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Kimoto Gravity Well Explained
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Many of you may have heard of Kimoto’s Gravity Well. To understand what the Gravity Well algorithm is and what it does, you first need …

GPU Frames for Mining Rigs
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Interesting hardware for those who want to build a decent looking mining rig…. I suppose this is the ultimate heat shedding, space saving system: …

Bitcoin Difficulty Explained
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Bitcoin difficulty is pretty much what is says on the tin. The higher the difficulty the harder it is to find a hash. It …

Bitcoin transaction fees explained
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People often claim that with Bitcoin “you can send money between any two points on earth for free”. While that is true in some cases, sometimes …

Infinity: ASIC Scrypt Miner
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ASIC scrypt miners are state of the art hardware that can miner SCRYPT coins such as litecoin, wordcoin, digitalcoin, dodgecoin. The following device is …

Optimal thread concurrency for CGminer
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The most impacting factor for hardware errors and hashrate is the thread_concurrency (TC). And for some cards, the ratio of core speed to memory speed is the …

AMD GPU power/fan control via command line
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Overdrive5: a command line tool that uses AMD ADL OverDrive5 interface to control power and fan speed of GPU boards. Works on Windows and Linux (if video driver …

minerd.exe: command line parameters
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To get the full list of parameters just type MINERD -h at the command prompt. The output will look something like below: Usage: minerd [OPTIONS] …

Comparison of mining pools
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The Bitcoin wiki website provides a comparison table of the most important mining pools and explains in details how rewards and pool fees are calculated… CONTINUE

Get your own faucet
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Can I create a faucet for you/your altcoin? Since I’m receiving more and more requests to create a faucet, I thought I should write …

Price widgets for webmasters
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DC Charts provides free price widgets for your website. The widget is available for the following cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin Litecoin Namecoin Peercoin Feathercoin Novacoin Terracoin …

Mining with HD6950 & R9290x
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I’ve done extensive research on both of these cards. I also have some of the highest performing ones in both areas, so maybe my …