Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge Winners! On October 28, 2016, the made ZEC coins available for mining. Since Zcash is an open source, decentralized cryptocurrency, we believe that mining for ZEC is an important way to help strengthen and decentralize the Zcash community, contribute to computer science, and win our gratitude and a prize. Mining should be available to everyone, regardless of their access to specialized hardware; anyone should be able to use a computer to “mine” by using open source software, and add more transactions to the Zcash ledger to possibly get Zcash coins in return for their effort. By distributing the ability to perform mining with open source software, the Zcash network can be a more accessible and a truly community-supported cryptocurrency. To achieve this, we need open source miners for anyone to use.

The Zcash Company sponsored the operated. The Winners and Runners Up of this challenge are listed on the page. Incentivizing the creation of open source miners will enable a wider community to mine for Zcash coins and take ownership of the network as a public good.

Cheap Emercoin EMC Mining Rig. While we expect a full range in size of Zcash miners to exist, the more individuals who run a miner (whether GPU or CPU) the stronger the network.

There are several reasons why I don't publish the source of this. One of them is that I want to save you the pain of having to go through this awful junk. Another one is that I have evil plans with this junk. And finally I got John's CUDA solvers without any license stuck onto them a few weeks back, so I have no idea what he wants me to do with it. All I know is that this works on suprnova with at least Hawaii (390X @20), Ellesmere (470 @14) and Fiji (Fury@23) (very approximate numbers there), so I hope it does for you too! Feedback and suggestions are very much appreciated!

Cryptonex CNX Mining Hardware Calculator. Zcash (ZEC) windows mining guide. This tutorial shows you how to start mining Zcash (ZEC) with your CPU and GPU. You can follow our guide and start mining ZEC.