Contents

  • 1 Kaspa on the 2Miners mining pool
  • 2 Reducing the reward per Ergo block
  • 3 Optimisation of Monero’s balloon complexity
  • 4 Mining pool updates

Kaspa on 2Miners’ Mining Pool

The 2Miners team has added support for Kaspa (KAS), an innovative cryptocurrency whose developers focus on blockchain scaling, security and decentralised management system. 2Miners’ representatives appreciated the interest of the mining community in KAS and therefore adapted the pool for both video cards and ASICs.

Kaspa mining on 2Miners is available in PPLNS and SOLO modes. Also, 2Miners developers set up separate ports for ASIC miners: SOLO mode works through port 3434, and for PPLNS you should use port 2222. Both ports have been thoroughly tested and optimized to minimize the number of rejected balls, ensuring a smoother coin mining process.


How to mine Kaspa on ASICs and video cards: settings, additional rewards and dual-mining

2Miners Kaspa KAS Mining Pool

The 2Miners pool is well known for its honesty and transparency, with Kaspa being no exception here. As a result, 2Miners is the only pool that pays a full block reward, including 233 KAS as an additional reward for doubling blocks.

In less than a month, about 2,000 miners have joined 2Miners to mine Kaspa. The pool has a total hash rate of almost 80 TH/s, making 2Miners one of the top ten pools by this measure. The developers are also planning to add Kaspa mining rewards feature in BTCs. This can already be done for ETC, ERGO, RVN and ZEC.

Ergo blockchain reward reduction

PoW blockchain Ergo continues to follow a predetermined schedule for the release of the ERG native token. In April, the reward per block on the network dropped from 42 to 39 ERG, in line with the developers’ plans. At the same time, to ensure the protocol’s long-term competitiveness, Ergo Foundation representatives released an EIP27 proposal, which is an amendment to the issuance schedule.

Reward for a block on the Ergo network on the 2Miners mining pool

The proposal extends the ERG issuance schedule by approximately 17.38 years, which has already received more than 90 percent support from the community. Overall, it will provide more time for the project’s developers to ensure the necessary security for the blockchain and encourage its development in the future.

Optimising the complexity of the balloon in Monero

2Miners developers have worked hard on Monero mining pools, focusing on optimising server performance. One of the most important improvements implemented is an increase in orb complexity from 120K to 480K. The change will increase the efficiency of the servers and allow them to better cope with the growing number of miners.


What are orbs in mining. How solution complexity affects cryptocurrency mining

Monero XMR mining server on 2Miners pool

It is important to note that changing the difficulty of a balloon does not affect the profitability of miners. This parameter determines the amount of work required from the miner to send a valid orb. That is, increasing the difficulty of the balloon reduces the number of balls sent, which in turn reduces the load on 2Miners servers and increases the stability of the mining pool along with its performance.

The purpose of this update is to guarantee an improved mining experience at 2Miners, as well as to ensure the reliability of the pool.

Mining pool updates

Regular updates of cryptocurrency nodes are an important part of any mining pool. Firstly, it is necessary to ensure the security and scalability of the network, as updates often include fixes for various bugs and improvements to protect against possible dangers. Secondly, updates increase the efficiency and effectiveness of mining by introducing optimizations and modifications to the software. Finally, thirdly, using an up-to-date version of a node allows miners to adapt to possible changes in protocols and consensus algorithms, which is necessary for hardware compatibility and to prevent possible revenue loss.

Cryptocurrency miner

Representatives from 2Miners updated the nodes in the Monero and Cortex networks in April.

  • Monero v0.18.2.0-release Fluorine Fermi Major Point Release 2 is an important software release on the Monero network that fixes many bugs and improves performance, especially regarding block distribution time. Key features of the release include an added cache to significantly increase block propagation speed, fixes for ping issues to find suitable nodes to connect to, an update to OpenSSL to version 1.1.1t, and many other important fixes.
  • Cortex 1.10.41-stable-51b6aae2 is an update with protocol updates and fixes for possible bugs. On top of that, the 2Miners team has installed version 1.10.42 with a hotfix.

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