{"id":1119,"date":"2019-01-01T21:32:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T21:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2022-10-03T09:44:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T09:44:59","slug":"december-2018-work-progress-report-monero-and-zcoin-mining-pools-equihash-144-5-updates-new-nicehash-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/december-2018-work-progress-report-monero-and-zcoin-mining-pools-equihash-144-5-updates-new-nicehash-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2018 Work Progress Report: Monero and Zcoin Mining Pools, Equihash 144.5 Updates, New Nicehash Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December was no doubt the hottest month of the year.<!--more--> We&#8217;ve implemented 2 new coins on new mining algorithms: Monero on\u00a0CryptoNightV8 and ZCoin on MTP. Ethereum mining pool has found a lucky 181-ETH block. The pools have been updated to meet the latest Nicehash requirements.<\/p>\n<h2>Monero Mining Pool<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/xmr-mining-pool\">Monero (XMR) pool<\/a> is online at 2Miners. You could mine Monero on GPU and CPU. Even if you want to mine Ethereum with your GPU&#8217;s you could still mine Monero with your <a href=\"https:\/\/monerobenchmarks.info\/cpuStats.php\">CPU<\/a> at the same time (<a href=\"https:\/\/xmr.2miners.com\/en\/help\">Quick start<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>PPLNS pool: <a href=\"https:\/\/xmr.2miners.com\/\">https:\/\/xmr.2miners.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nSOLO: <a href=\"https:\/\/solo-xmr.2miners.com\/\">https:\/\/solo-xmr.2miners.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pool is 100% Nicehash compatible.<\/p>\n<p>Follow our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/definitive-guide-how-to-mine-monero\/\">Definitive Guide: How To Mine Monero?<\/a> to set up your hardware.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1120\" src=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/xmr-mining-pool.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1453\" height=\"904\" data-wp-pid=\"1120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/xmr-mining-pool.png 1453w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/xmr-mining-pool-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/xmr-mining-pool-768x478.png 768w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/xmr-mining-pool-1024x637.png 1024w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/xmr-mining-pool-800x498.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1453px) 100vw, 1453px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Zcoin Mining Pool<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/xzc-mining-pool\">Zcoin (XZC)<\/a> hardfork\u00a0was executed at 12:00 UTC on the 10th of December. Lyra2z mining algorithm was changed to MTP. The algorithm is new and all the December we&#8217;ve been working hard together with the XZC developers and mining software developers to make everything running smooth. Big Thanks to our miners who helped us a lot. We really appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p>GPU performance has increased dramatically from the beginning of the month. Nvidia 1080 Ti, for example, has started at about 0.5 Mh\/s and ended with more than 3 Mh\/s.<\/p>\n<p>Zcoin could be mined using both GPU&#8217;s and CPU&#8217;s. Currently, the best GPU miners are\u00a0CryptoDredge and ccminer. Hopefully, these miners have been included into HiveOS and other Linux mining distros.<\/p>\n<p>PPLNS pool: <a href=\"https:\/\/xzc.2miners.com\/\">https:\/\/xzc.2miners.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nSOLO: <a href=\"https:\/\/solo-xzc.2miners.com\/\">https:\/\/solo-xzc.2miners.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nicehash doesn&#8217;t support the MTP algorithm yet.<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/how-to-mine-zcoin\/\">How To Mine Zcoin?<\/a> guide has all the information required for XZC mining.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1121\" src=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/xzc-mining-pool.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1460\" height=\"904\" data-wp-pid=\"1121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/xzc-mining-pool.png 1460w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/xzc-mining-pool-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/xzc-mining-pool-768x476.png 768w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/xzc-mining-pool-1024x634.png 1024w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/xzc-mining-pool-800x495.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1460px) 100vw, 1460px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB Stopped Mining Ethereum<\/h2>\n<p>1060 3GB GPU&#8217;s have already stopped mining Ethereum and Ethereum Classic because of the DAG file. This file is a data block of considerable size that is loaded into the GPU memory during miner launch. Without DAG, miners can\u2019t search for block solutions in Ethash-based cryptocurrency networks. Callisto, Metaverse, MOAC, Pirl, Expanse, Akroma and others are also based on Ethash algorithm.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/ethereum-mining-with-gtx-1060-3gb-cards-stopped-mining-eth-etc\/\">What Happened &amp; What To Mine Instead<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>New Requirements For Nicehash Mining<\/h2>\n<p>We&#8217;ve increased share difficulty on some Dagger Hashimoto (Ethash) pools to meet the latest Nicehash requirements.<\/p>\n<p>This will not affect the miner&#8217;s reward anyhow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1124\" src=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nicehash-new-rules.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1098\" height=\"787\" data-wp-pid=\"1124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nicehash-new-rules.png 1098w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nicehash-new-rules-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nicehash-new-rules-768x550.png 768w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nicehash-new-rules-1024x734.png 1024w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nicehash-new-rules-800x573.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1098px) 100vw, 1098px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ETC PPLNS 4G -&gt; 8.6G<br \/>\nETH PPLNS 8G -&gt; 8.6G<br \/>\nEXP PPLNS 4G -&gt; 8.6G<br \/>\nMUSIC PPLNS 4G -&gt; 8.6G<br \/>\nWHALE SOLO 8G -&gt; 8.6G<br \/>\nETP PPLNS 4G -&gt; 8.6G<br \/>\nCLO PPLNS 8G -&gt; 8.6G<br \/>\nYOC PPLNS 4G -&gt; 8.6G<br \/>\nAKA PPLNS 4G -&gt; 8.6G<br \/>\nPIRL PPLNS 4G -&gt; 8.6G<br \/>\nELLA PPLNS 4G -&gt; 8.6G<br \/>\nMOAC PPLNS 8G -&gt; 8.6G<\/p>\n<p>Are you confused what is share difficulty? <a href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/what-is-share-and-the-share-difficulty-when-you-are-mining-at-the-pool\/\">Read our article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Equihash 144.5 (Zhash) Updates<\/h2>\n<p>Equihash 144.5 algorithm is now supported at Nicehash. You could now rent hashpower to mine Bitcoin Gold (BTG), BitcoinZ (BTCZ), ANON on 2Miners.<\/p>\n<p>PPLNS BTG: <a href=\"https:\/\/btg.2miners.com\">btg.2miners.com<\/a><br \/>\nSOLO BTG: <a href=\"https:\/\/solo-btg.2miners.com\">solo-btg.2miners.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PPLNS BTCZ: <a href=\"https:\/\/btcz.2miners.com\">btcz.2miners.com<\/a><br \/>\nSOLO BTCZ: <a href=\"https:\/\/solo-btcz.2miners.com\">solo-btcz.2miners.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PPLNS ANON: <a href=\"https:\/\/anon.2miners.com\">anon.2miners.com<\/a><br \/>\nSOLO ANON: <a href=\"https:\/\/solo-anon.2miners.com\">solo-anon.2miners.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You could find the settings in the screenshot below.<br \/>\nPool pass: #<br \/>\nAlgorithm: Zhash<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1125\" src=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nicehash-settings.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"678\" data-wp-pid=\"1125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nicehash-settings.png 1280w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nicehash-settings-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nicehash-settings-768x407.png 768w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nicehash-settings-1024x542.png 1024w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nicehash-settings-800x424.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve changed the default miner on 2Miners from EWBF&#8217;s to miniZ as it provides the higher hashrate. MiniZ has also been added to the ready-to-go miner archive which could be found on every pool.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1126\" src=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/miniz.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1216\" height=\"502\" data-wp-pid=\"1126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/miniz.png 1216w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/miniz-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/miniz-768x317.png 768w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/miniz-1024x423.png 1024w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/miniz-800x330.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1216px) 100vw, 1216px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Lucky Ethereum Block<\/h2>\n<p>181.35298674-Ether block has been found by 2Miners on the 18th of December. All rewards have been paid to our miners of course.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/block\/6908897\">https:\/\/etherscan.io\/block\/6908897<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a nice Christmas present for our miners, right?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1127\" src=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/lucky_block_ethereum.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"865\" data-wp-pid=\"1127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/lucky_block_ethereum.png 1200w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/lucky_block_ethereum-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/lucky_block_ethereum-768x554.png 768w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/lucky_block_ethereum-1024x738.png 1024w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/lucky_block_ethereum-800x577.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2Miners team wish everyone a Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1128\" src=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/happy-new-year.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1343\" data-wp-pid=\"1128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/happy-new-year.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/happy-new-year-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/happy-new-year-768x688.jpg 768w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/happy-new-year-1024x917.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/happy-new-year-800x716.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December was no doubt the hottest month of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mining"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>December 2018 Work Progress Report: Monero and Zcoin Mining Pools, Equihash 144.5 Updates, New Nicehash Requirements - Crypto Mining Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December was no doubt the hottest month of the year. We&#039;ve implemented 2 new coins on new mining algorithms: Monero on\u00a0CryptoNightV8 and ZCoin on MTP.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/december-2018-work-progress-report-monero-and-zcoin-mining-pools-equihash-144-5-updates-new-nicehash-requirements\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/december-2018-work-progress-report-monero-and-zcoin-mining-pools-equihash-144-5-updates-new-nicehash-requirements\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"December 2018 Work Progress Report: Monero and Zcoin Mining Pools, Equihash 144.5 Updates, New Nicehash Requirements\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"December 2018 Work Progress Report: Monero and Zcoin Mining Pools, Equihash 144.5 Updates, New Nicehash Requirements - Crypto Mining Blog","description":"December was no doubt the hottest month of the year. We've implemented 2 new coins on new mining algorithms: Monero on\u00a0CryptoNightV8 and ZCoin on MTP.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/december-2018-work-progress-report-monero-and-zcoin-mining-pools-equihash-144-5-updates-new-nicehash-requirements\/","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/december-2018-work-progress-report-monero-and-zcoin-mining-pools-equihash-144-5-updates-new-nicehash-requirements\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"December 2018 Work Progress Report: Monero and Zcoin Mining Pools, Equihash 144.5 Updates, New Nicehash Requirements"}]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4510,"href":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/4510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}