Everything you need to know: Bitmain Z11 Equihash Miner
On March 18th Bitmain announced its new Equihash ASIC Miner with 12nm chip technology. Shortly after, the miner sold out in their website.
The new Antminer is expected to triple its predecessor, the Z9, in hashing power while being more energy efficient. You’ll get about 150 KSol/s while consuming 1600 Watts. In conclusion, 3x the performance and just 50% higher power consumption.
Pricing for the first batch was ~1,300 USD and shipping will happen between April 20–30. After the first batch is released we expect network difficulty to increase at least to 100MM given the rumors that 10,000 units were sold.
Given our difficulty estimates, we expect this miner to make ~1.2 ZEC per week.
Are you planning on buying the Z11? What do you think profitability will be? Payback period? Let’s discuss in our Discord or Telegram 🚀
Luxor 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:
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 😃
Equihash Profit-Switching
Luxor Switch is a profit-switching algorithm that increases the value of our miner’s hashrate by switching between chains. We are happy to offer a product that further increases the profitability of mining operations.
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.
stratum+tcp://equihash.luxor.tech:700
Workername can be anything, but avoid using symbols or special characters as it may be invalid.
Worker: LuxorUsername.WorkerName
Password: 123
For the other nodes (Pool 2 and Pool 3), feel free to use any of our other Equihash pool nodes, such as zec.luxor.tech:700 or zen.luxor.tech:700 .
Once you have these specifications press Save&Apply in your machine. This saves and applies the settings and also reboots the mining process.
Monitoring revenue and machine 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. To find your user, simply login and head to the Switch tab. You should see something like this:
To make your life easier, we developed the smartest Mining Bot: Lifeguard. He is available 24/7 and always in a good mood to answer all of your questions and track your miners status and performance.
Happy Hashing!
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