Bitmain Antminer Z15 Equihash (ZCash) Miner Setup Guide
On May 7th 2020 Bitmain released its new Equihash ASIC Miner, the Antminer Z15. Shortly after, the miner sold out on their website.
The new Antminer is expected to triple its predecessor, the Z11, in hashing power while being more energy efficient. You’ll get about 420KSol/s while consuming 1510 Watts. Which results in 3x the performance and barely any more power consumption. Pricing for the first batch was ~2,100 USD and shipping will happen around end of June 2020.
Step 1: Set up a Luxor User Account
First thing to do is to head to the Luxor website and create a user account.
A user account allows you to get extra data analytics into your mining operations, set custom payment thresholds, get manual payouts and enable Catalyst among other features.
Step 2: Scan IP on your ASIC
After you login into the Luxor platform, the Dashboard tab will give you an option to add new workers.
A scanning tool like AngryIP or Locator from Minerstats allows you to scan every device on your network and see its IP address. After getting your miner’s IP address, plug it into your browser and you are ready for configuration.
You should see the option to mine with a number of different pools. We’re going to set it up with Luxor’s Mining Pool, the best mining pool — disclaimer: we’re slightly biased 😃
Step 3: Set your Pool Features
Luxor Equihash Switch
We are really excited to announce that Luxor Switch will be enabled for the Z15. Which means that you can directly take advantage of our Equihash profit switching algorithm to earn higher rewards for your hashrate. Our profit switching pool chooses which equihash chain to mine based on profitability which means you get more for your hashrate. It also has the additional feature of paying you directly in Bitcoin.
By having a smart switching algorithm we were able to generate 4.5% of uplift over ZEC and 15.1% over ZEN during our 72 hour testing period.
You can connect directly to our global stratum node:
stratum+tcp://zec.global.luxor.tech:700Password: 123
Once you have these specifications press Save&Apply in your machine. This saves and applies the settings and also reboots the mining process.
ZCash and Horizen Pools
The Z15 also allows you to mine directly to the ZCash or Horizen blockchain. If you want to get paid out in ZCash or Horizen you can do this instead. You will give up the higher profit that comes with Luxor Switch. The process is the same as the above except use the below stratum proxy.
- stratum+tcp://zec.global.luxor.tech:700- stratum+tcp://zen.global.luxor.tech:700
Step 4: Monitoring Revenue and Performance
Once you’ve started hashing, grab yourself a beer! It’ll take about 5 minutes for your worker to appear on our stats page. Head to the workers page and click on Switch, you will see hashrate stats for all the miners you are running.
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