Let’s have a look at the most popular mining pools for Zcash. The list of ZEC pools contains such parameters as hashrate, scheme and the method of minimum payment, the location of services and its benefits.
From the very beginning you can find the most effective and powerful pools- flypool and supernova. For new users we can recommend to start with such pools.
Flypool
- The services are located in the USA, Europe and China.
- Commision-1%
- The minimum payout-0,001 ZEC
- The method of payment- PPLNS
- Hashrate- 60 MH/s
- The exact bit rate statistics
- Anonymous mining
- Instant pay out
- The effective mining engine, the low level of lost blocks
- Detailed statistics for every rig
- E-mail notification system, warning about wrong balls
- Web-site: zcash.flypool.org
SUPRNOVA
- Located in USA, Europe, Asia, China
Commision-1%
- The minimum payout-0,001 ZEC
- The method of payment- PPLNS
- Hashrate- 7 MH/s
- Anonymous mining
- Instant pay out
- There is a port for Nicehash miners
- Web-site: zec.suprnova.cc
NANOPOOL
- Located in USA, Europe, Asia
- Commision-1%
- The minimum payout-0,01 ZEC
- The method of payment- PPLNS
- Hashrate- 8 MH/s
- Pay outs several times a day
- The conformation of balance in 10 blocks
- Web-site: zec.nanopool.org
COINMINE
- Located in USA, Europe, Asia
- Commision-1%
- The minimum payout-0,003 ZEC
- The method of payment- PPLNS
- Hashrate- 1, 5 MH/s
- Web-site: coinmine.pl/zec
DWARFPOOL
- The services are located in the USA, Europe and Asia
- Commision-1%
- The minimum payout-0,003 ZEC
- The method of payment-HBPPS.
- Hashrate- 680 KH/s
- The most profitable and fair system of pay out
- The support of T and Z –wallets
- The effective mining engine, the low level of lost blocks
- Detailed statistics
- Monitoring via E-mail and API
- Powerful servers
- Anonymous mining
- 27/7 is available
- Web-site: dwarfpool.com/zec
F2POOL
- Located in China
- Commision-5%
- The minimum payout-0, 01 ZEC
- The method of payment- PPS
- Hashrate- 45 MH/s
- Automatic pay outs
- Web-site: f2pool.com
How to configure the mining pool for ZCash
Let’s take coinmine.pl as an example. The service allows you to mine ZCash on the best basis, what is needed here is to adjust personal account.
- The first step is registration. We recommend not to use complicated logins, because you are to write it in program file.
- Choose a PIN-Code, which is necessary for changing personal information and receipt of money in future.
- Enter your personal account, then go to Edit Account and fill in the necessary fields.
- The creation of worker, in other words, you are given the identification number for gathering statistics.
As you’ve completed the previous stage you are to download a program for mining.
Then go to “Help”>”Getting Started” and you’ll be offered the following list:
- AMD/CUDA GPU Miner Windows/Linux (Claymore): Download here
- AMD GPU Miner Windows (Genoil): Download here
- AMD GPU Miner Linux (Silentarmy): Download here
- CUDA/AMD/CPU Miner Windows: Download here — ( if you don’t have NVIDIA processor this miner will not suit you, the miners above are for AMD processors)
- CPU Miner Linux: Download here — mining for Linux processor.
Create a program file. bat.
How to set and start the miner
So, you’ve successfully downloaded the program.
Create a new word document.txt and open it, now we are to write the following commands in it:
- For AMD/CUDA GPU Miner Windows/Linux (Claymore): ZecMiner64.exe -zpool zec.coinmine.pl:7007 -zwal YourLogin.YourWorkerName -zpsw YourWorkerPassword
- For AMD GPU Miner Windows (Genoil): genoil.exe -c zec.coinmine.pl:7007 -u YourLogin.YourWorkerName -p z -P 0 -g 0 1 -i 20 -w 64
- For CUDA/AMD/CPU Miner Windows: nheqminer -l zec.coinmine.pl:7007 -u YourLogin.YourWorker -p
N.B. CPU nheqminer.exe -u feeleep.1 -p x -t 6 – to use your processor to the maximum
CUDA nheqminer.exe -u feeleep.1 -p x -cd 0 — for more than 30 kh/s
AMD + CPU nheqminer.exe -u feeleep.1 -p x -t 6 -od 0 1 — for joint mining.
Profitability calculator Zcash (ZEC) mining
To calculate the profitability from the Zcash mining you can use these three calculators:
- https://www.coinwarz.com
- http://whattomine.com
- http://www.mycryptobuddy.com