I’m going to be traveling to some countries in Latin America soon. Although this is short notice, I have a some time to get together with people to talk crypto mining, ZenCash, or both. I even have presentations prepared, in case someone wants to get a small group of people together. Guatemala City – Sunday […]
Hi, I am Ben, aka thisismyback, and I’ll be providing new content at Block Operations. Rolf began nudging me towards the crypto space a couple years ago. I finally took action in early 2017 and it’s been a terrific learning experience ever since. Rolf has done an amazing job educating the masses about crypto mining […]
In this video I am presenting on ZenCash at the Texas Bitcoin Conference. It was a packed room of about 150 people. The presentation went a little well, although I rushed through the second half due to time limits. I had a great time talking, and made the major points I was trying to make, […]
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 […]
How to improve your mining game from a Basic to an Advanced miner. Tips on improving profitability. What I am mining now with my 150 or so miners. See more at https://blockoperations.com
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 […]
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. Took these pictures in May to document the BIOS settings I used for setting up GPU miners […]
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 […]