Not related to sgminer specifically but I can tell there are a lot of places in the world where connections with little activity are not tolerated. Persistent connections are really first-world luxuries, with Romania/Bucharest apparently being an important exception.

I disagree. It will cause only confusion. People still confuses groestl^2 with groestl-myr. If it is called the same, it must be the same.

But I'll agree the KDF of yescrypt has... some very interesting properties.

Quoted for emphasis (albeit I disagree on having the miner in the wallet). Seriously, not even the gaming industry is successful in having consumers upgrade their GPUs, you guys have basically no chance.

You wish it could be so easy. Difficulty fluctuations happen all the time; the choice of algorithm is far from being this trivial, there has been some work.
Besides, GPU load% is a truly irrelevant metric, you can get 95% and be perfectly smooth, 98% being a bit off and 99% basically unusable. Scantime is a slightly more reliable metric but on modern GPUs that guarantees very little as well and when different driver versions enter the picture we're basically screwed.

Let me tell you guys, the gaming industry has tried to solve the issue of variable workloads (even though they run dedicated process most of the time) for at least a decade and the solutions are just not there yet. You cannot predict the performance of the next tick and by the time it gets choppy the damage is already done.

What you can do however is providing the slider you mention and informing the user what this slider does in concept.

Last time I used DigiByte easyminer, it pulled a config for me. Leaving aside it was far from optimal, it made my system quite choppy. Not unusable, but definitely not something I'd tolerate if not because I like DGB.

Holy shit. I don't count anymore how many times I wrote this. I understand in your 'core miner' mindset it might sound as nonsense so I'll try to be clear.

We occasional miners don't give a fuck about the cost of electricity - our PCs are already turned on to do our work.

We occasional miners don't give a fuck about how much the crypto trades because we don't trade it, we have better things to do rather than looking at the ticker. Such as having ways to spend what we get.

Occasional miners don't get in the game as it's too complicated. There's no central repository of information, no easy way to understand if everything is working right. At least /r/digibyte is user friendly but those forums are basically useless.

And when one goes through all this, how is he rewarded? Legacy miners make my system very choppy. Sometimes I cannot even use notepad, let alone a full word processor. They impact my productivity which is my primary interest. That's why I am an occasional miner.

To that degree the DigiByte easy miner is sure a step in the right direction but that's still not enough. It must be clear that total hashrate isn't what concerns us. It is how much productivity I give up to mine something I want to just try.

Wut.  
As a side note: cracking SHA2 is most likely quite more complicated than hacking an aircraft control system. I had a friend in the aerospace industry years ago; it is surprising how clunky some things can get!

Absolutely not! That is not what you think it is! The fact that GPUs are in most Top50 clusters is absolutely coincidence!

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(1) last time I checked the users provided way too little data to draw a conclusion; it seemed to me we were talking about 50% of CPU performance at same cost. Besides, I don't consider i7 to be widespread enough to be an installed base; I'm sure you guys think it's the minimum acceptable. It isn't.
(2) The same as usual I guess: they just hammered it till it works and I've been told it has been quite some work. I'm surprised it works at all especially on AMD CL.

There's absolutely no chance this will ever happen.

Yescrypt (being not compute-based) will be GPU-resistant for the foreseeable future (the GPU miner isn't very competitive AFAIK).

As a side note (implication of depboy post): p2pool mining will keep giving you MYR even after you shut down your miners.
You might have some benefit specifying difficulty manually. After your login add (for example) +0.0075, this results in slightly higher payout for me.

As you might have noticed, people here think at 100 bucks like "just 100 bucks".
I didn't want to put you down but really, most people here mine speculatively (hoping to get in the black in the future) or at a loss. Those making a profit are the minority and those making short-term profit by mining are even less.

Your electricity bill will go up. You can fry cheap PSUs by running them too long. Be careful.

Don't even bother with GT120. I had GT130 in the past it's a piece of shit. The graphics performance is decent but compute is very weak and consumption is high (120 will be better but not by much). The architecture is too quirky to work efficiently on anything but graphics.

If you manage to run ZIFTR on 4870 I'll be surprised. AMD OpenCL is often a bit... surprising, let's put it this way.

Are becoming?
The joke has been ongoing for longer than I can stand. It ceased being funny quite some time ago.
Back then we had true innovators like overkill coin or stuff borderlining art such as ripoff coin!

And btw, BTC alternative in LTC... cmon man!

My country has a law on capital export. Since there's no national exchange this basically means I have no chance to get PoS coins. Explain me this fair distribution thing.
Besides my PC consumes 60W idle, 120W loaded (playing) and 130W when mining (and playing Borderlands 2), in this terms, getting into PoW coins is almost for free to me.

Probably none of the above.

A friend of mine once suggested me to look into skein, I'd say I'm fairly positive about it by now.

Long hash chains are cryptographically nonsense, X11 or longer are just based on misinformation as far as I am concerned.

I liked qubit (X5, X11 'tail'). Look at JHA/Quark/Ziftr for something more interesting. The latter needs some work to be ported to GPU efficiently but thinking out of the box will reap great benefits for GPU.

I would suggest against Lyra2RE for the time being as the VTC team seems to be planning a fork to new parameters. There's chance a private lyra2RE kernel exists with massively improved performance.

Yescrypt is going to be CPU-optimal for a long time; if CPU mining is your thing that's where you should go.

Wild keccak is also an interesting twist.

Well, those guys made a really good job. I wonder how much is truly theirs and how much is coming from external... "collaborators" let's put it this way.

Nice to know, I believe we should ask ourself questions at this point as that's impossible.
You probably don't know, officially my house heater has 109% efficiency.

Let me understand.
Some of you are speculating having multiple algos to select is causing the price to go down?
Did you fall down from your chair as a child?

I never mined DGB as long as it was scrypt-only and I had no interest in it.

Have they deployed the 'no-zero-mixins' patch yet? Last time I asked they proudly declared they were aware of the problem and well understood the theory.
It made me think of that joke involving a mathematician in a building on fire.

The main problem is hashing rarely causes cards to go full load. I'm pretty sure groestl at 30.6MHs on 980Ti isn't full load nor qubit at 17.4.

Hijacking a competitor thread... yet another low in cryptocurrency folks standard.

According to an user on the AMD forums which also hangs out here every once in a while, Tonga has something ... which I understood to be independent per-byte LUT lookup. This could be very beneficial for AES based algos but I don't think there's much chance the compiler emits the proper code - assuming my understanding of his statements is correct.