@fluffy @smooth & co,

The pools section in the OP would do well with a wee bit of house keeping.
I've checked each pool link to find the following:

http://backup-pool.com/monero/  <- dead link
http://monero.backup-pool.com/  <- current link

http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu/   <- dead link, pool closed

http://monero.coolmining.club/  <- pool closed

Cryptonotepool.uk is listed as donating 0% of their fees, which I understand is not the case.
I think there are also new pools to be added, though I don't have the necessary info.

Cheers!

As you read this post, please go ahead and picture a crowd of sexy ladies barely dressed, frantically maneuvering their colorful (inverted) umbrellas as they attempt to collect as much of the HYP rains as they might. You have been thoroughly missed Waxo. 

And you know this, because? 

I don't think there's much value in us speculating when fluffy already posted the possible clarification that matters right now.

Here's that recent example at ArsTechnica that came to mind:
IMAX apologizes to Ars for its trademark retraction demand

Note: The context in this IMAX piece is completely unrelated from the case here with Moneero/Monero, just pointing out that I totally agree with Binaryfate with concerns to public image and reputation damage. 

No clue tbearhere, I've only got the 980.
Will send you a PM for more off-topic followup.

This looks like an interesting trademark case. Generally speaking, a trademark cannot be registered if it is a dictionary word and the business/trademark context aligns with the dictionary definition.

One can trademark "Money" for a brand of IceCream or Clothes, but not "Money" for any money related activities. Seeing as the trademark is for "Moneero", and their business relates to various financial activities & services, it strikes me comical that this ever got registered. Perhaps due to Esperanto not being an official language in any recognized independent territory?

I think it was ArsTecnica who dabbled on crypto-currency experimentation a while back, and has had plenty of articles and stories concerning trademarks and litigation abuse in the technology space. A good writeup to them could get us a solid (informal) legal review of the matter, as well as a lot of exposure. 1 Stone -> 2 Birds, any takers?

This:
- verify this message with the litecoin address found in this post ?topic=441215.msg4847316

Links to:
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=441215.msg4847316

Where you find the address I posted above.
I am getting validation failure for the message signature, so, no clue. I posted a comment on git.

@Coins101:

Actually, the LTC reference address is not in a quote, it is a direct link to a post (which has so far not been modified though).
Edit: I confirmed the address and contents of the linked post, and it is an exact copy of an identical post on Litecointalk.

For future reference, this is the claimed signer LTC address:

This is the message:

And this is the signature:

His github message is signed by an LTC address that is linked in a bitcointalk quote. Since the quote itself can't be modified by the current holder of the vertoe account, it is reasonable proof of her identity. In short: the message was posted by someone that holds control of: vertoe's github account + vertoe's prior known LTC keys.

If the statement holds true and represents vertoe's take on CACHE going forward, I am thoroughly surprised by the total lack of character/morals. Oh well, just another day in Altcoin land I suppose. 

I've never tested Scrypt-N at all, ever, so I am not familiar with the right settings for this one. If I have a chance I'll run some autotune/benchmarking and let you know.

Concerning the cards with more than 2GB, I think there is also some limitation in the driver layer (WDDM), 2.3GB or thereabouts is the maximum that Windows can use with regular display drivers. FWIW, I know the maximum VRAM I've used in Linux is about 3.7GB per card.

Windows 10 might be finally addressing this though (eventually):
GPU virtual memory in WDDM 2.0

@mik57:

Nothing changed recently that would affect your mining settings, but you are not selecting the CACHE parameters, you are selecting YAC instead. If they are not exactly on the same nfactor schedule, that would be enough reason.

If the problem relates to the nfactor selection, this one should work:
cudaminer.exe -a scrypt-jane:16 -H 2 -L 8 -i 0 -l t64x1 -b 4096 -m 1 -o stratum+tcp://cach.catcoin.cz:3333 -u xxx -p xxx

Unfortunately that doesn't help, as I really don't recall Scrypt-Jane:15 performance on the 750ti at all (and neither can I test it). All of my performance & test references are on Scrypt-Jane:16 specifically. Thanks for posting though!


I'm particularly curious about Vista, as memory management differences might explain better performance on that one.


I find that statement to be true for Windows (7 & 8, still dunno about Vista), but not for Linux. On Linux, you can use different launch settings for the 4GB cards and much better performance can be achieved. My 980's run fastest with about 3.4 GB of VRAM allocated, but only on Linux. Might relate to the memory backoff settings discussed up-thread.

device_backoff = is_windows() ? 12 : 2;
Windows backoff 12%, non-Windows backoff 2%

device_backoff = is_windows() ? 1 : 2;
Windows backoff 1%, non-Windows backoff 2%

I suppose this is the change. Have not done this modification myself before though.

@tbearhere

Can you post your hashrate/card for Scrypt-Jane:16 on Vista? Would be funny to find that Vista matches the performance on Linux (or betters it?), while recent Windows versions all suck! 

Relatively speaking, I think it does, but with Monero, I haven't seen any difference between similar 2GB and 4GB cards. So while it uses a lot of VRAM, it cares more about memory bandwidth, less about absolute memory quantity (my experience is only with 2GB up).

Obviously, the developers will know much better, but my basic understanding is that with Monero, you just need enough VRAM to fit a certain/large scratchpad. Beyond that, more memory does not help in any meaningful way. Faster memory does help.
There might be coding optimizations/tradeoffs to be made, much like larger -L values do for Scrypt-Jane & Scrypt-N (not storing the full scratchpad and computing on the fly as needed for missing values).

Hope the description makes some sense. If not, may the bashing begin 

With Scrypt-Jane at high n-factors (and possibly with Scrypt-N too, that one I have no experience with), greater amounts of VRAM make a huge difference. Sidenote: only for Linux, since Windows sux and can't ever fully utilize the VRAM.
I suppose these are somewhat the exception, since most other algos don't really care for memory quantity at all.

It's not so much the translation itself, though help will be most welcome when the time comes. I'm stuck at understanding the translation framework (if one is at all in place already, or perhaps planned for later on). Reference location for any related followup: Translating GetMonero.org

Can't keep a straight face reading your nick bytemuma 

There was/is a pretty good outline of how the platform would be monetized. Plenty of information throughout the thread, if you care to read back...

The platform development itself was assured via CrowdFund, which is why I still believe that Joe should support the project to reasonable completion. Otherwise, what was the point of the CrowdFund? With a known developer identity and all the public funding information, there is quite a lot of responsibility resting on Joe's shoulders.

Looks to be that there's still a crapload of people on the outdated wallet version...
Not much chance of moving forward if even coin holders are ignoring the needed update.  

@ocminer: Any chance that you can keep your node up, setup for plenty of connections while we try to get past this problem? Also I'm still not clear on what your node is, if generally available, is it just vtx.suprnova.cc? Thanks.

EDIT: I see, had to run the old wallet in order to sync with SuprNova. The pool node is also running the older client version. I'm now sync'ed, but have no clue what to do from here. Developer still around or what? A sign of life would be most welcome!  

EDIT2: I'm staking small chunks of coins at a time using reservebalance, hopefully this get's the chain moving, but others need to do the same as I'll run out of inputs any minute now...

You actually had me looking at their profiles.

Funny coincidence:
Last ever post by child_harold: June 16, 2015, 08:25:35 PM
First ever post by wanderlust: June 16, 2015, 12:02:54 PM

Naturally, data is subject to change as Troll Account X now starts getting some use again...