Quote from: joblo on October 29, 2016, 10:00:44 PM

Quote from: felixbrucker on October 29, 2016, 10:33:18 AM

Quote from: Vin on October 27, 2016, 09:26:58 PM

Quote from: jc12345 on October 27, 2016, 09:13:39 PM

What is the best miner to use for CPU? Does a miner exist for Windows or is it only for Linux and do I have to compile the miner myself?

Here you get two windows miner:

https://github.com/ocminer/cpuminer-xzc/releases

https://github.com/felixbrucker/cpuminer-xzc/releases

The miner recompiled by felixbrucker shows H/s instead von Kh/s

Quote from: bolehvpn on October 28, 2016, 04:22:04 PM

Quote from: ZenFr on October 28, 2016, 02:26:28 PM

Hi all,

2 questions please about ZCoin mining :

1) Is there others optimized miners than the CPUMiner from OCMiner (SuprNova) ? Windows ? Ubuntu ?

2) Is there some project(s) of GPUs Miners ? Windows ? Ubuntu ? AMD ? NVidia ?

Thank you :-)

You can try this one which has slight improvements to it:
https://github.com/Optiminer/cpuminer-xzc

No GPUminers.

I've also spoke to the core devs on this and they confirm that they're working on MTP algorithm.

i recommend everyone to use joblos miner, it contains optiminers avx2 improvements and displays H/s

Thanks for the plug. Just to be clear the optimizations to Lyra2 were mine, first implemented for Lyra2RE and Lyra2REv2.
Optiminer improved it a little for zcoin and I ported his improvements back into cpumier-opt.

It includes AVX and AVX2 unfortunately the zcoin implementation of Lyra2 is extremely memory hard so the bottleneck is
memory bandwith, not the CPU, and the optimizations don't produce a measurable improvement.

E series i7 CPUs with 4 channel memory controller may do better but I have no data to confirm.

There is no GPU miner and never will. The memory bandwith demands of the algo would severely limit its performance,
more than Zcash which uses another memory hard algo. Also the algo has no future, after Zcoin switches to MTP I doubt
anyone else will ever use this version of Lyra2 again.

I wasn't aware of that MTP algorithm ? Do you have a clue about it ? I find that the actual algorithm is very sympatic, that's what make me like ZCoin.