Mining ZCash on Windows

ZCash launched on October 28th among some of the craziest price volatility imaginable. Here’s how I got on, mining to a ZCash pool on a Windows GPU mining rig. I’ve been playing around with Bitcoin and alt currency mining since 2013, initially building a couple of GPU rigs to mine Litecoin and then diversifying across all manner of coins and algorithms. I’ve been mining Ethereum for some time and until recently no new coin launch has caught my attention enough to move my hashing power. Recently however, I couldn’t help but notice the hype surrounding ZCash.…

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Running Ghost on Windows and IIS.

I just couldn’t leave it alone... So only one day after setting up my blog on a cloud hosted Ghost instance, I’ve found myself trawling through blogs and documentation on a voyage of discovery – with the intent of hosting Ghost on my own NodeJS server. Why?! You may want to just skip to the instructions. When I made the decision to go with Ghost, the thinking was that I didn’t want to get bogged down in the creation of a website or management of blog software... instead reasoning that the content I wanted to post should take…

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