Posts Tagged ‘Handshake’

Hummer Miner Mars H1 Handshake (HNS) ASIC Miner Details

11, Mar 2020

A few days ago we have mentioned the Handshake (HNS) project and the fact that mining has recently started with GPUs and FPGAs that offer slightly faster hashrate at a bit lower power usage and that ASIC miners are also going to be coming out soon. Now there are more details about the first announced Handshake ASIC miner available from the Chinese ASIC manufacturer Hummer Miner with their device up for pre-order. The Hummer Miner Mars H1 ASIC should be offering 80 GH/s hashrate with 2000 Watts of power usage (25 Watt/GHs efficiency) and is priced at 12600 CNY or roughly about $1800 USD with shipping expected to start mid-June and not in May as previously expected. This gives some additional time for miners with GPUs and FPGA’s from Hashaltcoin to stock up on HNS coins before ASIC miners hit the market, even though profitability is already getting lower day by day as we are seeing.

– For more details about the Hummer Miner Mars H1 Handshake ASIC Miner (CN)…

New GMiner 2.00 With Support for ProgPoW (SERO) Algorithm

9, Mar 2020

The latest GMiner 2.00 miner adds support for the ProgPoW algorithm used by the Super Zero (SERO) project. SERO’s use of the ProgPow mining algorithm is not new,but apparently it has lately caught more attention of users and hence more happening around the project lately. There is a catch however, the ProgPow support of Gminer requires you to have the latest Nvidia CUDA Toolkit installed or you will be getting the “Failed to initialize NVRTC library” error message wen trying to run the miner software for mining SERO. This is a few gigabytes of installation package, though in theory you can get the smaller network installer and select to install only the Runtime Libraries and not the full package that includes unnecessary data as far as mining is concerned and no actual CUDA software development is required… nevertheless it is bothersome requirement for a mining software. Older algorithms supported by the miner should work fine without the CUDA Toolkit, so it is a requirement only if you want to mine SERO with the latest GMiner.

The GMiner miner software was originally only an Nvidia GPU miner, although some algorithms are already supported on AMD GPUs as well. Do note that GMiner is a closed source miner for Nvidia and AMD GPUs with binaries available for both Windows and Linux, there is a 2% developer fee built-in the software.

– To download and try the latest release of the Gminer v2.00 Nvidia and AMD GPU miner…

Handshake (HNS) Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority

5, Mar 2020

Handshake is a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol where every peer is validating and in charge of managing the root DNS naming zone with the goal of creating an alternative to existing Certificate Authorities and naming systems. Handshake is an experiment which seeks to explore those new ways in which the necessary tools to build a more decentralized internet. By running Handshake, one can participate in a decentralized open naming platform secured by a decentralized peer-to-peer network. Handshake uses a coin system for name registration.

The Handshake coin (HNS) is the mechanism by which participants transfer, register, and update internet names. The community will be able to initiate auctions and place bids for top-level domains using HNS or trade their HNS as they see fit, with differing value per name. HNS coins can already be mined with GPUs using mining software such as NBMiner or GMiner, with mining starting just a few weeks ago with the project already gaining significant interest. HashAltcoins have also added support for mining HNS using their FPGA miners, although hashrate and power usage are not significantly better than what a 1080 Ti GPU mining rig could offer. The Chinese ASIC manufacturer Hummer Miner also have announced that they will be releasing a HNS ASIC miner planned to start shipping in May with expected hashrate of 75-80 GH/s.

The good news is there is still to mine some HNS coins with GPUs, the coin is already listed for trading on Gateio, Citex and HotBit. There are a number of mining pools available for HNS with F2Pool being the largest in terms of hashrate at the moment.


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