Some context please!
Is that the new announcement thread? Shall we follow that thread for updates from now on? It's missing the [ANN] tag to be clear.

Here, real data by the data-master DdmrDdmr!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5034149.0

More merits started to be given out thanks to new Merit Sources, as an example I got 30 merits just in September! 20 or 18 of them was after more merit sources were added, so at least this change seems to have helped to put some fuel on the engine! Previous data provided by DdmrDdmr showed that giving merit had slowed down dramatically.

The other change which you mentioned (Jr. Members needing 1 merit) was probably too low of an entry point and if you think of how many newbies started to beg (in a spam-y way) I'm not sure there was a big change, still it was on the right track I believe.

I'd say three important things happened the last week,
1) The XDNA Foundation (the charity organization of the XDNA project) helped pay the bill for the treatment of a newborn baby in Thailand (https://twitter.com/XDNA_Official/status/1042397528812077056)
2) The community was asked to choose between two paths for the XNDA blockchain's reward rules. The 2nd variant was overwhelmingly voted, read about the two variants in this post,
3) As EvoNodes announced in their own tweeter, "XDNA stomped the competition" in a listing voting and they now support XDNA in their shared masternode services. (https://twitter.com/EvoNodesDotCom/status/1043216380131139584)


Changing subject...


The technical support is active in the Discord, just go to the right channel and ping them with "@Masternode support". From my personal experience though, might just need to run the "xdnad -listen=0", try it, it doesn't do any harm.

Damn! We got rekt'ed!


To be honest though, I expect a bigger fall to follow because of many ripple-haters, most of whom lack the power to think for themselves.
To repeat my lost-in-the-last-page post,

It's a problem of how known XDNA is. Most affected coins were the top 50 ones and as you move to the top 100 you see more and more coins trading sideways.
XDNA is number 831 so that was to be expected

Many forums do that but I don't think it'll help solve anything.

Those who want to post a URL can do it in another way so as to not be detected: www. google .com

Interesting graphs as always.

What I understand from these though is the overwhelming amount of the total merits given, went to newbies and Jr. Members.
Didn't that cancel the whole purpose of locking newbies out of signatures? I'm sure 1 merit was too easy to get through buying it or spamming until someone who wouldn't realize a post was made from a spammer would give 1 merit.

As for the stats... I suppose if a Newbie is awarded a 2points merit by one person then 1 point will show up in the graph as given to a newbie and 1 point toba Jr. M.

You could write all that in the already existing merit thread but... I'm just curious... Are you Japanese? I can't think of anyone else adding "sir" AFTER someone's name.... Saddam83-kun

I fixed your last sentence! 
Managers who were accepting newbies either wouldn't ever pay or they'd pay in a 0-value altcoin. Probably the same is true for Jr. Members too.

The exact opposite from what I advised huh? Well, good luck with trading it!

Thanks for the video.
You also look included XDNA and I'm impressed that the 2080 was faster than the 1080ti prior to OC and with obviously not an optimized miner! I wanted to see the XDNA's results after you've overclock the card though... but +1000 OC in the memory and it kept going steady?! That was impressive!

Oh, and the Enemy miner has been updated to 1.20.

Interesting overclocking video here: https://youtu.be/FpmDa5VetME
've preordered the EVGA 2080ti FTW3 Ultra and I seem to have chose the right manufacturer!

I don't see any special rally in altcoins. On the last 24h BTC is up 6% and I see some serious altcoins at 10%-15% and some shitcoins at 5%-10%. Didn't the altcoin market follow BTC down in the first place?
Sure, most altcoins should stay down, but I'd expect a correction to happen after a day or two. Right now this rally seems like it's built to last and people are going FOMO mode on everything.. and personally, it's the first rally I call it's going to last.

I'll make a guess at this point...

XRP will move sideways while victims of the FUD which is spread sell their coins and new people will start pilling up coins while XRP is on a correction.
This period will last a week to a month and then within October it'll keep moving up... how high however I can't tell.

My advice: Do NOT try to trade it while it moves sideways, just hold if you believe in XRP or if you don't believe then sell your coins and go buy ETH, BCH or whatever.

Well, for those who had built many rigs it's a shame, hopefully next time they won't be as greedy.
In my case who had just 3 cards, mining with 2 and gaming with 1 and on night mining with all 3, I preferred to sell 2 of my cards when the coin prices fell (on July I think) and buy coins with the money I got.
The coin prices fell from that buy point, but since I bought mainly XRP and ARK, today I'm on almost a brake-even.

Now I use the 1080ti for mining XDNA on night when the electricity is cheaper and just hold. Also waiting for my 2080ti to arrive though I expect optimised miners to come in 3 to 6 months from now.

It's funny how how you call the rise and fall of XRP a pump and dump when BTC and all other coins had the same fate!

Let's put the graphs on 1y...
XRP's price last September (week 38 2017): 0.15€
XRP's price this September (week 38 2018): 0.53€ it seems, let's round it at 0.50€

BTC price last September (week 38 2017): 3.171€
BTC price this September (week 38 2018): 5.728€

XRP is up 333.33% in 1 year
BTC is up 180,64% in 1 year

But I guess you didn't learn the lesson of this year's BTC crash!

Bye Bye Ethereum!
Brace yourself Bitcoin!

I was buying XRP since last year's September, I've bought on 0.15€ , 0.20€ , 0.50€ and then it raised and I holded.
Then this year I bought while it was falling at 1.50€ , 1.00€ , 0.75€ and last week a few more at 0.25€

Right now I'm 34% over my average purchase price based on the Coinlib, so I guess my average price is about 0.33€! Good job me!

Can you explain me why Ethereum is 2nd when all it's useful for is to support shitcoins and ponzi ICOs?
Or why BCH is still in the top 50 coins when no sane person trusts it?

XRP is not centralised and I'm tired of explaining why... but even if some aspects are more "centralised" than, say, Bitcoin, this is not a reason for a price to move up or down because real investors don't care that much about these aspects, only teenagers think that decentralisation will lead the humanity forward and the concept's believers will be given labos!

Sure, investors want to know who owns big amounts of a coin, but when the owner is a serious company which develops the infrastructure then this is reassuring.
An example: I'd never hold BCH because a huge amount is controlled by Bitmain, they are not blockchain developers and they only care about making profit, therefore I'm sure they'd empty their bags on my back.
Ripple's case: Most of the XRP coins are currently in the hands of Ripple Lab, but only few are in their control and the rest are locked up and released slowly (like mining). They're also the main developers and the marketing team. If they do great in both developing and marketing, they stand to win a lot from the price hike, but so will the investors.

TL;DR: Since there's no conflict of interests but instead investors and Ripple Lab have common interests, this kind of "centralisation" has helped to make XRP look as the most professional of the open-market blockchain-based coins and one of the safest bets for possible regulations.

I'm not a mining software developer so I can't answer with 100% accuracy, but then again I don't think a mining s/w dev will bother answering in this thread anyway!

The Ray Tracing cores are more like an ASIC, by that I mean they are crafted to perform a certain faction very fast. Therefore they can't be programmed to support the GPU in anything else than Ray Tracing. The only possibility would be to make a hashing algorithm which supports the factions of these cores, but that's very unlikely... why would anyone do that?

The AI cores (aka Tensor cores) though might have some use. Those are also for a specific faction as well, I think it's called "4x4 matrix computation", but at least those computations have some general uses outside games and therefore they might somehow, somewhen be used in mining... maybe...

1) Most of the "top" ones are not traded in any serious exchange, you're gonna lose big amounts of the proft through fees (probably some of the which fees are hidden).
2) The calculator thinks the hashrate of a 1080ti is 16.3 Mh/s while I find mine to be between 19-20.8 Mh/s at 80% power and +90 on core speed without an issue. Using Enemy-Miner 1.20
3) Other "top" coins change every day because they are coins that no one wants to hold, just like you many others mine them today and sell them tomorrow, so until you manage to sell in one of those low-volume exchanges you'll probably win much less than you're expecting. XDNA is traded in two decent exchanges as I mentioned in my 1st post and already has a few users (charity actions, Masternode investors, accepted as payment by the hosting service evolution-host.com)

My calculation shows 0.99$ / day minimum (before power cost), that's because,
1) I calculated with an average hashrate of 20 Mh/s (do your own benchmark on your own card)
2) 1% miner fee calculated, the pool xdna.suprnova.cc is offering their services with 0% fee (the pool's owner is also active in the XDNA's, so maybe he's an investor too and wants to support it)
3) The price had a pump on many good news and then bottomed on the current price. It's steady a long time now so the price you sell as a miner can be expected.
The above calculations are inputted here: https://whattomine.com/coins/266-xdna-hex?utf8=%E2%9C%93&hr=20&p=240.0&fee=1.0&cost=0.0&hcost=0.0&commit=Calculate

You might want to hold some of the mined coins though since the team is serious and working actively. There will also be a monthly reduction of the mined coins which usually increases the price of coins.