Community Call for Claymore Zcash GPU Miner Development

[Tmdz]

The biggest reason to release a new coin is simple... MONEY!

This coin has a lot of support so far, but how that will translate to the market has yet to be seen and I hope it will grow huge and become a good coin to mine.  Mining is getting bad as far as profits are concerned, market prices are doing nothing to offset all this incredible growth by gpu farms.

I don't know if new money will come in to buy up this coin as it is being mined or if the money will come from eth holders and such to get in on this new hyped coin.  If the later then it will do nothing to help our profits

[tromp]

Why aren't you joining the open source miner contest?

I did.

https://zcashminers.org/submissions

[Bidnant]

Why aren't you joining the open source miner contest?

I did.

https://zcashminers.org/submissions

That is good. More information.

Crowdfund for open-sourcing tromp’s solvers / funding Cuckoo Cycle

https://forum.z.cash/t/crowdfund-for-open-sourcing-tromps-solvers-funding-cuckoo-cycle/2465

"I'm happy to open source my solvers in exchange for a 20% community contribution to the Cuckoo Cycle Bounty Fund, which will offer up to 100 BTC in bounties for disproving my claims of the Cuckoo Cycle proof-of-work being optimization free. See

https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo137

for details on the existing bounties. The remaining 80BTC, if claimed, will be at my personal expense. The fund allows for significantly raising the reward for a performance doubling from the current $500 to a much more enticing 10BTC, and will scale with the 2-logarithm of the actual improvement, so that a 1024x speedup (or memory reduction) can claim the maximum 10*10BTC payout.

The bounties would be guaranteed for at least 4 years, plenty of time to encourage some serious attacks on Cuckoo Cycle.

While you're all no doubt keen on supporting advances in crypto-currency research, you may also be curious to see some well optimized Equihash solvers, to which end I offer the following in return.

On a 4Ghz Intel Core i7, one of my CPU solvers reaches 2 Sol/s single-threaded, 4.3 Sol/s 4-threaded, and 6.7 Sol/s 8-threaded, while another solver reaches 5.14 Sol/GBs single threaded for peak memory.

On an Nvidia GTX980, my CUDA solver reaches 17.6 Sol/s.

Open sourcing these solvers will take place if donations reach 20 BTC by noon Oct 14 (with a possible one day extension if the goal looks within reach at that time). If the goal is not met then donations will be returned (unless you're happy to unconditionally support Cuckoo Cycle bounties).

There are multiple ways to make donations. The escrow options are detailed in cryptogoth's companion post at

Crowdfund contract for open sourcing GPU miners
Later tonight, I'll be uploading a contract to Ethereum mainnet to raise 20 BTC for open sourcing John Tromp's GPU miner, with a deadline of 14 October 2016 (in less than four days) at 12noon EDT (16:00 UTC). I'll do a test run through several accounts I own and any volunteers who happen to be awake, then I'll post the annotated transcript from the blockchain to explain how the contract works. The contract will accept contributions in ETH, and OgNasty will accept contributions in BTC. Both w…
while those who trust me with their donations can contribute directly to
the Cuckoo Cycle Bounty Fund bitcoin address

1CnrpdKtfF3oAZmshyVC1EsRUa25nDuBvN"

[tromp]

Why aren't you joining the open source miner contest?

I did.

https://zcashminers.org/submissions

That is good. More information.

Crowdfund for open-sourcing tromp’s solvers / funding Cuckoo Cycle
...

Well yeah, that was the plan. But then

https://forum.z.cash/t/crowdfund-for-open-sourcing-tromps-solvers-funding-cuckoo-cycle/2465/76?u=tromp

[MantaMine]

So you have entered your code into the open source miner contest AND you are collecting BTC to release the code? 

How on Earth is there ANY benefit of donating to you to release your code?  Your code will be available to anyone since it has been entered into the contest?!?!  This makes no sense.

Please make your own thread on that topic, this thread is to see who is interested in Claymore making a Zc miner.

[adaseb]

So you have entered your code into the open source miner contest AND you are collecting BTC to release the code? 

How on Earth is there ANY benefit of donating to you to release your code?  Your code will be available to anyone since it has been entered into the contest?!?!  This makes no sense.

Please make your own thread on that topic, this thread is to see who is interested in Claymore making a Zc miner.

Read the topic. He refunded most of who donated.

[MantaMine]

So you have entered your code into the open source miner contest AND you are collecting BTC to release the code? 

How on Earth is there ANY benefit of donating to you to release your code?  Your code will be available to anyone since it has been entered into the contest?!?!  This makes no sense.

Please make your own thread on that topic, this thread is to see who is interested in Claymore making a Zc miner.

Read the topic. He refunded most of who donated.

I'll save myself the minutes and take your word for it.  Again, make a new thread if you want to discuss the open source contest or this donation whatever-it-is thing.

[Dobmader]

So you have entered your code into the open source miner contest AND you are collecting BTC to release the code? 

How on Earth is there ANY benefit of donating to you to release your code?  Your code will be available to anyone since it has been entered into the contest?!?!  This makes no sense.

Please make your own thread on that topic, this thread is to see who is interested in Claymore making a Zc miner.

Read the topic. He refunded most of who donated.

I'll save myself the minutes and take your word for it.  Again, make a new thread if you want to discuss the open source contest or this donation whatever-it-is thing.

He did refund most of the donations. Some donators want him to keep the donation. It is very good of him.

[giagge]

- 9 day for zcash , and not exist gpu miner ( no amd , no nvidia ) , its very bad .

[Lafu]

- 9 day for zcash , and not exist gpu miner ( no amd , no nvidia ) , its very bad .

I think there always Exist Gpu Miner but not officially and they release it after Lunch !!!!!

[navydude]

Is there a wallet or a CPU miner for windows yet? I have never run linux and all 10 of my rigs are on windows 10. Link or advice would be awesome. Would love to get an early start with ZCASH.

[doktor83]

no windows miner, linux only at the moment

[Marvell1]

no windows miner, linux only at the moment

I heard if you have windows 10 aniv you can run the bash thing within windows and accomplish the same thing check on the zcash forums

you don't need liniux if you have access to a newish windows 10 build

[doktor83]

you can install a vm linux on windows and run the miner there. i did that when testing zcash mining.

[navydude]

I did install bash just after i posted a few hours ago. I am no linux guy but am going to try and set something up.

[MantaMine]

Pick your poison, there are some here:

https://zcashminers.org/submissions

[MantaMine]

Four days until genesis.  Come on Claymore!!!

[Claymore]

Four days until genesis.  Come on Claymore!!!

I'm not working on zcash miner currently, so please don't expect that I'll release it soon.
Though its PoW looks interesting for me and as soon as I have time I'll check if I can create faster miner.
I get a lot of requests for private miner, so I have to repeat it again: I don't have any private miners, if I create a miner I make it public.

[Tmdz]

That awesome to know you would consider it.

Zcash has a slow start from 0-full coin rewards over 100 days so there is no rush.

[adaseb]

That awesome to know you would consider it.

Zcash has a slow start from 0-full coin rewards over 100 days so there is no rush.

100 days???

Dude its 30 days.