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1  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Bminer: a fast Equihash miner for CUDA GPUs (5.3.0) on: February 08, 2018, 09:56:47 PM
So i've finally gathered a bit of time here and there to compare DSTM and Bminer on my system.

And i have to agree with cryptoyes, ive officially switched back to DSTM, and heres why. (These stats are only my finding and nothing else, take it as you will.)
Also, i used NiceHash for the awesome hashrate charting they have.

Lets get things rolling with bminer, as i've caught up on the thread it seems there is more things that need to be addressed other than the hashrate, but i'm not here for that, i'm just concerned about how many solutions my machine can output as i'm sure the rest of us are.
Now i don't have a farm or even a big rig to put behind this, so for my test ive used a 980 and a 1070ti.

Lets start with the console report of the sols/s, for the 980 it reads about 340 and for the 1070ti it reads 550 steady for the most part.
For a grand total of 890 give or take a few.
I ran this test for about 34 hours before I just shut it down and called it quits. (Originally planned 48 hours like I had done for DSTM)
And here's the pool side stats.


Now for my DSTM findings
The console reports an average of about 330.2 for the 980 and 530.0 for the 1070ti. (Give or take a couple sols/s on each at any given time but DSTMS average rate is pretty awesome.)
Now that totals a slightly less, but none the less, 860 sols/s average.
As noted above, this average is based on a 48 hour run time.
and the pool side stats once again.


Again, take this with a grain of salt as it is only my test, in my machines environment. You may or may not get better or worse results with these miners than I did. This is just what i have found.
Sure both miners averages fluctuated up and down compared to their own reporting but over a day and a half of averages should give a pretty accurate number in my opinion and is enough for me.
But do with this as you will! Thanks for actually taking the time to read my efforts!
2  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Bminer: a fast Equihash miner for CUDA GPUs (5.3.0) on: February 03, 2018, 02:22:00 AM
Just passed the halfway point in my concurrent comparison of bminer 5.3.0 vs. dstm 0.5.8 and to make extra sure things are as fair as possible I flipped miners and rigs - bminer was on Rig 1 mining to Address 1, now it is on Rig 2 but still mining to Address 1, and vice versa for dstm.

The tally so far at the midpoint is 0.0327 ZEN for bminer and 0.0333 ZEN for dstm; less than a 2% difference, but with the advantage going to dstm now.

Testing will end tomorrow at 6:00AM EST and I will let immature shares settle for at least 1 hour before reporting results; luckpool finds blocks very often and provides an accurate tally of what you will earn for your shares, it just takes a while to move them from the immature column to confirmed, same as any other pool.

UPDATE - I just checked on the rigs and both miners were reporting they were hashing away just fine but the pool said bminer was offline. After restarting bminer the pool shows it back online again but there is a steep dip and rebound in the hashrate graph; earnings were affected as well, with dstm now at 0.0374 ZEN and bminer 0.0356 ZEN, so this wasn't a pool issue. I can't think of a worse failure mode for a miner, really - it was still drawing a huge amount of power and appearing to work, but not actually doing anything useful.




Now that's sketchy! Still drawing and hashing away but no output?
Does a program usually still continue to run under full load when it occurs an internal error or is there something else happening here?
I'd like to see what realbminer thinks.
3  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? on: January 25, 2018, 04:01:12 AM
Well obviously no one knows... or very few people know (I still think that there are a couple original bitcoiners on this forum who are 99% sure that they know who Satoshi is).

Whats your favourite theory?

Mine is that it was John Nash   Roll Eyes

Please provide some proof for your theories. Would love to look into them!

Well one thing I am certain of is that he is either dead or he lost the private keys to his wallets, its inconceivable that every single wallet identified as his has never had a single satoshi transferred since he disappeared.

Going with the theory that he is dead the most obvious answer is Hal Finney.

Going on the theory Satoshi is still alive, Satoshi most likely stopped communicating when they seen Bitcoin really starting to take off, and moving any of the tokens people associate with the creator would be risky because i'm sure they would love those private keys, if they do exists still and weren't destroyed. The anonymity of Satoshi is key to their survival, or else i'm sure they would be public lol
That's just my two cents! 
I don't really have any links to any articles on a theory to post but I love this whole topic and the conversation behind it!
4  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Bminer: a fast Equihash miner for CUDA GPUs (5.2.0) on: January 25, 2018, 01:05:39 AM
any idea why even running bminer.exe --help does nothing at all?

I'm on windows 10 insider Preview.  Currently using HSRMiner with no issues on nicehash.

Even the sample command from the site:

bminer -uri stratum://1DQ4bZpFTDiSNk2CWLEFWK9K96rBFP2Hv@equihash.usa.nicehash.com:3357

does nothing.

Any help would be appreciated

try -help instead, alternately one page back is a couple lines you can copy paste to get you the list of commands.
5  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Bminer: a fast Equihash miner for CUDA GPUs (5.2.0) on: January 24, 2018, 07:24:15 PM
Please let me know your results for the 1070 ti's. Mine are now running 510 sols/s for 125W on dstm and would like to know if bminer can get better results. Thank you

Will do!
So far the miner reports 550 sols/s and nvidia inspector says about 133 watts, which seems to be on par with the slight increase on my previous 340 average, bu time to look at the data in detail.


edit:

What would be the miningpoolhub config for this?

bminer.exe -uri stratum://TDartDDD.workername:x@us-east.equihash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17023 -api 127.0.0.1:1880
pause

edit 2:


Just try adding a pause command after the arguments in your .bat file.

bminer -ArgumnentsHere -AndHere
pause


Edit:
run this for help with a list of available commands, pretty self explanatory lol

bminer -help
pause

Going to run some multi hour benchmarks on my 1070ti and my 980 individually on the competitive miners and hopefully put my mind at ease with these huge fluctuations and massive dips pool side.

you know, the problem isn't I don't know how to parameterize the miner, the problem is, that its output is none. And I've got the console open, so I don't need pause command Smiley I even tried the latest version 5.2.0 and the -logfile=.\bminer.log parameter. The file is not created.

Ooooh, I see what your getting at now, that is definitely beyond me, but if I experience something like that ill be sure to report!
6  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Bminer: a fast Equihash miner for CUDA GPUs (5.1.0) on: January 24, 2018, 06:57:27 PM
Just tried again for fun -- still doesn't start for me on Windows 10. Not from batch file, nor on its own with any command arguments.

And that's with two different Windows 10 machines, one AMD Ryzen 7 1700, one intel i7 3770. Both with a GTX 1070.

Any way to debug this? I don't have anything strange running at the same time, as far as I can tell.

Just to confirm -- did you turn off windows defender? Windows Defender sometimes would deny the execution.

What happens if you directly click on bminer.exe?

Yes, I had tried disabling Windows Defender, despite it showing no indication that it cared about bminer.exe. Disabling Windows Defender had no effect.

If I double-click bminer.exe a cmd-style window appears for a couple seconds, then closes. It has no contents. There are no error messages or other outputs.

EDIT: same result with new 5.2.0 version.

Try installing Visual Basic libraries, .NET Framework libraries, and latest CUDA SDK. 99% it will fix this for you

I do some very basic, minimal compiling on these machines, such as compiling xmrig & xmr-stak. So I have the CUDA SDK, and some .NET/VB libraries. Can you suggest specifics on which ones I might be missing?

What are the outputs if you are running the executable directly?

No output. When I run bminer.exe in cmd window, it just pauses, then goes back to the prompt. When I double-click it, an empty console window briefly appears, then disappears.

Hello, the same here. When I run bminer.exe without parameters it pauses for a maybe half a second then quits to the console. No output. I've got Visual Studio 2017 installed, so the libraries you mentioned are in place. What could be missing? Windows 10 x64. I've got number of miners, no problems. Card configuration: MSI 1080 GamingX, MSI 1060 Armor 6G.

Just try adding a pause command after the arguments in your .bat file.

bminer -ArgumnentsHere -AndHere
pause


Edit:
run this for help with a list of available commands, pretty self explanatory lol

bminer -help
pause

Going to run some multi hour benchmarks on my 1070ti and my 980 individually on the competitive miners and hopefully put my mind at ease with these huge fluctuations and massive dips pool side.
7  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Bminer: a fast Equihash miner for CUDA GPUs (5.2.0) on: January 23, 2018, 09:45:56 PM
Great work with the miner!
I've noticed the rejected shares go down drastically to about 1.2% on my machine anyways.
Pool side the hash rate looks sporadic, so its really hard to tell which miner averages a better over all rate.
I've got my 1070ti at about 550 sols/s and my 980 at about 330.
Compared to other miners I notice about 15-20 sols/s more between both cards, i'm enjoying it!
8  Economy / Exchanges / Re: WARNING: Bittrex has converted Legacy Accounts to New on: January 10, 2018, 07:56:06 PM
I've also encountered the legacy -> new account conversion. Conveniently locking up all my funds as well, I also tried to do basic verification which failed instantly due to a typo I suppose, if its even going to work at all. (My hopes are small for Bittrex now) Meanwhile support wont reset the basic verification and is trying to force the enhanced verification on me, and not just resetting my basic verification. Maybe completing the enhanced verification would be justified had I wish to stay with the platform, but all I want is my small but worthwhile funds made from mining back and sent to my hardware wallet.
But this is just too much to ask.
Hope everything works out for those who have been fucked by Bittrrex.
Decentralized platforms are going to take off.
9  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [PRE ANN] International Growers Club IGC [GROW] Compassion. Knowledge. Profit. on: May 02, 2017, 04:31:21 AM
Definitely watching this! It sounds great to me, as a Canadian Cannabis user lol
Good luck!

Thanks man, this is the real deal. We're doing tons of planning behind the scenes as to how we can make this as successful as possible. Happy to have you on board.

No problem, great to see new things evolving so rapidly. Especially things like this, the medical cannabis industry needs a large scale business that can provide good consistent quality to medicinal users.
Id love to help out any way I can, i'll definatly partake in the ico.

Great updates and great work!
10  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [PRE ANN] International Growers Club IGC [GROW] Compassion. Knowledge. Profit. on: April 25, 2017, 06:11:34 PM
Definitely watching this! It sounds great to me, as a Canadian Cannabis user lol
Good luck!
11  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Open Source ZEC (ZCash) GPU Miner AMD & NVidia (up to 18.5 sol/s on RX480) on: October 27, 2016, 02:37:59 AM
Just tested it out on my GTX 980 and on default settings it getting about 20 sols.
Great work on the miner! Super speedy work
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