Trust sidehack to remain supportive to his baby--much appreciated.

Yeah 4.11 didn't make a difference.  I tweaked the voltage up (even though the miners were only spitting out about 1 HW error/day) and will monitor to see if that has any affect (I know that it shouldn't).

Weird.

.earl

Okay then, my apologies to anyone I may wake up by posting.  That's cute, there's a warning about waking stale topics.

My windows 10 just upgraded to 1803 and my compacs have dropped in hashrate.  Anyone have a similar experience?

Yes, compacs, not 2pac.

Yes, 1803, not 1809 (I like to delay as much as possible).

With the upgrade to 1803, I had to reinstall zadig, which had been upgraded since I originally installed it.  After noticing the decrease in hashrate (5.5% on each unit) I dug out and applied my older version of zadig, but to no avail.

The version of cgminer as well as the batch file used to lauch it have not changed.  Next stop will be the multimeter if nobody else has noticed the drop.

What?  I like these little guys.

.earl

hey there

You're tracking the unpaid balance (in bitcoin?), which is what I do.  With the massive spike in BTC a week or two ago, your earnings in BTC should decrease, yet equivalent earnings in fiat should remain the same or be higher.  I don't know about the 1060, but my O/C'd 960 does about that now too.  It is what it is.

.earl

Sounds good.  I've moved mine to only those algos too.  If anyone else cares to join this experiment, feel free.

.earl

With that many GPUs we should be following your lead then.   This is just an experiment for me; for you it would probably be more.

Anyway, not sure if we should focus on three algos, or just two.  I'm hesitant to do just one as the likelihood of picking the best algorithm seems near impossible.  Having two or three provides a better risk/reward (at least in my head).

The algos I've chosen seem to have a decent find rate on zpool, but are still under 5%.  If we can up the pool's find rate by even 1%, that would be at least a 20% increase in payout.  That's the thinking anyway, I'm sure there's a lot I'm missing.  Do you have a preference for algos/number of algos?

.earl

Hmmm. . . .anybody interested in some focused mining?

Zpool only pays out when it finds a block.  If we reduce the number of algos we mine, that should increase the percentage of blocks found by zpool, which means more return for us.

My three favourite algos (for nvidia) at the moment are Skein, X17 and Lyre2RE2.  If anyone wants to join me and focus on these (or has a better option), we could try it for a couple days and see if it makes a difference.  Obviously people have differing opinions, so mine what you want.

Just a thought.

.earl

My 1080ti pulled in 0.49 mBTC over the last 24h, as near as I can tell from the zpool graph, running multi-algorithm (20 or so algos).

ymmv

.earl

Easy enough.  Edit the NemosMiner-v2.2.ps1 file and replace  [String]$WorkerName = "ID=NemosMiner-v2.2",  with  [String]$WorkerName = "",

See if that works.

[edit]
Actually, you might not even have to do that.  First try adding the -WorkerName parameter to the command in startminingpoolhub.bat.

powershell -version 5.0 -noexit -executionpolicy bypass -windowstyle maximized -command "&.\NemosMiner-v2.2.ps1 -SelGPUEWBF '0,1' -SelGPUCC '0,1' -Currency USD -Passwordcurrency BTC -interval 120 -Username nemo -Workername miningpoolhub -Location US -PoolName miningpoolhub -Type nvidia -Algorithm cryptonight,keccak,lyra2z,skein,equihash,groestl,MyriadGroestl,Lyra2RE2,neoscrypt -Donate 5 -WorkerName Mining1070

[2nd edit]
I take it back, you'll probably have to use the original change.  The second one seems to add it to the password parameter (which works for zpool).

.earl

For zpool, I do it in the Miners directory, and edit each of the miner files:

e.g. in ccminerAlexis78.ps1:
    "c11" = ",d=0.072 -i 21 -d $SelGPUCC" #C11
    "x17" = ",d=0.048 -i 21 -d $SelGPUCC" #X17

Be sure to have that comma before the d, as it needs to be part of the password string (no spaces).  If you look at the command string displayed when running, mine shows as:

... -u 1MrVAk93HHrFaYQ1EUpb3Fe5kzuw3ygZo -p worker1,c=BTC,d=0.072 -i 21 -d 0

.earl

Agreed.  So that's what I did.  I have two GTX960 cards of the same make, and after making sure that the core and memory clocks were the same, set one to work on Nicehash and the other on zpool.

My setup was using NemosMiner, and I had customized each pool to my liking (select algorithms, minimum mining duration) and leaving it to NemosMiner so neither of the pools got to pick the algorithms for me.  Your mileage will definitely vary.

I wasn't as scientific as pikachuy, and went by the total unpaid amount on both pools as opposed to waiting for an actual payout, and recorded the amount earned over four days.  That was enough to show zpool at 10% higher in terms of unpaid amount.  It would actually go back and forth between the two some days; NH earning more during the day and zpool more at night.  Anyway, I believe zpool pays you precisely the indicated amount (fees taken off the front end) whereas Nicehash takes it on the back end which would result in 4% less (I use an external wallet) of a payout from the value shown.  So net to me should be approx 14.5% higher with zpool.

Anyway, four days was enough for me and I moved the rest of my GPUs over to zpool.  Zpool also pays out at lower earnings (weekly at 1.5 mBTC, vs 10 mBTC for NH).  Plus, with zpool being in Canada and Nicehash in Slovenia(?), the pool's profits (including the mysterious 20%?) are a little closer to home.

Oh yeah, I elected to be paid out in BTC.  Getting paid in other coins on zpool involves an additional exchange or something and would most likely reduce earnings.  I think that's what was said in the many pages of the zpool thread.  Please fact check at your own discretion--I'm just some dude on the Internet.

.earl

So I've been tuning my NemosMiner for zpool, which is why I've been watching it all day.

The other datum point is at 15:40, where my unpaid balance was suddenly down to 0.00115160.  So sometime between 14:40 and 15:40 is where I lost earnings.  It just happened to take another hour to get back to the 14:40 value.  Yes, I checked the algos I had been mining for orphans, nothing out of the ordinary that I could see.  My earnings were normal during that recovery period, so I called it two hours worth of loss (more or less).

I don't profess to know everything about zpool's inner workings, so when I see an unexplained drop I question it.

.earl

Yeah so at 14:40 my unpaid balance was 0.00157667, and at 16:40 it was 0.00157399.  Not a problem with the graph.

.earl

[edit] Understood JaredKaragen, but two hours worth?

To me it looks like your unpaid balance actually decreased between 14:15 and 15:30.  I lost two hours of earnings for whatever reason, the pool connection was there during that time.

.earl

In addition to the above changes, I also set $Divisor = 1000000 as the current estimate is different.  NemosMiner popped up some error message the first time it encountered each algorithm, but worked just fine after that.

.earl

Your screencap is interesting.  At the top, it mentions the price of Bitcoin in terms of NZD.  Mine just says 1BTC = 1.00000000 BTC.
Also present is something mine has, an insane amount of days recorded for some of the algorithms.  In addition, mine count down from there as opposed to incrementing.  What is causing this?

Anyway, mine (single GPU) doesn't have the freezing issues the others have.  Looking forward to having increased stats for nicehash I think I read somewhere.

Thanks for working on this.

.earl

Understood that seeing an inbox of flames is not wanted.  To help alleviate that, you could post an informational message explaining in detail what happened, why it happened, and possibly how it could be prevented in the future.  That might answer enough questions to quell the inflow of grief.

As it stands I still don't understand what happened.  Someone mentioned that the 'wallet forked'; I'm assuming that a longer fork appeared wiping out the shorter one.  But 10 hours worth?  Shouldn't the pool have switched to the longer one sooner than that?  Or was there foul play as somebody else mentioned.

TL;DR: Give us all the info on what happened please.

.earl

edit--I changed my opinion

Any chance that you can incorporate CK's other pool in this comparison?  I have my gekkos pointed to pool.ckpool.org instead of solo.ckpool.org.

I suppose that a block found on one pool would not reset the stats for those mining on the other, so that would have to be dealt with in some manner.  Since it is mainly about comparison and friendly competition, it may not matter to most of the participants.

Thoughts?

.earl

In ck's [BETA] pool, elusive block cracks the pool!

- sorry ck, I couldn't resist

.earl

This.  So annoying when your game gets interrupted.  Any other gamers out there with a solution to the nicehash miner stealing focus?

.earl

I moved as soon as it started.  The stats page certainly isn't as pretty as here though.

.earl