my experience zcash mining

[nerdralph]

I include a calculator I wrote in python, which shows that ZEC mining is more profitable than ETH (at least for now).
http://nerdralph.blogspot.ca/2016/10/zcash-mining.html

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[molitar]

I took a look but not sure what to put for arg 2.  BTW some python script errors at least to the latest version of Python. I had to fix the () that were missing.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python
# arg1 = current block number
# arg2 = current network rate in thousands of solutions per second
# arg2 = your solution rate

BLOCKS_PER_DAY = 576*10                 # 2.5 minute block time
RAMP_BLOCKS = 20000                     # mining slow start

import sys

block = int(sys.argv[1])
net_rate_k = int(sys.argv[2])
your_rate = int(sys.argv[3])

daily = int(BLOCKS_PER_DAY * block/RAMP_BLOCKS)
print ('Daily ramped mining reward in blocks:', daily)
your_share = (your_rate/(net_rate_k * 1000.0) * daily)
print ('Your estimated earnings:', your_share)

Argument two I was not sure what to put also the sol rate had to be no decimal values.

Arg #1: 1150  (Chain Height)
Arg #2: 1975894 Sol/s   (What value do I use for the Network Hash Rate when you say in thousands?  Is it 1975?)
Arg #3: 54.7  (have to use non decimal so used 54 Sol/s)

zec.py 1146 2019 54
Daily ramped mining reward in blocks: 330
Your estimated earnings: 0.008826151560178307

Did I get that right?

[nerdralph]

I took a look but not sure what to put for arg 2.  BTW some python script errors at least to the latest version of Python. I had to fix the () that were missing.

zec.py 1146 2019 54
Daily ramped mining reward in blocks: 330
Your estimated earnings: 0.008826151560178307

Did I get that right?

I updated the script to specify python2.  I guess your system defaults to 3.

You have the arguments correct.  With the numbers as of block 1173 your estimate is .008496
./zec.py 1173 2142 54
Daily ramped mining reward in blocks: 337
Your estimated earnings: 0.00849579831933

[nerdralph]

Coinsforall is still having stability problems, and now 1 ZEC is worth about 1.2 BTC.  Therefore I've switched back to eth mining for all my cards except one Rx 470.  With Genoil's ZECminer I'm getting about 26 sol/s.  I started using zcash.miningpoolhub.com, and after an hour of mining the pool has been stable.  Reported hashrate on the pool is about 12H/s, or half the solution rate as expected.

[ps_jb]

It is less profitable right now 10.30am (MT)

[risinqsun]

Coinsforall is still having stability problems, and now 1 ZEC is worth about 1.2 BTC.  Therefore I've switched back to eth mining for all my cards except one Rx 470.  With Genoil's ZECminer I'm getting about 26 sol/s.  I started using zcash.miningpoolhub.com, and after an hour of mining the pool has been stable.  Reported hashrate on the pool is about 12H/s, or half the solution rate as expected.

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Good job for 26 sol/s. I' m getting 22 sol/s

[nerdralph]

Good job for 26 sol/s. I' m getting 22 sol/s

Running 1250/1850 with custom BIOS mod for faster memory timing.

[nerdralph]

Now running zogminer under Linux, using MPH.
https://github.com/nginnever/zogminer
zogminer is a huge pig of a program, and needs one instance run per GPU, but it seems stable and gets decent performance (based on silentarmy kernel I think).
If you use MPH, you must use a worker name, i.e. -user=nerdralph.rig1  Otherwise you'll get a stratum auth error.

[monsanto]

Now running zogminer under Linux, using MPH.
https://github.com/nginnever/zogminer
zogminer is a huge pig of a program, and needs one instance run per GPU, but it seems stable and gets decent performance (based on silentarmy kernel I think).
If you use MPH, you must use a worker name, i.e. -user=nerdralph.rig1  Otherwise you'll get a stratum auth error.

Hmm.. I might give that a try on my Linux rig.  What pool(s) can you use with zogminer? Can you solo mine with it? My biggest problem with the coinsforall.io miner is that my gpus start crashing after less than 30 minutes usually. 

Kind of ironic that after all the complaints about a Linux only launch it looks like Windows users have a lot more mining options than Linux users.

[Lafu]

Best solutions on nicehash!  First on sell my power!  second on the zec nicehash pool fast payout and no Problem with the miner!

[ocminer]

Zogminer works fine on https://zec.suprnova.cc too

[molitar]

Zogminer works fine on https://zec.suprnova.cc too

Thanks for this tip. How does it perform compared to genoil? 

[bobben2]

Tried zogminer and it crashes after a while.    The miner either just stops or it segfaults.
One miner instance per gpu.   Mining at flypool.  This pool might have an issue?
So far havent tried other pools with this miner.

[nerdralph]

Tried zogminer and it crashes after a while.    The miner either just stops or it segfaults.
One miner instance per gpu.   Mining at flypool.  This pool might have an issue?
So far havent tried other pools with this miner.

I had one of 6 instances hang overnight, probably because I've overclocked/undervolted that card too much for zcash mining (even though it was fine for eth).
If every instance on a rig hangs/crashes, I'd suspect the pool instead.

[nerdralph]

For those not fluent in sh:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# launch script for zogminer - Nerd Ralph 2016 public domain
for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5
do
  src/zcash-miner -G -S=$i -stratum="stratum+tcp://us-east1.zcash.miningpoolhub.com:20570" -user=nerdralph.rig > zec$i &
  sleep 1
done

[ImHash]

Well from what I see zcash is too much volatile and the price isn't stable what so ever, so why someone wants to mine such a coin where difficulty is determined by the price?

[Tmdz]

Well from what I see zcash is too much volatile and the price isn't stable what so ever, so why someone wants to mine such a coin where difficulty is determined by the price?

That's econ 101

More profit more people.

[nerdralph]

Marc tweaked his silentarmy kernel yesterday, and the change was merged into zogminer a few hours ago.
I'm seing a minor improvement in the miner.  pun intended :-)

[BTCBusinessConsult]

Been mining on Nicehash miner since the very start, never had an issue.

6 cores of my 4770k and 2 AMD 480s with modded bios.

Day one was about $25 a day, now its down to about $9.50 a day. Way better than the $3 I get from eth mining  

Sitting at about 58.X sol/s with this setup.