Posts Tagged ‘Vertcoin’

Mine VertCoin (VTC) After the Switch to the Verthash Algorithm

31, Jan 2021

If you been intr crypto for longer time probably have heard about VertCoin (VTC), after all it has been available for more than 7 years already and during that time forked multiple times changing Proof of Work (PoW) mining algorithms. Well, VTC did it once more this time switching from using Lyra2REv3 to Verthash in order to bring back mining VertCoin back in the hands of GPU miners. As is it normal with forks, requiring wallet updates and new mining software things may get a bit messy initially until everyone updates to the required software and the fork just happened. This means that not all mining pools and exchanges supporting VTC have already upgraded and are ready for the fork, so make sure if you mine VTC using Verthash to do it on a compatible mining pool and keep the mined coins locally and not sending them directly to an exchange for a while more at least!

In order to be able to mine VTC with the new Verthash algorithm you need to start by downloading the latest VTC wallet (currently version 0.17.1) and running it as it will generate a Verthash Datafile on its first run. This verthash.dat file is over 1GB in size so it can take a while, but it is a requirement for the miner to start working, so you will need to wait (the dat file is required on every mining rig!).

– To Download the latest Vertcoin Wallet v0.17.1 (Verthash)…

The next thing you need is to download and configure the latest VerthashMiner, there is a Windows and Linux version available and the miner works on both Nvidia CUDA and AMD OpenCL GPUs. Have in mind that the VerthashMiner miner requires a GPU with a minimum of 2GB VRAM! In order to start mining you will need two things, a mining pool where you will point your mining hashratre (you can go for the – Suprnova Vertcoin Pool like we do in this example) and the second thing the miner needs is the verthash.dat file that the wallet will generate on its first run.

– To Download the latest VerthashMiner v0.6.1 Miner…

Suprnova VTC VertHash Stratum server:
– Standart Difficulty: stratum+tcp://vtc.suprnova.cc:1777
– High Difficulty: stratum+tcp://vtc.suprnova.cc:1778
– High Difficulty: stratum+tcp://vtc.suprnova.cc:1779

Example VerthashMiner command line:
VerthashMiner -o stratum+tcp://vtc.suprnova.cc:1777 -u USERNAME.WORKER-ID -p x --verthash-data verthash.dat --all-cu-devices --all-cl-devices

Make sure to replace USERNAME with the username and WORKER-ID with a worker id you have created on the pool. Then either copy the verthash.dat file from the VertCoin wallet folder to the miner folder or set the full path to the file in the miner command line.

How much VTC can you mine using the new Verthash algorithm, well that depends on what kind of video cards you have available and how many. For instance, a single power-optimized Nvidia GeForce RTX 1080 Ti video card does about 700 KH/s in terms of hashrate and that can probably get you about 1 VTC per two hours maybe (1 VTC is about $0.22 USD at the moment), though with difficulty increasing that will surely change and go down.

If you are looking for an easier alternative to get started mining Vertcoin (VTC) with the new Verthash crypto algorithm, then you might want to also check out the official Vertcoin One Click Miner that simplifies the process described above for people that are new to crypto and mining in general.

– To Download the VTC One Click Miner vNext 2.0-rc4…

TT-Miner 2.2.4 Nvidia GPU Miner With New Algorithms Supported

23, May 2019

The latest TT-Miner Version 2.2.4 comes with three new mining algorithms supported as well as some bug fixes to help improve the miner stability. The newly added algorithms are PROGPOWH, a modified ProgPoW Rev.0.9.2 for the HYDNORA project, PROGPOW092 ProgPoW Rev.0.9.2 for SUM (Solidum Network) as well as TETHASHV1 for the TEO project. If you are interested in any of the newly added algorithms you might want to check out the projects that have implemented them as well.

TT-Miner supports ProgPOW, ProgPOWH, ProgPOW092, TETHASHV1, PROGPOWZ, Ethash, UBQhash, MTP, LYRA2REV3 and Myriad-Groestl algorithms on Nvidia GPUs and is available for Windows only, a closed source miner with 1% developer fee for all of the supported algorithms.

– For more information and to download and try the latest TT-Miner for Windows…

New ccminer 2.3.1 from Tpruvot with Lyra2REv3 Support and More

31, Jan 2019

It has been a quite a while since the last update of tpruvot’s ccminer fork (source), but there it is a new version 2.3.1 available now that comes with support for Lyra2REv3, sha256q, exosis and Blake2b standard algorithms. The official binary is 64-bit Windows only built with CUDA 10 for SM3+ devices, SM 7.5 architecture is also supported, but doesn’t seem to bring any advantage, for others variants you can build from the source code as the miner is opensource. Do note that CUDA 10 support requires an Nvidia video driver version 410.48 or newer.

The most notable thing abut the new release is the support for Lyra2REv3 that will soon be used by the Vertcoin (VTC) after the upcoming hardfork expected to happen in less than two days. The fork should happen in around February 2nd as it is planned for block 1080000, so make sure you are ready with the required local wallet upgrade (if you are using one) as well as with a miner supporting the new Lyra2REv3 algorithm like the latest ccminer from tpruvot available for Nvidia GPU miners.

– To download and try the latest ccminer v2.3.1 Windows 64-bit binary…


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