Posts Tagged ‘Ether’

The Latest Ethminer 0.9.41-genoil-1.0.4b3 for Windows

24, Feb 2016

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Ethminer 0.9.41-genoil-1.0.4b3 (source) is the latest release of Genoil’s CUDA miner forked from the official ethminer that is designed to work on Nvidia CUDA GPUs, but will also work on AMD OpenCL GPUs as well. The latest version adds some useful features for both AMD and Nvidia miners, though there is not much of a difference in terms of performance compared to older releases, so do not expect to see faster hashrate. In fact the hashrate on AMD GPUs has been decreasing over time due to the increasing size od the DAG files used by the miner for mining Ethereum’s Ether (ETH) coins.

The latest release contains more advanced benchmark options that allow you to check how performance changed or will change in time, there is an option to set a custom DAG storage folder and even support for stratum mining without a proxy, although currently limited to support only for Coinotron with more pools to come. We ran a quick test to check how the hashrate changed over time between block 1 and block 1 million of Ethereum on an AMD Radeon R9 280X GPU and on Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 GPU. As you can see from the results below the performance has dropped quite a bit on AMD, but has not changed on Nvidia, do note however that Nvidia-based video cards are slower in terms of mining performance for Ethereum… at least for the moment.

GeForce GTX 970:
Block 1 – 17.31 MHS
Block 1M – 17.31 MHS

Radeon R9 280X:
Block 1 – 25.95 MHS
Block 1M – 21.49 MHS

– To download and try the latest Ethminer 0.9.41-genoil-1.0.4b3 for Windows OS…

Updated List of Useful Resources for Ethereum (ETH)

13, Feb 2016

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Things have been quite crazy for Ethereum (ETH) the last days, so if you haven’t been paying much attention to Ethereum, then now you might want to get up to speed. Ethereum’s Ether (ETH) coins are mined with GPUs only and you can mine them with both AMD and Nvidia-based video cards that have at least 2 GB of video memory. CPU mining is also possible, but pointless since the hashrate you will be getting is way to little to be worth anything. At launch a few months ago Ethereum did not have an official GUI wallet, but now you have one in beta that can make things easier for not so advanced users to operate with their coins. Below you can find a list of updated resources to get you started if Ethereum is still a new altcoin for you.

Ethereum Mining:
– Quick Guide on How to Mine Ethereum on Windows with geth…
– Quick Guide on Solo GPU Mining Ethereum on Windows with geth…
– Ethereum ETH mining on Ethpool with a Stratum-enabled qtminer…
– Getting Started with Ethereum Using cpp-ethereum…
– List of the major Ethereoum Ether coin mining pools…

Ethereum Additional Information:
– Exchanges where you can buy and trade Ethereum’s Ether (ETH) Coins…
– Track Ethereum (ETH) prices at top echanges with Ethereum Wisdom…
– Useful Blockchain explorers for the Ethereum Network…
– How to Backup your Ethereum Wallet and the Blockchain…

Ethereum Extra Software:
– Download the latest official Ethereum GUI wallet…
– AlethOne desktop GUI and client for mining ETH (single GPU)…
– Ethereum Solo Mining Proxy for larger mining farms…

Other Ethereum resources:
– 1 Year Ethereum (ETH) cloud mining contracts available from Genesis Mining…
– Active Ethereum Faucet giving away free ETH coins…
– Another Ethereum (ETH) Faucet giving away free ETH coins to users…
– Ethereum GPU Mining Profitability Calculator…
– List of other Ethereum forked altcoins…

Ethereum Cloud Mining Hashrate Available from Genesis Mining Again

13, Feb 2016

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The cloud mining service provider Genesis Mining now offers more Ethereum cloud mining hashrate after briefly being out of stock due to the high user demand. Unfortunately the return of more available Ethereum cloud mining hashrate for sale comes with a significantly higher price per MHS than it was available for before. Previously 1 year mining contracts were available at $17.99 USD per MHS with all included fees for the term of the contract and now the price is set at $44 USD per MHS for the same terms or more than double the old price. One can argue that in the recent days there has been a significant jump in the exchange rate of Ethereum’s Ether (ETH) coins on the market, more than double, and the performance per GPU is lower because of the increasing DAG size, but it is not clear if this will be a long term price increase or it is just temporary jump. So while at the old price the Ethereum cloud mining contracts were very attractive, but they are not anymore now that their price has been significantly increased… will have to wait and see. Meanwhile should you decide to purchase some Ethereum cloud mining hashrate you can get an extra 5% discount from the regular price by using our special promotional coupon code CryptoMiningBlog5 during the checkout.

– You can get more information about the new Ether Cloud Mining Contracts by Genesis Mining here…


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