Zcash - any STHers Mining?

[Patrick]

There is a local wallet. You can also get an account at Kraken and they can generate an address for you. You can them mine and point to that address. From an ease standpoint that is probably the way to go.

I can help with the CPU mining script. Will post when I am on my laptop.

 

[marcoi]

if you can put up some links where to get miner, link to exchange rates, etc. that would be helpful.

Also if i want to run this on my dual e5 rig which is running esxi, should i create a linux vm and put most of my cores on it?

 

[Patrick]

@marcoi and @gigatexal I put it here Zcash getting started with CPU mining (easily)

 

[gigatexal]

Thank you!

 

[marcoi]

with 20 cores in vm im at 24 sols/s running on two e5-2670. also got up 430 watts at the psu.

 

[Patrick]

with 20 cores in vm im at 24 sols/s running on two e5-2670. also got up 430 watts at the psu.

Very low. That is below a D-1537. I wonder if that is AVX2 impact.

 

[marcoi]

so my laptop running a windows version of the code and 8 threads on i7-6820hk is doing 24.6 sols/s for comparison.

Are there gpu based miners yet?

update: my laptop cpu does have avx2.

I tried using NiceHashMiner_v1.7.3.3 windows program on the laptop to get some ideas on what my hardware can do.

My Nvidia 1080 GTX card was doing 48.847 MH/s lyra2rev2 which is 2.60x mBTC/Day or 1.85 usd/day. At that rate it barely pays for electricity for me.

Intel e3-1265L v3 was doing 18.423 sols/s or .38x mBTC/day which is .27 usd/day lol. it using 108 Watts. it doesnt cover electricity at this rate.

 

[gigatexal]

my e5 v1s don't do avx2 and i'm getting something like 40 sols/sec

 

[marcoi]

my 3690x does 26.4 sols/s or .50cents per day/ but it using 350watts. i would owe money for elect.

 

[marcoi]

looks like my two 290x cards can make 3.30 usd/day mining daggerhashimo at 53 MH/s. Eletricity is 720watts. but that including raid card and drives. after elect, i would make about 40 a month while producing 700 watts of heat lol.

 

[gigatexal]

my 3690x does 26.4 sols/s or .50cents per day/ but it using 350watts. i would owe money for elect.

sounds like it could get worse once difficulty goes up, apparently there are people doing tens or more thousands of sols/s so we're going to be left behind unless any of us has a datacenter to mine with...

 

[gigatexal]

@Patrick that got me thinking, don't you have enough compute lying around when customers aren't using the STH lab to test SSDs and such? That could be a way to offset the cost of the whole lab by letting them mine in the downtime.

 

[gigatexal]

just saw my 2670 box running all day yesterday just deposited .0022 Zcoins to my kraken account lol, I've got .21 euros less whatever my electricity comes to.

 

[Patrick]

Not profitable but you are right, it is possible. The big issue is that as things go ASICs, general purpose hardware becomes useless.

And yesterday was a really bad day in the NH pool.

 

[gigatexal]

At the rate I'm mining I'll have a whole zcash coin in 500 days

 

[Boddy]

Perhaps one of these babies will help?

i.e. $5k for a watercooled Phi pedestal liquid cooled system on 'Colfax' DAP (Developer Access Program):

would a knights landing phi processor have what is needed to mine with speed?

Developer Access Program (DAP) for Intel® Xeon Xeon Phi™ Processor Codenamed Knights Landing

 

[Boddy]

Will knight's landing phi's do avx2?

An interesting article:
Intel's next-generation Xeon Phi, Knights Landing, now shipping to developers - ExtremeTech

EDIT: Another interesting article, that describes the 3 types of Knights Landing Phi processors avail.

Intel Launches 'Knights Landing' Phi Family for HPC, Machine Learning

 

[Patrick]

I am going to update the script with the zcash.flypool.org pool. Seems MUCH bigger to the point it generates blocks hourly.

 

[Patrick]

@gigatexal In the first 4 hours I did 0.012 ZEC. Seems better than the old pool.

For those wondering, that is about $1.10.

 

[gigatexal]

did you have to specify a port like with your previous guide?

with the new pool i'm not mining for some reason:

[21:05:39][0x00007f88f968d740] Speed [300 sec]: 0 I/s, 0 Sols/s

[21:05:49][0x00007f88f968d740] Speed [300 sec]: 0 I/s, 0 Sols/s

[21:05:59][0x00007f88f968d740] Speed [300 sec]: 0 I/s, 0 Sols/s

[21:06:09][0x00007f88f968d740] Speed [300 sec]: 0 I/s, 0 Sols/s

[21:06:19][0x00007f88f968d740] Speed [300 sec]: 0 I/s, 0 Sols/s

[21:06:29][0x00007f88f968d740] Speed [300 sec]: 0 I/s, 0 Sols/s