If it goes like Maxwell it will be severely overpriced and perform a little better than a 1080, but then the 1080ti
will be released and will blow it out of the water for a lower price.

Something seems off with lbry. Suprnova is getting about 8 blocks per hour with 160GH/s
but zpool hasn't found a block in 27 hours with a hashrate of around 16 GB/s for most of the time. It doesn't
add up. Based on the hashrate ratio zpool should have been finding blocks in less than 2 hours.

If it's only bad luck, that's one mofo outlier.

Edit: my numbers may be a bit exagerated as they were a snapshot in time. However, I did see an estimated TTF
of 4 hours with 16 GH/s hashrate and frequently saw TTF in the 10-15 hour range with hashrates in the 2 to 4 GH/s range.
Still too much to conclude bad luck.

If you like lyra2 try it with cpuminer-opt, i7-6700K almost as fast as 960 and more efficient.

I still have no idea what coin still uses it.

cpuminer-opt 3.3.8 released:

Source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0lVSGQYLJIZVjBLVktvdG1SVlk/view?usp=sharing

- fixed skein2, broken in v3.3.7
- added lbry algo (merged from ocminer's fork)
- merged blake2s midstate optimization from cpuminer-multi, +10%
- added whirlpool & whirlpoolx algos, benchmark tested only

Windows binaries courtesy cryptomining Blog:
http://cryptomining-blog.com/wp-content/download/cpuminer-opt-3-3-8-windows.zip

ASIC mining is not a hobby. Start with what you already have. To start all you need is a recent desktop CPU. With a CPU miner
(see my sig) you can mine any of dozens of algos. The performnace is generally poor but it's a good way to learn. If you're a
gamer with a decent GPU it will give better performance and can also mine many different algos. ASIC miners can do only one thing,
mine one algo. Don't waste your money on ASICs until you know what you're doing and you want to get serious about mining.

32 bit ccminer is faster on Windows, never tried it on Linux.

There are several blake algorithms, it's very confusing. Blake256r8vnl is for Vanilla coin (renamed to vcash), Blake256r8 is aka blakecoin algo.

I hadn't considered the botnet angle, I thought Windows was more of a botnet magnet. The varying degrees of optimization
in cpuminer-opt makes it less attractive to botnets.

But yes it's also a waste of time and effort to support 32 bit. Most OSs no longer produce 32 bit builds so their days are
numbered.

IMO, the board is not that critical as long as it has enough PCIe slots and you use powered risers. But don't go too cheap because
you still want good components. You could even stick with your existing mobo, 4 PCIe IIRC, unless you really need that fifth slot.

I you don't like my advice you are free to ignore it but I won't sit by while the uninformed post incorrect information. I would expect
the same when I get things wrong. It's called learning.

And please don't resort to name calling,  Such anger is unproductive.

If it was my sarcasm that put you off, I apologize. But that was not the central part of my post, I  was simply trying to correct
misinformation. Does that justify calling me a dictator?

The surge in new autodumped coins puts the downward pressure on price, The bigger the surge, the bigger the impact.

You mine coins when diff is low and profitability is high. When the surge hits the exchange (as market sell orders) it eats up all the
buy orders orders and pushes the price down. Since most pools use the same factors to calculate profit they usually switch in sync.
So it's not just zpool but the total of all profit switch autoexchange pools. Smart sellling can mitigate the effect but requires a
bigger time investment.

A newbie sharing wisdom with their first post? Not likely. Two of your three points are false. More miners, ie more hash, will
push up diff and reduce reward. And the next block is just as likely to be found now as it was immediately after the previous
block was found if you factor out diff fluctuations. A silly mistake to make just after discussing the gambler's fallacy.

And an LBC is an LBC after a week. If the graph was shown in the native coin it would only drop at payout time or when a block orphans.
Since the graph is displayed in a different currency the exchange fluctuations are added to the graph. Exchange price can go up and down.

Profit switching and auto exchange can exacerbate the exchange fluctuations. When a coin becomes profitable it attracts a lot more
hash. That more hash will produce more coins. When the coins mature and are sent to the exchnage it will put downward pressure on
the price. It can be concluded that will put a downward bias on time risk.

Yes really.

Anyway my proposal was not directed to you, it was meant for Crackfoo, you know the guy who runs zpool.
I'd take his word before yours and he'd likely elaborate in his response, unlike you.

Speaking of elaborating I'll elaborate on my proposal. It is essentially a cross between yiimp and zpool.
Take the per-coin selection from yiimp and the autoexchange from zpool. That's what I thought (hoped) yiimp was going
to be in the first place. The main issue I see is how to specify both a mining coin and payout coin. Seperate ports for specific
coins is one way. A now defunct pool, trademybit, had both single coin ports and multicoin algo ports.
Their API, however, only supported the multi-coin pools.

It could also be implemented on a seperate server, one for the multipools and one for the single coin pools. The auto-exchange
and API are the missing features from existing single coin pools.

That's an interesting perspective. I guess having a vested interest in the matter makes me more opinionated than I usually am.
Coin dev isn't my thing but I'd like the original hodl conecpt replicated with the ability to transact but not exchange locked up funds.
Kind of like a futures market.

That in no way benefitted the pool, they lost out on fees due to the lower mature value.

Next time don't bother trolling if you aren't prepared to elaborate, particularly
when you're so far off base.

Hi Fuzzballs, didn't expect a visit from you. Loved your hodl charts, they were very helpful when I was hodling.
What happened to hodl was very divisive much like a certain ongoing political campain.

No and it's not worth it if there was.

I don't know what you're implying with that curve. Those kinds of drops are mostly due to exchange volatility and
orphaned blocks. The only connection to the stoppage in mining is that the drop is more visible in the graph because
there are no offsetiing new blocks to push it higher. I have seen this many times with many algos, some with many
coins.  I see no connection at all to the yaamp SW or my suggestion for single coin pools.

How so?