Yes, staking is been quite profitable ever since. Double the coin value + bunch of staking rewards

HiveOS is the ultimate mining monitoring and control tool for your mining operation. Specially if you do have large mining farm, it is very useful and very easy to setup. So i have created installation guide with Flasher utility. In simple words plugin usb or any other hardrive before booting mining rig. And it will install hiveOS to your mining rig hard-drive. But before that your will need usb stick or ssd and hiveos account. If you dont have one here is link how to create one here.

Se the steps for gpu rig installation are :

Download hiveOS flasher latest version http://download.hiveos.farm/hive-flasher-20180910.7z

Also you will need installation tool (hdd raw copy tool or  Etcher) http://download.hiveos.farm/



Download latest GPU hiveOS image https://hiveos.farm/install/



When all the downloads are finished save and unpack them in one folder, this way will be easier to work with. For installation to flash-drive i will be using Etcher.So insert your usb flashdrive into PC and choose Flasher image in Etcher to load on this usb drive.


After you have flashed your hard-drive with hiveOS flasher, next thing is to copy over latest hiveOS image file.

Next edit your flasher sample-rig text file and insert your farmhash , you can find your farm hash in your hiveos account under farm settings.

Now your hard-drive is ready for flashing, you can insert it in your mining rig. Boot up and go into motherboard bios, select primary boot option from your hiveos flashing utility.

After reboot it will start to install hiveos on your mining rig hard-drive. When it will finish , it will shutdown your system

Then remove your flashing utility from mining rig and boot. It should automatically connect to your hiveos account.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP6D1-CmpSk

They are brand new, burned second hand you can get for 1000.

Guys stop arguing, Difficulty and Total hash rate dropped significantly.
Profitability went about 2x as it was before the for .
Ens of the story. Tested, Proven, Recorded

Of course don't expect to get rich mining Raven its still that not profitable as any of the GPU coins is not profitable to mine.

Well CPUs are the same as GPUs , that you could be unlucky and receive CPU which gets unstable when you overclock it. Not every chip is identical.

In my opinion if you are mining with GPUs and still want to support Monero , just upgrade CPU and mine with GPU some other coin. Also Motherboard manufacturers could manufacturer some mining multi CPU board

Yes it was even slightly more i took a snapshot just before the fork

And first days after for hashrate was hoovering in between 5-6TH , till people figured out that its profitable to mine it. So it means there was about 70% asic miners on Raven coin which is a lot of hashpower.
By the way fpgas are not that efficient on Raven , for example there are some mining new alghorithm already 4000euro worth of FPGA is doing 100 mh/s at 120 watts. https://mineshop.eu/fpga-miners/xilinx-bcu-1525-fpga-detail/

Lately been gathering a lot of information about Solar energy, and it seems very interesting topping for mining. Seems like the solar energy has got very advance , in compare it was few years ago.

I dont think either FPGAs are big of a deal currently, they are still very decentralized, more accessible to everyone then ASICs and also not so efficient in terms price per hash.

Will be interesting to so for how long it will take for ASICs to return on Raven. They have to do these forks more often like Monero, where making Asic miner for it will only cost money so people will stop to do it.

Batteries for storing power could be quite expensive. Is there a way to overproduce the power and let trough grid and in night time take back when needed?

Yes seems like network hashrate has stabilized at 6 th/s , so 70% mining Ravencoin was ASIC and FPGA. I do not think that FPGA is that big of a deal, i heard some of the FPGA CVP-13 can still mine RAVENcoin but only about 50mh/s average. Updated Bit-stream 300mh/s should be ready next week.

Upgrade your miners and start hashing till asics and fpga haven't returned back.
Waiting for network to stabilize to see most accurate profits.
So far profits seems to increase.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DzjGl0zHRQ&feature=youtu.be

All the rest Randomx is quite small cap coins, so it is hard to compare. Might be people already preparing and bought bunch of CPU for testing it.
But you are right profit is just not there now, nearly in any GPU/CPU minable coins.
I love this shit also so i keep looking for options to stay profitable in mining.

It is scheduled for 30th November

Lets hope we have some minining dual cpu boards soon for these.

Yes looking forward whats is going to happen with Monero, hope it doesn't get flooded with malware miners. hreadripper 1950x  seems to have good performance, amd outperforming Intel on this algorithm. Not often you see this ...ha
#flippening

So i have been starting to test some hardware for RandomX. What i think i will be doing is upgrading my current rigs with high end CPUs. And do dual mining, mine ethereum with graphic cards and monero with CPU for example with the same mining rig. Think this would be the most optimal way, to not spend any more money on new hardware, just the CPU. Only problem i face is that, by benchmark testing https://randomx.monerobenchmarks.info/ . Ryzen latest CPUs seems to be most efficient when it comes down to RandomX mining. But most of my mining rigs are built on Intel boards. I have couple ideas what i think i will implement in my next tutorials.

But in this i want to go trough some Intel CPUs and see what are the benchmarks. The only thing i forgot measure the power usage in mining process. But this is not a big deal, you can look up CPU power usage by its maximum performance. Also in testing i didn’t use any OC on CPUs, all of them are stock. I have been testing these CPU on hiveOS, where you can launch multiple miners simultaneously. And this allows me to easy mine different coins with same hardware from one rig.

1.Intel Celeron G3900 , it is one of the cheapest CPU what im using for most on my mining rig builds.This CPU retail price is about 40€. Performance/benchmark – 450 h/s. Which is about the same as one RX 570 on new RandomX mining Algorithm.

2. Intel Pentium G4400 , also one of the low end CPU from Intel. This CPU retail price is about 50€.  Performance/benchmark – 725 h/s. Which is equivalent about the same as two RX 570 on new RandomX mining Algorithm.

3. Intel i5 7600. This CPU retail price is about 280€ . Performance/benchmark – 1.63 kh/s. Which is equivalent about the same as two Vega 56 on new RandomX mining Algorithm.

4. Intel i7 8700k. This CPU retail price is about 450€ . Performance/benchmark – 2.36 kh/s. Which is equivalent about the same as 4 Vega 56 on new RandomX mining Algorithm.



Some people are claiming Intel i7 8700k overclocked can reach 3.5-4 kh/s. Which is a great performance for one CPU if you are comparing it to Graphic cards. But if you are using lates Ryzen 3800 or 3900 series cpu the performance is even better. Some  Ryzen 9 3900 overclocked reaching 14 big fat kh/s , which is a monster RandomX mining CPU in terms of price per hash and hash per watt. I have Some Ryzen CPUs on the way and will do some testing also, so subscribe it to not miss it.

It will be interesting to see what RandomX will do to Monero hashrate. In my opinion it will be higher as it is in a first week of algorithm switch as the CPU are much more efficient as gpu for it.

Checkout video review : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK7omhFHTS0

Best bet mining Randomx is with Ryzen 9 and then add gpus best performance for your other preferable coin to mine.
We have this dual miner , check components we use https://mineshop.eu/monero-xmr-miners/monero-dual-miner-randomx/