# ZERO - fork of Zcash with harder mining params

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zero-fork-of-zcash-with-harder-mining-params/14470>\
**Category:** Mining\
**Created:** [February 28, 2017, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zero-fork-of-zcash-with-harder-mining-params/14470 "2017-02-28T09:03:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![leminer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@leminer](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/leminer)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zero-fork-of-zcash-with-harder-mining-params/14470/1 "2017-02-28T09:03:15Z")

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Hi there,

As you see this is my first post here.

I found this on btctalk and saw that this is a clone of zcash but my miner didn’t work .

Could you share your opinion about it? [GitHub - zerocurrency/zero: zero](https://github.com/zerocurrency/zero)

Worth trying to mine?

Is anyone here who is able to develop an efficient GPU miner for this ? It seems the RAM requirements are quite big.

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**Author:** ![mtve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@mtve](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/mtve)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zero-fork-of-zcash-with-harder-mining-params/14470/2 "2017-02-28T15:30:23Z")

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Hello!

Equihash N=192 k=7 could fit into 4GB GPU, and parallelism of GPU over CPU could get some advantage.

So I don’t think it will return the power to CPU owners, nothing revolutionary here from my point of view. Dynamic increase of Equihash parameters as a difficulty could be more interesting.

What about a miner - I guess you can get any basic GPU miner, from example Tromp’s, and patch it to a new parameters.

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**Author:** ![leminer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@leminer](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/leminer)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zero-fork-of-zcash-with-harder-mining-params/14470/3 "2017-02-28T18:10:49Z")

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I saw a miner dev posted that there will be a miner in few days with a 2.5% fee with 8-9sol/s for a 8GB GPU. It seems for the moment it doesn’t work for 4GB GPU.

We shall see about returning power , maybe there are some people with free electricity considering the diff.

Anyway thanks for sharing your opinion.