|
MantaMine (OP)
|
 |
October 09, 2016, 10:24:29 PM |
|
The announced Zcash release date is just 18 days away and the community STILL does not have a GPU miner available. There have been some projects developing an open source miner, reports of a few private miners, and there is even a miner that is auctioning off hash from their rigs running their private miner.
With ETH's eventual transition to POS, there are A LOT of miners looking seriously at Zcash (me being one of them). I currently use Claymore's dual ETH/DCR miner and would definitely use a Zcash miner should he choose to release one. The 2% fee he charges would be no problem and I think a lot of others agree. It would ensure we get in the door early, reduce centralization (currently we have CPU miners pitted against privatized GPU mining software), and likely make Claymore beaucoup bucks.
Trying to get a gauge on how much of the mining community would use a Claymore Zcash miner for my own personal curiosity in addition to bringing it to Claymore's attention in the hopes to motivate him to begin work.
What do you all think?
|
|
|
|
|
|
YIz
|
 |
October 09, 2016, 10:38:57 PM |
|
There is a 30,000$ contest for an opensource GPU miner. many people are going to send their miners and I'm sure one of them is going to deliver a great product.
Claymore's miners are easy to use, well-designed and stable, but I still prefer an open source one.
|
|
|
|
|
|
MantaMine (OP)
|
|
October 09, 2016, 10:56:34 PM |
|
That's a fair stance. There are plenty of open source ETH miners available - but Claymore's still gets wide usage. Why? Because it is a superior product. The only reason I see him sitting on his hands with a Zcash miner is because it will pull hash away from his ETH miner - that's understandable since he's put a lot of effort into the dual ETH miner and wants a return. Just hoping he gets motivated to get on the Zcash train before too long!
|
|
|
|
|
|
MantaMine (OP)
|
|
October 09, 2016, 10:58:37 PM |
|
There is a 30,000$ contest for an opensource GPU miner. many people are going to send their miners and I'm sure one of them is going to deliver a great product.
Claymore's miners are easy to use, well-designed and stable, but I still prefer an open source one.
$10k of that goes to the winning GPU miner, not all $30k |
|
|
|
|
go6ooo1212
Legendary
 Offline
Activity: 1512
Merit: 1000
quarkchain.io
|
|
October 09, 2016, 11:01:19 PM |
|
..and which platform will take advantage , AMD or NV
|
|
|
|
|
|
MantaMine (OP)
|
|
October 09, 2016, 11:03:32 PM |
|
Hoping AMD since those are all I own. But I suppose that is up to the miner code.
|
|
|
|
|
Pinocchio
Newbie
Offline
Activity: 36
Merit: 0
|
|
October 09, 2016, 11:20:21 PM |
|
The prize is $10000 for each miner and it has to be open source. Good luck getting Claymore involved...  |
|
|
|
|
arielbit
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 3416
Merit: 1059
|
|
October 09, 2016, 11:41:14 PM |
|
zcoin too mr. claymore
it is still a cpu mineable coin....
and take a look at pascal coin too, there is already nvdia miner..we need amd miner.
|
|
|
|
|
|
MantaMine (OP)
|
|
October 10, 2016, 12:59:32 AM |
|
The prize is $10000 for each miner and it has to be open source. Good luck getting Claymore involved... Yep, but I have no problem with a dev fee. Didn't bother me with ETH, won't bother me with Zcash! |
|
|
|
|
yslyung
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 1500
Merit: 1002
Mine Mine Mine
|
|
October 10, 2016, 09:03:31 AM |
|
prize $ & devfee, no happy, i vote for w0lf !
|
|
|
|
|
|
doktor83
|
|
October 10, 2016, 09:11:36 AM |
|
I wouldn't be surprised if Wolf already has a equihash miner |
|
|
|
|
MantaMine (OP)
|
|
October 10, 2016, 10:06:59 AM |
|
prize $ & devfee, no happy, i vote for w0lf !
It would have to be open source to get the prize. That is not likely for a dev fee miner. |
|
|
|
|
adaseb
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 3766
Merit: 1718
CoinPoker.com
|
|
October 10, 2016, 10:16:51 AM |
|
He already commented, said he is waiting until its released first.
The real mining of that coin won't start until mid to end of November due to the low rewards ramp-up. So we have plenty of time.
|
|
|
|
|
Shiroslullaby
|
|
October 10, 2016, 12:21:40 PM |
|
I would definitely mine a few coins.
Zcash is interesting.
It has a lot of hype right now and its probably a good idea to get at least a few coins early.
|
|
|
|
|
MantaMine (OP)
|
|
October 11, 2016, 11:19:01 AM |
|
The slow roll in rewards might not make it that big of a deal to get in early or not. But the forced scarcity may create some great selling opportunities for early mined coin. I'm wanting to get in from the start.
|
|
|
|
|
Amph
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 3206
Merit: 1069
|
|
October 11, 2016, 11:39:51 AM |
|
The prize is $10000 for each miner and it has to be open source. Good luck getting Claymore involved... Yep, but I have no problem with a dev fee. Didn't bother me with ETH, won't bother me with Zcash! eh you can't have both, if it is open source, a fee will be useless |
|
|
|
|
|
MantaMine (OP)
|
|
October 11, 2016, 11:42:45 AM |
|
The prize is $10000 for each miner and it has to be open source. Good luck getting Claymore involved... Yep, but I have no problem with a dev fee. Didn't bother me with ETH, won't bother me with Zcash! eh you can't have both, if it is open source, a fee will be useless Don't know if I am explaining this well enough - of course Claymore would be closed source with a dev fee like his other miners. He wouldn't qualify for the "Open Source miner contest" if he used his to-date business model. |
|
|
|
|
adaseb
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 3766
Merit: 1718
CoinPoker.com
|
|
October 11, 2016, 12:10:10 PM |
|
I guess the real money these days is not with miners but miner developers.
|
|
|
|
giagge
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 1134
Merit: 1001
|
|
October 11, 2016, 12:38:33 PM |
|
I hope the zcash gpu miner is for nvidia .
|
|
|
|
|
Amph
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 3206
Merit: 1069
|
|
October 11, 2016, 12:58:50 PM |
|
The prize is $10000 for each miner and it has to be open source. Good luck getting Claymore involved... Yep, but I have no problem with a dev fee. Didn't bother me with ETH, won't bother me with Zcash! eh you can't have both, if it is open source, a fee will be useless Don't know if I am explaining this well enough - of course Claymore would be closed source with a dev fee like his other miners. He wouldn't qualify for the "Open Source miner contest" if he used his to-date business model. yes but what would be the point in using it? if it is no faster than his own fee, or it's not adding dual mining... |
|
|
|
|
|
Poll
