Oh, crap - thanks for the warning! I'm sure you have my best interests at heart since you know me so well. Also, your argument appears to be well-reasoned and backed up by plenty of evidence...

...oh wait, not a single bit of that is true.  

P.S - I think you meant, smart contracts, not small.

It's because on Zpool if you choose to mine, say, the X17 algo, then you could be mining any one of the coins that use the X17 algo at any given time; all of those coins then go to the exchange to get converted into the coin you chose for payout, which doesn't even need to use the same algo.

As @dragonmike has warned elsewhere, though, you are mining whatever coin is most profitable /right now/ but that coin may not be nearly as profitable when it finally matures and is sent to be exchanged... If you want to mine a single coin the best option by far is to just mine that coin; if you don't have any good ideas for what to mine and hate to see rigs sitting idle then use multi-algo, auto-convert pools like Zpool, Hash Refinery, etc.

Zpool let's you mine a single algo, and let's you specify any coin for payout that they mine, but they don't let you actually mine that coin directly.

BTW - I've had good results on Zpool mining X17 and converting to XVG with payout directly to Bittrex.

I have (2) GTX 1080 that I occasionally use on NH and have seen that Cuda 719 error before, too, but it was while running Neoscrypt. I had to actually lower the core clock by 100 - not reduce the O/C, but lower it from the stock setting - to make the problem go away. I can't say for sure this is cause and effect, but I haven't seen the problem since. Then again, payout from NH and other multi-algo miners declined so much over the last month I went back to mining single coins with all of my cards (and CPUs). Right now all of the Nvidia stuff is split between ZEN on Zhash.pro and ZEC on Flypool.

I am a miner with zero interest in airdrops or bounties, but if one of the primary goals of an airdrop is to generate positive buzz then disqualifying one-third of the participants - even if they did not follow all the rules precisely - has only generated a lot of very public expressions of anger. Pretty much the exact opposite of what was desired, eh?

Frankly, this makes the ITNS team look like a bunch of amateur-hour idiots, and the crypto graveyard is littered with the corpses of other projects that committed far less grave sins than pissing off their own cheerleaders (or willing prostitutes, take your pick).

If you are asking for an update about listing on an exchange then that was literally given 3 posts before yours.

A quick check of your post history shows nothing but bounty submissions!?! This is exactly the kind of thing that the merit system is trying to reduce!

I hope you get some sleep soon, but before you conk out please clarify if we have to delete data.mdb again (along with p2pstate.bin) and start over from scratch (ie - d/l the entire blockchain from the beginning) or if we can use the data.mdb snapshot from, e.g., Feb 27 (or even our current data.mdb, as long as we used the exclusive/priority node recommended by CaptDero yesterday).

Just trying to minimize the need for everyone to download all 2.7GB or so of the blockchain if it isn't necessary (albeit that is certainly the safest option).

Strongly agree - adding more communication channels shouldn't be a high priority right now. I know all the cool kids love Discord and the terrorists love Telegram but for an old countercultural type like myself a forum thread - ie, this - is best.

It's a bit low for a 1080 - each of mine do 550 - 560 with just a bit of OC and using the tpruvot fork of ccminer - but its not unusually low. Note, however, that Nvidia cards really don't do well at Cryptonight, when evaluated on a $ / hashrate basis; AMD cards are much better.

So if any more proof was needed that the official pool is off in la-la-land it has 6.11 MH/s while the entire network only has 4.98 MH/s... 

Yeah, I was just about to update my previous post that the last payment from the pool apparently failed:

http://explorer.dero.io/tx/e38a6f1abf8ff477c7b5c3fa31e2c1f2adccb6baab5eafb58904fd3b0d69ffe3

And so pool.dero.live seems to have wandered off on its own once again. Okay, redirecting my mining rig to something else until CaptDero and friends come up with a solution.

Why don't you go to the official website and download it? 

https://turtlecoin.lol/

Yes, private pools may very well be to blame for the incessant forking. In fact I wonder if this is not an attempt to execute a 51% attack? We don't currently have to worry since pool.dero.live now has >51% of the network hashrate, but that is not the usual case.

Sorting coins by arbitrary and undocumented age ranges does not simplify anything, it just makes the data even more inscrutable. Now that a few more days have elapsed the total number of inputs is the same - 148 - but they are now sorted as 28 min, 24 avg, 96 max age. Weight in coin-days is now 11798, so at the rate its increasing I ought to be finding a block via staking any day now...  


I don't much like "coin-days," either, because it is almost as inscrutable. I did eventually find out that is the staking equivalent of hashrate, but without units or a difficulty equation it's not unlike telling a deaf man that sad songs are composed in minor keys...


Fair enough. I'm not pressing for a more timely response - clearly I will be waiting a long time for any reward from staking (and will likely do a lot more mining in the meantime) - just a more accurate/informative/comprehensive one.


Nah, you're taking me too seriously again, despite my previous comments concerning the same. I am busting your chops a little, but the goal is to break through the usual lethargy/inertia/resistance to change, rather than attack you personally.

One thing you can do to increase air flow is to use more area for the filters than is used by the fan. To continue with QuintLeo's cheap-n-cheerful 20" box fan example, instead of using a single 20" x 20" filter, "vee" 2 of them together and then close off the triangular openings this creates on the top and bottom. Now you've got twice the filter area in the same square area (but obviously taking up a lot more volume).

The amount of VRAM used aside from mining seems to depend on the installation... I have 4 rigs running Win10 and 1 running Win7 and no two of them use the same amount of VRAM. Windows being Windows, I suppose.

No problem, and thanks as well to you for your efforts at keeping us up to date.

I have to admit I was more than a bit worried those 37 DERO had come from one of the forked chains so might have been invalidated, but everything seems to be fine now. Still, I feel like I've done enough tempting of luck this week and won't be doing any more buying/selling on S.E for awhile.

Most BIOS mods tighten the read/write timings of the VRAM and, yes, this does tend to lower the maximum stable clock frequency, but this is usually a good tradeoff to make as far as mining performance goes.

You are probably going to want to pull air in from the outside and from below the height of the GPUs then exhaust it back to the outside above the GPUs.

To figure out how powerful of a fan you will need, plug in the heat load in Watts (basically the at-the-wall power consumption) and the temperature rise, delta-T, in degrees Celsius (assume 20-30C) into this equation:

CFM = (1.756 * Watts) / (delta-T)

So, for example, 2000 W with a 20 C temp rise allowed will require a minimum of 175 CFM. That's the ideal case, of course.

Apologies for the mixing of Imperial and Metric units, but using degrees F makes the equation cumbersome while converting from cubic meters / second to CFM is relatively easy.