@miningpoolhub

Has the site been having problems on the Baikal ports? My Baikal has been shutting down randomly and has to be reset, OR it goes to a fail-over pool. It never did this before the recent server move.

I see, but it was for me quite good profit before and what happened now?
Why I lost half of my profit ?
[/quote]There is a fallacy commonly believed by miners......that pool hash rate makes a difference to your earnings. Being on a high hash rate pool means they find more blocks, but those mined coined have to be split among a LOT of miners. Being on a smaller hash rate pool means you find less blocks, but you get more coins per block since the mined coins are shared among fewer miners. Over time it is a wash, same same, no difference at all. So the pool you choose simply needs to be stable with an honest pool op. Size is irrelevant. Dwarfpool consistently pays a hash rate that is like what your miner shows. Flypool, coinmine.pl, suprnova normally pay a hash rate less than what the miner shows.
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But what about the luck . Isnt it such thing: all pools start to find next block , the one with more hashpower do int faster then others and gets all reward. Others with less hashpower have to be lucky to find it first. Am I wrong ?
[/quote]You are not wrong, but you are wrong lol. Rarely would your scenario come into play. When a new block is released to the network for solving, the previous block(and often a few blocks before that) hasn't been solved yet. The pools then send commands to miners to drop working on the current block and start working on the new block. (In a multipool your miner might be sent a command to stop work and switch to a completely different coin while other miners remain.) This has the effect of spreading hash over several blocks being mined and drastically reduces the impact of "luck" because pools don't want to rely on luck either.

There is a fallacy commonly believed by miners......that pool hash rate makes a difference to your earnings. Being on a high hash rate pool means they find more blocks, but those mined coined have to be split among a LOT of miners. Being on a smaller hash rate pool means you find less blocks, but you get more coins per block since the mined coins are shared among fewer miners. Over time it is a wash, same same, no difference at all. So the pool you choose simply needs to be stable with an honest pool op. Size is irrelevant. Dwarfpool consistently pays a hash rate that is like what your miner shows. Flypool, coinmine.pl, suprnova normally pay a hash rate less than what the miner shows.

miningpoolhub has an honest OP. He is quite active and quick to answer support questions. I use miningpoolhub for my Baikal and my scrypt ASIC's, but not my GPU rigs(yet) simply because I want the coins mined by the ASIC's to be converted automatically to BTC, but I don't want the GPU coins converted. I use dwarfpool for ZEC and ETH algos.

My bet it is because of the difference between shell:startup and shell:common startup. My guess would be that since shell:common startup is in the Program Data folder tree, W10 runs it more like a service so it starts at bootup BEFORE you visit the desktop using team viewer. I'll test it a bit and try to remember to post results. I've put a shortcut into the shell:common startup since I have frequent power outages(3-4 times a month grrrrr) and see what happens. With the shortcut in shell:startup you have to sign into the desktop before the .bat gets activated.

That solution will not work if you have a user password. Unfortunately I'm stuck in that situation on one rig(windows isn't registered so it won't let me remove the password) and I have to teamviewer in, which gets windows to the desktop, so the .bat in startfolder loads


EDIT: After posting my reply I reread and noticed a slight difference. I have my shortcut in shell:startup, not shell:common startup. I see that using common startup is in the ProgramData tree, instead of the AppData tree. So I'll have to test it.

aaron you said you would release v2 in a couple of days......about 4 days ago. Any update on ETA?

You do NOT want to install the latest AMD vid drivers

I'm not going to start a new thread for this because a large number of people view THIS thread. Circle has apparently joined with Coinbase, which are outright scammers, and now force you to instantly convert BTC entering your account. In the past they were several dollars per BTC more than any other exchange, but now they pay less than Coinbase and make it very difficult to determine the actual  forced sale price.

I was a Circle advocate, but now..........beware.

My Baikal has been having problems on your pool the past couple of days and goes to a fail-over pool. It seems to happen mostly with X11, but it is rather strange. For example it was happily mining Dash, then suddenly stopped and wouldn't connect even though the Baikal auto-switching was still mining Dash. Just to test I removed my fail-over pool and it wouldn't mine on your site until it swapped from X11 to another algo, then when X11 started mining again it switched over for a few minutes, then completely stopped again.......until another algo change happened. Very odd.

You do have another option. You could use multipoolhub and set up multi-algo mining. Your rigs will mine ZEC/ZCL/ETH/ETC based on most profitable. The op has already set up SSL connection and is in the process of adding XMR to the multi-algo. All the pools there are .9% fee and auto exchange is available for free. Pool op has a good rep and is quite active answering questions quickly. Search for his thread here.

I currently use dwarfpool and my ZEC earnings have risen above what coinmine was paying. I just endorsed miningpoolhub, so you might wonder why I'm not mining there............well I am. I have a Baikal miner currently there and removed other GPU/ASIC mining until XMR is in the ZEC/ETH multi-algo and more scrypt coins are added for my ASIC's.

I swapped to dwarf a few days ago and love it too. I've also talked with the dwarfpool admin about adopting SSL/TLS connections. They are looking into it now.

Has the thought crossed your mind ZEC will be pumped? I'll gladly lose a few cents a day to gamble on a pump

I can see you don't understand how mining works lol. It doesn't matter if you are on a small pool that gets few block, vs. a large pool that gets a ton of them. On the small pool you get a higher share of the block instead of splitting it among thousands of miners. Over time it is a wash, same same, no difference.

@rozsada try the 16.9 drivers. How many watts is your PSU?

@mettalmag yes, dwarfpool is paying me roughly the same as Claymore miner says

dwarfpool.............read my earlier post about it

PSU=power supply unit. Reset all your clocks etc. back to default, get it working stable, then adjust. You didn't say if you are using a modded vbios which makes a difference and I forgot to ask. My first suspicion is your PSU isn't powerful enough. ETH algo uses more power than ZEC algo.

Just for starters you can add a few things to your commandline:  (note: first I would try -r 0 which will just restart the miner. If you use -r 1 it will reboot the rig using the reboot.bat)

EthDcrMiner64.exe -wd 1 -r 0 -epool etc-eu1.nanopool.org:19999 -ewal... -epsw x

And add another .bat in the Claymore folder named something like reboot.bat if you set -r 1:

There is a delay from the time coins are sold on exchange until you get the btc in your wallet. This is natural since it takes time for the btc to be sent from the exchange back to MPH, and then into your wallet.