Posts Tagged ‘KAS mining

Kaspa (KAS) has been doing great going up in price and attracting the attention of more miners as well as traders and investors and the project is still not listed on any of the large exchanges. Kaspa has the technology to evolve in one of the top Layer 1 crypto projects in the future and is one of the not that many Proof of Work based promising projects that could also bring back profitability for GPU miners. So, a reminder to check KAS out if you still haven’t done so already, don’t say we didn’t warn you. If you are a miner, then you should most definitely take a look at Kaspa and their GPU-heavy mining algorithm and probably get in early and start mining. Kaspa has a reduction of the mined coins every month and the difficulty is going up as more and more miners join. But now, let us focus more on mining Kaspa (KAS) and how you can optimize the settings of your Nvidia GPUs for optimal performance or for optimal efficiency looking at some of the more popular Nvidia GPUs used for mining.

We are going to be using the latest lolMiner 1.63 as mining software for the examples below, showing you the command lines and explaining what parameters to set and why. LolMiner is available for both Windows and Linux and is a part of most mining-based operating systems such as HiveOS, so you can still use the tips below although setting up additional parameters in a Linux-based mining OS might be a bit different compared to just running the mining software itself. Anyway, since KAS uses a GPU-heavy mining algorithm called kHeavyHash you don’t need a lot of video memory in terms of capacity or bandwidth, so even a bit older higher-end Nvidia GPUs can perform quite well in term of performance with surprisingly good power efficiency when properly tweaked. Alternatively, you can also Triple-mine ETC + ZIL + KAS (or another Ethash or ETChash crypto coin, not only Ethereum Classic) for optimized and more diversified mining portfolio.

We are starting up with Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 and what settings to use for optimal performance with reduced power usage. Since the RTX 3090 has a lot of high-speed GDDR6X video memory and you don’t need it for KAS mining we are going to lower the frequency as much as possible in order to save power (GDDR6X does use a lot of power) and significantly reduce the heat otherwise generated by the memory chips when mining crypto coins using memory-based algorithms. The same principle applies to other GPUs with GDDR6X video memory as well where more power savings can be achieved as compared to GDDR6 or older generation of video memory.

What does seem to work quite well for our test MSI Suprim X RTX 3900 cards in terms of performance optimized settings is a GPU clock fixed at 1800 MHz and video memory clock fixed at 807 MHz (the lowest setting we can get) set through the lolMiner command line (cclk and mclk parameters respectively), do note that you need to be running lolMiner as admin to be able to apply GPU clocks! With these settings we are getting around 1060 MH/s hashrate from a single GPU with a power usage of about 200W per GPU, slightly varying even when using multiple of the same model video cards:

lolMiner --algo KASPA --pool stratum+tcp://pool.eu.woolypooly.com --port 3112 --user YOUR_KAS_WALLET --watchdog exit --cclk 1800 --mclk 807

You can play with the core clock setting up or down a bit to optimize results in your particular case, but increasing the clock up from this point brings a little extra performance with significant increase in power usage, so going down can actually be more beneficial for significantly reducing the used power without that much of a performance drop. If you set the GPU at 1410 MHz and the video memory again at the lowest possible setting of 807 MHz you will be getting a much more power efficient mining with the RTX 3090s with a hashrate of 830 MH/s and power usage of just about 130 Watts:

lolMiner --algo KASPA --pool stratum+tcp://pool.eu.woolypooly.com --port 3112 --user YOUR_KAS_WALLET --watchdog exit --cclk 1410 --mclk 807

Similar results can also be observed on Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 GPUs where you can get significantly lower power usage if lowering the GDDR6X operating frequency of the video memory to the lowest possible setting, 810 MHz in this case. Here getting around 880 MH/s is possible with a GPU clock set at 1800 MHz and a power usage of about 190 Watts:

lolMiner --algo KASPA --pool stratum+tcp://pool.eu.woolypooly.com --port 3112 --user YOUR_KAS_WALLET --watchdog exit --cclk 1800 --mclk 810

Going for 1425 MHz for the GPU and again 810 MHz for the video memory results in 695 MH/s hashrate at about 110 Watts of power usage per RTX 3080 GPU:

lolMiner --algo KASPA --pool stratum+tcp://pool.eu.woolypooly.com --port 3112 --user YOUR_KAS_WALLET --watchdog exit --cclk 1425 --mclk 810

The approach for RTX 3070 Ti is a bit different, here we can power down the video memory to 810 MHz again and the GPU at 1710 MHz to get around 590 MH/s hashrate at just 120 Watts. The same settings also apply to the RTX 3070 non-Ti models where the target of 120W of power usage results in about 560 MH/s hashrate:

lolMiner --algo KASPA --pool stratum+tcp://pool.eu.woolypooly.com --port 3112 --user YOUR_KAS_WALLET --watchdog exit --cclk 1710 --mclk 810

Moving on to the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, older, but still a popular mining GPU that can manage to perform quite well mining Kaspa (KAS) with low power usage. You can get around 470 MH/s hashrate for KAS with just about 120 Watts of power usage with a GPU clock of 1550 MHz and memory clocked at 810 MHz:

lolMiner --algo KASPA --pool stratum+tcp://pool.eu.woolypooly.com --port 3112 --user YOUR_KAS_WALLET --watchdog exit --cclk 1550 --mclk 810

Dual-mining or mining two different crypto currencies at the same time is a good way to optimize the performance and profitability of your GPU mining hardware, especially at times like now when the profitability from mining is low. Zilliqa or ZIL has added a new level of the traditional dual mining where you normally mine a GPU coin and a Memory coin on the same GPU, because it is mined for just a minute every two hours. This way you can dual-mine ETC + ZIL without losing almost any of your hashpower for the second coin, but also you can add a third coin in the mix, a GPU-heavy coin and thus try to even further improve your profitability. Dual-mining is also possible on some ASIC miners as well such as the iPollo series of ETC/ETH miners where you can mine an Ethash or ETChash crypto coin together with ZIL, thus getting an extra 30% higher profit compared to just normal mining.

Kaspa or KAS is an interesting and still highly unnoticed project that is just recently starting to gain attention not only form miners, but from investors as well. A couple of days ago we have discussed how you can start mining Kaspa (KAS) and since then the coin has pretty much doubled in trading price and was going up in a market conditions where most other crypto coins were going down. So, if you still haven’t checked out Kaspa (KAS) and its very fast block times and transfer on-chain, then you should do so as it will become even faster in the near future. Also, do not miss your chance to mine some coins now as well and make some really nice profit in the future!

We are not going to focus on KAS now, here we are going to be talking about Dual-Mining ETC and KAS as well as Tripple-Mining ETC + KAS + ZIL. Etereum Classic (ETC) uses the memory heavy Etchash algorithm while Kaspa (KAS) relies on the kHeavyHash algorithm for mining which is a GPU heavy one, so they are a great combo together for dual-mining and adding Zilliqa (ZIL) on top of these two makes a great mining threesome for optimal performance and profit. You can of course use not only ETC, but other Ethash or ETChash crypto to pair up with KAS and ZIL for triple mining, so the choice is up to you. To answer your question before you ask, yes, we are currently mining ETC + KAS + ZIL on our Nvidia mining GPUs.

We are going to focus on using lolMiner for dual-mining and triple mining here (latest version 1.62), although other miners such as Gminer and Bzminer for instance also support dual and/or triple mining and the procedure there is similar, although the command line to run the miner might be different. Currently we like the stability and performance of lolMiner the best as far as Kaspa mining is concerned, but feel free to use a different miner if you prefer it over lolMiner. The examples below use the Ezil.me mining pool for Dual mining ETC + ZIL and the WoolyPooly pool for mining KAS, other mining pools should work, but may require a bit of a different configuration settings. Do not forget to replace ETC_WALLET, ZIL_WALLET, KASPA_WALLET and WORKER with your own wallets for the respecitve crypto currency as well as the name or number of your machine as worker.

ETC + KAS Dual Mining:
lolMiner.exe --algo ETCHASH --pool eu.ezil.me:3333 --user ETC_WALLET.WORKER --dualmode KASPADUAL --dualpool pool.eu.woolypooly.com:3112 --dualuser KASPA_WALLET.WORKER

ETC + KAS + ZIL Triple Mining:
lolMiner.exe --algo ETCHASH --pool eu.ezil.me:4444 --user ETC_WALLET.ZIL_WALLET.WORKER --enablezilcache --dualmode KASPADUAL --dualpool pool.eu.woolypooly.com:3112 --dualuser KASPA_WALLET.WORKER

Now, although we are showing you dual and triple mining configurations, it is really pointless not to take advantage of the triple mining option as it will only benefit you even more as ZIL mining hardly affects the mining performance of the two other coins and the extra profit it will bring you is definitely worth it!

So, with the above settings the miner will try to maximize the ETC mining hashrate and fill in the available GPU resources with some KAS calculations, thus you will be getting pretty much the same hashrate for ETC and about 1/4 to 1/5 of the usual KAS hashrate compared to KAS only mining. On a rig with 6x RTX 3080 GPUs that do 570 MH/s ETC only or 5500 MH/s KAS only we are getting around 565 MH/s ETC and around 1400 MH/s KAS hashrate in triple mining plus an extra up to 30% profit from the mined ZIL in triple mining mode (without the ZIL in dual mining only). On different GPUs your results may vary of course, especially on slower video cards, but the extra hashrate and profit should still be worth it.

In terms of the mining settings, you need to just return the GPU clock to its default value if you were downclocking it for ETC/ETH mining previously, the memory clock and the power limit levels should remain the same as for ETC/ETH mining. You could of course increase the power limit in order to get some extra hashrate for KAS, but that will also lead to increased power usage as well. The idea is to keep the ETC/ETH mining settings including the power limit, so that you would actually get more mined with the same power usage as if you were just ETC mining for instance.

Kaspa (KAS) is a very interesting crypto project that has been mostly flying well under the radar, but it is starting to get the interest it deservers lately. KAS is a proof-of-work cryptocurrency which implements the GHOSTDAG protocol – a protocol that does not orphan blocks created in parallel, but rather allows them to coexist and orders them in consensus. This generalization of Nakamoto consensus allows for secure operation while maintaining very high block rates (currently one block per second, aiming for 32/sec, with visions of 100/sec) and minuscule confirmation times dominated by internet latency.

Kaspa (KAS) being a PoW coin can be mined and mining is based on kHeavyHash, a modified form of the “optical-miner” ready HeavyHash algorithm. kHeavyhash utilizes matrix multiplication that is framed into 2 keccacs. kHeavyHash is energy efficient, core dominant (requires higher GPU clock and not affected as much by memory) and can be successfully mined by GPU with FPGAs and future specialized mining equipment also possible in the future. The blockDAG architecture of Kaspa with rapid block rates allow more mining decentralization and enables effective solo-mining even at lower hashrates. KAS was launched in November of 2021 with no pre-mine, zero pre-sales, and no coin allocations. The total supply of Kaspa is 28.7 Billion coins with an emission schedule that halves once per year via smooth monthly reductions by a factor of (1/2)^(1/12). The current block reward is 329.63 KAS and the circulating supply is almost half of the total supply with a total market cap of around 50 million USD.

Kaspa (KAS) can be mined on a number of mining pools with the largest one being WoolyPooly, though you might want to check out some of the smaller ones in order to distribute hashrate such as ACC Pool and HashPool. It can be mined on both AMD and Nvidia GPUs with a number of popular miners supporting the kHeavyHash algorithm that the coin uses such as LolMiner, GMiner, BZminer, SRBminer, Team Red Miner and KaspaMiner.

Our preferred GPU miners for Nvidia GPUs are LolMiner and GMiner, and you might want to make sure you are with more up do date video drivers for maximum performance. Also, you might want to lower the memory clock and increase the GPU clock as this is a GPU intensive algorithm and higher clocks for the GPU and increased power limits will get you much more performance boost than overclocking the memory. This also means that the power usage of GPU mining rigs optimized for Kaspa mining will be higher than what you used for Ethash/ETChash mining, though you can remain at the same lower power levels with a bit reduced hashrate of course.

A few crypto exchanges are already supporting KAS trading, these include TxBit, ExBitron, MexC and TradeOgre. There has been a spike of interest and a bit of a price hike in the last few days, so mining profitability is also up with Kaspa getting in the list of the most profitable coins to be mined at the moment.

For more details you can visit the official Kaspa (KAS) project website…


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