Getting ~660 h/s with Ryzen 2600X on stock setting for CN7

It's even worse if one is to believe what is written.
https://blog.sia.tech/the-state-of-cryptocurrency-mining-538004a37f9b

Bitmain is said to play dirty and actively prevents anyone else to develop / manufacture ASICs for mining. They can do this because most competitive chip makers are in China and they have the resources to do what they want.

It's likely quantum computers will be excellent miners. They can probably zoom in on solutions much quicker than the random massive parallel method. We will probably find out in a year or five.
Quantum computers are already available as experimental cloud services. It won't be long until speed and number of qubits are useful. Then, some clever developer will start solo mining bitcoins and find a lot of profitable blocks all by himself.

You can install the Electronium mobile app.
By running it, you will receive about 10 ETN daily.

This is not real mining but rather a "mining experience" as they call it...
This uses almost no power and is basically an airdrop. Hard to beat by any other mining process I think.

At the time of writing, more than 130000 users are running this "mining app". This is the way ETN is marketed and spread among users.  Seems to work...

Has anyone managed to improve upon the "auto" performance for Ryzen 2700X on CN7 ?
I get ~740 h/s on stock settings.

Adding non cached threads (beyond eight) kills the performance for me.

Just did a build with Ryzen 7 2700X on ASUS PRIME X470
Getting hash rate ~740 on stock settings

Drops in hashrate during shipping was exactly what one could see for Cryptonight.
After fork, at first, hashrate was high for old cryptonight and way down for V7.
After a while, it went down on cryptonight, probably while hardware was changing hands. Later it went up to new record levels and also spread out to all remaining coins. It certainly looks as if the hardware was in use except for when in transit.

The Monero fork work was indeed an interesting study in Bitmain business tactics.

The recent Cryptonight drama is as good evidence anyone could hope for, me thinks.

One can see a huge addition of hashrate for Monero at the end of 2017.
Sometime in the following months, the Monero core team got indications there were ASICs in the wild. There was a short debate and countermeasures were announced. After fork announcement, Bitmain and at least 3 others immediately started selling ASICs.  After fork, much more than half the hashrate of Monero hashrate disappeared and never came back. Today, only ASICs are mining old Cryptonight so we can see exactly how much it was.

This chain of events has it all really.
Secret mining starting at a detectable time, Bitmain busted by the Monero project, Bitmain selling doorstoppers when they can't use them anymore, pretty exact figures of the size of the operation etc.

But yeah...  There are too many crypto currencies anyway. Maybe it's best that most of them died away. Since none is used for anything yet, it wont matter much. May as well be those who are predated by Bitmain or other big centralized entities.

There is a big difference in this case.
Normally, a producer of something (hardware) is providing a component in the value chain. They try and make a better product so you will buy it over their competitors alternatives.
In this case, Bitmain is mining themselves and they are your direct competitor. They have economic interest in destroying your economy and pushing you out of the "market". They are doing this on the grandest of scales and it's actually happening just in front of us. For a healthy market to work, there have to be more than one manufacturer (eg. Intel, AMD, Nvidia). Also, the manufacturers can not be your competitors.

As a thought experiment: Extrapolate what would happen if Intel, AMD and Nvidia took their respective resources and went all in on POW mining. Others could only buy yesteryears hardware in the shops when these companies sought fit. You could extend this for all forms of professional computing for that matter (not just stupid mining). Would there be any market for long ?  Who would be in power of those blockchain projects after a while ?   Who is in power of these companies?    How would that affect the philosophy of crypto to liberate us from central control over everything ?

I just tried again with SUMO on v1.0.0
I get the same problem mentioned above. Pool rejects and advices to switch to alternate miner.

When trying to troubleshoot, it was evident the documentation needs to be updated. Neither the help (-h flag), the home page or the front page here on Bitcointalk is updated with information on new algorithms.
Anyway, no luck so far with CAST and Cryptonight Heavy.   XMR_STAK works fine.


Here is the start command if anyone wonders:

cast_xmr-vega  --algo=2  -I 9  --nonicehash  --fastswitch  -S pool.sumokoin.hashvault.pro:7777  -u Sumo-adress.... -p "x" -G 0,1,2,3,4

I wouldn't be surprised if Bitmain is the main reason for the current RAM market situation.

The available ASICs for ETHhash and EQUIhash use lots of DDR3 if I'm not mistaken. They have probably built more modern DDR4 units for a while now and are dumping the DDR3 stuff on the market while mining with the new hardware themselves.

It serves to be repeated many times...

BITMAIN IS NOT YOUR FRIEND !


They only exist to dominate mining in all aspects. They are your competitor. The only way to fight them is to develop better ASICs or make their hardware useless by forking away until they find it unprofitable to continue the chase for money. Proof Of Work coins are conceptually dead once dominated by few actors. As soon as the consensus mechanism is compromised, the blockchain has no value. Preventing someone from dominating hash power is a matter of life and death for the POW based crypto projects. Please take this into account when you make short sighted plans to buy their products and support them.

Seems like a risky move to hand over control to a big chinese company for any blockchain project.
No blockchain really has any widespread utility yet and will probably not stand on it's own feet without the community support. Bitmain is not much of a community.

Bitmains official business plan is to dominate mining in all aspects. They are the biggest mining operation themselves and they sell their hardware when they see fit. Often, this is when there is nothing more to mine (eg. Cryptonight fork) or they have newer hardware they want to start using themselves. This is not even a secret.
Being in China, they are also under state control.

Does any of that sound like being in the spirit of decentralized crypto currencies ?

I would be surprised if any project would mess with the current infrastructure too much at this early stage of crypto. I'm sure they will dodge the ASICs for a while until they figure it doesn't matter. Today, any project forking away from ASICs get a lot of goodwill and free marketing so it should be very profitable. In addition, they come out as heroes

Is there a def fee in that x16r sp_mod ?

If not, please add it because it makes donating much easier.

Nicehash needs competition, so much is clear.

Would be interesting if someone with a sense of testing methodology could run a comparison on two identical rigs.

No effect on ASUS TURBO GTX 1080 Ti as many have said already.
The "RevA" thing does not fix it.

This card: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b4307/asus-turbo-gtx-1080-ti

Hmmmm...

Windows 10 flags the second version (OhGodAnETHlargementPill-r2) as malicius.
It does not flag the original version on github as malicious.

Any legit explanation for this ?

If you are into HAVEN, you may want to read this:   https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@cryptomedication/bravadogroup-and-several-other-major-crypto-influencers-caught-planning-massive-pump-and-dump-schemes

Seems like it's worse than imaginable

I'm going to build a new AI test rig based on the latest AMD X470 platform.
I have a question on PCIe bandwidth. It seems most, if not all, of these motherboards only provide one x16 slot, then one or 2 x8 slots.
My experience with 1080 ti and compute applications like BOINC, Mediccoin, folding etc. is that x16 makes a big difference.

Do you have any test data for the type of AI applications you are envisioning ?
How will less than x16 bandwidth affect a 1080 ti or higher ?

The ultimate question is if there is anything special with life compared to dead matter.
If not, the AI systems will exceed our capabilities eventually.

However, the human race will have to adapt. We can't remain hairless monkeys forever so we need to speed up evolution artificially. Genetic manipulation can make us much smarter on average. There are quite a lot of people with IQ greater than 130. No reason the average must stay at 100. Bring them all up to 150. They are already attempting this in China at industrial scale. They are sampling DNA from the smartest people on earth to map, understand and use it as a service for future parents wanting the best for their kids.

Then we can do cybernetic integration. Internet is a primitive pre-cursor to the future human-Borg collective where we have cybernetic implants connecting our brains directly to AI sub processors, quantum computers, machines and other human beings. The future super intelligent homo sapiens V2.0 uses the AI as augmentation of himself for things unimaginable to us.

Just imagine the number of scam-coin ICOs we will see on the road to all this

Btw. When can we expect some BETA software to test your distributed AI computing with ?

Cryptonight is highly dependent on memory speed and could really use something that would improve NVIDIA performance.
Today, only AMD can be used because NVIDIA is just too slow on Cryptonight.

Cryptonight is big mining business today and there are a few variations of the algo in order to facilitate ASIC resistance.