Last year Ravencoin (RVN) has successfully hardforked and switched to KAWPOW as a mining algorithm from the previously used X16Rv2 algo. The latest Z-Enemy 2.6.3 Beta version that was recently made available is an important update for everyone that has Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 Series of GPUs and uses them for crypto mining. This is a TEST BUILD of the software that adds support for Nvidia RTX 30×0 video cards with CUDA 11.1 and drivers ver. 456.81 or later. It is intended for RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 3070, RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 GPUs, if you have an older Nvidia GPU you should use the latest stable release Z-Enemy 2.6.2 instead. This official and not beta version works on CUDA 9.x and CUDA 10.x and it is recommended to make sure you’ve… [Read More...]
Mining Ethereum with ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 Video Card
We’ve managed to get a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 GPU to play around with mining Ethereum and other cyrpto coins, though here we are going to be focusing on ETH mining. The RTX 3080 is really hard to find on the market at the moment and if you manage to find stock somewhere the price will be so high that you probably would consider buying a RTX 3090 instead. We managed to somehow get our hands on a single ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 (ASUS TUF-RTX3080-10G-GAMING) video card to play around with it for crypto mining and below you can read what we have found out using this GPU. This TUF Gaming RTX 3080 from ASUS is definitely not the greatest model you can find and definitely… [Read More...]
Nvidia Announced the CMP HX Dedicated GPUs for Professional Crypto Mining
The latest news from Nvidia are quite interesting for both crypto miners and gamers, as apparently the company is taking drastic measures to make gaming GPUs available to gamers. With the upcoming launch of the new GeForce RTX 3060 video cards on February 25th the company wants to make sure that the new graphics adapters will be available to gamers and will not be purchased in bulk by crypto miners. The video drivers for the RTX 3060 GPUs are designed to detect specific attributes of the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm, and will limit the hashrate, or cryptocurrency mining performance, by around 50 percent. So, essentially you will be getting half the hashrate you normally would if the card is running at full performance. For mining the expected hashrate for RTX… [Read More...]
Monitoring GPU HotSpot Temperature for Nvidia GPUs With HWiNFO v6.43-4380 Beta
The latest HWiNFO v6.43-4380 Beta version is available now with a number of improvements and new features, but the most interesting new addition is the added monitoring of GPU HotSpot temperature for NVIDIA GPUs. Recently this free tool added the ability for users of the new Nvidia RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 GPUs from Nvidia to monitor the operating temperature of their GDDR6X memory chips, giving access to the hottest operating temperature. The GDDR6X memory chips apparently start to throttle at around 110 degrees and they do run pretty hot under high loads such as Ethereum (ETH) mining for instance. The new feature is not focused on the memory, but the GPU and its operating temperature and more specifically what is the hottest spot based on the sensors… [Read More...]
Mining Ethereum with RTX 3070 Laptop GPU on a Gaming Notebook
The latest craze in crypto mining is apparently going for gaming laptops that are suitable for mining Ethereum (ETH), so time to play around with one such bad boy and see if it is worth doing it. No wonder people are looking for alternatives with the lack of mining GPUS on the market and the very high prices whenever available. So, we’ll be looking a MSI GS66 Stealth 10UG gaming laptop equipped with Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU in order to see what you can really expect in term of mining performance, usability and reliability. The MSI GS66 Stealth 10UG 15.6-inch gaming notebook is equipped with a 10th generation Intel Core i7 CPU and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 3070 Laptop GPU and whole lot of other goodies… [Read More...]
Ethereum Mining on Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 Laptop GPUs
Gaming laptops with the latest generation of mobile graphics cards from Nvidia in the form of their RTX 30 Series Laptop GPUs are popping on the market and apparently people are not only interested in playing games on them, but also using them for crypto mining. And similar to their desktop counterparts in the GeForce RTX 30 Series product line, the mobile versions of these graphics chips used in gaming laptops does manage to give you very good hashrates for mining Ethereum. The mobile GPU product line consists of the following models: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU and Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU for the moment. Although the names are like on the desktop variants of these video cards, the mobile ones have a… [Read More...]
Mining Ethereum with a Gaming Notebook and RTX 3070 Laptop GPU
The latest craze in crypto mining is apparently going for gaming laptops that are suitable for mining Ethereum (ETH), so time to play around with one such bad boy and see if it is worth doing it. No wonder people are looking for alternatives with the lack of mining GPUS on the market and the very high prices whenever available. So, we’ll be looking a MSI GS66 Stealth 10UG gaming laptop equipped with Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU in order to see what you can really expect in term of mining performance, usability and reliability. The MSI GS66 Stealth 10UG 15.6-inch gaming notebook is equipped with a 10th generation Intel Core i7 CPU and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 3070 Laptop GPU and whole lot of other goodies… [Read More...]
Have You Been Mining VertCoin (VTC), Today the Price is Up 100%
Today VertCoin (VTC) is on fire with the price going up with more than 100% already and that should serve as a good reminder that you might want to check out mining it after it forked to the new memory-intensive VertHash algorithm. Even though the price is significantly higher at the moment, there hasn’t been much of a change in the network difficulty and the number people mining VTC haven’t increased much… yet! Originally VertCoin (VTC) mining was interesting mostly for older GPUs that were good mining cards (with at least 2GB of VRAM), but are not capable of mining Ethereum due to the large DAG size. But now with the recent price spike even newer video cards that are being used for Ethereum… [Read More...]
Get Even Better Profit by Dual-Mining Ethereum (ETH) and Zilliqa (ZIL)
If you are a crypto miner you should be mining Ethereum (ETH) at the moment with any suitable video card that has more than 4GB video memory, or if you even have a 4GB ones that can still mine it in “Zombie Mode” due to the high profitability. There is a way to increase your profit even further when mining ETH and that is to dual-mine Ethereum and Zilliqa (ZIL). Thanks to Zilliqa’s consensus mechanism, the ecological footprint of mining has considerably been reduced in a way that only 1 minute out of every 2-3 hours is needed to mine ZIL, allowing you to dual-mine other crypto coins such as Ethereum (ETH) or Ethereum Classic (ETC) the rest of the time. Then the ZIL coins… [Read More...]
Expensive ETH Desposits to Kraken, or Why Exchange Mining Should Be Avoided
With the recent boom of crypto mining and more specifically Ethereum (ETH) mining there are a lot of new users joining the mining ranks and they start making newbie mistakes that we forgot about long ago. We are taking about the very easy direct mining to an exchange-generated Ethereum wallet address or with other words when the mining pool is directly paying the mined coins to a crypto exchange where you can sell or trade them. There is a big convenience in doing this, but there are also some pitfalls that may cause you to lose money and you may not even be fully aware of that fact. Most crypto exchanges do not charge deposit fees to their users, but they do usually have a minimum… [Read More...]
VertCoin (VTC) Mining on Old AMD Radeon R9 280X GPUs is Profitable
We are back to VertCoin (VTC) mining using the new VertHash algorithm, but this time we are going old-school to AMD Radeon R9 280X and the performance these old, but gold video cards from the earlier days of crypto mining can deliver mining VTC at the moment. We have already tested mining VertCoin (VTC) on AMD Radeon 400/500 series of 4GB GPUs and the results were pretty good, but it seems that the R9 280X are still too early to retire even though they have been announced more than 7 years ago back in 2013. Hell, even going further back to the Radeon HD 7970 GPUs that were used for Bitcoin mining back in the early days of crypto we can get pretty much the same results as with the… [Read More...]
Updated “Zombie Mode” for AMD Radeon RX 470/570 and RX 480/580 4GB GPUs for Ethereum Mining
The “Zombie Mode” for mining Ethereum on 4GB AMD Radeon RX 470/480 and RX 570/580 GPUs had them brought back from the dead (hence the name) after the DAG size has reached the capacity of their video memory. Using it you can still not only mine ETH, but still make a nice profit doing so, even with the reduced hashrate you are getting. Even though the 4GB cards can still work their hashrate and profitability will continue to drop down with each new DAG epoch (current DAG is 393), the development of mining software and more specifically the “Zombie Mode” continues. Here comes the latest lolMiner 1.21 for Windows and especially LolMiner 1.22 for Linux that brings significant performance improvements for the “Zombie Mode” for mining Ethereum (ETH)… [Read More...]
Gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti MASTER for Mining Ethereum
One of the most popular NVidia RTX 30 series of GPUS for mining crypto and more specifically for mining Ethereum (ETH) lately has been the RTX 3060 Ti, so no wonder these are hard to find as they are generally cheaper than RTX 3070, but have the same memory and performance for Ethash as the 70s. We’ve managed to get our hands on one Gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti MASTER (GV-N306TAORUS M-8GD) video card in order to play around with and share some interesting information, mining settings and performance results with anyone that might be interested. The AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti MASTER model from Gigabyte comes with a really huge cooler that has three fans with interesting overlapping design, plus it offers six video output connectors… [Read More...]
Try the New VerthashMiner v0.6.2 For Mining VertCoin (VTC)
If you have spotted the recently forked VertCoin (VTC) to the new Verthash algorithm and are interested in mining it, then you might head on to download the latest VerthashMiner v0.6.2 to do so. This is especially important for owners of AMD Radeon RX 400/500 series of GPUs with just 4GB of video memory as these really need an alternative to mining Ethereum (ETH) and pointing them towards mining VTC could be just what you need. While you can Still Mine Ethereum With AMD Radeon RX 400/500 Series 4GB GPUs the performance continues to drop with each new DAG epoch and these cards are soon to be retired or moved to an alternative and more profitable crypto coin and VertCoin could be that alternative. The new VerthashMiner v0.6.2 doesn&#… [Read More...]
The Upcoming Ethereum ASIC Miners To Offer 2000+ MHS
There is a lot of talk going on around the new generation of Ethash ASIC miners for mining Ethereum (ETH) that are expected to be released for order in the following few months, although nothing is official or really 100% confirmed, but both devices are expected to have hashrate higher than 2000 MH/s. We are talking about the Innosilicon’s A11 ETH miner and an upcoming device from a newcomer on the mining market, a company called Linzhi that has been getting some attention for a while now. Linzhi Inc was founded by Chen Min, the former CTO of Canaan, a popular name for everyone that has been into crypto mining for a while already as this is one of the first companies to be making Bitcoin… [Read More...]
The Crypto Blog on Medium is Looking for Authors
We have recently started something new – a Crypto Blog publication on Medium as a kind of experiment. It is targeted at a wider audience that may be interested in crypto, but not so advanced or into it for as long as others following the Cryptomining Blog. It is covering pretty much the same topics, but often in more detailed and/or user friendly way suitable mostly for the audience of Medium which is not mostly advanced crypt users. The Crypto Blog Medium publication is looking for authors that write on the topic of crypto currencies and crypto mining on Medium already (or are considering to do so) that are willing to reach wider audience. So, if you are one, then by all means please contact us… [Read More...]
Mining VertCoin (VTC) With VertHash on AMD Radeon 4GB GPUs
Keeping an eye on the recent fork of Vertcoin (VTC) form Lyra2REv3 to the new Verthash algorithm the profitability has been nice, although not as good as mining Ethereum. The VertHash algo is a memory-intensive algorithm, so GPU performance is not as important as having fast video memory with wide memory bus. It is similar to Ethash in that matter, however the interesting advantage of VertHash is that it uses much less video memory and thus can be mined on older GPUs. This makes it quite interesting for owners of AMD Radeon RX 470, RX 480, RX 570 and RX 580 GPUs with just 4GB of video memory that are at the end of their life for mining ETH, though other older video cards with just 2GB or 3GB… [Read More...]
FutureBit Apollo BTC – A Bitcoin ASIC Miner and Full Node
FutureBit Apollo BTC is an upcoming SHA256 ASIC miner designed for home users that is capable of not only mining, but also running a Full Bitcoin node. The device comes in the form of a compact and silent desktop class computer machine and is intended for home use and not for use in large crypto mining farms. It is based on the same idea of the FutureBit Apollo LTC Pod Scrypt ASIC Miner and Full Litecoin Node, but further improving things and not just only focusing on Bitcoin here. FutureBit announced it is going to be taking Pre-Orders for the Apollo BTC starting this Friday 2/5/21 at 6PM EST (GMT-5) on their official website with shipping expected to begin at the end of April. The Batch… [Read More...]
Mine VertCoin (VTC) After the Switch to the Verthash Algorithm
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… [Read More...]
Using the Red BIOS Editor to Modify AMD Radeon Memory Timings
Modifying the BIOS of your video card and more specifically the memory timings in order to increase the hashrate you get mining Ethereum is something that most people should do, especially when we are talking about AMD Radeon GPUs, though now a lot of miners also come with the option to optimize timings without you having to modify the BIOS. One very easy way to actually modify the video BIOS is with the help of the Red BIOS Editor (RBE) software that supports BIOS modifications of AMD Radeon GPUs with Polaris, Navi and Big Navi architecture. There are more ways to mod the BIOS for Polaris GPUs that have been available for a while, but for the newer Navi and Big Navi the RBE software is the… [Read More...]
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