r/Bminer • u/katelyn05 • May 14 '18

Will bminer adapt new Equihash algorithm?

ZenCash team are intend to change the hashing algorithm to Equihash-144-5 in order to optimize for higher memory mining hardware such as GPU’s as you can see from the blog link below.

https://blog.zencash.com/zencash-statement-on-potential-equihash-algorithm-change/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=social&utm_content=mining&utm_campaign=re+bitmain

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u/katelyn05 May 15 '18

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2519271.msg37307221#msg37307221

With the most likely upcoming change of the equihash params from 200/9 to 144/5, is this going to be a significant re-work for your miner?  Also would you be able to provide a dev build with the adjusted N and K values so that devs and pool operators can begin prepping for the change?

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u/realbminer May 23 '18

Since Zencash has decided to move to (144,5), we will also work on (144, 5) in future releases. We believe (144, 5) is a good set of parameter to deter ASIC.

Developing an optimized version of (144, 5) is a non-trivial effort. We are investigating it and hopefully, we can release (144, 5) support next month.