ETH + TON Dual Mining Definitive Guide. Overclocking, Profitability, Setup for Windows and Linux.
February 7, 2022
In this article, we share our experience with dual mining on lolMiner, a popular mining program. Dual mining means mining two cryptocurrencies at the same time with the same GPU, and it may be quite profitable. We were dual mining Ethereum (ETH) and Toncoin (TON). The 2Miners pool team tested the mining software with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and NVIDIA CMP 90HX, but the principles are applicable to many other graphics cards, including Nvidia (both LHR and non-LHR), and AMD.
Spoiler alert: It makes sense to dual mine Ethereum and Toncoin. We established that it's more profitable and ETH mining efficiency doesn't drop. So you can definitely increase your profit. Keep reading to learn more.
Ethereum Dual Mining. How It Works?
Occasionally dual mining sparks interest among both miners and mining software developers. As we already mentioned above, dual mining is the simultaneous mining of two cryptocurrencies with the same equipment. The two cryptocurrencies can work on different mining algorithms.
The main goal of dual mining is to get additional profit by mining the second coin with an insignificant increase in energy consumption.
The 2Miners pool team has been constantly researching dual mining for the past few years sharing its findings with the community. Five years ago it made sense to dual mine Ethereum and Decred or Siacoin. Then things changed, and for a long time, it was more profitable to mine a single coin, Ethereum. Read our articles to learn more about dual mining options:
lolMiner is a popular mining program created by the developer known as Lolliedieb. Starting from October 2018, the software is being actively developed. It supports a lot of algorithms: Ethash, Etchash, ZelHash, Equihash, Cuckoo, Cuckaroo, Cuckatoo, Autolykos, and BeamHash. lolMiner supports NVIDIA and AMD and works on Windows and Linux.
lolMiner’s developers constantly keep in touch with their users on popular platforms, including the 2Miners Telegram chat.
You can always download the latest miner version on Github.
lolMiner 1.43 was announced on February 4, 2022. This version allows you to dual mine Ethash/Etchash + Ton (Toncoin). It supports Nvidia graphics cards with the Turing and Ampere architecture, as well as AMD’s Fury and RX 400 series and above. The mining software charges a 1% fee.
Toncoin is a token of The Open Network (TON) developed by the TON Foundation. The project was initially run by Telegram's team with Pavel Durov. In May 2020, the developers were forced to abandon the project under the pressure of the US regulators. However, another development team took over and kept the project alive. Here you can see what Toncoin looks like today.
The cryptocurrency is traded on popular platforms like FTX, Gate, OKEx, etc. The full list of cryptocurrency exchanges is here.
Starting from August 2021, the coin’s exchange rate chart looks pretty good.
We tested Ethash + TON dual mining in two configurations.
Coin #1: Ethereum (Ethash Algorithm)
We were mining Ethereum in the 2Miners pool. We recommend always choosing payouts in BTC. This way your transaction fee during payout from the pool won’t exceed $0.10.
The guide on how to start mining is always available on the pool’s help page.
Coin #2: Toncoin (SHA256 Algorithm)
To get a Toncoin’s address, we used the Tonkeeper smartphone wallet available for iOS and Android. You can use any wallet listed on the TON’s official Wallets page.
Important: You can't use exchange wallets to get coins from mining pools. You would end up losing your funds. Send mining funds to a local wallet and only then transfer coins to exchanges if needed.
Choose one of the pools recommended by TON. We chose TON Whales. In this case we needed to use @WhalesPoolBot in Telegram to register in the pool. The same bot can help you withdraw coins from the pool.
Ethereum + Toncoin Dual Mining on Windows
Configuration 1. Fix the clock and voltage. We used the Voltage/Frequency Curve Editor in MSI Afterburner. We launched the mining program on the rig with the following GPU settings: PL(%): 80, CC (MHz): 0 fix Voltage(mV) 850, MC (MHz): +1000.
When you fix the voltage, choose a value that will let you get the highest core clock (CC) value provided that the miner operation remains stable.
When dual mined this way, the Ethash algorithm showed a hash rate of 78–79 Mh/s, which was 6 Mh/s less compared to the Ethash’s hash rate when mined alone. The SHA256 algorithm showed a hash rate of 2515–2556 Mh/s. The SHA256’s hash rate depends on the core clock and PL. When the CC value is high during mining, the balance shifts to TON.
You can see the miner’s parameters in the screenshot below.
Configuration 2. Fix the clock and voltage. We used the Voltage/Frequency Curve Editor in MSI Afterburner. We launched the mining program on the rig with the following GPU settings: PL(%): 80, CC (MHz): 0 fix Voltage(mV) 725, MC (MHz): +1000.
When you fix the voltage, choose a value that will let you get the lowest core clock (CC) value in the range of 1200–1500 MHz provided that the miner operation remains stable. This is an officially recommended range.
When dual mined this way, the Ethash algorithm showed a hash rate of 82 Mh/s, which was 2 Mh/s less compared to the Ethash’s hash rate when mined alone. The SHA256 algorithm showed a hash rate of 2044–2155 Mh/s. The SHA256’s hash rate depends on the core clock and PL. When the CC value is low during mining, the balance shifts to Ethereum.
You can see the miner’s parameters in the screenshot below.
Ethereum + Toncoin Dual Mining on RaveOS
Create a regular wallet address for ETH and choose the latest lolMiner’s version. Add the following to the miner configuration.
In the Dashboard tab, set the new wallet in the settings.
Settings:
We used our regular overclocking parameters for ETH mining.
If you use RaveOS, add the following to the set for NVIDIA CMP 90HX: oc -fanmin=40 -tt=50 -fixclk=1250 -mclk=1300
When dual mined this way, the Ethash algorithm showed a hash rate of 95 Mh/s, which was the same as the Ethash’s hash rate when mined alone. The SHA256 algorithm showed a hash rate of 853–855 Mh/s.
You can see the miner’s parameters in the screenshot below.
Mining settings for NVIDIA RTX 3080, NVIDIA CMP 90HX, and NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti.
Ethereum + Toncoin Dual Mining on HiveOS
Use a regular wallet that you use for ETH mining. Create a flight sheet, as shown in the screenshot below, choose lolMiner, then click on the Setup Miner Config.
Add the following to the Extra config arguments field:
To estimate TON rewards in 24 hours, we used the Profit per GH mining profitability indicator on the TonWhales website and the Toncoin’s exchange rate.
lolminer came up with an efficient dual mining solution. The reward estimates prove that dual mining can be more profitable than regular mining.
So it makes sense to use your graphics cards to mine ETH and TON at the same time and get more profit. It's worth reminding that Ethereum's hash rate stays almost the same, so if storing ETH is your thing, definitely try dual mining.
Please note that we didn’t test GPUs with extreme settings. You may get stable results by overclocking to a larger extent. Try it and test each GPU individually.
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The 2Miners pool co-founder, businessman, miner. In 2017 started mining cryptocurrencies and built many rigs on his own. As a result, he gained lots of practical knowledge and became interested in sharing it with others.
In his articles on 2Miners, he shares useful tips that he tried and tested himself. For example, Darek gives advice on how to buy hardware components for the basic mining rig and how to connect them to each other correctly. He also explained lots of complicated terms in simple words, such as shares, mining luck, block types, and cryptocurrency wallets. After the pool was launched, he published a series of articles ‘Crypto Mythbusters’ where he explained how to protect the network against 51% attack, talked about cryptocurrency mining difficulty and difficulties of launching your own node.
افزایش هش ریت کارت های LHR انویدیا با نرم افزار lolMiner – تست توسط استخر
February 4, 2022
در این مقاله ما درباره آنلاک کردن کارت های گرافیکی LHR با استفاده از نرم افزار محبوب ماینینگ به نام lolMiner خواهیم پرداخت. تیم استخر 2Miners این موضوع را با کارت GeForce RTX 3080Ti تست کرد، اما اصول کار بر روی هر کارت گرافیکی LHR کارا هست.
این مقاله از بلاگ توسط عضو جامعه ماینرهای
2Miners آقای سپهر هاشمی (Mownten@) به زبان شیرین پارسی ترجمه شده است.
این مقاله سی دسامبر مصادف با نهم دی ماه منتشر شده و در تاریخ سی ژانویه مصادف با دهم بهمن ماه ترجمه شده است. در گذشته ما آنلاک کارت های گرافیکی LHR با استفاده از نرم افزار T-Rex را بررسی کردیم. شما می توانید جزئیات این آزمایش و نتایج آن را در مقاله ی مخصوص آن مطالعه بفرمایید. و اگر می خواهید که نحوه آنلاک کارت های LHR با استفاده از نرم افزار Gminer را اینجا بخوانید.
ریشه کارت های گرافیکی LHR – کارت Nvidia RTX 3060
در CES در ژانویه 2021، شرکت انویدیا کارت گرافیک GeForce RTX 3060 را معرفی کرد. این کارت، جدیدترین نوع کارت گرافیک های RTX بود که قرار بود در پایان فوریه 2021 روانه بازار بشود.
شرکت انویدیا جزئیات ارائه را بر روی وبسایت رسمی خود در 12 ژانویه 2021 در مقاله ای با عنوان “معمامری آمپر انویدیا برای هر گیمر: کارت GeForce RTX 3060 در اواخر فوریه با قیمت 329دلار در دسترس خواهد بود” منتشر کرد.
همچنین می تواند متن کامل این مقاله را اینجا بخوانید
از زمان معرفی کارت 3060، برخی رسانه ها شایعاتی رو منتشر کردند که میگفت پتانسیل این کارت گرافیک ها از لحاظ هش ریت محدود شده است. در اواسط فوریه 2021، این موضوع هنوز تایید نشده بود.
در 18 فوریه 2021، شرکت انویدیا رسما اعلام کرد که آنا هش ریت کارت RTX 3060 را نصف خواهند نمود. تشریح این امر در مقاله "GeForce برای گیم ساخته شده است، CMP برای ماین" در دسترس است.
دقیقا سه ماه بعد، در 18 مه 2021، شرکت انویدیا مقاله دیگری را در بلاگ خود با عنوان “گامی فراتر برای رساندن کارت های GeForce در دستان گیمرها” منتشر کرد. این مقاله درباره ی کاهش هش ریت در الگوریتم Ethash برای کارت گرافیک های جدید سری RTX مانند 3080 و 3070 و 3060Ti صحبت می کند تا علاقه مندی ماینرها کمتر بکند. این مدل ها در اواخر مه 2021 در دسترس قرار گرفتند و با شناسه “هش ریت سبک” یا “LHR” نامگذاری شدند.
درست پس از این پست، کارشناسان بصورت فعالی درباره واژه LHR به مباحثه پرداختند. میتواند متن کامل مقاله را اینجابخوانید. در 31 مه 2021، شرکت انویدیا کارت 3080Ti و 3070Ti را عرضه کرد. می توانید متن کامل معرفی را اینجا بخوانید.
گرچه شایعه ها قبل از عرضه آنها، درباره هش ریت محدود این کارت ها بر روی الگوریتم Ethash شروع به چرخیدن در محافل کرد، شرکت انویدیا هیچ اشاره رسمی ای به LHR در این کارت گرافیک ها نکرد. بعد از عرضه رسمی و آزمایش ها، تایید شد که کارت های 3080Ti و 3070Ti دارای محدودیت هش ریت هستند.
Two GPUs were connected to the motherboard, each through the riser PCI-E X16-X1.
OS: Windows 10
Nvidia’s driver: 471.68, 472.12
Overclocking: MSI Afterburner 4.6.4 Beta 3
Monitoring: GPU-Z
آزمایش در محیط سربسته با دمای اتاق بالای 15درجه سانتی گراد (معادل 59 درجه فارنهایت) صورت پذیرفته است.
ما از نرم افزار PhoenixMiner برای تخمین بیشترین هش ریت کارت 3080Ti بر روی الگوریتم های Ethash و Etchash استفاده کردیم. ما نرم افزار ماینینگ را برای ریگ با تنظیمات گرافیکی به شرح زیر اجرا کردیم: PL(%): 70, CC(MHz): +0, MC(MHz): +1000.
درست پس از اجرا، نرم افزار هش ریتی در مرز 116 مگاهش را تخمین زد، اما بعد از دو دقیقه در مرز 64 مگاهش قرار گرفت.
به لطف پیش تست، ما یک هش ریت بالقوه را، بدون قفل LHR بر روی Ethash و Etchash تخمین زدیم و تایید شد که قفل LHR منجر به کاهش هش ریت تقریبا 45درصدی خواهد شد.
آزمایش lolMiner بر روی کارت های LHR
نرم افزار lolMiner یک نرم افزار مشهور است که توسط توسعه دهنده ای به نام Lolliedieb منتشر شده است. نسخه اولیه lolMiner در 21 اکتبر 2018 منتشر شد و فقط از کارت های AMD و شمار محدودی از الگوریتم های ماینینگ پشتیبانی می کرد. امروزه این نرم افزار بصورت فعالی در حال توسعه است و از الگوریتم های زیادی مانند Ethash و Etchash و ZelHash و Equihash و Cuckoo و Cuckaroo و Cuckatoo و Autolykos و BeamHash پشتیبانی می کند.
این نرم افزار از کارت های AMD و Nvidia بر روی Windows و Linux پشتیبانی میکند.
توسعه دهندگان lolMiner بر روی پلتفرم های مشهور و از طریق کانال های شبکه های اجتماعی بصورت مداوم با کاربران خود در تماس هستند.
ما از lolMiner نسخه 1.32a برای تخمین حداکثر هش ریت برای 3080Ti با قفل LHR روی الگوریتم Ethash استفاده کردیم. سپس نرم افزار را با مشخصات گرافیکی زیر بر روی ریگ اجرا کردیم:
PL(%): 55, CC (MHz): +0, MC (MHz): +1000.
نرم افزار ما هش ریت روی Ethash را حدود 63 مگاهش تخمین زد. نمودارهای Memory Controller Load و GPU load و Board Power Draw بدون ریزش خاصی ثابت بودند. فاکتور Memory Controller Load هم در مقدار 66درصد بود.
سپس نرم افزار را با مشخصات گرافیکی زیر بر روی ریگ اجرا کردیم:
PL(%): 55, CC (MHz): +0, MC (MHz): +1300.
نرم افزار ما هش ریت روی Ethash را حدود 65 مگاهش تخمین زد. نمودارهای Memory Controller Load و GPU load و Board Power Draw بدون ریزش خاصی ثابت بودند. فاکتور Memory Controller Load هم در مقدار 66 درصد بود.
در نتیجه، ما هش ریت را تخمین زدیم و تایید شد که هش ریت کارت گرافیک با قفل LHR چیزی در حدود 64 تا 66 مگاهش هست.
توجه به این نکته ضروری است که نرم افزار MSI Afterburner شماره گذاری کارت های گرافیکی را از شماره 1 شروع به ایندکس می کند، در حالی که در فایل لاگ و نرم افزار ماینینگ کارت گرافیک ها از کارت شماره صفر شروع می شوند. در این مقاله ما اغلب از کارت 1 و کارت 2 نام میبریم، به غیر از موارد معدودی که داده های فایل لاگ یا نرم افزار ماینینگ را ذکر میکنیم.
آنلاک LHR با lolminer نسخه .32a
در 12 سپتامبر 2021 توسعه دهندگان نسخه
1.32a را منتشر کردند. این نسخه، اولین نسخه ای بود که همراه با قابلیت آنلاک کردن LHR بود که شامل پارامترهای ماین جدید و مودهای اجرایی مختلف بود.
شما می توانید این نرم افزار را از اینجا دریافت کنید
توضیحات این نسخه از نرم افزار می گوید که توسعه دهندگان اغلب آزمایشات قبل از انتشار را بر روی سیستم های لینوکس با درایورهای خاص اجرا کرده اند. در هر صورت، ما تصمیم گرفتیم که آزمایش را بر روی ویندوز انجام بدهیم.
پس از مطالعه راهنمای تغییر مود انویدیا و نیم آنلاک LHR، ما بهترین مودها را برای ریگ آزمایشی خود انتخاب کردیم: LHR2 و LHRLP.
مود LHR2
ما نرم افزار را با مشخصات گرافیکی زیر بر روی ریگ اجرا کردیم:
نرم افزار ماینر هش ریت روی Ethash را حدود 50 مگاهش تخمین زد. هش ریت بالا نرفت. دیگر عواملی چون Memory Controller Load و GPU Load و نمودارهای Board Power Draw نیز مانند نمودارهای Power پارامتر ناپایدار کوچکی را نمایش دادند. فاکتور Memory Controller Load هم در مقدار 66 درصد بود.
بعد از برررسی فایل لاگ، پی بردیم که قفل LHR در بخش تولیدی DAG فعال شده است.
GPU 0: detected mining lock - attempting to improve performance...
GPU 1: DAG build complete 100%
GPU 1: DAG generation completed (3446 ms)
GPU 1: DAG verification passed
GPU 1: detected mining lock - attempting to improve performance...
متن درون فایل لاگ شامل عبارت ‘Unlock’ به معنای همان بازگشایی قفل LHR نبود.
سپس ما چندین آزمایش دیگر را با تغییر فرکانس و ولتاژ بر روی مود LHR2 اجرا کردیم. ما از قابلیت Voltage/Frequency Curve Editor در نرم افزار MSI Afterburner استفاده کردیم. ما در آنلاک کردن LHR با درایور انویدیا نسخه 471.68 موفق نبودیم، و تصمیم گرفتیم که درایور نسخه 472.12 را روی ریگ نصب کنیم.
در طی اکثر آزمایشات، نرم افزار ماینر ناپایدار ماند، اما ما نتایج خوبی را با آزمون و خطا بدست آوردیم. برویم ببینیم.
ما نرم افزار را با مشخصات گرافیکی زیر بر روی ریگ اجرا کردیم:
PL(%): 80, CC (MHz): -502 fix Voltage(mV) 825, MC (MHz): +1000.
کارت شماره 1: مقدار CC یا همان کلاک هسته در 1050 مگاهرتز ماند. دو دقیقه بعد از اجرای نرم افزار ماینر، هش ریت روی 82 مگاهش بود.
کارت شماره 2: مقدار CC یا همان کلاک هسته در 1095 مگاهرتز ماند. دو دقیقه بعد از اجرای نرم افزار ماینر، هش ریت روی 82 مگاهش بود.
بعد از یک ساعت کار، نرم افزار ماینر هش ریت حدود 76 تا 78 مگاهش بر ثانیه را نشان داد.
مود LHRLP
بعد از بررسی فایل لاگ، پی بردیم که قفل LHR در 25 دقیقه ی اول آزمایش، 7 بار بر روی هر کارت گرافیک فعال شده است. سپس هش ریت ثابت شده است.
عواملی چون Memory Controller Load و GPU Load و نمودارهای Board Power Draw نیز مانند نمودارهای Power پارامتر ناپایدار کوچکی را نمایش دادند. فاکتور Memory Controller Load هم در مقدار بین 88 تا 100 درصد بود.
سپس ما چندین آزمایش دیگر را بر روی مود LHR2 هم با تغییر فرکانس و ولتاژ و هم با عدم تغییر آنها اجرا کردیم. ما از قابلیت Voltage/Frequency Curve Editor در نرم افزار MSI Afterburner استفاده کردیم. در طی اکثر آزمایشات، نرم افزار ماینر ناپایدار ماند و ما نیز به نتایج خوبی دست یافتیم.
ما نرم افزار را با مشخصات گرافیکی زیر بر روی ریگ اجرا کردیم:
PL(%): 80, CC (MHz): -502 fix Voltage(mV) 825, MC (MHz): +1000.
کارت شماره 1: مقدار CC یا همان کلاک هسته در 1050 مگاهرتز ماند. دو دقیقه بعد از اجرای نرم افزار ماینر، هش ریت روی 82 مگاهش بود.
کارت شماره 2: مقدار CC یا همان کلاک هسته در 1095 مگاهرتز ماند. دو دقیقه بعد از اجرای نرم افزار ماینر، هش ریت روی 82 مگاهش بود.
بعد از یک ساعت که از آزمایش سپری شد، نرم افزار ماینر هش ریت حدود 78 تا 80 مگاهش بر ثانیه را نشان داد.
بعد از بررسی فایل لاگ، پی بردیم که قفل LHR در 19 دقیقه ی اول آزمایش، 4 بار بر روی هر کارت گرافیک فعال شده است. سپس هش ریت ثابت شده است.
عواملی چون Memory Controller Load و GPU Load و نمودارهای Board Power Draw نیز مانند نمودارهای Power پارامتر ناپایدار کوچکی را نمایش دادند. فاکتور Memory Controller Load هم در مقدار بین 88 تا 100 درصد بود.
با انتشار نسخه جدیدی از نرم افزار ماینر، ما آزمایشات بعدی را متوقف کردیم.
نتیجه گیری: نسخه 1.32a نرم افزار lolMiner میتواند تا حدی LHR را آنلاک کند. نرم افزار ماینر هش ریت حدود 78 تا 80 مگاهش را نشان می دهد که معادل 67تا69 درصد از نهایت پتانسیل هش ریت است.
توضیحات عرضه نسخه جدید به شرح روبرو بود: “درایورهای پیشنهادی برای مودهای LHR2 و LHRLP نسخه های 470.63.01 یا 465.31 هستند-بقیه ممکن است ناپایدارتر باشند. غالب تست ها در لینوکس صورت پذیرفته است.”
استخر 2Miners سیستم عامل ماینینگ RaveOS/HiveOS مبتنی بر لینوکس را برای این نسخه از نرم افزار ماینینگ جهت اطمینان از استخراج پایدار پیشنهاد میکند.
آنلاک LHR با lolminer نسخه .33
در 1 اکتبر 2021 توسعه دهندگان نسخه 1.33 را منتشر کردند. در این نسخه، توسعه دهندگان روی آنلاک کردن LHR کار کردند. آنها عملکرد آنلاک LHR در نرم افزار را بهینه سازی کردند و نسخه های خاصی از درایورها را نیز پیشنهاد دادند.
شما می توانید این نسخه از نرم افزار را اینجا دریافت کنید و ویژگی های آن رو بخوانید.
ما نرم افزار را با مشخصات گرافیکی زیر بر روی ریگ اجرا کردیم:
در 4 دقیقه اول، ماینر در حال “اندازه گیری دقیق کلاک هسته و کلاک حافظه کارت ها” بود. این یعنی که در فایل لاگ چنین نوشته خواهد شد:
GPU 1: please wait LHR semi-unlock calibration is ongoing...
GPU 0: please wait LHR semi-unlock calibration is ongoing...
اگر قفل LHR در حین استخراج فعال شده است، این نرم افزار پارامتر lhrtune را در زمان آنلاک کردن LHR کاهش می دهد:
GPU 1: detected mining lock. Unlocking & reducing --lhrtune parameter...
GPU 1: GPU will be paused to make sure it is unlocked...
GPU 0: detected mining lock. Unlocking & reducing --lhrtune parameter...
GPU 0: GPU will be paused to make sure it is unlocked...
مدت زمان آزمایش 30 ساعت و 33 دقیقه بود.
بعد از بررسی فایل لاگ، پی بردیم که که قفل LHR 4بار برای هر کارت گرافیک در طول 26 ساعت فعال شده است.
عواملی چون GPU Load و نمودارهای Board Power Draw همانند نمودارهای Power پارامتر ناپایدار کوچکی را نمایش دادند. نمودار Memory Controller Load در کارت شماره 1 ثابت و پایدار بود درحالیکه همین نمودار مربوط به کارت شماره 2 خیلی ناپایدار بود.
صفحه آمار مربوط به ریگ در استخر (صفحه Stats) همراه با نتایج کار نرم افزار به شرح زیر است:
بر اساس تعداد سهم های ارسال شده به استخر، ما هش ریت را بعد 30.55 ساعت از عملیات آزمایشی تخمین زدیم. داده های اولیه ی هر دو کارت گرافیک: تعداد 2051 سهم در 30.55 ساعت، سختی سهم 8726 مگا بود. ما شمار سهم ها در ثانیه را در سختی سهم ضرب کردیم و به عدد 162.7 مگاهش بر ثانیه رسیدیم. این هش ریت دو کارت گرافیک است، که یعنی هش ریت هر کدام از آنها معادل تقریبا 81.36 مگاهش هست. ما همچنین میتونیم هش ریت هر کارت گرافیک را با حساب شمار سهم های حل شده توسط هر کارت گرافیک نیز بسنجیم. (کارت یک: 1034 سهم و کارت دو: 1017 سهم) که یعنی هش ریت کارت 1 حدود 82.04 مگاهش بر ثانیه بوده و کارت شماره 2 حدود 80.69 مگاهش بر ثانیه بوده است.
ما مدت زمانی طولانی تر آزمایش را جهت کسب نتایج آماری دقیق تر توصیه میکنیم: که هر کارت می باید بیش از 5000 سهم را به استخر ارسال کند.
نتیجه گیری: نرم افزار lolMiner نسخه 1.33 می تواند تا حدودی LHR را آنلاک کند. نرم افزار هش ریت حدود 81مگاهش بر ثانیه را نمایش می دهد که حدود 70درصد از حداکثر هش ریت بالقوه این کارت است. در توضیحات این نسخه شما می توانید نسخه دقیق درایورهای پیشنهادی برای هر کارت گرافیک جهت کسب پایداری صحیح را مشاهده کنید.
آنلاک LHR با lolminer نسخه 1.34
در 18 اکتبر 2021 توسعه دهندگان نسخه 1.34 را منتشر کردند. در این نسخه، توسعه دهندگان، ویژگی آنلاک کردن LHR را بهینه سازی کردند، درایورهای خاصی را پیشنهاد دادند، و نواقصی که قبلا کشف شده بودند را رفع کردند. شما میتوانید مقدار –lhrtune و شمار قفل های LHR را در نمودار مربوط به صفحه stats در فایل لاگ برنامه ماینینگ ببینید.
شما می توانید این نسخه از نرم افزار را اینجا دریافت کنید و ویژگی های آن رو بخوانید. Click here to download the miner and read about its features.
ما نرم افزار را با مشخصات گرافیکی زیر بر روی ریگ اجرا کردیم:
مدت زمان آزمایش 2 ساعت و 33 دقیقه بود
در 4 دقیقه اول، نرم افزار ماینر داشت LHR Semi-Unlock را اندازه گیری دقیق میکرد. قفل LHR یک بار فعال شد. نمودارهای Board Power Draw همانند دیگر نمودارهای Power کمی ناپایدار بودند. نمودارهای GPU Load و Memory Controller Load ثابت و پایدار بودند. ماینر یک هش ریت حدود 82مگاهشی را نشان داد.
ما هم افزایش مقدار کلاک حافظه را امتحان کردیم.
نرم افزار را با مشخصات گرافیکی زیر بر روی ریگ اجرا کردیم:
PL(%): 70, CC (MHz): +0, MC (MHz): +1200.
دستورات فایل bat مربوط به نرم افزار نیز همانند قبل بود.
این تنظیمات منحر به فعالسازی مداوم قفل LHR بر روی کارت شماره 2 شد. نمودار GPU Load و نمودارهای Board Power Draw همانند دیگر نمودارهای Power ناپایداری کمی در پارامترها را نشان دادند. نمودار Memory Controller Load مربوط به کارت شماره 1 پایدار بود. نمودارهای کارت شماره 2 بسیار ناپایدار بودند.
ما مقدار کلاک حافظه در کارت شماره 2 را کاهش دادیم و ماینر را با تنظیمات گرافیکی زیر اجرا کردیم:
GPU1: PL(%): 70, CC (MHz): +0, MC (MHz): +1200.
GPU2: PL(%): 70, CC (MHz): +0, MC (MHz): +1000.
فایل bat را نیز تغییری ندادیم.
مدت زمان آزمایش 61 ساعت و 30 دقیقه بود.
بعد از بررسی فایل لاگ، پی بردیم که قفل LHR در طول آزمایش 3 بار فعال شده است. نمودارهای Board Power Draw همانند دیگر نمودارهای Power ناپایداری کمی در پارامترها را نشان دادند. نمودارهای GPU Load و Memory Controller Load پایدار بودند.
صفحه آمار مربوط به ریگ در استخر (صفحه Stats) همراه با نتایج کار نرم افزار به شرح زیر است:
بر اساس تعداد سهم های ارسال شده به استخر، ما هش ریت را بعد 61.5 ساعت از عملیات آزمایشی تخمین زدیم. داده های اولیه ی هر دو کارت گرافیک: تعداد 4089 سهم در 61.5 ساعت، سختی سهم 8726 مگا بود. ما شمار سهم ها در ثانیه را در سختی سهم ضرب کردیم و به عدد 161.2 مگاهش بر ثانیه رسیدیم. این هش ریت دو کارت گرافیک است، که یعنی هش ریت هر کدام از آنها معادل تقریبا 80.58 مگاهش بر ثانیه هست. ما همچنین میتونیم هش ریت هر کارت گرافیک را با حساب شمار سهم های حل شده توسط هر کارت گرافیک نیز بسنجیم. (کارت یک: 2090 سهم و کارت دو: 1999 سهم) که یعنی هش ریت کارت 1 حدود 82.37 مگاهش بر ثانیه بوده و کارت شماره 2 حدود 78.79 مگاهش بر ثانیه بوده است.
ما مدت زمانی طولانی تر آزمایش را جهت کسب نتایج آماری دقیق تر توصیه میکنیم: که هر کارت می باید بیش از 5000 سهم را به استخر ارسال کند.
نتیجه گیری: نرم افزار lolMiner نسخه 1.34 می تواند تا حدودی LHR را آنلاک کند. نرم افزار هش ریت حدود 80 مگاهش بر ثانیه را نمایش می دهد که حدود 69 درصد از حداکثر هش ریت بالقوه این کارت است. در توضیحات این نسخه شما می توانید نسخه.
دقیق درایورهای پیشنهادی برای هر کارت گرافیک جهت کسب پایداری صحیح را مشاهده کنید.
آنلاک LHR با lolminer نسخه .1.36
در 15 نوامبر 2021 نسخه 1.36 نرم افزار lolMiner منتشر شد. این نسخه، عملکرد بهتری در برخی کارت گرافیک ها دارد و توسعه دهندگان قابلیت auto-tuning را اصلاح نموده و عیوب کشف شده در نسخحه های قبلی را رفع نمودند.
شما می توانید این نسخه از نرم افزار را اینجا دریافت کنید و ویژگی های آن رو بخوانید.
ما نرم افزار را با مشخصات گرافیکی زیر بر روی ریگ اجرا کردیم:
GPU1: PL(%): 70, CC (MHz): +0, MC (MHz): +1200.
GPU2: PL(%): 70, CC (MHz): +0, MC (MHz): +1000.
مدت زمان آزمایش 27 ساعت و 23 دقیقه بود. بعد از بررسی فایل لاگ، پی بردیم که قفل LHR در طول آزمایش 9 بار فعال شده است. نمودارهای Board Power Draw همانند دیگر نمودارهای Power ناپایداری کمی داشتند. نمودارهای GPU Load و Memory Controller Load پایدار بودند. نمودارهای GPU Load و Memory Controller Load پایدار بودند.
صفحه آمار مربوط به ریگ در استخر (صفحه Stats) همراه با نتایج کار نرم افزار به شرح زیر است:
بر اساس تعداد سهم های ارسال شده به استخر، ما هش ریت را بعد 27.38 ساعت از عملیات آزمایشی تخمین زدیم. داده های اولیه ی هر دو کارت گرافیک: تعداد 1860 سهم در 27.38 ساعت، سختی سهم 8726 مگا بود. ما شمار سهم ها در ثانیه را در سختی سهم ضرب کردیم و به عدد 164.6 مگاهش بر ثانیه رسیدیم. این هش ریت دو کارت گرافیک است، که یعنی هش ریت هر کدام از آنها معادل تقریبا 82.32 مگاهش بر ثانیه هست. ما همچنین میتوانیم هش ریت هر کارت گرافیک را با حساب شمار سهم های حل شده توسط هر کارت گرافیک نیز بسنجیم. (کارت یک: 973 سهم و کارت دو: 887 سهم) که یعنی هش ریت کارت 1 حدود 86.13 مگاهش بر ثانیه بوده و کارت شماره 2 حدود 78.51 مگاهش بر ثانیه بوده است.
ما مدت زمانی طولانی تر آزمایش را جهت کسب نتایج آماری دقیق تر توصیه میکنیم: که هر کارت می باید بیش از 5000 سهم را به استخر ارسال کند.
نتیجه گیری: نرم افزار lolMiner نسخه 1.36 می تواند تا حدودی LHR را آنلاک کند. نرم افزار هش ریت حدود 82 مگاهش بر ثانیه را نمایش می دهد که حدود 71 درصد از حداکثر هش ریت بالقوه این کارت است. در توضیحات این نسخه شما می توانید نسخه دقیق درایورهای پیشنهادی برای هر کارت گرافیک جهت کسب پایداری صحیح را مشاهده کنید.
پیشنهادات و نتیجه گیری های نهایی
نرم افزار lolMiner یک راهکار کارساز برای آنلاک کردن کارت های LHR را ارائه می دهد. به لطف lolMiner شما می توانید تا حدودی LHR را آنلاک کنید. بسته به نسخه ی نرم افزار ماینینگ، شما میتوانید یک هش ریت حدود 78 تا 82 مگاهش بر ثانیه را از کارت Nvidia 3080Ti LHR بگیرید که این مقدار حدود 67 تا 71 درصد از حداکثر هش ریت بالقوه این کارت است.
نسخه های 1.34 و 1.36 پایدارترین نتایج را در طول آزمایشات داشتند که بالاترین هش ریت را به ما دادند.
در نظر داشته باشید که ما نتایج مختلفی را از مدل های همسان کارت گرافیک با تنظیمات همسان کسب کردیم. این یعنی اینکه هر کارت گرافیک می بایست جداگانه تنظیم بشود.
ما کارت گرافیک ها را با تنظیمات شدید آزمایش نکردیم. بعنوان مثال، کارت گرافیک های شما ممکن است با کلاک های بالاتر بهتر کار بکنند.
The 2Miners pool co-founder, businessman, miner. In 2017 started mining cryptocurrencies and built many rigs on his own. As a result, he gained lots of practical knowledge and became interested in sharing it with others.
In his articles on 2Miners, he shares useful tips that he tried and tested himself. For example, Darek gives advice on how to buy hardware components for the basic mining rig and how to connect them to each other correctly. He also explained lots of complicated terms in simple words, such as shares, mining luck, block types, and cryptocurrency wallets. After the pool was launched, he published a series of articles ‘Crypto Mythbusters’ where he explained how to protect the network against 51% attack, talked about cryptocurrency mining difficulty and difficulties of launching your own node.
January 2022 Work Progress Report: Ravencoin Halving, Multiple Node Updates
February 1, 2022
Ravencoin halving, new languages available in the Telegram monitoring bot, multiple cryptocurrency node updates, high reward blocks, and PPLNS system change in the Ethereum pool.
Cryptocurrency Node Updates
This month the developers of many coins released new software versions. Some updates were previously scheduled. Other releases were required to solve the emergency situations that happened with the networks of these coins. For example in January FLUX node was updated multiple times because of the constant network problems. ERGO network also got some issues.
This is the list of the most important updates and the current versions of the node software installed.
Firo v0.14.9.4-g82a9a564c
ETC CoreGeth/v1.12.6-stable-20d20d72
ZEC v4.6.0-1
CORTEX v1.10.30-stable-67e7700
Ergo Protocol Reference Client 4.0.21.1
Flux v5.2.0-e4f7588
Ravencoin Halving
Ravencoin (RVN) halving happened at block 2 100 000 on January 11th. The block reward is now 2500 RVN only. It was 5000 RVN before. That means all the miners get two times less reward now.
We’ve increased the number of PPLNS shares from 300 000 to 1 000 000 for the Ethereum PPLNS Pool.
This will not change your daily reward anyhow. This should just help the small miners with a low hashrate (for example a single video card) to participate in a larger amount of blocks. How does PPLNS pool reward system works?
2Miners Ethereum pool found a lot of BIG blocks in January. For example 83.65 ETH per block on January 12th, 79.82 ETH on January 15th, 75.55 ETH on January 29th and many more.
The quick start archive with the mining software has been updated. It includes the latest versions of the most popular programs for Windows OS and the ready-to-go bat-files for each of the coins available on 2Miners.com. The archive contains:
gminer 2.75
t-rex 0.24.8
lolminer 1.42
teamredminer 0.9.0
You could always download the archive using the link below. It is also presented on the help page of the pool.
2Miners Telegram Pool Monitoring Bot is now translated into 5 languages: English, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Spanish.
Our bot is one of the best ways to monitor your mining rig activity. It could be also very convenient for the SOLO miners who rent the hash power as the bot could notify you about the new blocks found by your rigs.
The 2Miners pool co-founder, businessman, miner. In 2017 started mining cryptocurrencies and built many rigs on his own. As a result, he gained lots of practical knowledge and became interested in sharing it with others.
In his articles on 2Miners, he shares useful tips that he tried and tested himself. For example, Darek gives advice on how to buy hardware components for the basic mining rig and how to connect them to each other correctly. He also explained lots of complicated terms in simple words, such as shares, mining luck, block types, and cryptocurrency wallets. After the pool was launched, he published a series of articles ‘Crypto Mythbusters’ where he explained how to protect the network against 51% attack, talked about cryptocurrency mining difficulty and difficulties of launching your own node.
Cómo puedo minar Bitcoin con mi PC y una tarjeta gráfica (GPU)
January 31, 2022
Este artículo brinda instrucciones simples y detalladas sobre cómo minar Bitcoin usando su propia computadora. Sígalo y comenzará a minar Bitcoin en casa en poco tiempo.
Hay tres pasos a seguir para comenzar a minar Bitcoin en casa: preparar su computadora, crear una billetera e iniciar la minería.
Saltarse cualquiera de estos pasos no le permitirá pasar al siguiente.
Requisitos del sistema
Puede usar cualquier computadora: de escritorio o portátil.
El sistema operativo Windows es el más sencillo de usar. No puedes minar en Mac OS, y si usas Linux, probablemente ya sepas cómo minar.
Puedes conectarte a Internet como quieras. Es importante tener una conexión estable, pero la velocidad, ya sea 100 Mbit/s o 512 Kbit/s, no importa. Puede conectarse a través de cable, WI-Fi o USB.
Minería con PC
Solo hay un requisito imprescindible: una buena tarjeta gráfica con al menos 6GB de RAM. Las tarjetas gráficas más asequibles que cumplen con los requisitos de minería son Nvidia 1060 6GB y AMD RX 480 8GB.
No es necesario aclarar que cuanto mejor la tarjeta gráfica, será más costosa y podrá brindar las mejores recompensas. Si deseas saber cuál tarjeta es la más rentable, sigue éste .
Algunas personas dicen que las PC no son para minar: su tarjeta gráfica y otras partes se romperían, perderían la garantía, etc. En realidad, no hay diferencia entre minar en una plataforma y en una PC. Ambos tienen las mismas partes: la placa base, el procesador, el sistema operativo, el disco duro y la tarjeta gráfica. La única diferencia es que los mineros montan de 6 a 8 o incluso más tarjetas gráficas en una computadora (a diferencia de una tarjeta gráfica en una PC normal) y dejan la carcasa abierta, generalmente también agregan algunos ventiladores para una mejor refrigeración.
Todas las tarjetas gráficas generalmente se venden con una garantía de dos años y el fabricante no puede revocarla si usa su GPU para minería en lugar de juegos.
Minería con laptop
Las cosas son un poco menos optimistas con las computadoras portátiles. Las tarjetas gráficas de los portátiles suelen ser menos potentes que las de los ordenadores de sobremesa. Para minar en una computadora portátil, existe el mismo requisito: una tarjeta gráfica con al menos 6 GB de RAM. No siempre es fácil encontrar una computadora portátil de este tipo. Sin embargo, en los últimos tres años vimos el lanzamiento de una gran cantidad de portátiles con GPU de 6 GB. Eche un vistazo a Dell G5-5590 con NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 o Lenovo Legion con 1660Ti Mobile.
Si planea usar mucho su computadora portátil para la minería, asegúrese de darle la refrigeración adecuada. Las partes de la computadora portátil se colocan cerca unas de otras dentro de una carcasa pequeña. Si una tarjeta gráfica se sobrecalienta, otras partes también se sobrecalentarán. Tarde o temprano es probable que se rompan.
¿Como crear una dirección de la billetera Bitcoin?
Este paso es crucial. Debes entender que en el negocio de las criptomonedas estás solo contra todo el mundo. Si pierdes tu billetera, nadie te va a ayudar. Perder una billetera de Bitcoin es como perder efectivo, si no peor. Es posible que a veces le devuelvan su dinero en efectivo, pero es imposible recuperar Bitcoin.
Instalemos la billetera Coinomi. No necesita compartir ninguna identificación o información personal para hacer eso. Hay muchas otras billeteras en el mercado, y esto no es un anuncio: Coinomi es solo una solución confiable. Está disponible en cualquier sistema operativo, incluidos Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android.
No importa dónde instale su billetera: puede ser un teléfono inteligente o una PC. La billetera puede estar en la misma computadora que usas para minar o en cualquier otro dispositivo: no importa.
Digamos que decidiste instalar la billetera en Windows. Así es como debes proceder.
Crea una nueva billetera eligiendo la opción Crear una nueva billetera.
Importante: Asegúrate de mantener a salvo tu frase de recuperación (frase mnemonica) escribiéndola en un papel. No sirven los dispositivos electrónicos, especialmente los conectados a Internet. Cuando sea necesario, podrás recuperar tu billetera utilizando esta frase.
Una vez más, es extremadamente importante: este conjunto de palabras es la clave de todo su dinero. Guárdelo en un lugar seguro y no se lo muestre a nadie. Incluso si elimina Coinomi de su computadora, podrá recuperar su billetera gracias a esta frase.
Aquí hay un ejemplo de una llamada frase mnemotécnica o semilla.
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El siguiente paso es verificar si guardó su frase correctamente. Puede omitir este paso, pero le recomendamos verificar su frase mnemotécnica.
Crea tu contraseña de billetera. Asegúrese de elegir una segura: ‘qwertyasdfg’ no funcionará.
Coinomi es una billetera multicadena, lo que significa que puede almacenar otras monedas además de Bitcoin. En este caso, necesitamos Bitcoin. Coloque una marca junto a Bitcoin y haga clic en Siguiente para continuar.
Ya casi has terminado: encontremos la dirección de tu billetera. Haga clic en Bitcoin.
Luego en Recibir.
Ahora puedes ver la dirección de tu billetera. Continúa y cópialo: lo necesitarás para una configuración posterior.
Nuestra dirección Bitcoin es bc1qzdnd377m8jl6t79xkph8vvt6fkx4a8ntrnxz67.
Si estás instalando la billetera en un teléfono inteligente, debes seguir los mismos pasos. Aquí puedes encontrar capturas de pantalla de un iPhone.
Lo mejor de Coinomi es que puedes usar la misma billetera en varios dispositivos. Si cambias de smartphone o necesitas borrar todo de un PC, siempre puedes recuperar tu monedero en cualquier otro dispositivo.
Minería de Bitcoin en Windows
Descargua el archivo de inicio rápido del grupo 2Miners. Este archivo es completamente seguro: siempre puede encontrarlo en la página web del grupo.
Descomprime el archivo. La contraseña del archivo es 2miners
Sin mayúsculas ni puntos al final.
Abra la carpeta Configuración, luego vaya a la carpeta Nvidia o AMD, según la que tenga.
Haga click derecho en el archivo eth-pool.bat y elija editarlo con el Bloc de notas. Si no ve esa opción, primero abra el Bloc de notas y luego abra eth-pool.bat desde allí.
Copia la dirección de su billetera Bitcoin que creamos en el paso anterior: bc1qzdnd377m8jl6t79xkph8vvt6fkx4a8ntrnxz67, y péguala después de la palabra “usuario”, reemplazando la billetera indicada allí por defecto. Puedes conservar o eliminar la parte “.RIG_ID”, incluido el punto. Este es solo el nombre de tu plataforma y no afecta la rentabilidad de ninguna manera.
Guarda el archivo y luego ejecútalo.
La minería ha comenzado oficialmente ahora. Continuará mientras que mantengas abierto el programa de minería. Si lo cierras, siempre puedes ejecutar el archivo eth-pool.bat nuevamente para reiniciar la minería.
¿Cuánto puede ganar en un mes con la minería con una GPU?
Aún no hemos discutidos algunas cuestiones importantes, como: “Donde están mis Bitcoins? Como los obtengo? Cuando es el pago? Cuanto obtendré?”
Para encontrar tus estadísticas de minería, debes copiar la dirección de tu billetera: bc1qzdnd377m8jl6t79xkph8vvt6fkx4a8ntrnxz67, y pegarla en el cuadro de búsqueda en la parte superior de la página web del grupo 2Miners.com . Verás una página con tus estadísticas. Si no lo ves justo después de iniciar el programa de minería, es normal. Debes esperar de 5 a 10 minutos.
Puedes usar 2CryptoCalc para estimar cuánta criptomoneda puedes ganar. Digamos que tienes la Nvidia 2070. Ve al sitio web de la calculadora y coloca un “1” junto al nombre de esta tarjeta gráfica. A continuación puedes ver la rentabilidad minera de esta GPU: $ 1.85 (en el momento de escribir este artículo).
$ 1.85 por día es excelente, pero ¿cómo obtenerlo realmente? Hay un umbral de pago mínimo en el pool de minería. A partir de ahora, equivale a 0.005 ETH, que son $15 al tipo de cambio actual. Por lo tanto, debes minar durante aproximadamente una semana para obtener tu primer pago. Puedes monitorear el proceso en tu página de estadísticas en el sitio web del grupo.
Equipo de minería Ethereum o Bitcoin
Los mineros profesionales saben que ya no se puede minar Bitcoin en GPU. Y algunos de ustedes probablemente también notaron algo extraño. Por ejemplo, es posible que haya notado el ícono de Ethereum en lugar del de Bitcoin en la captura de pantalla de una calculadora de la sección anterior.
Entonces, ¿cuál es el truco aquí?
Ethereum es la criptomoneda más rentable para la minería GPU. El grupo de 2Miners tiene una función para intercambiar Ethereum a Bitcoin sin tarifas y pagarle en BTC.
Para ser claro, minas Ethereum y recibes pagos en Bitcoin. Es una excelente manera de obtener lo mejor de las dos criptomonedas más grandes del mundo.
¿Cuándo terminará la minería GPU?
Es posible que muchos de ustedes hayan escuchado que la minería de GPU terminará muy pronto. Estos rumores han existido durante los últimos cinco años. Los hechos, por su parte, prueban lo contrario. El poder minero crece constantemente en todo el mundo a pasos agigantados.
La minería de GPU alcanzó su punto más alto a principios de 2021, y nadie creía que habría aún más mineros en el futuro. Faltaban tarjetas gráficas en todo el mundo. Las fábricas no podían satisfacer la demanda. Sin embargo, ¡la cantidad de tarjetas gráficas dedicadas a la minería se triplicó en solo un año!
Esta vez, sin embargo, parece que la minería de GPU realmente puede dejar de ser rentable. Ethereum, la principal criptomoneda para la minería de GPU, planea cambiar de la minería de GPU al llamado mecanismo de consenso de prueba de participación en 2022. Nadie puede decir si realmente sucederá. En el peor de los casos, hay otras criptomonedas para extraer en GPU. Lea más sobre ellos en el artículo dedicado.
Comience a minar criptomonedas ahora, antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Trátelo como un experimento que le brindará una experiencia invaluable. Solo asegúrese de no invertir sus últimos ahorros en minería.
Las criptomonedas están creciendo en todo el mundo y este proceso parece ser irreversible. No te lo pierdas.
Recuerda seguirnos en Twitter para enterarte de todas las novedades lo antes posible.
The 2Miners pool co-founder, businessman, miner. In 2017 started mining cryptocurrencies and built many rigs on his own. As a result, he gained lots of practical knowledge and became interested in sharing it with others.
In his articles on 2Miners, he shares useful tips that he tried and tested himself. For example, Darek gives advice on how to buy hardware components for the basic mining rig and how to connect them to each other correctly. He also explained lots of complicated terms in simple words, such as shares, mining luck, block types, and cryptocurrency wallets. After the pool was launched, he published a series of articles ‘Crypto Mythbusters’ where he explained how to protect the network against 51% attack, talked about cryptocurrency mining difficulty and difficulties of launching your own node.
How to Mine Bitcoin on PC with one GPU at Home: Step-by-Step Guide
January 25, 2022
This article gives simple and detailed instructions on how to mine Bitcoin using your own computer. Follow it, and you will start mining Bitcoin at home in no time.
There are three steps to take to start mining Bitcoin at home: prepare your computer, create a wallet, and launch mining.
Skipping any of these steps won’t let you move to the next one.
System Requirements for Cryptocurrency Mining
You can use any computer: desktop or laptop.
Windows OS is the easiest to use. You can hardly mine on Mac OS. If you use Linux, you probably already know how to mine better than we do.
You can connect to the Internet however you want. It’s important to have a stable connection, but the speed, be it 100 Mbit/s or 512 Kbit/s, doesn’t matter. You can connect via cable, WI-Fi, or USB.
Mining on Desktop PC
There is only one essential requirement: a good graphics card with at least 6GB of RAM. The most affordable graphics cards that meet mining requirements are Nvidia 1060 6GB and AMD RX 480 8GB.
It goes without saying that the better the graphics card, the more it costs and the more profit it may bring. If you are curious which graphics card is the most profitable, follow this link.
Some people say that PCs are not for mining: its graphics card and other parts would tear, lose the warranty, etc. In reality, there is no difference between mining on a rig and on a PC. Both have the same parts: the motherboard, processor, operating system, hard drive, and graphics card. The only difference is that miners mount 6–8 or even more graphics cards to one computer (as opposed to one graphics card in a regular PC), and leave the case open, sometimes also adding a few fans for better cooling.
All graphics cards are usually sold with a two-year warranty, and the manufacturer can’t revoke it if you use your GPU for mining instead of gaming.
Mining on Laptop
Things are a bit less optimistic with laptops. Graphics cards in laptops are usually less powerful than in desktop computers. In order to mine on a laptop, there is the same requirement: a graphics card with at least 6GB of RAM. It’s not always easy to find such a laptop. However, in the last three years we saw the release of a large number of laptops with 6GB GPUs. Take a look at Dell G5-5590 with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or Lenovo Legion with 1660Ti Mobile.
If you plan to use your laptop a lot for mining, make sure to take care of proper cooling. Laptop parts sit close to each other inside a small case. If a graphics card overheats, other parts would overheat too. Sooner or later they are likely to break.
Get Bitcoin Wallet Address
This step is crucial. You should understand that in the crypto business you are alone against the whole world. If you lose your wallet, nobody is going to help. Losing a Bitcoin wallet is like losing cash, if not worse. You may get your cash back sometimes, but Bitcoin is impossible to get back.
Let’s install the Coinomi wallet. You don’t need to share any ID or personal information to do that. There are many other wallets on the market, and this is not an ad: Coinomi is just a reliable solution. It is available on any OS, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android.
It makes no difference where you install your wallet: it can be a smartphone or PC. The wallet can be on the same computer that you use for mining or on any other device: it doesn’t matter.
Say, you decided to install the wallet on Windows. Here is how you should proceed.
Create a new wallet by choosing the Create a new wallet option.
Important: Make sure to secure your wallet recovery phrase (mnemonic phrase) by writing it down on paper. Electronic devices won't do, especially those connected to the Internet. When needed, you will be able to restore your wallet by using this phrase.
Again, it’s extremely important: this set of words is the key to all your money. Store it in a safe place and don’t show it to anyone. Even if you delete Coinomi from your computer, you will be able to recover your wallet thanks to this phrase.
Here is an example of a so-called mnemonic or seed phrase.
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The next step is to check whether you saved your phrase properly. You can skip this step, but we recommend checking your mnemonic phrase.
Create your wallet password. Make sure to choose a secure one: ‘qwertyasdfg’ won’t do.
Coinomi is a multi-chain wallet, which means it can store other coins apart from Bitcoin. In this case, we need Bitcoin. Put a mark next to Bitcoin and click Next to continue.
You are almost done: let’s find your wallet address. Click on Bitcoin.
Then Receive.
Now you can see your wallet address. Go ahead and copy it: you’ll need it for further setup.
Our Bitcoin address is bc1qzdnd377m8jl6t79xkph8vvt6fkx4a8ntrnxz67.
If you are installing the wallet to a smartphone, you should follow the same steps. Here you can find screenshots from an iPhone.
The best thing about Coinomi is that you can use the same wallet on multiple devices. If you change a smartphone or need to erase everything from a PC, you can always recover your wallet on any other device.
Bitcoin Mining on Windows
Download the Quick Start archive by the 2Miners pool. This archive is completely safe: you can always find it on the pool webpage.
Unpack the archive.The password to the archive is 2miners
No upper case and no dots at the end.
Open the Setup folder, then go to the Nvidia or AMD folder depending on which one you have.
Right-click on the eth-pool.bat file and choose to edit it with Notepad. If you don’t see such an option, then open Notepad first, and then open the eth-pool.bat from there.
Copy your Bitcoin wallet address that we created in the previous step: bc1qzdnd377m8jl6t79xkph8vvt6fkx4a8ntrnxz67, and paste it after the word “user” replacing a wallet indicated there by default. You can either keep or delete the “.RIG_ID” part including the dot. This is just your rig name, and it doesn’t affect profitability in any way.
Save the file and then run it.
Mining has officially started now. It will go on until you keep the mining program open. If you close it, you can always run the eth-pool.bat file again to relaunch mining.
How Much You Can Earn in a Month from Mining with One GPU
We still haven't discussed a few important questions, like: "Where is my Bitcoin? How do I get it? When is the payout? How much will I get?"
In order to find your mining stats, you need to copy your wallet address: bc1qzdnd377m8jl6t79xkph8vvt6fkx4a8ntrnxz67, and paste it in the search box at the top of the 2Miners.com pool webpage. You will see a page with your stats. If you don’t see it right after you launch the mining program, it’s normal. You should wait for 5–10 minutes.
You can use 2CryptoCalc to estimate how much cryptocurrency you can earn. Say, you have the Nvidia 2070. Go to the calculator website and put a “1” next to this graphics card name. Below you can see the mining profitability of this GPU: $1.85 (at the time of writing).
$1.85 per day is great, but how to actually get it? There is a minimum payout threshold in the mining pool. As of now, it is equivalent to 0.005 ETH, which is $15 at the current exchange rate. So you need to mine for about a week to get your first payout. You can monitor the process on your stats page on the pool website.
Ethereum or Bitcoin Mining Rig
Professional miners know that you can’t mine Bitcoin on GPUs anymore. And some of you probably noticed something strange as well. For example, you might have noticed Ethereum’s icon instead of Bitcoin’s in the screenshot of a calculator from the section above.
So, what’s the deal here?
Ethereum is the most profitable cryptocurrency for GPU mining. 2Miners pool has a feature to exchange Ethereum to Bitcoin without fees and pay you in BTC.
So to be clear, you mine Ethereum and get payouts in Bitcoin. It's a great way to make the most of the two major cryptocurrencies in the world.
When Will GPU Mining End?
Many of you might have heard that GPU mining is bound to end very soon. These rumors have been around for the last five years now. The facts, on the contrary, prove the opposite. Mining power is constantly growing all over the world by leaps and bounds.
GPU mining reached its all-time high at the beginning of 2021, and nobody believed that there would be even more miners going forward. Graphics cards were lacking around the world. The factories couldn’t keep up with the demand. However, the number of graphics cards engaged in mining increased three times in just one year!
This time though, it seems like GPU mining may really become unprofitable. Ethereum, the major cryptocurrency for GPU mining, is planning to switch from GPU mining to the so-called Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism in 2022. Nobody can tell whether it’s really going to happen. Worst-case scenario, there are other cryptocurrencies to mine on GPUs. Read more about them in the dedicated article.
Start mining cryptocurrencies now, before it’s too late. Treat it as an experiment that will bring you priceless experience. Just make sure not to invest your last funds in mining.
Cryptocurrencies are getting bigger worldwide, and this process seems to be irreversible. Don’t miss out.
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The 2Miners pool co-founder, businessman, miner. In 2017 started mining cryptocurrencies and built many rigs on his own. As a result, he gained lots of practical knowledge and became interested in sharing it with others.
In his articles on 2Miners, he shares useful tips that he tried and tested himself. For example, Darek gives advice on how to buy hardware components for the basic mining rig and how to connect them to each other correctly. He also explained lots of complicated terms in simple words, such as shares, mining luck, block types, and cryptocurrency wallets. After the pool was launched, he published a series of articles ‘Crypto Mythbusters’ where he explained how to protect the network against 51% attack, talked about cryptocurrency mining difficulty and difficulties of launching your own node.
December 2021 Work Progress Report: 2CryptoCalc New Version
January 1, 2022
Beam, Ergo, and Firo node updates, big blocks in the Ethereum pool, 2CryptoCalc new version.
2021 Year-end Results
Everybody noted the increasing interest in cryptocurrency mining this year. Our pool team is always trying to do its best to provide the best service for newcomers and for experienced professional miners.
Ethereum being the driver of GPU mining brought a lot of surprises this year. We survived the London hardfork and created the new payout system to save money for our miners performing the free payouts in the pool. More than 35 000 users already use payouts in Bitcoin and Nano.
The next year Ethereum developers plan to switch from POW to POS and we have already discussed the possible mining opportunities when this happens. Read What to Mine when Ethereum Goes POS
The ETH network hashrate and mining difficulty growth was also possible thanks to the mining software developers who achieved the hashrate increase on so-called LHR Nvidia video cards. Our team has made our own tests using LHR GPUs on Gminer, T-Rex, and lolMiner.
The 2Miners pool is growing every month. Almost 120K miners are using 2Miners right now. We would like to thank you and wish you all the best in 2022!
Cryptocurrency Node Software Updates
As a multi-coin pool, we always monitor all the recent crypto node updates for 19 coin networks. This month Ergo network got a couple of problems which were finally fixed by the ERG developers team. BEAM wallet update caused problems for many users and crypto exchanges. We asked all of our miners to stop using the Coinex platform. Its developers failed to update the BEAM node and this caused problems for users. FIRO cryptocurrency also had an important update in December.
Please find below the list of the most important node updates in December.
Beam Node 6.2.12495
Ergo Protocol Reference Client 4.0.19
Firo v0.14.9.2
ETH Big Blocks Are Back
December was full of extra rewards for the Ethereum miners. Our Ethereum pool got 53 ETH, 46 ETH, 39 ETH, 23 ETH blocks and many more. There was also 1 block with 51 ETH MEV included. The SOLO pool record for 1 block was almost 34 ETH!
Our pool uses PPLNS rewards system so all extra rewards are always paid to our miners.
2CryptoCalc Update
Now you could select your local currency on 2CryptoCalc.com
The website design has been also revised. Many minor fixes have been applied.
Miner since 2017, the 2Miners pool co-founder. Became interested in cryptocurrencies at the dawn of the latest bull run and bought his first graphics cards. After having built and set up a few mining rigs, he realized that existing mining pools didn’t satisfy him – that’s how the idea of creating the 2Miners pool was born.
John published a series of articles about the basics of cryptocurrency mining. He gave valuable tips on how to buy ASICs and GPUs from abroad and then shared their mining performance. On the website, you can find early articles about cryptocurrency mining, blockchain in general and mining pool operation principles. The readers gave positive feedback on John’s practical guides, such as building an Ethereum mining rig and Nvidia 1080ti overclocking.
Increasing Nvidia LHR Graphics Cards Hashrate with lolMiner. Test by 2Miners.
December 30, 2021
In this article we will talk about unlocking LHR graphics cards using popular mining software – lolMiner. The 2Miners pool team tested it with the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, but the principles are applicable to any LHR graphics card.
Previously we tried unlocking Nvidia's LHR graphics cards using T-Rex. You can read about this experiment and its results in the dedicated article. And if you want to learn how to unlock LHR cards with Gminer, follow this link.
The Origins of LHR Graphics Cards. Nvidia RTX 3060
At CES in January 2021, NVIDIA announced the GeForce RTX 3060. This newest GeForce RTX graphics card was supposed to be released at the end of February 2021.
NVIDIA published the takeaways of the presentation on the official website on January 12, 2021, in the article titled “NVIDIA Ampere Architecture for Every Gamer: GeForce RTX 3060 Available Late February, At $329.”
You can read the full article by following the link.
Since the announcement of the GeForce RTX 3060, some media outlets published rumors about these GPUs being potentially limited in hash rate. In mid-February 2021, this information still hadn’t been confirmed.
Exactly three months later, on May 18, 2021, NVIDIA published another article in their blog titled “A Further Step to Getting GeForce Cards into the Hands of Gamers.” The article talks about decreasing the hash rate on Ethash for the newly built GPUs: GeForce RTX 3080, 3070, and 3060 Ti, to make them less appealing for miners. These models became available at the end of May 2021 and were marked with a “Lite Hash Rate” or “LHR” identifier.
Right after this post, experts started actively discussing the term "LHR". You can read the full article here.
On May 31, 2021, NVIDIA announced the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. You can read the full announcement here.
NVIDIA didn’t make any official statement regarding LHR in these GPUs. However, rumors about their limited hash rate on Ethash started circulating even before the announcement. After the official release and testing, it was confirmed that the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti had limited hash rate.
Two GPUs were connected to the motherboard, each through the riser PCI-E X16-X1.
OS: Windows 10
Nvidia’s driver: 471.68, 472.12
Overclocking: MSI Afterburner 4.6.4 Beta 3
Monitoring: GPU-Z
Testing was held indoors with the room temperature at +15 °C (59 °F).
We used PhoenixMiner to estimate the max hash rate for the RTX 3080 Ti on Ethash and Etchash algorithms. We launched the mining program on our rig with the following GPU settings: PL(%): 70, CC(MHz): +0, MC(MHz): +1000.
Right after the launch, the program estimated a hash rate on Ethash at ~116 Mh/s, but after two minutes it settled at ~64 Mh/s.
Thanks to pretesting, we estimated a potential hash rate, without LHR lock, on Ethash and Etchash and confirmed that LHR lock leads to a ~45% hash rate decrease.
Testing lolMiner on Nvidia LHR
lolMiner is a popular mining program created by the developer known as Lolliedieb. lolMiner’s first version was released on October 28, 2018, and it supported only AMD graphics cards and a limited number of mining algorithms. Today the miner is being actively developed, and it supports a lot of algorithms: Ethash, Etchash, ZelHash, Equihash, Cuckoo, Cuckaroo, Cuckatoo, Autolykos, and BeamHash.
The miner supports NVIDIA and AMD and works on Windows and Linux.
lolMiner’s developers constantly keep in touch with their users on popular platforms and through social media channels.
We used lolMiner 1.32a to estimate the max hash rate for the RTX 3080 Ti with LHR lock on Ethash. Then we launched the mining program on our rig with the following GPU settings: PL(%): 55, CC (MHz): +0, MC (MHz): +1000.
The miner estimated a hash rate on Ethash at ~63 Mh/s. Memory Controller Load, GPU Load, and Board Power Draw charts were stable, without significant leaps. Memory Controller Load was 66%.
Then we launched the mining program on our rig with the following GPU settings: PL(%): 55, CC (MHz): +0, MC (MHz): +1300.
The miner estimated a hash rate on Ethash at ~65 Mh/s. Memory Controller Load, GPU Load, and Board Power Draw charts were stable, without significant leaps. Memory Controller Load was 66%.
As a result, we estimated the hash rate and confirmed that the GPU hash rate with LHR lock is ~64–66 Mh/s.
It's important to note that MSI Afterburner indexes GPUs starting from GPU 1, whereas in the log file and mining program GPUs are indexed starting from GPU 0. In this article we indicate graphics cards as GPU 1 and GPU 2 most of the time, apart from a few occasions when we mention the data from the log file or the mining program.
LHR Unlock with lolMiner 1.32a
On September 12, 2021, the developers announced lolMiner 1.32a. This was the first version with the partial LHR unlock. It featured new miner parameters and operating modes.
You can download the miner and learn more about it here.
The description of this miner version says that the developers ran most pre-release tests on Linux systems with specific video drivers. However, we decided to test the miner on Windows.
After reading the Nvidia Mode Switch & LHR Semi Unlock guide, we chose the best modes for our test rig: LHR2 and LHRLP.
mode LHR2
We launched the mining program on our rig with the following GPU settings: PL(%): 70, CC(MHz): +0, MC(MHz): +1200.
The miner estimated a hash rate on Ethash at ~50 Mh/s. The hash rate didn’t grow. Memory Controller Load, GPU Load, and Board Power Draw charts, as well as other Power charts, showed slight parameter instability. Memory Controller Load was 66%.
After reviewing the log file, we established that LHR lock got activated at the DAG generation stage:
GPU 0: detected mining lock - attempting to improve performance...
GPU 1: DAG build complete 100%
GPU 1: DAG generation completed (3446 ms)
GPU 1: DAG verification passed
GPU 1: detected mining lock - attempting to improve performance...
The text of the log file didn’t contain ‘Unlock’.
Then we ran a few more tests in LHR2 mode fixing the frequency and voltage. We used the Voltage/Frequency Curve Editor in MSI Afterburner. We failed to unlock LHR with Nvidia’s drivers 471.68, so we decided to install Nvidia’s drivers 472.12 to the rig.
During most tests the miner remained unstable, but we managed to get decent results by trial and error. Here is how we did it.
We launched the mining program on the rig with the following GPU settings: PL(%): 80, CC (MHz): -502 fix Voltage(mV) 825, MC (MHz): +1000.
GPU1: CC value settled at 1050 MHz. Two minutes after the miner launch the hash rate was ~82 Mh/s.
GPU2: CC value settled at 1095 MHz. Two minutes after the miner launch the hash rate was ~82 Mh/s.
After one hour of operation the miner showed a hash rate of ~76–78 Mh/s.
mode LHRLP
After reviewing the log file, we established that LHR lock got activated 7 times for each GPU in the first 25 minutes of operation. Then the hash rate settled.
Memory Controller Load, GPU Load, and Board Power Draw charts, as well as other Power charts, showed slight parameter instability. Memory Controller load was 88–100%.
Then we ran a few tests in LHRLP mode both fixing and not fixing the frequency and voltage. We used the Voltage/Frequency Curve Editor in MSI Afterburner. During most tests the miner remained unstable, but we managed to get decent results.
We launched the mining program on the rig with the following GPU settings: PL(%): 80, CC (MHz): -502 fix Voltage(mV) 825, MC (MHz): +1000.
GPU1: CC value settled at 1050 MHz. Two minutes after the miner launch the hash rate was ~82 Mh/s.
GPU2: CC value settled at 1095 MHz. Two minutes after the miner launch the hash rate was ~82 Mh/s.
After one hour of operation the miner showed a hash rate of ~78–80 Mh/s.
After reviewing the log file, we established that LHR lock got activated 4 times for each GPU in the first 19 minutes of operation. Then the hash rate settled.
Memory Controller Load, GPU Load, and Board Power Draw charts, as well as other Power charts, showed slight parameter instability. Memory Controller load was 88–100%.
With the release of the new miner version, we stopped further testing.
Conclusion: lolMiner 1.32a can partially unlock LHR. The miner shows a hash rate of ~78–80 Mh/s which is ~67–69% of the potential max hash rate.
The description of the release says the following: “Recommended drivers for LHR2 and LHRLP: 470.63.01 or 465.31 — others could be more unstable. Most tests were done in Linux.”
2Miners recommends Linux-based mining systems for this miner version to ensure stable operation.
LHR Unlock with lolMiner 1.33
On October 1, 2021, lolMiner 1.33 was announced. In this version the developers worked on LHR unlock. They improved LHR unlock performance and recommended specific drivers.
Click here to download the miner and read about its features.
We launched the mining program on our rig with the following GPU settings: PL(%): 70, CC(MHz): +0, MC(MHz): +1200.
In the first 4 minutes of operation, the miner was “calibrating to your exact core and memory clocks”. Here is what these notifications look like in the log file:
GPU 1: please wait LHR semi-unlock calibration is ongoing...
GPU 0: please wait LHR semi-unlock calibration is ongoing...
If LHR lock is activated during mining, the miner lowers the lhrtune parameter when unlocking LHR:
GPU 1: detected mining lock. Unlocking & reducing --lhrtune parameter...
GPU 1: GPU will be paused to make sure it is unlocked...
GPU 0: detected mining lock. Unlocking & reducing --lhrtune parameter...
GPU 0: GPU will be paused to make sure it is unlocked...
The duration of the test was 30 hours and 33 minutes.
After reviewing the log file, we established that LHR lock got activated 4 times for each GPU in 26 hours of operation.
GPU Load and Board Power Draw charts, as well as other Power charts, showed slight parameter instability. GPU1’s Memory Controller Load chart was stable, while GPU2’s Memory Controller Load chart was significantly unstable.
Below is the Stats page of the pool with the results of the miner operation.
Based on the number of shares sent to the pool, we estimated the hash rate after 30.55 hours of the miner operation. Initial data for two GPUs: 2051 shares in 30.55 hours, share difficulty is 8726 M. We multiplied the number of shares per second by share difficulty and got 162.7 Mh/s. This is a hash rate of two GPUs, so a hash rate of one GPU is ~81.36 Mh/s. We can also estimate the hash rate per GPU taking into account the number of shares solved by each GPU (GPU1: 1034, GPU2: 1017): GPU1 – ~82.04 Mh/s, GPU2 – ~80.69 Mh/s.
We recommend extending the testing period to get statistically correct results: each card should send over 5000 shares to the pool.
Conclusion: lolMiner 1.33 can partially unlock LHR. The miner shows a hash rate of ~81 Mh/s which is ~70% of the potential max hash rate. In the description of the release you can find specific video drivers recommended for each GPU for the optimal stability.
LHR Unlock with lolMiner 1.34
On October 18, 2021, lolMiner 1.34 was announced. In this version the developers improved the LHR unlock feature, recommended specific drivers, and fixed previously discovered errors. You can find the –lhrtune value and the number of LHR locks in the summary stats chart in the mining program or in the log file.
Click here to download the miner and read about its features.
We launched the mining program on our rig with the following GPU settings: PL(%): 70, CC (MHz): +0, MC (MHz): +1000.
The duration of the test was 2 hours and 33 minutes. In the first 4 minutes of operation, the miner was calibrating “LHR semi-unlock”. LHR lock got activated once. Board Power Draw charts, as well as other Power charts, were slightly unstable. GPU Load and Memory Controller Load charts were stable. The miner showed a hash rate of ~82 Mh/s.
We tried increasing the memory clock.
We launched the mining program on our rig with the following GPU settings: PL(%): 70, CC (MHz): +0, MC (MHz): +1200.
The bat file is the same.
It resulted in the constant activation of LHR lock for GPU2. GPU1’s GPU Load and Board Power Draw charts, as well as other Power charts, showed slight parameter instability. GPU1’s Memory Controller Load chart was stable. GPU2’s charts were significantly unstable.
We lowered GPU2’s memory clock. We launched the miner with the following GPU settings:
GPU1: PL(%): 70, CC (MHz): +0, MC (MHz): +1200.
GPU2: PL(%): 70, CC (MHz): +0, MC (MHz): +1000.
Bat file.
The duration of the test was 61 hours and 30 minutes.
After reviewing the log file, we established that LHR lock got activated 3 times. Board Power Draw charts, as well as other Power charts, were slightly unstable. GPU Load and Memory Controller Load charts were stable.
Below is the Stats page of the pool with the results of the miner operation.
Based on the number of shares sent to the pool, we estimated the hash rate after 61.5 hours of the miner operation. Initial data for two GPUs: 4089 shares in 61.5 hours, share difficulty is 8726 M. We multiplied the number of shares per second by share difficulty and got 161.2 Mh/s. This is a hash rate of two GPUs, so a hash rate of one GPU is ~80.58 Mh/s. We can also estimate the hash rate per GPU taking into account the number of shares solved by each GPU (GPU1: 2090, GPU2: 1999): GPU1 – ~82.37 Mh/s, GPU2 – ~78.79 Mh/s.
We recommend extending the testing period to get statistically correct results: each card should send over 5000 shares to the pool.
Conclusion: lolMiner 1.34 can partially unlock LHR. The miner shows a hash rate of ~80 Mh/s which is ~69% of the potential max hash rate.
In the description of the release you can find specific video drivers recommended for each GPU for the best stability.
LHR Unlock with lolMiner 1.36
On November 15, 2021, lolMiner 1.36 was announced. This version performs better on some GPUs, the developers modified auto-tuning and fixed previously discovered errors.
Click here to download the miner and read about its features.
We launched the mining program on our rig with the following GPU settings:
GPU1: PL(%): 70, CC (MHz): +0, MC (MHz): +1200.
GPU2: PL(%): 70, CC (MHz): +0, MC (MHz): +1000.
The duration of the test was 27 hours and 23 minutes. After reviewing the log file, we established that LHR lock got activated 9 times. Board Power Draw charts, as well as other Power charts, were slightly unstable. GPU Load and Memory Controller Load charts were stable.
Below is the Stats page of the pool with the results of the miner operation.
Based on the number of shares sent to the pool, we estimated the hash rate after 27.38 hours of the miner operation. Initial data for two GPUs: 1860 shares in 27.38 hours, share difficulty is 8726 M. We multiplied the number of shares per second by share difficulty and got 164.6 Mh/s. This is a hash rate of two GPUs, so a hash rate of one GPU is ~82.32 Mh/s. We can also estimate the hash rate per GPU taking into account the number of shares solved by each GPU (GPU1: 973, GPU2: 887): GPU1 – ~86.13 Mh/s, GPU2 – ~78.51 Mh/s.
We recommend extending the testing period to get statistically correct results: each card should send over 5000 shares to the pool.
Conclusion: lolMiner 1.36 can partially unlock LHR. The miner shows a hash rate of ~82 Mh/s which is ~71% of the potential max hash rate.
Final Conclusions and Suggestions
lolMiner offers a working solution to unlock LHR graphics cards. Thanks to lolMiner, you can partially unlock LHR. Depending on the miner version, you can get a hash rate of ~78–82 Mh/s on Nvidia 3080 Ti LHR, which is ~67–71% of the potential max hash rate.
lolMiner 1.34 and lolMiner 1.36 produced the most stable results during tests giving out the highest hash rate.
Please note that we got different results when testing the same GPU models with the same settings. It means that each graphics card must be set up separately.
We didn’t test GPUs with extreme settings. For example, your GPUs might work well with higher clocks.
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The 2Miners pool co-founder, businessman, miner. In 2017 started mining cryptocurrencies and built many rigs on his own. As a result, he gained lots of practical knowledge and became interested in sharing it with others.
In his articles on 2Miners, he shares useful tips that he tried and tested himself. For example, Darek gives advice on how to buy hardware components for the basic mining rig and how to connect them to each other correctly. He also explained lots of complicated terms in simple words, such as shares, mining luck, block types, and cryptocurrency wallets. After the pool was launched, he published a series of articles ‘Crypto Mythbusters’ where he explained how to protect the network against 51% attack, talked about cryptocurrency mining difficulty and difficulties of launching your own node.
Video Card Overclocking for Ravencoin (RVN) and FIRO Mining
December 2, 2021
We write a lot about different aspects of mining. A few days ago we compared Ethereum’s GPU mining profitability with ETH staking in the PoS network. Earlier this fall we wrote about unlocking LHR graphics cards with Gminer, then we wrote about T-Rex. Today’s article is about Ravencoin and its mining.
RVN is one of the most popular coins for mining, preceded only by Ethereum (ETH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC) by the number of miners. The cryptocurrency belongs to the Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm and uses a hybrid algorithm (Kawpow) that engages both GPU core and GPU memory.
We recommend mining RVN in the 2Miners pool. As of now, more than 22 thousand users mine this coin in the pool.
Ravencoin uses KAWPOW mining algorithm which is considered hot. It heavily depends on GPU overclocking and power limit (PL).
Is GPU Overclocking for Ravencoin and Firo Mining Different?
On October 26, 2021, Firo performed a hard fork that resulted in switching from MTP to the new algorithm called FiroPoW.
FiroPoW is a modified version of ProgPoW. The same goes for KawPoW used for RVN mining.
As a result, these two algorithms, FiroPoW and KawPoW, are both ProgPoW’s modifications. They are so similar that the overclocking principles are the same for both. Even though this article is about RVN mining, you can easily use it to overclock GPUs for FiroPoW to mine Firo.
How to Overclock GPUs for Ravencoin Mining
If you want to overclock your video cards, you should be ready to experiment. One of the factors to consider is the cost of electricity. Apart from the average optimal overclocking parameters, we can apply hard undervolting that results in only 80% of an average hash rate but decreases GPU power consumption by 33–39%. And we can almost always do the contrary: gain 10–15% of hash rate but increase power consumption by 22–30%.
It’s important to note that profitability calculators always indicate certain average optimal overclocking parameters for each model applicable to most GPUs. However, experienced miners should know the minimum and maximum capacity for each of their GPUs.
For example, the RTX 2070S can give out 17.05 MH/s consuming 89 W (5.22 W per MH/s), but it can also give out 20.88 MH/s consuming 121 W (5.8 W per MH/s). And if your electricity is super cheap, you can even overclock this graphics card to 26.05 MH/s consuming 209 W (8 W per MH/s). In this case, a good GPU cooling setup is a must.
In the table below you can see some of the most interesting overclocking scenarios and RVN mining hash rates on different NVIDIA graphics cards.
We used T-rex 0.24.2 to get the data. We are going to update the table when we test new GPUs or when better performing mining software comes out.
GPU Overclocking for Kawpow Algorithm
When mining this algorithm, basically all GPU overclocking parameters affect GPU hash rate. So you should overclock everything. But if you are going to overclock all at once, you won’t know where the problem is in case your GPU becomes unstable.
So you should overclock gradually.
Step 0. Before overclocking, calculate the algorithm profitability using 2CryptoCalc. Then write down how much you pay for 1 kWh of electricity.
As a result, you will be able to estimate overclocking efficiency allowing for electricity cost. Now you can use these values to decide what GPU power consumption level is reasonable for you.
Step 1. Find the max stable memory clock.
Move the memory clock up at +50 MHz intervals until you reach the max stability. Move one step down.
Important: When GPUs get hot, GPU memory chips get hot as well which brings overclocking stability levels down.
Another important thing to remember is that you don’t need to activate the pill for the 1080 and 1080ti. At a fixed PL rate it won’t give you additional hash rate, but it will destabilize overclocking.
Step 2. Core overclocking.
If you mine using Windows, set the core voltage in MSI Afterburner. It will make overclocking more stable and increase the max energy efficiency.
Move the core clock up at +25 MHz intervals, find the max stable value, move one step down.
If you have a multi-rate electricity meter and you want to automatically switch to the cold mode at a higher electricity rate and overclock GPUs at a lower electricity rate, you should overclock the core in all set points.
You should start with the highest voltage point. Remember that the higher the core voltage the less you can overclock. The max overclocking of the same graphics card at 950 mV is +125 MHz, at 800 mV – +175 MHz, at 700 mV – even +225 MHz, especially for the RTX 30xx series.
In this case you should leave a margin for the higher voltage points moving 50 MHz down. This is a range where GPUs become most unstable, and if the driver crashes, all set points get erased.
RVN & Ethereum Dual Mining
Modern GPU memory can easily store the data needed to mine two cryptocurrencies at the same time. However, they would compete against each other for memory and core, so the resulting hash rate would mostly depend on the intensity of each algorithm.
Note that Windows 10 consumes excessive GPU memory amounts on all GPUs. Dual mining is impossible on GPUs with only 8GB of RAM, but it is possible if you use Windows 7 or Linux-based OS for mining.
In reality, considering that Ethereum is the most profitable cryptocurrency for mining in the world, dual mining in 2020–2021 has turned out to be inefficient on GPUs without LHR lock.
For example, the RTX 2070 Super can mine just one algorithm and give out 40+ MH/s consuming 93 W in the case of Ethereum. If GPUs can hold a memory clock at 7800, they can give out even 42–43 MH/s. When mining Ravencoin, you can get 21 MH/s at a lower consumption rate of 121 W and 26 MH/s at a higher consumption rate of 200 W.
If you dual-mine algorithms with different intensity, you can get 16.5 MH/s for ETH and 16.5 MH/s for Ravencoin consuming 200 W of power. It’s almost 40% for Ethereum and almost 70% for RVN.
It’s easy to notice that in the last two years you almost always get more profit if you mine just one coin – Ethereum. It also consumes much less power.
Note that we used different mining programs for testing so that we could adjust the intensity of each coin. The resulting values might not be the highest possible.
If you have LHR graphics cards, in theory you can try dual mining, even though you won’t see a significant increase in profit. This option only makes sense if your electricity rates are low.
As you can see, RVN mining hash rate is usually half of that of ETH in megahashes.
The RTX 30хх series, as well as the 20хх, feature extremely fast memory that can transmit large amounts of data and uses extremely high clocks. In this case data bus becomes a bottleneck.
That’s why GPUs with identical data buses have similar mining hash rates. Some examples are: the 3060ti and 3070, or the 2060S, 2070, and 2070S.
After the 30xx release GPU cores became more powerful and the memory became even faster, but the data bus size remained the same. So it’s doesn’t make much sense to overclock the core: RVN mining hash rate on the 3070 can’t go above 30–33 MH/s. On the other hand, power consumption will go up. So to achieve the maximum energy efficiency on the RTX 3070 or RTX 3060ti when mining RVN and ETH, you need to fully overclock memory and lower core clock as much as possible.
It depends on memory overclocking: you can get 31 MH/s at a memory clock of 8200 MHz.
For the same reason dual mining on GPUs without LHR is useless. Mining RVN+FIRO, RVN+ETH, RVN+ERGO, etc., on the same graphics card can’t bring you more profit than mining one coin at a time.
Conclusion. Is Ravencoin Mining Profitable?
Today RVN mining is already one of the best mining options besides Ethereum. Considering upcoming changes due to Ethereum’s plans to abandon GPU mining, Ravencoin mining can be considered a promising alternative. Plus, Ravencoin offers a wide range of options to identify the desired mining energy efficiency even within one GPU model.
It is unknown how much time is left until Ethereum fully shifts to PoS. But you should already start checking how well your graphics cards can mine alternative coins and learning more about potentially stable hash rate/performance ranges for different overclocking settings.
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The 2Miners pool co-founder, businessman, miner. In 2017 started mining cryptocurrencies and built many rigs on his own. As a result, he gained lots of practical knowledge and became interested in sharing it with others.
In his articles on 2Miners, he shares useful tips that he tried and tested himself. For example, Darek gives advice on how to buy hardware components for the basic mining rig and how to connect them to each other correctly. He also explained lots of complicated terms in simple words, such as shares, mining luck, block types, and cryptocurrency wallets. After the pool was launched, he published a series of articles ‘Crypto Mythbusters’ where he explained how to protect the network against 51% attack, talked about cryptocurrency mining difficulty and difficulties of launching your own node.
November 2021 Work Progress Report: Dashboard Improvements and Redesign
December 1, 2021
Dashboard improvements and redesign, new mining software, multiple node updates, important Ergo update.
100 000 Miners Online
We’ve reached a new important milestone. More than 110K users are mining in 2Miners pools of which more than 70 thousand users are mining Ethereum and more than 20 thousand users are mining Ravencoin.
This was also possible thanks to our new payout system in Ethereum pools that allows our users to get the payouts not only in Ethereum (ETH) but also in Bitcoin (BTC) and NANO. There are already almost 30K miners who have chosen BTC/NANO payments in the Ethereum pool. Read the manual how to use this new system in English, Turkish, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, and Farsi.
Meanwhile, the gas prices are still very high in the Ethereum network. We rarely see them going below 100 gwei. Therefore we’ve decided to keep the maximum gas price at 135 gwei level to guarantee seamless payouts to our miners. We hope it decreases in the nearest future so we could reduce the maximum gas price limit.
Cryptocurrency Node Software Updates
This month was full of updates for multiple coins presented on 2Miners.com. Here is the list of the most important node updates in November.
We remind you that you could always monitor the Ethereum Node version and status on the Network page.
Dashboard Redesign
We are constantly working to provide you with the best possible user experience. This month we’ve updated the dashboards (statistics pages). These are the most important changes.
Daily reward information was added to the Luck chart on the blocks page.
Daily MEV Reward was added to the Luck chart on the pool blocks page for the Ethereum pool.
The statistics page of each miner now shows these new values.
Estimated daily profit.
Valid share rate.
Rewards are shown in $.
Offline workers (if exist) are shown next to the online workers.
New Mining Software
Quick start archive with mining software has been updated. Archive password – 2miners
t-rex 0.24.7
gminer 2.72
lolminer 1.36a
teamredminer 0.8.6.3
The archive includes ready-to-go versions of the mining software set to the 2Miners pool. All you need to do is to edit the bat file and change the default wallet address to your personal wallet address.
Ergo Update
Ergo mining software stores a special data table in the video card memory (analog of DAG-file in the Ethereum network). This data table size was 2.08 GB.
Starting from block 614 400 (November 7) the table size increases to 2.18 GB. From this moment on it also starts to increase 5% each 51 200 blocks (79 days). 3GB video cards could mine ERGO without any notable hashrate loss till the beginning of 2023. In May 2023 data table size will exceed 3 GB. Most likely 3 GB GPUs would be able to mine even later but in limited modes with the reduced hashrate.
Please pay attention that you may need to adjust your overclocking settings.
If you use lolMiner or TeamRedMiner mining software you need to use the latest versions to continue mining ERGO. Bat-file settings remain unchanged. If you use T-rex you don’t need to do anything. You are all set.
The latest versions of the mining software could be found in our Quick Start Archive.
The 2Miners pool co-founder, businessman, miner. In 2017 started mining cryptocurrencies and built many rigs on his own. As a result, he gained lots of practical knowledge and became interested in sharing it with others.
In his articles on 2Miners, he shares useful tips that he tried and tested himself. For example, Darek gives advice on how to buy hardware components for the basic mining rig and how to connect them to each other correctly. He also explained lots of complicated terms in simple words, such as shares, mining luck, block types, and cryptocurrency wallets. After the pool was launched, he published a series of articles ‘Crypto Mythbusters’ where he explained how to protect the network against 51% attack, talked about cryptocurrency mining difficulty and difficulties of launching your own node.
