Minotaur v0.7.5

[m4rkw]

Hi

I have released three mining tools:

Minotaur - a miner driver for Nicehash that currently supports excavator, ccminer (tvpruvot / alexis78) and xmrig-nvidia. It features automated power calibration and near-realtime algorithm switching for maximum profits. Currently only works with the Nicehash pool and Nvidia cards but we plan to support CPU mining soon and lots of other cool stuff is in the pipeline.

Fanotaur - an independent daemon that monitors card temperatures in order to keep them cool and adjusts fan speeds as necessary

Excavataur - a shim project that creates a unified excavator-style API interface wrapper for CLI miners, so that we can easily add new miners to Minotaur.

Minotaur is supported by donation, default 5% but can be lowered.

https://github.com/m4rkw/minotaur
https://github.com/m4rkw/fanotaur
https://github.com/m4rkw/excavataur


These are in very early stages of development but are fairly stable.  Feedback is very welcome as are bug reports via github!

[m4rkw]

Minotaur 0.9.7 now supports fallback to Ethereum pool mining (via ethermine.org) if its more profitable than Nicehash.

Support for more pools is planned soon.

[hopfi2k]

Hi,

This is a very interesting - and heavily underestimated! - project. It definitely needs more attention.

Could you please elaborate more on this?:

Minotaur is supported by donation, default 5% but can be lowered.

5% of what?

Furthermore it would be great to have support for DSTM (I haven't tried to use it through excavataur
though...).

Thanks,
Andy

[m4rkw]

Hi

It donates hashpower - 5% means 5 minutes in 100 minutes.  If you lower it to 1% then it's 1 minute in 100 minutes. You can set the length of the main refresh cycle yourself, by default it's 15 seconds but if you set it to more than a minute then it will donate for longer because it will only update everything on the interval that you set.

We currently support excavator, two variants of ccminer and xmrig_nvidia.  Support is planned for as many miners as possible and our shim project excavataur wraps any cli-based miner with a generic excavator-like API interface so they're very easy for us to add.

Is this the one you're talking about?   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2021765.0

[hopfi2k]

Hi

It donates hashpower - 5% means 5 minutes in 100 minutes.  If you lower it to 1% then it's 1 minute in 100 minutes. You can set the length of the main refresh cycle yourself, by default it's 15 seconds but if you set it to more than a minute then it will donate for longer because it will only update everything on the interval that you set.

We currently support excavator, two variants of ccminer and xmrig_nvidia.  Support is planned for as many miners as possible and our shim project excavataur wraps any cli-based miner with a generic excavator-like API interface so they're very easy for us to add.

Is this the one you're talking about?   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2021765.0

Hi,

Thanks for the clarification on fees. 5% (as default) sounds a little bit high as fees add up (pool, miner, minotaur). Maybe you should lower the default to attract more people? (some will scare the 5%, so they won't even give it a try...just my 2 cents)!
Yes, this is the miner, I was talking about (DSTM).

Cheers,
Andy

[m4rkw]

Hi

Thanks for the thought but I don't think a configurable donation tier with a default of 5% is a significant deterrent. You need to be a reasonably competent Linux admin to use Minotaur in the first place, if we lose a few potential users because they were somehow daunted by the idea of changing a "5" to a "1" in a config file then that's probably a good thing because it means I won't have to deal with their support questions.

Also, Minotaur 0.9.8 was just released, new features:

- we now support dynamic calibration adjustment so the calibrated hashrates can fluctate over time and this is taken into account when making profitability decisions
- CSV stats collection
- summary report

Code:

$ minotaur --stats

stats for the last 24 hours:

 from: 2018-02-08 13:10:13
   to: 2018-02-08 22:03:58

total:    0.46 mBTC
          2.73  GBP

 rate:    1.23 mBTC/day
          7.37  GBP/day
        221.00  GBP/month

income by algorithm:

       equihash: 0.2067 mBTC  1.24 GBP
        x11gost: 0.1027 mBTC  0.62 GBP
daggerhashimoto: 0.0654 mBTC  0.39 GBP
         keccak: 0.0280 mBTC  0.17 GBP
      neoscrypt: 0.0278 mBTC  0.17 GBP
      lyra2rev2: 0.0238 mBTC  0.14 GBP
          nist5: 0.0010 mBTC  0.01 GBP

its only been collecting since 1pm today so that's why it doesn't have much data yet

next on our hitlist is support for more miners and pools - DSTM is on the list

[m4rkw]

Latest Minotaur now supports ZEC pool mining via flypool which is currently (usually) more profitable than Nicehash.

Also we now have an irc support channel - #minotaur on freenode