Had a good time at ZenCon0 in Milan, Italy. Gave a history of the early days of Horizen and ZenCash: There was also a panel directly after the presentation that I moderated: Also find the BlockOps Bitcoin and Crypto Mining Podcast on: Spotify Breaker Google Podcasts RadioPublic More information: BlockOps Crypto Mining Podcast […]
I had a really good time doing an interview with Scott Offord at on the CryptoMining Tools podcast, which you can find at https://blog.cryptomining.tools/ Here is an excerpt – for the full transcript see the link to the podcast episode below: Rolf Versluis is Co-Founder and Executive Advisor of the privacy oriented cryptocurrency Horizen. He […]
Had a good talk with CryptoRich, and he did the hard work of recording, editing, and posting. I’ll do the easy part and share the videos. Follow CryptoRich at CryptoRich Twitter CryptoRich BitTube Video Interview: Bitcoin Price, Mining, and Horizen Update March 2020 Part 1 of 2 Video Interview: Bitcoin Price, Mining, and Horizen Update […]
Do Not Use This Guide! THIS GUIDE IS NO LONGER ACCURATE! Instead, please use the ZenCash guide at zencash.com https://documentation.zencash.com/display/ZEN/Installation I am keeping this post up for historical information and to help people who want to continue to use this guide. Secure Node Basic Requirements The server needs a 64 bit processor and […]
GPU pricing got a little crazy this year for a few months, and I took a break from building new GPU mining rigs because they were too expensive. I believe AMD GPU’s are still a little overpriced and hard to buy, so I decided to build six Nvidia GPU based mining rigs. AMD RX 480 […]
Do Not Use This Guide! THIS GUIDE IS NO LONGER ACCURATE! Instead, please use the ZenCash guide at zencash.com https://documentation.zencash.com/display/ZEN/Installation I am keeping this post up for historical information and to help people who want to continue to use this guide. NOTE! If you are setting up a new ZenCash Secure Node – look at […]
I decided to change the port on my Zen node today. I wanted to run some nodes on port 443, 80, 53, and other common ports so they can’t be blocked by firewalls. Those ports are usually open for users. Firewalls are used to seeing encrypted traffic over port 443, so that is a likely […]
Latest version of my guide to building and operating a mining rig is here, How to Build a 6 Rig GPU Miner for Zcash and Ethereum with Nvidia GTX 1070 and EthosDistro posted Oct 1, 2017 on Steemit. Nvidia miners work really well for mining Equihash based cryptocurrencies, like Zcash and ZenCash. I have not […]
Do Not Use This Guide! THIS GUIDE IS NO LONGER ACCURATE! Instead, please use the ZenCash guide at zencash.com https://documentation.zencash.com/display/ZEN/Installation I am keeping this post up for historical information and to help people who want to continue to use this guide. NOTE! If you are setting up a new ZenCash Secure Node – look at […]
Do Not Use This Guide! THIS GUIDE IS NO LONGER ACCURATE! Instead, please use the ZenCash guide at zencash.com https://documentation.zencash.com/display/ZEN/Installation I am keeping this post up for historical information and to help people who want to continue to use this guide. NOTE! If you are setting up a new ZenCash Secure Node – look at […]