to windows binary for a miner for the respective algorithm. This way you can quickly get to the GPU miner for AMD or Nvidia GPUs that you would need to use for a specific crypto algorithms, especially if you have not yet mined a coin based on that algorithm. There are of course some more coins that use other specific algorithms and may not be mineable with the GPU miners listed below.

Scrypt – LiteCoin (LTC), DogeCoin (DOGE), FeatherCoin (FTC), WorldCoin (WDC), Reddcoin (RDD)
– sgminer 4.2.1 for AMD OpenCL
– bfgminer 4.0.0 for AMD OpenCL
– cgminer 3.7.3 kalroth for AMD OpenCL
– cgminer 3.7.2 for AMD OpenCL
– CudaMiner 2014-02-28 for Nvidia CUDA

Scrypt Adaptive-N – Vertcoin (VTC), ExeCoin (EXE), GPUcoin (GPUC), ParallaxCoin (PLX), SiliconValleyCoin (XSV)
– vertminer 0.5.4pre3 for AMD OpenCL
– CudaMiner 2014-02-28 for Nvidia CUDA

Scrypt-Jane (Scrypt-Chacha) – YaCoin (YAC), Ultracoin (UTC), Velocitycoin (VEL)
– yacminer 3.4.2-yac2 for AMD OpenCL
– CudaMiner 2014-02-28 for Nvidia CUDA

SHA-256 – Bitcoin (BTC), NameCoin (NMC), Devcoin (DVC), IxCoin (IXC)
– sgminer 4.2.1 for AMD OpenCL
– bfgminer 4.0.0 for AMD OpenCL
– cgminer 3.7.3 kalroth for AMD OpenCL
– cgminer 3.7.2 for AMD OpenCL
– CudaMiner 2014-02-28 for Nvidia CUDA

SHA-3 (Keccak) – MaxCoin (MAX), Slothcoin (SLOTH), Cryptometh (METH)
– cgminer 3.7.3 with Keccak for AMD OpenCL
– CudaMiner 2014-02-28 for Nvidia CUDA

X11 – DarkCoin (DRK), Hirocoin (HIRO), X11coin (XC)
– sph-sgminer X11mod for AMD OpenCL
– ccMiner 1.0 beta for Nvidia CUDA

X13 – MaruCoin (MARU), BoostCoin (BOST), X13Coin (X13C)
– sph-sgminer X13mod for AMD OpenCL

Blake-256 – BlakeBitcoin, Blakecoin (BLC), Dirac (XDQ), Electron (ELT), Photon (PHO)
– cgminer 3.7.2 with Blake-256 for AMD OpenCL
– CudaMiner with Blake-256 for Nvidia CUDA

Quark – Animecoin (ANI), BitQuark (BTQ), Diamondcoin (DMC)
– sph-sgminer 4.1.0 for AMD OpenCL
– ccMiner 1.0 beta for Nvidia CUDA

HEFTY1 – Heavycoin (HVC), Mjollnircoin (MNR)
– cgminer 3.7.3 HVC for AMD OpenCL
– cgminer 3.7.3 MNR for AMD OpenCL
– ccMiner 1.0 beta for Nvidia CUDA

For other crypto algorithms:
– sph-sgminer 4.1.0 for AMD OpenCL
– ccMiner 1.0 beta for Nvidia CUDA
– ccMiner 1.0 beta for Nvidia CUDA for older Compute 2.x cards

Download cgminer 3.7.2 with Blake-256 Support for Windows

6, May 2014

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We now have a merged mining pools for Blake-256 based crypto coins, currently supporting merged mining of Blakecoin and Photon, but for mining these you need a special version of cgminer with support for the algorithm being used by them. The Blake-256 algorithm hashrate is about 3x faster than what you are getting from the same hardware mining for Bitcoin. So for example with a Radeon R9 280X you can expect to get a hashrate of about 2-2.5 GH/s or more when mining Blackecoin (BLC) or other Blake-256-based crypto currencies such as Photon (PHO) for example. You cannot use the standard cgminer for mining Blake-256 crypto coins, you need to use a special version of cgminer with support for this algorithm (source) and you can download the windows version of cgminer 3.7.2 for Blake-256 mining below. Note that this version of cgminer is compiled with support for Blake-256 mining alone, you cannot mine other coins using different algorithms with it.

– You can download cgminer 3.7.2 with Blake-256 Support for Windows OS here…


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