Saw something curious on Simplevert this evening, figured I'd see if the collective knowledge of the community could shed some light for a hapless newbie.

There is an address on there that is clocking in at ~300 MHash/sec between four different miners (150, 50, 50, and 50 MHash/sec each). I have a rig with 4X 280X and I'm running at ~1.4 MHash/sec. This would imply that the smaller three mining rigs would be in the neighborhood of 160 GPU's (give or take depending on model). Given the four miners together, we're looking at nearly 1000 GPUs, which kind of defies belief.

I know there is talk that some Scrypt ASICs are able to run the current N-Factor for Vertcoin, could this be an ASIC churning out these numbers? I mean, I know there are GPU farms out there, but this would be absurd.

Is it already time to do the Anti-ASIC hardfork that the devs have promised?

I would agree with P2Pool being the better choice, but even many p2pool operators charge fees to cover costs. Further, while I can't go through and ensure that 100% of my shares were paid, I did check my transaction list this morning and I have a couple dozen transactions from throughout the night as well as one lump sum of 12 MON that I suspect is from the backed up pay script. Don't spread FUD, HashHarder payed it's miners just fine.

Also, for us smaller miners, it was only recently that good, low latency p2pools on network 3 have been confirmed operational, so HH has been a great hold over until then.

Are you looking on "Current Round Statistics" or "Scheduled Payments" ? I see the "Current Round Statistics" logging my shares and keeping track of my hashrate, but I don't see anything on "Schedule Payments". What I think is happening is that it can only list 1000 entries, so new entries aren't being shown because it hasn't processed payments in so long and the list has not updated yet. If you started mining with them after the list had already filled up, it's not going to show your current progress. There are something like 125 people mining on HH, so the list would have filled up after only ~8 blocks following the payments being blocked, which would be pretty quick as HH constitutes ~25% of the MON network right now.

While I haven't heard anything from HH, it looks like their payouts got stuck somewhere but it seems to be keeping track of them just fine (you can look through lists of payment addresses and values, as well as new blocks solved in the recent 30). I'm sticking with it personally as I'm still getting my usual VTC payouts so it's not a complete bust. Hopefully once they get the ball rolling, MON should be flooding in while the backed up payments surge through.

New coin launches are rarely perfect and this one is even more complex than most. Boris and the rest of the VTC/MON dev team, keep up the good work! You guys have always done right by the community in the past and I trust that you will in this as well.

So a friend in New Zealand is working on a project that I thought was pretty interesting and might make for something useful within the community. It's an open source project that is being crowd funded and they are supporters of crypto (BTC and DOGE only at this point, though I suggested they take VTC as well!).

It is essentially a means to organize the crowdsourced decision making processes throughout a large and diverse group of people. I was thinking it might be an incredibly useful tool for the devs to receive input from the Vertcoin community. It allows respondents to raise questions, concerns, and add their own ideas, all while setting a deadline on the input so the decisions do not get dragged out by endless discussion. It appears that it also allows for progress updates, etc., which I know people on the forums have been calling for.

Anyways, I'm in no way officially affiliated with the program and gain nothing from its acceptance or rejection, just saw something cool a friend was working on and thought it might be worth checking out when it's up and running.

https://www.loomio.org/

Have you under-volted them yet? This significantly reduced my temps (5-10 C). Here is a great How-To http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/10/undervolting-in-linux-via-modified-bios/. I run a single rig with 4x R9280X's running at 1.100, 1.100, 1.081 and 1.075, all running incredibly stable.

Also, CGMiner has a lot of really nice "Auto" features that help considerably. I have my "Auto-GPU Engine" set at 500-1040 so that during the day when it's hot in my garage, it throttles down to reduce temps, then at night when it cools off it opens up and increases my hash rate. Temps rarely exceed 78 C with this system.

I've also toyed with the idea of setting up two voltages (you can do this in VBE from the How-To above) so that when it's cool, it ramps up voltage and gives more headroom for the GPU clock, but reduces the voltage as the clock is reduced during the hot days. Anyone tried this?

So I was looking at http://vertcoin.com/ and noticed that both Dedicated Pool and Ecurie.io pools are listed as 0 Khash and 0 workers.

Did they fork? Stop reporting? Anyone from pool support on this forum might want to check, seems odd. If anything, makes it difficult to measure and ensure distributed hash...

I for one love the new logo. Sure the original had a certain charm to it, but this one looks clean and professional. Congrats to the designer(s)!

Things are looking good for Vertcoin! Hashrate is on the rise, prices are looking northward, it's a good time to be a Verter. On a side note, after seeing a few points of success mining PANDA and dumping for VTC, I decided to try it out. I now have 60K+ in PANDA that I'm struggling to get rid of.

I feel sullied and unusual.

The "double earnings" aspect is with respect to my historical earnings with DOGE. At the current difficulty, estimates put me at about 0.03 BTC/day with my hashrate, so not quite double. Even then, when I compared my average daily earnings over a 14 day period on DOGE, I found that I was consistently about 30% under the what most estimate calculators put me at. So while it's idle speculation, I would still say that in reality, I would be making 0.025-0.03 BTC/day on DOGE, and my actual earnings with VTC (with the suppressed exchange) are >0.04 BTC/day.

Interestingly, it seems that over the past couple weeks I've been able to get very close to my "estimated daily earnings" listed on the pool, which was never the case with DOGE. I don't know if there is just more fluctuation with DOGE or what, but I personally like knowing that at my hashrate, the calculators say 15 coins and I get ~15 coins.

Just my 2 cents...

I've been mining VTC about 2 weeks now and even with the lower VTC/BTC that so many seem to be bashing, I'm still bringing in >0.04 BTC per day, which is about double what I was getting with DOGE. Call me crazy, but I'm pretty happy with nearly paying my rent each month just by flipping a switch on a computer. And if VTC goes where I think it will, I'll pay off a lot more than my rent.

For GPU miners perusing this thread, this is a great coin with longevity that I think is going to come into its own in the next ~6 months as scrypt ASICs come to dominate the mining scene for LTC and it's brethren. Yeah, there is a little bit of a learning curve associated with getting your mining rigs online, but I know pretty much nothing about linux and I was able to get it going in about an hour with the amazing help found on vertcoin.org and this thread, so it's well worth trying it out.

Haters are always going to hate and those in it for the Ponzi-style pump and dump are probably not going to love this coin, and I say good riddance. Keep your GPU's making you money longer with Vertcoin.

My rig has 4x GPU's in a milk crate (janky, but effective!). Their close proximity was causing some cooling issues to I had my girlfriend laser cut a custom "lid" out of acrylic for it that has 4X fans ( http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-Bearing-Computer-Radiators/dp/B000O8I474/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1392332086&sr=8-2&keywords=coolermaster+fans ) on the top of it. This brought temps down ~5 degrees, GPU's are now sitting pretty at ~70-74 C.

So all in all, it depends on how you're arranging your rig. Some of the larger, more open rigs have plenty of space to cool, but especially if you go with the ASUS as you have said in your later posts, they direct exhaust air to the side towards the next GPU in line, so the first one in the line gets plenty of cool air, and the ones to the side get heated air from the one to the left. Adding fans to push this hot air away keeps the system much cooler.

Best of luck!

So while on the subject of Cryptsy, I found something a bit concerning this morning and I would like some input to make sure I'm reading the blockchain correctly.

Long story short, I send ~17 VTC to Crypsty on Sunday, but nothing has shown up in my account yet. I checked the blockchain and it says "Not Yet Redeemed" so I put in a ticket with Cryptsy and wait patiently. Now this morning, it shows it has been redeemed, but it is still not in my account. So I check the blockchain again, and it appears that the balance was redeemed and then sent right back out again to a different address.

Did Cryptsy/Someone steal my coins? Seriously, what the hell happened here? None of my other coins on my Cryptsy account are gone or otherwise changed, so it would seriously be the worst hack ever...

Here is the address on the blockchain:

http://explorer.vertcoin.org/address/Vhhcj7PRhDtrpwwj9MQ4rFg74RFASJEpht

Any thoughts or help would be much appreciated...