How to mine Zcash

hmmm, what does this mean? it means the coin i can mine easily ,doesnt it?

Sure. That is, if you can go back in time to February.

Should be able to run within 1GB, no? As long as there’s 700MB(?) at least per core? Or am I getting mixed up? chrs

Once compiled, Zcash should be able to run within 4GB.

To run a Zcash node it takes less than 100MB. If you want to mine you need a minimum of 700MB per mining core.
When you want to create a Joinsplit/protected coins operation I believe you will need about 4GB free RAM for the process.

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It seems the real rig mining configuration is not really known now,
GPU or CPU with specific capacity under Equihash is really a big question (for me) after the actual ZCash launching later in Oct.

I am just wondering that the objective of digital money is actually to distribute and avoide super power of one only object (to avoid financial-power-abuse).
It is funny to trace back some threads that at the end that mining (digital money) is actually centralized (and possible to be abused under 51% something vote or other bla bla bla):

It is probably home-miner only possible to mine ByteCoin or perhaps NXT (or Ether - this ll be POS soon) now under standard home-gadget stuffs/PC.

How to (greedy) mine the ZCash whether specific GPU or CPU? I ll take it anyway.

Cheers up, let s get some ZCash,
let’s see the most powerful miner/coin owner later (within next 2 or 7 years).

I very much disagree. Handing the majority of hash power to botnet operators is vastly worse than handing it to ASIC owners.

Why?

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To ensure success of a medium as a value carrier. Would you rather hand it for free to a small group people or have it being earned by community members that invest in it’s success?

I would rather have mining available to all people instead of only a
wealthy few that can afford to buy out all the high end graphics cards and
host them in their own data centers.

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Short term thinking since it won’t matter if you can mine ‘more affordably’ if botnets own 90% of hash power and dump coins as they mine.

90% botnet mined is too high (because then they could 51% attack).

But I’d be okay with even as much 15% botnet mined, if that was what it
took to achieve the “anybody can mine” dream.

Fact if he matter is, mining with equihash is resource intensive and most
herders wouldn’t want to risk mining zec on their network – as it
increases their chance of being discovered.

The bread and butter of botnet herders is spamming and ddosing. They
generally don’t want to risk discovery. So I would expect to see only an
insignificant percentage of the total network hashing power being held by
botnets.

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i’m trying to mine on supanova but all im seeing is skipping take share??? any ideas??

How can i see mined coins with zcash-cli?

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I installed and started the miner on my ubuntu lenovo w520 laptop - am i actually mining real coins or is this a test network … i am using git checkout v1…01 from this site instruction https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/guides/how-to-mine-zcash-with-cpu
I am getting this output

abl@abl-ThinkPad-W520:~/zcash$ ./src/zcash-cli getinfo
{
“version” : 1000150,
“protocolversion” : 170002,
“walletversion” : 60000,
“balance” : 0.00000000,
“blocks” : 9516,
“timeoffset” : 0,
“connections” : 8,
“proxy” : “”,
“difficulty” : 254693.43714883,
“testnet” : false,
“keypoololdest” : 1484693106,
“keypoolsize” : 101,
“paytxfee” : 0.00000000,
“relayfee” : 0.00005000,
“errors” : “”

Perfect, actually Linux is okay to me and I will bring my friends to mine and buy this coin.

Hey Guys. Complete NOOB here!

I found out that CrytoCurrency Mining was possible yesterday! 30 min ago I installed on my Mac Zcash Miner, I think its working… not really sure… I read that I only get ‘paid’ after I mined 1 block. But how do I know my progress?

Set up: Macbook Pro 2009: ~0.70 H/s, 1.22 Sol/s
Zcash Address: inserted the wallet code
password:
Server Port: asia1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 (just found this online… :grin:)
Threads: 4 (because it was the maximum…)

the windows keeps showing example: [22:45:01][0x000000000] stratum | e[36mReceived new job #b4676ef9fb784e[0m

Any help with be apreciated…