Sure it’s listed here New Release Candidate: Less than One Week to Launch - Electric Coin Company but assuming you can run zcash locally then just add equihashsolver=tromp in zcash.conf for the improved solver. (Any further discussion should be in a separate thread rather than polluting this one.)
Thank you so much. appreciate it
Still though, according to @garethtdavies post you can use the miner that comes FREE with zcash and get around 20H/s or you can pay $1800 for a 20H/s 1 year contract with Toomim…
I don’t think cloud mining with GPU is worth it at these costs if you can just gather a couple computers together for comparable hashrate and save yourself $3600 (if you want 40H/s get 2 computers instead)
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Perhaps. There are pros and cons on the table. But the best that could happen is for @jtoomim SW be open-sourced but the possibility is remote entirely.
Soon to be 30 Sol/s for that CPU, tromp has made great progress with his CPU implementation.
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Is there any instructions for a noob to get this installed and running?
If this is true then these cloud mining contracts are way overpriced. You could get 30 Sol/s on your home computer or you could pay $2700 for cloud mining. No way these could be profitable
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Yes but to be fair this is a high end CPU which doesn’t come free (not to mention RAM, MB, power etc…) and no one has a couple of these lying around!
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This will just allow mining at home without the high cost of electricity.
Small scale yes but it’s going to be hard to run 20 CPU ‘rigs’ at home (whereas you could do the same with 20 GPUs with relative ease). That being said the distributed nature of mining was one of the aims of the algorithm so it looks like it might be doing its job!
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Zero chance with these prices.But on the other hand, these providers are doing nothing wrong, just taking advantage of the market.
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AMD FX-8350, 18-20 Sol/s with a $150 CPU, not bad for n=200, k=9.
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Thats the info I want, thank you.
Is that your own miner or tromps?
Has anyone compared the prices of setting up cheap cloud computing and running xenoncat’s algorithm. Maybe save the proprietary software and maintenance fees?
Yes I have with Tromp’s solvers but will start a new thread. Tested on Linode, Digital Ocean and Vultr.
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I will follow up on that thread. Try to compare a GPU miner running rx480 at 13.5H/s over multiple gpus as well.
How much ram in that?
Sorry I misunderstood as have only done CPU - I didn’t realize yours was good to go (will do some more research!)
Yes, Amazon EC2 spot instance:
$0.10 - 0.11 per hour
16 Sol/s - 8 threads
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@nobody are you able to integrate xenoncat’s code into miner?