I am the developer of two of the largest Ethereum mining pools (ethpool.org & ethermine.org) and would like to introduce our new Zcash mining pool at zcash.flypool.org.
The pool is currently connected to the latest Zcash testnet (RC 2) and has successfully mined its first blocks. Our stratum implementation is fully compatible with the existing miners (standalone miner & nicehash miner) and comes with vardiff enabled.
At launch date we plan to offer at least three mining nodes (US, EU and China) and will feature a 0% fee during the first week. There is no registration required as you simply use your Zcash address as username when connecting to the pool.
Till the launch we will continue to further improve the pool and add some missing features (luck calculation, mining income estimator). Payments will be enabled either today or tomorrow.
To join the pool simply point your miners to one of the following stratum servers:
Use your Zcash address as username. You can assign a worker name by appending it with a dot to your address. We support mining to transparent as well as protected addresses.
Address: 0xEA674fdDe714fd979de3EdF0F56AA9716B898ec8
Message: “I am the owner of ethermine.org”
Signature: 0x1334eb755402e5a378a8063441e1712639e3d4597186c02eb7e2cb33aa81c0d23f9ea0f987a283f47033e3ed52bf6d710c91de3a27e3d399bc56c94fc0f0a0d600
@peter_zcash: please make sure that your pool is compatible with NiceHash. People are trying to create orders in our system and point rented hashing power towards your pool. What I suggest you is to create an order on nicehash.com (you have to register an account) and point it to your pool (make sure to select equihash algorithm). You should bid high enough so that you’ll get some hashing power and see on your pool if the connection and mining is stable (at least for 24 hours). You should also make sure that your diff or vardiff is high enough since massive hashing power can be redirected towards your pool from NiceHash hashing power buyers.
cascadiacrypto Yes, we plan to add an US west coast server as well as a server based in asia, but only after the launch
@Geomancer Yes, we support all miners that implement the official stratum protocol
@kenshirothefist Thanks for your reminder, did you receive any reports that the connection is not working properly? Does your service require any modifications to the official stratum protocol?
Cannot build your nheqminer fork : (original nheqminer is building fine for me)
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:244: recipe for target ‘nheqminer’ failed
make: *** [nheqminer] Error 1
tried str4d miner but it’s so slow. Or i do something wrong. It nearly makes 0.03 H/s on 1 core and 2 gigs on ram.
Currently I would advice against using the standalone miner for pool mining as its stratum implementation is still very buggy. It is unable to properly reconnect to the pool and seems to get stuck after some time, see https://github.com/str4d/zcash/issues/12 for more information.
eXTremals Open Source GPU miner decided to implement a proprietary protocol for pool communication and not the official stratum protocol. Therefore it is not compatible with the pool right now. We will look into implementing this protocol but if a GPU miner with a working stratum implementation is released before the launch, we will most likely not support the eXTremals GPU miner.
: (original nheqminer is building fine for me)