Quick Guide to Mining Zcash

jsanzsp

The new coin Zacash has come back on top reaching a $1600 value (at Kraken)
https://www.kraken.com/charts
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/zcash/
https://poloniex.com/exchange#usdt_zec

Mining it is also very profitable at these values. let's start with an easy guide to mining with us ethereum rigs based on gpu AMD plataform.


*Go in system -> advanced system configuration -> perfomance -> advanced, and change your virtual max 32768

*I recommend changing all oc settings to stock, for testing and running (you can try changing them later)

*If you have a weak cpu dont mine with it, or it will afect your global gpu mining speed

*Download Genoil/ZECMiner

ZECMiner - ZCash AMD OpenCL stratum miner for Windows
https://github.com/Genoil/ZECMiner/tree/master/releases


-Create a start.bat file or edit existing ones.

-First start create a kernel for every Gpu at time so do the following using -g Command (0 is the first GPU)

genoil.exe -c us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u YOURZCASHADDRESS.RIGNAME -k zec -p z -g 0

Launch the start.bat after it begins to mine, close and start another gpu


genoil.exe -c us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u YOURZCASHADDRESS.RIGNAME -k zec -p z -g 1

Do it just changing the -g value From 0 to 5 or the number of gpus you have



Now lets start a test with everything together


genoil.exe -c us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u YOURZCASHADDRESS.RIGNAME -k zec -p z

If you have a cpu with integrated video, just use this (if you are geting no opencl devices error)


genoil.exe -c us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u YOURZCASHADDRESS.RIGNAME -k zec -p z -P 1

Now , if everything runs fine

change the bat file again, with this script, it ill close miner every hour (cause genoil sometime fails) and open again


setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
:start
taskkill /F /IM genoil.exe
start /MIN genoil.exe -c us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u YOURZCASHADDRESS.RIGNAME -k zec -p z
TIMEOUT /T 3600
goto start
pause

Start Bat (If you dont know how to make it) put inside genoil folder
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtxN_-tDJ53OoFXgnsYHGpgl8hFJ

Genoil Github Link
https://github.com/Genoil/ZECMiner/tree/master/releases

Flypool Link
http://zcash.flypool.org/

Nanopool Zcash
https://zec.nanopool.org/


Nice mining!

lukaisailovic

you sure you're on the right place buddy ? Zcash have their own forum....

wirelessnet2

gtfo the ethereum fourm. light talk of Zcash is fine but not people posting guides and crap all over the fourm

jsanzsp

lukaisailovic said:

you sure you're on the right place buddy ? Zcash have their own forum....

wirelessnet2 said:

gtfo the ethereum fourm. light talk of Zcash is fine but not people posting guides and crap all over the fourm

I apologize, and I understand, this is not a zcash forum, but many miners are migrating to this new crypto for its crazy profitability.

I wanted to help everyone wants to try to mining Zcash, but I apologize if anyone has bothered him, if any administrator sees fit to delete this post, it seems correct.

secantdatabase

What is a trust worthy exchange to sell your zcash to?

jsanzsp

secantdatabase said:

What is a trust worthy exchange to sell your zcash to?

I use Kraken for exchange to any crypto or eur or usd


but this guide is already outdated in this post I explain a faster and more stable method.

https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/10747/zcash-test-results/p3

Truthchanter

I appreciate the zcash info here, thanks

EDIT: I had to get rid of the /MIN in the bat for it to work

SWDude26

wow some people are hostile up in here. calm tf down...

We are all miners. Share the knowledge.

remek4x4

SWDude26 said:

wow some people are hostile up in here. calm tf down...

We are all miners. Share the knowledge.

I totally agree, ETH and ZEC miners are the very same people.

Yogi

I agree although not the "right" place for it, refusing valid information isn't a good thing. I don't see an issue with factual information about mining in general.