Third alt coin thread last two were too big. Builds links thoughts etc

[GabryRox]

What is more profitable today?

ETH@$32 or DASH@$100?

Is anyone using RX4xx for DASH?  What is the profitability per day?

Dash is mined with Asics

Baikal$$$ !

No use mining using GPU, its just too small of hash and takes too much power compared to ASICs.

I have experimented with RX480 rig before, using sgminer v5.5, use -k x11 algorithm to mine.

RX480 x 6xGPU rig at best 50MHs, vs smallest model Baikal 150MHs Asics miner selling just under 500$

Citronik... where are you seeing those Mini's available for under $500?  I've been searching the past week and the lowest I've seen them is around $700.

On another somewhat related note, i just ran a whattomine query for the algo's that the mini supports and MonetaryUnit (MUE) under Quark algo is showing as almost 40% more profitable to mine currently than even Dash.  Not sure I will switch over yet but seems to be at least worth looking into.

I have seen Minis selling 350$, 400$ around there by US sellers as recent as Christmas last year -- I guess resellers must have jacked up the price x2..... those vultures. Get in touch with "bittawn" - I know he is selling but I don't know the pricing.

On MUE.... IMHO, the first rule to mining at Nicehash is collect BTC and no loyalty to any coins (except BTC).

Quark and Qubit are very "complex" algorithms -- very few coins under these algos. But I suggest you stick to X11 because the pay rate will be likely "very high" and sustained longer -- while unknown coins tends to have short burst to fame then fades out quickly. I dont really monitor which coins is profitable because Baikal takes care of that in the auto-switch settings.

In this "good times" in crypto currency world, its good to be a rentor, since we get paid in BTC upfront as a hash seller (lol), not a miner (ie. mine,wait confirmation,sell at exchange, get BTC, transfer to own wallet.... isnt that just to long).

Thanks for the insight... I think i will just stick with Dash for the 1 mini i currently have.  I will contact "bittawn" and see what he is selling mini's for.  Word has it that Baikal will be pushing out another batch in mid_April but I have to get direct confirmation on that or any of the details... like adjusted price, pre-order locking etc.

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[GabryRox]

all my decred crashed an I am loaded with rejects I switched to  pascal

anyone have the decred reject issue.

Hey Phil, sorry I can't help on this... both my 6-card rigs doing ETH + DRC are running fine. I usually run about 1% rejects but have never seen it eclipse 2%.  However, note that I am mining directly to decredpool and not to NH, so that could be the issue on your side.  It might be worth trying decredpool or suprnova for decred though if NH is indeed the issue... because right now, with DCR between $5-$6 and Pasc still stuck under 20 cents, I believe DCR is probably 3-5x more profitable to mine than Pasc.  It was a close toss-up back when DCR was at or under $2 but it's now up 2-3x while Pasc is about the same. might be worth a try anyway

[GabryRox]

all my decred crashed an I am loaded with rejects I switched to  pascal

anyone have the decred reject issue.

In NH, I think when hash is over demand, it will be rejected.... decred hash oversold in NH?

With ETH so good, I prefer to push the rig to do 100% ETH with maximum -ethi 16

ETH strength continues to amaze!  Luckily, I have just been banking all my mined ETH in preparation for the eventual move to POS.  I know it's not a ton but I had 50 shares before the blow-up the last week or so and very glad I had help them now for sure.  A few days ago when it almost hit $30 then dropped back down around $26, I almost sold some around $28 when I saw it starting to drop, but i didn't pull the trigger. Now with it at $45 I am looking at its ratio to BTC and its crazy... only about 1:25, which would have been unthinkable just over a week ago.

However, as good as ETH is, DCR has been on fire as well... hit $6 a while ago now back around $5 but that's still quite impressive. I have never tried pushing my rigs past default intensity on ETH but Im runing default 8 on ETH and 40 on DCR and getting right around 1 share of each per day (only 12 of 16 cards are doing DCR though because 1 rig can't seem to do dual for some reason).  It's a bit different for me since i am holding most of both coins and not auto-converting to BTC via NH, but either way, it's a great time to be a miner!

[vg54dett]

all my decred crashed an I am loaded with rejects I switched to  pascal

anyone have the decred reject issue.

same here !

[vg54dett]

I'm trying simplemining for the first time on a 4 GPUs Rig, and have an issue :
two GPUs are at 2 to 4mh/s instead of 25
(rx470 not overclocked yet as I'm just starting)

any ideas

[LoneRangir]

I'm trying simplemining for the first time on a 4 GPUs Rig, and have an issue :
two GPUs are at 2 to 4mh/s instead of 25
(rx470 not overclocked yet as I'm just starting)

any ideas

4 MH/s is usually caused by there not being an HDMI cable plugged in.  Try adding monitor to test and reboot.

I usually just try to restart the mining software, but if you're using SM, you may just need to reboot?

[vg54dett]

Thanks for trying to help.
Yes generally it's caused by the cable missing, but for this rigs I have a screen plugged.

And it's 2 to 3 of the 4 GPUs that are at 4mh, not just one.

I've tryied the reboots with no luck.

[vapourminer]

all my decred crashed an I am loaded with rejects I switched to  pascal

anyone have the decred reject issue.

same here !

my nicehash dashboard showed 0 speed on dcr and my 2 rigs started getting 100% rejects as of last night. so this morning i switched to eth only.

[xleejohnx]

Thanks for trying to help.
Yes generally it's caused by the cable missing, but for this rigs I have a screen plugged.

And it's 2 to 3 of the 4 GPUs that are at 4mh, not just one.

I've tryied the reboots with no luck.

Do you have your pcie lane set to gen2 or gen1

[vg54dett]

Gen1 !

[philipma1957]

all my decred crashed an I am loaded with rejects I switched to  pascal

anyone have the decred reject issue.

same here !

my nicehash dashboard showed 0 speed on dcr and my 2 rigs started getting 100% rejects as of last night. so this morning i switched to eth only.

Yeah I gave up and I am doing all eth.

Saves a lot of power. About 700 watts

[citronick]

all my decred crashed an I am loaded with rejects I switched to  pascal

anyone have the decred reject issue.

same here !

my nicehash dashboard showed 0 speed on dcr and my 2 rigs started getting 100% rejects as of last night. so this morning i switched to eth only.

Yeah I gave up and I am doing all eth.

Saves a lot of power. About 700 watts

... and also it will extend the life of your GPUs.

[Biodom]

all my decred crashed an I am loaded with rejects I switched to  pascal

anyone have the decred reject issue.

same here !

my nicehash dashboard showed 0 speed on dcr and my 2 rigs started getting 100% rejects as of last night. so this morning i switched to eth only.

Yeah I gave up and I am doing all eth.

Saves a lot of power. About 700 watts

eth is crazy right now...will it last?

[philipma1957]

all my decred crashed an I am loaded with rejects I switched to  pascal

anyone have the decred reject issue.

same here !

my nicehash dashboard showed 0 speed on dcr and my 2 rigs started getting 100% rejects as of last night. so this morning i switched to eth only.

Yeah I gave up and I am doing all eth.

Saves a lot of power. About 700 watts

eth is crazy right now...will it last?

good question

 better question  is not will it last

but  how high does it go to before it drops ?

another good question is if  it peaks at 110 usd and it could  when is the peak?

How about it peaks right  about 1 month after  amd drops the 500 series miners?

Think how much they will cost!

[HerbPean]

isn't the 560-570-580 series just a rebranding of the actual GPU ?

I red an article about them ... it was saying not much performance improvement but better power usage.

We don't have any idea of what the actual new chip will do with mining force task.

[thedue]

sold my last ETH at 51$ and I´m fine with it so far... you never know if it was right until it drops or doubles 

[citronick]

sold my last ETH at 51$ and I´m fine with it so far... you never know if it was right until it drops or doubles 

I was also in similar dilemma about selling my hoard of DCR but finally sold them at 5.10 (bought at 2.30)....

....I had enough BTC to get the new Pandaminer but it wasnt meant to be - sold out as soon as it appeared on their webpage.

[Tmdz]

all my decred crashed an I am loaded with rejects I switched to  pascal

anyone have the decred reject issue.

same here !

my nicehash dashboard showed 0 speed on dcr and my 2 rigs started getting 100% rejects as of last night. so this morning i switched to eth only.

Yeah I gave up and I am doing all eth.

Saves a lot of power. About 700 watts

eth is crazy right now...will it last?

good question

 better question  is not will it last

but  how high does it go to before it drops ?

another good question is if  it peaks at 110 usd and it could  when is the peak?

How about it peaks right  about 1 month after  amd drops the 500 series miners?

Think how much they will cost!

I don't know if Ethereum can raise that much, to hit 110 usd we are talking a 9 billion market cap and bitcoin will take a hard hit.

If it does happen stacking your eth coins will be important, rather than expanding farm size.

Also if bitcoin continues to lose value, selling eth to bitcoin will be a way to lose your money.  Some people are calling this the flipping where Ethereum takes over as the dominate coin.  There is a lot of uncertainly in the market, for the first time holding bitcoin could be a bad idea ( short term anyway). 

One more thing...Difficulty is getting out of control, 20% increase in the last week alone.  If Ethereum takes a break and other gpu coins gain value then that will help.

[LoneRangir]

isn't the 560-570-580 series just a rebranding of the actual GPU ?

I red an article about them ... it was saying not much performance improvement but better power usage.

We don't have any idea of what the actual new chip will do with mining force task.

From what I've read, too, the 560, 570, and 580 will be "rebadged" Polaris chips. Higher clock rate, but fundamentally the same cards.

They will most likely release updated Fury and Nano cards in late May. They will actually be "game changing" cards with a new microarchitecture: HBM2 memory, new computer units with expanded instructions per clock

[citronick]

isn't the 560-570-580 series just a rebranding of the actual GPU ?

I red an article about them ... it was saying not much performance improvement but better power usage.

We don't have any idea of what the actual new chip will do with mining force task.

From what I've read, too, the 560, 570, and 580 will be "rebadged" Polaris chips. Higher clock rate, but fundamentally the same cards.

They will most likely release updated Fury and Nano cards in late May. They will actually be "game changing" cards with a new microarchitecture: HBM2 memory, new computer units with expanded instructions per clock

I have Nano rigs - love them. Small and power packed (64 compute cores)
They are champion esp ZEC; at stock they deliver up to 440 sol/s per card.
They have HBM and ZEC seems to love fast memory (especially Optiminer)
Even if HBM2 50% faster, I think its a big boost vs the rest of the cards.
For example... RX480 8GB non-HBM = up to 300 sol/s only but performs better in ETH.
The only bad thing about this Fiji series is..... its expensive.
Hope the new Nano is not sold at premum like the Gen 1 cards.