Posts Tagged ‘KAWPOW miner’

Are You Ready for the Ravencoin (RVN) Fork to KAWPOW Algo

5, May 2020

With just 1 day left until the hard fork of Ravencoin (RVN) to the new KAWPOW algorithm everyone that is planning to mine the cryptocurrency once more should be well prepared. There are already a number of miners supporting the new algorithm available, as well as some test pools where you can test and setup your GPU mining rigs for optimal performance. The Mining Rig Rentals service for leasing and renting mining rigs has just added support for KAWPOW rigs, but NiceHash has not yet added support for the new algorithm, so no massive hash going on and off on the RVN network after the fork. The KAWPOW algorithm is a variation of ProgPow and the available miners are offering very close performance, so the deciding factor in choosing should be what you are more familiar with and what works better for you (has less fee, or no dev fee at all, is open source or not etc.). Users with Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti might benefit the most from the new algorithm to be used by RVN, AMD owners with one of the most popular Radeon RX 480/580 GPUs might not be too happy whit the hashrate they will be getting (about half of the GTX 1080 Ti). KAWPOW is more GPU intensive and not affected by the video memory that much, so the more powerful the GPU, the higher the hashrate.

AMD Radeon users are significantly limited in their choice of mining software for the KAWPOW algorithm at the moment as there is essentially just one option available – the closed source NBMiner with 2% dev fee for KAWPOW that also supports Nvidia GPUs. The only opensource miner with no dev fee is the official kawpowminer that only works with Nvidia GPUs for the moment, though AMD support will hopefully be also added. The other KAWPOW miners are all closed source and work only on Nvidia GPUs for the moment, these are GMiner with 2% dev fee, T-Rex with 1% dev fee and TT-Miner with 1% dev fee. Our preferred choice out of these miners at the moment is T-Rex for Nvidia GPUs, though we are still waiting to also see an updated release of the z-enemy miner, so our preference may change in the future. We are also hopefully soon going to start seeing some additional optimizations to help differentiate performance from different miners at least a bit more…

T-Rex 0.15.3 Nvidia Miner With KAWPOW Support for RavenCoin (RVN)

3, May 2020

The latest T-Rex Nvidia GPU miner version 0.15.3 has introduced support for the new KAWPOW algorithm just as expect in time for the fork of RavenCoin (RVN) that is coming in just a few days – May 6th 2020 at 18:00:00 UTC. Aside from the new Kawpow support for the upcoming RVN fork, the latest T-Rex miner also adds supports for ProgPow and MTP-tcr algorithms.

Aside from T-Rex adding support for KAWPOW in the latest version, there are a few other alternatives available already – the official open-source kawpowminer, the latest TT-Miner, the latest NBMiner and the latest GMiner. The only one that is still missing support for KAWPOW is Z-Enemy, however enemy has already announced that there should be an update before the RVN fork and it will also support the new Ravencoin algorithm.

T-Rex is closed source Nvidia GPU miner available for both Linux and Windows operating systems. The miner comes in multiple versions supporting CUDA 9.1, CUDA 9.2 and CUDA 10.0. The miner has developer fee of 1% for all of the supported algorithms, only tensority has a higher dev fee of 3%.

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T-Rex 0.15.x Nvidia Miner to Also Support the KAWPOW Algorithm

1, May 2020

It has been almost half a year since the last release we have seen from the T-Rex Nvidia GPU miner with the latest updated it had focused on X16Rv2 support and fixes (the current Ravencoin mining algorithm). The good news is that a new version of the T-Rex miner is coming that will support the new KAWPOW mining algorithm that Ravencon (RVN) will very soon fork to – May 6th 2020 at 18:00:00 UTC. The current test version 0.15.x has added support for 3 new algorithms: kawpow (upcoming RVN fork), progpow and mtp-tcr, though do note that apparently there are still some things that need fixing as there seems to be some issues…

Trying out the latest T-Rex 0.15.1 test version (CUDA 9.2 version) has resulted in the miner unable to run as it is looking for nvrtc64 library with a different name than the regular one used and also included with the miner… renaming the dynamic library to the name the miner is looking for helps (the CUDA 10.0 version is fine). However even though the miner is running it has trouble properly mining on Minermore and BSOD Ravencoin testnet mining pools that already support KAWPOW mining. Hopefully the problems will soon be resolved and an official 0.15.x release will be made available for everyone to download and use for Ravencoin (RVN) mining after the May 6th hrdfork to the KAWPOW algorithm.

Definitely good news for everyone eagerly awaiting for the Ravencoin fork to KAWPOW to switch back to mining RVN coins with his GPU mining rigs as most miners that support Ravencoin mining are already supporting or will soon have proper support for the new algorithm. The only one that still remains silent regarding KAWPOW support is Z-Enemy and that was one of the most popular choices for mining RVN in the earlier days of the crypto projects. Hopefully we are going to see an update there as well. Meanwhile if you are looking for the best and most problem free miners for KAWPOW, then check out the closed source NBMiner 30.0 and the official open source one called Kawpowminer 1.2.0 with no dev fee.


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