me personally:  no.  never.

I don't trust sheep following sheep.  Take that as you may


About 6 months ago when whattomine was saying one thing or the other;  I was making a killing on other algos/coins.

People keep saying that you should be better off not buying till its rising;

But mining crypto is similar to purchasing crypto in many respects such as:

If you buy the equipment after the rise;  you do not profit from the rise.  This is key.   So; get used to mining during down times, to fully and actually benefit from the up times.
If you focus on solely one coin/algo, it can be rewarding, but mining only one coin can be a trap.
Long term algo stability (Pick an algo/plan and stick to it unless a better plan/algo develops right in front of you and will remain consistent) will almost always produce more in the long run then short term goals for quick profit.

If you are mining for a business; and pay a premium for power;  your business model is flat-out flawed.

Mining is about future profit; not about short term profit.  If you want short term, go to a casino or the exchanges.

You can still find GPU's for good prices, you just have to work on their time;  not your desire to be ASAP with acquiring them (which everyone seems impatient more and more as I get older).

your post does not make sense as a new reply to this topic.

What are you trying to say?

I dont know the specs or part number for that connector;  but reference online images for what the wire colors coming out are;  and you know what pins you can solder to, or add pigtails with PCIE plugs on them.

If you doubt which half of the pins is + and which half is -;  use an ohmmeter to check continuity to a board ground (use a capacitors polarity to find for instance).

garage door insulation adds panels that really make it tough to break in compared to a bare door;  but with a standard garage roolup door, you are as secure as the metal is thick.... keep it in mind.   At worst, making a false wall to block off the most of the garage opening until the day its needed to be removed...   if they do force the door open;  they reach a hard barrier.  you could use concrete bolts to bolt it down too. 

A nice secure metal air inlet vent on an exterior garage door (normal person door), and a roof vent should be easy to use for air management.  Might consider that as an option.   Watch the Linus Tech Tips "server room overhaul" on youtube to see what type of secure vent they used.... and give the concept.

I myself dont buy cases that are over lets say $120 each.

For building support frames in them, I tent to use a riveter, a drill, a hacksaw and some L or C channel aluminum edging.

With these building blocks you can make any design work for the most part.   Just avoid riveting into the sides of the case if you have extremely tight space requirements in your rack.

post to mark my interest in this thread.   Ive been absent, but want this on my feed.   Im sure ill have worthy comments in short time   But this one was necessary cause watching the topic doesn't add it to my recent replies list

IMHO OP wouldn't pay to begin with.

A solution was posted above; and met requirements; and was 100% open source.


Choosing a # of cpu cores to use (even what specific cores) can be done with the miner app's launch string itself.  At one point when I was mining xevan, I would have the process limited to all the free cores, and bound all the system processes that I could to two of the cores....   it seemed to work fine, but it took a long time to find out what setting to use (trial and error) to use the amount of cores in the forced mode I wanted.  Use the cpuminer --cpu-affinity flag, and start with 0x0 and work your way up watching core usage.

True;  but some credit; instead of no credit; seems to be a useful maneuver for stratum to do often;  especially with high diff coins.  It is a trade-off.

Most are easy to spot on the pool's algo page for the algo in question.... Just look at the difficulty and profitability compared to the bigger known coins.

I have been absent for a while... trying to make ends meet and do a lot of my own side projects.

Among a few things I have yet to reveal (big thanks still to a local member here);  I just received these fine populated cases a few days ago from my friend who runs an A/V company...  he just wanted the space.

https://imgur.com/a/qUWir

They both contain Digital Video Systems portable 16 channel video recorder/controller.....  Think events and jumbotrons, record, playback......... that about sums it up.

Both cases each had/have a system.   One was spare for parts (misc parts disconnected but 99% there), and the other was 100% connected and functioning....  Both still had the 8 drive SCSI raid arrays in them.   Massive beasts that sound like jet engines when you power up the main machine.  I plan to play with these a little more......  mighty cool tech for its day.

I have already stripped down one case to bare and begun configuring it to be a portable miner satellite unit.   100% self contained aside from power (unless I decide to build in a small generator).

I still need to source some more modules such as a rackmount hub, and some other odds and ends.

So far I plan to have this first one at home; and its constituents so far are:
Dell R5400 (WWAN router and acting router;  I plan to populate with probably 3x 960)
Rosewell "rackminer #1": A X58 i7-920 based watercooled system.  Good for 3-4 GPU.
"Oldskool GPU #1":  Another X58 i7-920 based watercooled system.  Good for 2-3 GPU (less airflow in case, was repurposed from the DVS Pentium2 board)

I have several machines in the works built from my scrap pile of parts....  I still have another DVS system I can dismantle to build another 2-3 gpu system for the case.

The second case will probably go right towards my first system I plan to build once I apply for a loan

Even in this down market;  I have a plan and a strategy that in my mind... can't fail.  It will only fail if the hardware itself becomes obsolete too quickly.... and with the way the Vega is looking;  looks like I am going to be ok for a while.


More TBA.   Sorry i've been absent

*edit* sorry for imgur link;  idk what the deal is with photobucket right now.

While this is true;  there are limitations to what you can do; lets say install a certain driver or whatever the case may be... granted; most of the issues are with actually using the machine as a workspace.

what port/algo?  My miners are online right now.

*edit* ahh, neoscrypt port does seem down.

send crackfoo/zpool a tweet about the outage.  He gets it a lot faster than the forum messages.

I am still not understanding what you are asking.

http://zpool.ca/?address= input the address you mine to in this page to view statistics.

taj coins is mined along with many others in the blake2s algo; you can use this as a payout coin.

c=TAJ in password;  TAJ address as username.  Don't forget to include the algo name you are mining in the password as well.  Remember you can mine any algo.

equihash.exe --server mine.zpool.ca --user %SIGTADDRESS% --pass c=SIGT,equihash --port 2142


This is how I would do it with EWBF.  I'm not sure what miner app you are using.

Yes;  C=SIGT to be payed in SIGT to a SIGT address =)

Congrats and happy anniversary =)


Well;  I myself am pointing out a way to get fully legitimate copies of W10.   If you happen to have the OEM licensing ability for win7, then this is a win-win for a pathway to legitimate windows 10

please elaborate, I do not understand your question.

if you are overclocked/underclocked;  could be why.

I am still getting free licensed W10.

Install 7;  Activate, Update all present system updates to sp1 and a little beyond.

take original W10 ISO on USB and run setup in win7;  choose upgrade.

when win10 finishes,  it is automatically activated.

I have set up about 15 systems in the last few months with this exact process.


FYI:
1) if you use a finnicky "activator" such as "autokms", it will fail somewhere along the line; possibly after it talks to the internet the first time.  A few people have found this out for me.

2) If you use the wrong version of windows 7 (one of those auto-activating hack install ISO's, the wrong version of 7 Ultimate (regkey), or something along those lines);  It will fail activation once online.


I found both of these out from errors others were having with my process.

I have personally confirmed it to work by using the 7 ultimate trial; an OEM licensing/activating tool (for dell, Acer, Compaq, Etc), and the same process above.  Worked like a champ.  I do this on OEM machines like thinkpads because it's their utility for licensing/activating Win7 XD.

remember;  hastap is probably only using your miner for a few minutes;  not a few hours....   those payouts are instant for the amount of mining you did;  not for a block reward.  This is the case most of the time for me.  YMMV.

the way I think hashtap work (from things I noticed), if you have an unstable or laggy internet connection;  you will see smaller hashtap payouts because your machine may or may not be responding quick enough to be considered as "continuing" hashrate, and you get a small bump in pay because it triggers payout to your device...

if you look at what the pool has done;  you will see there were no blocks found in that timeframe (most likely).

I used to think hashtap was not beneficial;  but honestly;  it does its job and is charging more than the pools last 24 hour rolling average mixed with the short term "luck" average.  When I see profitability is down or whatever the case may be, I was always able to correlate the profitability flux to the hashrate flux of the pool in the stats page.

right now;  I am unsure.

I haven't begun my journey into converting my rigs to run on linux.   It will be a tough decision to switch completely over, because I wont be able to benefit from optimized windows only releases.

I plan to make my rigs dual-bootable, and hopefully find a way to make the reboot OS choice done via a remote link instead of at the machines.   This itself is the biggest hurdle for me to overcome.   I would have to find a way to remotely change the boot loader boot order from within each os before its commanded to reboot remotely.