Ethereum pool growth and server updates, Grin payout issues, Exmo exchange hack, Horizen halving.
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December 2020 Work Progress Report: Exmo Exchange Hack, Horizen Halving
December 31, 2020 · John Smith
Grin Payouts Issues – HotBit Exchange
December 10, 2020 · Darek Piotrowski
November 2020 Work Progress Report: Ethereum Classic Hardfork, Zcash Halving, Pirl Delisting
December 1, 2020 · Darek Piotrowski
Ethereum Classic hardfork, Zcash halving, attacks on Grin network, Pirl delisting, new ASIC firmware, ethash library bug found by 2Miners team.
How to Use 2CryptoCalc Mining Profitability Calculator
November 30, 2020 · John Smith
Buying and setting graphics cards up is not enough to start mining. At all times, you need to know a lot about different cryptocurrencies: their mining difficulty, overall network hash rate, and even potential hacking issues. 2CryptoCalc helps you save time and find the most profitable cryptocurrencies for mining. Let’s see how to use this tool to its full potential, with screenshots and examples.
Ethereum Classic Hard Fork to Change Cryptocurrency Mining Algorithm. How to Keep Mining ETC?
November 21, 2020 · Darek Piotrowski
In October 2020, Ethereum Classic miners got a pleasant surprise. ETC will enable cryptocurrency mining on 3GB GPUs (relatively old models). Plus, ASICs as well as NiceHash will not support ETC mining anymore. All of it is going to be possible thanks to the Thanos hard fork at the end of November. Let’s see what to expect from it.
Ethereum Classic: Bits of the Epoch. Potential Network Instability Due to a Severe Ethash Library Bug
November 6, 2020 · John Smith
Zilliqa Dual Mining vs Ethereum Regular Mining. 2Miners Pool Experiment
November 5, 2020 · John Smith
The 2Miners pool lists 19 cryptocurrencies with 10 thousand online members. There is Ethereum with at least 4 thousand miners, Ravencoin, Bitcoin Gold, Zcoin, Ethereum Classic, and other popular cryptocurrencies. However, the pool often gets requests about adding Zilliqa that supports dual mining (mining two cryptocurrencies at the same time). We decided to put its profitability to test.
October 2020 Work Progress Report: ETC Network Protection, Ravencoin Security Audit
November 2, 2020 · Darek Piotrowski
New milestone for the Ethereum pool, ETC Network protection, Ravencoin security audit, Ethash ASIC problems, multiple miner updates.
Ethereum Classic Will Not Be Supported by ASICs and Nicehash
November 1, 2020 · John Smith
Mid-2020 wasn’t the best time for Ethereum Classic. The network suffered from several 51% attacks in August and September. As a result, miners lost a lot of their earnings. ETC took action by decreasing the DAG file size. This way, even 3GB GPUs can mine ETC and the hash rate is significantly higher. But this is not the only positive change. Let’s see what to expect from ETC in the future.