The usual consensus whenever this kind of threads pop up is that you'd very likely need to edit your BIOS.

You can't. Which is why ICOs are worse than gambling.

I think it's a grave mistake confusing trolls with legit criticism and denying feedback by instalocking your new thread after abandoning this one since October 21, 2016.

The "dev" is back with another thread but now with 2 seconds instead of 5 seconds transactions, deleted my comments then locked the thread.

It's nice but I feel like it's too little too late.

As I said earlier mining ZEC directly to BTC through nicehash was less profitable than the open source miners.

And there was no nicehash ZEC pool which would let miners mine ZEC directly (other than zcash.nicehash.com which was a terrible mess).

PS: also, while it's closed source with a fee (but can be used on all pools) EWBF_'s miner does 410 sol/s since December 7 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1707546.0).

Getting back to my previous comment about certain models having the same issue, I also used to have a bunch of Asus GTX 780 Ti cards that were designed in a way that their VRMs would go well above 100°C as they had absolutely no dissipation (just hid under the heatsink with no contact). I bought a few thermal pads and put it on them so that the pads connected them to the heatsink and the temps were decreased drastically.

Also, when I used to mine Ethereum I noticed the memory modules would go slightly above 100°C (GTX 970) even without overclocking while the GPU itself was about 60°C and I expect a lot of those cards will end up dying coming from miners who mined Eth for a long time or might even still mine it.

So my point is that probably each exact model of cards have an expected way of dying. And ebay is probably full of faulty cards that were already checked by someone experienced like OP and deemed FUBAR.

Cool.

Out of dozens of GPUs over the years I only ever had one particular model (GV-N75TOC-2GI) dying because it had weak VRMs. I think 5 out of six died withing months.
After the RMA repair process the same cards still work flawlessly.

New Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1318397

I can get brand new 2TB external HDDs for 0.097 BTC from basically any webshop.
WD Passport 2TB (the ones in your pics) are going for 0.139 BTC brand new.

Even with shipping costs, it's expensive for what they are - especially used.

Just some quick stats:

Sibcoin:
   Masternode count: 4361
   Current cost of a masternode: 1000 SIB (0.193 BTC)
   Estimated ROI: 840 days
   % of available supply held in masternodes: 33.15%
Dash:
   Masternode count: 4268 or 4300
   Current cost of a masternode: 1000 DASH (13.749 BTC)
   Estimated ROI: 3846 days
   % of available supply held in masternodes: 61.26%
Darknet:
   Masternode count: 1425
   Current cost of a masternode: 10.000 DNET (0.0946 BTC)
   Estimated ROI: 602 days
   % of available supply held in masternodes: 28.23%

What other coins have a lot of masternodes?

I never heard of that either and I have a few nvidia rigs. Though I use the onboard GPU if I ever need to plug in a monitor. But even before that I don't think I ever had that issue (win7).

Never even heard of this issue. What OS?

I don't know what you mean Spoetnik, I invested in about a dozen of ICO's after seeing how pretty the images were in their announcement threads and I made so much money that now I can afford two whole slices of pizza and I only had to invest 10 BTC and I didn't even had to waste time with 'escrows' (whatever that buzzword might mean). They're awesome and now I'm a pro trader and investor! /s

Roughly? Fuck all.

Couldn't find source so it's probably heavily premined, no mention of hashing algorithm only a minerd.exe and bat with the wallet so I assume it's scrypt or SHA256. Whatever the case might be CPU-mining any of them is just retarded.

It's probably not that easy to even guess it. And I guess there's a competition between pool owners so they won't say.

I'm not a pool owner, only had a few private pools but what I dare say is that it also depends a LOT on the options and tweaks from vardiff, stats, refresh rates, databases, etc. And the bigger you get the bigger issues you'll run into, or might even get sieged by DDoS attacks.

About a year and a half ago I bought a couple of HDD's for Burst then switched to Storj after a few months and those drives more than paid for themselves. I stopped HDD mining some time ago though as I needed the space.

I might get back into Storj with a few drives after I figure out how much bandwidth it requires.

For laptops it's definitely a nice option (but you kind of have to buy external HDDs).

- Have the first couple hundred blocks contain no rewards (or very slim rewards)
- Have a proper difficulty retargeting logic*
- Or mabye start the coin with higher than default difficulty from block 1 (advanced)

*But if you're going to use an ASIC friendly algo (SHA256, Scrypt, X11, etc) I recommend using more than just one PoW algo working in parallel (Joincoin, DigiByte, Aurora, etc, work like that, or you can just add PoS on top of PoW) because every difficulty retarget works based on the time between blocks but since ASICs are so fast, a single difficulty retarget will either overcompensate (difficulty gets way too high and blockchains slows down or stops for a long time) or just doesn't increase the difficulty high enough (eg. flash/instamining). Even with non-ASIC coins the result is the same if a big farm (or multipool) joins the coin then leaves when the difficulty goes up.
If you have more PoW algos, let's say Scrypt and Qubit, and let's say the Scrypt difficulty goes super high because of an ASIC farm mining for a few hours then leaving, everytime there's a Qubit block found, the now super high difficulty of the Scrypt PoW can be reduced because the difficulty retarget doesn't get stuck with the single PoW.

I'm a GPU miner but I'd advise not using an ASIC algo because way more people have GPUs than ASICs so distribution would somewhat better.

The RCoin wallet is there, just where I said it was:

https://rcoineu.com/RCoin.exe

But yeah, the link for the LIR wallet is dead.

By script do you mean PoW hashing algorithm, like sha256, scrypt, x11, etc?