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SHA-256 Hashing Algorithm – List of coins based on Bitcoin’s SHA256 algo

coinguides — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 07:27:49 +0000

Back when altcoins were trending we used to often list coins based on their hashing algorithm, specially for miners. It helps specific set of miners to choose and mine a particular coin based on its profitability. Now altcoin mining seems like a thing of a past. Particularly since they are no longer profitable for hobby …

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What are Block Rewards? How Bitcoin mining block rewards work?

coinguides — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:46:10 +0000

Previously on Coin Guides we’ve explained Bitcoin confirmations, Bitcoin mempool, Block height, transaction hash ID and many others. Here in this article we’re going to explain what a Block reward is and how the Bitcoin miners are rewarded for finding a block? This post applies not only to Bitcoin but any crypto currencies that are …

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X16R Algorithm explained – List of X16R coins and miners (NVIDIA / AMD)

coinguides — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 15:08:19 +0000

In the cryptocurrency space every year many new projects appear. But only few turns out to be successful and only few projects tend to build something innovative. Ravencoin is one of the few projects that have gained a lots of attention and has witnessed significant success. It is a fork of Bitcoin whose blockchain is …

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WhatToMine Alternatives – Mining calculators to find out what to mine

coinguides — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:10:17 +0000

If you are looking for whattomine alternatives then read this post. But if you are trying to figure out what to mine with your equipment then check out the following links: What to CPU Mine? What to GPU Mine? Are you interested in mining cryptocurrencies but do not know where to start and which coin …

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Monero hardfork v 0.14.0 Boron Butterfly – CryptoNight-R (CryptoNight v4)

coinguides — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 13:17:32 +0000

If you are a user of Monero and/or currently mining Monero (XMR) then you should be aware about the upcoming hardfork. The development team have already made an announcement regarding this protocol upgrade. This said network upgrade is set to occur on block height 1788000 which will take place on March 9th 2019. Now when …

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Placeholders (PHL) – A new coin on X16R, is it really worth mining?

coinguides — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 02:42:03 +0000

A project coming with a nice use case at launch with no working product is perfectly fine. Everyone knows that the full functioning of a platform needs a lots of research and development which takes some time. But currently in crypto space there are lots of such projects with full of promises and not an …

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Blake2s Algorithm – Miners and list of all coins based on Blake (2s)

coinguides — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 08:55:41 +0000

The rise of ASICs have impacted a number of crypto projects and community in the recent times. Most of the PoW algorithms that was GPU mineable are now only mineable using powerful ASIC miners. All these machines are capable of performing few hundreds to thousand times faster than GPUs. Due to this GPU miners had …

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How to mine MTP (Merkle Tree Proof) – Zcoin XZC hard fork upgrade guide

coinguides — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 14:49:54 +0000

For a cryptocurrency to succeed it first needs to achieve wider distribution. In order to achieve this a coin must provide fair mining solution so that even home miners can participate and earn some coins through mining. But today this is not something that you can find in most coins. Cryptocurrency mining is largely dominated …

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Qubit algorithm – Miners (ASIC) & list of coins with Qubit PoW algorithm

coinguides — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 13:21:55 +0000

Cryptocurrency miners have used various types of hardware to mine blocks. Initially people used their computer’s CPU power to mine Bitcoin blocks. Then to enhance the hashrate users added graphics hardware which drastically outperformed CPU mining. Then slowly special purpose ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) were designed to mine Bitcoin. Currently only users who own …

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A new Ravencoin fork: Ritocoin (X21S) – T-Rex 0.8.3, WildRig Multi 0.13.4

coinguides — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 10:08:16 +0000

When Ravencoin was launched there was not much information about the project. There was no roadmap, no whitepaper and not an information about the team. Yet a large number of miners showed a lots of interest in mining Ravencoin. It was very exciting mainly because the coin name was cool, it was only CPU mineable …

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