Kimoto Gravity Well Explained
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
Mining with HD6950 & R9290x
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 …