Generally I agree with this especially if you find a killer deal on one.

The hybrid EVGA models are nice for good clock speeds and temps without generating a lot of noise.  Can be spendy.

Founders Edition cards are OK though if they are in a warm case they can be very noisy with the blower fan spun up.  I sold mine for that reason.

My aorus and evga sc2 hybrid are nearly silent.  The aorus (and strix) are huge cards.  If you are putting these inside a case the motherboard slot spacing has to be considered.  Two giant cards next to each other means one is going to get choked for air.

Same here I have a 1700 and it does pretty good.  Cryptonight works well with it too.  Definitely profitable.  It can't touch the speed of a GPU of course.  After electricity $50-60/month profit is nothing to sneeze at though.  Maybe people aren't cheapskates like me lol but I look at it like the CPU will pay for itself after 4-6 months.  Why not do it?

Now if I could get away with putting the client on the 2500 computers at work...  Not gonna happen though.   

Yiimp x17 pool is jacked. Getting lots of invalid job id rejects. I tried both ports.  The pool is busy and connection kinda iffy.  Back to zpool until I find something better I guess.

Not true though you wouldn't know it from the main page.

https://whattomine.com/coins/219-xvg-x17

I'm trying yiimp now to see if the revenue is better on there vs zpool.  Not sure why zpool doesn't produce like the calc expects it the numbers are off enough that it isn't just a couple percent.

X17. Two 1080ti. XVG.  34mh/s.

Whatever difficulty wtm puts in the calc.

Why does WTM always over estimate the revenue stream?

I plug in 34 mh/s which is what ccminer-alexis shows  for output and the rest of the values and it tells me over 130 per day.  Reality is more like 80-90. Using zpool.

What am I missing here?

I'm using bittrex and they show the last 12 or so transactions when you go into your wallets.  I can't find any way to get any more info out of it.

I could maybe generate a (external) wallet off the exchange, mine to it, and then when I transfer up to the exchange claim the income at that point based on either an average of x period of time or just choose whatever the peak value was.  I think this is along the lines of what you suggest in #2.

Would prefer to mine the currency straight and not do an exchange to bitcoin like zpool suggests.

It looks like yiimp and zpool don't allow you to control payout frequency.

This is a problem for those of us in the US who need to claim payouts as income on taxes.  We can't be sitting around logging every single payout through the whole day and what the market price was when it went through.  That is unworkable.

Is there some way to accomplish this?  MPH makes it easy.  I can queue a payout on demand or set the frequency to what I want.

It is still profitable.  Depends on your definition of efficiency I suppose.  There are other things to mine that may be better options right now.

You can still do much worse than XZC.

Is there any way to decrease the frequency of payouts?  Say once a week max?

Speaking of algos which is the most advantageous to use with a 1080ti when mining verge?  Mph supports scrypt some other pools lyra2v2 or x17.

Are there any good pools that don't need you to specify a worker in the config (just a wallet address) and let you control the payout?

Been trying to get XMR-STAK to work for me but I keep getting socket errors.  Electroneum on MPH.

I have the right pool and port in the config.  When I launch the client it gives me this error:

I'm trying to get XMR-STAK to work with MPH and can't get it to connect.  I keep getting socket errors.  I've tried switching "use_tls" to false/true.  Tried switching "tsl_secure_algo" to true/false.

Has no effect.  Just keeps erroring out.  I have the correct pool and port in the config.

I can connect to electroneum ovh pool OK.  What am I missing here to make mph work?

According to the calcs zcoin, electroneum, and monero are all able to turn a profit with a ryzen CPU.  Not big money obviously - $25-40/month.

Stock clocked ryzen 1700 gets about 650 kh/s lyra2z.  500 h/s crytponight.  Power draw is under 100w.  Do the maths.   

I switched my ryzen 1700 over to verge.  Scrypt algo on mph.  Not sure yet if it would be better to use lyra2v2 on another pool.

Sound advice sir no doubt about that.

Issue for the "casual" participant like myself is the time needed to constantly switch algos, miners, pools, etc. in order to stay on top of things.  For those with the time and the motivation - good for them.  As for myself I don't mind switching occasionally but not on a daily or weekly basis.

Of course once you've gotten yourself set up with the different clients, settings, etc.. a lot of that work is out of the way and it gets easier to swap around.  Wish I could afford to stay home and do this all day.   

As far as the privacy currencies go I'm not sure what else you would mine with a 1080ti right now.  ZCL?  About the same income.  Zcash even worse.

ZCL may be a better one to hold and have more merit vs. XZC in the long term.  I don't know.  I don't claim to be an expert. 

Unless I'm running the calculators wrong zclassic is roughly equal to zcoin right now w/regard to profitability.  Neither one is enough to blow your hair back.

As most of you realize many months ago both were probably much easier to mine.  The ship sailed after all the cool kids started doing it.  It's now the trendy thing.  :p

Wow that difficulty continues to climb fast for XZC.  Everyone and their dog is apparently jumping on that ship.

Can difficulty go down if hash rate goes down and people move onto other things?  I like that coin so don't want to jump ship right away.  At the rate it is going it will be as hard to mine as zcash soon.  At that point I'll probably give up on it.

And yah I'm stubborn.