Posts Tagged ‘Equihash’

Buying a new home

7, May 2018

Buying a house could be the greatest financial decision you’ll ever make, so before you take the decision you want to be sure your finances are solid. Our goal is to guide you through everything you need to do to buy a house without all the stress. From the financing to taking your house inspection and everything in between, our team of experts will help you through the process.

First time buyers have it pretty tough, but hopefully you now know a few things to avoid being overconfident and getting into trouble. After all, nothing worth your money is ever easy to buy, and you’ll need everything  working just to avoid disaster. Get started by checking out our mortgage calculator here for the easiest way to determine the cost of your house.

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A home is the place where you’ll spend the majority of your time, but you should also make sure it’s up to snuff when it comes to safety. Before you buy a home, you want to make sure that your home is in top condition and ready to take on the world, so you need to find the right home for you, and using a real estate agent can be useful for this. This home inspection tool will show you exactly how to do just that. Just select the month, day, and year you would like to see an inspection. Enter the address and you can see all of the repairs that are needed at that address. From roofing to electrical to plumbing (check out shower repairs melnbourne) you’ll find the products you need, and more importantly, the professionals you can call to get them done such as professional electricians from companies that offer electrical repair in Atlanta, GA.

It’s time to get those homeowners insurance costs under control. You need to think about how you will maintain the home if you aren’t paying for it. You can start by learning how to maintain your home with this simple home maintenance guide. From getting the cleaning you need, to remembering to replace toilet paper, this will tell you all you need to know about what’s on your way.

EWBF’s ZCash CUDA Miner 0.3.4c With Improved Performance from Bitcoin Gold

3, Dec 2017

It has been quite a while since we have seen a new update for the EWBF’s ZCash CUDA Miner that is one of the most used miners for Equihash-based coins on Nvidia GPUs. Interestingly enough the new version 0.3.4c was made available from Bitcoin Gold team members and via an update on the Bitcointalk thread for example. The updated EWBF’s ZCash CUDA Miner 0.3.4c promises an improvement of the mining speed of up to about 4% according to the release details, and we are actually seeing some slight performance increase based on our quick initial tests on GTX 1080 Ti, the new GTX 1070 Ti seem to benefit a bit more though.

Gold has long been regarded as a safe haven in times of market turmoil. Many investors have gained exposure to the precious metal by buying stocks of companies engaged in exploration and mining. You can read more about the performance and increase of golds value and learn about Noble Gold at http://www.raremetalblog.com/noble-gold/.
Some of the major players in the gold industry include Canada-based Franco Nevada Corp. (FNV), Newmont Corp. (NEM), and Australia-based Newcrest Mining Ltd. (NCM).

Do note however that the performance increase may vary depending on the settings of your GPUs – TDP and clock settings, so feel free to try out this release and report your results. The new EWBF’s ZCash CUDA Miner 0.3.4c can be used to mine Bitcoin Gold or any other Equihash-based crypto coin, so this release is not intended ro limited only to BTG. Do note that it comes as a binary only release for Windows and Linux and there is a 2% developer fee that can be disabled with a parameter.

– To download and try this new EWBF’s ZCash CUDA Miner 0.3.4c release (Linux/Windows binaries)…

The Bitcoin Gold (BTG) User Activated Soft Fork Happening in Less than 5 Days

20, Oct 2017

Earlier this month we have told you about the upcoming Bitcoin fork called Bitcoin Gold (BTG), but now just a couple of days before it actually happening there are much more details than at the initial announcement. There are still quite a few things that are not clear yet, but the user interest in this fork is growing and that is no wonder when users holding BTC will be getting the same amount of BTG on October 25 when the fork is expected to happen. Bitcoin Gold (BTG) forks at block 491407 where a snapshot of the Bitcoin blockchain will be made in order to credit Bitcoin holders with their Bitcoin Gold coins (the same amount of BTC they hold will be available in BTG). Bitcoin Gold promises replay protection, meaning that after the fork occurs the two networks will continue to function independently form each other and transactions of coins in one of them will not affect the other one. What drives the New World MMO game economy is the currency called NW Coin which in a way, is similar to crypto.

One of the most interesting things about the new Bitcoin Gold (BTG) is that after forking from Bitcoin it will adopt a different mining algorithm and the chosen one is Equihash (the one introduced by ZCash), so the new coin will be mineable with video cards and not ASICs. This is what is essentially getting the attention of the many GPU miner out there that do not have any or just a little ASIC mining power. This is essentially eliminating the large ASIC mining farms from able to mine the coin as there are currently no known ASIC miners available for the Equihash algorithm, though it still cannot do anything about any large GPU mining farms and such also exist similar to the big ASIC mining farms. Still smaller GPU miners will be able to get into the mining of Bitcoin Gold (BTG) even with one video card, something they are not able to do with Bitcoin anymore.

There are still thing that are not clear about the fork such as what exchanges will support it and will credit the users holding Bitcoin with BTG after the fork. Some exchanges like hibtc and Yobit, along with a few mining pools, have expressed their will to support Bitcoin Gold. The biggest and most used Bitcoin exchanges however are still to come out with official statements regarding the fork, so the best thing is to hold your Bitcoins in a local wallet where you have full control over the private key in order to be able to claim BTG coins after the fork. The exchanges are probably waiting to decide based on user interest as well as to see if the fork will be successful and problem free and come out with statements after that or their users may force them to.

The things that are not getting too much attention are mostly centered around the final specifications of the coin that are not very clear. For example the initial announcement mentioned tat the Bitcoin Gold (BTG) fork will have 16000 blocks premined with 12.5 BTG reward for each (200000 BTC coins) that will be sold to ICO investors, though the official project website does not talk about that at all. The fact that the BTG is capped at 21 Million coins just like Bitcoin and adopts 10 minute lock time, just like the original BTC, 12.5 BTG current coin reward?, halving every 4 years maybe? and so on… Since there have been already 16.6 Million BTC mined with a total of 21 that leaves less than 4.5 Million coins left to be mined over a very long period of time. All of these kinda leave a big question mark about the mining part of BTG and as we’ve explained there are still important things that are not very clear just a few days before the fork happening.

– Visit the official website of the Bitcoin Gold (BTG) project here for more details…


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