Which cryptocurrency miner should I choose and how to set it up? Collection of instructions

First, let’s decide on the choice of the most profitable cryptocurrency for mining. The 2CryptoCalc calculator knows the current profitability indicators. In addition, he remembers the hashrates of video cards by heart, that is, he can choose a suitable coin solely by the name and number of video card models. There is also support for the Russian language, an intuitive interface and calculation of income in solo mining.

Calculator 2CryptoCalc

The scheme is clear: just go to the 2CryptoCalc calculator website, enter the number of our cards and press the calculation button.

2CryptoCalc website interface

Now let's look at the miners themselves - that is, programs that allow you to mine a specific cryptocurrency. The subheading will indicate their names, and inside will list the supported algorithms and the name of the video card manufacturer that is better suited for the specified miner. If the description of the program suits you, we will leave a link to its full review below. There will already be more detailed information on the type of hashrates, current versions and project pages on GitHub.

Miner Gminer

Gminer is one of the most famous miners of our time. It’s easy to understand the love of video card owners for it. Firstly, the program supports video cards from Nvidia and AMD, that is, there is no division in this matter. Secondly, the commission for mining Ethereum and Ethereum Classic is a modest 0.65 percent. Finally, thirdly, Gminer is universal and supports many algorithms. Here they are:

• Ethash (Nvidia only)
• ProgPoW (Nvidia only)
• KAWPOW (Ravencoin and Nvidia only)
• Ethash+Eaglesong (Nvidia only)
• Ethash+Blake2s (Nvidia only)
• Eaglesong (Nvidia and AMD)
• Blake2b+Sha3 (Nvidia only)
• Cuckarood29/Cuckaroom29 (Grin and Nvidia only)
• Cuckatoo31 (Grin and Nvidia only)
• Cuckatoo32 (Grin and Nvidia only)
• Cuckoo29 (Aeternity for Nvidia and AMD)
• CryptoNightBBC (Nvidia only)
• BFC (Nvidia and AMD)
• Cortex (Nvidia only)
• Cuckaroo29s (Nvidia and AMD)
• Cuckarood29v (MoneroV for Nvidia)
• Blake2s(Nvidia and AMD)
• Eaglesong (Nervos CKB for Nvidia and AMD)
• Equihash 96.5 (Nvidia only)
• Equihash+Scrypt (for Nvidia)
• Equihash 125.4 (ZelCash and Nvidia only)
• Equihash 144.5 (Bitcoin Gold, BitcoinZ and ZelCash for Nvidia and AMD)
• Beam Hash (BEAM for Nvidia and AMD)
• Equihash 192.7 (Nvidia and AMD)
• Equihash 210.9 (Nvidia).

Mobile miner

Here are the requirements for video cards to run mining using various algorithms.

• Cuckaroo29 – 3.8 GB
• Cuckatoo31 – 7.68 GB
• Cuckoo29 – 3.8 GB
• Equihash 96.5 – 0.75 GB
• Equihash 144.5 – 1.75 GB
• Beam Hash - 2.9 GB
• Equihash 192.7 – 2.75 GB
• Equihash 210.9 – 1 GB

We recommend Gminer for mining Grin, Beam and coins based on the Equihash 144.5 algorithm. In addition, after the Ravencoin hard fork on May 6, 2020, Gminer will also mine RVN using the KawPoW algorithm. Hashrates, links and other important details are on this page.

Note that the 2Miners mining pool team recommends using Gminer due to its speed, excellent hashrates, regular updates and good support.

What can you mine?

Six types of digital money are built on the Lyra2REv2 algorithm. We will not consider them all in detail; we will describe only the most famous ones. These include Verge, Monacoin and Vertcoin.

Verge

Verge is a crypto coin that was created using a Bitcoin fork. However, during its development, the emphasis was on protecting user data and anonymity on the Internet. Financial transactions are so complicated that it is currently almost impossible to track the chain from start to finish.

The Verge team launched the project in 2014. Even then, they stated that the main goal is confidentiality, and Bitcoin does not allow one to obtain sufficient anonymity on the network. Previously, it was known as DogeCoinDark, but literally a year later it underwent rebranding. The project was created by Sunerok; no ICO was held.

Monacoin

Monacoin is the first cryptocurrency born in Japan. Despite the fact that little is known about her in our latitudes, there is a considerable community of her fans on the Internet. There are especially many Asians among the supporters.

This type of crypto money was created as a means of combating centralization - the main problem for the crypto community. Monacoin has become one of the few digital currencies that actually managed to get rid of the label “investment vehicle” and become a real means of payment. Although in a very limited space - in some Asian countries.

Of course, Japan was most actively involved in the implementation of Monacoin. Using crypto, you can pay for goods both online and offline. You can pay in restaurants or hotels. Even the largest online electronics store in the Land of the Rising Sun, Ark Akihabara, accepts it for payment.

Vertcoin

Vertcoin was originally an unremarkable fork of Bitcoin that was released in 2014. However, the team set out to solve some of the problems of the world's most famous cryptocurrency. And they have already solved at least one problem.

Some time after the hard fork, Vertcoin switched to Lyra2RE. This was done to combat monopolization of mining, which could lead to the use of ASIC equipment. Now a 51% attack, which is quite possible for Bitcoin, is impossible for Vertcoin.

Like Verge, Vertcoin was released without a premine or ICO. Initially, only three blocks were mined, which were necessary to test the system. A total of 81 million crypto coins are expected to be issued.

lolMiner settings

lolMiner is a miner for the Equihash algorithm, which also supports the mining of popular Beam and Grin coins. The program was created with an eye toward “red” video cards, that is, from AMD. The miner will work with Nvidia cards, but there may be problems with speed and stability. Here is a list of algorithms that lolMiner supports.

• Equihash 96.5 - MinexCoin;
• Equihash 144.5 - Bitcoin Gold, BitcoinZ, SnowGem;
• Equihash 125.4 - ZelCash;
• Equihash 192.7 – Zero, Genesis Network;
• Equihash 210.9 - Aion;
• BeamHash II - Beam;
• Cuckarood 29 - Grin;
• Cuckatoo 31 - Grin.

Here is a video of the Grin mining setup for clarity. There are subtitles.

Read the full review of the miner at the link.

PhoenixMiner Settings

PhoenixMiner is designed for mining Ethash coins on video cards from AMD and Nvidia. This is one of the most popular miners for Ethereum. The developers call it “the fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with the lowest commission.” The latter, by the way, is 0.65 percent. Here is a list of algorithms that the miner can handle.

• Ethash - Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Pirl and others;
• Dual mining Ethash/Ubqhash + Blake2s - other additional algorithms are not supported;
• ProgPoW support - Bitcoin Interest (BCI);
• Ubqhash - Ubiq.

Representatives of the 2Miners mining pool team also recommend using Phoenix Miner. The developers responsibly support their product, which is why users get excellent mining results.

Here is a video tutorial on setting up Ethereum mining.

And a full review of PhoenixMiner.

Programs

Below we have listed programs that allow you to mine coins of the Lyra2REv3 algorithm

Extract the archive, there you will find already fully configured and ready-made Bat files of the Vertcoin coin for different pools. All you have to do is enter your digital wallet received on the exchange or from a cold wallet and launch it. The mining process will automatically start.

If you want to set up a batch file yourself, in the articles about each miner, you will find a detailed description of setting up the coin.

T-Rex miner settings

T-Rex is another heavyweight miner with support for many algorithms, but this time only for Nvidia video cards. We recommend using it for mining Zcoin. The developers emphasize that they are trying to make the program as convenient and fast as possible. For this they charge 1 percent of the operating time of the video cards.

Miner professional

The list of supported algorithms by T-Rex is as follows:

• MTP (Zcoin)
• KawPoW (Ravencoin)
• x16rv2
• x16rt
• x16r
• x16s
• x17
• x22i
• x25x
• x21s
• x11r
• geek
• bcd
• hmq1725
• honeycomb
• tensority
• dedal
• sha256t
• sha256q
• timetravel
• lyra2z
• bitcore
• sonoa
• renesis
• balloon
• polytimos
• skunk
• c11
• phi
• tribus
• astralhash
• jeonghash
• padihash
• pawelhash

Here is a video tutorial on how to set up and start mining ZCoin XZC.

And this link contains a complete review of the miner.

Claymore's miner settings

Claymore's Dual Ethereum miner supports Nvidia and AMD video cards. The most current version at the moment is 15.0. The developers are persistently asking to update to it, since it has support for era number 384. In other words, miners will be able to mine Ethereum on video cards with 4 GB of memory, but earlier versions will not be able to handle this. The causes and solutions to the problem, by the way, are described here.

Claymore's supports algorithms:

• Ethash - Ethereum, Ethereum Classic;
• Ethash + Decred/Siacoin/Lbry/Pascal/Blake2s/Keccak.

Read our review by following the link.

Miner miniZ

miniZ is a miner for Equihash algorithms and Nvidia video cards. It is important to note that the developer commission is 2 percent, which is noticeably higher than the competitors mentioned above. Here is the list of supported algorithms:

• Equihash 125.4;
• Equihash 144.5;
• Equihash 150.5;
• Equihash 150.5.3;
• Equihash 192.7;
• Equihash 210.9;
• Equihash 96.5.

Diligent Mining

Here are the cryptocurrencies that can be mined on miniZ.

• Bitcoin Gold (BTG);
• BitcoinZ (BTCZ);
• ZelCash (ZEL);
• Anonymous (ANON);
• SnowGem (XSG);
• Bithereum (BTH);
• BZEdge (BZE);
• LitecoinZ (LTZ);
• Bitcoin RM (BCRM);
• SafeCoin (SAFE);
• Zero (ZER);
• Genesis (GENX);
• Vidulum (VDL);
• ZeroClassic (ZERC);
• Arrow (ARW);
• Ycash (YEC);
• Zclassic (ZCL);
• Beam (BEAM);
• Grimm (GRIMM);
• Litecash (CASH);
• Aion (AION);
• Minexcoin (MNX).

A full review - with hashrates and links - is in this article.

bminer settings

Bminer copes with several algorithms, including Ethash for Ethereum. The program works on video cards from Nvidia and AMD. The commission varies from 0.65 to 2 percent. Here is a list of algorithms and coins based on them.

• Equihash - Zcash;
• Equihash 144.5/Zhash - Bitcoin Gold, BitcoinZ;
• Ethash - Ethereum, Ethereum Classic;
• Cuckaroom29 - Grin;
• Bytom BTM.

Read the full guide here.

Miner

How to create a Vertcoin wallet

You can store coins on the official Core Wallet, for operating systems such as:

• Windows
• Linux
• Mac

You can use these wallets from Github for VTC coins.

You can also store coins on the official Electrum wallet. you can Github VTC coins.

If you do not want to install and synchronize cold wallets, then you can simply register on the exchange where the Vertcoin coin is traded, receive the digital key of the coin and mine VTC directly on the exchange.

In the table below you can choose the exchange that is convenient for you. By clicking on the name of the exchange in the “Exchange Review” column, you can read its detailed review, description, registration, deposit/withdrawal of funds, trading, and useful tips.

EWBF's Cuda Equihash miner

EWBF's Cuda is a solution for mining coins based on the Equihash/144.5/Zhash algorithm. The miner is suitable for Nvidia video cards or so-called green cards. EWBF's Cuda Equihash supports the following algorithms and such popular coins on them:

• Equihash 144.5 - Bitcoin Gold, BitcoinZ;
• Equihash 210.9 - Aion;
• Equihash 192.7 – Zero;
• Equihash 96.5 - MinexCoin.

Note that almost no one mines EWBF's Cuda Equihash anymore, since coins using this algorithm are now mined by ASIC miners. Accordingly, mining cryptocurrencies on Equihash on video cards became unprofitable, and their owners switched to other algorithms.

Read a detailed review of EWBF's Cuda here.

Features of the algorithm

Lyra2REv2 inherited all the main advantages from Lyra2RE in a modernized form. First of all, the entire system is consistent. For construction, a so-called cryptographic sponge is used. Accordingly, it is almost impossible to separate it.

Each subsequent step is a logical continuation of the previous one, which has already been processed by GPUs. This was intended to avoid hard forks carried out by third parties. In this way, it is possible to protect the ecosystem from reputation problems associated with scammers.

The most important feature is the specific setting of resource consumption and time for extraction. The creators thought through everything in such a way as not to give the creators of ASICs a single chance. It is quite possible to create the unit itself. However, if this is done, the teams will conduct a controlled hard fork and all devices can be disassembled for parts. Mining with their help will be absolutely unprofitable.

After the implementation of the second version, the list of supported hash functions was changed. In particular, the list includes:

• BLAKE
• Keccak
• CubeHash
• Lyra2
• Skein
• Blue Midnight Wish

So, we have examined the main features of this algorithm. Next, let's talk about which cryptocurrencies work on it.

Funakoshi 144.5 Cuda Miner

Funakoshi 144.5 is a miner for video cards from Nvidia. It is no coincidence that the numbers in the name of the program were there: they indicate the algorithm that the miner can handle. There is only one:

• Equihash 144.5 - Bitcoin Gold, BitcoinZ and Safecoin.

Alas, the miner has already become part of history. Nobody uses it.

Tricky miner

A full review of the Funakoshi miner is available here. Inside, the hashrates of popular video cards from Nvidia are also indicated.

Brief descriptionVertcoin

Vertcoin is an open-source, decentralized cryptocurrency that is entirely owned by its users.

The coin was designed to help make blockchain accessible to all users, including those without technical knowledge. The coin appeared at the beginning of 2014.

It is also worth noting that the project developers did not use Premine, there was no ICO and Airdrop.

For more detailed information about the Vertcoin coin, read the review article.