March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
656 pages
20h 9m
English
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GPU mining
Other than CPU mining, a GPU mining option is also available. There is no official GPU miner yet; however open source developers have produced various proofs of concepts and working miners. The Zcash Company held an open competition to encourage developers to build and submit CPU and GPU miners. No winning entry has been announced as of the time of writing.
Readers can get more information by visiting the website, https://zcashminers.org/.
There is another mining: using cloud mining contracts available from various online cloud mining providers. The cloud mining service providers perform mining on the customers' behalf. In addition to cloud mining contracts, miners can use their own equipment to mine via mining pools using stratum ...