Bitmain Antminer Z9 Zcash Setup Guide

Luxor Tech
Sep 4, 2018 · 3 min read

Background

Bitcoin is awesome. But at Luxor we think it is missing something. Zcash improves on the original technology. Bitcoin and most cryptocurrencies expose your entire payment history to the public. Zcash is the first open, permissionless cryptocurrency that can fully protect the privacy of transactions using zero-knowledge cryptography. That is why we set up Luxor’s first Zcash mining pool!

Zcash is the latest addition to our services as a pool operator. We are pleased to continue to provide our miners with more options and to support the Zcash community. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Luxor, we are a altcoin pool built for high quality cryptocurrencies. We originally started with Sia and Decred and recently joined the LBRY, Loki, Monero and Aion communities.

We now offer a reliable, PPS, 3% pool. Click here to join Luxor’s Zcash pool.

Setup Guide

To get started, navigate to your dashboard by finding your miners’ IP address using your router or scanner. Your page will look something like this:

Z9 Miner Configuration

You should see the option to mine with a number of different pools. We’re going to set it up with Luxor’s Zcash Mining Pool, the best mining pool — disclaimer: we’re slightly biased :)

zec-us.luxor.tech:6666

zec-eu.luxor.tech:6666

zec-asia.luxor.tech:6666

zec-cn.luxor.tech:6666

Pick one of the above Stratum nodes (ensure it is port 6666), and type in the pool setting as follows:

URL: zec-us.luxor.tech:6666(set to your nearest location)

Worker: YourZcashAddress.username (username can be anything, but avoid using symbols or special characters as it may be an invalid username)

Password: 123

For the other nodes (Pool 2 and Pool 3), feel free to use any of the other region nodes, such as zec-eu.luxor.tech:6666.

How to OverClock your miner?

Follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to Miner Configuration > Advanced Settings

OverClocking can result in damage of your miner, do it at your own risk. Always monitor the temperature of your miner so it doesn’t overheat.

Once you’ve started hashing, grab yourself a beer! It’ll take about 5 minutes for your worker to appear on our stats page. To find your user, simply go to mining.luxor.tech/zcash and type in your wallet address at the top of the searchbar. You should see something like this:

Enjoy your brand new Z9 Miner :)

Happy Hashing!

Having issues? We’re on Discord. Ping us there at https://discord.gg/5qPRbDS

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Luxor

Luxor is building infrastructure to support the next generation of digital assets. We believe that digital assets will fundamentally disrupt the way value creation and value transfer will function in our new digital society.

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Luxor

Luxor is building infrastructure to support the next generation of digital assets. We believe that digital assets will fundamentally disrupt the way value creation and value transfer will function in our new digital society.

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