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1  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Watercooled rig - from scratch to (hopefully) reliable operation. Build saga. on: September 28, 2021, 09:13:34 PM
Disclaimer: This isn't a commercial project so please don't ask me about ROI, build budget etc - I wasn't taking that into consideration at all, just doing it for fun as I like to build stuff. I doubt the money I spent were spent wise LOL. However, I know there are folks around who run watercooled rigs so advice, tips and healthy criticism are always welcome.

It's hot where I live. Hot and humid all year round. So when I saw memory temperatures on my small 3080 rig started climbing up it was time to do something about it. Thermal pads replacement and more fans didn't really help much, cards worked stable but constantly seeing 98-104C temperatures bothered me a lot. Then I bumped into a youtube video where some guy ran 8 or 10 cards rig, watercooled, and was quite happy with results, so that was it, I decided to give it a go.



Major objectives apart from lowering the temps:

- Reliable
- Serviceable and as much modular as I can do, without the need to drain the whole system every time I add or change something.
- Relatively compact
- Ability to move radiators to the outside of the house if I ever decide to do so.

Then I started looking at what's available, I never built custom watercooling loops before. Here's what I ended up buying:

- EK Pro distribution block, https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-pro-manifold-2cpu-4gpu-acetal, allows to connect up to 7 cards. I plan to run 6 or 7 3080s in this rig.
- Koolance quick disconnect couplings like this one, https://koolance.com/qd3-ms10x16-bk-quick-disconnect-no-spill-coupling-male-for-10mm-x-16mm-3-8in-x-5-8in-black
- 420mm x 45mm radiator, a friend also gave me another 280mm x 300mm radiator
- Plenty of 140mm fans
- 10x16mm tubing
- XSPC D5 pump with reservoir (also from a friend) plus an XC600 pump as a backup to be connected in series
- Flow indicator, temperature sensor, fittings etc etc.
Sourcing waterblocks was challenging - 3 cards I had in the beginning of this project were all different brands, so I ended up buying 2 EKWB Quantum Vector blocks and a Bitspower one.

Having all that ordered it was time to think of a frame for all this. My usual 20x20 aluminum extrusion rig frames weren't of much use, it would take a lot of effort to mount all the stuff on them, so I ended up looking at wire racks as they give more mounting options. Bought one of those and then designed and 3D printed mounting hardware for it. This is what I came up with -



I wanted all cards and PC components to be above water loop to minimize potential damage in case of leaks etc, so PSUs, switches etc will be on the top, motherboard is side mounted and all the watercooling equipment will take middle and bottom levels. Here is what middle shelf looks like with motherboard on the side.



Designed and printed radiator mounts and fitted them between middle and bottom shelves. Undo 3 screws and easily remove/relocate both of them, or add another one. They are connected to the rest of the system via Alphacool extention kit https://skinflint.co.uk/alphacool-eisbaer-gpx-extention-kit-12563-a1602263.html
so Iа I want to disconnect and move them to the outside it'll be relatively easy.



That's it for now, I started servicing and mounting waterblocks on my cards today, will continue this thread once that is done. As I said before, thoughts, advice etc are welcome.

 
2  Economy / Speculation / How low can the next bear market go? on: May 20, 2021, 12:07:18 PM
Disclaimer: I'm not saying we're in it already, nor I'm saying opposite. Just thoughts.

I was kinda curious and attempted to search historical price data for 2013, 2014, 2017 and now.  Most sites (even respected ones) don't reflect absolute correct numbers, so if yours differ please don't rub it in too hard LOL. I was hoping to find some sort of proportion basing on past pumps, but the numbers I came with are rather chaotic, maybe someone else will have thoughts on this, too.

So:
2013: 13.5 => 182 = 70                       Grow x13 fall x2.6
2014: 120 =>1019 => 201                   Grow x8.5 fall x5
2017: 826 => 19499 => 3232              Grow x24 fall x6
Sep. 2020-21: 10245 =>64800 =>??    Grow x6.3 fall ??

At this point I failed to find any proportions to base estimates on (apart from the fact that X low > X-1 high).  What do you think?

[Edited] If 64800 isn't going to be a new ATH and bitcoin will go higher then it's two unknown values, makes it even more interesting for a mathematician.
3  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / GPU mining is dead. Yeah, sure thing! on: May 09, 2021, 08:52:09 AM
Being quite sarcastic with the topic name, but this is what I constantly hear since 2017 when I first got into mining. Just remembered it again today when my finance calculator told me I've reached the ROI for one of 2 3080 cards I bought in mid-March for $2200 each. This brought a huge smile to my face  Grin
4  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Something strange with Ethermine on: April 11, 2021, 07:44:44 PM
Over the last week I've noticed my daily "estimated earnings" gone down 25%. My hashrate remains the same and stable. Is anyone else experiencing this and what might be the cause? 25% is a lot.
5  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Asus TUF 3080 thermal pads mod - done. on: March 19, 2021, 09:42:37 PM
Out of the box card was throttling after 10-15 minutes (overclocked, of course) and hashrates dropped from 89-92 to 72-75Mh/s. It took me a while but eventually I found a post on Reddit where pictures with exact pad sizes were shown. So I ordered Thermalright 12.8 Wm/k pads and changed everything. It turned out not all information was correct so I replied with my corrections on Reddit and decided to also publish it here for future reference. Pictures and my corrections are below.

Front with heatsink: https://imgur.com/nzbkJcq

Front without heatsink: https://imgur.com/5DMGkuU

Back of pcb: https://imgur.com/w3OFOMi

My comments:

Front with heatsink: 66x12 1.5mm (I'm changing to 2mm), 100x10 2mm (I'm changing to 3mm as it barely touches), 10x47 3mm. The pad attached to your main radiator (100x10mm, 2mm thick) wasn't touching and I ran out of 3mm pads, so just added another 1mm strip on top of it.

Front without heatsink: changed the one on inner radiator to 300 or it wasn't touching.

Backplate: My card has 0.5mm thermal pads covering capacitor rows. I've changed these strips to 1mm.

After 2 days of testing: card sits in a rig, PL70 mem+1050, core -500, 92.5 Mh/s, 238W, fans at 75% and the rig itself has extra fans. Core temp is 56C which is a bit higher than I expected, probably MX4 paste isn't that great, Zotac Trinity sits next to it with same settings and runs 3C cooler. Thermal pads I used were Thermalright, 12.8 wm/k. Can't check mem junction temperature as I run Linux system.
Note: I live in tropics and day temperatures are quite high.
UPD: managed to get it to 100MH/s with PL70, core 1100, mem 10550 (absolute readings), fans 80% 238W. No throttling so far, core is 50C.
6  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Mining rig cases with separate hot and cold air flow on: March 14, 2021, 03:41:03 PM
I've searched the forum but there's almost zero information about those. Does anyone have experience using ColdCase, Donnager, CoolBox or analogs? I live in tropics so keeping my cards both cool and dust/insects free is my target. With open rigs I have to weekly remove spider nets, dust, sand etc.
7  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / ccminer help needed on: June 27, 2018, 05:18:05 PM
Guys can anyone please provide a string sample for ccminer setting OC and PL for 2+ cards?  I'm trying this  -b mem-clock=0 gpu-clock=1880 plimit=250W , doesn't seem to work. How to set it up correctly?
8  Other / Meta / Why are account and merit sale topics allowed on the forum? on: April 28, 2018, 08:48:10 AM
Noticed these today, looks like it's quite widespread. Not in English but Google translate gives a good idea what's that all about.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3301296.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2441439.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2682694.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2876354.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3034055.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2688283.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3233304.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2941450.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1980243.0

The list can go on, there are dozens of merit and account offers.




9  Economy / Reputation / Rep and feedback question on: April 03, 2018, 06:35:12 PM
Today for the first time I looked inside my own reputation section and was surprised to find a comment there left by somebody around half a year ago. The irony of it is that I was being accused of being a scammer dev of Vega coin, whom in fact I was one of the first people to expose to community (which would become obvious to anyone who would read the entire thread). Now my question is - how can I get this deleted from my profile and warn the user who wrote it to be careful with false accusations in the future? What's the procedure here?
10  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / ccminer bat file help needed on: February 26, 2018, 10:55:40 AM

Guys does anyone know if it's possible to put different OC AND fan settings for 3 different cards in ccminer bat file? If yes, string example please?
11  Local / Альтернативные криптовалюты / ANN: Nodecoin PoW/PoS, Masternodes on: January 01, 2018, 05:48:41 AM




Nodecoin - новая PoW/PoS (криптовалюта, дающая вознаграждения участникам сети как за proof of work так и за proof of stake). Гибридная асикоустойчивая криптовалюта, содержащая в себе функцию Address Index, основанную на address-index API (RPC команда searchrawtransactions), реализованную в Bitcoin Core и модифицированную для работы с кодом ND (так, например, PoS монеты поддерживают txindex по умолчанию). Эта функция поддерживается библиотекой libsecp256k1 by sipa, и включает в себя возможность имплементации мастернод.




Название: Nodecoin
Символ: ND
Тип: Pow/Pos
Алгоритм: Skein
Всего POW: 200k Blocks
Премайн: 750000 (будет использован для промоакций, баунти, входа на биржи и т.п.)
Порт: 29117
RPC порт: 29116
Время на блок: 60 Seconds
Изменение сложности: 5 Blocks
Время созревания: 20 Blocks
Минимальный возраст стака для PoS: 4 часа









Для Мастерноды требуется  5000 ND
Мастерноды получают 75% от вознаграждения за POS блок

Гайды: скоро

В течение 6 часов будет опубликована ссылка для желающих поддержать развитие Nodecoin, инвестируя в первые мастерноды. Благодарим за ожидание






Майнеры



Кошельки



Dependencies for linux

sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev autoconf pkg-config libssl-dev libqrencode-dev  qt5-default qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev-tools qttools5-dev-tools libssl-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libcrypto++-dev libgmp-dev libevent-dev libboost-all-dev


sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev git libminiupnpc-dev redis-server

sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev



Скоро!



arcpool.com: зарезервировано
lpoolname: зарезервировано
https://yiimp.masterhash.us: зарезервировано
Конфигурация майнера

cgminer --skein -o stratum+tcp://your pool:port -u Weblogin.WorkerName -p WorkerPassword

ccminer -a skein -o stratum+tcp://your pool:port -u NMS_WALLET_ADDRESS -p x


Соло майнинг через кошелёк

nodecoin.conf


C:\Users\your_user\AppData\Roaming\Nodecoin

rpcuser=your user
rpcpassword=your password
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=29116
daemon=1
server=1
listen=1
gen=1










Первые 5 пулов, запустившие Nodecoin и имеющие более чем 50 активных майнеров и более 10 различных монет получат вознаграждение в 200 ND в течение нескольких дней (только пулы, отвечающие этим требованиям).

user: basket ball
indonesian translation: Зарезервировано
12  Economy / Services / Researching market for reputable campaign manager on: December 16, 2017, 10:16:06 AM
Hi guys,

During past few months I was reading various campaign rules, management offers etc but some of questions I have are still left unanswered. Let me describe what we might need and I'd appreciate help to understand how much it might cost us.
In early 2018 we'll be launching new coin that, as we believe, will have come interesting features for cryptocommunity as well as real world purpose. As part of the launch we want to run facebook/twitter/signature/bounty campaigns that may last for months (we haven't decided yet if we want to run them non-stop or on on-off basis). While I'd like to get some advice from experienced campaign managers on what the best way of organising such campaigns would be, my major question is - how do managers usually get paid, is it BTC only or payments in our coin would be considered as well? Is it usually a fixed amount based on the total budget, or weekly payments, etc.
I would appreciate answers in this thread (and we most likely will have more questions along the way) as well as PMs with offers for such service.
13  Other / Meta / Forum trust settings / green trust etc on: September 21, 2017, 06:16:20 PM
Sorry if this was explained before but I couldn't find the description of how this system works. I had a successful deal with another forum member, he left me a feedback, so I assumed it would show as green +1, right? Wrong, it doesn't seem to work that way, it doesn't even show +1 in black. How does it work then? On the other hand I'm following one thread now where some people gave quite a few people red trust in matter of few minutes. Plus on top of everything it's totally unclear what trust settings are for, how they work, what are trust levels (and all nicknames in them) etc.
Please explain.
14  Local / Альтернативные криптовалюты / Re: [ANN][TZC] TrezarCoin Super-Secure-PoW/PoS on: September 04, 2017, 07:15:48 PM
TrezarCoin - [TZC]


TrezarCoin - хорошо защищённая монета с быстрыми транзакциями. Новейшие концепции Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake внедрены в алгоритм для поддержания
высочайших стандартов.

Суперзащищённая и энергоэффективная PoW/PoS монета с встроенной 0% PoS концепцией, разработанной Ghostlander. TrezarCoin поддерживает мульти-алгоритмы для поддержания защиты на высшем уровне с NeoScrypt PoW, Sha256d PoS и BLAKE2s для Blockhashing. Монеты будут распространяться через
PoW и PoS. Для инвесторов, не имеющих оборудования для майнинга, будет проведён аукцион, на котором будут распространены 17% всех монет.

Кошельки:

Windows: Windows Binaries
Linux: Github
MAC: TBA


Сайт: http://trezarcoin.com
Block explorer: https://altminer.net/explorer/1858
Майнинг пулы:

https://altminer.net/site/mining
http://SteamOctanePool.com
Биржи: TBA




NeoScrypt CPU и GPU майнеры


CPUminer (source code and binaries)

CCminer (source code and binaries)

NSGminer (source code and binaries)

NSGminer: The Fastest NeoScrypt GPU Miner

Руководство по майнингу:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EWj1yMLJdYC857WtjMlX5CLgXViH3nTTdjprEGJdXa0

MinerX P2Pool оптимизированный для TrezarCoin:

TBA


Социальные сети:


Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/trezarcoin/shared_invite/MjI2MzI3OTg5MTQyLTE1MDI0NTk1MDAtYzMyMjgxNmJkNg
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/DFQmZg09ZJnKHMUM-QlJhg


Спецификации

400 миллионов монет
Время на блок 1 Минута
100 монет в блоке
Премайн 20% = 17% Аукцион - 3% Разработка, Маркетинг,Баунти

Передовой гибрид концепций proof-of-work (PoW) и proof-of-stake (PoS)
фиксированное соотношение 67% PoW блоков и 33% PoS блоков

block hashing - BLAKE2s
PoW hashing - NeoScrypt
PoS hashing -  SHA-256d

1 минута на комбинированный блок (1.5 минуты для PoW, 3 минуты для PoS)
Перерасчёт сложности на каждый блок с использованием OSS
Защита от "временных бомб" и инстамайна
Продвинутая защита против атак 51%
Поддержка сообщений в транзакциях
Внедрение 0% PoS
PoW блоки генерируют 2/3 всех монет, PoS блоки генерируют 1/3 всех монет.
возраст монет для PoS: минимум 1 день, максимум 16 дней.
6 подтверждений при обычных транзакциях
200 подтверждений для новых монет
Очень низкие комиссии при переводах (большинство переводов бесплатны)
отсутствие потерь при комиссиях за транзакции (они несутся нашедшим блок )
P2P порт по умолчанию TBA, порт RPC TBA
I2P/Tor ready


Пример конфигурационного файла Trezar:

irc=1
dns=1
qtstyle=2
daemon=1
server=1
stakegen=1
logtimestamps=1
minersleep=2000
stakemintime=72
stakecombine=40
stakesplit=80
port=15298
rpcport=15299
rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password

Пример .Bat файла

CCMiner: ccminer64_65.exe -a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://eu1.altminer.net:4233 -u YOURADDRESS -p c=TZC
NSGMiner: nsgminer.exe --neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://eu1.altminer.net:4233 -u YOURADDRESS -p c=TZC

ADDNODES:
addnode=162.217.249.198:17298
addnode=46.4.0.101:17298

Разработка

Фонд разработки 1% Монет:

Дорожная Карта



Marketing

Фонд маркетинга 1.5% Монет:

Facebook/Google Маркетинг
Кампании подписей

Баунти

Фонд Баунти 0.5% Монет

[BCT ветка баунти] - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2149787.msg21506874#msg21506874

Аукцион

Монет на Аукционе: 17% Монет

Ссылка на Аукцион: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2149796.new#new

17% всех Монет будут распределены между всеми участниками будущего аукциона.

Как принять участие?

1. Скачайте кошелёк TZC
2. Получите адрес TZC
3. Отошлите его в ветку аукциона -> [TBA] или отправьте личное сообщение разработчику с вашим адресом TZC
4. Получите адрес BTC на бирже
5. Депонируйте BTC в ходе аукциона
6. Получите ваши TZC после окончания аукциона


Шестидневный Аукцион (Начало 04.09.2017 - окончание 09.09.2017 6PM CEST )

День 1+2 BTC с коэффициэнтом 1.25
День 3+4 BTC с коэффициэнтом 1.1
День 5+6 BTC с коэффициэнтом 1.0


Сразу по окончании аукциона, все аукционированные монеты будут распределены пропорционально вложенным средствам в BTC.

Пример:

Вы отправили 1 BTC на предоставленный адрес в День 3 аукциона and и аукцион закончился с общей собранной суммой 50 BTC, вы
получите [(1 BTC * 1.1)/общее кол-во монет]*68 миллионов. Что равно 1.7M Монет.

С уважением,
ChekaZ
15  Economy / Goods / Paul&Shark clothes for sale on: July 19, 2017, 09:36:14 AM
I have jackets (2 models) @ 0.13 btc, shorts (2 models) @ 0.06 btc and caps (2 models) @ 0.03 btc. All brand new in packaging, prices include trackable shipping. Will post pictures if there's any interest.
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