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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 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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How to Choose a Mining Pool. Step by Step Tutorial

If you want to start mining some rare coin or after 15 minutes on the pool you still have a zero balance, this tutorial is for you.

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Mining Bitcoin with GPU – Bittrex.com Auto-Sell

Most miners choose Nicehash for mining because they want to get rewarded in bitcoins regardless of what they use – ASIC or a GPU mining rig.  Usually, GPUs are used to mine Ethereum, Zcash or their alternatives, which means that miners get rewarded in ETH, ZEC etc. Nicehash pays in bitcoins even if you mine with GPUs. Getting paid in bitcoins is believed to be more profitable and stable.

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Asus B250 Mining Expert with 19 GPU Slots – Mining Motherboard Review

Sooner or later every miner wants more GPUs and one big mining rig. Indeed, it is very convenient to have all the graphics cards on one motherboard – you can save on the hard drive, RAM, and CPUs.

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