Ok, sounds great. Are you still developing the Quark miner also?
Yes, Smelter is in the work. With current rate and approaching end of Quark generation there is no much sense to improve Quark kernel, next release will come with minor kernel tweaks, reduced royalty rate and improved (I hope) host code. I'm hunting for Primecoin and want everything to be ready for release when that thing finally start work  Back to the topic - Blakecoin will not be put into Smelter or be included sometime very, very later w/o mining royalty. Potential conflict of interest and lack of time  XPM needs a good miner. Guess the problem with it is sieving is too fast with the current one. Blakecoin really needs a mining pool to offset the high diff, then mining will be better then solo. You might as well include Blakecoin with Smelter, just put an announcement that it has royalty fees in it. |
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I have stopped mining and using my GPU to play high resolution games  What it's original intended for...LOL Now is investing much better, but if people loose interest in mining, it might start to be profitable again
Probably in the next two months, if BTC goes lower again. Invest.
Yup and play more PC games, AutoCAD, Photoshop and Premiere Pro...=) |
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Thanks  I didn't make the miner however, I just paid smolen to cover the time it would take him to do it. For the sake of exact wording of your offer and for the sake of russian tax laws! Not a big difference, the kernel is yours, but it was rather "copyright transfer", not "work for hire". BTW, in the software world, if you pay not for result but for time spent that time tend to become infinite If the coin is a true sha256 you could in fact do with memory as low as 300 Mhz.
It's not sha256 but is very similar, the memory is almost unused. Ok, I'll use 8227 as stated in the OP. I'm assuming that the stale are because of the getwork network, right?
High stales count was caused by my paranoia I made miner skip target filtering and submit every 1-diff share. Next release will filter shares properly. Ok, sounds great. Are you still developing the Quark miner also? |
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Finally mined 25 BLC @ 99.32% stale @ 1.097GH/s on the 5870.
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I'm still getting 100% stales at 1.034GH/s with 0% GPU errors. Haven't got anything yet with the HD 5870.
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RPool redirects to feng rui law offices now. I honestly think both beeeeer and RPool are gone from XPM mining pool, don't know what is the issues. Got to check it out over at the XPM forums.
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I tried the math few days back, it looks even worse than I thought. No asic is currently with ROI, gpus are out, so just invest if you want to gamble. Seems to me we are going only up from here, but I have been wrong before.
ASIC are ridiculously over-priced, I honest think the can sell them 25% to 40% less then their asking price and still turn a decent revenue. GPU's at the moment are profitable until the alt market recovers. Any thing can happen in the next two or three months that will decide the trend for a while. Better invest rather than buy some fancy ASIC that has a long ROI Invest is better in my opinion at the moment, factoring hardware costs and electricity costs. ASIC are good if you can find decent used ones for cheap, otherwise it's for the elite to own. |
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Any recommended settings for 7950 and 7970 cards?
GPU usage at 99% but temps are lower than scrypt/scrypt-jane/Sha256, though my settings are just start values...
Measured with MSI Afterbruner.
Got 4 blocks from 24000 shares, one in 6000 for me, far from 1/2000.
On 7xxx series cards I would try this: (see the posts from others with same card for best results) worksize 128 aggression 27 threads_per_gpu 1 cpu_mining_threads 0 vectors 1 sharethreads 8 gpu_thread_concurrency 24000 This works well on 6xxx series cards: worksize 128 aggression 27 threads_per_gpu 1 cpu_mining_threads 0 vectors 1 sharethreads 8 gpu_thread_concurrency 12288 This works well on 5xxx series cards: worksize 128 aggression 27 threads_per_gpu 1 cpu_mining_threads 0 vectors 1 sharethreads 8 gpu_thread_concurrency 8000 all the above can up the aggression if it is a mining rig but the wallet connections can drop if the miner is using too much cpu time so if the rig does not have a wallet running try 28-29 I have only tested 5870 6970 6950 6870 6850 I do have a Nvidia GTX 460 in my bits box will dig it out and test that once I have some spare time On the 5870 I'm running, work size of either 64 or 128 work the same. What's the correct RPC port? The OP says 8227. The miner has 8984. Any RPC port will work, although it has to be the same one for the miner and for blakecoin (set in AppData/Blakecoin/blakecoin.conf if on Windows...) Ok, I'll use 8227 as stated in the OP. I'm assuming that the stale are because of the getwork network, right? |
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We have now added you to http://rapidballs.eu homepage get that branding known and where peeps can get TIX from, as not everyone is a miner Awesome. We are still working on WorkForCrypto, but it's looking really nice on the dev site How's the site going? Any ETA on it? |
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A short ferry tale about miners, tailors and investors. Some 150 years ago there was a bloke John Smith who was mining gold somewhere on the Wild West. He was working hard but finally he made a nice sum of money and later bought a farm somewhere else. There was an other bloke with a small family business who made ugly but sturdy trousers for the miners. Let's call him Levi Strauss. There was two other blokes who run express mail and banking services for the miners and tailors, so basically they were investors. Let call these blokes Henry Wells and William Fargo. ...and now let's think about the question who made the most money out of this entire gold thingy. Was that the miner? Or the tailor? Or maybe the two investors ? It was the big miners after him that made off with gold. But the services surrounding it also cashed in, ie. Levi's, banks, bars, boom towns, etc.... As in the cryptocurrency world, mining alone does not yield the best profits. Nice you brought up the history. lol |
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All sent!
Thank you. First Zeuscoin's in my wallet... |
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Right now BTC is booming again, nearly to it's max price of the early part of the year. LTC is down, which in turn, lowers any other alt that is dependent on it. So few gpu mining coins are barely worth mining. ASIC, sadly, are the way to go at the moment, if you can afford them. With that said, I personally would just invest in alts and not mine at the moment, which is more efficient than GPU mining. But if the trend follow the bell curve, standard deviation, BTC will normalize and GPU mining might be worth again. What's your thoughts?
Hopeffully you dont suggest BTC mining with GPU might be worth again  Scrypt coin mining with GPU is profitable if your electricity is really cheap In the area of California where I live, it's $0.1323/kwhr, not really cheap. You would think that California is sunny for 8 to 9 months of the year and would have more solar power here. |
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Everything is up in the air. No one has any idea what the Chinese speculators have in store for us, or where the top to this rally might be. Big difference between $200 ~ top and $1000 ~ top. Thus, hard to say what this means for altcoins. Definitely not putting any money into alts, myself, though.
If LTC falls to $1 USD or lower, it's not a great risk in investment, plus zero electricity costs of mining. People gamble every day and lose money. Fortune favors the bold. Unless BTC become the price of gold, then alts are probably near to dead. |
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Right now BTC is booming again, nearly to it's max price of the early part of the year. LTC is down, which in turn, lowers any other alt that is dependent on it. So few gpu mining coins are barely worth mining. ASIC, sadly, are the way to go at the moment, if you can afford them. With that said, I personally would just invest in alts and not mine at the moment, which is more efficient than GPU mining. But if the trend follow the bell curve, standard deviation, BTC will normalize and GPU mining might be worth again. What's your thoughts?
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Yup, both are out for the count at the moment. RPool and Beeeeer pays better for us small miners.
It can't pay anything now... YPool is the only XPM pool working. I like mining on RPool, paid me nearly double of what YPool gave. I'm back on Ypool until RPool get's back up. |
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Yup, both are out for the count at the moment. RPool and Beeeeer pays better for us small miners.
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Any recommended settings for 7950 and 7970 cards?
GPU usage at 99% but temps are lower than scrypt/scrypt-jane/Sha256, though my settings are just start values...
Measured with MSI Afterbruner.
Got 4 blocks from 24000 shares, one in 6000 for me, far from 1/2000.
On 7xxx series cards I would try this: (see the posts from others with same card for best results) worksize 128 aggression 27 threads_per_gpu 1 cpu_mining_threads 0 vectors 1 sharethreads 8 gpu_thread_concurrency 24000 This works well on 6xxx series cards: worksize 128 aggression 27 threads_per_gpu 1 cpu_mining_threads 0 vectors 1 sharethreads 8 gpu_thread_concurrency 12288 This works well on 5xxx series cards: worksize 128 aggression 27 threads_per_gpu 1 cpu_mining_threads 0 vectors 1 sharethreads 8 gpu_thread_concurrency 8000 all the above can up the aggression if it is a mining rig but the wallet connections can drop if the miner is using too much cpu time so if the rig does not have a wallet running try 28-29 I have only tested 5870 6970 6950 6870 6850 I do have a Nvidia GTX 460 in my bits box will dig it out and test that once I have some spare time On the 5870 I'm running, work size of either 64 or 128 work the same. What's the correct RPC port? The OP says 8227. The miner has 8984. |
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This will probably follow the bell curve and normalize eventually, standard deviation. Statistics works on the stock market and so it more likely applies to cryptocurrency markets.
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