a) used for a few coins but stopped due to several usability issues
b) never used
c) my current favorite, mining several coins there now
d) like it a lot... mined mostly dash & dcr there with good success

Here is the full list for Nano S:

https://ledger.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005304449-Which-altcoins-and-tokens-are-supported-by-the-Ledger-products-

This page also links to all the ERC-20 tokens it supports through MEW.

Unfortunately, I guess I am just hodling the wrong coins as only a few of mine are on this list.  Hoping they will add coins like DCR, ADA, XVG, IOTA, etc soon but until then i will look into Exodus/Eden.

Wow! Total Crypto market value just hit an all-time high... on 2nd day of the year! Now at $665 billion!  Helped a lot by ETH pushing $900 but almost everything in the green at this point!  

Meanwhile, ETHash is back in dominance mining wise (at least for my 470's). 4 of the top 5 are now ETHash with Vivo being the lone exception.

I like my Nano S a lot but my biggest problem is that is simply does not support enough altcoins... well, at least not a lot that I have $ tied up in... but there is really no hardware wallet that will do that so I will check out Exodus & Eden.  Coins that have exploded recently like DCR, ADA, XVG, IOTA, etc really need to have a better solution so hopefully Ledger will start supporting some of those soon.

You read my mind Vapour... I could have just waited until early Jan when a lot of these GPUs are SUPPOSED to come back in stock... but then I would have to wait over a year for the tax write off and I really need that this year lol.

In all fairness though, the OP hits a good point but it's only part of the equation. I suspect a good chunk of the shortage is coming from new miners... those who missed the Q1 explosion but are now keenly aware of this 2nd one that started in Nov.  Still, I simply cannot comprehend how AMD especially has completely missed the boat on demand, especially for Vega!  It's bad enough they has sever shortages around the time frame the 570/580s were released, but did they learn nothing from that debacle?!?!  They are literally leaving multi-millions in revenue on the table that they could have recognized in Q4 and given their stock a huge bump. But instead, their demand forecasters completely missed it yet again lol! Not sure what they are paying those morons but whatever it is it is way too much. I suspect some heads are gonna roll (or already have) over this. It's simply inexcusable... 2 severe shortages in the same calendar year!  Meanwhile, gamers are seriously hating on us miners... but wtf are we supposed to do lol? Leave money on the table like those myopic dolts over at AMD? I think not!

OK... so some valid points here but I need to correct a few mis-statements.

Yes, the wallet issues has mostly been fixed and DDOS attacks died down for the moment. But, you also need to be aware that there are some bad players how heavily influence this coin. That is mainly why i dumped about half of my earnings a few months back. Right now at 5 cents this is insanely profitable to mine but this coin is probably a bit more risky than others due to said influence of criminal element.

Not sure about the realistic minimum to get in now... like i said, my 50TB have been earning about $80-$90/week at 5 cents per coin, but this is not necessarily proportionate downward (or upward for that matter). Meaning, if you only throw 10TB onto the network, not sure you can realistically expect even $18/week because of the way this kind of mining works. Therefore, I would recommend at least 20-30TB to start but more if possible. a few days ago you could get 8TB for $150, and that's about the best deal I've seen on HDDs.

The thing you need to understand about burst is this... you will make most of your money off hitting blocks, and to hit blocks semi-consistently, you probably will need at least 30TB but better to have 40-50TB+.  Case in point... in Dec, I hit 7 blocks... 4 outright winners (about 1000 burst each) and 3 that were what I consider "shared" winners (about 500 burst each). So, a total of about 5,500 burst ($280) from winning blocks. The rest of my rewards for the entire month was only 1750 burst ($88). These come from the shared portion of blocks that another person in your pool won.  So, 75% of my earnings came from hitting blocks. My assumption is that if you go in with say 10TB, you may not hit any blocks at all because that it comparatively a very small % of what many other miners are doing. Just something to think about when getting into this.

To the next point of correction... spin speed is actually important although granted, yes, the 5400RPM seagate externals do work just fine as that is mostly what I have currently. However, if you can get 7200RPM drives for similar costs (or a little more), it would absolutely be well worth it. 

This is because there are 2 major aspects to successful burst mining. Total capacity, and speed of that capacity. The speed part it controlled by 3 contributing factors:

1- Plot type (highest influence): there are 2 types of plots in burst... regular and optimized. Regular are easier and much quicker to plot, but they are also considerably slower to "mine". What this means is that if you have 50TB of regular plots, they will probably mine at about 50MB/sec. By contrast, Optimized plots, with all else being equal, would probably mine closer to 80MB/sec.  So, if you and another person in your pool found the same block... you with regular and them with optimized, they would almost always win that block. I made the mistake early on of mining with mostly regular blocks and probably lost over $1,000 because of it.  Writing optimized blocks is more difficult and time consuming but well worth it in the end.

2- Data connection type (2nd highest influence): This is one that I learned from Lee on his IMineBlocks youtube channel.  Clearly, the external drives need to be plugged into a USB3 port. However, if you're going to go to 50TB, you will obviously need to expand your ports.  My first attempt at this was to just buy a typical 1:5 or 1:7 USB3 expander (meaning USB3 to USB3). I thought this worked ok but then I learned that a PCIe slot to USB3 expansion card works much better. Indeed, in my current setup, i have 9 drives on these PCIe expanders and they are about 30% faster than the USB to USB expanders. They only cost about $25 so this is another no-brainer. Because again, if you are competing with another miner for a block that extra 30% speed will make a huge difference.

3- Drive speed (moderate influence): This one is a bit harder to define, but as I said above, it does matter. The trick is the cost factor. If you can get a 7200RPM drive for the same or maybe up to 10% more, it is well worth it. I have 1 internal 7200RPM drive and that things mines at about 95MB/sec, while most of my 5400RPM externals are around 80-85MB/sec.  a decent advantage but again, speed is only 1 of the factors, so if that 7200 costs you too much more to the effect that you are sacrificing capacity... due to the this, it's a bit difficult to say where the cutover point is.

But bottom line, if you take care of #1 & #2, you should do quite fine and not have to worry about #3.

Oh and about electricity... contrary to the post above, you do NOT need cheep electricity to be profitable in this. These drives only consume a small % of watts compared to GPUs and they are not even spinning most of the time. The elec cost is so minimal that I don't really even factor it into my ROI calcs.

Absolutely NOT true!  I have been mining burst for a little over a year and have had about 50TB online for at least the last 6 months. I have already cashed out about 3x the cost of the HDDs i bought for this, and still holding about half of what I have mined to date.  So, even before this recent spike in price, it was absolutely profitable... and now it's been hovering around 5 cents, which is insane and actually one of the most profitable coins to mine during the last 2 weeks!

My 50TB have been earning about $90/week. In doing some quick match, I figured the current ROI timing is only about 8-9 weeks for a $150 8TB drive. That is insanely good, so I ordered 50TB more and am currently plotting them to get them up and running ASAP.

So, this has me very curious about how much rig wattage my house can take. I have 4 rx 470 rigs pulling between 700-900 watts each in 4 different rooms but i am building a Vega rig to double up in 1 room... it will only have 3 Vega 56's to start so not horribly worried about total wattage in that room, at least not yet.

The thing is, I have no idea about electricity capabilities... are there any general guidelines to go by?  My house is about 13 years old, 1700 SF, 2 story.  Like, how much wattage per outlet? per breaker? per house?  I probably need to hire an electrician for consulting as I would really like to add a 5x Vega and 6x 1070ti rig to my existing setup.  But, any general tips would be appreciated.

For those running Vega rigs (preferably with 56's), I wanted to ask your recommendations on settings.

I have built my 5th rig and will be firing it up shortly to install windows. I only have 3 Vega 56's (2 Gigabyte and 1 MSI - all original blower/ref models), but want to get them mining CryptoNote while i wait for more Vega's to come available.

My question is this... aside from any bios mods (which i don't want to try quite yet), what are the recommended settings (clock, core, etc) for optimizing these things (best hash per watt ratio)?

Also, do the most current AMD drivers work well or is there a previous version that is better?

I tend to think '18 will be a good year for mining and crypto in general... maybe not to the degree of increases we saw in '17 but after all, many coins enjoyed 100x explosions this year so very hard to duplicate that.  I don't think we will see a sustained slump... maybe your various corrections after big rising periods... but one major thing crypto did in '17 was show its resiliency!  So many things happened that could have severely hurt the market (China crackdown, hacks, forks, etc), but for every dip, BTC and most alts came back even stronger!

One cheap alt i bought into lately in KIN... that's the native token used by the KIK messenger app. For a long time it was hovering at 1/100th of a penny per coin but is starting what will likely be a nice upward trend. Seems to me that with such a huge user base, this coin is likely to enjoy huge gains in '18 but time will tell.  Also looking into BitBean a bit, which is a POS coin. I originally bought in cuz it was cheap (before I knew it was POS) but it looks like it pays out about 4-5% per month if staking, so need to look into that more.

Probably the other big good thing going right now that maybe not everyone knows about is BURST. I have actually been very critical of it most of the year... mainly due to some bad players that heavily influence that community... but this recent price bump (up to .075 at one point but now seems pretty stable at .05) has gotten me re-invigorated.  if it even holds 5 cents it will be very profitable. I had about 60TB mining it but just got 50TB more in HDDs.  The one crappy thing is that it takes forever to properly plot those HDDs. Took me almost 3 days to plot my first new 8TB drive. But, even at the 5 cent mark, it's about 2-3 months to fully ROI cost of 8 or 6 TB drives, so to me, really a no-brainer.

Good luck to everyone in the new year!

it does take some testing and patience to find the right mix for your rigs for sure. I was very lucky to get most of my rigs built back when MSI 470 4GB gaming GPUs were readily available for under $200. Now is a much dicier proposition due to severe shortages of most models/types of GPUs.

One thing i will mention is that there are many seasoned miners that avoid the MSI Armor series at all costs. The consensus is that while almost all other MSI cards are great for mining, the Armor line does not match up, not even for the slightly cheaper price say vs their gaming model.  This is further proven out by the fact that those Armor cards always seem to be among the last in stock when the GPU supply chain has completely gone under.

Anyway, I also thing Armor come in 4GB max, and at this point, i would recommend not buying any more 4GB cards for mining. Much better to go at least 8GB, even if you are sticking with 570/580's. Much better for future proofing.

btw... anyone with a Vega rig using Claymore CryptoNote miner?  if so, what kind of hashrates are your getting?  I know that some stack-XMR can supposedly get close to 2k per Vega after tweaking but hoping that this version of Claymore is close to that as I have had some issues trying to use those stack packages in the past.  if it's close, i will just stick with this miner to use on a 3x Vega 56 rig i am building this weekend.

Thanks all for the tips... i hadn't even realized these were dual slot power, and I am having trouble enough figuring out how Im gonna get 4-5 Vega's on 1 rig for just that reason... so, don't really wanna repeat that if at all possible.

Out of curiosity, you mention MSI, ASUS & Zotac... but but what about EVGA?  any thoughts on their 1070ti's?

Thanks a ton for that tip! even though my GPU 0 was showing exactly the same MB available as other 5 GPUs I still gave your method a shot.  on startup, all were at -h value auto of 892, so I lowered GPU 0 to 812 as a test and it worked immediately!  Got that card up to 672 (from 120)!  I may play with it and inch up a bit but that's already a huge improvement! Now i will make that same change to my other rigs! Thanks again! Really appreciate it!

Phil and others with 10 series GTX rigs and any familiarity with 1070ti's specifically... I am looking to get a build going and have narrowed it down to 1070ti's at least 4 and maybe up to 6 eventually.  I liked the EVGA Black edition for about $470 but it's out of stock everywhere, so I started looking at the various MSI models as I have had great luck with their 470's.

Looks like they have 3 main models...

1- Gaming (very similar look (red-black) to the 470 gaming)
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814137254

2- DUKE (3-fan model)
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814137258

3- Titanium (dual fan silver and black model)
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814137255

I am leaning towards the Titanium and could get 2 of those on newegg and 2 elsewhere for avg cost of about $485. Price is very similar for all 3 but availability a bit of an issue on the Gaming model as newegg is out of stock and I plan to pay with BTC for at least half this order.

Anyone have any recommendations among these 3 for mining purposes? I am still trying to get used to the vast array of different models available on the GTX side lol.

yeah... thanks, but guessing is exactly what i do NOT want to do with an $800 GPU lol.  I have a ticket open with Sapphire support to see what they recommend. I assume that is why they included the adapter but as I said, I am not really keen on risking blowing up $800 on even an educated guess ;-)

Firstly, thanks to Claymore for the improvements here! On most of my rx 470 4GB cards, I am seeing about a 3-4% increase in hash-rate!

However, I was hoping v11 would also alleviate an issue I've been seeing since starting to use v10.2 a while ago.  For some reason, GPU 0 on all 4 of my rigs acts very strangely... most of the time hashing well below the others... fluctuating between 0 and 450, while the other 5 are right at the 700 mark.  Now, if this were only on 1 rig I would think the GPU is going bad, but since it is the exact same GPU slot 0 on all 4 rigs, it is more likely some kind of setting that i need to tweak.

Has anyone else noticed this on their rigs?  If so, any suggestions on how to fix it?

FYI: after just upgrading all 4 rigs to v11.0, GPUs 1-5 are hashing better by about 3-4% but GPU 0 is still bad on all 4. Although, it doesn't seem to be fluctuating as much... pretty much stuck at 232 on 3 rigs and weirdly, 120 on the 4th.

Any help resolving this would be much appreciated!

Yeah... the 2 big increases for mineable coins the last 1-2 days are ZCL & SUMO.  Certainly makes me wish i had my GTX rig build already but I just now started building my Vega rig, even though I only have 3 of them to install in it lol.  I moved 3 of my 4 rx470 rigs over to SUMO about 24 hours ago when it was at $5 and it's already around $10 now. of course, diff is going up big time but it's still by far the most profitable coin currently to mine with 470's, and Vega's even more so once I get that rig up and running.

Speaking of the Vega's... I have a question for those of you who have already built Vega rigs...

What exactly is the requirement for power on these things? Meaning, aside from the riser, what exactly do i need to plug into the 2 power ports on the top of the GPU?  Here's my situation specifics:

- EVGA 1000w G2 PSU - comes with 4 8pin (PSU side) to 6+2pin (GPU side) cables and 2 8pin to 6+2pin & 6pin cables.

Clearly, I do not want to you 2 PSU ports and 2 of of the single 6+2's for each GPU since that would limit me to 3 total GPUs on this rig.

I assume I can make use of the 2 double pronged cables, but have a question about that since 1 is only 6pins. My Gigabyt2 Vega 56 came with a 8pin male to 2 6pin female adapter.  Therefore, can I just plug 1 of this adapter's 6pin female into the power cable's 6pin male, and then subsequently use that 1 cable with adapter (now has a 6+2 from main power cable and and 8pin from the adapter) to power a single GPU with 1 PSU cable?

If so, this will solve the issue for 2 GPUs, and then for now, since I only have 3 Vega's, I can double up the PSU cables for the 3rd without any issues, correct?  This would still limit me to 4 total Vega's on this rig but Im assuming I can try to get extra PSU cables/adapters towards the end state of hopefully 5 Vega's.

Any suggestions on this would be most welcome!

Yeah... to be clear, I WOULD have given Craptopia another chance IF they would have done the right thing and at least offered my partial compensation for the losses I incurred due to their bad security. But the fact that they didn't offer me anything and portrayed a very callous attitude through the entire matter... making false assertions and trying to put all the blame on me, etc... that's when i said enough is enough. So, I take every chance I can get to blast those MFers and make sure everyone knows about it, in hopes that it will eventually cost them more in lost customers than what they should have returned to me ;-)