Miner- [NiceHash] Zcash CPU/GPU for Linux and Windows

i would love to use the api, is there any documentation?

ideally it would be same/similar to cpuminer-opt/-multi/ccminer but i noticed its different

cheers

API is pretty much “raw” for now.

You can test it using telnet 127.0.0.1 <API_PORT>, then write in console: status

Reply is a JSON message.

SSE is already supported … Linux should work out-of-the-box and we’ve just updated Windows binaries with SSE support.

There are already several orders and almost 100 H/s (or rather call it Sols/S) of hashing power available.

DON’T HAVE MINING RIG? YOU CAN ALREADY BUY HASHING POWER AT NICEHASH!

As you can see, current prices are in the range around 0.001 BTC/kH/Day.

View it here: NiceHash - Leading Cryptocurrency Platform for Mining and Trading

thanks, just tried it

if the api is still in such an early state i might request some stats, if they arent on your todo list already :smiley:

things im missing:

  • accepted (total)
  • rejected (total)
  • version
  • diff
  • uptime
  • temperature //not sure how difficult to implement, optional

i know this is a lot to ask for, but im in no rush, maybe some/all of those things find their way in some future version eventually

edit: if the cuda miner is based on this work and/or similar those mentioned stats apply to it too, with the addition of fan speed percentages

@kenshirothefist Are these the official NiceHash miners? Do they work with AMD GPUs? Thanks!

Is it against TestNet or pre-orders ?

Sure, nheqminer is official NiceHash miner. Currently this is an optimized CPU-only miner. CUDA support is on it’s way (will be released in the following days). But I can’t promise anything for OpenCL … no public implementations out there currently.

You mine for our buyers, so the question where you mine should be addressed to them.

Orders are not preorders, but buyers are actually paying you some for mining. Very small amounts, price is very low now, so it probably doesn’t matter for them. But this is great, because you can already feel how everything will go, you can prepare yourself. As a buyer of hashing power, you can already create account, load up bitcoins, prepare list of pools and when launch is here, you just press button to place the order and start gaining Zcash :slight_smile:

As a buyer of hashing power, will I be able to store Zcash in NiceHash website till a Windows wallet is released?

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That’s not the way it works. You put in your pool information like hostname, server port, YOUR wallet address, etc and when you pay for the rental it mines on YOUR POOL.

Tried the miner, its a crappy i3 and gets 5H/s or 2.5Sol/s (or vice versa)

@kenshirothefist, As I can see you have now released your binaries to the public. Thank you for that. It is also high time that you show appreciation to the developers of these miners. Their hardwork will be a tool for your business. A little donation/BTC gratitude would not take a deep hole onto your profit. Show some love to these devs. Their BTC addresses are posted everywhere. Thank you.

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We will be doing donations, don’t you worry about that.

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You will be able to store your mined Zcash at the pool of your choice (where you would mine). You can already test how this goes, because everything is already functional and almost 300 H/s of power available to be purchased from us.

This indeed is very nice of you. These community will love you more if you shower us with your love. :heart_eyes:

Please could you confirm all of the prerequisites for building in nheqminer in Ubuntu 16 as when I compile I get the error
“can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC”

@niwde I haven’t compiled @nicehashdev binaries. Perhaps he can point you the right steps.

NOW Only BTC ADDRESS not ZC ADDRESS…@nicehashdev

I’m having problems running the solver on Windows7. Benchmark works OK, connecting to stratum does not. The Bitcoin address is my deposit address on an exchange.

quark % nheqminer_x64_SSE2.exe -b
Equihash CPU Miner for NiceHash v0.1b
Thanks to Zcash developers for providing most of the code
Special thanks to tromp for providing optimized CPU equihash solver

Setting log level to 2
Benchmark starting... this may take several minutes, please wait...
Benchmark done!
Total time : 24682 ms
Total hashes: 100
Total solutions found: 172
Speed: 4.05154 H/s
Speed: 6.96864 S/s

quark % nheqminer_x64_SSE2.exe -l eu -u 3M5XnSBRk1uEK2o3dFhyTqtw2EPqDWDDB9 -p x -t 6
Equihash CPU Miner for NiceHash v0.1b
Thanks to Zcash developers for providing most of the code
Special thanks to tromp for providing optimized CPU equihash solver

Setting log level to 2
[2016-10-21 11:08:24.762615][0x00040290]: stratum | Connecting to stratum server equihash.eu.nicehash.com:3357
[2016-10-21 11:08:24.820123][0x00040290]: stratum | Connected!
[2016-10-21 11:08:24.824123][0x00040290]: stratum | Starting miner
[2016-10-21 11:08:24.829124][0x000403e8]: miner#0 | Starting thread #0
[2016-10-21 11:08:24.829124][0x0004007c]: miner#1 | Starting thread #1
[2016-10-21 11:08:24.829624][0x0003fcac]: miner#2 | Starting thread #2
[2016-10-21 11:08:24.829624][0x00040064]: miner#3 | Starting thread #3
[2016-10-21 11:08:24.829624][0x000404ac]: miner#4 | Starting thread #4
[2016-10-21 11:08:24.829624][0x000407d8]: miner#5 | Starting thread #5
[2016-10-21 11:08:24.865629][0x00040290]: stratum | read_until: End of file
[2016-10-21 11:08:24.870629][0x00040290]: stratum | Reconnecting in 3 seconds...
[2016-10-21 11:08:27.876011][0x00040290]: stratum | Connecting to stratum server equihash.eu.nicehash.com:3357
[2016-10-21 11:08:27.919516][0x00040290]: stratum | Connected!
[2016-10-21 11:08:27.954021][0x00040290]: stratum | read_until: End of file
[2016-10-21 11:08:27.959521][0x00040290]: stratum | Reconnecting in 3 seconds...
[2016-10-21 11:08:30.965403][0x00040290]: stratum | Connecting to stratum server equihash.eu.nicehash.com:3357
[2016-10-21 11:08:31.008909][0x00040290]: stratum | Connected!
[2016-10-21 11:08:31.043913][0x00040290]: stratum | read_until: End of file
[2016-10-21 11:08:31.048914][0x00040290]: stratum | Reconnecting in 3 seconds...
[2016-10-21 11:08:34.054795][0x00040290]: stratum | Connecting to stratum server equihash.eu.nicehash.com:3357
[2016-10-21 11:08:34.092800][0x00040290]: stratum | Connected!
[2016-10-21 11:08:34.122304][0x00040290]: stratum | read_until: End of file
[2016-10-21 11:08:34.127805][0x00040290]: stratum | Reconnecting in 3 seconds...
[2016-10-21 11:08:34.764386][0x000402f4]: ←[33mSpeed [300 sec]: 0 H/s, 0 Sol/s←[0m
[2016-10-21 11:08:37.133686][0x00040290]: stratum | Connecting to stratum server equihash.eu.nicehash.com:3357
[2016-10-21 11:08:37.176692][0x00040290]: stratum | Connected!
[2016-10-21 11:08:37.211696][0x00040290]: stratum | read_until: End of file
[2016-10-21 11:08:37.216697][0x00040290]: stratum | Reconnecting in 3 seconds...