I only heard of https://digibytegaming.com but I have zero experience with it.

Safe investments is pretty much an oxymoron, especially in crypto.

Just because a project is big, throwing money at it is pretty much just gambling and not really investing.

EVGA Pascal owners might want to take a look at this: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/58hnzb/word_of_warning_the_evga_1080_blackscreenfan_bug/

It will get worse. Much, much worse. 

I always liked this one.

Happy Birthday Woodcoin!

Cryptonator seems to have a website version as well but I don't know anything about it.

I did a quick search and I found the one I used a long time ago: http://www.countmycrypto.com.

And then there's https://www.cryptocompare.com/portfolio and https://cryptfolio.com but I don't know any of them.

You got my attention. Any plans on a release of some sorts?

I'm sure others will come and give you some sites but I don't use any.

But, on mobile I do use Blockfolio (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blockfolio.blockfolio&hl=en) which does the same and it's great.

70°C is nothing to worry about.

I think I got it though. Notice the discoloration only happens where the thermal pad makes contact. Some thermal pads have some sort of oily thermal fluid soaked into them. I think some of them got pushed out which caused the discoloration.

Here's a quick example of a similar situation:



These are non conductive so I wouldn't worry about it.

Interesting idea. What comes to mind first is that it would make PoW mining very sporadic. Essentially each PoW group would have to wait a lot until they can work again.


I'm not sure what this method does better than having the same PoW methods running in parallel though.

If there's only ever one algo that will be accepted for the next block that means the difficulty retarget is also tied to that algo and can essentially get stuck.
For example, let's say there's a massive ASIC pool which gets taken down due to DDoS or something. Then there comes a block that can only be solved with this ASIC friendly algo.
What will happen is the network will slow down because it has to wait for the next block to be solved with a difficulty that cannot be changed until the block is found - however long that might take.

But if you have multiple algos running in parallel, in the same example above the chain would still be moving without the ASIC algo which means the difficulty retarget could do its job and reduce the ASIC algo's difficulty without having to wait for an ASIC block being found so that small ASIC miners could keep the ASIC chain moving.

Of course, you'd need a limitation on how many consecutive blocks are accepted by the same algorithm (has to be a low number, like let's say 5). Some coins are already doing it afaik.
When the big ASIC pool wakes up to a low ASIC difficulty they can only flashmine 5 blocks before having to wait for another algo to find a block.
But they might not even find 5 blocks even with a very low difficulty since the difficulty retarget can be very very agressive since it can't get stuck. You can even set the difficulty to near infinite for an algo if it's solving blocks too fast and still be fine because it can be taken back down.

All this means that you can balance each block's block generation rate more precisely and you don't have to wait for any algo.

Seems like a VRM. They can handle higher themps than let's say the GPU chip or the memory chips but they also get quite a bit hotter.

Those rarely have built in temperature sensors (you can check with GPU-Z) so I'd suggest that you pickup a cheap IR temp gun and measure their temperature full load. Note that they will be hotter in the middle.

It might surprise you how hot they can get especially if you overclock. If they are too hot I'd reseat the thermal pads or even buy some new, bit wider thermal pads (they're cheap) and replace them.


I used to have some Asus GTX 780 Ti cards which didn't gave thermal pads by default but had a temp sensor somewhere near the VRMs and they were reporting close to a 100°C if I remember correctly - while the core itself was 65°C.

So I picked up a couple of cheap thermal pads and put them in and the temps were back down to about 80°C .

Let's do some math...

The PoW is supposed to end in roughly 208 days. In that period 1.65 million coins will get distributed.

Realistically those numbers are close to being halved because of PoS.

And then there's a 20 million premine.

Now I'm not a mathematician but by my calculations this coin is just another blatant ICO scam with some useless PoW period bolted onto it, clearly without putting any thoughts into the numbers.

Hey, try these:

addnode=74.118.192.18:44100
addnode=41.50.96.101:44100
addnode=71.113.173.55:44100
addnode=78.90.154.233:2445
addnode=92.37.52.165:64206
addnode=2.122.0.94:44100
addnode=216.19.181.63:45499
addnode=85.23.68.122:54907
addnode=197.245.94.219:63347
addnode=217.21.17.8:44100

These are all 1.0.0 nodes.

PoW rewards are insignificant compared to the premine/airdrop (premine equals about 462 days worth of PoW mining) so I think launching PoW before the airdrop is fine. Everything else though...

That is a massive premine. Can you shed some light on the exact distribution of how you're going to handle it?

ERROR: AcceptBlock() : missing bonus block reward tx
ERROR: ProcessBlock() : AcceptBlock FAILED
Misbehaving: 45.42.140.51:13787 (0 -> 100) DISCONNECTING


Apparently my wallet gets stuck because of the first bonus block. I presume you mined the first bonus block which is not getting through the network? I'm not sure.

Doesn't work for me for some reason. Syncs until block #10 then disconnects.

Cudaminer can mine LTC (Scrypt) but as I said it's ASIC territory. But Cudaminer is kind of old, you might want to try Ccminer but I'm not sure it will work.

What you want to do is mine something else that's not ASIC dominated.

Mine Ethereum or LBRY or basically anything and if you want, trade those coins into LTC.

There are dozens of different hashing algorithms that coins use. The most popular ones use SHA256, Scrypt, X11 and a few more has ASICs available that are super efficient at what they do. LTC uses Scrypt.

And then, GPUs are much better suited for hasing algorithms compared to CPUs. As in, they are much, much more effiecient to the point that you're wasting electricity trying to compete with them.
There are a couple of exceptions though, but either way CPU mining is pretty pointless (unless you own a botnet which is another story).

Even top of the line modern CPUs would need more than a few years to amke their initial price back (ROI).

In essence, you don't want to mine any ASIC coins with CPUs and GPUs.

GPU mining is fine though, but you'd need a miner that is optimized for whatever cards you have and while I know nothing about the cards you have, I'm pretty sure there isn't a single miner optimized for that card (or even for any Quadro cards). You can still probably use a generic miner but I wouldn't expect much - if anything at all.

RAM is only related in a few algorithms if you have a bunch of cards in one system. But you can get around it with more swapfile (in windows at least).