Posts Tagged ‘Zcoin’

Mining Zcoin (XZC) with the New MTP Algorithm on AMD and Nvidia

22, Dec 2018

Zcoin (XZC) has recently switched to a new algorithm called MTP as a means to be ASIC-resistant, it is a new algorithm and mining software is still being developed, but there are already miners available for CPUs (not that useful anymore) and GPUs – for both AMD and Nvidia. If you are interested in trying out to mine Zcoin you should be aware that the algorithm needs more memory, both on the GPU (4 GB VRAM on the video cards as minimum) as well as on the mining rig where 8 GB plus is a must have preferably 16GB for 6-8 GPUs. Also you should note that miners are still being optimized, so performance and stability can be further improved and you can expect to have some issues at this point. if you want to try out the CPU miner for MTP you should be aware that it also needs a fixed 4 GB per thread so with an 8-core processor, you would need 32 GB of RAM.

If you are using Nvidia GPUs for mining you should head over to the ccminer fork with MTP support being actively developed by djm34 and download the latest version. Depending on your settings the current version should be capable of providing about 1200 KHS per GTX 1080 Ti GPU with lower power usage (not yet fully optimized), owners of RTX 2080 GPUs might be quite happy with up to almost double that hashrate, but with higher power usage though. Make sure that you have the latest Nvidia video drivers installed though with CUDA 10 support in order to be able to run the miner.

If you want to try mining ith AMD GPUs, then you will need the latest WildRig Multi 0.15.0.6 mtp beta miner that adds beta support for the MTP algorithm. AMD RX 480, RX 580 and RX 590 GPUs should be capable of delivering about 800-900 KHS per card which is quite good compared to the current Nvidia results, however the power consumption is higher on the AMD video cards as well. The AMD GPU miner for MTP also has high requirements for both video memory and system memory, so make sure you have enough available on your mining rigs. If you have just 4 GB of system memory availabe you can still experiment with the miners to see what performance you can get, but you should limit the miner to run on a single GPU only. Some good places to trade the coin include Binance, Bittrex, Crex and Livecoin.

– If you are interested in learning more about the Zcoin (XZC) privacy centered crypto project…

NiceHash Has Added Support for CryptoNightHeavy and Lyra2z Algorithms

30, May 2018

NiceHash has just announced the support and availability of the CryptoNightHeavy and Lyra2z algorithms on their platform. The new algorithms are showing that there is high interest in term of hashrate for crypto coins such as Sumokoin (SUMO), Haven (XHV) and Loki (LOKI) that use the CryptoNightHeavy mining algorithm as well as Zcoin (XZC) and GINcoin (GIN) that rely on Lyra2z, though there are other coins that use these two algorithms as well. So for users that need more hashrate to mine any of these coins or others that use the two newly added algorithms the marketplace is now open, the same goes for people that just want to sell their hashrate and get paid directly in Bitcoin (BTC) that can also take advantage from the new NiceHash support for CryptoNightHeavy and Lyra2z. On a side note, new crypto coin launches using either of these algorithms may now also be hammered with huge hashrates right from their launch if there are users renting big amounts of CryptoNightHeavy or Lyra2z hashpower, so have that in mind as well if you are always on the lookout for new coin launches.


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