What do you know about this "piss ant ratings corporation"?  Nothing, I would judge from your comments.  Say what you want, but Weiss and his father were pretty much the only honest ratings company to pick apart bank financials for years and years.  To top it off, you link to a wikipedia posting that has nothing to do with Weiss Ratings and instead focuses on the big-boy, for profit and ongoing business relationships, rating agencies, i.e., S&P, Fitch, Moody's.

If you want take shots at Weiss, quote from their analysis and point out why you think they are dead wrong.  Weiss ratings did not 'cause the recession' and they are definitely not part of the "tainted lineage" of ratings agencies that you refer to.

I support the overall project's goals, and have for some time.  But this latest bit is sheer lunacy on the part of the SIA dev team.  If SIA intended to break a so-called monopoly, it should have brought a better product to market much faster than Bitmain.  It did not.  Whose fault is that?  Either they were intelligent enough to foresee the risks involved with bringing their own ASIC to market and they took a gamble, or they are incredibly short-sighted and out of touch.  There is no good explanation for, no positive way to spin, their reaction to Bitmain.

I've wondered for some time whether SIA would take off or not.  I mean, if you look at total available space to rent vs. actually rented space, there is an apparent problem with getting the word out about what their project is about and what it can do.  How about focusing on that aspect instead of bitching that because you are an also-ran ASIC designer, that must mean that competition is not fair?

Edit:  And consider this -- no one forced the SIA team to publicly announce, months before they had a product ready to ship, that they would be coming out with an ASIC miner.  If they wanted to surprise Bitmain and own this corner of the market, they should have kept their mouths sealed shut until they had product ready to ship out.

Bitmain's "power grab"??

I'm sorry, I must have missed the story where the SIA dev team was granted a monopoly over ASIC miners by the Trump administration.  Could you provide a link to that?

Sure.  Keep telling yourself that.  By the way, if you really want to support the SIA project, why didn't you set up a boatload of storage space and offer to rent it out at incredibly below market prices?

What???  The SIA devs promoted the nonsensical view that ASIC mining would be great for their coin, and healthy, and double-plus good.  In what alternate universe could you ever think that you, and you alone, would be the only possible developer to come out with an ASIC miner?  SIA wants centralized ASIC mining, only they want to be in control.  Bitmain beat them to the punch, end of story.

OMG, and here I was thinking your banner was funny.  One MILLION OBELISK MINERS SOLD???!  You, sir, are clearly a shill for Bitmain, or off your meds, or your sense of satire is sublime.  Pick any two.

Yes, yes indeed.  It is torture.

Ah, okay.  So the current wallet/enigma platform is even *more* out of date, and presumably exposed to even more attack vectors, than your latest-greatest recently audited version.  Do I have that about right?

+1 for the audit.  But there is a clearly a lot of work remaining.

Excuse me, but the audit focused on your current wallet release, which definitely is "live".  That is stated pretty clearly in the first few pages of the report.

I applaud the audit, but how many people actually read it?  Stand out items:  no mathematical analysis performed on involved cryptographic algorithms and methods (outside the scope of the audit); Cloaking transactions with few cloakers can be traced, both sender and receiver; reliance on out of date bitcoin and Tor code; random number generator doesn't really work for enigma transactions; source code analysis found multiple instances of reliance out out-of-date and unsafe methods, transaction history stored in an unencrypted format.  Compromise of Anonymity is flagged as a current "high" severity risk factor on cloak transactions with, say, three cloakers.  It is susceptible to a DLL preload attack; page 17 describes the issues resulting from using old and out of date Bitcoin code base; page 20 addresses how the Tor code is out of date and vulnerable to a list of exploits; page 21 several functions found in the source code which leave Cloak vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks.  You can't back up the wallet using the currently accepted best practice of using a seed phrase.  I'll stop there.  To the people that are saying "wow!" I ask again:  did you read the audit report?

The Cloak team replies to a number of these identified shortcomings by simply stating that in the future an upgrade of the wallet software will address these issues.  I hope so.

+1 for the audit, but it seems there is still quite a bit of work to be done to make this world class.

I've done this for a long while and it works well for me, but I expect others will disagree.  I use one PSU, typically an ATX to supply power to the motherboard, SSD is plugged into motherboard, and maybe the same ATX PSU powers one or two GPU cards.  Then I use a server PSU to supply power to the remaining GPUs -- both the riser and the card itself.  When I need to turn off or on, I turn on server PSU first, then ATX; when turning off, I power down ATX first, then the server PSU and yes I do that manually.  Server PSUs are cheaper.  This way both PSUs never go beyond about 50% 60% of their rated limit, which means they should be running more efficiently.

Weiss and his father performed independent financial analyses on banks for many years.  They were conservative in their appraisals, and by that I mean that didn't count squishy items like "goodwill" for very much.  They published their own "Weiss ratings" for thousands of banks.  You could check on any single bank you were interested in, or subscribe to their service.  They sold the business but I guess the son still speaks on behalf of the business.  It was a legit business so this interests me.

It was no glitch, they were available.  They made some announcement about re-opening sales on the hour to defeat resellers from hoarding the units.

I agree with Poop135:  first, disable Crossfire and Ulps in the registry.  Then make sure you are on Windows 10 Fall creator's update (build 1709, not 1507, not 1511, not 1603).

And do visit vegaminingblog by CircusDad if you haven't already.  Also, try disabling the --fastjobswitch option and see if the card runs stable.

Hi Phil, I put windows on the Onda B250 you sent me this past Sunday.  I played around a lot changing bios settings, got a black and then a grey screen.  I was connected to an Nvidia card, not to the internal GPU.  I was also connected to the network.  I ended up hitting the clear CMOS button by the 2 USB ports.  That at least got me to the screen where I could enter the bios settings again.  This time I think I only changed PCIe speeds from max to Gen1.  Rebooted, loaded windows from a USB stick, install went fine.   I'll check over the weekend, but I am pretty sure I did not enable the 4G option, which you have to do on Asus Z270 boards.  Can check all the other settings as well and I will report back.

But bottom line, same exact board and Windows is running fine.  For memory I used the G.Skills stick that either you or someone else on here posted the link to NewEgg.

That is a very nice board and ASUS has a very fair RMA policy.  The Asus Z370 is now out and was on sale at NewEgg a week or so ago.

Can you even mine SIGT anymore on any pool?

These enclosed builds have very good temps with the Delta fans.  I've built some Rosewill L-4500s and temps are not a problem with good air flow.

Yes, I am using 2.2.4.  Something about an illegal instruction I think, that flashes and repeats in a yellow color very quickly.  I'll try and screenshot it later. -i set to 19 in the hopes that might help.  To be clear, I connect, it mines fine for an hour or so or more and then crashes out.  1080 Ti cards TDP set to 60%, so not pushing the cards anywhere close to the red zone.

Same rig will mine away on EWBF for days and days without issue.

Yes, I agree with the above, I am tired of exchanges and their fees.  And I don't think it is answer for SIA developers to say 'we have not been in touch with Poloniex'.  I've been waiting for two botched withdrawals of SIA from Polo to get fixed since December.  I wrote to Polo support in December, I'm still waiting on a reply.  Obviously, they don't give a crap about me, but I would think the SIA dev team would have more luck putting some pressure on Polo.  But yes, these centralized exchanges that pop up/disappear/disable withdrawals/don't reply to support tickets, I'm tired of it.