https://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency/?sha256hr=0.00&sha256p=0.00&sha256pc=0.0000&sha256c=false&scrypthr=504000.00&scryptp=800.00&scryptpc=0.0330&scryptc=true&x11hr=0.00&x11p=0.00&x11pc=0.00&x11c=false&quarkhr=0.00&quarkp=0.00&quarkpc=0.00&quarkc=false&groestlhr=0.00&groestlp=0.00&groestlpc=0.00&groestlc=false&blake256hr=0.00&blake256p=0.00&blake256pc=0.00&blake256c=false&neoscrypthr=0.00&neoscryptp=0.00&neoscryptpc=0.00&neoscryptc=false&lyra2rev2hr=0.00&lyra2rev2p=0.00&lyra2rev2pc=0.00&lyra2rev2c=false&cryptonighthr=0.00&cryptonightp=0.00&cryptonightpc=0.00&cryptonightc=false&ethashhr=0.00&ethashp=0.00&ethashpc=0.00&ethashc=false&equihashhr=0.00&equihashp=0.00&equihashpc=0.00&equihashc=false&e=CEX.io

Scroll down to see what the L3+ earns for the various Scrypt coins. Just know that Giga-Watt only works with LTC.

In the IT world that's known as the "thundering herd." In this case all pools are being slammed with miners trying to be the first to strike it big in BTG.

It may take a while for the pools to be able to handle all the miners. Be patient...

I remember the Juvia blocks (and knew the Juvia reference before you explained it...  ) , and wondered where you'd disappeared to. I had tried to mine there, but had issues, so my miners have floated around a bit. They were mining on ck's latest pool (see my sig) to help sort it out, but I just moved them to ViaBTC to try that out for a while.

I was mining with them at ck's new pool. I think he's got a good payout idea/plan in his new pool software, but he doesn't have enough hash rate to find blocks in a reasonable amount of time, so the pool hash rate jumps up and down, usually between 500 TH and 1.5 PH as miners come and go. Luckily I was there and fully vested, so to speak, when the pool found it's only block to date.




I'm with Phil on that PHILosophy, too. BTC is great, but I made my stake in LTC. It's funded my other stakes, miners, and now WTT tokens so I can host miners at a place with cheap electricity. My next miner upgrade is to buy two 1070Ti cards (one EVGA hybrid that Phil recommends/uses, and a Zotac Mini) to mine equihash coins (ZenCash for now, until there is a sane/safe BTG wallet). It'll be a step up from my single R7-370 which has long since reached ROI when it was mining ETH.


Nice that Antpool made the change. That makes it more equitable for the miners, especially in a world where transaction fees per block are growing.

Try stopping cgminer, unplug/plug the 2pac, then start cgminer again.

161k shares is no big deal. Shares are not blocks. My Compaq (single BM1384) has over 1 million shares right now since the last reboot. It also has just north of 8.8 million shares at pool.ckpool.org. See the link in my sig.

Earlier this year I had more than 18 BCC. I sold them for a reasonable amount at the time, but now? well... timing is everything. Like if I had held my over 7k LTC mined in 2012. The LTC I sold in 2016 and is funding my crypto forays today, including miners, and other alts.

If you know your way around your OS, hardening the system is not that hard. Really.

Center for Internet Security is legit and a good place to start: https://learn.cisecurity.org/benchmarks
look for Ubuntu Linux 16.04 (CIS Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS Benchmark version 1.0.0)

• Do not redirect any traffic to the miners. EVER. NEVER use Windows for access to anything you actually value. It's gotten better, but it's still not safe enough to be used to guard the castle.
  
• If you want to set up a jump server, make it multi-homed. This means that there is one interface plugged into the public network (User Network above) and one interface plugged into the private network (Miner network above). If you can not do this, or do not want to create a multi-homed machine, use a single homed machine and use the router to redirect port 22 to that single-homed machine.
  
• Do not use passwords alone for users. Use public/private keypairs instead. If you want to be even safer, implement multi-factor authentication. Rudimentary multi-factor authentication can be a combination of public/private keypairs and a password. Here is some good info: https://sysconfig.org.uk/two-factor-authentication-with-ssh.html
  
• If you want to secure the miner, since nvOC is based on ubuntu 16.04, use the built-in security tool known as ufw or iptables:  https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/firewall.html
  
• Lock down all inbound ports except for port 22 (ssh). Restrict outbound traffic such that you only allow traffic outbound that you know/trust. Know what ports and protocols need to be opened. If you are new to the game, some experimentation will be necessary. If you see a port open and you don't know what it is, close it and see what breaks.
  
• If you want to have something running that provides a pretty interface, make sure that the provider of that information can only run in userspace and can not escalate privileges to root. How to do that? Implement sudo properly with a well constructed sudoers file that limits what commands a giver user can execute as root. Make sure that the user that the provider (web server) runs as does not have a real login shell.
  
• If you need to use Windows Remote Desktop, tunnel it through ssh so it is at least encrypted.
  https://www.saotn.org/tunnel-rdp-through-ssh/
  

Was this due to the allegedly unluckiness of the software? I remember some of that conversation on another thread (which will remain unnamed)...



Bitmain doesn't care where the hash rate goes as long as people keep buying their mining hardware and point it at their pool(s). If I recall, Bitmain's own pool(s) are PPS and they do not share any of the transaction fees in the mined blocks with the miners, correct?

Well, gee. Would that be betting that noobs don't remember to change, or know that they can change, from pointing their shiny new toaster at bitmain's own mining pool? You know the one. The one that uses PPS for payout, but keeps all the transaction fees in the blocks for themselves?  

Just imagine what that means. If bitmain's own pool had mined this block:

https://btc.com/0000000000000000007bdc9ed9b9e79fa3010c982a81af7b6b2458d924dc828f

They would have kept 13.40062221 BTC which at current USD exchange rate of 5928.35 USD/BTC is 79,443.58 USD.

What you say?!?

All Your ICO are Belong to Us

I don't know for sure, but Bitmain has been that way since shortly after the fork, iirc.

kids these days don't seem to be willing or able to read. Don't even get me started on comprehension.

timing is everything. when I posted that message the gain was 44% based on the coinmarketcap web page. When you posted your message the market price for the tokens had dropped. Now it seems to have recovered somewhat. So I'm only up 34%.    Since I plan to hodl and use the tokens for miners I buy and renting the unused tokens, I'm not all that concerned.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/giga-watt-token/

For the first part, 2pac not running, as others have stated, it's likely a power issue with the USB port on the MacBook. I use an older (mid 2011) Mac mini to run cgminer, but the actual miner is plugged into a powered USB 2 hub. For reference:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1173963.msg17225686#msg17225686

this setup with the Compac is still chugging along. It has plenty of mojo left to run a 2pac if I wanted to add one.

As for the USB 3.0 hub not being recognized, I don't know. Maybe it's a bad cable? Maybe the USB port on the MacBook is only a USB 2 port?

If I were going to buy an ASIC miner now, I'd definitely buy a Canaan Avalon 741. Yes, it's not as efficient as the Bitmain S9, but it's more reliable. If you can wait until the new year, you might keep your eyes open for a new miner from Canaan. The rumor is that it will be in the 14 TH/S range which will place it on par with the S9, and if it is more reliable, then it will be a winner in my book.

However, this IS the crypto currency miner space, and delivery dates are never what they are promised or rumored to be.

Check Canaan's website https://canaan.io/official-distributors/ to find a distributor in your country.

Cheap is OK. Doesn't need to be fancy.

https://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-Unmanaged-GREENnet-Switching-TEG-S50g/dp/B001QUA6R0

Is working for me behind my ASUS wifi router.

I saw the emails and there have been updates via other means of communications. Slack/Telegram/discord or some such. I'm not interested enough to install yet another communications app on my devices. I can wait.

When I received the email about selling my miner I replied and said I'd wait for my miner to come online.


So there were dates in the white paper. The problem is the white paper dates ran up against reality, and reality won. I believe that the batches have more to do with what buildings/pods they were part of versus the date purchased or the price paid.


The challenge here is that Giga-Watt doesn't seem to be updating the timeline on their website all that often. But maybe the dates have not changed because they are not being told that the dates have changed, i.e.: the inspections were due, but were delayed and not rescheduled; the paperwork for the occupancy permits was not delivered, etc.

The real world can be a funny place, and it works on it's own timeline which only occasionally lines up with your desired timeline.

Perhaps one might think it is simple. What if there are 8 devs on the team and each one lives in a different country? Which one do you choose?

unplug/plug is the appropriate method. It works for me all of the time.

Because Giga-Watt is real world, and in the real world delays happen. In Giga-Watt's case local government inspectors needed more education/time, then certifying agency inspectors (UL) wanted different power supplies. In both cases Giga-Watt did what was necessary to keep moving.

The problem is that there are a lot of people that think that everything crypto moves at internet speed. Well, when crypto meets real world, things slow down. Kinda like when miner hardware companies promise to deliver your miners, but don't deliver for many, many months, if ever in some cases.

If your investment thesis demands that everything be perfectly on time, you will be disappointed. If you have a long(ish) time horizon, you can be patient.

Investor sentiment is for wankers and snowflakes. The wankers and snowflakes that get upset bail out and sell out, making it easier for more patient investors to pick up the investment at lower prices.

I bought into the ICO in the Batch 1 timeframe and now my tokens are currently worth 44% more than I paid, plus I am earning rent on them while I wait for Giga-Watt to install my miner.