I share my experience of Verge(XVG)-Lyra2Rev2 mining on Suprnova Pool!

nameofname (37)in #coin • 7 years ago (edited)

Since I'd made an order of Infinite X, I thought about what to mine. It looked great to try Multi-Algorithm Mining, however my husband told me a variety of forums say it is good for neither of profit nor computer. I decided to mine just one kind of coin, and I searched for what to mine with 1080TI in http://whattomine.com.

Zclassic and Verge caught my attention because they appeared on top of the list repeatedly.

I found Verge started to attract some attention in Korean forums before Infinite X arrived. It had aroused suspicion of scam and it has a black paper instead of white paper. If I just planned to trade in it, I would not choose it because I am as careful and cautious as Meerkat. It is, however, just mining! I decided to give a shot.

I chose XVG beyond Zclassic because..

I could get more coins. I focused on the number of coin more than the current dollar-value. It would be smart move only if I see the future of Verge bright. I've just started the adventure of mining, so whatever I do and whatever happens, I will learn from it so it is alright.

I checked Zclassic and Verge in Coingecko and Developer Score of Verge was not bad.

However, I could not find how to mine Verge! What pool should I choose? What is profit of it? But there has been few review.

In Verge Official Site you can check the mining pools.

It is the multi-algorithmic cryptocurrency, so you can mine on Scrypt, Myr-Groestl, Lyra2Rev2, Blake2s or x17 algorithm. I found Verge on Lyra2Rev2 has been on the top in whattomine.com

There are the following three pools which support Lyra2Rev2 mining.

I clicked IDcray and Chinese language appeared that I cannot understand(soon I found it happens only in the middle of loading process). So I switched to Zpool, however, it gives you not the coin that you mine, but the equivalent of Bitcoin.

I chekcked the list of Verge Mining Pools again and I found Mining Pool Hub with Scrypt Algorithm.

I had mined Zcash on Mining Pool Hub with my Laptop GTX 785m before, so I wanted to try on this pool again. They supported only Scrypt mining, not Lyra2Rev2. In the end, I had to mine with Scrypt mining on Mining Pool Hub.

[Mining Pool Hub/Scrypt : Mining Time 3:30 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.]

I could see I mined this much for almost 9 hours.

What? I mined only 0.06 XVG for 9 hours???

I thought it is the problem of the chosen algorithm. I returned to IDcray.

Before mining XVG, you have to..

download cciminer
download Nvidia CUDA Toolkit 9.1 which is neccessary for ccminer
(If you activate ccminer without it, ccminer gets closed with the message that your system doesn't support CUDA 9.0)
download Microsoft Visual Studio
(When you install CUDA Toolkit without it, CUDA Toolkit warns you installation can be incomplete.)
register yourself on IDcray and add an worker

You should make an BAT file written as follows in ccminer folder:

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
ccminer-x64 -a Lyra2rev2 -o stratum+tcp://xvg-mine.idcray.com:10011 -u idcrayusername.workername -p workerpassword(if you don't have it, write 'x' down.
pause

Activate the BAT file!

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It started! You can see something is clearly different from the Scrypt mining! A lot of beautifully green "Yes!"! You also can see them with Scrypt mining, but just rarely. I never knew that I could see "Yes!" that often.

Algorithm is important. Check it out on whattomine.com.

You can check your info on IDcray Dashboard.

However I found something is still wrong. whattomine.com says I can get avg. 0.45 coins for one hour, and although I considered the number can be different I got still less.

[IDcray/Lyra2Rev2 : Mining Time 3:00 P.M. - 7:50 P.M.]

Just 1.42 XVG for almost 5 hours.

I thought it is the problem of the mining pool so I searched for another. The only left one was suprnova. I found it is a large pool. In suprnova, there are much more Pool Hashrate on Myriad-Groestl algorithm mining.

But I am a stubborn woman. I pushed on Lyra2rev2.

You need to do the same thing again.

Go to Suprnova Verge-Lyra2rev2 Pool and register yourself, add one worker.
Make an BAT file(.bat) in ccminer folder.

ccminer-x64 -a Lyra2rev2 -o stratum+tcp://xvg-lyra.suprnova.cc:2595 -u suprnovausername.workername -p workerpassword(if you don't have it, write 'x' down.)
pause

[Suprnova/Lyra2Rev2 : Mining Time 7:00 P.M. - 8:30 P.M.]

As I expected, for one and half hour I could get as much as I had gotten in IDcray for 5 hours. I guess IDcray Pool Hashrate was 30GH/s but Suprnova 5586.41MH/s so I could get more reward. I should study more about it.

Especially for the first one hour I was mining in both of IDcray pool and Suprnova so my hashrate was 30MH/s, but now it became 60MH/s since I stopped mining in IDcray. I can expect the better result.