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How to mine Firo (FIRO) – Zcoin (MTP) mining guide for NVIDIA / AMD

coinguides — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 09:59:38 +0000

Firo (Zcoin) uses MTP (Merkle Tree Proof) algorithm which can be mined using both CPUs and GPUs. But GPUs are more efficient and particularly NVIDIA cards are more profitable at mining FIRO. From time to time it even beats Ethereum in mining profitability. Use WhatToMine and other mining calculators to find out how profitable it is to …

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CryptoDredge 0.18.0 – New algorithm (Argon2d) and minor improvements

coinguides — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 05:13:41 +0000

CryptoDredge is a simple, easy to use and a stable crypto mining software designed for modern NVIDIA GPUs. Not only it is stable but it is a high performing miner and moreover it has got support for multiple crypto mining algorithms. The previous version CryptoDredge 0.17.0 added support for Cuckaroo29 algorithm (Grin) and CuckooCycle algorithm …

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How to mine MTP (Merkle Tree Proof) – Zcoin XZC hard fork upgrade guide

coinguides — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 14:49:54 +0000

For a cryptocurrency to succeed it first needs to achieve wider distribution. In order to achieve this a coin must provide fair mining solution so that even home miners can participate and earn some coins through mining. But today this is not something that you can find in most coins. Cryptocurrency mining is largely dominated …

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A list of useful commands to help manage your Masternodes & Linux VPS

coinguides — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 02:59:59 +0000

With growing number of masternode coins you might be interested in setting up and running your own masternode. It can be either to earn a passive income or to test the environment or to understand how the whole system works. Actually most of the masternode coins are based on Dash or PIVX so the requirements …

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What does -rescan, -reindex command do & How to rescan / reindex wallet?

coinguides — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 13:12:05 +0000

Core wallet is quite sensitive and two commands which is used to fix a large number of wallet related issues are - rescan and -reindex. Are you getting any error when starting your core wallet? Or is your local blockchain database broken / corrupt? This can occur when copying blockchain from one computer to another, …

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Core wallet: “No block source available” – How to fix this?

coinguides — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 07:23:05 +0000

Trying to sync our core wallet can be quite challenging at times and everyone of us might have gone through this stage atleast once. Whichever coin it; if you haven’t opened your wallet in a while then you need to patiently wait for it to completely synchronize. Also it can get quite frustrating if the …

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Masternode requirements – Why VPS? and why home PC is not suitable?

coinguides — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:49:21 +0000

Masternode technology is an invention of Dash. They are special nodes on the network that are more than just another peer connection. Apart from running full nodes and relaying transactions they provide several functions to the network. To run a masternode you need two things: 1. A certain amount of coins that needs to be …

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How to get email alerts/notification for your masternode status & payouts

coinguides — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 04:06:55 +0000

Once the masternode setup is complete you can check your masternode status to ensure everything is working fine and it will receive payments promptly. But is that it? Masternodes are not something that you set and forget. Since Masternodes are hosted on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) you need to keep monitoring its downtime and …

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How to stop / turn off a Masternode and remove coins from it

coinguides — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 06:00:48 +0000

Has the price of your Masternode went up and you’d like to sell them quickly? Are you running more than 2 nodes of a same coin and would like to disable a node to spend those coins? The Masternode which you are running seems so worthless and you’d like to terminate it completely? There are …

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CryptoDredge – A new fastest NVIDIA GPU miner (Windows and Linux)

coinguides — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 12:41:47 +0000

Recently we came through this new miner called CryptoDredge. A NVIDIA GPU miner that is said to deliver greater performance on Lyra2REv2 and few other algorithms. This miner has gone through several updates since June and it has got some attention more recently as the developers were adding new algorithms and improving the miner further. …

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