8th Alt coin thread. Or what to do now that asics are all over the place.

[Sebahl]

Has anybody tried 8 1080 TIs on the Onda B250 boards? I am debating if I will get problems with cooling. Planning to run founders edition cards in an enclosure with medium speed fans (should be as quiet as possible since will be running this in the office so sitting right next to it).

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[Biodom]

I hit two blocks on ck solo
I hit two blocks on Mmpool
I hit two blocks on bitminter.

I used to mine a coin a day on bitminter.

The entire network was only 21th

When was it? I guess around Feb 2013 or so.

[DevelopmentBank]

Doktor83 (the dev of SRBminer) noticed (after a lot of whinging by some noobs) that by submitting stale share the reported hashrates on some yiimp-based pools actually increased noticeably so he added the feature that could be used in the command line (-sendallstales).

The -sendallstales feature looks like something good to try out and experiment with. I'd be happy to post findings here. Problem is the miner is for CryptoNight. Is there possibly an equivalent feature for this on Claymore's or other ETH miners out there?

Thanks!

[leonix007]

Doktor83 (the dev of SRBminer) noticed (after a lot of whinging by some noobs) that by submitting stale share the reported hashrates on some yiimp-based pools actually increased noticeably so he added the feature that could be used in the command line (-sendallstales).

The -sendallstales feature looks like something good to try out and experiment with. I'd be happy to post findings here. Problem is the miner is for CryptoNight. Is there possibly an equivalent feature for this on Claymore's or other ETH miners out there?

Thanks!

Yes there is

from the first page of Claymore Eth miner with this option

"-estale   send Ethereum stale shares to pool, it can increase effective hashrate a bit. Default value is "1", set "-estale 0" if you don't want to send stale shares."

[Elder III]

So.... how about those prices on the new NVIDIA GPUs?     NVIDIA said $999 for the RTX 2080 Ti at the event, yet they are selling Pre-Orders on their website right now for $1200 ... gag a maggot...

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-announces-geforce-rtx-2080-and-2080-ti.html

[KaydenC]

Has anybody tried 8 1080 TIs on the Onda B250 boards? I am debating if I will get problems with cooling. Planning to run founders edition cards in an enclosure with medium speed fans (should be as quiet as possible since will be running this in the office so sitting right next to it).

I run 4000rpm fans with 7x 1080ti on that board. It won't be quiet unless you go full AIO cards.

[dragonmike]

So.... how about those prices on the new NVIDIA GPUs?    NVIDIA said $999 for the RTX 2080 Ti at the event, yet they are selling Pre-Orders on their website right now for $1200 ... gag a maggot...

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-announces-geforce-rtx-2080-and-2080-ti.html

$999 for the base version - some AIB will sport this pricing on their entry-level cards I assume
$1199 for the Founders Edition

Either way 2 years to get your money back at current profitability levels. Woohoo.

[citronick]

Good question, and the short answer is the time to find each share should be a minor fraction of the block time to minimize the amount of work wasted on blocks found elsewhere.
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Depending on the pool, don't you still get creditted for the stale share if its found?
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Hmm, none of the pools I regularly use give credit for stale shares. In fact, after I configured Claymore to not submit stale shares mining Musicoin my actual earnings are always within 1-2% of predicted (before it was 3-5%). That said, this might be a case of me mining at the wrong pools?! 

Doktor83 (the dev of SRBminer) noticed (after a lot of whinging by some noobs) that by submitting stale share the reported hashrates on some yiimp-based pools actually increased noticeably so he added the feature that could be used in the command line (-sendallstales).

what is the equivalent send all stales switch for xmr-stak (smos/linux)?

[philipma1957]

https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/4218#issuecomment-414655548


fork is coming  soon  this should help my  new ryzen.

[dragonmike]

https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/4218#issuecomment-414655548


fork is coming  soon  this should help my  new ryzen.

Shouldn't make too much of a difference I think... Maybe for a day or two. Last time they forked they already got rid of the ASICs. Diff has been pretty much unchanged since:

https://www.coinwarz.com/difficulty-charts/monero-difficulty-chart

[philipma1957]

https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/4218#issuecomment-414655548


fork is coming  soon  this should help my  new ryzen.

Shouldn't make too much of a difference I think... Maybe for a day or two. Last time they forked they already got rid of the ASICs. Diff has been pretty much unchanged since:

https://www.coinwarz.com/difficulty-charts/monero-difficulty-chart

this one was to bitchslap  fpga's

I suspect a  drop in diff will happen.

[HerbPean]

I have hit 3 blocks on Kano, none on Bitminter but I did start there.

I hit 2 blocks in 11 days with the same S7. That S7 is a legend.

I have it at home ;-)

[nsummy]

https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/4218#issuecomment-414655548


fork is coming  soon  this should help my  new ryzen.

Shouldn't make too much of a difference I think... Maybe for a day or two. Last time they forked they already got rid of the ASICs. Diff has been pretty much unchanged since:

https://www.coinwarz.com/difficulty-charts/monero-difficulty-chart

this one was to bitchslap  fpga's

I suspect a  drop in diff will happen.

It will be interesting to see what happens.  Monero isn't the most profitable CN coin to mine so I suspect there are a lot of botnets responsible for the hashrate.  This fork will be a good indicator.

[dragonmike]

Before the XMR fork I'm curious to see how RVN will react to implementation of DGW.
So it would seem that we'll get one more go at mining some coins at low diff some time tomorrow evening before the fork happens. I expect the network to then regulate itself and RVN will be slotting in with the other zillion PoW coins out there in terms of mining profitability.

[philipma1957]

Before the XMR fork I'm curious to see how RVN will react to implementation of DGW.
So it would seem that we'll get one more go at mining some coins at low diff some time tomorrow evening before the fork happens. I expect the network to then regulate itself and RVN will be slotting in with the other zillion PoW coins out there in terms of mining profitability.

Yeah I am going to mine.

Xmr

And a little of btg.

I am holding bis
I am holding rvn

[dragonmike]

Before the XMR fork I'm curious to see how RVN will react to implementation of DGW.
So it would seem that we'll get one more go at mining some coins at low diff some time tomorrow evening before the fork happens. I expect the network to then regulate itself and RVN will be slotting in with the other zillion PoW coins out there in terms of mining profitability.

Yeah I am going to mine.

Xmr

And a little of btg.

I am holding bis
I am holding rvn

I'm holding BTC, ETH, XMR, XHV, RVN and small bags of various shitcoins (which are probably going to zero if they haven't already).
I've invested a few grand in NPXS (pays a monthly dividend of approx 7.5%) - they have a product, hope they're going places.
I'm staking BEAN and LINDA. The former is a punt, the latter has more substance, a great platform and hopefully a great future... Both should return something like 30-80% a year. Here's to hope the prices don't go down by 99%

Thinking about ADA... but that one's not yielding a whole lot.

Since mining returns are going towards zero, I've been looking around for coins to slowly accumulate and stake. Masternodes are a bit of a pain to setup and run (you need a VPS or a VPN if you're gonna run it at home, and a static ip etc) so staking is easier for me.

EDIT: oh and I have way too many ETN too. Should've sold them back when I mined them. They were worth 12 times more. Pah.

[Sebahl]

Does anybody know how much power the Onda boards draw through the Sata/Molex connectors? Should each of the ports be connected separately from a separate port?

I am building two of these rigs with components from Philipma (thanks again for the good prices!). Just waiting for the acrylic order to come in. My plan is to close all sides with acrylic that I am gonna laser cut and have space for 4x140 mm fan in back and 4x120mm fans in front. Will be my tidiest rigs and “wife friendly”. Just need to decide which GPUs to put in. (The one shown is just to test fit. It’s super old 😆)

[KaydenC]

Does anybody know how much power the Onda boards draw through the Sata/Molex connectors? Should each of the ports be connected separately from a separate port?

I am building two of these rigs with components from Philipma (thanks again for the good prices!). Just waiting for the acrylic order to come in. My plan is to close all sides with acrylic that I am gonna laser cut and have space for 4x140 mm fan in back and 4x120mm fans in front. Will be my tidiest rigs and “wife friendly”. Just need to decide which GPUs to put in. (The one shown is just to test fit. It’s super old 😆)

My entire farm use this board. One sata chain for all 3 sata ports, and one molex for all 3 molex port + fan works fine. But I'm using good psus, evga and corsair platinums/titaniums.

Don't know the power draw though.

It runs 7x 1080ti fine. Any setup that maxes out a 1600w psu should be OK.

[Sebahl]

Thanks! I am also using EVGA 1600 T2. How many 1089TIs can I run from it? I was planning on 7 maybe 8?

[KaydenC]

Thanks! I am also using EVGA 1600 T2. How many 1089TIs can I run from it? I was planning on 7 maybe 8?

8 will work but the first slot has limited card length due to that mobo connector. The zotac 1080ti mini fits, but I think any other 1080ti is too long.

Here's my setup: https://imgur.com/a/hivgREj

I use that last slot as a cable compartment.