and GPU mining is dominated by AMD and Nvidia..  Same shit different day

Congrats on your arrival.

Looks like it might be time to pack up my good old Radeon 7950/7970 when these units are all powered up. Had those GPUs since 2013 or so.

They mined BTC for a while... then LTC for a while ... then Darkcoin for a while... then Ethereum... then.... ZCASH... and now with ZEC gone it only leaves XMR until the botnets raise the difficulty.

its such a crapshoot though;  if block times roll by quickly;  sometimes some machines get more of a chance to get a submission in over others....

Ping time, and latency... oah latency can be a thorn.  Working from cellular connections:  I feel the pain.  Lots of long term tests for finding appropriate difficulties to run when I get high packet loss regularly is a tough thing to swallow.

Some algos act funny such as when mining xevan, I was able to set one rig at half the difficulty and still get the same server side hashrate of a rig twice as powerful.. seemingly about half of the time.   now, they were weak rigs compared to the "industry", but they taught me that luck is an ever changing and un-predictable factor....  scaling up, just exacerbates the readings during the short-term blocks.   Coins with long term blocks/hashes are a different story.


And, good job on the pool Marvell2.  I myself have yet to get a yiimp code properly configured to interface with a coin daemon....  hats off

Glad the no-ip DNS name helps;  its been a life saver for me, and has helped me recover a laptop in the past as well.   I suggest it to everyone here wanting a nice free customize-able DNS name for their dynamic IP device(s).... all you need from there is to open up some external ports on your router for <insert activity here>.  Sorry for skewing the topic further on the tangent.

Back on topic:

Eff Bitmain  

The way I currently understand things (by no means complete or authoritative!) is that there is a bit of a balancing act between share difficulty, ping time and block luck.

Not to state the obvious, but the lower the share difficulty the smaller a contribution each share makes to solving a block and absent any other factors, 100 shares at 100 difficulty is the same as 10 shares at 1000 difficulty or 1 share at 10000 difficulty. Obviously, lower difficulty shares take less time to solve on average - solving cryptographic puzzles is a statistical event, after all. I suspect this is well understood by most here.

However, the amount of time it takes to get work from the pool and send the solution (ie - share) back - usually just called "ping time" - starts to dominate the time it takes to generate each share as share difficulty goes lower. For example, if the ping time is 100ms and it takes 100ms to generate each share then your miner is sitting idle for 50% of the time, basically. This is perhaps not as well appreciated - it certainly wasn't by me for the first few months I was mining.

Finally, setting share difficulty too high can also result in a decline in net earnings if it takes longer to generate a share before the block is solved by the other miners. Something else which is perhaps not as widely or deeply appreciated, but I learned this the hard way with several cryptonight coins which all used the same broken vardiff algo that would ramp share difficulty up so high it would take my Ryzen 5 1600 15+ minutes to find a single share. I kept getting rejected shares and my earnings would hover around 50% of predicted. So now I will only mine CN (forks) if static difficulty is supported; other algos like, say, Equihash and Ethash, don't seem to suffer such wild swings in vardiff.

tl;dr - set static difficulty to get a share every 2 seconds to 2 minutes for best results.

Hello everybody! 

I feel a bit lose, I bought my first and the only one rig in January. It has 4 1080ti MSI and 3 1060 (6GB).

I started to mine zClassic I hold to get btcp so my 2 month inversion was fucked up. I don't know too much about trading and I didn't expect that to be honest.

Later I've been mining ZEN, I use to check whattomine and it supposly was the most profitable coin. I'm done with ZEN but I don't know what coin would be better to mine.

My gpu's aren't overclocked because I didn't see any good config, if someone could me suggest a set up, I will be really happy.

As well if someone could say me what are they mining and how do you search coins to mine with good profitable.

1060 GPU's are mining only ETH.

Thanks in advanced! I hope to hear from you!

do what I do for those dynamic IP situations;  use a no-ip.com free redirect and their client/daemon.    I use them for my VPN's DNS tag....  and the daemon will automatically report any changes in ip to no-ip... just bind the custom (free) dns name to cloudflare =)

All of my raspberry pi's are literally "plug in anywhere" on the internet and I can access them easily.  The only downside to the free dns names are they need manual log-in to no-ip.com once a month to renew them for another 30 days.  You can have up to 3 free.


Just a thought.


But when im less stressed with work, Ill point what I have to your pool;  see how it fairs for the little guys and ill give you my payout address for using in your statistics if needed.

ill PM later.  now that my compiler seems to be working, im going to dig up the x16r source I downloaded to compile originally... I think it was an x16r.   Ill keep you in the loop as I figure out more.

im still out and about dealing with some things tonight.  Hopefully I can devote an hour or two.

I'll send my x16 miners your way I like mining raven I've been mining on cryptopool.party seemed to pay the best I received the lowest on suprnova

Yeah so they are voices going around the internet that the starting price will be a whopping 3000 dollars. Nvidia is making a big mistake if they will go with that initial price as with whatever card ATI come up, people will flock into it. ATI has never done crazy prices well except the RX Vega series but that was only for the few months when they were out, now you can find them much cheaper than they were in different online marketplaces.

2 instances of sgminer

I can confirm that I got +8 mh/s with my MSI RX 580 MK2 Armor using stock settings, no bios mod or overclocking. I used these settings : -g 2 -w 64 -X 64  , miner version 1.4

I made a test on virtopia for 24 hours and suprnova

suprnova 24 h     278 rvn

virtopia  24h +1h more   243

and last payment i got on virtopia is about 6 hours ago
going back to suprnova

Yeah same problem with my vega cards

Yes, automatic payout to miners.

Cost depends on a number of factors, please PM with your requirements and what coins you wish to run etc