Generally speaking, this version right here is considered by some (such as myself) to be the most efficient. SP_'s versions are a wee bit faster for some algorithms, but end up producing more invalid hashes or rejects, which then results in overall worse returns.

SP does have some private versions for sale, I think there's multiple posts about it in just about every page on the linked thread. Those might be worth it if you're into that sort of thing, and if you have enough hash power to really make up for the expense...

I would add that I also would prefer a 6h or even daily payout cycle. I don't think that anyone needs their coins so badly that they can't wait for a day tops to get their dumplings 

On the fees: I was one of the 1st users on the pool (actually, 1st user along with Epsy?). I very specifically requested a high fee to be set when Epsy was just getting the pool started. The rationale is that I mine at Yiimp because it is a very convenient vehicle to supporting the developer behind it, and as far as I recall, Epsy had no intentions of running a pool for the masses, since that also carries a bit more responsibility, more babysitting, etc.
It does happen that the masses have shown up, so there's that... 

Still, and just thinking from a practical standpoint: With Yiimp showing above average efficiency, even with above average fees, looks to be that the end result is better payouts for the miners. Maybe a rare win-win situation? 

I find it remarkable that 64% of Airdrop recipients are not staking/voting. 
Wonder what will be the ultimate % of those that never get claimed (seeds lost, etc).

Yes. I'd say Yiimp had a particularly good couple of days there.
May it have many more!  

Edit: As a bit of a side note, I've always gotten a feel that smaller pools have better efficiency (and thus slightly better payouts). I don't have any significant numbers to back this reasoning, but anyhow, generally speaking, I always tend to point my hashrate at a small or small'ish pool.

 


I was referring to the numbers that antantti posted, as I understand he's mining on Yiimp. You are comparing your returns (from a large pool with low variance), with his returns (from a small pool with high variance), right? So not a sensible comparison, was my point...

@Vaccomondus:
Small pool, big variance. It get's closer to the experience of mining solo. Some days you get a lot, some days you get just a little. You'd need to compare earnings over much larger periods to read any sort of reasonable average of daily returns...

I'm one of the folks that got in touch with the Decred team about somehow rewarding the work that tpruvot did.
 
@_ingsoc:
I've been meaning to respond to your PM on this matter, but traveling right now, so this is just a quick stop by to say that I'm roughly in the same spot as Pallas. I understand the "due process" that's been laid out, as well as the RFP system, and that awarding bounties opens up the door for a flood of people coming up with similar claims (bounty me for this, me for that, and so on).

But at the end of the day, a native miner for one of the only two significant platforms, is absolutely critical at launch time. Not a month or two later, following the natural course of all the RFP formalities. Tpruvot delivered this, and he's here for the community, reward or no reward. As  just "one guy, one community member", I personally donated a few coins and did some mining time for Tpruvot. I also mine at his pool, perfectly happy to pay the above-average-fee as yet another form of donating.

Given the importance of having an inclusive mining community, I'd say that the Decred team should lead by example here. A personal (in other words, unofficial) donation by the developers would be more than adequate. In my mind, it's really not about the money, it's about not letting "the process" get in the way of fairness at such a critical time.

Anyhow, apologies for extending this topic here. I'll followup via appropriate channels when I get a chance.

I am pretty sure he was referring to male strippers.  Does it make a difference?

My ignore list just got bumped, yay! 
Friendly reminder: please don't quote the trolls.

Good to see Monero back at a saner price. I seem to recall that most of our volume, historically, was around this region (if not a tad higher). The rather obvious downside is, my buying power just went down (in units of Monero)... 

If it's really cudaminer that you are looking for:
https://github.com/cbuchner1/CudaMiner

Edit:
I did find some old exe's with tweaked versions of mine from long ago (not necessarily any better than the latest git version).
I don't recall which compute levels I included in each compile, so here you go with both binaries I had:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uszg98u4fwjqq7b/myaminer_08-May-15.zip?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v3mfuhmcne0q78c/myaminer_09-May-15.zip?dl=0

Files are renamed just as that's how I avoid mixing my lame tweaking attempts from the original binaries, but the original ones I did not locate. You can just rename them and otherwise use just as the original cudaminer.

If I may contribute with some criticism:
The initial sponsor (c0) got a certain number of coins rewarded for the bring up work. These coins were valuated at much less than the current exchange rate. In practice, this then means that (on paper), the initial work was paid at a much higher rate than initially estimated.
Adding to this, there are just a handful of mined coins available at this stage, causing a rather obvious valuation bubble (to me, though I understand that others might disagree).

With the above in mind:
I'd ask c0 to place some funds on the market. No dumping is necessary, but some gradual sell orders would allow others to buy in, without further inflating the price at such an early stage. In my view, holding on to the entire sponsor premine for a good while, stands to hurt this project in the long term, while in contrast, putting some of those funds on the market, facilitates a more balanced distribution window for those entering just now.

Current scarcity is influenced by what c0 holds, as much as all of the airdrop participants combined.
Think about it for a moment. Then place your orders.

Note: This post might drive some mixed reactions, so I guess I should state again: I'm locked in with all of my airdrop coins for voting, along with a couple blocks I managed to scoop after launch. I firmly believe that this project has some substantial technical merit to begin with, and so I hope it evolves to greater adoption and many future achievements. Cheers!

/queue in the p&d'ers and troll responses...

The information might be a bit misleading there @badam.
Myself for example: My airdrop coins, along with 2 blocks that I was lucky to solo mine early, are all locked in with voting tickets. I imagine that my coins would be part of spent in your stats above, but in practice they're not going anywhere, anytime soon. I imagine that I'm not alone in locking the airdrop into voting tickets.

@PVmining 

@Epsylon3: Decred donation incoming as soon as my coins unlock by voting (which I learned too late might easily take a month  ). Nah, no need to wait that long, whatever I get on Supernova for a few days will be going your way. Decred addy?

Super Missive gents. A big thank you to all Core contributors, both past and present ones!

Good point @jambo110, much better it is to help folks so that they get through any hurdles in controlling their wallets/funds themselves.
Cheers!  

@Gunther: you need to get out more buddy. It had been a while since I last used the ignore button, thanks for that! 

Folks having trouble to get their airdrop coins moved around:

If inclined to trust me with your funds, and accepting a ~4.5% fee, PM me with your seed words and a destination decred address (for example: a deposit address at Bleutrade). I'll setup a local wallet, import the seed, and move the funds over for you (a round 270 DRC). I'd do this for a 0 fee if not currently time constrained, there might be other trustworthy people willing to do the same.

Note: As soon as you share your seed words, any coins on that wallet will never be safe again! If you don't understand what this means, or if you have any doubts about trusting me with your funds, be safe, keep your data private, and I recommend that you wait for an easier wallet version, or find the patience to figure out any issues you're having with the current binaries.

Unrelated: The recent posts on this thread have me wondering that a lot of folks have been trigger happy at dumping their Airdrop coins early...  

Pools are up and running. I got a single solo block 

cpuminer-multi > decred branch

That's a slightly better comparison, but again, rejects are important to take into account.
If you scroll back a single page on this thread, you'll find a user reporting your (public?) quark doing 11% faster hashrate than tpruvot's, yet it also has 30% rejects doing solo, vs 0% on tpruvot's. So, for those conditions, your faster miner ends up being much slower.

I'm not even putting efficiency on the table, but for some miners, that's an even greater factor of importance. Personally, don't care for a 5% performance boost, at the expense of increasing 10% on power usage.

Side comment: You had my respect and admiration when you started off, making sensible contributions to the open ccminer community. Things have gone downhill ever since the pissing contests began, along with repeated calls for private version donations (with terms that I find unfair to those that actually buy said private versions)...
I do hope you figure out a better way to stay motivated and contributing.

--- apologies for the off topic ---

@FreeTrade,

Thanks for the clarification the other day about the wallet miner debug messages. I've been around long enough to start thinking that I know more than I really do, so apologies for the incorrect statement of fact about the miner behavior. Variance looks perfectly normal for me, I've had a day hitting just 2 blocks, and just last night I got lucky and hit 8! I'm on a single i7-4770.

One question for folks running the latest windows wallet: I'm not seeing my immature balance on the latest wallet update. Since all of my coins are in term deposits (minus some change), it's as if all of my balance disappeared. If I switch to the previous wallet version, the immature balance is there and it looks fine. Anyone else seeing the same?