If I had to guess it's hated because it's:

 - heavily premined (being an airdrop) so funds are centralized;
 - newbies who doesn't know any better spam it everywhere;
 - it offers nothing new, in fact it has taken steps backwards from crypto fundamentals (i.e. initial coin distribution is unfair, funds are centralized, airdrops are not transparent).

And TOR is certainly nothing new, routing nodes via TOR has been around for years. For example Joincoin's first block was mined in 2014-08-11 and I believe it had built in TOR "anonimity" from the start.

About time to have a healthy competition for nvidia miners.

Features I would like to see:
 - intensity setting;
 - info verbosity or interval settings (hashrates are only reported roughly every 2 minutes);
 - benchmark mode.


But, it's quite fast, I get 21.4 Mh/s per 1080 Ti at 180 watts or 24.7 Mh/s at 300 watts (but it's only using ~270 watts at 98-99% GPU usage). Sadly, HSR is not very profitable at all.

Good luck guys!

On 1080 Ti's you really shouldn't plan on mining memory-heavy algos...

Looking interesting but the ASIC-friendly algo is too bad imo.

To bad most people ignore it. I know a few people who have lost more than a couple of Bitcoins to thier nonsense. A couple of them even tried to verify themselves but it was rejected. And some says that it takes weeks/months just to get an answer to a verification attempt.

There's a massive conflict of interest because Bittrex is pretty much incentivized to deny verifications so they can essentially steal people's funds. The fact that they didn1T have a grace period for people to withdraw funds before they enforce the new withdraw limits belongs on the top 5 list of the scammiest shit that has ever happened in crypto, right along with gox, cryptsy, josh garza, etc.

The whole situation is utterly ridiculous and I'm kind of shocked how ignored the issue is.

Every altcoin ever created was trying to dethrone Bitcoin and we have thousands of alts and none of them did it.

It's not as simple as you suggest it being to replace Bitcoin. And if Bitcoin was somehow replaced, it would open up a minefield because the replacement would surely be also replaced and that would be replaced as well throwing security out of the window completely. People love to use what's already working for them and hate replacing stuff that they know can and will be replaced just as well in the near future.


You're comment is completely loaded. You make it sound like there is a consensus on what to do; which there NEVER is.

Also, the "community" or more precisely the percieved community that's online and vocal on various forums is only a tiny spec of dust in the machine of Bitcoin. And it's getting annoying that this vocal (insignificant) minority believes they know better the direction Bitcoin should take for everyone else.

Well, watercooling is very expensive so it's mainly for gamers.

I would have just ignore the lack of tacho, you don't really need a PWM signal, %-based fan speed is based on voltage anyway, feedback is not critical.

I briefly experimented with putting high CFM Noctua fans on the heatsink (proof of concept on an 1080 G1 with 2 bigger fans instead of 3 smaller: https://i.imgur.com/1pESalU.png). With only a hackjob and hasted quick test the consensus is that it's significantly better at cooling than the default 3 small fans but with significantly more noise even at the same temps. It could be optimized, I'm sure but I haven't had the time to pursue that (to revive a couple of 1070s) and the AORUS cards are working perfectly fine.

What's the question or point?

They're stealing much more than gas;

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=463202.1900
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2073044.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2443801

That is if you want top priority. Why is that so hard to understand? If you want to ship a bag of shit across the world within days, that will cost you a lot as well.

I mean Eth is slowed down to a crawl because of a single game. That shows that any and all network will be slowed down/have the fees increased if it's heavily used. Sure, the combination of 1MB blocks and 10 minute block times are getting very slow these days, but it doesn't matter, even 1GB blocks could be filled with junk and we could have the same fees eventually. Amateurishly, cobbled together forks certainly aren't the answer.

Just familiarize yourself with fees (sat/kb) and time to expect the transactions to confirm (https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/) and waith for the solution everyone can agree on.


If you use a web wallet - or any other custodial wallets - you do NOT own your coins, the site with which you trust does because they have the private keys. If you use your own wallet, you can always finetune how much fees you would like to pay.


What privacy?
Energy cost is negligible even if it uses more than a dozen countries combined. We're talking about Bitcoin here and we're rushing towards cheaper and cheaper renewable electricity and if anything, Bitcoin's pushing that race as well.
As if banks would ever create a truly fair, decentralized and trustless blockchain... You have got to be either kidding be or be spectacularily naive. I mean you can get million times faster transactions than BTC with a centralized "blockchain" but that should be frowned upon by everyone. "self blockchain..."

And as I said, any real blockchain will have high fees if it's heavily used.

TL;DR: Some of you really need to re-evaluate why you're here and if you even understand the benefits of true cryptos like Bitcoin.

I have/had a bunch of Gigabyte 750Ti/970/1070/1080Ti cards. The fans on the 970s died within a year and the fans on the 1070s died within 6 months. Meanwhile, I have 750 Ti's with mostly working fans.

All these cards have crappy sleeve bearing fans. Except for the AORUS series, which is the flavor I have my 1080 Ti's in. The AORUS series have double ball bearing fans which are basically what every card should have; they're superior.

I have also contacted Gigabyte, trying to buy replacement stock fans but they do not sell any parts. But they replace it under warranty, but that might take weeks/months depending on your location.
So you can really only get replacement fans on ebay but they will die just as soon as your stock fans did. But if you send the card back for a warranty process and if they notice that you have replaced the fans, your wannanty will be void so in case the card dies, you have to put the original fans back.

In case you're going with ebay fans, you really only should look at how much amps the stock fans pull after checking yourself (for example 970 G1 - 0.20 amps, 1070 G1: 0.35 amps) and use fans that's equal or lower than that value (unless you want to power the fans straight from your PSU or a fan header). Some cards Gigabyte cards have different fans with different amps so better to check all three and most importantly, check the headers and only order what you can plug in without having to cut cables and replace headers.

TL;DR: only buy cards with double ball bearing fans or you're going to have a bad time.

As if that makes any difference at all. That excel spreadsheet coul still be filled mostly be their (or other people's) sockpuppet accounts. There's no way to know.

And existence of a white paper alone doesn't (shouldn't) make any difference at all, the contents of it might though.


Yes they are scams and you're giving platform to scams "just because it's free" ignoring crypto fundamentals and supporting centralized, premined scams like airdrops. They will own most of the coins, distribute some of it as they please (no fairness and transparency) and pump the price with people like you and cash out and repeat.



You can also buy (even batch buy) dozens of btctalk accounts and redeem airdrops as many times as you want. It's a terrible initial coin distribution method and shouldn't be taken anywhere near seriously.

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The blockchain isn't asking anything, you can send transactions without any fees whatsoever if you wanted but of course that would mean it's at the bottom of the priority list to get processed.

Use manual fees depending on your time sensitivity and use fewer inputs if you can.

So it's another ponzi bullshit?

Edit: It's another copy paste shit Eth token with 10million coins for ICO and 30 million supply and promising bullshit like debit cards/atm in 2018. It's also offering a lending platform (the ponzi part) and the typical mlm bullshit; affiliate bonuses. All of it packaged with the typical "this will change the world" nonsense. It's for dumbasses who doesn't know any better.

Gigabyte cards have crappy sleeve bearings. I had 970's with fans dying in about 1 year and the 1070's were even worse; all died within 6 months. But their AORUS series is awesome asthey have double ball bearings.

The Xtremes are pricey, but the non-Xtremes are more realistic and there isn't much of a difference. I mostly went with them because of a good deal and resale value.

Also, all of these 250-375 watt cards run hot at max power. But since these cards are HUGE with 3 fans, I suspect they're on the cooler side of the competition. And at lower wattages they're cool. I'm running them at 180 watts and I'm hovering between 63-67°C.

You say that but PIVX is growing super fast and more importantly very consistently. And it also had majos issues that were just fixed a couple of weeks ago.

Only look at the green line ($USD value) to ignore BTC swings:



PIVX will continue the trend regardless of other crypto's swings and news.

I have 1080 Ti's excluseively (that are online and not sitting on a shelf like a few 970 and 1070s) and they're the best goddamn cards I ever had to work with. AORUS Xtreme's as I had a good deal on them.

Doesn't matter for mining at all. The titan series was always way overpriced for mining.