For crypto to take over as a global currency, there needs to be orders of magnitudes of more beta testers to push innovation. If not Elon Musk, someone has to do it.

It's just like everybody was fighting using holy hand grenades and somebody came into the game with a nuclear bomb. Technology upgrades did happen quite a few times in history.

The difference is that in real life, who came up with new technology gradually own the entire system, so they then became the maintainer of the system, not breaking it. In Bitcoin/altcoins, PoW miners with new technology will not be able to out-rich Satoshi, so they keep breaking the network until they feel satisfied.

What if the old monero becomes monero classic? It's devs and exchanges who determine the name, not miners unfortunately

As long as the devs and exchanges agree on a fork and change the ticker of the current XMR into something else, hashrate doesn't really matter.

c11 total market is like 0.2btc a day. Come on, make something more useful like neoscrypt, xevan and lyra2z.

You should consider provide miners as a service. For example collaborate with some pool that functions like Nicehash. And VIPs of the pool get the latest optimized switch miner everytime they connect.

Go Titan V for most energy efficient mining  , 1kw can run 6 cards, worth of $18000 dollars. As long as you ROI you get tons of coins in just 1kw of electricity

It's weird that Titan V is using so little power when mining. Claymore eth+sia is the most power consuming and reaches about 250W. Everything else is below 150W. It's a crazy card. It's for people who can ROI $2500++ in 1 year with this thing.

Best practice is mining at 50%~60% max PSU power. That gives you the best power efficiency. PSUs have 10 year warranty. They don't depreciate.

There's a bug with solaris code.

In the code, masternode payment is block reward / (100/30). But in C 100/30 is integer division, so it's 3, that's why it becomes 0.666666 XLR. First off that should be 0.6 XLR. Second off there seems to be a budget system where masternodes vote something, and budget system takes money from masternode payments. That doesn't seem to be fully integrated/tested into the core code.

What's probably happening on the moving chains is that pools changed the miner side to make blocks that comply standards established in the code. But as long as masternode payment is larger than 0.6666 XLR the chain will move. Miners get less for now.

First, I have nothing to do with the devs. Just trying to fix the problem as a casual miner. It seems that

-- There's a random "out of memory" error when calling getblocktemplate().
-- Network not accepting mined blocks, possibly due to masternode/budget reward allocation.
-- Blockchain stall at 43200 has broken lot of hard-coded thresholds (like, out of sync if latest block is more than 2 hours ago), so those thresholds need to be adjusted.

I still haven't figured out how those parts work, don't have a working fix

C++ student? Again, I don't know what I'm doing. I see an error message, I follow the if statement printing that error message.

Tweaked the code again. Would you try the new commit?

Pretty sure we need a patched masternode to confirm the blocks. I don't have a masternode.

It seems to be a stupid bug. We need masternodes to update to a patched version for the chain to move (it's not my lucky day today). Also I don't know what I'm doing. There might be some other problems with reserve payments.

Here's my quick fix

https://github.com/frkl/Solaris

Also I saw 3 attempts to propagate blocks with correct rewards in debug.log. So it's possible that someone has moved ahead.

sleeve bearing = quiet, short lived, cheap
ball bearing = durable, loud, expensive

Simply put sleeve bearing is not good for >1 year of mining. You need have replacement ready every year. Sleeve bearing only makes sense for dorm mining even if you can find replacements.

Yes, I would guess so. That means casual miners may be disconnected from the net.

ASIC mining of BTC/LTC/Dash is unlikely to stop since they are doing well. But for ETH, XMR, shitcoins or GPU coins, China doesn't make GPUs themselves so they might need a solid case about academic research, local economy or national security before mining them.

What they want from CNY exchange ban is to "control financial risk", or stop the money laundering craze and stop ICO scams. Once they realize that large mining farms can be used for money laundering they'll likely put the cuffs on it.


https://twitter.com/SimonDixonTwitt/status/909010478872928256/photo/1

They probably already do. There's rumor saying GFW will try to block bitcoin traffic. I hope that they'll try not to disrupt the bitcoin network.

GPU mining is about done in China. It won't be long before police starts shutting down big mines, and then difficulty will drop.

You should teach Alexis your way. Don't open source hard work and that's easy scholarship 

Under this logic we should mine bitcoins with GPU and after 2 years they might turn a profit.