The screenshot below shows the “before” and “after” for one of the Ethereum Asia server.<\/p>\n
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The New US and Asia Servers<\/h2>\n
We’ve implemented servers in US and Asia locations for these coins: Aeternity (AE)<\/a>, Ravencoin (RVN)<\/a>, Grin<\/a>.<\/p>\n Please note that EU servers are located in Germany, US servers are located in Vint Hill (VA), Asia servers are located in\u00a0Singapore.<\/p>\n We advise you to select the server which is located closer to you to minimize your ping and share acceptance time (What is share?<\/a>). You could find the list of the servers on the “How to start” page of every pool. Here is an example for Aeternity Help<\/a>:<\/p>\n On June 4th we started the Aeternity (AE) mining pool dashboard. This coin is very important as it has been selected<\/a>\u00a0by 2Miners community. Moreover, AE is always among the top of the mining calculators like 2CryptoCalc.com<\/a> and Whattomine.com<\/p>\n Aeternity mining was engineered by our awesome specialists from the ground up. As you may know, a mining pool can be a mere \u201cproxy\u201d server that routes the miners to the backing node and counts the number of shares submitted. However, this is not the case for any 2Miners pool: due to the high load (as we\u2019re holding as much as 80% of some cryptocurrency hash rate) each coin instance is a separately engineered high-performance solution that is capable of handling as much as 10x of the current network hash rate on a single instance.<\/p>\n This requires careful optimization and custom engineering and clever solutions. So each new coin (especially based on non-standard algorithms and principles) brings us an additional challenge of implementing things up for it. And we love it! This is why we\u2019re taking our time to roll out new and promising cryptocurrency support: we have to make sure our solution is fast, tolerant, and bulletproof so both our miners and the network as a whole could contribute to it. With that being said, we\u2019re wholeheartedly welcoming AE to our family. In less than a month we have more than 200 miners online and more than 4% of the network hashrate.<\/p>\n Some of our miners were constantly asking us about SSL connection support. This month we’ve started to implement such a feature on our servers.<\/p>\n The mining pools of these coins already support SSL connections: Ethereum,\u00a0Ethereum Classic,\u00a0Akroma, Musicoin, Expanse, Aeternity, and Monero. The SSL connection works for all the servers locations we have EU, US, and Asia. The setup is pretty simple. You need to change the port of the mining pool by adding 1 at the beginning. Let’s have a look at the basic setup for SSL connection to Ethereum mining pool<\/a>. The standard EU server address is\u00a0eth.2miners.com:2020. That means the SSL server address is\u00a0eth.2miners.com:12020. Here is how to set up your mining software.<\/p>\n Claymore’s miner:<\/p>\n Ethminer:<\/p>\n PhoenixMiner:<\/p>\n On June 24th the Callisto Halving happened.\u00a0The block reward has been decreased 2 times. We do recommend all the miners to check the most profitable coin to mine on 2CryptoCalc.com<\/a><\/p>\n Our pool is committed to transparency and we strive to provide the best possible experience and reliability to our miners. Unfortunately due to a technical fault on our side related to the upgrade of our database backends on the Callisto PPLNS server, some information related to the foundation blocks and submitted shares was not properly written to the database. This happened on June 4th, 2019 9:19 AM UTC and was completely resolved and mitigated by our DevOps team by 3:11 PM UTC on the same day.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, some information on the blocks found during this period for the amount of 337,000 CLO was not properly stored. We have distributed it among miners active during the period of the downtime manually according to this list<\/a>.<\/p>\n The cause of the problem was through fully analyzed and we have taken additional steps to make sure it is properly taken care of and should not happen again.<\/p>\n We are still working on the Beam mining pool implementation. This coin is expected to be added to 2Miners this summer.<\/p>\n Tomorrow (on July 2nd) the ZelCash (ZEL) hard fork should be performed. ZEL will switch from\u00a0Equihash 144,5 to a modified version of Equihash 125,4 on block 372,500. This hardfork should prevent the coin from future ASIC influence. Moreover, there would be changes to ZelNodes.\u00a0Some\u00a0Zcash improvements would be accepted too. The hardfork name is\u00a0Kamiooka. Last week we’ve prepared a detailed article about this\u00a0ZelCash Upcoming Hardfork and Mining Algorithm Change<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/aeternity_how_to_start_page.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nAeternity Mining Pool is Online and Growing<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nSSL Mining Pools<\/h2>\n
EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool ssl:\/\/eth.2miners.com:12020 -eworker RIG_ID -ewal YOUR_ADDRESS -epsw x<\/pre>\n
ethminer.exe --farm-recheck 2000 -U -P stratum1+tls:\/\/YOUR_ADDRESS.RIG_ID@eth.2miners.com:12020<\/pre>\n
PhoenixMiner.exe -epool ssl:\/\/eth.2miners.com:12020 -wal YOUR_ADDRESS -pass x -worker RIG_ID\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
Callisto Halving and Missing Payment<\/h2>\n
Beam Mining Pool – Work In Progress<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nZelCash Hardfork in July<\/h2>\n
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