Wait, now I get it, just saw your thread. You needed a self-moderated topic for this crap??

Your propaganda didn't work, heh...?

He's not my friend, he didn't call me, and I just got here.

In fact, I'm leaving...

I guess there's some homophobia in Russia, yes, but this is also a propaganda campaign. It's not only Anglo-American, we have to assume responsability for our governments.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/a-dangerous-game-or-why-is-the-west-criticizing-the-sochi-games-bashing-vladimir-putin/5369338

A Dangerous Game, or Why is the West Criticizing the Sochi Games, Bashing Vladimir Putin?
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It started with the campaign by same-sex activists to boycott the Olympics.  That was launched by the comedian Stephen Fry, “as a Jew and a homosexual,” in a reference to the Holocaust.  But his joke fell flat because shortly before that incident Fry had caused an outcry in the Jewish world when he stated on television that Jews had stored up more misery for mankind than any other group of people.  The topic of gay rights continues to rankle – the Americans sent a delegation to Sochi consisting entirely of supporters of same-sex relationships, hoping to “troll” Putin – but nothing has ignited, despite their efforts.  The only demonstration on this issue in Sochi was staged by some American guests who were upset about the legalization of same-sex marriage in many US states.

Then came the horror stories about “Sochi – the city of double toilets.” Despite the fact that the photos and legends were debunked as fast as they appeared – they had their effect.  An Austrian journalist photographed a bad road in Vienna and tweeted it with the hashtag SochiFails.  CNN acquired the photo and it was retweeted 477 times.  Then the journalist admitted he had pulled a fast one – but that confession was only retweeted four times, which proves that this was truly an organized campaign to discredit both Sochi and the Games.

The opening ceremony saw some surprising and deliberate incidents: although spectators in the stadium and television viewers in Russia could see the president of Ukraine,Viktor Yanukovych (see image right), in his sky box, standing with a flag as the Ukrainian athletes entered the stadium, viewers overseas saw only an empty spot.  American television viewers did not see some of the section of the presentation that depicted the Soviet period, which was most likely cut because it did not include the gulags.

And finally, in conclusion there appeared a series of detailed articles.  The “bloody slander” by Dominic Sandbrook is an excellent example.  This was a fatwa, a call for murder and war from the lips of a respected British professor from Oxford and Cambridge.  Here’s another example: “The Stench of Sochi,” in which Putin is described as a bloody dictator and the games as an act of collusion. [1]

One could debate each point of the charges listed and either agree with them or take offense.  I’ve spent the greater part of the last three years in Russia.  It’s not the most comfortable place in the world.  The weather is oppressive.  We have ice and snow on a level unimaginable to Scandinavians or Canadians.  Beelzebub himself designed Moscow’s traffic.  I assure you it’s a country where the bureaucracy exhausts new arrivals and which begets a profusion of unnecessary hardships, all of which have helped to forge the indomitable Russian spirit.  You’ll get no argument from me! But only someone who has lost all touch with reality could brand the lenient rule of the liberal-conservative Putin as the “murderous and corrupt regime” of a gangster, when he has never executed anyone, holds an electoral mandate, and has yet to break up a single legal demonstration.

The vulgar anti-Sochi propaganda campaign is hardly reaching the international audience.

This widespread campaign leaves one no choice but to believe without a shadow of a doubt that what we have here is a deliberately fabricated, orchestrated, and organized campaign to target Russia and its president.  Why is this? If athletic competitions in Israel were being written about in this manner we would conclude that the instigators of the campaign were vile anti-Semites.  We could use the formula of President George W. Bush, who suggested “they hate our freedoms” as a motive for 9/11.  But there’s an even better explanation.

The unified Western propaganda machine is able to demonize its potential victims much better than the antediluvian mechanism used by Goebbels – if for no other reason than because it penetrates every corner of the globe.  It is centered in London and New York, and its branches operate in France, Germany, and even Russia.  It is fully integrated into the social networks.  If you (justifiably) do not trust the mainstream media and turn to the Internet – there you will find the same message, copied and retweeted by thousands of obedient robots.

This machine moves in when its owners want something from their victim.  For example, Muammar Gaddafi was the best friend of Paris, London, and Washington.  But he took exception once, and that was when Goldman Sachs lost 98% of Libya’s investments.  He paid dearly for his complaints.  He was utterly demonized and then NATO bombed Libya and destroyed that flourishing country.  Fifty billion dollars went missing – Libya’s sovereign wealth funds that had been invested in Western banks.

This is why the campaign against Sochi is so troubling.  What do the owners of the international mainstream media want from Russia and Putin? For him to marry President Obama? For him to abandon the Stabilization Fund in favor of Goldman Sachs? For him to sell oil and gas to Western companies in exchange for US Treasury bonds? Or – in regard to more compelling matters – for him to hand over Ukraine to neo-Nazis and Syria to Al-Qaeda? In any event, this has nothing to do with sports.  This is a different, and far more dangerous game.
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They quickly get squashed to death by sha256 ASICs the moment they become more valuable than direct BTC mining. That's what scrypt avoids in the first place.

If you intend to mine those now, that's a mix of mining and speculating. Perhaps get BTC out of the GPUs, and buy whatever alt-coins you like, including those sha2

The guys from elitetraders.com, you mean?

Geo-location, IP banning ... right.

Well, otoh, here's an example of a pool that "punishes" miners that flock to them: max.1gh.com
So, all the remaining  Maxcoin pools combined (all MPOS, I believe), where one needs to provide email, user, password, click on terms of service, validate email, setup workers, keep password safe, unlock, bla bla... amount for less than 40%.

Perhaps there's a reason why people end up centralizating in the first place. Instead of "punishing" these or those, how about solving the problem?

How are pools to blame for miners that flock to them? You want to punish success?

No pool operator will support a coin with such scheme. Your basic idea with some modifications, perhaps, but tbh I don't see them.

This is a valid point that was discounted by noisy posters.

It doesn't affect everyone the same way. For example, if one is far away from the pool (e.g. a miner in Eastern Europe connecting to U.S. West), a pool becomes often unusable.

Of course, end profit is what matters and there's always a balance. Some suggestions are zero-sum, or include extra hassle and cost for pool operators . However, if it's good for you, leave it at that and don't speak for other people.

Otoh, the wisdom of learning from other people's mistakes, is priceless.  

Honestly, if you love to invest or love the risk, for a potential high reward, feel free to speculate. I'm also not trying to scare people to be conservative and lose opportunities, either! I'm not sure which frustation is worse, tbh, and I've felt both. But do so with your own judgement.

Further, if a scrypt mining service offers a referral campaign, who is really paying for those?  

It may be heat, yes. Someone else posted this:
 

Look at those "VRM temperatures" ...

I have my Gigabyte 270's undervolted to 1043 mV with VBE7

Yeah, but you don't really care about people's payouts. You care about monetizing your short link and referral.

Hehehe, don't take this seriously. He's mocking: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=461360.0

Pay attention to them, and don't blindly follow "advices".  I mean, if there's some hype to mine a particular coin and someone points his hardware to it, at most he lost the cost of electricity. Hype to buy a particular coin, however, leads to people spending BTC or fiat (which I suppose comes from a job and savings) and ending up holding the bag.

Be suspicious of even seemly "unbiased, fundamented, well thought-out" opinions. If someone spends too much time and effort writing about a coin, that may just mean he holds it and wants to hype, pump and dump it. Not to speak of the blatantly obvious shills that don't even make an effort, lol. Otoh, they can however be devs and honest supporters of a decent coin, but you should see if it's the case.

No need for a long post, just to say be careful with YOUR money. Read extensively from supporters and bashers before investing, and figure out what is best for YOU.

Edit: in addition, some coins are vulnerable to 51% attacks, loss of support, de-listing from exchanges, etc...

cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://us-west.multipool.us:7777 -u xxx.aaa -p x -I 19 -g 1 --thread-concurrency 24000 --lookup-gap 2 -w 256 --gpu-engine 1120 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-fan 60-90

Then if it's isn't latency to server or high cpu usage (not only CPU% but interrupts per/second and such), I have no idea

Well, it's not easy for me, because coin-switching pools are just for fallback: i.e. I have nothing else more interesting to mine. Since it's an hobby, being enthusiast/learner is also important vs ROI and profit, heh. Then there's the issue that multi-coin pools crush coins...

What I do know is that "scan-time" and "expiry" defaults are too high, coming from Bitcoin days. Consider 10 or 15 on each, I dunno, there are other threads here at BTCtalk that discuss them. Then, very high intensity seems detrimental (perhaps due to use of basic CPUs, pay attention if CPU usage is too high with your settings, and try intensity 18 if you had 20 and 12 if you had -I 13 -g 2)

So, if you're mining a "fast" coin on one pool (vs a slow one elsewhere), maxing out Kh/s with high intensity, lots of work may be lost. "Middle-ground" settings work better.

Then, there's also network latency from your rigs to the chosen stratum server(s). High latency is terrible for coins with fast block time. Ping or tracert the servers and choose closer ones.

You guys shouldn't make an huge dual out of rejects, it can happen on coins with fast block time. I mean, don't let that move you away from pools more profitable.

You can see what I mean on coinchoose. There's "Profitability" and "Profitability adjusted for stales". If the latter is highest, it's still the most profitable, even if the miner output looks ugly if you decide to mine it.

Let's say Litecoin gives me 0% rejects. Do I want to profit-mine it?

Or perhaps your rig isn't very well configured for a coin-hopping pool. Play around with "intensity", "scan-time", "expiry" and "queue". There are 2 or 3 threads about it.

Use sgminer https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=13190.0

sgminer -o stratum+tcp://middlecoin.com:3333 -u ........... -p ............

Oh, right, multiple chips on a single PCB, that's a very interesting perspective!