Posts Tagged ‘Merit mining’

Some More Merit (MRT) Invites Available, Start Mining Now

17, Sep 2018

Some more invites are available for the invite-only Merit project that we have introduced a while ago, so if you are interested in it and want to give it a try mining or using, then feel free to apply using the link below. Merit (MRT) coins can still only be mined with Nvidia GPUs, though AMD miner is in the works for a while now, there is already a third-parity Merit CUDA miner available with more options that you can try as well. Merit has its own trading market (MRT-BTC) with escrow that works fast and is really reliable, so you can buy and sell coins on the market. Since it is invite only and invites need to be mined and it is not yet listed on any major exchange, Merit is still kind of under the radar, but the last few weeks there has been a significant growth with increased interest and more people joining the project. We have a limited number of invites available to give away, so please do not waste them, we are going to send invites as soon as possible on a first-come, first-served basis. Sending multiple invite requests will not get you accepted faster, in fact will have the opposite effect of not getting you invited at all!

– Click here to get your invite and register a wallet at Merit in order to be able to try it out…

New Merit (MRT) Mining Pools and Miner Updates Available

12, Sep 2018

The Merit Network is growing and things are moving at a faster pace now than they were before, so if you still haven’t checked out Merit (MRT), then you might want to do so now. The source code of the official Merit mining pool that is based on CoiniumServ has been released a couple of days ago and this has resulted in a number of new pools for MRT appearing. Below you can find a list of all of the currently available mining pools for Merit (MRT):

– https://pool.merit.me/
– https://parachute.merit.me/
– https://icemining.ca/
– http://merit.samp.io/
– https://merit.roto2.org/
– http://merit.firehash.net/
– http://merit.tera.tn/

The first two are the official mining pools, the third one (IceMining) is currently the largest MRT mining pool in terms of hashrate and is the only one not based on the official code, the rest are new pools based on the official source and they are still pretty small in terms of hashrate and number of miners and could use some hashrate.

The unofficial zjazz CUDA miner for Merit is now available with a special release for 3GB VRAM GPUs (the minimum required in order to be able to mine MRT with your Nvidia GPU. There is also an experimental Linux build of the miner available for people that want to give it a try. You can of course also use the latest official Merit miner for both Windows and Linux mining rigs (also only for Nvidia GPUs). AMD GPU miner for Merit is still in development, though it seems that performance wise it is doing much worse than what Nvidia GPUs deliver in terms of hashrate, so you may have to wait some more before it is made available in a usable optimized form. We remind you that Merit (MRT) is an invite only network and you need to get one in order to unlock your wallet and start mining the MRT crypto currency, we have some invites available, so feel free to request one uing the link below.

– Click here to get your invite and register a wallet at Merit in order to be able to try it out…

New Official Merit Miner 0.5 for Windows With Some Improvements

4, Sep 2018

There is a new release of the official merit miner 0.5 that brings some improvements in terms of stability, usability and maybe even some extra performance in some cases (Nvidia GPU miner). The interface of the new miner is now color coded, so it is easier to read, it also seems to be more stable on mining rigs with slower CPUs, though we are still seeing occasional crashes (we have a solution for that below). Performance wise we are seeing a slight improvement on mining rigs with mid-range and high-end processors (Pentium and iX), on slower Celerons there is not much of a difference in terms of hashrate compared to previous versions. Currently the merit miner 0.5 is available only for Windows, and you also have the alternative in the form of zjazz Merit CUDA miner (closed source with 2% dev fee), also only available for Windows. Linux users can download and use the previous release 0.4 for now and since both miners are only for Nvidia GPUs, AMD GPU miners will need to wait a bit more for a miner to be available for them (currently in the works). Below is an example batch (BAT) file for using the miner:

:loop
start merit-minerd-0.5.exe --url stratum+tcp://mine.icemining.ca:3333 --address MAxoXFtCLBscARXLUoKhKnT96aL8BYNh2m --gpu 0 1 2 3 4 5 --cores 0
wmic process where name="merit-minerd-0.5.exe" CALL setpriority 16384
timeout /t 1800
taskkill /f /im merit-minerd-0.5.exe
goto loop

We have introduced the Merit (MRT) project a couple of days ago as a still under the radar interesting crypto currency that you can mine, but it seems now that the cat is finally out of the bag with an official announcement thread getting posted today on Bitcointalk. There is still time before a large number of users get in as the project is still invite only, so you need to get an invite in order to register and have your wallet unlocked and the good news is that we still have a few invites left to share. We have a limited number of invites available to give away, so please do not waste them, we are going to send invites as soon as possible on a first-come, first-served basis. Sending multiple invite requests will not get you accepted faster, in fact will have the opposite effect!


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