Ethereum DAG File Downside
Ethash (Ethereum mining algorithm) has a particular DAG file that’s loaded to the GPU/ASIC reminiscence earlier than the mining course of begins. We described intimately the way it works in our submit When Will My Graphics Card Cease Mining Ether?
DAG file measurement is all the time rising. You possibly can all the time discover the present DAG measurement on 2Miners Ethereum pool primary web page. On August seventeenth DAG file for ETH reached 5 GB.
Most definitely this was the final vital milestone for the Ethereum DAG file and it’ll by no means attain the subsequent one (6GB). Ethereum devs plan to alter the consensus mechanism from PoW to PoS in September which can finish the ETH mining normally.
Innosilicon A10 Affected by the DAG File Dimension
A10 is a well-liked Ethereum ASIC miner produced by Innosilicon. Initially it was mining solely Ethereum (ETH) and different Ethash cash. Just lately the producer launched the firmware that permits additionally Ethereum Basic (ETC) mining allowing for the long run finish of the ETH mining. ETC is barely completely different from ETH because it makes use of its personal Etchash algorithm (Ethash algorithm modification). Extra info on the brand new firmware may very well be present in our submit Innosilicon Launched New Mining Firmware to Mine Ethereum Basic on ASIC.
The brand new ETC firmware cannot be used to mine ETH and vice versa, it’s not potential to mine ETC with the outdated ETH firmware. Ethereum mining is at the moment extra worthwhile than Ethereum Basic mining so many ASIC homeowners prefered to mine ETH and to not replace to the brand new firmware to mine ETC.
As quickly because the Ethereum DAG file reached 5 GB all of the Innosilicon A10 stopped working. Regardless of how a lot reminiscence that they had. It seems to be like a firmware bug. Nevertheless, it may very well be associated to the {hardware} configuration as effectively. Sadly, Innosilicon has not launched any details about this matter. Their twitter account is sort of useless.
Fortunate homeowners of Innosilicon A11 may nonetheless proceed Ethereum mining. It appears this gadget makes use of completely different firmware.
The right way to Mine With Innosilicon A10 and A10 Professional
Hopefully, there are answers you could possibly use to nonetheless generate some revenue with Innosilicon A10 ASICs. There are different cash that use Ethash algo which have the smaller DAG file. There may be additionally the ETC firmware obtainable. Let’s take a look on the 2CryptoCalc.com mining calculator and enter the 700 MH/s hashrate for each Ethash and Etchash algorithms.
Ethereum is essentially the most worthwhile coin $19.22/day adopted by Ethereum Basic $13.64/day. You possibly can not mine ETP with Innosilicon A10, so the subsequent possibility is Callisto $6.35/day. You shouldn’t have in mind Expanse (EXP) as this coin buying and selling quantity may be very little.
The Worst Choice. Simply Wait
All of us hope that Innosilicon builders launch the brand new firmware that fixes the Ethereum mining difficulty quickly. In case you are afraid of firmware updates and if you happen to hope that the A10 difficulty is software-related and if you happen to hope that Innosilicon devs may repair that then you could possibly simply flip off your gadgets for a few days. So many “ifs” however who is aware of?
The Greatest Choice. Ethereum Basic Mining
The brand new Innosilicon ETC firmware works simply nice. Flash it to your A10 gadget and begin mining Ethereum Basic proper now. You may obtain the firmware on the official venture help web site.
Listed here are ETC’s mining settings.
URL: stratum+tcp://and so forth.2miners.com:1010
Employee: YOUR_ADDRESS.ASIC_ID
Password: x
The Second Greatest Choice. Callisto Mining
You possibly can change your A10 to CLO mining pool. You’ll earn a lot much less however you’ll nonetheless earn one thing. Then you could possibly wait some repeatedly hope that Innosilicon builders may repair the issue and launch the up to date firmware within the nearest time.
You possibly can discover the settings beneath.
URL: stratum+tcp://clo.2miners.com:3030
Employee: YOUR_ADDRESS.ASIC_ID
Password: x
Bonus Half. How Many Innosilicon A10 Units Are There?
Let’s take a look on the Ethereum Hashrate Chart. As you see the ETH community hashrate fluctuations are fairly excessive. It’s exhausting to say how a lot the hashrate dropped when DAG file reached 5 GB. Let’s imagine that it was a minimum of 30 TH/s. There are 500 MH/s and 720 MH/s variations so we may assume there have been a minimum of 55 000 – 60 000 Innosilicon A10 miners within the community.
Let’s now verify the community hashrates of Ethereum Basic and Callisto.
Ethereum Basic Community Hashrate development was greater than 10 TH/s in at some point whereas Callisto Community Hashrate grew simply 20 GH/s up.
We may think about that two-thirds of A10 ASIC gadgets at the moment usually are not mining in any respect.
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