Posts Tagged ‘Ethereum mining’

More New Pools for Mining Ethereum (ETH) Now Available

6, Jun 2016

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There have been quite a few new mining pools for Ethereum mining appearing in the last few weeks since we have last updated our list of Ether (ETH) mining pools, so now it is time to refresh things a bit. As you will probably notice many of the new pools are based on the Open Ethereum Mining Pool by sammy007 with some of them retaining the base design and functionality and others further improving things. Below is a list of the new pools for mining Ethereum and after that you will see a list of the older ones that have been available for longer and are more established and well known and we have already covered here…

Newer Mining pools for Ethereum (ETH):
– Hitchpool – 0% pool fee promo, 0.5% afterwards, 0.1 ETH minimum payout, getwork and stratum support, no registration
– AlpEreum – 0% pool fee promo, 0.2 ETH minimum payout, stratum support, no registration
– Etherite – 0% pool fee promo, 1% afterwards, 0.5 ETH minimum payout, getwork and stratum support, no registration
– Geteth – 1% pool fee, 0.2 ETH minimum payout, getwork and stratum support, no registration
– Ethermine.Rocks – 0.1% pool fee, 0.5 ETH minimum payout, getwork and stratum support, no registration
– MSKpool – 0.5% pool fee, 1 ETH minimum payout, getwork and stratum support, no registration

Older Mining pools for Ethereum (ETH):
– ethpool.org
– ethermine.org
– eth.nanopool.org
– dwarfpool.com/eth
– www2.coinmine.pl/eth/
– eth.suprnova.cc
– www.coinotron.com
– eth.pp.ua
– ethereumpool.co
– weipool.org
– ethpool.utocat.com
– ethereum.cryptopool.online
– ethereum.miningpoolhub.com
– eth.poolto.be
– donkeypool.com

If you think that we are missing a pool or two feel free to drop us a comment with a link to the Ethereum mining pool, so that it can be included in the list as well…

AMD Radeon RX 480 (Polaris) is Now Official and Looks Promising

1, Jun 2016

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AMD today unveiled the first of its upcoming Polaris architecture-based Radeon RX series graphics cards – the Radeon RX 480 at a surprising price point, surprising at is it quite affordable compared to what you will have to pay for the latest generation of Nvidia Pascal GPUs. The AMD Radeon RX 480 as well as the other upcoming GPUs are all based on the 14 nm FinFET production process that the Polaris architecture utilizes. As a result what we expect to get is more performance with a lower power usage and at a more affordable price point and AMD delivers just that with the Radeon RX 480. The full specifications are not yet revealed, but we know the cards should be available on the market on June 29th with a price point of just $199 USD for the 4GB edition. The TDP rating of the new RX 480 GPUs is 150W, but we do not know all of the specifications yet, so it is hard to estimate what is the expected performance, especially for mining.

We already know that the RX 480 uses 256-bit memory bus and will come in 4GB and 8GB VRAM models, so the big question that many Ethereum miners are probably already asking is what performance can we expect from the new cards. Since Ethereum’s Dagger-Hashimoto algorithm is memory intensive one the speculated performance for Ethereum mining for the new AMD Radeon RX 480 is somewhere in between 20 and 30 MHS, hopefully around the full performance that Radeon 280x had with 1GB DAG files or around 26-27 MHS or more, but that is pure speculation for now. So we’ll have to wait and see some real numbers, but we are not going to be surprised if the lower priced RX 480 does manage to outperform the Nvidia GTX 1070/1080 at least for mining Ethereum, making the new Radeon the better solution for mining ETH. What you should not forget however is the fact that Ethereum mining is not going to last forever, sooner or later the coin will switch from PoW to PoS and you would have to switch to a different altcoin maybe with different algorithm where the RX 480 might not be the best choice…

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…


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