NOTE: Please put, in bold, ADD TO LIST at the top of your post if you have info you want included/corrected here. PLEASE DO NOT PM ME, I will see it at the same time I see your post so it is not going to help anything. EDIT 9/3: clearly I'm not updating as often, there isn't much new to report, but if you have any updates or corrections, include the add to list bold and I'll try to check in every couple days.  Here is a current list of tested pools. This was started by culling from the Z9 thread (as of June 1st), but built from comments below of your experiences, add new ones (begin post with ADD TO LIST) and I'll update this post as often as I can. Please try to keep it on topic, I'm not going to report anyone but there are plenty of threads to discuss the machine itself, ASICs and their effect on algos, GPUs vs ASICs, etc. Let's just keep this one to useful information as best as we can, cool? Cool. PLEASE NOTE: these are based on first person accounts. YMMV. I put a * next to any working pool I have personally tested. Working: antpool (ZEC)* Zhash.pro (ZEN)* Coinblockers (HUSH, KMD, BTCP, CMM)* Bitpool (HUSH)* Flypool (ZEC)* Suprnova (All equihash except noted below) (use ccminer port)* Bitcoin Interest Official pool (BCI)* Zhash.pro (BTCP, HUSH, XSG, ZEC)* Luckpool (ZEN, ZCL, ZEC, VOT, KMD, HUSH) Miningpoolhub (BTG, ZCL, auto-switch)* cmmmine (CMM) Luxor (ZEC) viabtc Mining Dutch (multiple coins) Prohashing (use port 3336) Powermining.pw (ZEN, ZCL, BTCP, VOT) Slushpool (ZEC) 2miners (ZEC) Bitpool (KMD) (NOTE--confirmed by pool owner, independent confirmation pending) Pool Sexy (ZEC) (NOTE--confirmed by pool owner, independent confirmation pending) Nibiru Pool (BTCP, VOT, VIS, ACH, ZCL, ZEN, BCI) (NOTE--confirmed by pool owner, independent confirmation pending) Equigems.online (NOTE--confirmed by pool owner, independent confirmation pending) Not working currently: Nanopool (ZEC) -- NOTE that a user has reported NP have ordered a Z9 and will be testing and fixing once it arrives Suprnova (BCI) Suprnova (ZEC) (working with high rejection rate) Zpool -- reports only accepting roughly 50% of hashrate CONFIRMED NOT WORKING: Nicehash (confirmed incompatible by Nicehash) All SNOW pools (fork) All SAFE pools (fork) All BTG pools (fork) Test requests: Bitpool (KMD) linkZCL solo linkLabs.f2pool (ZEC, ZCL) linkForked: BTG SafeCoin Snowgem ZEL Also here's a Reddit thread with a list of info on which coins have and haven't confirmed if they are forking or not. This is allegedly being updated, but it may be out of date by the time you read it: https://www.reddit.com/r/zec/comments/8h14ms/equihash_antiasic_fork_every_equihash_coin_and/EDIT: since I've been asked a couple times, here's a couple addys to donate if you want to, but there's seriously no need. This forum has saved me countless hours and helped me to do everything from build my first rig to help someone set up a pool, I'm just glad to be contributing in some tiny way, and the testing I've done has maybe taken a couple hours off my mining time at most, so there isn't pretty much any loss. Still, again, since I was asked, here's a ZEN and BTC addy: ZEN: zndAMx7TsZpCMPw1RX4U5fPvoHJJqPsFrEp BTC: 3GPinbTHQVvLrnHARZ9Pc4bYEHoZcLNSU8 (last update 9/3) |
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Same here, but I did indeed buy coin. Mostly XLM, XRP, and ETH before buying a miner. Now I have some low price coin that I mined rather than buy. It's all a gamble like the stock market. Bought into some MJ companies TRTC and CVSI.... the two top revenue US traded companies (also a gamble since MJ still illegal federally)
Not for long; at least, not without some sort of fascist overthrow of state governments. Medical aside, there are currently too many recreational states for the fed to do anything about it. If they wanted to, they needed to do something before California stepped up. CA is too big to take down, population wise AND financially (recently became the world's fifth largest economy, I believe). I bought some green stocks too, but the bigger issue is that it's early days for the industry. Phillip Morris and other biggies are starting to move into it, so it's going to get...interesting. All I wish is that I could invest in the company that makes the gummies I buy up here in PDX, because damn, they're too tasty. They should really include a bag of non-edibles with them, so you can eat a bunch after they kick in without going full on psycho... Agreed! Too many heavy hitters involved now, look at Bohner(sic). Dead set against MJ, now on the board of a big MJ consortium. Tide is changing for sure, risk reward classic and I took the risk. I always buy stock in what I personally use: Apple (macbook, mini, and iphone), Diageo (Lagavulin), Tesla (ok, I don't own a Tesla, but I want one!), Umpqua (I bank there), AMD/Nvidia (mining), weed stocks (duh)... |
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It still works, too! And nah, I think we've covered most of it here. I'm content with my current oc and temps and am just planning to leave it humming away for as long as I can (since it generates next to no heat and uses the same electricity as leaving the basement lights on and all). EDIT: but I will make this one! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4404847 |
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Update: We've opened our store at https://fpga.land/ for user registration. We're still not taking orders at this time; but by registering it will allow us to contact you and inform you when hashrate information is released, when pricing information is available, and finally when sales open. Done and done! And glad, tomorrow starts hell 1-2 weeks and I was hoping there'd be a less annoying way I could bug you for updates. |
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Same here, but I did indeed buy coin. Mostly XLM, XRP, and ETH before buying a miner. Now I have some low price coin that I mined rather than buy. It's all a gamble like the stock market. Bought into some MJ companies TRTC and CVSI.... the two top revenue US traded companies (also a gamble since MJ still illegal federally)
Not for long; at least, not without some sort of fascist overthrow of state governments. Medical aside, there are currently too many recreational states for the fed to do anything about it. If they wanted to, they needed to do something before California stepped up. CA is too big to take down, population wise AND financially (recently became the world's fifth largest economy, I believe). I bought some green stocks too, but the bigger issue is that it's early days for the industry. Phillip Morris and other biggies are starting to move into it, so it's going to get...interesting. All I wish is that I could invest in the company that makes the gummies I buy up here in PDX, because damn, they're too tasty. They should really include a bag of non-edibles with them, so you can eat a bunch after they kick in without going full on psycho... And so as not to tangent too far off topic: I think that my Z9 may be my last ASIC for a while. Just for longevity's sake, I'm not a get rich quick guy, and these are great for summer, but by late fall I'll probably just want to upgrade to whatever the new GPUs are on the market to heat my house for winter, but I will say that I love the energy efficiency of the X3, B3, and Z9, I'd gotten very used to Antminers running up my power bill with their 800-1400W monsters. EDIT--also I do buy low on occasion, mostly just through Coinbase when BTC drops below 6, LTC below 100, that sort of thing. Generally I just let the miners do their thing, though. |
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Z9 working with nicehash. Had to set the difficulty manually. Still playing with that though.
Would you mind sharing your NH BTC address so we can see what it looks like pool side? If not, a screenshot would suffice. Thanks! Still like to see a pic of the unit. I understand it has a single fan and is a lot shorter than the S9's. Here's the best I could do. I got my gf to snap one with my old S5 next to it for size comparison.  very nice I 'll say overclock it, attach one S5 fan to it (or other fan) if you worried about temp Oh I've been since I unpacked it (go back a couple pages, past the angry troll, to the original posts  ). The fan on it so far is holding up just fine, I'm at about 35-40% oc with 0 HW and temps in the high 50s. It's just not...as quiet as it was at stock, but I moved it to the basement so all is well. I think it can go further, but right now I'm good with those numbers. EDIT: also neither of those fans is the stock S5 one, which is ridiculously loud (that's actually being used as a duct exhaust on a sound dampened setup right now). Those are the same fans I also have now on my B3, a high pressure corsair for the push and a low noise exhaust. Pretty damned quiet, I still run it in the living room on cold nights. |
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Not to jump in, but I’m handling the physical side. This volume of goods is cheap in the big world tbh. Also kind of funny to imply physical security is a risk and then ask for the address of the warehouse holding the cards in a public forum.
Not really. A warehouse, as well as any business worth a damn, is insured. Businesses that don't give out their locations publicly are a bit shady IMO, but if the "warehouse" is, say, a person's garage and connected to their home, I totally get that. (not mocking the latter, total respect for DIY businesses, I run three) |
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With the ETN fork I was wondering what is the best coin people are mining right now? Whattomine and Coinwarz only show a few coins with max say $12 per day but if you look on Nicehash at the Cryptonight pool it's paying $22 a day for the same hashrate (320khash). That tells me people are mining another cryptonight (old not v7) coin that's more profitable than $22 a day. Unfortunately X3 isn't compatible with Nicehash. I was wondering if anyone had found what that coin or coins were? I've struggled Googling around to find the best one.
I haven't seen anything over $6.50 a day. That X3 can mine. The X3 is now roughly on par with a 4 card 1070 rig for income, the rig would be about 20% more energy efficient. That's what everyone had been saying for a while. ASICs are great if you can get in early or if they are for a stable coin (the Litecoin and Bitcoin miners tend to be worth running for long, long periods of time, for example). The X3 will likely be a spaceheater that pays for some to most of the energy it uses by July. Z9 probably by August, depending on how many they ship. That's why batch 2 and beyond is never a good purchase unless it's for a coin you are collecting and holding. And yet we'll keep buying ASICs and fund BITMAIN next gen ASIC which they would sell once they do some good amount of "testing". That is true. Not necessarily. I mean, probably, but the next gen of GPUs will probably be the hot market for a bit, then the next gen of ASICs, with FPGAs dotting the landscapes in between both. The main problem I see is that greed outweighs efficiency; so like how the Z9 is actually really great for equihash mining because it is so much more environmentally friendly, it only will be for like a month or two, when the market is flooded with ASICs and the difficulty brings the actual income (and, as such, demand for more gear) down to something comparable to current rigs; i.e., it's not long before the Z9 will earn the equivalent amount of 300-400W energy in gpus, or roughly 4 well tuned 1070s, do right now. Which mines a lot less. And the end result isn't amore efficient system, since most of these coins still lack much practical use. It's almost like a shell game... But if new products are going to hit the market, it's definitely better that they are more energy efficient for short bursts than just flooding it with inefficiency I suppose. This is all why I usually advise new people to invest instead of mine; it's not an exclusivity thing, it's a practical one. Plus being honest, I'd probably be much further ahead financially if I'd just bought Bitcoin or Ethereum with the money I've spent on mining gear, I just happen to really like learning about this stuff. |
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Potential Equihash Algorithm Change Preparation
Modifying ZenCash to use Equihash-144-5 is doable, and the software development team has started identifying the specific work that would need to be done in order to create and test this change. It would be a Hard Fork change, and for optimal success of the Hard Fork, it would be best to implement such a proposed change as quickly as reasonably possible before too many ASIC miners take over the hashrate of ZenCash.
...right. And nothing in what you just posted says they will or will not fork, just that they are leaning towards it. There's been no decision made yet. |
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mmm I wonder if I can convince bitmain to sell me that endpiece grille, I removed one fan on my B3 and that piece looks nice!
I could be wrong but I think it's already under the baffle on the B3. If you really want that look, it's only a couple screws to find out. |
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With the ETN fork I was wondering what is the best coin people are mining right now? Whattomine and Coinwarz only show a few coins with max say $12 per day but if you look on Nicehash at the Cryptonight pool it's paying $22 a day for the same hashrate (320khash). That tells me people are mining another cryptonight (old not v7) coin that's more profitable than $22 a day. Unfortunately X3 isn't compatible with Nicehash. I was wondering if anyone had found what that coin or coins were? I've struggled Googling around to find the best one.
I haven't seen anything over $6.50 a day. That X3 can mine. The X3 is now roughly on par with a 4 card 1070 rig for income, the rig would be about 20% more energy efficient. That's what everyone had been saying for a while. ASICs are great if you can get in early or if they are for a stable coin (the Litecoin and Bitcoin miners tend to be worth running for long, long periods of time, for example). The X3 will likely be a spaceheater that pays for some to most of the energy it uses by July. Z9 probably by August, depending on how many they ship. That's why batch 2 and beyond is never a good purchase unless it's for a coin you are collecting and holding. |
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Big markup = big profits. Would probably be < $100/day by delivery. This has to be the riskiest ASIC offering to date. Shall we flip a coin before ordering?
Huh? It's plagiarism from this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3127974.msg32348414#msg32348414I reported it. Seems to be the new thing for bots trying to rank up to Jr Member so they can collect them bountiez. ...and I sent you merit for it, well done. I've noticed several posts like this lately, just been ignoring them, but good to know. |
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Here's the best I could do. I got my gf to snap one with my old S5 next to it for size comparison.
Thanks! That's a tiny fellow. Man your S5 looks like you worked it hard for many years and then dropped it down a mine shaft.  Actually I just have a cat. |
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Some option for a credit card (restoring paypal, using square or amazon payments, etc) would make the difference for me, honestly I would have ordered several today if I could have paid with CC.
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Z9 working with nicehash. Had to set the difficulty manually. Still playing with that though.
Would you mind sharing your NH BTC address so we can see what it looks like pool side? If not, a screenshot would suffice. Thanks! Still like to see a pic of the unit. I understand it has a single fan and is a lot shorter than the S9's. Here's the best I could do. I got my gf to snap one with my old S5 next to it for size comparison. |
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Z9 working with nicehash. Had to set the difficulty manually. Still playing with that though.
How are you setting the difficulty manually? in the password field where you add the stratums under the control panel menu you add D=yourdesireddifficulty i guess you have to test it as no sources are available for it yet, try several digits like 1000, 5000, 10000 and so on and see how it works out, than fine adjust. What kind of results are you getting with various difficulties? At the standard, I was getting around 2/3 my hashrate, and about 40-50% rejected shares, so I just said screw it and went back to antpool for now (because I have work to do), but if you're seeing better results I'd be into playing with mine tonight... |
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Z9 working with nicehash. Had to set the difficulty manually. Still playing with that though.
How are you setting the difficulty manually? |
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I do wonder if it's the miner or the pools trying to limit difficulty to prevent miners being used? I admit I don't know enough about the technology to know if that's even a possibility...
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Just had mine delivered. I cannot get it working with the ZEC pool's for Suprnova or Slushpool. Error is something related to "extranonce"..
On Antpool, the "dashboard" after 20+ minutes shows nothing - so although am getting some shares accepted, I can't see assurance from Antpool's dashboard that they are being recorded..
The fact that this doesn't work on all pools is a bit disconcerning!
The antpool dash will eventually catch up with itself, and I was wrong in my math before, it's paying out how it should. Though I may switch to pplns to avoid the fees, at least for a day to see the difference. |
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that s5 of yours surely withstand a lot of torture 
