If you put rxboost (or vmr) too high you will have memory errors and the real hash will be half of what the miner shows. You have to check always the stats of the pool. It is good to use some memory errors tool or just watch the screen. If you see artifacts (like small blinking dots), you are above the possibility of the memory. For me, I can use like -rxboost 1 with the best hash on the pool without memory errors. It gives 32.4 Mh/s with moded timings (rx 580 8Gb).

I found the solution for my 390's under smos and hiveos: -clKernel 0 -clNew 0. Now all cards are working with 30+ Mh/s!!!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtvpXr9O0J4
Pantera "Cowboys From Hell" - hurdy gurdy & drums cover - Guilhem Desq

We are only accepting Bitstamp prices here. The 2017 ATH was $19666, so we've came below $1K, which is around ATH-5%.

Either way, because of driver issues (no matter the version), on Windows, your hash will always be way below 30, may be around 18. That's why I switched to linux OS. With Claymore everything is fine, they hash with 30 Mh without mem timings, but with all other miners, including phoenix, for some reason on half of my 390's (they are all 8Gb),  it can't generate the dag. May be with older kernels and drivers it will work, but I can't test it now.

I am really puzzled by this: On SMOS and HiveOS half of my 8 gb R9 390 hawaii cards are not woking. The same is with lolminer. BUT Claymore works well with 30 Mh/s (moded voltage but not vram timings). May be this is related to the kernel of linux - I know that after Ubuntu 16.04 and kernel 4.10 hawaii is not always working well. My current kernels are - 5.021 amd opencl 18.20 or 19.20. I can't find these os with older kernels.

Good morning guys! ATH-10% -9% -8%... Getting closer to launch!

This really cracked me up! The funniest post I've read in many pages  For such advices we have a saying in our country: To send someone for green caviar.

I was referring to various shorter trolls who came by arguing and persuading us that having some successful high leverage short deal (probably in the 100$ area) is way more profitable compared to holding. You can find some of them in the pages preceding my post. I wonder what happened to those trolls. I can't see any of them now.  

Thank you, thank you Since this post I think one of the main institutional players Grayscale made the difference with its over 500K BTC's. The good thing about it, is that this a closed market, where buyers who don't want to be directly exposed by holding bitcoins can buy and sell. So, more and more such companies accumulate, the bigger will be the supply shortage on the spot market. This had been a sign for a big movement of the price before it actually started. Now, the trend of an increasing shortage continues, which is amazing given the current price. No wonder the dips are so small compared to the usual 40-50% crashes in 2017-2019. The reserve on all exchanges has decreased from 2.8 mil to 2.2 mil BTC's in 7 months.

And another important factor IMO - the shorters on Bitmex and Okex got into troubles. Since then I can't remember even 1 bart, while before - each day at least 1 bart. Of course, now they can't do that even if they want. So the serious traders (not the high leverage gamblers) can't figure out now who is buying - average USA Joes and firms with paypal, or the institutions, or both? They can't also figure out what is the real price, and thus they prefer to hold longer, may be 6-12 months. And this inevitably will lead to even better times with glorious exponential bursts.  

Although I see some weak-hands-whiplash during the night, now we are back above $18K. I still can't believe that so soon after the mostly bearish 3 years we are here - well above the 2x line. I mean for someone with 115% savings into BTC, it was quite exhausting to check the price over and over again and see that it either can't hold $8K, or even makes endless barts around $6.4K.

And that night in 2018 when we fell to $3.1K. Geez! I couldn't sleep well thinking from where I can get more  fiat to buy the dip. Back then the banks didn't offer big loans with good interest, or at least I didn't know about it. So I'd drained my two credit cards, although the interest of the missing sum was 14% per year. I was 30% below my average investment price. I remember when I went to the supermarket I didn't buy some expensive food, because I was so depressed. I continued to DCA until I decided to take a small loan with 4.9% yearly interest in early March. I had the opportunity to take 5x bigger sum, but I decided to wait in case some crash follows. So I've bought between $9K and $7.7K. Then the most dramatic crash I've witnessed happened. But this time I was so used to crashes, that I said to myself: meh, if this price holds for several months I will go to the bank for the new loan. But now I don't want to risk getting covid infection.

So I continued to DCA and in the summer an unexpectedly big profit in gpu mining allowed me to get even more BTC's. I know it is best not to sell anything untill 200K, but... because of my belief in Bitcoin, I took a bigger risk with these loans. So, I've decided to sell these coins, they weren't mine after all. Thus the bank will get from me several hundred bucks, while I get from it several tens of thousands   It is time for me to close the loans, replace the damaged hardware and to learn how to hodl in exponential growths. Man, this is harder than I thought! 30K, 50K, 100K, ... how I will resist the temptation to sell too much too early, I don't know. The problem is that I have only one dream - a big luxury house or a villa at some paradise beach/island. No more greasy streets, dull life and stupid bosses and people around me! I just need to summon all my mental powers so that this change will cost me like 1/5th of my stash one day, when we are well above 100K.

IMO the only questioin now is whether we will have a new ATH this week, or the next.   The final countdown has begun: ATH-20%, -19%, -18%, ..., 0%!

We just can't keep track anymore for multi million purchases from institutions. Just one link of not so widely known purchase recently:

https://decrypt.co/48137/heres-why-stone-ridge-bought-10000-bitcoin-162-million

And Grayscale is on fire (again):

https://decrypt.co/48277/grayscale-buys-240m-in-bitcoin-in-largest-capital-raise-week-ever

And another $115mil gathered in a single day await to be spent next week:

https://eng.ambcrypto.com/grayscale-attracted-over-115-million-in-bitcoin-in-a-single-day/

Bottom line: anyone planning to short the market is a knife catcher and going to be killed only by OTC bots who always lurk for dips.

And what happens in paypal, stays in paypal Some may criticize them for not letting customers to deposit and withdraw bitcoins, but this is another layer of security against hackers. And many people and companies need exactly this. Soon I guess Amazon will follow. And after all this development, SEC will finally give a go to an ETF. Not that it matters so much but they begin to understand the benefits from the blockchain and the possibilities of blockchain ETF's. So this is the beginning of the mass adoption, and those who buy now are still early adopters. And one more interesting sign from this week:

"New Senator, Cynthia Lummis wants to make Bitcoin part of the National Conversation - Nov 13th 2020"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUC3W-A7MG8

I have r9 390 sapphire, xfx and powercolor. They work well under SMOS with Claymore. With Phoenix 1/3 are wrongly recognized as 4Gb and DAG is not created for them. lolminer says I have no gpu, trm also. Later I will try HiveOS. Actually I used Claymore on HiveOS for them, but I have troubles with the hash dropping too much quite often. I guess it is related with auto ttli and fan control which is hard to adjust in HiveOS.

Strange, I thought lolminer doesn't recognize hawaii at all for eth. At least on SMOS it doesn't recognize my cards. Or may be it needs some change in the files of the SMOS?

I tested it under linux the other day and it was not recognizing Hawaii cards at all. TRM also.

A day without a new AYH is so dull... I am finally able to concentrate and do some work.  

Yeah, joke aside, I think we can break the ATH in the next 2 weeks. I just don't see any meaningfull resistance until then. And if that happens, the FOMO will kick in. Then the first major resistance I expect will be between $45K and $55K.

Of course this is just a SOMA prediction, not a trading advice. Anything can happen. But so far my gut feeling was right. In June 2019 when the price steeply approached 14K, I felt a big crash is coming. Then my gut feeling spoke to me: yes, but... BETTER times will come for Bitcoin. Shortlly after that my gut feeling spoke again: after that EVEN BETTER times will come. And finally, to my surprise it spoke again: and after that the BEST times for Bitcoin will come. I felt goose pumps and I know this is about some not so distant future, 5-8 years max (ok, I may be wrong, it may take longer, idk for sure).

The interesting part in this "prophecy" is that the word "times" was used instead of the word "price". What we see now is not that the price is much higher (only 30%ish higher), but rather better times indeed. It is mass adoption: institutions rushing in, paypal, etc.  Now, I trust more this feeling, after the first propecy is so spectacularly fulfilled. So I (hope I will be able to) hodl until it is fulfilled entirely, with some minor sales here and there. The best times for me will be when Bitcoin is recognized as the world reserve currency, for starters  

https://bitcoinmaximalist.net/jeff-booth-its-highly-likely-bitcoin-will-become-the-reserve-currency/

Edit. Speaking of institutions, Grayscale has increased for the last 5 months their Bitcoin holdings from 360K to 506K.


https://pro.bybt.com/futures/GrayscalePosition

I hope Claymore will show up to extend the working after epoch 385. If I understand right the written in his post, after that epoch the miner will stop working no matter if VRAM is bigger than 4Gb. I guess the same applies for ETC after the fork at the end of this month, when the algo will be changed and DAG reduced. In case he doesn't show, may I ask what miner will work after 385th on linux with old 390's hawaii cards? Phoenix miner for example is not working with all such cards, recognizing part them wrongly as 4Gb, while they are 8Gb of course.