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[mmouse]

Is there any way to set minimum starting difficulty for my worker like in public p2p node ?? (address + 0.000somevalue)

how would it look,  "user+0.00001111"  ? don't think that makes sense

That makes perfect sense There is no difference between a public and a private p2pool node.
Your best value depends on your hashrate, so if you want a submit diff of 64 for example, you use +0,000977 as modifier (=64/65536).

[shirenlihei]

http://www.megashop.ch/de/search?q=AMD+R9

could someone please comment on this: which one should I take?

Asus ASUS AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB GDDR5, PCI-E16x

[mega]

http://www.megashop.ch/de/search?q=AMD+R9

could someone please comment on this: which one should I take?

http://www.megashop.ch/de/products/1808760-90yv0500-m0na00-asus-asus-amd-radeon-r9-280x-3gb-gddr5-p?q=AMD+R9

Cost efficient

What about the Sapphire, any better? Are there differences with respect to cooling?

I got 4x asus. In my opinion, they got the best coolers. Running smoothly at 350Kh/s - 70ºC

[mv1986]

Thank you all!

[mmouse]

Now I am willing to take initiative and drive the effort of getting vertcoin listed on more online exchanges, but before anything happens, I wanted to get your opinion on this. Do you think it's the right way to fight this type of problem? I would also like for more experienced users here to chip in as well, devs, OP, pool owners etc... Also, what other exchanges would you like to list VTC?

I think, too many exchanges do more bad than good.

That said, I'm using coinmarket.io for VTC and other coins. They seem to be quite new, but fast and decent as far as I can say. Not so many VTC orders at the moment, but trades and volume grow.

[bengtåke]

P2Pool Update

New update now live fetch code at: official repo. This involves a change to how long a share is valid, currently a share is only valid for 3 blocks. This setting was borrowed from Litecoin, and it has proven to be too low for us. With this new update it will be adjusted to 12, that should hopefully improve the p2pool experience for people with low hashxrates everyone. As every worker's share will now be valid for a longer period. Another change (thanks to roy7) in this update is that share difficulty is now calculated on a per-worker basis instead of on a per-node basis, so share difficulties should be lower, to make it more like mining on your own node (if you're mining on a public node).

This update requires a hard fork of the network, which means we will have two p2pool networks running in parallell for some time while everyone interested updates to the newer version. Don't panic, it won't be like hardforking a wallet, no paid coins will go invalid. It just means that to benefit from this update you need to upgrade to the new settings. It might also mean that blocks will come a little slower for a while if not everyone comes along with the update (as we will split into two). The point of this pre-announcement is to mitigate that. Also moving to this new network means that the we'll get a new sharechain, a.k.a. any shares from the old network won't transfer over.

Any node left on the old network will continue operating as normal, but will not show up in the scanner until upgraded.

Hopefully people will catch on fast and update.

[mv1986]

is there a difference between mining via wlan and cable? A friend said that the ping has influence on the success of mining.

[dasmith08]

When I buy the AMD R9 280x, is there anything else I need to consider with respect to the cooling system?

Edit: http://www.ebay.de/itm/Grafikkarte-AMD-Radeon-R9-280X-OC-3GB-DDR5-DX11-2-PCI-E-3-0-Powercolor-TurboDuo-/360848919301?pt=DE_Elektronik_Computer_Computer_Graphikkarten&hash=item5404458b05

the right one?

My rig has 4x GPU's in a milk crate (janky, but effective!). Their close proximity was causing some cooling issues to I had my girlfriend laser cut a custom "lid" out of acrylic for it that has 4X fans ( http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-Bearing-Computer-Radiators/dp/B000O8I474/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1392332086&sr=8-2&keywords=coolermaster+fans ) on the top of it. This brought temps down ~5 degrees, GPU's are now sitting pretty at ~70-74 C.

So all in all, it depends on how you're arranging your rig. Some of the larger, more open rigs have plenty of space to cool, but especially if you go with the ASUS as you have said in your later posts, they direct exhaust air to the side towards the next GPU in line, so the first one in the line gets plenty of cool air, and the ones to the side get heated air from the one to the left. Adding fans to push this hot air away keeps the system much cooler.

Best of luck!

[gsupp]

http://www.megashop.ch/de/search?q=AMD+R9

could someone please comment on this: which one should I take?

http://www.megashop.ch/de/products/1808760-90yv0500-m0na00-asus-asus-amd-radeon-r9-280x-3gb-gddr5-p?q=AMD+R9

Cost efficient

What about the Sapphire, any better? Are there differences with respect to cooling?

Yeah, Sapphire cards have terrible cooling. Not as bad as XFX of course, but still insufficient. I don't know why they're always recommended for mining.

[mv1986]

ok guys and what about the internet? Is Wlan a problem? Better use cable? A friend said the ping is important.
Also, would you say there is always a decent incentive to mine the coins rather than buy them (apart from btc)? I know it depends on the success of a specific coin, but do you always have your costs covered?

[gsupp]

ok guys and what about the internet? Is Wlan a problem? Better use cable? A friend said the ping is important.
Also, would you say there is always a decent incentive to mine the coins rather than buy them (apart from btc)? I know it depends on the success of a specific coin, but do you always have your costs covered?

WiFi does work, but wired Ethernet is always the most reliable. Yes, ping time is important, excessive latency can cause shares to be rejected, but it has to be significant for it to be a big problem.
Some will argue you can profit a lot more buying than mining. Mining does support the network and helps decentralize transaction processing though. It usually comes down to ideological preference.

[mv1986]

but it can be very profitable if you mine the right coins quite early, can't it?

[pkjames]

http://www.megashop.ch/de/search?q=AMD+R9

could someone please comment on this: which one should I take?

http://www.megashop.ch/de/products/1808760-90yv0500-m0na00-asus-asus-amd-radeon-r9-280x-3gb-gddr5-p?q=AMD+R9

Cost efficient

What about the Sapphire, any better? Are there differences with respect to cooling?

Yeah, Sapphire cards have terrible cooling. Not as bad as XFX of course, but still insufficient. I don't know why they're always recommended for mining.

my sapphire dual-x 280x (among the cheapest cards) stays quite silent and gives solid hash rate I may try asus direct cu top next time

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Qol4_sjSK1s/UvzOaA5mabI/AAAAAAAAGmE/Z1FEBv28qzE/w1430-h868-no/vert2.jpg

EDIT: dont panic, GPU 1 is the iGPU from AMD APU, I can't bear the mighty 10WU so it is disabled! For this reason, the ambient temp reading is also wrong, it is the hot hot aussie summer down under!

[WutriCoin]

P2Pool Update

New update now live fetch code at: official repo. This involves a change to how long a share is valid, currently a share is only valid for 3 blocks. This setting was borrowed from Litecoin, and it has proven to be too low for us. With this new update it will be adjusted to 12, that should hopefully improve the p2pool experience for people with low hashxrates everyone. As every worker's share will now be valid for a longer period. Another change (thanks to roy7) in this update is that share difficulty is now calculated on a per-worker basis instead of on a per-node basis, so share difficulties should be lower, to make it more like mining on your own node (if you're mining on a public node).

This update requires a hard fork of the network, which means we will have two p2pool networks running in parallell for some time while everyone interested updates to the newer version. Don't panic, it won't be like hardforking a wallet, no paid coins will go invalid. It just means that to benefit from this update you need to upgrade to the new settings. It might also mean that blocks will come a little slower for a while if not everyone comes along with the update (as we will split into two). The point of this pre-announcement is to mitigate that. Also moving to this new network means that the we'll get a new sharechain, a.k.a. any shares from the old network won't transfer over.

Any node left on the old network will continue operating as normal, but will not show up in the scanner until upgraded.

Hopefully people will catch on fast and update.

Thank you once again for this update.

Azure Vertcoin P2Pool node has already been updated, and we are running smoothly on new network for 14h - you will notice that the graph started again.

Come and join us!

Azure Vertcoin Pool - DDOS reisistant P2Pool Node

http://cryptopool.cloudapp.net:9171/

No registration - No minimal payout!

[gsupp]

http://www.megashop.ch/de/search?q=AMD+R9

could someone please comment on this: which one should I take?

http://www.megashop.ch/de/products/1808760-90yv0500-m0na00-asus-asus-amd-radeon-r9-280x-3gb-gddr5-p?q=AMD+R9

Cost efficient

What about the Sapphire, any better? Are there differences with respect to cooling?

Yeah, Sapphire cards have terrible cooling. Not as bad as XFX of course, but still insufficient. I don't know why they're always recommended for mining.

my sapphire dual-x 280x (among the cheapest cards) stays quite silent and gives solid hash rate I may try asus direct cu top next time

And why is GPU 1 off? Overheating? 

[shirenlihei]

http://www.megashop.ch/de/search?q=AMD+R9

could someone please comment on this: which one should I take?

http://www.megashop.ch/de/products/1808760-90yv0500-m0na00-asus-asus-amd-radeon-r9-280x-3gb-gddr5-p?q=AMD+R9

Cost efficient

What about the Sapphire, any better? Are there differences with respect to cooling?

Yeah, Sapphire cards have terrible cooling. Not as bad as XFX of course, but still insufficient. I don't know why they're always recommended for mining.

my sapphire dual-x 280x (among the cheapest cards) stays quite silent and gives solid hash rate I may try asus direct cu top next time

  GPU1 is at 4C, so the environment temperature is low. But other cards are still hot. Putting two or more case fans over the cards may help.

[nasone32]

Sounds wrong but... Is it possible to implement zero-cash in closed source?

[pkjames]

http://www.megashop.ch/de/search?q=AMD+R9

could someone please comment on this: which one should I take?

http://www.megashop.ch/de/products/1808760-90yv0500-m0na00-asus-asus-amd-radeon-r9-280x-3gb-gddr5-p?q=AMD+R9

Cost efficient

What about the Sapphire, any better? Are there differences with respect to cooling?

Yeah, Sapphire cards have terrible cooling. Not as bad as XFX of course, but still insufficient. I don't know why they're always recommended for mining.

my sapphire dual-x 280x (among the cheapest cards) stays quite silent and gives solid hash rate I may try asus direct cu top next time

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Qol4_sjSK1s/UvzOaA5mabI/AAAAAAAAGmE/Z1FEBv28qzE/w1430-h868-no/vert2.jpg

  GPU1 is at 4C, so the environment temperature is low. But other cards are still hot. Putting two or more case fans over the cards may help.

argh, forgot to mention, it was the igpu (AMD APU), that i just disabled.

[shirenlihei]

Sounds wrong but... Is it possible to implement zero-cash in closed source?

If zero-cash is a closed source project, the devs have to rewrite everything, no codes of zerocoin can be reused.

[GelatinousSlime]

I've also started a P2Pool node on the new network.

http://vtc-us-east.oakagedsoftware.com:9171/

Its aged in oak, so it must be good, right?