I'm an EE for my day job. Circuit boards are made with epoxy resin, and that doesn't emit formaldehyde (methanal) when it cures; same with the epoxy encapsulation of ICs and such. Basically, this seems like FUD.

I already switched over to hashvault.pro because I hate "mining air". I prefer to support smaller pools where possible, but I prefer it even more that my hashpower actually accomplishes something.

Here ya go:

bminer -no-timestamps -uri stratum://t1dU7Gve41A3b4mxL7a3oVAnBLsF9kMgDgA.eleusis2:10000@us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333

Obviously change the ZEC address and worker name. This fixes difficulty at 10000, too (theoretically, anyway).

That's what I have! Me and @Set Ready Go exchanged several PMs about tweaks to the CPU.txt file and without his help I would still be hashing away at 360-380 H/s!

The results are in from the concurrently run comparison between hsrminer and ccminer KlausT v8.19 on the TZC pool at Altminer.net and this time hsrminer won. Average hashrate reported by ccminer was 1010 kH/s while hsrminer claimed 1230 kH/s, or about 22% more. The difference in earnings, however, were not quite as different, with ccminer earning 24.497 TZC while hsrminer brought in 27.264 TZC, or about 11% more.

So my results are similar, but not identical, to what @zorday found. Hsrminer is faster, but it also lies about just how fast it is.

I should also note that hsrminer is much more difficult to stabilize, especially with regards to GPU core overclocking, usually manifesting in a mysterious drop in hashrate of 10-20% after 1-3 hours of continuous operation. That did not occur during this test because I've dialed in the -i and -c settings on each my rigs, but it took a lot of iterations to get there.

Okay, comparison #3 started about 20 minutes ago concurrently mining ZEC on Flypool using a fixed difficulty of 10000 (by using the switch "-p 10000").

If you like watching paint dry then you will surely love to check on the status of the miners:

dstm: https://zcash.flypool.org/miners/t1aoQJwvJqYT32xHVpYezWBxKuxPSwaJB1h
bminer: https://zcash.flypool.org/miners/t1dU7Gve41A3b4mxL7a3oVAnBLsF9kMgDgA

I created these two addresses just for this test so they are starting from 0.

Holy frijoles, you are leaving me and my Ryzen in the dust! Guess I need to get Ryzen Master and see if I can catch up!

Thanks for the reply; that's what I figured, and this was the final straw to push me over to Hashvault. Sorry, edollar devs, but you really should have been more proactive at maintaining your pool and not letting the hashrate dwindle down to nearly nothing while Hashvault commands some 99% of the network.

Ah, so that's how they do it. I thought there might be some cross-checking of the block height with other pools, but a sudden change in found blocks - a heuristic approach - makes a lot of sense and doesn't rely on there being other pools.

FWIW, I gave you my one sendable merit for this; don't spend it all in one place! 



So true, and also network failures... they always seem to happen right after I go to sleep.

Yeah, I didn't write what I meant to write when I wrote that... 

What I meant was that some of the bigger pools - hashrefinery comes to mind - have some way of detecting a hard fork (maybe seeing two or more orphaned blocks in a row?) and then shut down that coin/port/whatever. Minimizing the damage, then, if not compensating anyone for shares lost to the hard fork itself.

I suspect you are trying to troll, but your command of English is too poor for your trolling to be effective.

But in case you aren't trolling, Cryptonote coins require much less energy to find block solutions and there is also little advantage in hashpower of GPUs over comparably priced CPUs, and often a considerable disadvantage when power use is factored in. For example, my Ryzen 5 1600 hashes Cryptonote at 440 H/s, uses an additional 55W to do so, and cost me $200US; in contrast, my RX 570 hashes at 720 H/s, uses 120W and cost me $250 (not that you can buy one for that price these days...), and let's not even consider my Nvidia GPUs - they deliver terrible relative performance on Cryptonote from both a power use and cost per H/s perspective.

Anyone else seeing on the main pool at pool.edollar.cash that there hasn't been a block found by either the pool nor the entire network in 12 hours? Did edollar hard fork and no one tell the devs about it? 

I was also testing Zergpool last week doing Neoscrypt and converting to BTC. At first the results were far better than anyone else, then 40% of my /confirmed/ BTC balance was taken back because of that same shitcoin fork (I guess my single GTX 1080 ended up mining that one for a greater percentage of time than you).

I will likely give Zergpool a second chance because the operator - who goes by pinpins here - seems like a decent enough guy, just in a bit over his head, and not charging a pool usage fee makes it difficult to cover the costs when your pool continues to mine a coin well after it hard forks.

I'm more inclined to buy more BTC right now, rather than spend it to buy anything else.

Firstly, you have to explicitly check both boxes for private and public networks if the Windows Firewall popup appears (usually only the first time a program is run from any given location). If you failed to check both boxes - just hit okay and continued - then the default action is to block public network access. Ergo, the wallet won't work.

Secondly, it took my wallet a couple hours just to make 1 stable connection, and it took over a day before it had more than 4 connections (and over 3 days to fully sync up with the blockchain). Personally, if I had tried running the wallet before I bought bitbeans I would not have bought them. Ain't nobody got 3 days to wait for a wallet to sync.

That said, I now have 2500 bitbeans and according to the wallet my average sprouting time varies between 220 and 320 days. So also keep that in mind when deciding how many bitbeans to buy, or even whether it is worth acquiring them in the first place. As expected, I would need about 10x more bitbeans to have a decent chance of sprouting once a month.

Aww, thanks, but no tips are necessary. I was going to build a 6x 1080 rig with these 2 1080s, but these were all I could buy before prices went full retard so I decided to use them to do a bunch of head-to-head comparisons of miners and pools while waiting to get 4 more.

Because of the comments @cryotoyes made about Luckpool not being the best choice for this test (or, really, the best choice of pool at all...) I'm going to repeat the comparison Yet Again, except mining ZEC on Flypool. It turned out that what @cryptoyes warned about occurred - that luck on a per-share basis, as well as variable difficulty, can skew the results enough to render them pointless.

In this case, the average hashrate reported on the pool side was 547 for bminer and 532 for dstm, or 2.8% higher for bminer. However, dstm earned slightly more ZEN, at 0.10776779 for dstm vs. 0.10643226 for bminer, of 1.25% more for dstm. Both of these metrics can't be true unless dstm got slightly more difficult shares and/or had slightly better luck at solving them.

Shush, you're going to jinx us!

I gave up on mining with either of my decent CPUs (340 and 440 H/s) and put my one RX 570 back on it (720 H/s), but even it only brings in about 3 DERO per day. I still feel this is very rich for a coin that isn't on a real exchange; I can bring in the same amount in USD terms mining UBQ or MUSIC with this GPU, both of which also have interesting use cases and are listed on Bittrex.

Looks like my payment went through, so thanks for the quick response!

Yes, I see that you changed this on the home page. However, I do have more than the new minimum of 0.0005 BTC for the Sunday payout, and by my reckoning it is 21:34 in Latvia right now. Do you manually perform the payouts, or are they automatic (I was assuming automatic)?

EDIT - and now I see a new update on the home page saying stocks.exchange is unresponsive and the payout threshold has increased to 0.0025, so I guess you are expecting people like me to mine on your site for another 5-7 days for a total of nearly 2 weeks before getting a payout?

I know, I know - the whole point to what I am doing with these two cards right now is co I can avoid underutilizing my one real mining rig (which is still not all that impressive on account of the GPU shortage - just 6x GTX 1060). As for luckpool, I was holding out some hope that I would eventually win a block myself (yet I scoff at playing the lottery... go figure).

But I do loathe scammers, and I especially loathe paying to be someone's beta tester. Check back through my posts to this thread for evidence of that... 



This sounds exceptionally useful. Something like TCPView except filtering out all of the traffic that isn't related to the miner and tallying up the results?