The mining power of Zcash increases because miners are shifting their work towards this cryptocurrency after its growth and in Europe there is a shortage of the main hardware used to mount the mining rigs.
Yesterday we witnessed the excessive increase in the valuation of Zcash, which is being noticed even today with an increase in value that is already around $ 270 stable with an increase of approximately 130%. This rise has occurred because it has been known that JPMorgan, the largest bank in the world, has invested 800 million dollars in the Zcash developer company and the rise has been a real madness. In just one hour it went from $ 120 to more than $ 220, although the flood is more stable, we can see that this does not stop.
This tsunami has its secondary effects and the main and correlative one is the increase in the mining of Zcash in Europe especially, but we see that worldwide (graph after the jump), they are being mined in a massive way, greatly increasing the power of Hash . As a correlative effect, shortages have begun to appear in Europe and in part of the world, of components necessary to assemble the miners. Above all, a sudden drop in stock of the main used power supplies and the most used motherboard has been detected.
We are specifically talking about the motherboard ASRock H81 Pro BTC R2.0, which is the most used motherboard in the world to mount these mining machines. In Europe it is practically impossible to find it and that this in Coolmod is a coincidence, since a lot of money is being invested throughout Europe to mount miners and obtain Zcash in a massive way. Along with this motherboard that is in short supply, we find a shortage in power supply Enermax Max Revo 80Plus Gold 1200W and the power supply Cooler Master V1200 80Plus Platinum 1200W is completely depleted throughout Europe, it is impossible to find one of these power supplies.
We must emphasize that these two power supplies are the most used for their certification and their price, which within what fits, have a fairly good price. Some would think that so much power does not make sense, but it does, since we have between four and six graphic cards connected, usually from AMD, although we will talk about this later. It is possible that the Enermax will disappear and then jump to other high-power and high-efficiency solutions from other manufacturers, as there is a significant increase in the sales of hardware destined directly to mining equipment.
The arrival of the AMD RX 500 Series caused a price reduction in the AMD RX 400 Seres and more specifically in the AMD RX 480, which are the most used to mine Zcash, since the best mining software is developed under AMD. AMD graphics have a good price and a good mining power, that is why they are the most requested, but, the price reduction has caused investors in miners to jump on these graphics, which are no longer manufactured, causing that neither even manufacturers have stock in warehouses to supply wholesalers, it is almost a utopia find an XFX RX 480 and those of the rest of the manufacturers, must fly shortly.
It is not only that Zcash is a currency that can make investors money, it is generating a very large ecosystem around cryptocurrencies. Knowing how to assemble these machines, start them up and solve problems is an art, it is not like an ordinary team, which is assembled and ready, there is much more work behind it. Ikea and furniture stores will also get their boots on, as these machines are usually mounted on shelves and not on chassis, since there is no chassis that supports so much graphics card together. If you are thinking of getting into this world, run, because the specific hardware is flying.
