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Zcash (ZEC) is Now Live, Some Tips Where To Mine and How

28, Oct 2016

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Earlier today Zcash (ZEC) went live as expected and people are already starting to mine it, some of them probably are still not aware of the slow start with very small block rewards initially. Regardless, with what is available as miners at the moment there are pretty much two places where you would want to go for mining if you still haven’t done so. The first one for CPU mining and CUDA mining is Flypool that uses a modified version of NiceHash’s stratum miner available for download here CPU/CUDA miner for Flypool.

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For AMD mining you might want to head on to the Coinsforall mining pool that uses its own different protocol and has an OpenCL and CUDA miner. Earlier today Genoil has posted an OpenCL miner binary for Windows with stratum support, however it seems that his miner is still not ready for major use as most people are reporting issues making it work properly. We have tried his miner and also had trouble making it work properly, so if you have AMD OpenCL GPUs just go for Coinsforall for the moment and use their miner.

Exchanges where to trade ZCash (ZEC):
– Binance
– Bittrex
– GATEio
– Kraken
– HitBTC
– Yobit
– Livecoin
– Citex
– Stex
– Crex
– Graviex

Getting Ready for the Zcash (ZEC) Official Launch Tomorrow

27, Oct 2016

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Zcash (ZEC) is a new crypto currency project that launches officially tomorrow on 28th of October and there is already huge user interest in it and a lot of hype. Since ZEC coins will be mined and the development of miners and pools is currently moving very fast thanks to the significant interest from users you might want to be ready and up to speed with what is happening. What a lot of people still may not be aware of is the fact that Zcash has implemented a slow-start mechanism for the first 20,000 blocks (or about 34 days), meaning that the block reward will start at 0 coins and gradually move to the 12.5 ZEC reward in the course of the first 20K blocks. It will take a bit more than 2 days for the block reward to reach 1 ZEC and before that with the expected huge amount of hashrate thrown at the network right from the start the initial rewards for miners will most likely be very small. The linear rate of block reward increase effectively creates half as many ZEC in the first 20,000 block period resulting in 125,000 ZEC mined instead of the normally expected 250,000 ZEC for the first month of mining.

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Now, regarding mining, there are already a couple of mining pools available (mostly running on testnet) and a number of miners and more work is currently being done on improving miner performance and increasing compatibility. It seems that the NiceHash nheqminer is currently a popular choice, even though it currently supports only CPU mining and CUDA GPU mining with OpenCL support apparently expected shortly. The original miner from NiceHash is hardcoded to support only their mining pools, though since the source code is available other pools have adapter it to work with them as well (you need to get a dedicated version of the miner for that). Have in mind that mining Zcash on NiceHash might be more interesting option for some, but not for other users as you will be getting paid in BTC instead of ZEC… remember that you are essentially selling your mining hashrate and getting paid in BTC and not mining ZEC directly with them. There is also the alternative of purchasing Zcash Cloud Mining Hashrate from Genesis Mining…

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Here is a list of pools where you can mine Zcash (ZEC) when the mining starts tomorrow October 28th and get paid in ZEC coins, note that besides each pool there is a link for the miner that supports it. Do note that the list of pools is probably not complete, so if you find a missing one please post it in the comments, so that it can be added in the list. Make sure that the pool is already operational and running on the testnet and clearly states what miner is supported in order for people to be able to test it…

– https://zec.suprnova.cc/ – CPU/CUDA miner
– https://www2.coinmine.pl/zec/ – CPU/CUDA miner
– http://coinsforall.io/ – OpenCL/CUDA miner
– http://zcash.flypool.org/ – CPU/CUDA miner
– https://zmine.io/ – CPU miner

Another Zcash (ZEC) Cloud Mining Hashrate Upgrade from Genesis Mining

17, Oct 2016

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Just a couple of days ago we’ve talked about the upcoming launch of Zcash (ZEC) and Genesis Mining Doubling their Cloud Mining Hashrate Offers and they just did it once more. Their offer has been doubled once more in terms of the hashrate you get, for all existing customers that already pre-ordered as well as for new ones. The upgrade is from 0.3 H/s to 0.6 H/s for the Starter plan, from 3 H/s to 6 H/s for the Advanced plan and from 30 H/s to 60 H/s with the prices remaining the same. Definitely a good news for everyone that pre-ordered hashrate and for new users that might do so with the launch of Zcash mining approaching (planned for October 28th).

Also don’t forget that you can use our special discount code during checkout to get 3% off the regular prices for Zcash mining hashrate, just enter CryptoMiningBlog5 as promo code during checkout to take advantage of the lower price. Remember that although there is already a lot of interest in this new altcoin and the project looks really promising, there is no guarantee of success, so be wise with investments. Also miners for Zcash should be available by the time of the official launch, even a GPU one hopefully, so you should most likely be able to mine ZEC with your CPU/GPU mining rigs as well (if you do have any).

– For more information about the Zcash cloud mining pre-order from Genesis Mining…


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