For some reason, I'm ending up with lower hashrates than a lot of others. Although I've heard a lot of reports about about 20MH/s per 380, so I'm not SO hung up on that. The part that bothers me is only 12 MH/s on my R9 270's. I was getting 11MH/s with them on 14.9 WHQL, and now I updated to 15.201 WHQL and got my current rates. Previously my 285 was doing under 15MH/s, and I only used 15.201 because it came with my Asus 380 and it seemed to help across the board. Still a bit frustrating, though lol. I couldn't get 15.12, or even the newest drivers for RX 480 to run. All show "no cards in list", and some catastrophic error in a log file. At least I found something that mostly works for now. :/ 

So this is my dual Eth/Sia config.

EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool us1.ethermine.org:4444 -ewal 0x70c06E09AE5A2b8ECa5863C68b725adadCefF5cb.worker1 -epsw x -dpool http://sia-us-east1.nanopool.org:9980/miner/header?address=a124a4d27961737e104e67551298844133ddbc0444b1cd585aa8243dfed1c4f8355ba6fc166e -dcoin sia

I'm getting about 20MH/s Eth and 300MH/s Sia with a light overclock on an R9 285, and same rates on an R9 380. So exactly the same as my Decred hashrates on both.

One problem, though... Every few seconds when dual mining eth/sia, my system locks up, and it seems worse when anything visual happens. I'll turn off aero to see if it helps at all, so we'll see... Anyone else have that issue?

EDIT: Disabling aero seemed to do the trick, though I haven't tried streaming video or anything, which I was able to do quite well while mining Eth/Decred... Anyway, Thanks claymore for another awesome addition to your already incredible dual miner.

This is kind of perpexing me... I used both my PC's, and multiple smartphones on both wifi and LTE to see if there was some kind of network issue, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I do have one theory, though. I believe when I moved btc.cryptos4all.com to the current cryptos4all.com/btc, I don't think I used a new SQL database... I did clean install all the other directories, though. I think I may try to clean install with a new database and see if it helps at all.

Also, thanks for the heads up on monetization. To be honest, when it comes to the "no approval/invite" ad networks, I started with a-ads, which is on my site across the board. I was going to mix it up with Blockadz in order to get more impression revenue because a-ads keep showing like 80% BitKong ads, but the blockadz code didn't integrate cleanly with the a-ads. It was all mis-aligned and out of place, and I couldn't figure out how to keep them aligned like using all a-ads. So I just left the one blockadz referral on the side and called it good... But of course this hasn't been ideal. I also tried CoinUrl and got banned immediately, I also didn't get approved for bitmedia.io, and that's kind of been the gist of it all up until this point. I think faucet-only sites are against their TOS's, so I may have to add more content and stuff to get approved. I think.. :/

Thanks for your testing, it's much appreciated!

The orange faucet? As in, the BTC one? I just tested it and it seemed to work fine, and sent the satoshi to faucetbox for me. Could you be more specific?

As far as payout, as many know, Adsense is pretty much the highest paying ad network. I already use adsense on other projects, but I was afraid I would be banned and risk those other revenue streams (even though they're not even that significant). As I've been reading, Adsense has banned a number of popular faucets because of one of their policies on "click to be paid" sites, or whatever language they use in their TOS. If I can figure out how to get around that, and also incorporate another ad network like MellowAds, I could EASILY give 250 satoshi every 20 mins, if not more. As it is right now, with all the bots and whatnot, I'm losing quite a bit of money, but even at a-ads payout, I would only get about a 20% return on 1000 visitors as it is. So really, I suppose it's all a work in progress.

Alright, all FaucetBox currencies have been implemented on my site.


Bitcoin at: http://cryptos4all.com/btc

Litecoin at: http://cryptos4all.com/ltc

Dogecoin at: http://cryptos4all.com/doge

Peercoin at: http://cryptos4all.com/ppc

Primecoin at: http://cryptos4all.com/xpm

DASH (Darkcoin) at: http://cryptos4all.com/dash



So I'm definitely proud of my site so far, but I do still have some work to put in. Namely a working homepage. The current page at http://cryptos4all.com will only center and look correct on a 1080 display, at least in my testing... I'm trying to figure out something that will always center everything to look proper on all normal-sized displays, just like the faucetbox api does to some amount of centering/adjusting, though not so well on mobile...

So I dunno, I guess I'll see what I can come up with, maybe I can play around with the html code on the main cryptos4all.com homepage and see if I can get it right on my own displays... Thanks again for the help so far, guys. It is so appreciated!

Also, I was wondering if you guys had any kind of solution for a main home/navigation page. If you go to the main site link in my sig, that would work fine, but it only displays properly on a 1080p display, as I lined it up that way thinking it would always center. I'm trying to figure out a similar type of page, but one that will always center and look proper and professional. Could Wordpress or Drupal Work?

I'll play around maybe with Drupal to start, just to see. Wordpress is too mainstream for me.

Thanks, I'll check that out.

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So another quick update.. I got rid of the subdomains (btc.cryptos4all.com) and the like, and am now using cryptos4all.com/btc, cryptos4all.com/ltc, etc and CloudFlare is working properly with this setup, without having to mess with subdomain DNS and stuff.

So BTC and LTC are up, but in the next couple days, I'll implement Dogecoin, Peercoin, Primecoin, and Dash (the rest of the FaucetBox supported currencies) and also be working on an Ethereum and Vertcoin faucet. So I'm pretty excited to get the entire thing up and running. Possibly other faucets coming soon, but I don't want to bite off more than I can chew for the moment.

Thanks so much for the help you guys have given me so far!

where you know that the Russians were attacking faucet him, you can't say anything without proof.
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Sounds like something a Russian bot programmer would say.

I used my host's provided tools to see where the traffic was coming from. Massive amounts from Russia. That was enough evidence for me.

I'd kinda like to know as well. And does anyone know of a siacoin calculator that automatically tracks difficulty and such? I'd have no idea how much I'd be getting, is the main problem...

As a matter of fact, is Decred even worth dual mining anymore, now that we can dual mine Eth/Sia?

So a quick update. As it turns out, I'm having trouble with dns on cloudflare using the whole subdomain system. IE: cryptos4all.com being the main site, then using btc.cryptos4all.com as the BTC faucet, etc...

I think I'll have to pretty much redesign the thing so that it will be cryptos4all.com/btc and the like. Unless I can figure out this issue with the cloudflare dns thing. Problem is, it knew the main url pointed to a certain ip, but I can't find the IP to point to when it comes to the subdomain, so the site is actually not even functioning at the current time.

So... I'll probably put a few hours in tomorrow to try to fix that whole thing. Hopefully I can get back on track with this whole thing.

Jesus, how do you guys keep up with all these cryptocurrencies..?  

How exactly do I mine siacoin other than solo? It's very cool and I'd obviously love to get in on it. Is there a pool I can get on? The site says there is no pool as of yet, but you guys are talking about private pools? Also, I'm kind of curious about your guys' speed on Eth+Decred and also Eth+Sia.

My XFX 285 is doing 17.3 MH/s Eth and 260 Mh/s Decred. My Asus R9 270's are doing about 12 Mh/s Eth and 180 Mh/s Decred

As far as I keep reading, those speeds are quite low. Clock for those cards (all 3) are 1050/1450, so not massively overclocked. But for being overclocked, those speeds seem pretty low. I'm on 14.9 WHQL drivers, but I was havign trouble with 15.12, so would it be useful to try using the newest drivers? How have they affected your hashrates?  

Just tried CloudFlare, since they have a free option, I guess.

cryptos4all.com main page loads, but I had to use mobile to get the cloudflare scan thing... btc.cryptos4all.com shows a dns error on mobile, so hopefully that sorts itself out. I'll give it a few hours and check back. I do think this may have at least put me on the right track, so thanks a lot!

So about 10 days ago or so, I started a bitcoin faucet. It uses Faucetbox api, and I plan to add all of the faucetbox supported coins, as well as a couple of others like Ethereum and Vertcoin.

Anyway... I took Adsense off my site, because I already use adsense for other things and didn't want to be banned forever. Apparently that's how Google rolls... So I went with a-ads. It seems to be working okay, but the main problem is lack of profit. Although, that doesn't seem to be a-ads, so much as the bots who seem to be draining my faucet. Almost all of them seem to be coming from Russia, with a few from India, China, Poland, Chile, etc. I tried blocking all of those countries, but they still seem to be getting through. I know this because hundreds of thousands of satoshis are being drained in a matter of hours. But I don't want to have to do the temporary lock thing from faucetbox, and I want to stop at least the majority of these bastards.

The api admin panel lets you block people from certain countries. Which I did. This seemed to work for a while, but now it isn't. If the site knows they're coming from, say Russia, why isn't the block on Russian traffic working? The main thing is stopping these damn bots. My BTC faucet on my site is at this address: btc.cryptos4all.com

I do plan to add some actual content, as well as the other faucets both at the home page cryptos4all.com which I messed up with HTML and will likely remake with Wordpress, or Drupal or something... But like I said, the main thing is stopping at least most of the bots.

But my second concern is if adding a second ad network would increase profits? I tried blockadz, but their html codes don't integrate properly with the a-ads ones, so it makes the ads all mis-aligned. I wasn't a fan of MellowAds' requirements either.. I do really hope a veteran faucet owner could help me fix my situation... Thanks so much.

It worked!

But one problem... For some reason, after running the software for a few hours, it closed and wouldn't open again. I did get the 4.7 to run. But then after a while, one gpu stopped running, and some other weird stuff. And I guess my hashrate is generally low with 14.9 drivers, so I tried to update to 15.12. I got some "catastrophic error" on a dll file. Something like "amdocl" or something like that, and it told me there were no cards in the list. So I ended up just reverting back. I set power limit to -10% and gave a bit of an overclock to the card and it seems alright for now... It occured to me, that perhaps my both cards 1050/1450 was pulling too much power from the mobo, which is why I lowered the power limit. If that even does much.

Anyway, hopefully the current setup will run for a whole day straight without issue. Then I'll figure out how to update drivers properly and whatnot. If anything, the next thing I'll probably try are the most recent drivers to see if that helps anything... I was informed that my 2 R9 270's should be able to break 30MH/s without an OC, so about 23MH/s right now kinda sucks.

I guess that response was to me?

It seems like those settings applied on my main rig, even though I never edited any of the settings other than pool...

But do I do that in my .bat file, or take the "#'s" away in the config file? I could try it, but I don't have my other system on currently, so I'm just asking with what I have in front of me. But thanks for your help so far. I hope that does the trick.

Hey guys, I just got a new rig set up with some 380's I got for good prices... Problem is, no matter what I do, I keep getting the "cannot write dag buffer" error, and something about "Ilumir" binary failed or something like that...

I don't have that system on screen right now, but I tried to troubleshoot for several hours yesterday with no luck... They're both 2GB cards, but so are both my 270's and my 285, and they both work in my main rig. I tried them all in the new rig

Specs on new rig are, AMD Sempron 140, 4GB DDR3 1333, and of course, these 2GB cards. I'm kind of at my wit's end here... I even set page file to 16GB. Well, I set initial to about 16000MB and maximum to about 20000MB, but still no luck. Miner still won't start, with the DAG buffer issue. All the cards do function perfectly other than mining... I'm using 15.12 Crimson from Guru3D, but also tried 14.9 WHQL (what I have installed on my main rig) and still couldn't get it to work.

I really hope someone can help.

The simplest way I've found is to go into device manager, into your GPU, or I guess multiple GPU's (which may get more tedious) and disable, then re-enable them, and everything works. At least for me.

Problem is, my software will run forever once it's gotten started, but often if I have to close it then re-open it, I get the issue of the miner not starting and the driver hanging. So this is what works for me, but I have multiple of the same card and it's an easy-ish process... YMMV...

Now this is the rig we've been waiting for. Especially with the fact that I only pay about $.04/Kwh electricity.

I don't want to commit myself, but I'm certainly going to give this unit some consideration.

Would you happen to know of any affordable motherboard with, oh, let's say 3+ X16 slots? The ASrock board seems great, but then I end up having to set up racks and whatnot, vs just setting them on top of boxes with the cards directly in the motherboard. I do have 3 risers coming in, so I suppose I could set up a whole other rig with one of those boards, while having one card directly in the mobo...

I've already set up a rig with 2 cards in an LGA755 mobo and it seems to be alright, but only because I got the whole thing for a good price, so it made sense. But having more cards directly in one mobo would def be preferred...

So I'm looking to start a couple of concurrency-based websites, so naturally one of my first questions was how to monetize them. I could use Adsense, but I want to be paid in cryptos for these projects, not USD (or any other usual currency).

In your guys experience, which network has given you the greatest ad revenue, while also giving proper flexibility in ad banner size, and so on? One that I'm heavily considering is Mellow Ads, but I notice that some sites actually use multiple ad networks for monetization. Some are even using a mix of Adsense, Mellow Ads, and others as well... At the same time, I don't want to have to deal with building a payout threshold on mulutiple accounts and preferably would want to stick with one...

Is Mellow my best place to start? Or is there another network you guys could suggest? Thanks so much for any help you can give me.