If this is the same algo that Turtlecoin [TRTL] switched to then, sure. Otherwise, following Monero is also a good strategy as I outlined before.

The threat of ASICs is very real, though - I also mine mined Intensecoin but its network hashrate has jumped from 3-5MH/s to 25-35MH/s over the last 2 days.

EDIT - @nanona - I didn't know about Claymore not including Heavy and that would definitely sway my vote even though I prefer xmr-stak.

Sorry, but it looks like you are too late. Only tiny market cap coins are left that are still running the original CN algo and it sure looks like ASICs have found them because the network hashrates (and difficulty) of two that I watch (ITNS & DERO) have gone up by >10x over the last two days.

Both of those coins are barely worth mining now, even with an ASIC, and both are going to hard fork at some point anyway; ITNS is scheduled for May 14 while DERO is "imminent."

Not unless you saved the recovery seed or the (4) 64b keys (private&public view&spend).

Keep on, keeping on, Pool.Sexy. I pointed most of my AMD cards at your MUSIC pool about a week ago after a few months hiatus mining a bunch of CryptoNight coins and I really like both the new look and, more importantly, the consistent and fair payouts. A lot of other pool operators could learn a thing or two from you guys.

lol, yep... trying to mine ITNS with a GPU right now is like throwing a hot dog down a hallway.

And all of your posts are word salad, with some Thousand Island dressing on the side.

In other news, the spikes in hashrate on the DERO network pale in comparsion to what Intensecoin is seeing: from ~4MH/s to >35MH/s. Their fork is scheduled to happen in about a month, so this ought to be interesting to watch.

You make a compelling argument, and in principle I don't disagree with it, or the desire to have the audit done before proceeding further with development, but on a practical level there are two issues that make this somewhat difficult: the DERO team has to believe the external audit team is both competent (ie - capable of auditing their golang code) and trustworthy (ie - not likely to run off with said code and make their own insta-fork).

I'm not saying you aren't trustworthy... but I'm not saying you are, either.

Yeah, I totally agree. @cpmcgrat has posted some good stuff in this thread, and overall I agree with his position that the code should be audited* but I also think his panties are too tightly wadded, so to speak. I also can't help but point out that this sort of complaining only tends to happen when a market is in a bear trend; everyone loved Facebook and saw no problem with its egregious data collection practices until Cambridge Analytica came along and used that data to influence much of the US to vote for The Donald (don't blame me - I always vote for the Libertarian candidate).


* -  but for very different reasons, I suspect - I'm way more concerned about bugs like the kind that enabled a hacker to take over the entire Verge network and mine 20M coins.

Guys, the payouts have been sucking like a gaping chest wound the last few days again. My 2800 H/s is bringing in less than 0.15 ZEN per day on average (instead of 0.26); and in the last 10 hours I've only made 0.03 ZEN (instead of ~0.1). I really like to support smaller pools where possible, but this is getting to be so bad - and so consistently bad - that I am strongly considering switching over to evil Suprnova that has about 80% of the ZEN network hashrate.

UPDATE - I have now made less than 0.1 ZEN in the past 24 hours with 2800 Sols/s... incredible.

UPDATE 2 - the pool kicked me off around 9pm last night when I was still sitting at just under 0.1 ZEN so I switched over to Suprnova and in 11 hours have earned 0.0963 ZEN; pretty much exactly the same as the preceding 36+ hours on Zhash.pro. I'll come back if you fix things, but its going to take more than a daily message that claims "we are finding more blocks than any other similar pool."

Lol, no thanks, newbie. Clicking on that displays some Chinese gobbledygook and probably just inserted some malware into my browser.

Looks like it's time to delete system32 again and wipe the liquid paper off my monitor.

Well, that's probably because I *guessed* at what mining program you are using; how about you tell me what it is, instead, and perhaps I'll be able to help.

Heavy uses more memory so you'll probably have to dial back intensity quite a bit. I haven't yet tried this myself because the CN coins I primarily mine have foolishly delayed switching to an ASIC resistant algo...

So, I have my RX 560's churning away on MUSIC (Ethash) instead.

This looks like a ccminer variant (e.g. - tpruvot); if so, then you need to specify the algo using the -a switch:

ccminer-x64 -a cryptonight -o stratum+tcp://pool.dero.live:5555 -u wallet.diff+workername -p x

Even though I am in the US, I have had the best results mining XVG with the X17 algo on yiimp.eu. Second best was with X17 on zpool.ca, but keep in mind you cannot directly mine a single coin there; you mine an algo - or algos - and can specify XVG as your payout coin; earnings, then, are hard to predict.

Yeah, both of them are wrong...  You need 42 ZEN for a secure node and 500 ZEN for a super node.

Also, these changes are slated to go into effect in late Q3 of this year, so plenty of time to keep mining. I definitely won't continue once an effective 30% tax is in place, however (ie - only 70% of each mined block will be paid out to miners).

Ah, good; I've got plenty of time to keep mining, then.

When does this change go into effect, and will the block reward reported by such online calculators as https://minethecoin.com/coin/zencash need to be manually reduced from the current value of 11 to 7.7 or what?

Everyone mining ZEN, it looks like the miners are about to get screwed big time as more of the block reward gets diverted to shady "supernodes" and "securenodes":

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2047435.msg34458806#msg34458806

I'm giving some serious think [sic] as to whether I want to continue mining this coin now.

Is it just me or is the main pool at intensecoin.com/pool/ acting funny? I keep getting disconnected and the pool is taking way longer than average to find new blocks (previous one took 1 hour and this one is up to 42 minutes, with the average at 11 minutes).