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

[xleejohnx]

citronick I followed your advice   pointing everything at nicehash.

Although I still think 3% fee is a tad high from Nicehash but.... there are more pros than cons by selling/renting out your hash.

Sadly, I lost faith in many of the trusted popular pools... with exception to ethpool, ethermine pools for ETH which basically saved my group's ass in 2015-2016 during the ETH hey days.

The rest of pools for ZEC and XMR were getting bad to worse and struggling all the time. Payments are erratic too and at the same time, the exchanges get to charge us transfer fees because we still have to transfer final amount to Coinbase or cold wallets.

I feel that we should not be side tracked on whats going on now which is the critical cross road of Bitcoin and BTC price itself. The value of an ounce of gold is now less than 1 BTC. The first US$20M ETF will see its fate on March 11th... many things to look forward to for BTC this year.

Therefore, I made a strategic move to focus all mining operations to eventually convert to BTC as fast as possible via NH - at least for this year to maximize my chances having lots of BTC, when price hits 1500, 3000, 5000...... etc.  

Using NH to take up front risk and pay per share submitted (ie. no bloody confirmations for coins etc before payment), IMHO that is worth the 3%.

With SRR now installed in my farm, maximum uptime is now the new measurement.

Off topic since its non-alt coins --- I also made some major changes in the 1.3PH S9 (currently gbminers.com) and 720TH A7 (currently kano.is) farms -- to use NH-SHA256 as the backup pool. I rather RENT OUT than use so called "decent" PPS paying pool (Antpool, F2pool etc.), because they are a lot of crazy people out there who basically throw money to buy expensive hash in NH SHA256 marketplace. Hey, I dont mind taking their money - they can enjoy my 2PH anytime for a premium. If the crazies continue to come and play at NH SHA256 marketplace, I am willing to point the entire 2PH farm to them.

Fees are high but the price being paid is high.
I am converting all coins to BTC.
I am trying to balance  coins-- gear-- cash

At the moment I bumped cash and lowered both gear and coins.

say 7k cash   10k gear    9k coins almost all btc

I may sell more gear.

you need to have cash on hand in case coins dump.

We may see coins go way up or crash.  So I see 2500 or 600   not  say 1000-1300 flat path  by years end.

Wise words for investment talk
Having a good balance of all is the way to go
Coins gear cash is a good way to go about it

[philipma1957]

checking  different bats for my gear.


info on my simple mining settings

my eth + decred

-epool stratum+tcp://us1.ethpool.org:3333 -ewal 0x3ef297e47404a771139472b93621f82c8a832857.Simple2 -esm 0 -epsw x -allpools 1 -mport -3333  -dpool stratum+tcp://decred.usa.nicehash.com:3354 -dwal 1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtje.Simple2  -esm 0 -allpools 1 -dbg -1 -wd 1 -r 1 -ethi 5 -dcri 15 -dcoin decred



my eth + pasc

-epool stratum+tcp://us1.ethpool.org:3333 -ewal 0x3ef297e47404a771139472b93621f82c8a832857.Simple2 -esm 0 -epsw x -allpools 1 -mport -3333  -dpool stratum+tcp://pascal.usa.nicehash.com:3358 -dwal 1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtje.Simple2  -esm 0 -allpools 1 -dbg -1 -wd 1 -r 1 -ethi 15 -dcri 20 -dcoin pasc

my eth + decred with nicehash

-epool stratum+tcp://daggerhashimoto.usa.nicehash.com:3353 -ewal 1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtje.Simple2 -esm 3 -epsw x -allpools 1 -mport -3333 -ethi 5 -dpool stratum+tcp://decred.usa.nicehash.com:3354 -dwal 1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtje.Simple2 -allpools 1 -dbg -1 -wd 1 -r 1 -dcri 15 -dcoin decred

xmr at simplemining
using ( sgminer-gm-5.5.5 (XMR, Zcash, ETH )

--no-submit-stale --kernel cryptonight -o xmr-us-east1.nanopool.org:14444 -u 463tWEBn5XZJSxLU6uLQnQ2iY9xuNcDbjLSjkn3XAXHCbLrTTErJrBWYgHJQyrCwkNgYvyV3z8zctJL PCZy24jvb3NiTcTJ.08912b53652c493494214f8ae7982d66a4cb6daa0c414191bc8ee808e2bfc2 04.SimplePanda3 -p x  -o xmr-us-west1.nanopool.org:14444 -u 463tWEBn5XZJSxLU6uLQnQ2iY9xuNcDbjLSjkn3XAXHCbLrTTErJrBWYgHJQyrCwkNgYvyV3z8zctJL PCZy24jvb3NiTcTJ.08912b53652c493494214f8ae7982d66a4cb6daa0c414191bc8ee808e2bfc2 04.SimplePanda3 -p x --rawintensity 1008 -w 8 --text-only


for nicehash sgminer-gm-nh-5.5.5-8 I got xmr working

--no-submit-stale --kernel cryptonight -o stratum+tcp://cryptonight.eu.nicehash.com:3355 -u 1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtje.Simple2 -p x --rawintensity 1008 -w 8 --text-only

any one have a zec bat for smOS ?  I am guessing this works?

--no-submit-stale --kernel equihash -o stratum+tcp://equihash.eu.nicehash.com:3357 -u 1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtje.Simple2 -p x --rawintensity 1008 -w 8 --text-only

[GabryRox]

thanks to all for the riser suggestions. I couldn't wait for a shipment from China or ebay at this point... not patient enough with 4 GPUs sitting in a box needing to get onto my rig lol.  So, I ordered 4 from the Amazon seller someone suggested and 4 more from the other one I found that at least looked like the ones Phil sent (the Molex version).  But, I will probably get that 6-pack or PCI from the seller Phil mentioned. Since risers are probably the #1 problem item on these rigs, I think it's a good plan to have a handful on-hand in case they are needed.

On another note, for those of you dual mining ETH + anything but DCR at present, take a look at what DCR is doing today! It's up 50% to just over $3.50 a coin!  So now, it is by far the most profitable 2nd coin to mine with ETH.  Just an FYI for those that might still be doing Pasc or Lib or Sia.

[philipma1957]

thanks to all for the riser suggestions. I couldn't wait for a shipment from China or ebay at this point... not patient enough with 4 GPUs sitting in a box needing to get onto my rig lol.  So, I ordered 4 from the Amazon seller someone suggested and 4 more from the other one I found that at least looked like the ones Phil sent (the Molex version).  But, I will probably get that 6-pack or PCI from the seller Phil mentioned. Since risers are probably the #1 problem item on these rigs, I think it's a good plan to have a handful on-hand in case they are needed.

On another note, for those of you dual mining ETH + anything but DCR at present, take a look at what DCR is doing today! It's up 50% to just over $3.50 a coin!  So now, it is by far the most profitable 2nd coin to mine with ETH.  Just an FYI for those that might still be doing Pasc or Lib or Sia.

he has a NY location and a China location


mention me and ask for them from ny

Yeah I am killing it with  dcr and eth.

[yslyung]

@philipma1957, why so many diff config n pools ?

atm i'm back on dwarf for eth n dcr at nh

both was at nh for a bit but thinking on saving up some eth, have a feeling it'll shoot up. manual trade gains a little more than nh direct me thinks.

[philipma1957]

@philipma1957, why so many diff config n pools ?

atm i'm back on dwarf for eth n dcr at nh

both was at nh for a bit but thinking on saving up some eth, have a feeling it'll shoot up. manual trade gains a little more than nh direct me thinks.

the pandaminer struggles  at times so I move it around.

also  simplemining os   has  no real easy way to store  setups  so I list them all on site.

[yslyung]

@philipma1957, why so many diff config n pools ?

atm i'm back on dwarf for eth n dcr at nh

both was at nh for a bit but thinking on saving up some eth, have a feeling it'll shoot up. manual trade gains a little more than nh direct me thinks.

the pandaminer struggles  at times so I move it around.

also  simplemining os   has  no real easy way to store  setups  so I list them all on site.

hmmm ... copy settings put it in notepad++ then copy paste whichever settings n run miner ?

looks like some -ve points for panda too.

still considering to test out SMOS but tbh, i dont feel too comfortable pointing my miners into other server then to pool. what's happening in between ?

nothing against tytanick n he made a great piece of software though.

** also i noticed CDM v8.0 is no better than CDM v7.4 except the ability to dual mine PASC but atm the most profitable would be ETH +DCR n infact i;m getting better speeds on CDM v7.4 compared to v8.0

[Tmdz]

Got a new sapphire card, the Nitro 470 4gb.  (This is non-plus nitro model)

They are selling pretty cheap, $165 with a $10 rebate at newegg currently.  $155 with the rebate.

No dual bios, lower stock clocks and no back plate but the power plug is still on the top.  More cost saving measures from sapphire, was slightly disappointment to see them remove the back plate.

Samsung ram and everything is still unlocked in msi afterburner.

They possibility dislike if the voltage goes too low, I did -100 mv and 1050 mhz core then pc locked up.  I got it going again and did -90 mv 1100 mhz core, 1900 mhz ram with 1700 straps and running fine.  Watts in the software shows 70 watts (mining eth) at the gpu core so thats about 120 watts at the plug with 80% efficiency psu.  Seems like a good card and at this price point you can roi pretty quick.  I am replacing a small 290 rig with these cards.

[citronick]

i dont feel too comfortable pointing my miners into other server then to pool. what's happening in between ?

nothing against tytanick n he made a great piece of software though.

+1

I was sceptical too at first.

But after trying it out..... now enjoying the ease and central management, and damn stable Linux performance - couldn't be happier. The SRR addition made it a better package.

For that "What happens in between?".... who knows..... think Cloud.

Today, I use gmail and yahoomail..... what happens in between or "out there"..... who knows..... but I still continue to use cloud email.

One thing for sure, as long as service is good or exceeding one's expectations, safe, secure, easy... it gets my approval.

For the topic or expensive or not etc. -- I think after dumping Windows for Linux, I got back several more hours of sleep everyday. Best of all, I get to learn something new on Linux everyday. I have had enough skills on Windows in my lifetime.
So what price can you attach to above?

[citronick]

@philipma1957, why so many diff config n pools ?

atm i'm back on dwarf for eth n dcr at nh

both was at nh for a bit but thinking on saving up some eth, have a feeling it'll shoot up. manual trade gains a little more than nh direct me thinks.

the pandaminer struggles  at times so I move it around.

also  simplemining os   has  no real easy way to store  setups  so I list them all on site.

I put all my settings on Google Drive for easy access from everywhere. Easy just cut and paste, mainly for Claymore and sgminer settings and syntax.

For Optiminer and Wolf settings.... its is more advanced their miners, and just require minimal input - so thats easy.

Usually I just need wallet address and correct URL for pools with correct ports. Anything else is considered "good to have".

For Claymore, my standard baseline syntax for all his miners is always "-tt 77 tstop 95 -dbg -1 -wd 1 -r 1 -fanmax 99 -fanmin 55 -mport -3333"

At the end of day, I think we should not have the habit of switching pools everyday - it will gather no moss in the long run.

Anyways, I switch between ETH+DCR and ZEC and XMR via Nicehash and get BTC upfront. I have lost faith in the major pools dwarfpool, nanopool etc - with exception of ethpool which I still use to collect ETH. Depending on what happens after the ETF March 11 ruling by SEC, I may revert to my 3 coin strategy on the long term. For now.... all in with BTC.

My 28 rigs (out of 33) selling ZEC hash at Nicehash marketplace gets me around 0.11 BTC to 0.145 BTC per day. I tried ETH+DCR at Nicehash too.... but only get 0.07 BTC max per day.

[LoneRangir]

i dont feel too comfortable pointing my miners into other server then to pool. what's happening in between ?

nothing against tytanick n he made a great piece of software though.

+1

I was sceptical too at first.

But after trying it out..... now enjoying the ease and central management, and damn stable Linux performance - couldn't be happier. The SRR addition made it a better package.

For that "What happens in between?".... who knows..... think Cloud.

Today, I use gmail and yahoomail..... what happens in between or "out there"..... who knows..... but I still continue to use cloud email.

One thing for sure, as long as service is good or exceeding one's expectations, safe, secure, easy... it gets my approval.

For the topic or expensive or not etc. -- I think after dumping Windows for Linux, I got back several more hours of sleep everyday. Best of all, I get to learn something new on Linux everyday. I have had enough skills on Windows in my lifetime.
So what price can you attach to above?

I understand the ease of implementation thing. It takes a lot of time to manage all these machines.

Are you able to under-volt via Linux?

[citronick]

checking  different bats for my gear.



any one have a zec bat for smOS ?  I am guessing this works?

--no-submit-stale --kernel equihash -o stratum+tcp://equihash.eu.nicehash.com:3357 -u 1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtje.Simple2 -p x --rawintensity 1008 -w 8 --text-only

For ZEC mining at NH (2nd highest paying currently at whattomine.com)

Use Optiminer 1.7 or Claymore 12.2

I prefer Optiminer 1.7 because developer has optimised miner for Linux mining.
Also the default settings is very stable on smOS.

-s equihash.hk.nicehash.com:3357 -u <putyourBTCaddresshere>.$rigName -p x

Claymore 12.2 is equally good for ZEC, advantage is that you have more controls.

-zpool stratum+ssl://equihash.hk.nicehash.com:33357#xnsub -zwal <putyourBTCaddresshere>.$rigName -zpsw x -wd 1 -dbg -1 -r 1 -allpools 1 -tt 75 -tstop 95 -mport 3333

Note that using Claymore miner on the SSL port will further reduce Claymore fees by 0.5% .... replace the ssl with tcp if you dont want to mine through the SSL port. Please note the port number has an extra char "3" prefix.

[citronick]

i dont feel too comfortable pointing my miners into other server then to pool. what's happening in between ?

nothing against tytanick n he made a great piece of software though.

+1

I was sceptical too at first.

But after trying it out..... now enjoying the ease and central management, and damn stable Linux performance - couldn't be happier. The SRR addition made it a better package.

For that "What happens in between?".... who knows..... think Cloud.

Today, I use gmail and yahoomail..... what happens in between or "out there"..... who knows..... but I still continue to use cloud email.

One thing for sure, as long as service is good or exceeding one's expectations, safe, secure, easy... it gets my approval.

For the topic or expensive or not etc. -- I think after dumping Windows for Linux, I got back several more hours of sleep everyday. Best of all, I get to learn something new on Linux everyday. I have had enough skills on Windows in my lifetime.
So what price can you attach to above?

I understand the ease of implementation thing. It takes a lot of time to manage all these machines.

Are you able to under-volt via Linux?

undervolt? using Claymore's power limit settings dont work in Linux for RX cards.

For non-RX cards, no issues, you can set them in smOS overclocking menu.

However, I flash my GPUs with low power rom mods -100mV during Windows era.

And I still use them in smOS Linux environment to good effect - works fine and saves me same or less wattage.

For setting core and mem clocks in RX cards, Tytanick mentioned that he is working on it and talking to another developer to sell the codes to him.... 

[philipma1957]

i dont feel too comfortable pointing my miners into other server then to pool. what's happening in between ?

nothing against tytanick n he made a great piece of software though.

+1

I was sceptical too at first.

But after trying it out..... now enjoying the ease and central management, and damn stable Linux performance - couldn't be happier. The SRR addition made it a better package.

For that "What happens in between?".... who knows..... think Cloud.

Today, I use gmail and yahoomail..... what happens in between or "out there"..... who knows..... but I still continue to use cloud email.

One thing for sure, as long as service is good or exceeding one's expectations, safe, secure, easy... it gets my approval.

For the topic or expensive or not etc. -- I think after dumping Windows for Linux, I got back several more hours of sleep everyday. Best of all, I get to learn something new on Linux everyday. I have had enough skills on Windows in my lifetime.
So what price can you attach to above?

I understand the ease of implementation thing. It takes a lot of time to manage all these machines.

Are you able to under-volt via Linux?

undervolt? using Claymore's power limit settings dont work in Linux for RX cards.

For non-RX cards, no issues, you can set them in smOS overclocking menu.

However, I flash my GPUs with low power rom mods -100mV during Windows era.

And I still use them in smOS Linux environment to good effect - works fine and saves me same or less wattage.

For setting core and mem clocks in RX cards, Tytanick mentioned that he is working on it and talking to another developer to sell the codes to him....  

More controls only help the software improve.

and I got my panda on zec yes  thanks

nice watts drop  for all gear on zec vs all gear on eth  14 x 240 = 3360    to 12 x 240 =  2880

[yslyung]

ah i forgot to add, i kinda use my own mgmt software n those that comes with it.

sorry forgot to add, i am not paying "fees" atm but that's only for my own use. I did pay fees, but i believe i have already paid enough initially + furthermore i have full control of my own rigs.

that's just my own personal preferences tbh. i manage quite a bit of rigs too including those that i host too.

[philipma1957]

citronick I followed your advice   pointing everything at nicehash.

Although I still think 3% fee is a tad high from Nicehash but.... there are more pros than cons by selling/renting out your hash.

Sadly, I lost faith in many of the trusted popular pools... with exception to ethpool, ethermine pools for ETH which basically saved my group's ass in 2015-2016 during the ETH hey days.

The rest of pools for ZEC and XMR were getting bad to worse and struggling all the time. Payments are erratic too and at the same time, the exchanges get to charge us transfer fees because we still have to transfer final amount to Coinbase or cold wallets.

I feel that we should not be side tracked on whats going on now which is the critical cross road of Bitcoin and BTC price itself. The value of an ounce of gold is now less than 1 BTC. The first US$20M ETF will see its fate on March 11th... many things to look forward to for BTC this year.

Therefore, I made a strategic move to focus all mining operations to eventually convert to BTC as fast as possible via NH - at least for this year to maximize my chances having lots of BTC, when price hits 1500, 3000, 5000...... etc.  

Using NH to take up front risk and pay per share submitted (ie. no bloody confirmations for coins etc before payment), IMHO that is worth the 3%.

With SRR now installed in my farm, maximum uptime is now the new measurement.

Off topic since its non-alt coins --- I also made some major changes in the 1.3PH S9 (currently gbminers.com) and 720TH A7 (currently kano.is) farms -- to use NH-SHA256 as the backup pool. I rather RENT OUT than use so called "decent" PPS paying pool (Antpool, F2pool etc.), because they are a lot of crazy people out there who basically throw money to buy expensive hash in NH SHA256 marketplace. Hey, I dont mind taking their money - they can enjoy my 2PH anytime for a premium. If the crazies continue to come and play at NH SHA256 marketplace, I am willing to point the entire 2PH farm to them.

Fees are high but the price being paid is high.
I am converting all coins to BTC.
I am trying to balance  coins-- gear-- cash

At the moment I bumped cash and lowered both gear and coins.

say 7k cash   10k gear    9k coins almost all btc

I may sell more gear.

you need to have cash on hand in case coins dump.

We may see coins go way up or crash.  So I see 2500 or 600   not  say 1000-1300 flat path  by years end.

Wise words for investment talk
Having a good balance of all is the way to go
Coins gear cash is a good way to go about it

I purchased a little btc today.     0.10


If we drop under 1100  I will buy some more.

[GabryRox]

Yeah, I bought about .12 @ about $1,175.  Part of me wants to buy more around that price point but the looming ETF decision seems more and more likely to be pushed out even further and not really sure what that would do to prices.  I've also heard that while they are expected to "decide" on Saturday, the decision won't be released until Monday, which could make for a very interesting weekend of speculation, given that there will probably be multiple unconfirmed "leaks".

Really tough to know what to do but i will probably get in for maybe another .25 or so.  To me, there just seems to be more upwards potential than down but that's just my opinion.

[vg54dett]

I have a question mining related : do anyone have already got the problem when disconnecting teamviewer leads to the RIG crash and reboot ?

No problem as long as teamviewer remains connected to the RIG , or of course as long as teamviewer has not been connected.
But If I connect to check or do some settings, I can't disconnect the remote access without getting crash of this particular RIG ..

[philipma1957]

I have a question mining related : do anyone have already got the problem when disconnecting teamviewer leads to the RIG crash and reboot ?

No problem as long as teamviewer remains connected to the RIG , or of course as long as teamviewer has not been connected.
But If I connect to check or do some settings, I can't disconnect the remote access without getting crash of this particular RIG ..

Sorry I have been using smOS to check rigs

[vapourminer]

I have a question mining related : do anyone have already got the problem when disconnecting teamviewer leads to the RIG crash and reboot ?

No problem as long as teamviewer remains connected to the RIG , or of course as long as teamviewer has not been connected.
But If I connect to check or do some settings, I can't disconnect the remote access without getting crash of this particular RIG ..

sorry, using tightvnc here.