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Title: Is it possible to mine altcoin with antminer? Post by: XiaDan96 on September 13, 2017, 02:49:21 AM I saw some comments at other forum said that theoretically it's possible to use like antminer s9 from bitmain to mine other SHA-256 based altcoin, and I'm wondering how to do it practically.
There is a place for SD card on S9 so I was thinking will it be just like what we do to GPU miners. We download mining software from mining pool, save it to the SSD, and run it. So I checked those S9 set-up tutorial but it seems like I was wrong, there wasn't any step including download anything from mining pool. Did anyone here try similar things before? And I know that this kind of ASIC miners are optimized for certain kind of coins. But for example, is S9 optimized for bitcoin or for SHA-256 algorithm? Thanks a lot. Title: Re: Is it possible to mine altcoin with antminer? Post by: tsaroz on September 13, 2017, 03:27:22 AM I don't have total technological knowledge about the Antminer s9 but bitcoin miners mine SHA-256 coins most efficiently.
That is they are made for SHA-256 Algo. Title: Re: Is it possible to mine altcoin with antminer? Post by: dhemasm on September 13, 2017, 04:56:36 AM If I am not mistaken you can only mine SHA-256 coins with your antminer because the average altcoin uses a different algo (CMIIW).
Title: Re: Is it possible to mine altcoin with antminer? Post by: XiaDan96 on September 13, 2017, 05:10:52 AM If I am not mistaken you can only mine SHA-256 coins with your antminer because the average altcoin uses a different algo (CMIIW). yup that's my point. I would like to know how can I switch my btc miner to a ... for example PCC miner? Is it like, ssh into my miner and load some other mining software? Title: Re: Is it possible to mine altcoin with antminer? Post by: dhemasm on September 13, 2017, 05:49:41 AM yup that's my point. Ohh i see, maybe you can check here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1291032. I found an old thread, i do not know this can help your case or not.I would like to know how can I switch my btc miner to a ... for example PCC miner? Is it like, ssh into my miner and load some other mining software? Good Luck! Title: Re: Is it possible to mine altcoin with antminer? Post by: vlom on September 13, 2017, 06:25:28 AM I saw some comments at other forum said that theoretically it's possible to use like antminer s9 from bitmain to mine other SHA-256 based altcoin, and I'm wondering how to do it practically. There is a place for SD card on S9 so I was thinking will it be just like what we do to GPU miners. We download mining software from mining pool, save it to the SSD, and run it. So I checked those S9 set-up tutorial but it seems like I was wrong, there wasn't any step including download anything from mining pool. Did anyone here try similar things before? And I know that this kind of ASIC miners are optimized for certain kind of coins. But for example, is S9 optimized for bitcoin or for SHA-256 algorithm? Thanks a lot. i don't know if there is a difference between a S9 and S3. but i think the main parts are the same. with my old S3 i was able to mine all SHA-256 coins. you just have to find a pool. here you can find a list of coins: https://www.coinwarz.com/miningprofitability/sha-256 Title: Re: Is it possible to mine altcoin with antminer? Post by: XiaDan96 on September 13, 2017, 07:03:22 AM yup that's my point. Ohh i see, maybe you can check here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1291032. I found an old thread, i do not know this can help your case or not.I would like to know how can I switch my btc miner to a ... for example PCC miner? Is it like, ssh into my miner and load some other mining software? Good Luck! Thanks a lot!! I'll check it out~ |