I am currently running Tromps from minezcash.com - is there a guide anywhere to implement xenoncat in linux??
for selling your hash, BTC is the only PAYMENT option. if you want to get paid in a specific coin, just mine it yourself, don’t need nicehash for that ;p
Yes, if you really want to get Zcash by mining, you should look at the ability to buy hashing power. We are much less risky investment, because you can cancel all orders at any time - you don’t get locked in contracts like with all other cloud mining companies.
We have currently about 1 kH/s (or 1 kSols/s) of equihash available and prices are around 0.01 BTC for 1 kH/s per one day mining.
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Would be great if you could sticky (or include in top post) the location of the download links, and also a version set of the miner.
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Ok, energy efficiency benchmark is set at 2.7 J/Sol …
Can anyone produce a solution with fewer Joules?
How many Watt for jtoomim’s 41 Sol/s ?
Its R9 390 so i think that more than 100W easy. Lets say 4.1 J/Sol, but i think that is closer to 5-6.
Jtoomim’s top post on Toomim Bros GPU mining software and cloud mining says 41 sol/s on a R9 290.
If the GPU is fully utilized, that’s 250 watts TDP - around 6.1 J/Sol.
i7 5930K does cca 39 sols/s with 89 W (did not measure at wall, maybe a bit more there) so that is about 2.3 J/Sol.
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Thats a very expensive cpu.
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Yeah, not gonna be a lot of people looking to build a $10k workstation for mining. (This is a single processor: Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4 2.3 GHz LGA 2011-3 145W BX80660E52697V4 Server Processor - Newegg.com)
$5600 for processors only to reach 100 H/s 
And I’m going to go ahead and assume a HUGE part of the performance is the 45 MB L3 cache that allows for massive increase in data shuffling rate.
While the i7 5930K is a $600 processor.
So maybe take these numbers with a grain of salt.
Edit: I checked and if the hash-rate is as highly dependent on L3 cache as I suspect, Xeons will most likely not be a very viable solution as the cheapest with 40MB+ L3 cache is $2k+
Edit: Even renting the Xeon used in the 100 h/s example is well around or above current cloud mining rates: http://www.softlayer.com/gpu
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What version of your miner are you using? Download link? I’ll run tests on a slightly older (affordable) Dual - Xeon and post results.
edit: My Dual-Xeon is at 14 Sol/s right now. Not sure if I am running the right miner though, there are 2 exe. files so I tried the AVX one. ??
Which card is better for Zcash mining GTX 1060 or RX 480?
I don’t think its published yet.
My guess is they are about the same as of current. It does seem however that AMD cards generally perform better once optimizations are truly pushed. Not saying it will be true for Zcash, but I think it’s likely.
is this miner out for cpu. the updated one?
great speeds, well done nicehash.
41 sol/s on a R9 290.
If the GPU is fully utilized, that’s 250 watts TDP - around 6.1 J/Sol.
We’re not doing any texture lookups or texture compression or other graphics processing, so it’s not “fully utilized”. Also, that particular GPU is slightly undervolted. We measured it at around 200 W, or 5 J/Sol.
We’re probably going to be mostly using RX 470s, which are around 3.75 J/Sol even with the crummy driver issue.
I expect those numbers to improve once we get back to code optimization.
And please do anybody know which hashrate have Fiji cards Fury X and r9 nano?
The new miner is not out yet right?
Above was just nicehash test results?
Most tests indicate that there isn’t a huge performance diff between 290/390/480/Fury, Nano etc. Yes, some, but nothing extreme so far.