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Core wallet: “No block source available” – How to fix this?

coinguides — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 07:23:05 +0000

Trying to sync our core wallet can be quite challenging at times and everyone of us might have gone through this stage atleast once. Whichever coin it; if you haven’t opened your wallet in a while then you need to patiently wait for it to completely synchronize. Also it can get quite frustrating if the …

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Bitcoin Confirmations – All you need to know about block confirmations

coinguides — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 09:09:49 +0000

Whether you send Bitcoin or receive Bitcoin; the status of your transaction will initially remain “unconfirmed”. Once the transaction is verified and successfully included in the blockchain the status will then change to “confirmed“. In Bitcoin; for the “unconfirmed transaction” to become “confirmed” that is to get 1 confirmation it will take about 10 minutes. …

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Bitcoin Bootstrap.dat – Where to find and how to use Bootstrap.dat file

coinguides — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 09:45:14 +0000

Bitcoin is a Peer to Peer cryptocurrency. The wallet client of Bitcoin downloads blockchain from the network by syncing with other nodes. Not just Bitcoin but most of the cryptocurrency core wallet works like this as they are all based on Bitcoin. Since it requires Peer to Peer communication to download and validate each blocks …

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Suprnova Mining Pool – How to mine on Suprnova? BTG, VTC, XVG, RVN, ZEN

coinguides — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 14:47:14 +0000

So you got your GPUs ready and looking to mine your favorite coin. First thing is you need to pick a reliable and profitable mining pool. Forget about Ethereum, Zcash and other popular Cryptocurrencies. Even to mine a newly launched Altcoin you need to join a mining pool. Solo Mining is not advised until unless …

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Antminer Z9 (non mini) – Overview, price, features and profitability

coinguides — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 09:27:41 +0000

For those who do not know; Bitmain is a Chinese company that is known to produce cutting edge ASIC chips for mining Cryptocurrencies. They have a wide range of ASIC miners capable of mining Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dash, Zcash, Monero (formerly) and many others. Among them coins that remained GPU friendly for a long time …

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How to update Bitcoin wallet? Guide to upgrade cryptocurrency wallets

coinguides — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 13:13:01 +0000

Bitcoin being a free, open source software it keeps getting new updates and it will always be under active development. Not just Bitcoin; but all Cryptocurrencies out there are in same stage; making improvements and updating their core protocol. All such updates to the blockchain are mandatory as it enhances security to the network, improves …

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Innosilicon A9 ZMaster – Another Equihash ASIC hashes 50K sol/s @ 620 W?

coinguides — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 09:11:28 +0000

It was May 2018, the release of Antminer Z9 has made GPU mining obsolete on Equihash algorithm. Since then coins that are powered by Equihash are in a serious debate on whether to fork or not to fork. Coins like Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Private, Bitcoin Z and Zel Cash have announced that they will fork …

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Equihash PoW Mining Algorithm – List of all Equihash Coins

coinguides — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 12:50:13 +0000

While AMD graphic cards are good at mining Ethash coins, NVIDIA cards are good at mining Equihash and NeoScrypt coins. They are simply better at mining algorithm’s such as Equihash, NeoScrypt, Xevan, lyra2v2 and Tribus. Its proven that NVIDIA cards run solid and provides stable return in these algo’s. If you own a decent NVIDIA …

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