Zcash ZEC Mining Operation

Start_miner.ex double-click the file to a black screen will come and go, you are ready to complete the setup process you mine. Finally, if you encounter a screen that looks like the following pair Start.bat you're already on file zcash Mining operations. Important: To keep. On October 28, 2016, the launch of Zcash will make ZEC coins available for mining. Since Zcash is an open source, decentralized cryptocurrency, we believe that mining should be available to everyone, regardless of their access to specialized hardware; anyone should be able to use a computer to “mine” by using open. Zcash Pool; News; Statistics. English; 한국어 - Geocoin credits will be distributed after manual swap. Geocoin mining is stopped permanently Geocoin dev.

In this guide we will be mining Zcash (ZEC) with Nvidia GPUs and mining it from the mining pool Flypool. Mining Zcash with EWBF’s Cuda Miner – What you’ll need To mine Zcash with EWBF’s Cuda Miner you will need: • A GPU Mining Rig (with Nvdia GPUs) running Windows or Linux • A Zcash wallet to deposit your mined ZEC into If you’re at the phase of building a mining rig, check out our guide. The 3-part tutorial walks through each and every step to get your up and mining with as little hassle as possible. Step 1: Download and install EWBF’s CUDA Zcash miner EWBF’s CUDA Zcash miner is available from a few different sources. We recommend downloading it from the official git repository.

The version of the Zcash miner that we are running is 0.3.4b. • Navigate to the repository for on github • Download the version appropriate for your platform (Windows or Linux) • We recommend the compiled binaries. Download the version appropriate for your hardware and OS: • Zec.miner.0.3.4b.zip for Windows • Zec.miner.0.3.4b.Linux.Bin.tar.gz for Linux • if you want to compile the miner yourself, download the most recent version of the source code for your operating system. • Uncompress the archive you downloaded in a convenient location (such as the desktop) • If compiling your own binaries, do so now Step 2: Review a batch file for starting the Zcash miner We’ll be starting the miner using a simple text file that tells the operating system to launch the mining program.

It also allows the configuration of settings when EWBF starts. These files can be created an edited with any text editor. Buy A ZenCash ZEN Miner. On the Windows platform, the correct file extension is.bat. On Linux, it is.cmd. Our batch file for mining Zcash at Flypool Below is an example of a batch file that we use on one of our Windows-based mining rigs. Everything is contained in a single line in the.bat file. That single line specifies the program to be run (miner) and a few settings that customize the miner’s activity.

Finally, and most importantly, one of Zcash wallet addresses is specified so mined Zcash goes to the right place. Here’s the.bat file that we are currently using to start mining. Scroll to see all of it’s contents if necessary. Miner --server us1-zcash.flypool.org --port 3333 --user t1HuKRfQbdfrTXVZ55C1M41kohJDEsS4Cpw.gpu0r18 --pass z --api --tempunits C --r 120 --log Two minus signs indicate variables or settings that will be supplied to the miner when it starts. Whatever directly follows a minus sign and setting is the value for the mining software to use.

Let’s go through each in this file. Variable What it is --server The URL of the mining server --port The port required by the server for mining Zcash --user The Zcash wallet address and the name of the mining rig that is mining separated by a period --pass Password is not used by Flypool, but you must supply something. We use a ‘z’ --api (optional) No value required --templimit (optional) Instructs the miner to stop any card mining above the temperature indicated --tempunits (optional) Specifies whether temperature units should be expressed in F or C --r (optional) Tells the miner to automatically restart by the value in minutes --log (optional) Stores a local log of the miner’s activity The settings not marked as optional are the bare minimum that must be used to mine ZEC at flypool. Optional EWBF settings we currently use As you can see, we’ve also included several optional settings. Here’s what they do and why we are using them: • –api – Adding this to the batch file allows you to monitor the miner’s progress with a web browser • –tempunits – We set our temperature unit to Celsius to correlate with our overclocking software • –r – We’ve unfortunately found that EWBF crashes randomly, regardless of our overclocking.

–rr 120 forces the miner to restart every two hours (120 minutes) whether it needs to or not. • –log – When a miner crashes it’s good to be able to see how it was behaving right before it crashed. By specifying –log, a log file is placed in the same folder as EWBF’s Cuda Zcash Miner. Step 3: Configure the miner with your settings Settings to mine Zcash at Flypool Now that you understand how the file that we’ll use to start Zcash works, all you need to do is to configure the settings for your mining rig: • Make a note of the Flypool Zcash server that is closest to your mining rig’s physical location • Asia: asia1-zcash.flypool.org • China: cn1-zcash.flypool.org • Europe: eu1-zcash.flypool. ZCoin XZC Guiminer more. org • United States: us1-zcash.flypool.org • In the folder containing EWBF’s Cuda Zcash Miner, create a memorable file name such as start_ZEC_flypool.bat. If your are on Linux, your file extension will be.cmd as opposed to.bat.

• Open the file you just created in a text editor.. • Copy the entire line below that starts with ‘miner’ • Paste it into you file making the following changes: • change YOURSERVER to the Flypool server nearest to you • update YOURWALLET to your Zcash wallet address • set YOURRIG to the name of the mining rig you’re setting EWBF up for • Save the file miner --server YOURSERVER --port 3333 --user YOURWALLET.YOURRIG --pass z --api --log Step 4: Start mining You’re ready to start mining Zcash on Flypool! What you see when you start to mine Zcash with EWBF’s Zcash Cuda miner.

• Double-click the file we just edited in Step 3 • A window will appear showing the miner’s progress as it connects to Flypool and starts mining Zcash. In Windows it will look like the image above. • That’s it, you’re mining Zcash from Flypool with EWBF’s Cuda Zcash Miner! • To check your mining progress on Flypool,. • At the top right-hand corner of the webpage, enter your Zcash wallet address and click the magnifying glass to find your miner.

• Since we included –api you can monitor the miner with a web browser as opposed to the command/terminal window. On the mining rig, navigate to 127.0.0.1:42000 in a web browser. You should see a screen like the one below.

Monitoring mining progress locally with EWBF’s Zcash Cuda Miner Having issues? There’s only a few things that can really go wrong. They include: • Do note that when you start mining it can take a few minutes before Flypool acknowledges your miner. • One or more values were incorrectly set in the.bat or.cmd file • Something is wrong with your mining rig • Flypool is down (visit zec.flypool.org to verify their site is up and running) Next steps • Learn more about EWBF’s Cuda Zcash Miner – We’ve only exposed you to a few of the settings that are available for use when mining. In the folder with the miner in it, open the HELP.txt file to review all available settings.

• If you haven’t already, learn about overclocking your video cards to tune your mining rig’s performance.

Z Cash Mining So what is Zcash mining some may ask? As most of us know that other than bitcoin there is a lot of other cryptocurrency that is being traded and speculated or invested around the world. Among the top traded and highest volume and market capitalization is Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ethereum Classic (ETC), Ripple (XRP), Dash (DASH), Monero (XMR) dan ZCash (ZEC). So why are people choosing ZEC now?

For every altcoin they have their own Pro and Cons in sense of market value, performance, marketing, function and utilization. So the function of these coins can be summarize in the following manner:- Bitcoin (BTC): The first cryptocurrency and functions as a digital payment system which is consider as a cyber currency which is widely used around the world wide with no centralized governing body which has the highest Market capitalization but has a rival of similiar function known as Litecoin Ethereum (ETH): A decentralized platform that runs smart contract where by the applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorshop, fraud or third party interference. It is can also be use as programmable money, issuance of token for (ICOs) and it is supported by huge community known as Etheruem Enterprise Alliance which consist of Microsoft or Intel and more. A smart contract functions as a contract between two partied without any third party or red tapes. For example, a vending machine is programmes with ETH smart contact where by everytimes the Supplier refills the vending machine, the money will automatically paid the the Supplier automatically via the Smart contract program into the Supplier's account without the need of another party (i.e the Vending machine owner) to pay the Supplier manually.

ZCash (ZEC): Is the First open, permission less cryptocurrency that can fully protect the privacy of transactions using Zero-knowledge of cryptography. It functions as an untraceable form of currency where by all its payments are untraceable and its transactions unlinkable with all its transactions encrypted and it is one of the profitable coin to mine using a GPU with only 21 million units of ZEC to be mine which will protect itself against inflation. From certain aspect it is to my humble opinion that ZEC is here for the long run and it is a coin which has it own standing point in the cryptoworld and its developer is fullfilling their whitepaper plans and path. Hence, it is still profitable to mine Zcash in the long run. So let start with the basis of ZEC mining!!

Firstly, personally i would recommend using Nvidia GPUs to mind ZEC / Zcash, its will provide with a higher hashrate / price ratio compare to AMD Gpus, hence the faster return of your capital. So what should your do:- FIRST, SETTING UP ZEC WALLET There are a few kinds of wallet such as:- (a) my personal favorite and safest wallet which is the Hardware wallet whereby your wallet is in a hardware like Trezor ( ) or Ledger ( ) which could be bought online for a cost around 60USD to 99USD where your coins will be store in the hardware which is hard to be hacked as your private key is saved in the hardware itself.

(b) the Hot wallet where the website provides the facility to provide your with a multisignature wallet such as Jaxx.com or which is accessible via your phone. (c) Some people would just register or get a ZEC wallet on a cryptocurrency exchange which they trust such as or Bittrex.com which is accessible via any web browser. However, it is not likely recommended to be your main wallet unless you are trading as there are many hackers targeting exchanges. So basically you just need to register an account on the bittrex exchange and log into your account and look for the tab wallets and it will list all the altcoins that they have! Bittrex interface Search 'ZEC' for find Zcash and press the '+' button on the left to and press new address to generate your ZEC wallet address. After a few second you will see your new address in the column address and that is your wallet address so make sure you keep a hard copy by writing or copy a soft copy anywhere you can find like a note file for easy access or even in your google drive.

Note: ZEC has 2 kind of wallet, one starts with 't' and the other 'z' which the latter is safer. However, please be aware that even though its safer a lot of mining pool does not support the 'z' wallet address. So what is a pool or why a mining pool and not mine solo? What is a pool can be explain in this link or as i usually explain to my friends where a pool is basically its just like a pool or area of where you know that there is Gold in that area which is like thousand of acres wide where your miner or mining rig is a worker entering this area and your job is to find gold and in your case is ZEC. Hence a pool is like a company with organize every miners together to go and find gold (ZEC) together in the whole area of vast land (Block) which contains gold and everyone will work together to find gold, hence your chance of finding gold as a group is higher compare to a single person looking for gold and in a pool the amount of gold (ZEC) your get is base on the amount of work (hashrate / GPU power) you had supplied to the pool.

Hence you are most likely to get a steady income than mining solo where your chances a much lower and your might not get paid or find gold for your work for a long period of time. So mining alone will take a very long time to find a block (gold mine area). So for example, in the early days after the launching of ETH ICO some people try to mine ETH solo which they took at least a week just to find a block using a single mining rig which a block gives your around 5 ETH per block.

However, most people who mine through pools get a constant payment of around 1 ETH per day for the same amount of hash power they provide. Hence it more profibale to mine through pools as they are more constant even though most pools will charge you for it.

There are many kind of pools and the popular ones are like which is my personal favourite as it more stable and constant payment. However, there are like such,. So i'll guide you how to mine using Flypool for Nvidia GPU and Rigs as its more profitable using Nvidia Gpus. So first you must ensure that you are using windows 7 or windows 10 for the miner to work. Then you will first visit the website, where by you shall scroll to the middle part where you will choose mining software you will be using based on your Operating system and GPU and for us we shall be choosing windows and Nvidia. And where you will be able to click on the link where it will lead you to the forum where you will be able to download the newest version of EWBF's CUDA Zcash miner which is the best Nvidia miner for zcash. From there you shall be able to download the miner Windows x64 and choose the most current one for the optimum performance, and during the time of typing this article the best miner is the ZEC 0.3.4b so just download it into your computer.

So once you downloaded, unzip the file to where ever is convenient like your desktop. Sometimes you will not be able to unzip or download due to your anti virus software so you might have to temporarily close them as the software will have to have full access of your computer for them to work properly and to anti virus software they are a threat.

Once your unzip the file you will be able to access the folder where by you there are a selection of bat files where you can see a numbers of file name with pool name on them. They are practically set up for you already.