Hello,

Was wondering if anyone familiar with the www.cryptopia.co.nz exchange might be able to help with an issue I am having.  A couple of months ago, I opened an account here.  I moved 1 ETH and a bit of other alts here but had not logged in again in probably over 1 month. However, when I tried to log  in 2 days ago, it said my account was locked. I sent a request to their support but did not get any response at all in over 24 hours, so I tried again, this time changing password, but my acct is still locked. I sent another request to their support but now over 50 hours have passed and I have not received even an automated response from them.

Has anyone else experienced something like this? if so, how did you resolve?  I am wondering if maybe their site-based messaging is not working? Does anyone have a direct email address for their support? 

Thanks Elder... I went to the GitHub link you provided and downloaded the entire contents as a ZIP file.  I unpacked it and read the readme and opened the config.text file.  However, the 2nd step after updating config file with personal info is to launch the executable, but I checked everywhere and there is no .exe included in this zip.  A quick check of the actual github page also does not show any .exe file, so I am at a bit of a loss as to what to do here.

Can you elaborate on the "miner and steps shown in this thread" comment?  Are you talking about the mining from wallet option on the initial post or some other option?
  

OK... so I just tried all of the above but it doesn't work. When I try to launch the miner.exe, it looks like very brief flash of window pops up but then disappears. I also trying running as Admin. This is a rig that I have been mining ETH & XMR on, so there should be no interference from things like virus software. Windows defender is the only thing on their but that has always come up with a prompt well after a new miner has been launched.

Clearly I have missed some critical piece but not sure what it is.  Do I need to enter other things into that config file like Algo, Pool, etc?

One thing I just thought of... I ran that aeonD blockchain sync on a different PC than the one I am trying to run the miner on.  Do I need to do that sync on each PC that I intend to mine on?  If so, does it need to keep running while miner is going or can it be exited after initially synced?

OK, so I feel like I am making a bit of progress towards getting a miner set up but would like to ask for some validation to make sure I am on the right track...

1- Pool:  planning to go with sumominer pool - I went there to try and register but don't see anywhere to do that. For these pools, can I therefore assume it's the non-registration model that just uses your wallet address to both track your rewards and paste into the code of the miner?  I think Ethermine is the same like this... just want to make sure I dont need to register on the pool.

2- I have an AEON wallet on Bittrex but of course that has been down for what seems like forever. So. I rezlized I need to create a new wallet somehow. I found the win64 AEON ZIP v0.9.12 off the official site and unpacked it.  I ran the aeond.exe and it just now completed synchronizing after a little under 2 hours.

From here, I understand I need to run the simplewallet.exe to set up my wallet.

3- After I get that address, I should be able to configure a miner, correct?

I have downloaded wolf GPU AEON miner .2 from github and unzipped it. This is quite a bit different from recent Claymore miners but this is what I THINK needs to be done to configure for AEON mining:

- open aeon.conf file in text editor
- replace "url" with:  stratum+tcp://aeon.sumominer.com:3335
- replace "user" address with my own wallet address created above
- save and exit config file
- run miner.exe

so... are those steps correct?  is there anything else that needs to be done in that config file?

Thanks for the feedback smooth! I agree with your first statement and have done that on other coins with good results, so will highly consider going with sumominer pool instead.

On point 2, that's what I was hoping to hear, so really eager to get at least 1 of my rigs up and running on AEON to see what it can do.

Do you have any recommendation mining-wise for AMD GPUs?

Hello everyone! I luckily invested in a few AEON about a year ago so obviously am very happy with the recent rise in price.  However, I am now considering pointing at least some of my mining rigs towards AEON, but cannot seem to find consistent information so hoping some experts here can help me out a bit.

Pool:  Seems that aeon-pool.com has the most miners currently, so is that the recommended pool to use for a US-based miner?

Miner:  this is where i am getting a bit confused... was assuming Claymore Cryptonight would work but didnt see it mentioned on any of the pool sites or AEON threads.  I'm looking for an AMD GPU miner (I have 4 rigs of 6x rx470s running Windows 10).  I found a wolf-miner on github but its over 2 years old.  I saw some more recent ones there but it says something about windows binaries that I do not understand.  Also, what is this "Stak" terminology?

Finally, are hashrates for AEON similar to XMR?  For instance, if I am getting 650 Mh/s per rx470 on XMR using Claymore, should I expect about that same hashrate with a recent AEON GPU miner?

Any info would be greatly appreciated!

Hey everyone... anyone here currently or recently mined AEON?  With the recent price jump over past few days, it is now approaching XMR as the top profitable coin to mine.  However, I've been trying to figure out what the best GPU miner is to use for it and seem to find a lot of conflicting/lack of info.

Looks like aeon-pool.com might be the best pool but if anyone could recommend and link a good GPU miner for this it would be appreciated.  I originally thought that maybe Claymore's Cryptonight miner that I am using to mine XMR could also mine AEON, but I don't see it mentioned in any of the threads or pool pages, so it seems maybe it won't work, maybe due to the "light" designation on the AEON algo.

Anyway, any info would be appreciated. If this coin has 1 or 2 more good days and can hold it, seems it could become the most profitable coin to mine, at least with Radeon GPUs.

This might be a silly question but can I assume that this CryptoNote Miner (and the CPU version) are capable of mining other coins that use this same (or similar) algo's?  I know that the dual miner is capable of this as I mined Musicoin + DCR for a few days switching over from ETH + DCR, but wondering if this will do the same.  For instance, if I wanted to mine AEON, SUMO or BCN, would I just need to change my pool and wallet address accordingly to start mining that other coin, or is there something else required?

yup, that's a good tactic imo.  and really, there's not a huge down side to having some extra HDDs around since most people can re-purpose them.  Probably not as good resale as GPUs but definitely longer useful like for other things.

It's a bit of a tough call, especially with ETH mining EOL on the horizon.  At current price of $.008, ROI on a $120 HDD is about 590 days so not great for sure.  If price goes back in the $.012 range, that drop to under 400 days, so still not great. Recent high of .015 gets it to just over 300 days.

Contrast that to a GPU... I will use RX470 since thats what I have. Currently profit on ETH is about $.65 per GPU. Used price for 470 currently about $250, so that's 385 day ROI, or about the same as Burst if at .012.  But the downside of GPU right now is that ETH is going to be effectively EOL by or before end of 2017.  So, you have to ask yourself what the long-term situation is going to be and that's a tough question.  Certainly, I would not invest heavily in 470/480 or even 570/580 now, since at current rates and pending EOL of ETH, you wont' ever ROI those unless most ETHash-based coins all go through the roof in pricing. The better option for long-term it would seem is 1080ti route for ZEC and other Equihash coins, but those suckers are $800 a pop, so you're looking at nearly $4k to build 1 4x1080ti rig!  Maybe you get $3-$4 at best per 1080ti/day, so you're looking at about 285 days to ROI.

I don't know much about storj but I can share some insight on BURST since I've been mining it almost a year now...

Firstly, rewards tend to be very volatile. As an example, I have about 55TB divided on 2 PCs (38+17).  2 weeks ago, I hit like 3-4 blocks and averaged 612 burst/day during that week. However, the very next week, i hit zero blocks and averaged a measly 78 burst/day.  My 8-week average is at 303/day, so about $2.40 at current prices. I've already ROI'd all 12 of my HDDs so everything from here on out is pure profit.

The other thing to factor in is price fluctuations. Burst tends to fluctuate more than your average alt imo. It is currently at about 33% of the all-time high of ~2.5 cents a few months ago.  I originally was of the mindset to just keep holding all my Burst, but when the attacks started up a few months ago, I decided to sell off more than half when it reached near 1.5 cents again, which is how I paid off all my HDDs.

Something you should know before getting into Burst is that there are some very shady characters that seems to have a lot of control in that community.  There have been numerous issues with wallets going down, network being down, etc, etc and apparently, this was a result of main players in the burst community that decided to start hacking to air their grievances. IMO, this is why Burst hasn't taken off as much as a lot of people thought it would. But, even with that, it has still been quite profitable over the past year, and if they ever get their $hyt together, it could have even more potential.  The fact that it takes almost zero power should be a huge allure to miners, since that's the primary concern with other coins that you don't have to worry about at all with Burst (or storj).

i get the difficulty bombs... don't like it, but get it lol.  However, can someone elaborate on the Reward Halving issue?  I thought it was announced 1-2 months ago that this would go into effect on either 10/1 or 11/1... cant remember exactly and can't find anything via google or on the ETH forums.  Did Buterin decide to go the difficulty bomb route in lieu of halving, or are both going to be implemented.

I have continues to mine ETH over the past month+ even though it hasn't been the most profitable, mainly because I believe in it's future and want to gather as many as possible before it completely drops off.  If the halving will still go into effect, that will truly be the end, at least for mining ETH.

XMR looks appealing as among most contenders for ADM cards, I think it has the most actual real-world usages (shady though some of them may be lol).  I also just starting mining Music with 1 of my 4 6x470 rigs today, but that's a lot more speculative than XMR.  I may end up splitting my 4 rigs after ETH EOL... probably putting 2 on XMR and 2 dual mining either Music/ETC/EXP & DCR. That's still the huge benefit in staying with ETHash algo coin as you can still dual mine a pretty nice 2nd coin like DCR/SIA/LBRY. 

I also hope to get into ZEC & possibly DGB-Skein but clearly need NVidia rig to do that justice. Been thinking about selling off 6 470's to at least partially fund that rig but just really having trouble pulling the trigger on a $750 single gpu when that amount used to get me 4 brand new 470s lol. Mental block I guess but if I can get about $250 each for the 470's, Id only have to invest about $1500 to get a nice 4 x 1080ti rig up and running,

lmfao... dude! please take your Al Gore nonsense to a site that appreciates it... like maybe any of the global warming hype sites run by the people who benefit financially from the propagation of that lie.  btw, how many trees do i need to plant to get a carbon offset to megawatts of power my 24 470's are pushing while mining ETH?  not like Im going to do it mind you, i just want to know if you know the answer ;-)

The only thing 99.9% of the people in this forum care about are profitability ratios, and that's as it should be.  To address the OPs question... GPU mining isn't dead but it is a very tough time to get into, mainly due to the global shortage of good mining GPUs. Its true that the effective end of ETH mining I think on Nov 1st (if memory serves) is going to cause some issues, but the recent rise in price of XMR should help alleviate that at least somewhat. Nobody really knows what is going to happen but hopeully, a new couple of coins to mine will pop up soon... kind of like with ZEC last year.  That can go a long way to spreading the world-wide hashrates.

to be honest, it's a bit of a tough time to get into mining right now. this is mostly because of the scarcity of good mining GPUs.  There simply is not a good supply of pretty much any GPU right now, meaning the ones that are available are mostly at quite a premium. However, if you really want to give it a shot, I see these as your 3 main options for around $2k:

- Build a rig with 6 x used rx 470s. 470s are still the best profit ratio cards on the market, especially for mining anything but ZEC.  You can probably get them on ebay for around $250 each, so that leaves $500 for PSU, RAM, Mobo, etc. Should be doable.  However, realize that even though 470s are currently the best card out there for mining, they will not be forever. In addition, ETH will soon be dead for mining (less than 2 months) and that has been the most profitable coin to mine with these all year. Still there will be other good coins to mine with these, but when ETH dies out, there's a shyt-ton of hashrate that has to go somewhere, so be warned. Luckily, the recent rise in XMR has made it a top gainer for 470s but those returns will dwindle as well due to ETH EOL.

- Build a rig with 2 1080ti's. At current rates, you should be able to get $4-$5 per GPU per day on ZEC/Skein/a few others. Downside here is that ti's are really only great miners at equihash and a couple of algo, while the radeons are much better at ETHash, Cryptinight, etc... much more population of profitable coins on that side, so you would be somewhat future proofing given these have 11GB of RAM (vs 4 or 8 with Radeon rx) but also limited yourself on algos.  Also, the $750 price tag per gpu is a bit shocking. Normally i would not recommend building a rig with only 2 GPUs but at the price point, you dont have an option unless you go well over 2k.

- Build a rig with 2-3 Vega series GPUs. This is tough to quantify as these are just hitting the market and are pretty much not available for retail prices (already high mind you) and also have not been thoroughly tested by the mining community yet. Unfortunately, early indication are that these are not nearly as impressive as originally hoped. You can research them on these forums but i personally would not recommend this option, esp for someone new to mining.

So bottom line... your "last longest" option would be the 1080ti's but I think your best overall option would be the 470 rig... just realize that you are probably looking at a year or less of reasonable profitability.

really ironic that the last ridiculous defense of a criminal post coming from "crypt-lawyer" lol.  That's a real side-splitter.  Frankly, I can't understand why the mods allow threads like this to exist... much less get to 29 pages!  This is nothing more than a hack job that steals hard earned legit income from great devs like Claymore and Wolf and frankly, this is highly illegal, at least in the US and most parts of the world!  You cannot "create" something that circumvents a legitimate fee earned by the creator of something, be it software, music, whatever... this is BLATANTLY ILLEGAL.  So, guess what that means?  not only the publishers of this hack job are subject to criminal proceedings, but all of you cheapskate losers trying to save pennies when you are making thousands BECAUSE of these devs are also technically liable because you know you are using something illegal.  So, hope your penny savings are worth the risk for you all... freaking parasites!

lmfao... another noob with practically zero posts, defending someone who is pushing an illegal product. When will you hack losers ever learn lol?

I am reporting this to the mod in the hopes that it will get removed. I really fail to understand why posts like these are allowed, so I am going to do everything in my power to make sure they are removed.

To be clear, you leeches are not doing anyone any favors here with your stupid hack that save miners a measly 1%, but steal 100% of the money that is rightfully earned by the devs like Claymore that write us these great mining tools!  That small fee keeps an inherent tension in the system that results in the mining community getting constant updates to existing miners, as well as new ones when a new coin is released, such was the case with ZEC about a year ago.

What you hacks are doing is the exact same thing as someone re-recording a song written by someone else, but changing 1 word in the lyrics, then going and giving/selling that product to the public as your own, resulting in the original artist getting no royalties from the hard work they undertook to create that song.

It's been brought up time and time again, but instead of wasting your "talents" on stealing the money others have rightfully earned, why don't you try actually creating something new that will be a benefit to the mining community? 

Bottom line is that I think most miners here are smart enough to stay away from these hack jobs but can you imagine what would happen if most of them used these dev-fee stealers?  The devs income would dry up and they would stop developing updates and new miners, meaning everyone in the mining community will be hurt as a result. Certainly nobody is going to spend countless hours coding for no return, so they will end up going to another type of job and we all lose out as a result of a few losers who can't create anything decent themselves and have to hack the hard work of others.

Wow! 30mh/s with a 470?  That's about the best i've seen... but your point is totally valid, even for those of us with 470s running in the more regular 27-ish range.  Heck, even right out of the box with no bios mod and no overclock, most of my MSIs got in the 22 range. So clearly something is wrong with that chart.

Agree with your hype statement, but Nvidia didnt win any race except mining ZEC and a couple other almost unknown coins. The fact is that rx 470's are still the king of mining.  Even after all these new GPUs coming out that are supposed "killers" but guess what?  They cost 3-4x what a 470 does, and can't even do anywhere near even 2x the 470.  For pure hashrate/wattage/cost ratio, there is nothing even close to a 470... even a used one that costs 25% more than original retail lol.