It's normal for the "stake" to drop to zero for a while after you get a payout. Intended mechanism that seems to be targeted at allowing multiple folks to get payouts over the course of time rather than the "few" getting them quickly and often and everyone else having a much longer wait.


 I'm not sure what projects the 1080ti would be good at on BOINC - my pair are doing other stuff.
 Ryzen should be pretty good to excellent at any of the "cpu but not GPU" projects.

 You'll probably have to run your CPU at somewhat less than 100% cores and time to leave some for feeding the GPU.

 Magnitude is basically a measure of "how your RAC compares to the total Team Gridcoin RAC on a project" - it's generated on each project seperately then added together.

https://www.gridcoinstats.eu is a usefull site to figure out how you're doing on an overall basis, since it actually TRACKS each project and how much RAC is attributable to Team Gridcoin participants.


 It can be good to have one "backup" project for CPU and one for GPU in case your intended "main" project runs out of work - some of the "low participation" projects are that way BECAUSE they run out of work a lot.
 It's probably not needed for most high participation projects, if you set your buffers to keep at least a couple days worth of work on hand.


 You're not going to get rich from Gridcoin, but it has consistantly paid the electric bill (more or less) for the machines I've had running it over the last year and some, and the recent "cryptocoin price surge" has made it actively profitable - just not AS profitable as regular cryptocoin mining on ETH or ZEC for most recent-generation GPUs or XMR for recent-generation CPUs.

 On the other hand, you can do work for science and get the nice warm fuzzy feeling that you're actually doing something useful for humanity while still having GRC earnings help pay the bills....

 On which algo?

 I wish - the only thing "ignore" does is remove the text of posting, NOT the headers.

 1080ti isn't a particularly good Monero mining card. It's EFFICIENT, but the hashrate doesn't justify the price (a BIOS-modded RX 470 can almost match the hashrate at similar power usage).

 Sweet spot there seems to be a modded good-overclocking RX 470/570 or some of the lower-end Pascal NVidia cards (or the GTX 750ti for low-cost rigs still does well at 250 hash/s or so on 50 watts or so power draw in my fairly limited testing that probably was NOT optimised).

 Newegg usually has at least one card on sale at $699 (most commonly the Gigabyte Windforce model).

 If you're running riser rigs, though, I'd recommend paying a little more for the Aorus as it's noticeably higher performance and cools a lot better.

 R9 290 wasn't hard to find at under $200 a year ago - MUCH under, yes, mine were $179 from NewEgg when I bought them last spring (Sapphire reference design, I think they were factory refurb cards).
 It's going to be an academic point in a few months though since the R9 280x is a 3GB card (I don't think anyone made them with a different memory capacity, but I MIGHT have missed a model somewhere).

 I don't remember ever seeing a R9 280x for $100 or less on craigslist, but I do remember seeing some in the $120-$140 range so I wouldn't be shocked if they were less in other locations at times - especially in or near large cities with more competition and more supply of used parts for sale.

 Avalon shipments. Shipments of the various BitFury based miners. At least one major private mine with their own chip seems to have started miner deployments.

 It's NOT all about Bitmain and hasn't been for most of this year - just largely so.

 4 cards should be no issue, presuming that's the Snow Silent Seasonic 1200 watt platinum model (I'm not familier with any other 1200 watt Seasonic model offhand).
 I have some of their X-1250 Gold models I've used for years, good supplies, but I don't trust that "fancy name" sleeve bearing thing they put in their newer "Prime" models.
 I've also got a BUNCH of their X-850 and a few of the SS-860 models in my 3-card rigs.

I wish someone could figure out how to turn the excessive Erkan spam off.
Having even just THE HEADERS of his ignored posts filling more than a page at a time is starting to get irritating.

 520 vs 504 official hash rates, 900 watts vs 800 watts official rated power usages.
 They're VERY close and definitely comparable units - much more so than the Bitmain S9 vs the Avalon 741 or any of the Bitfury-based machines that have been announced to date.

 The big question is going to be "is the RELIABILITY better than recent Bitmain products" (which has been poor since the S7).
 LKetc had a good track record there, but there haven't been enough BW.com units seen in the wilds to judge that yet.

 The 100 min order thing though is a KILLER for most miners.

XMR has been in "the basket of profitable coins" for a while now.
It just happens to be the only such coin that's still viable to mine for a profit on some CPUs not just GPUs.

If you want something just for a space heater, you could consider something older, like a Spondoolies SP20e (which can be set to be pretty quiet).

 I wouldn't put a Baikal under a desk - the case on their Giant isn't particularly sturdy and I'd be worried that one accidental kick = dead miner.

 *ALL* Antminer models since at least the S5 have been quite loud - the Focused Flow Delta fan on them makes a high pitched whine due to the large number of blades + the "focus" blades times the fairly high RPM they spin at.
 The Spondoolies used a YS Tech fan (which was very similar to the Delta AFB series) with a lot lower blade count, so no whine just a "whoosh" of airflow that's a LOT less annoying.

 Why should I have to completely reinstall an OS from scratch on all my machines to run an OS I despise for it's built-in spyware issues and VERY POOR stability instead of sticking with my RELIABLE LINUX OS setup?

 Oh yeah, did I forget to mention "far easier to clone when building a NEW machine" using built-in LINUX "DD" command vs being forced to reinstall from scratch to do a "free" Win10 installation on a new machine?

 VERY FEW MINING RIGS RUN WINDOWS AT ALL - there are REASONS for that, and they ALL apply to bloody Windows 10.

 It didn't change because the R9 280x didn't suffer from the issue that the driver was intended to fix.
 The 280x was never a "truely good" ETH card in the first place - that was the 290 and to a lesser degree the 290x.

 Tahiti is arguably the best performance/price ratio for FP64 anyone ever released, but ETH doesn't use floating point....

 That's not mining, that's speculation/investment.

You are trying to connect a SHA256 (Bitcoin) miner to a Scrypt pool - the algos DO NOT MATCH and that's not going to work.

From what I can determine, your miner is a variation on the old LKetc "Dragon" design using the Innosilicon A1 chip.
 Fairly old, highly inefficient by current standards, going to lose money on it by running it unless you have FREE electric.

 Hard to tell since you didn't list the full model number of the 5'th card (I am presuming it's a 7970 and you just cut off the final zero).

 I'd acually guess closer to 70 MH/s on ETH - but the 280x 7950 and 7970 are better at ZEC mining than ETH.

 You're going to need a SERIOUSLY beefy power supply, or a PAIR of mid-range supplies to power that beast.
 R9 280x from personal experience is a 200-250 watt card on ETH, you can tweak it for somewhat less on ZEC - the HD 7970 is the same GPU as the R9 280x with a bios update and slightly slower ram and it going to eat about the same amount of power, the HD 7950 wasn't a BIG step down from the HD 7950 (equates to the R9 280) so still looking at 150-200 watt ballpark on ETH.

 For a single supply running ETH I wouldn't look at anything less than an EVGA G2 1600. The "split" power supply should probably be the pair of R9 280x and the motherboard on a single 850+ watt, and the other 3 GPUs on another one.
 Might get away with a 750 for the first PS but definitely NOT on the second one, and you might want to go with a 1000 for the second one.

 Minimum order 100.
 VERY little advertising and BW.com has made it an active PAIN for non-Chinese folks to get any info about them.

 In theory they'll soak a lot of the demand from the LARGE mining farms and leave more of the L3+ output available for small miners.

 Optimally, they'll live up to their EARLY claims and start selling their miners to small folks - but at this point I suspect that's hoping for too much.

 Were you looking at the "last 24 hours" figure or the "current" figure?

 Also, WhatToMine DOES seem to lag behind a little on the "current" figure on a lot of coins - though it's usually a matter of minutes, not hours.

 SOUTH Korea is doing the buying, NOT NORTH Korea.

 Not the same thing at all since 1945.