Yep. Closed case > small space for airflow > needs more pressure.

Look into the BIOS of the card from here or do your own tests to see efficiency.

Other than that, PCIE-E 1X can output 10 watts, PCI-E16x can output 75W, 6-pin can do 75W and 8-pin can do 150W.

Anything that is ICO or full POS.

With the numbers from my quoted post the number of coins that won't be mined anymore after the halving amounts for 1.2% of the daily traded volume. The volume at the time of writing this is 7890 BTC which turns the same number into 2.46%.
So while the volume fluctuates a lot, I think a conclusion can be drawn; the halving should have a negligible effect.

However, I think the price will change a lot more than that but mostly because of psychological reasons and market manipulation.

I personally don't hold LTC as I think it's too scary to invest in it because it seems its market is heavily manipulated so while people are accumulating LTC and waiting for a prince increase, the whales might exploit that so we might see a price decrease.

I'm curious to see what will happen though.

Personally I think anything GPU-based for fair distribution as not everybody have ASICs or botnets (CPU):

x11, x13, x14, x15, x17, jackpot, qubit, nist5, fresh, groestl, myr-groestl, quark, luffa, m7, blake (any), keccak (sha-3), heavy/hefty1, fugue256, deep, s3, spread, dmd-groestl, lyra2RE, pluck, whirl (any), zr5, skein (any), yescrypt, scrypt-jane, etc...

And what way is it helpful other than one being bigger than the other must mean it's a better coin?

I could create a coin with billions of coins per block and setup a bot to buy a couple of them at 1 sat/coin so I'd have a coin with as high marketcap as bitcoin. Would that be representative about the health/quality/popularity of the coin? No. Volume can be manipualted as well but it is a bit useful while marketcap specifically in crypto I think is completely useless and people overestimate it for no reason.

If you have high marketcap but low volume, it doesn't matter how much all the coins would worth with the snapshot of the current price because low average volume means the market is weak and the price of the coin can be easily manipulated. Which is what marketcap is based on - current price.

But if you only look at volume you can get an idea about the health of the market.

Marketcap is a useless number in crypto. Volume is more representative.

I've said this before and say I say it again; software reported power consumption numbers cannot be trusted.
The smi reported 38, 45, 46 watt cap figures are not representative of how much the cards can pull regardless of having a 6-pin or not.

If Sp_'s SMI figures were correct the 750 Ti would be 48% more efficient than a 970. That is laughable. That would be 6.78 W per mhs for the 750 Ti and 10.06 W per mhs for the 970 (to be fair the 157 W is a low fluctuation and the 970 is using slightly more on average so it has lower efficiency or higher W/mhs).

750 Ti's without 6-pin, with stock speeds and unmodified BIOS with release 55 are using 57.5 watt per card which is a measured figure while SMI is showing 38W. The real and measured efficiency of the 750 Ti is therefore 10.26 watts per mhs which is more in line with the 970 as expected.

Use a kill-a-watt or a multimeter or a UPS that reports power consumption but do not take software reported figures for granted.

I don't know man, if he really ate a whole sandwich we should post everything he does here to see what else he is capable of. Maybe start a cult even.

As I said botnet owners generally point the infected computers towards their stratum proxy. So potentially thousands of infected computers connect to one point which can be pointed at any pool as a single connection like if you were to rent rigs on miningrigrentals that also redirects the rented hashrate. So for all the computers in a botnet only one captcha would be needed by the botnet/proxy owner.

Unless you create a pool which only allows a custom miner to connect with that has a captcha built into it. But why would anyone use that? And even if there was an incentive to use such a miner, people would eventually hack the miner so that it wouldn't require captcha or that it could be used on a normal pool.

Depending on which group of miners you want to favor, I think the best bet would be if coins would use algos that are the fastest on GPUs, very slow on CPUs and there's no ASIC yet.
I'd imagine the vast majority of infected computers only have 1 mediocre CPU and 1 mediocre GPU while mining rigs have 1 weak CPU and 6 powerful GPUs so a GPU friendly algo might make the biggest difference.

Decreased profitability would also mean higher centralization since only the big farms with cheap electricity could continue mining with a profit and the average joes with small to medium farms with above average or even average electricity prices would have to eventually stop mining which would mean less hashrate, less nodes, less network security and less people involved.

Yes, that

By deliberately wasting electricity with CPU's in order to increase the difficulty a bit? Who would do that? If that would have any effect, botnets would just mine something else like Lyra2RE as they seem to do now.
But as soon as the difficulty would drop or the price would increase they would be back at it again. Besides, making mining less profitable also decreases the network hashrate which is not ideal.

Pretty much everybody expects the halving so I think people overvalue the immediate significance of it so it likely won't increase much.

From another perspective, every single day there are roughly 389 BTC worth of LTC being mined. But considering the daily volume (at the moment) is 16178 BTC or $4.5million , it's safe to say that even if that 389 BTC worth of LTC would get dumped everyday, the market could easily soak that up without it having any effect on the price. So halving that 389 BTC will only have any significant effect on the price is a physiological psychological one if people en masse fail to realise the math behind what I just pointed out.

Edit: typo

Botnets can mine anything, ASIC resistance have nothing to with it. It's just happens that ASIC coins are the least profitable for CPU/GPU botnets for obvious reasons.
And botnets usually going through a proxy so the pool has no way of knowing if a miner is a botnet or just a GPU farm as they can only see one connection from coming the proxy.

I also don't see how monero smart mining is a solution as most botnets work the exact same way to try hide themselves from the owners of the infected computers.
Most algorithms are also unprofitable to mine with CPU's if you have to pay for your electricity (unlike botnets) so deliberately mining with more CPU's and therefore wasting more electricity in order to somewhat offset botnets is a borderline retarded idea.

Obviously BTC, satoshis will be renamed to credits.   

Assuming you're talking about GPU rigs, the cheapest solution is definitely if you make one yourself out of wood or even out of plastic crates. There are some aluminum cases that you only have to assemble but they're not exactly cheap.

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I don't get why and how doge is still relevant but I don't think instamined dash is any better.

Thanks. It says a lot.