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421  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Bitmain New Miner S7-LN 2.7T @697W discussion (Not official) on: June 21, 2016, 01:39:53 PM
Ordered one last night and it's scheduled for delivery Monday! Pretty good service!

Came today as expected. Well packed in foam, all parts look brand-new. PS still had protective plastic on it.

Got it underclocked to 2.1Ghs to make it quiet and not so hot - though it was pretty quiet out of the box.

2.1GH/S??? I think you stopped all the ASICS but one. Good to know that the PSU'S are at least in good shape - was worried they could just go to the trash dump and find some random 87+s and put them on their miners ready to ship.

I guess he meant to say 2.1Th/s.

I did not even catch the 2.1Ghs. I only saw 2.1 TH/s in my mind. That is what I get for reading this stuff in the middle of the night.
422  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Bitminter bitcoin mining pool - Pays TxFees, Merged Mining, Fair PPLNS rewards on: June 19, 2016, 11:36:38 AM
Any chance someone could break this block please?  Grin

We need more hashing power! I will be getting some more next week, but I hope we crack this one before then.

Hah! There we go. Hopefully we can get a follow on block in the green zone.
423  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Bitminter bitcoin mining pool - Pays TxFees, Merged Mining, Fair PPLNS rewards on: June 19, 2016, 08:59:54 AM
Any chance someone could break this block please?  Grin

We need more hashing power! I will be getting some more next week, but I hope we crack this one before then.
424  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Memorycoin ★ Modern CPU PoW ★ COMPLETELY GPU/ASIC FREE ★ NO Free PoS on: June 17, 2016, 09:59:52 PM
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Project just started this week!

Sounds interesting, I guess.
425  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Cheap board for beginner on: June 17, 2016, 11:11:05 AM
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Also, getting the S7LN to work that low required board-level firmware hacks.
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How hard of a mod is that going to be for the rest of us without having your experience? I have done the voltage mod on the S1, but that seamed relatively easy compared to what I was reading in your hacking thread.
426  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [1500 TH] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool on: June 14, 2016, 11:50:48 AM
Where on the doll did p2pool touch you?



This is worth at least one or two small chuckles.
427  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [1500 TH] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool on: June 13, 2016, 09:33:35 AM
Im just getting back into mining and i picked up two cheap S4s (i get free electricity) and from the pools that i looked at to go into, 3% does seem really high to me.

It is not hard to get a better rate than 3%.

https://kano.is/ is 0.9%
https://bitminter.com/ is 1%
https://slushpool.com/ is 2%
428  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Bitmain New Miner S7-LN 2.7T @697W discussion (Not official) on: June 12, 2016, 08:50:28 AM
The inside of mine was fairly clean by my standards - nothing caked up, but some dust collected in the ridges on wire bundles and stuff. The fan blades had a thin film of grime on 'em. It had definitely been used, but either in a fairly clean environment or they did a good job blowing it out before shipment.

Well, industrial compressed air systems are excellent for taking care of dust bunnies.
429  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: Bitminter bitcoin mining pool - Pays TxFees, Merged Mining, Fair PPLNS rewards on: June 11, 2016, 11:47:16 AM
The famous "have you tried turning it off and on again" Smiley

Uhu, but it did work 😃  I was begining to think someone might say 'send it back you're too stupid'.

Trolling? Nah, that never happens on bitcointalk. Smiley
430  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Bitmain New Miner S7-LN 2.7T @697W discussion (Not official) on: June 09, 2016, 09:32:42 PM
The PSU is the main selling point in my opinion. Correct me if I'm wrong anybody, but this PSU sells specifically for $180+. Plus I believe that this miner is the most silent they've had. Absolutely perfect for somebody getting into mining, or even big boys who just like a great deal of PSU with their miner.

Based on sidehack's statement, I am pretty sure these power supplies are used. I am definitely not a fan of using a power supply with an unknown history. I seriously doubt this miner is the most silent they have ever had especially when you compare it to the S1 and S3.
431  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Bitmain New Miner S7-LN 2.7T @697W discussion (Not official) on: June 08, 2016, 09:21:14 PM
I really like the design of this unit. If BMT would release an S9 version, I would actually make a purchase.
432  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: Avalon 7 on: June 08, 2016, 09:09:44 PM
... But very big new's will be interesting to see what comes out of Avalon after this.

At this news, I wonder if Avalon will ever release another product.
433  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: Avalon 7 on: June 07, 2016, 01:02:46 PM
I like what I am reading. However, I wonder how long it is going to take before the "upcoming product Avalon 7" is actually shipping.
434  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread on: June 05, 2016, 01:00:48 PM
That's right. There's also a no-security guest connection with np ToS.

Edit instead of bump: Tried opening the case and adding a bit of metal wire to the antennae-slot. Seem to have gotten the machine online with wifi now.
It's now hashing away at a pool. I probably should get a real antennae rather than this metal wire, right?

Also, should I configure all 3 worker slots on the antminer? It's only for swapping to another worker/pool if prio 0 goes down, right?

You always want a backup pool. No sense in sitting idle if your primary pool goes down. Smiley
435  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread on: June 04, 2016, 01:05:57 PM
Uumm.. I think I have a blown PSU from running the AntMiner overnight. Will it effect preformance of it, or is it just plain dead Sad

That depends one why the PSU died. If it died from the load being too great, your miner might be fine. If it died from lightning or something like that, it is probably dead.
436  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Look what a little birdie brought me ;) on: June 02, 2016, 11:20:46 PM
I like this idea. I would definitely be interested.
437  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [1500 TH] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool on: June 02, 2016, 11:00:40 PM
If by DAG you mean Directed Acyclic Graph, I fail to see how that solves the problem much less even addresses the problem -ck was referring to.

The problems with p2pool performance are that (a) miners have to switch work frequently, which causes switching losses (which are particularly bad for Antminers, due to bad firmware, but are also problematic for high-latency connections, or for p2pool nodes with slow CPUs), and (b) the amount of variance a small miner experiences is inversely proportional to the time in between each share. If you have each miner switch work once per share, these two issues are in opposition to each other, and you have to pick a share frequency that balances these two issues.

However, there is no need to have miners switch work once per share. Bitcoin's blocks and transactions need to be serialized in a canonical ordering in order to prevent double-spending or transaction conflicts, but with p2pool there's no equivalent need for each share to come one after another. All that a share needs to do is prove that work was done in a way that benefits other p2pool users, which means (a) accurately pays out to other p2pool users and (b) is working on the correct block height at any given time.

So instead of arranging the shares as a chain of single-parent single-child links, we can come up with more imaginative arrangements. My favorite is where the first share for a new block (the switcher) gets a revenue bonus, and that switcher refers to not one parent share but as many parent shares as you know of, and the size of the switcher's bonus is proportional to the number of parents it has. Once one or more switchers have been found, the other shares (the fillers) refer to a single switcher as the parent. If there are multiple competing switchers to build off of, then the miners will want to choose the switcher that has the most fillers already laid on top of it, as those fillers will give the next switcher the greatest revenue bonus on the next block. Thus, consensus quickly emerges around one switcher, and everyone goes happily on their way. Miners only have to switch work twice per block, and you can get a 1 second (or faster) share time instead of the 30 seconds we tolerate now.

Since the miners don't have to switch work as often, the pool software doesn't have to do as much work (and only needs to recompute rewards twice per block), which means that python's performance issues will become less important.

The GHOST idea is basically that you reward uncles fractionally in the share chain. This should also work, but you'd have to tweak it a bit versus e.g. ethereum's version of GHOST if you wanted to allow for a significantly lower work switching rate than share rate, and it would probably be difficult to get it to perform as well as the odd/even heigh scheme described above.

I understood how DAG and GHOST worked before you explained them. I am trying to point out that I think you are missing the bigger issue. Improving p2pool efficiency is a worthy objective and it even may convince some miners to switch to p2pool. However, if the entry barrier, i.e. the process of setting up a node and running a node, is too great for the general novice then they are simply going to take the easier route and point their miners at something like CKPool and forget about it.
438  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Memorycoin ★ Modern CPU PoW ★ COMPLETELY GPU/ASIC FREE ★ NO Free PoS on: June 02, 2016, 10:25:07 PM
Catch it - last wallet+full synced blockchain - https://mega.nz/#!Dc9hUJiQ!HDRDpah_FiF_3bbweTHdIjdoAPMrtTHIJ7-yflB4lfI
Only add your own memorycoin.conf file.

mycoinsstore posted a copy of the wallet and blockchain a few pages back. Here is the quote.
439  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [1500 TH] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool on: May 31, 2016, 08:09:56 PM
Unfortunately the issues remain the same as they've always been and the suggestions for how to get more people to use p2pool haven't changed in years but none of that is working. I don't see a revolutionary way out of this predicament unless it's totally redesigned. Alas I don't think anyone has solutions for the existing design even if they were to start from scratch again.

I do, but I haven't had time to implement it. The ten cent version is that money grows on trees, not chains: we need to switch over to a share DAG instead of a share chain. I have in mind a DAG in which every odd height contains only one share, and every even height contains a large number of sibling shares. I would still need to do some simulations and/or analysis to make sure I've got all the incentives right, but so far I think it should work. A variant of the GHOST protocol would likely work also, and would have the benefit of being better studied.

If by DAG you mean Directed Acyclic Graph, I fail to see how that solves the problem much less even addresses the problem -ck was referring to.
440  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Memorycoin ★ Modern CPU PoW ★ COMPLETELY GPU/ASIC FREE ★ NO Free PoS on: May 31, 2016, 07:59:48 PM
Thanks for your reply. I was going to ask if you happen to know how much hashrate would I expect to get from an Intel i7 or an Amd Fx 8 core mining MMC. Isn't there a mining calculator for it? Sorry for asking but I'm just curious to know this since I would want to pick the right hardware for my desktop PC mining rig.  Grin

In general, you should expect about 7-8 H/s for an AMD FX 8350 and about 10-11 H/s for Intel i7 6700k. I am sure you can extrapolate from there based on the model you have.
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