Quote from: adaseb on Today at 05:48:59 AM

Quote from: tenakha on Today at 01:39:10 AM

Hi,
what is the min spec graphics card I need to mine ZCash?

Also - what mining software is available?
Can I mine on windows?

Thanks!

Ahh Zcash, I remember when it got released in 2016. Basically not much was going on in Oct 2016 so everybody was awaiting the launch of ZCash. The miner reward was low at first to prevent instamining and when ZCash was actually launched people were hammering the pools to be the first to mine a few blocks. I remember I got like a fraction of a Zcash, sent it to Poloniex and ended up getting an entire GPU paid for because price was like 10 BTC per 1 ZEC. Yes 1 ZEC was worth 10 BTC in 2016.

Anyways. Sometime in 2019, an Zcash ASIC came out for ZCASH and you could no longer mine it with GPUs. So if you really want to mine it you gotta buy some Antminer Z15 or such. No other way to mine it these days. If you want to mine other Equihash type coins you can mine Bitcoin Gold which uses the same algo but with different parameters.Only coin to mine with GPUs these days is ETH pretty much.

So once upon a time 1 Zcash was 10BTC? Oh my GOD! No wonder some are looking for new coins to mine, the problem is new coins if today are different from 2016 new coins, they say no premine no ico and they still turned scam in the end, it's better to keep mining old coins nowadays