Baikal Giant-B

[fxkam]

Baikal Team only accept BTC payment now. Does someone know  why?

[Kmmille2]

I have 6 Baikal Giant B's running Nicehash - albeit the profit is low, they're still been profitable.

Over the last few weeks it's they have been switching between Pascal and Decred - but it never changes to Lbry.

According to Nicehash, Lbry is the most profitable. I've double and triple checked the stratum, and it's exactly what Nicehash has posted. Extranounce is on, it's set as priority 1. It simply doesn't switch to Lbry - does anyone have any ideas?

[Kmmille2]

In reference to the above post:

[TGJ]

I have 6 Baikal Giant B's running Nicehash - albeit the profit is low, they're still been profitable.

Over the last few weeks it's they have been switching between Pascal and Decred - but it never changes to Lbry.

According to Nicehash, Lbry is the most profitable. I've double and triple checked the stratum, and it's exactly what Nicehash has posted. Extranounce is on, it's set as priority 1. It simply doesn't switch to Lbry - does anyone have any ideas?

Same thing is a happening for me also, just switches between decred and pascal. What is the extranonce setting? Should I have this turned on?

[Kmmille2]

Does anyone have any experience with this? Lbry has been the most profitable this week, but cant get it to switch?

[bclcjunkie]

careful folks. there are talks about lbry being forked to make it more GPU friendly, still trying to get answers but devs are already discussing this.

[Kmmille2]

careful folks. there are talks about lbry being forked to make it more GPU friendly, still trying to get answers but devs are already discussing this.

Source?

Most of us can't get it to mine Lbry right now anyway. It only switches between Decred and Pascal.

[TGJ]

careful folks. there are talks about lbry being forked to make it more GPU friendly, still trying to get answers but devs are already discussing this.

Source?

Most of us can't get it to mine Lbry right now anyway. It only switches between Decred and Pascal.

I’m sure if you really want to mine Library you could just point your miner at that pool and turn off nicehash autoswitching.

[CTA513]

careful folks. there are talks about lbry being forked to make it more GPU friendly, still trying to get answers but devs are already discussing this.

Baikal will need to add some new algorithms if thats true.
They already lowered the price to $2,700 and are now offering them as buy one get one free so its only $1,350 each.

[Goool]

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[TGJ]

careful folks. there are talks about lbry being forked to make it more GPU friendly, still trying to get answers but devs are already discussing this.

Baikal will need to add some new algorithms if thats true.
They already lowered the price to $2,700 and are now offering them as buy one get one free so its only $1,350 each.

Did Baikal ever say they were going to add more algorithms for the Giant B or was that only for the X10?

[CTA513]

careful folks. there are talks about lbry being forked to make it more GPU friendly, still trying to get answers but devs are already discussing this.

Baikal will need to add some new algorithms if thats true.
They already lowered the price to $2,700 and are now offering them as buy one get one free so its only $1,350 each.

Did Baikal ever say they were going to add more algorithms for the Giant B or was that only for the X10?

In the past it sounded like they might add some more, but this the response they gave me today:

"HI,
Sorry we haven't got any updating info on giant B currently
Best,
Baikal"



My guess is they don't plan on updating it and thats why they marked them down to 2 for $2,700

[fxkam]

Baikal has added 2 new algos to Baikal Giant X10. Nist5 and X11Gost. Does someone know the website, where i could check the profit, which can be made now with this 2 new algos?

[JohnSch]

Baikal has added 2 new algos to Baikal Giant X10. Nist5 and X11Gost. Does someone know the website, where i could check the profit, which can be made now with this 2 new algos?

The two new algorithms mine Bulwark(nist5) and SIBcoin(x11gost). 

Bulwark makes $21/day
Sibcoin  makes $16/day

https://whattomine.com/coins/224-bwk-nist5?utf8=%E2%9C%93&hr=10000&p=200&fee=0.0&cost=0.1&hcost=0.0&commit=Calculate
https://whattomine.com/coins/169-sib-x11gost?utf8=%E2%9C%93&hr=1350&p=150&fee=0.0&cost=0.1&hcost=0.0&commit=Calculate

[TGJ]

Does anyone use one APW3++ to power two giant B’s?

[sidzkosic]

Is it still worth buying ? I'm thinking about it...

[whitefire990]

Just to be clear since these units are ASIC miners (and not FPGA as originally thought), any 'new' algorithm released would already have been hard-coded into the chips in your rig.  It would simply be a matter of the 'unlocking' them.  With the X10, X11Gost, NIST5 and Groestl have been there all along.  They recently unlocked X11Gost and NIST5, but Groestl remains locked.  You can see Baikal is mining Groestl with their own rigs.  After all, Groestl brings negative profit for any GPU yet the hash on the network is very high.

[Kmmille2]

Does anyone use one APW3++ to power two giant B’s?

Yes, I use APW3++ to power all mine in a 1:1 ratio.

They work fine.

[TGJ]

Does anyone use one APW3++ to power two giant B’s?

Yes, I use APW3++ to power all mine in a 1:1 ratio.

They work fine.

What about powering two miners with one APW3++ PSU, have you tried that?

[spaolo]

what coins use Blake256R8 algo?

There are a couple different variants of the Blake256R8 Algo.

The Main one being  BlakeCoin + Merged Mined Child Coins

Also Vcash switch from Whirlpool to Blake256R8 but the header is different so they are not compatible

They were also a few other coins that implemented a variant of the Blake256R8 algo, just can't think of them right at the moment


The BlakeCoin Dev BlueDragon747 has sent an email to Baikal trying to verify compatibility

I have also sent an email and asking the same

Any updates on this? Can the Baikal Giant B mine Blakecoin?