Posts Tagged ‘Kaspa mining’

Now You Can Mine KASPA (KAS) on f2pool With 500K KAS Contest for Miners

2, Mar 2023

The f2pool has just launched its Kaspa mining pool today with a 1% PPLNS payout scheme for KAS mining and the pool is running a contest to attract miners who will be competing for 500,000 KAS in total prizes. The Kaspa (KAS) mining contest will run starting on 2022-03-02 10:00 UTC until 2022-03-12 10:00 UTC, with the Top 20 miners by daily average KAS hashrate at f2pool going to receive rewards in proportion to their hashrate contribution from a total prize pool of 500,000 KAS coins. Apparently, the contest is favouring the bigger miners and not the small home miner, so a fairer distribution of the reward among miners could be used in order to attract all kinds of KAS miners… still it is nice to see that more of the crypto ecosystem is now slowly starting to adopt KAS support.

With the recent price increase for Kaspa (KAS) going past 1 US cent and keeping it there for a while there is increased interest in the project that is still generally kind of on the sidelines for many people into crypto. It is good now that GPU miners are making profit mining KAS and it is not only Kaspa, but some other new POW project are on the positive side regarding actually making profit after you pay for the electricity used. And Kaspa, although really good already in terms of speed has even more to offer with the upcoming upgrades, so if you still haven’t checked it out you might want to dig a bit deeper on blockDAG and the GHOSTDAG protocol and what KAS has in store for the near future as well.

– To read more about the addition of Kaspa on f2pool and their 500K KAS competition…

Radiant (RXD) is Currently the Most Profitable Coin to Mine on GPUs

7, Dec 2022

According to the GPU profitability ranking on the What to Mine website the Radiant (RXD) crypto is currently the most profitable coin to mine on most GPUs thanks to the recent spike in popularity and price. It is the top coin in profitability for almost all Nvidia GPUs and some AMD ones with Kaspa (KAS) also finding its spot in number two and three in terms of profitability on some and Alephium (ALPH) as well as some other coins jumping in from GPU to GPU. Do note however that depending on your custom settings you might be able to achieve even better profitability thanks to increased performance or decreased power usage or both. We have some guides you can check out for optimizing performance and power usage for both RXD and KAS that might be of help here, regardless if you are mining and holding or selling the mined coins immediately.

– Optimizing Kaspa (KAS) mining for best performance with lolMiner 1.64…
– Optimizing Radiant (RXD) mining for best performance with Bzminer v12.1.1…

Both KAS and RXD are using different GPU-intensive mining algorithms for their Proof of Work (kHeavyHash and SHA512256d), so they key optimizations you can do for achieving lower power usage with maximum performance include lowering the memory to the minimum frequency supported, increasing the GPU clock together with a core clock offset to lower the voltage and the result is quite big improvement in terms of power efficiency while maintaining very high performance. Give it a try if you still haven’t and are already mining Kaspa or Radiant or are planning to do so switching form Ethash/ETChash mining for instance.

– Visit the up to date GPU profitability ranking on What to Mine….

New lolMiner 1.64 For Further Optimized Kaspa (KAS) Mining Performance

5, Dec 2022

The just updated lolMiner 1.64 is a dream come true (more performance with less power used) for everyone that is currently mining Kaspa (KAS) with their Nvidia GPUs, not only because of the further improved performance that the update brings but also because of the new features it gives access to the miner for optimizing their GPUs. We did a quick test and the results are great and you should head on to your mining rigs and update and start tweaking the miners some more for additional hashrate and even lower power usage, so a win-win situation for sure.

According to the author of the miner the new version brings about 8-8.5% on Nvidia Pascal GPUs, 4.5-5% on Nvidia Turing and Ampere GPUs and 3-4% on AMD Navi and Big Navi GPUs in terms of improved performance. And thanks to the addition of the extra tweaking features and most notably the Core Offset (--coff parameter) we can not only get a boost in the performance with the same settings we were mining with version 1.63, but also get it with reduced power by just adding the extra option with a value between 250 and 350 (depending on how much your GPUs can handle stable). The --no-oc-reset might also be helpful if you do not wish to reset the settings you have applied to the GPUs when the miner is stopped.

The new beta options may require a video driver update, depending on how old Nvidia video driver you are using. The description says you need version 520 or higher, though we have them working successfully on older 512 driver, but you should probably just update if using older drivers anyway. The other new command line options added for the miner might also help to further optimize things a bit more, though they will require additional tweaking.

lolMiner 1.64 Latest Changelog:

Changes
– Improved Kaspa only mining performance. Speed increase is about 8-8.5% on Nvidia Pascal GPUs, 4.5-5% on Nvidia Turing and Ampere GPUs and 3-4% on AMD Navi and Big Navi GPUs
– Beta feature: added options to set core clock offset (--coff), memory clock offset (--moff), power limit (--pl) and a fixed fan speed (--fan) on common Nvidia GPUs. Required are admin privileges and Nvidia drivers 520 or higher!
– The syntax is the same as with --cclk and --mclk – if a single value is given then it will be applied to all compatible GPUs, else a coma separated list of values can be given using a * character to skip over GPUs. (1)
– Added a new parameter --no-oc-reset to turn off the reset of overclock settings when ending the miner.
– Windows: Added a beta gui to generate overclock settings strings / .bat files for the miner. Also the tool can apply the chosen settings directly.

(1) Note: No responsibility taken for the values set. Please use with care. If your mining os had build in functions to set these settings we recommend using them instead of the miner settings.

Fixes
– Fixing a bug with ETHV1 (nicehash) stratum mode that may cause the worker name to be appended twice when it was given by –user . (the use of –worker did not have this issue).

Here is a quick overview of what improvements we are getting with the new version on RTX 3070, 3080 and 3090:

GeForce RTX 3070:
lolminer 1.63: 564 MH/s – 120W – 1710/810
lolminer 1.64: 596 MH/s – 95W plus the extra option --coff 300

GeForce RTX 3080:
lolminer 1.63: 877 MH/s – 190W – 1800/810
lolminer 1.64: 919 MH/s – 160W plus the extra option --coff 250

GeForce RTX 3090:
lolminer 1.63: 1031 MH/s – 200W – 1800/807
lolminer 1.64: 1079 MH/s – 160W plus the extra option --coff 350

Here is an example you can use for RTX 3070, just replace YOUR_KAS_WALLET with your actual wallet:

lolMiner --algo KASPA --pool stratum+tcp://pool.eu.woolypooly.com --port 3112 --user YOUR_KAS_WALLET --watchdog exit --cclk 1710 --mclk 810 --coff 300

You can try to play around with the core offset setting, though 250 to 350 MHz should be safe for most GPUs, some may require lower setting to function stable or can take up higher offset for even greater power savings. As for the memory clocks and settings with example command lines, you can take a look at the post where we talk about Optimizing Nvidia GPUs for Performance with Lower Power Usage for Kaspa (KAS) Mining. Just use these examples for the specific GPUs discussed there and add the Clock Offset parameter to them as a good starting point and see how your power usage drops while you get extra hashrate after the update.

– To download and try the latest release of the lolMiner 1.64 mining software…


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