Give that one a shot.  I think you end up getting 17-18 out of your 1060.

Search around for the palginmod version of ccminer.  You will see a big improvement.  I would stay away from the krnlx 'strains'.  Something is up with those IMHO.

You should be doing better than that.  What miner are you using?  The skunkhash algorithm is new and miners seem to be improving constantly at least for now.

Just been mining since 8/7.  It's sort of a hobby.  But I have been charting the S&P 500 every single day for the last 8 years. 

I will think I am OK in saying this... if SIGT makes a solid run over 1300 then the short term bottom should be behind us.  That does not mean we do not test it again at some point, but it means it likely heads back to test 4000 first.  Bottoms almost never end up being tested just once.  Twice is common, as is three times.  But I think the cryto market might be too intense and heated for a third.  This would be the second test for SIGT since it inception.

Regardless, I told myself I was putting ETH mining on hold while I mined SIGT at least through block 60K.

If someone had the brains to scrap all of the arithmetically scaled charts and use log scale... then I could read the chart.  Right now the only chart I have found is arithmetically based and, as such, it is useless.  

On the arithmetic scale chart, it appears that SIGT headed into a 'descending wedge' after the last rally to 4000 or so.  If that IS the case, then we are starting to work free of that pattern and that should mean a return to retest the highs in place before the last sell off.

But, I am guessing because it is not possible to see things accurately in anything but a log scale.  

This is a good thing for NOW...

whattomine.com is not showing the real relationship between SIGT mining and Ethash.  I would leave that alone.  We do NOT need more miners.

Fact is, when mining ETH with my Nvidia rigs, I get 297 Mh/s and at 8:15 pm that equates to 22.06 in revenue.

SIGT with the same cards give me 247 Mh/s.  That is 21.34 in revenue.  ETH is ahead 3.5% BUT whattomine shows ETH ahead by 33% - NOT 3.5%.

But, KEEP YOUR MOUTHS SHUT.  We do NOT NEED more MINERS.  

OK - I take it back...

Those figures are for AMD miners.  Nvidia miners DO see SIGT in the #2 spot - dammit.

IF SIGT finds a bottom in valuation, the drama of the past few days will, in retrospect, be the best thing that happened for those that chose to keep on mining and/or accumulating.

I have been reading stock charts for over 2 decades.  The SIGT/BTC chart looks like about a thousand charts I have seen in the past.  A rapid rally in value - then a slow dissipation as that rally is met with the inevitable human desire to profit.

And the human behavior seen here - the bellicose crowing of naysayers, the wild-eyed optimists shouting 'to da moon' and the few people who just sort of yawn and say 'seen this movie too many times to count' - all the typical crowd of actors associated with any similar endeavor.  

Meanwhile, back at the farm, SIGT continues to mine at profits only about 10% lower than the head of the pack.  Miners are being driven away, to some degree, and that means more elbow room in the dark digital recesses for people who simply choose to stick to their plan and press on.

Thanks to all FUD'ers.  You are giving me about 150-200 more coins per day than what I was getting before.  

20 is about the best you will do with a 1060.  Probably run it around 75% power.  The thing that is going to fail on your card is almost certainly going to be the fan(s).  Try to keep them around 50% speed but still keeping your GPU around 70c.  If you think about the effect of mechanical wear, it probably works like any other form of kinetic energy - based upon the square of the energy.  Ie., my guess is that a fan running at 50% will last four times longer than one running at 100%.

Not really totally sure on that, but what little I remember from physics seems to somewhat jive with that idea.

You hate scammers...

I hate azzholes...

The skunkhash algo does not profit much from overclocking.  What very little you might gain is easily offset by downtime due to instability.

I think you need to pull your clocks back.  Some even claim slowing DOWN the memory clock is what they prefer.  Whatever you are running right now, cut the overclock in half and increase your power to slightly improve hashrate.  I got your exact same error when I was experimenting with clock speeds and pushed it too far.

If you can get 17 out of it on 75 watts then that makes it roughly a 1060.  My 1060's get between 22 and 23 on ETH, but in a 6 GPU rig, the hashrate is always around 16-17 on one or two cards when hashing skunk.  

I would say it depends upon the power draw.  

All I have invested is some fairly cheap electricity.  That's it.  Never gonna get those electrons back anyway...

Sorry.  I actually don't have to do shit.  And that goes double for YOUR brand of shit.

Typo... oops.  Palginmod  - https://github.com/palginpav/ccminer/releases/

Sorry about that. 

And, as of 11:09 EDT, SIGT is again more profitable for Nvidia rigs than ETH...

Signed up for the beta program with cwigm.  Happy with that so far.  If not that, I recommend the palingmod version of ccminer.  There are other versions that SAY they get better hashrate and, when run, it LOOKS like they get more hashrate... but the palingmod version of ccminer seems to deliver more coins... even with a lower reported hash.  I sort of have a funny feeling about some of the ccminer mods.  Not sure they are necessarily what they are made out to be.  

Funny too... the hit hardly made a dent in the mining difficulty.  Doesn't look like too many people actually ran for the hills.  I am mining clear through to block 60K - minimum.  I am not counting BTC or dollars right now.  Only counting coins...

For the same hashing power... SIGT is right now about 87% as profitable as the ETH.

I am hashing it regardless.  Costing me 1.50 per day for 300-320 coins.  

30,000 x 2500 = 75,000,000
30,000 x 1250 = 37,500,000
40,000 x 625 =  25,000,000

total                137,500,000

The first 30K blocks produced 2500 coins per block
30K - 60K will produce 1250 coins per block
The last 40K blocks make 625 per block

It all adds up just right.

POS does not necessarily preclude the creation of new coins.  I think the term 'mining' is not altogether synonymous with 'creating'.