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Random pool op question.... from a pool op to miners.
Do any of you still mine Maxcoin, if so, where do you mine? I am trying to figure out why our pool (HashFaster) has lost so much hashrate in respect to 1Gh's hashrate, when we've had no downtime/ reported issues etc..
Just wondering if anyone has any insight or should I just stop being paranoid and credit the decrease to the coin value?
ZC from HashFaster
Mining Maxcoin no longer pays for the electricity where we are, so we no longer mine it (part of your lost hash-rate). |
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Maxcoin seems to rush rapidly towards its untimely demise...
I have pointed my mining rigs elsewhere.
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This is funny, you seem against the establishment (bankster, politicians), but then you ask for an established exchange system for cryptocurrencies.
No contradiction - I'm hoping for a free market system without government interference or control  . |
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You need to find an exchange that will exchange max for bitcoin.
You then sell bitcoin for money at an exchange that does it
Thanks for your reply - that's what I suspected - there still isn't an established exchange system for cryptocurrencies. BTW, don't confuse fiat currencies and money - they are not the same thing. Whereas fiat currencies can be used as media of exchange they are not reliable wealth storage vehicles and hence do not qualify as 'money'. |
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I apologise if this is the wrong place to ask this question - it seems like a rather technical thread - but I'm new to actually exploring cryptocurrencies practically. I decided to get involved because of the maxcoin introduction announced on RT, having been observing Bitcoin for some years and being very much opposed to central banks and the ability of politicians and banksters to steal from savers by manipulating fiat currencies.
So, we've had a few computers running since the maxcoin introduction, mining maxcoins, and now have an energy bill to pay and a stack of maxcoins. My simple question is: how exactly do we pay our energy bill using the maxcoins we've mined, and in general, how do we convert maxcoins to fiat currencies?
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I'm not sure @ what time over the evening, but I did have a cudaminer ( more likely driver ) failure, I awoke to a cmd window full of scrolling text ( its never legible so I cant past the error ). I'll keep an eye on it and see if I can post any valuable info. Christian, I do have a question, as stated previously, is there any way to send cudaminer a stop command, yet still have the text in the cmd window, so that if it is a cudaminer issue I can post the screen shot here? Its weird when it does it ( typically is a driver failure ), and it just keeps scrolling over and over, and is un legible.
Also, Im not sure if its possible , however does any one know of a way to automatically recover from a driver failure, so that when the drivers actually recover ( its usually fast ) , that the miner would kick back into action @ the last previous settings?
Not only am I running the new nVidia drivers, & new cudaminer, but also the latest version of GPU tweak 2.5.4.2 ( I had been using an older one ) so I now have unfortunately 3 variables :S.
I saw a similar phenomenon while updating to the new Nvidia driver with Cudaminer running. It did not recur before or after. BTW, my hash rate on Maxcoin increased by around 2% after updating the driver (old 580 card). |
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Christian, please -- and this isn't completely related with coin mining -- if you have direct contact with Nvidia and Maxwell chip has indeed an ARM CPU, tell them to add an USB interface (or supply a separate USB hub that links to the first few PCI-e pins) and allow standalone operation. No motherboard, no Intel/AMD CPUs, no 4gb system RAM, no Windows. Just plug the PSU PCI-e power pins and the card boots ARM Linux from a connect usb pendrive
I'd like to add a bit to this request. Could we also see a parallel port added to the video card. If i'm going to run Linux, I'm going to need to print. Ethernet port would be logical as well, so I can connect to the internet. Maybe a few sata ports, so I can connect storage harddrives too. If this is going to run an OS, it should allow me the ability to have decent storage, at a decent speed. Sata is way faster than usb, even usb3. And lastly audio output. Both digital and analog. Get lost. In this thread and forum, we're not talking about "videocards" but mining devices. Except you're talking about a video card. Last I checked, we were mining with cudaminer on....video cards. Maxwell is the architecture of a GPU, on a video card. Nvidia don't make mining devices. They make video cards. My post was a joke, so calm down. You're asking Nvidia to turn their *gasp* video card into a standalone computer. I found it funny you were requesting a company add USB ports to a *gasp* video card. No, cudaminer runs on more than videocards, for example the Tesla supercomputing PCI-e cards. Read this thread a few pages back! Nvidia is interested in feedback from coin miners. This, it's a valid request...it would turn them into scrypt-jane asics :p I'd buy 999999999 of em. It seems to me that what we would really like from NVIDIA is something like this: Single-board computer with room for e.g. 8 CUDA processors, a central ARM (?) CPU with a suitable amount of memory, a basic upgradable BIOS allowing external communication through USB and SATA for example and with enough functions to allow a basic Linux to run, physical layout allowing serious cooling. A seriously competitive price point. A socket structure allowing upgrading? This could be a dedicated ASIC-killer based on interchangeable algorithm-specific CUDA units. I can see a lot of money in this (stops writing and phones patent lawyer). |
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