I just got into ETH during last month. So I missed the party big time, however, at this moment, I am going to enjoy the ride as much I can and keep following this forum for best advice.

Current set-up:

2x 1070 + 1x 1080 rig = ZEC (thinking about switching to ZEN or LBC)

6x 580 rig = ETH + SIA (in the past mined ETH + DCR)
4x 570 = ETH + SIA

Also, I have 1x R9 290X, which I have heard can give good hashrate mining ETH + SIA, so I may add it to my 4x 570 rig. I still two more rigs to bring online this weekend, so I am way behind and hoping it is a worthwhile effort. If not, I am OK with taking a loss.

Any advice about what I should do different is welcome

I read through FAQs about mining and/or investing in XEM and still confused. Is it possible to mine XEM, if not what is a sensible way to invest in XEM for a small investor?

It seems like from XEM faqs that you have to invest minimum of 10000 XEM to start harvesting, that equates to ~USD $1123 at current rates, not a small amount just to get started. Am I missing something here?

Here in US, retailers like Best Buy are still sold out. Went their y'day to my local store, and all I could see were couple of 1080s and 1050ti. No Radeon, nothing else!

Online retailers like Newegg are the only source for any GPUs and even they have jacked up their selling price by 10 - 30% during last 2 months. So the demand is fairly strong in US.

Can you post your .bat file (without personal info)? That way everybody can provide a quick feedback if you are doing something wrong.

Thanks for the additional information! I will take a look at it tonight.

What wallets do you use for LTC and BTC? And how much disk space do they use?

Bittrex allows it. Mining Siacoin (SC) through it. Transferred ETH and Decred to its wallet.

While mining ZCash through Nicehash, all my BTC earnings go to Coinbase on weekly basis.

Hope it helps.

I read negative things about Poloniex, that several people had issues getting their deposits for various Altcoins and therefore, I would be careful about it.

I thought about mining Hush as well. It was listed on Bittrex as of last week and now it's only on Cryptopia exchange. Do you mine it using personal wallet or through Cryptopia?

Thanks for sharing this info! The stuff I dislike about these wallets is the amount of storage needed.

Swing wallet (ZENCash Desktop GUI Wallet on Windows): "On first run (only) the wallet will download the cryptographic keys (900MB or so)"

Eleos wallet: " First time installations may take awhile to load since ~1GB of cryptographic data must be downloaded first."

I assume we cannot delete the cryptographic keys after install. Given that, it is a lot of data being stored.

Probably it is operable for those who created it before the hard fork. I didn't and both ZEN and ZCL wallets show up as "under maintenance" on my bittrex account.

Thanks for sharing your views, it helps a lot. I have couple of questions:

1. ETH: I know there are several estimates going around about DAG file increase, but what I heard is that significant increase in difficulty will happen sometime next year, so why should we panic?
2. BTC wallet: that is a really good advice! Do you prefer any wallet/s? Previously I used Multibit and was greatly disappointed by its functionality.

Once again...thanks!

I would like to know details as well. So far have been mining ZCash using 2x 1070 + 1x 1080 rig and will like to switch. However, neither Bittrex nor Poloniex have Zencash wallet (in case of Bittrex, their Zencash wallet has been under maintenance since early June 2017).

Is their a reliable exchange which offers zencash wallets?

How to generate wallet for zencash? I tried it through Bittrex; however, their zencash wallet has been inactive since early June 2017 (few days after hard fork).

Hello philipma1957: I found your advice quite interesting. I plan to run couple of 6X RX 580 rigs at home and have access to one "NEMA type 10-30R" 220V dryer outlet. Do you think I can use it to power two rigs, each drawing 1000-1200 Watts?

Let me know, if you need more info to answer my question.

Thanks!

He posted the question in the Altcoin section....

Hello:

The prices you quote for these cards are quite reasonable. How are you able to source them at that price? Here in U.S. these cards are all sold out and aftermarket prices are 2x - 3x the MSRP!

Hello: I am currently mining Zcash with 2x GTX 1070 SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition cards and wanted to know if the results I get are typical.


Using this miner and nicehash pool and I am getting an average speed of 755 Sol/s (for 2 cards) and average earning of 0.0035 BTC/day (~$8/day). I haven't changed any settings in the cards or the miner and wonder how I can get the best results and whether mining through Nicehash is the best option.

Appreciate the advice of fellow miners!

I am currently mining Zcash with 2x GTX 1070 SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition cards. Is dual mining ETH with other coins a better option than solo mining Zcash? FYI, I use EWBF's CUDA Zcash miner currently and getting an average speed of 755 Sol/s (for 2 cards) and average earning of 0.0035 BTC/day. Thanks!

Lot of pump and dump scammers making recommendations now, without providing reasoning why their choice of altcoin is the best! PM me if you want to know my choice and why.

I started mining on a relatively new pool, xmr.blockquarry.com. There are few users, but the payout is large.  Check it out.

Is this pool active now?