Yes, premine is basically a few high reward blocks the dev solomines before releasing the coin (wallet, source, etc).

Instamine is when blocks are mined way too fast than what was intended; let's say the block target is 60 seconds, so 1 block should be mined roughly every 60 seconds. There's a mechanism in place that controls the complexity of solving the next block (based on how fast blocks are being found by miners), called difficulty retarget. Which make blocks harder to mine if blocks are mined too fast and vice versa. Coins are almost always launch with very very low difficulty and it takes time for the difficulty retarget to increase the complexity of solving blocks by a huge amount and when a coin is launched, a huge amount of miners will start mining while the difficulty is only slowly climbing.

Instamining can be as fast as mining hundreds of blocks within minutes. And can last a long time, depending on the difficulty retarget in place.

I use Teamviewer but strictly with LAN only mode (Incoming LAN connections: accept exclusively) so the rigs can't be connected to outside my LAN - which is the extend I trust Teamviewer...

I use the free version because the business version prices are kind of a joke and there are no personal packages...

On the rigs I also start Teamviewer with higher than normal priority so they never close on their own - which otherwise tend to happen after a few hours for no reason.

You can't send coins from one network to another (Eth to Pivx) as they're completely different, unconnected networks.

Your best bet of getting Pivx is by selling your Eth for Bitcoin then buying Pivx from said Bitcoin. There's no direct Ethereum to Pivx market, everything is traded for Bitcoin so you can only trade in two steps.

Ethereum is unique with its hex addresses, the majority of coins out there use the shorter form like the one you mentioned before for Pivx.

I believe it's unnecessary and even detrimental to attach a personality (or more) to a coin. Coins should be decentralized and without a face, as it were.

And it could be dangerous to go public. Imagine if Satoshi would be known and alive.

I can't really help you with AMD cards, your motherboard might not have enough resources (lanes) to run all cards or it could be a driver issue or something specific to AMD, I don't know.

I feel I am (or more accurately was) one of the few patient people to both read and reply to your repeated, hacked nonsense time and time again but that ends with this comment. Plenty of people here whom I have blocked over the years and discarded their comments even if I've seen them quoted (btctalk pls) and one more doesn't make a difference. You, and more importantly your ego changed so much that you seem to just prefer talking shit without researching or even thinking, ignoring facts or even considering who you're talking to. Not that I'm any sort of authority here, far from it, but the first reply to this thread of sp_'s is mine for a reason - which happened way before you created your account. Yet you're asking for tips like a newbie, worse yet, in a condescending manner as if you were the shit here except you did nothing for ccminer and bitching is hardly helpful - which you seem to excel at. Regardless, I know you have pissed off plenty of people with your nonsense over time so this shouldn't come as a surprise.

US prices... It all looks nice until you have to go through an RMA process - which alone pushes the resell value of cards here down by a lot. Nobody wants to ship their cards abroad for months and understandably so.

I rarely mine tiny, seemingly magically super profitable coins. But even if I were to mention massive coins like Zcash - assuming nobody heard of it before - of course its mining profitability would go way down after it was mentioned in this thread; it's not up to debate that way more people just read this constant verbal diarrhea of a thread (partly thanks to you), distilling what's important then distributing that information to potentially hundreds of people on other forums so I stopped the habit of mentioning anything even remotely profitable a long time ago. I'm more than happy with talking about stuff like that with the few people whom I still keep in touch with in PMs. BTW, if anything, you're doing a great job at flooding this thread with nonsense, masking useful informations.

Along with many of your ridiculous, out of touch with reality statements you have said in the past that made me laugh, I find it hilarious how you're using whattomine as a reference of mining profitability instead of doing your own calculations like any self respecting miner would do do.

Anyway, as far as I'm concerned I'm done with your nonsense. Probably should have blocked you a long time ago.

Mobo BIOS' (especially ebay bought ones) are no joke but every time I failed an Nvidia GPU flash I could just finish it after a restart. Obviously from another display input (onboard).

Just as a clarification Funkenstein, my insult wasn't aimed at you, not at all. I just generally dislike devs who push code without understanding the changes. My frustraion mostly goes towards new coins with newbie devs trying to launch coins using the latest bitcoin codebase without solomining.

You realise, you just went ahead and stated the 1060 is the best card without specifying prices. Not everyone here is from the US, far from it. Where I live a 1070 costs $450.

"Nvidia mining is dead"

It's hard to take you seriously and keep reading your comments after statements like this. Beats me why I even took the time to respond this time...

Nonetheless, even my 750 Ti's currently have 159 days to ROI, my 970's have 126 and my 1070's have 123 days. All of them of course hit ROI multiple times by now.

One last thing; as much as you berated newbie plug and play miners, you yourself use profit numbers from what plug and play miners use (Eth+Dcr).

I'd never invest into something most miners mine.

Which is pretty stupid if you ask me.

You can't really brick GPUs, at least I failed to do so trying to flash the wrong BIOS or even when I restarted a frozen rig mid BIOS update. But then again I only ever used the DOS version of NVFlash (which you can use to list your cards and also you have to specify which card you want to flash).

I'd think it's not possible since pool mining and solomining is vastly different but someone could correct me.

Exactly. Both for mining and for gaming the Titan series has always been a massive waste of money.

So you just want people to fool around with useless CPU mining until you're bored of instamining with GPU/ASIC?

Even if not you, someone will instamine it so the launch is set up to be unfair. I guess this will be a realistic Dash clone.

You probably only ripped out the RPC from the wallet but people will compile their own miner in which they can not just GPU but probably even ASIC mine this coin.

Unless you modified the algo, recommending CPU mining X11 is just retarded.

It's ~14 months old, it was never dead.

I use AHK but not for mining related stuff like teamviewer. I use Jitbit macro recorder for that.

Both can work but I prefer LAN. Cabling can be a pain in the ass but then I know for sure that connectivity is not an issue. I always run into weird issues with wifi, but YMMV.

Similarily to the other reply I wrote in your other thread, for chips to do certain speeds you have to feed them certain voltages. If you starve them electricity compared to clock speed (too undervolted or too overclocked) they will crash eventually. The cards are set up in the factory not to starve (crash) so they might get too much electricity compared to how much they would actually need to work without crashing. So you can potentially give them less power (undervolting) and they would still work just the same. But each chip is different (silicon lottery) so there's no magic formula, only trial and error.

Overclocking means that you're runing the card faster than intended to work so it will eventually trip over and crash.

A slight OC might be completely stable and would work for a very long time. A higher OC might crash your card only in a matter of days or even weeks. And high enough OC will crash your cards within minutes or even immediately... You get the idea.

So you have two way of achieving stable running; increasing voltage (not always an option and with other factors can reduce lifespan) or don't overclock that much.