2Miners Crypto Mining Blog

First of all, make sure to read the article about orphan, stale and uncle blocks in Bitcoin and Ethereum mining.

ERC-20 along with smart contracts will be transferred to the new blockchain. Common users don’t have to do anything. Moreover, after the upgrade, they will pay less gas for token transactions.

December was no doubt the hottest month of the year. We’ve implemented 2 new coins on new mining algorithms: Monero on CryptoNightV8 and ZCoin on MTP. Ethereum mining pool has found a lucky 181-ETH block. The pools have been updated to meet the latest Nicehash requirements.

Bitcoin Cash hard fork, one of the biggest events in the cryptocurrency world, happened on November 15, 2018. Up to the very end, there were a lot of inaccuracies in the media about the matter, because the cryptocurrency fork generation process is not very easy to understand. Let’s address this – today we will talk about the basics of cryptocurrency blockchain upgrades.

Often, newbies see cryptocurrencies as some sort of a superpower that lets them cross the boundaries established by governments. But in reality, it’s much more boring. For example, the Bitcoin blockchain is transparent, which means that its users can be easily tracked and located in real life. Unlike BTC, Monero is a magic wand that protects user privacy no matter what. Let’s get to know the coin better.

GTX 1060 3GB simply stopped mining ETC and will soon be done with Ethereum. Let’s see what happened and what you can mine instead.

Since the first publication of this article in December 2018, a lot has changed. FIRO got a rebranding and is now called FIRO. It is no longer mined on processors (CPU) and the algorithm has changed twice. It was previously Lyra2z then MTP.

The end of the year is a very busy time for 2Miners. We are working on 2 new mining algorithms: CryptoNightV8 for Monero and MTP for ZCoin. In November we’ve added Personal Luck value for all the Solo mining pools. The Night Mode is now available at 2Miners website to help miners view the statistics better. This month we’ve also reconfigured our Ethereum nodes which let us reduce the Uncle rate twice.

We’ve added an essential feature for all SOLO miners – Personal Luck value.