2Miners Crypto Mining Blog

Cryptocurrency mining explained in plain words: mining software and hardware reviews including ASIC and GPU. Expert opinion on cryptocurrency market and future crypto mining outlook.

How to Mine Bitcoin Gold

At the end of May, Bitcoin Gold was hit by a so-called 51% attack. Hackers took control of the blockchain and managed to spend the same coins twice. As a result, they gained possession of 388,200 BTG. Today we will explain to you how to earn this amount legally thanks to mining.

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Bitcoin Private (BTCP) Mining and Profitability

In mid-April, the rate of Bitcoin Private increased by 99% within one day. The sudden rise has prompted numerous discussions about BTCP. Let’s see how to mine Bitcoin Private using graphics cards.

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May 2018 Work Progress Report: New Dashboards Design, Solo Pools Difficulty Increase, New Stats Servers

We’ve been working on the new design for a long time. The new dashboards are made in the same style as the main and landing pages of the coins. The new dashboards have been made from scratch. That is not just the beautiful picture. The new dashboards use another framework. They are hosted on the new powerful servers. Everything is new, new, new -> new completely 🙂

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How to Mine Ethereum: Mining and Profitability

Ethereum is the top altcoin. It is a blockchain based platform for decentralized applications created by Vitalik Buterin and also the second best cryptocurrency in the world. Let’s talk about Ethereum mining, ETH profitability, and the future of the project.

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Expert Roundup: Upcoming Ethereum POS Switch

Cryptocurrencies are on the rise all around the world. Mining power grows by leaps and bounds, which causes serious environmental concerns. Cryptocurrency enthusiasts create more and more PoS-based blockchains that in contrast to PoW operate without wasting an enormous amount of electrical power.

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How to mine Zcash: ZEC Mining and Profitability

On May 3, Bitmain announced the release of Antminer Z9. The ASIC miner works on Equihash, so in theory, it can be used to mine Zcash and other Equihash-based coins. In this article, we will talk about ZEC mining on GPUs. Here you’ll find information about the currency, its mining, wallets, as well as the future of the project.

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How to Mine Ethereum Classic: ETC Mining and Profitability

Ethereum Classic appeared in June 2016 after accounts in the DAO were hacked. Ethereum hard fork was supposed to prevent hackers from moving the assets to another account, but some users rejected the fork considering potential human intervention in the blockchain operation unacceptable. As a result, ETC came into existence.

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What is Gas in Ethereum? Ethereum Transaction Fees

“Transaction Failed – Out of Gas. What does it mean? What to do?” — these and other similar questions are frequently asked by Ethereum users. Gas, Gwei, contracts – indeed, it’s all overcomplicated. Let’s get into it!

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April 2018 Work Progress Report: New Coins, Forks, Geo Pools, Community Growth

We are proud to present our US servers. We’ve spent a lot of time to find the best solution and now it is ready. 4 coins are already working: ETH, ETC, EXP, Music. Both PPLNS and SOLO. 8 pools in total. It’s easy to switch to these pools. You just need to add “us-” in front of the URL. Port is the same. For example for Ethereum pool: “eth.2miners.l1q3urman.workers.dev:2020” -> “us-eth.2miners.l1q3urman.workers.dev:2020”

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How to Mine Expanse: Complete Guide and Profitability

Expanse is a unique coin. The primary goal of its creators was not to take advantage of investors and earn a fortune but to help others. As a result, the Ethereum fork gave birth to an open blockchain platform where anyone can create decentralized applications. Let’s talk about this coin and its mining.

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