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.

Wallets: How to Store Ethereum and Other Altcoins

Let’s review wallets for altcoins, starting with Ethereum.

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How to Find New Profitable Coins to Mine

No matter what the Bitcoin exchange rate is, miners will always search for new profitable coins that most people still don’t know of, but we’re here to tell you where to find them.

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What is Share and the Share Difficulty When You Are Mining at the Pool

In this article, we will explain what a share and a share difficulty mean, how a share is different from a block solution and why you shouldn’t confuse them. We strongly recommend that you read our post What is Mining and Mining Luck? before you start with this one. Let’s take a look at the 2Miners Ethereum pool. The pool uses the PPLNS reward system, and on the main page, you’ll see that share difficulty is 8.6G.

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What is Mining and Mining Luck?

In this article, we explain mining luck – for beginners and advanced miners alike.

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Building GTX 1070Ti Mining Rig

In this article, we will talk about building a mining rig using new Nvidia GTX 1070Ti GPU’s — the updated version of GTX 1070. The new model has higher Equihash hashrate and can reach 550 sol/s depending on the manufacturer. Two rigs will be built in this article. Both of them will be used to mine the following coins: Zcash, ZClassic, Zencash, Bitcoin Gold.

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How to Mine Pirl

Pirl is one of our favorite Ethash coins. Unlike many others, Pirl developers didn’t just copy Ethereum code, they’ve created something new by introducing masternodes into the network.

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How To Mine HUSH

Hush is a new Equihash coin that has low mining difficulty and a high potential for growth in the future.

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How To Mine Musicoin

Unlike other cryptocurrency projects, Musicoin develops tremendously fast. MUSIC launched in February 2017, and the exciting thing is that they did not create the plan for the sole purpose of making a quick buck but instead taking advantage of another Ether fork, rewarding musicians, allowing music lovers the ability to listen to music for free!

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How to Build an Ethereum Mining Rig [2021 Update]

Let’s see how to choose the right hardware and build a universal mining rig for the Dagger Hashimoto (Ethash) algorithm for such coins as Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Callisto, Metaverse, Expanse, Equihash 144.5 (Zhash) algorithm for Bitcoin Gold, Cockoo algorithm for Aeternity, Grin, Cortex, KAWPOW algorithm for RavenCoin, BeamHash for Beam and MTP for Firo (Zcoin). Unfortunately for rig owners, ASIC miners have killed the GPU mining of Equihash algorithm in 2018. The same story has happened with Nervos CKB recently.

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Hive OS Linux Mining Platform Review

Before getting to Hive OS, let me start with a short preface about Windows. When computers came into my life, there was MS-DOS. Then I remember how excited I was about OS/2 by IBM, but later came Windows and ruined it all for me, so I switched to Mac OS and forgot about Windows for a long time.

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