[ANN][MAX] MAXcoin - PoW, ASIC Resistance, Keccak GPU Mining

[zccopwrx]

HISTORY OF POOLS
Just to share a bit of information not many miners are aware of, but when this coin was first launched, the original "offical" pools were sharing the ONLY working stratum server code (so a coin made by developers, stratum forked to work for the coin, by the developers) which was not shared publicly, infact you were solicited to pay "early access fee" if asked for it (~2BTC). 

What pools?

Maxcoinpool and Rocketpool were both "official" pools that were sharing their fork of the stratum code, which were constantly getting DDoSed.

1GH and YPOOL were the non-official pools that had their own custom implementation of stratum (non-GPL, non python I believe), which was probably the only reason the coin survived the first 2 days after launch.

[Neon001]

with R290 doing something like 600MHZ

Wait, what?  Please list settings to get 290 to 600Mh/s.  Best I'm able to do is about 450. 

Also, 100+ GH/s is very achievable for mining farms.  There was a single user on Middlecoin for a few weeks that had over 2 *Giga*hashes/s for Scrypt.  That's like 1 Terahash for SHA-3.  The owner of Middlecoin claimed that he knew that particular miner and that it was not a botnet.  Many speculate that he was using pre-production prototype ASIC miners.  No one really knows for sure, but it's certainly possible even with GPUs.

[Xtar]

Can't get normal speed on one farm with miner from http://max.1gh.com/.
There is 3 gpu there: 290x + 290x + 270x

Here is bat:

cgminer.exe --keccak --no-submit-stale -o stratum+tcp://maxpool.1gh.com:17333 -u WALLET -p x --intensity 19 --gpu-threads 1 --worksize 512,512,256 --thread-concurrency 27400,27400,21568 --auto-fan --temp-cutoff 95 --lookup-gap 2

and it showing speed like scrypt (2 Mh). Other 3 farms (with 7970 and 7990) showing normal keccak speeds (~900+ Mh).

Any ideas, bug or feature?

[onliner]

Can't get normal speed on one farm with miner from http://max.1gh.com/.
There is 3 gpu there: 290x + 290x + 270x

Here is bat:

cgminer.exe --keccak --no-submit-stale -o stratum+tcp://maxpool.1gh.com:17333 -u WALLET -p x --intensity 19 --gpu-threads 1 --worksize 512,512,256 --thread-concurrency 27400,27400,21568 --auto-fan --temp-cutoff 95 --lookup-gap 2

and it showing speed like scrypt (2 Mh). Other 3 farms (with 7970 and 7990) showing normal keccak speeds (~900+ Mh).

Any ideas, bug or feature?

Try to change --intensity 13,13,19

[Xtar]

Try to change --intensity 13,13,19

Wow! Thnx! =)

[Mav2000]

So, I just downloaded the qt wallet from max coin and the damn thing keeps crashing. The cmd one keeps crashing as well. unluckily I don't have a back up of the older cmd wallet. Can someone help me with this?

[Neon001]

Can't get normal speed on one farm with miner from http://max.1gh.com/.
There is 3 gpu there: 290x + 290x + 270x

Here is bat:

cgminer.exe --keccak --no-submit-stale -o stratum+tcp://maxpool.1gh.com:17333 -u WALLET -p x --intensity 19 --gpu-threads 1 --worksize 512,512,256 --thread-concurrency 27400,27400,21568 --auto-fan --temp-cutoff 95 --lookup-gap 2

and it showing speed like scrypt (2 Mh). Other 3 farms (with 7970 and 7990) showing normal keccak speeds (~900+ Mh).

Any ideas, bug or feature?

I'm new to mining SHA-3, but I've found with the new (3.7.3 build) Cgminer that any of the upper intensity settings (18-20) result in scrypt-like hashrates (3 orders of magnitude low).  I've been sticking with 14 and under, and don't find anything over 11 or so usually to yield any significant gains.  I definitely find I can overclock my cards much higher at the lower intensities than I used to be able to with Scrypt at the higher ones (18-20).  YMMV

[dminer69]

maxcoin will be add it tonight in coinmarketcap CoinMarketCap ‏@CoinMKTCap  45m
@maxcoinproject Thanks for the link, will add it tonight. get ready and thanks coinmarketcap!

[Mirkic7]

For me, no gains above -I8 with 3.7.3 on 280x, so sticking with that
.. and PC is quite responsive (unlike with -I13&scrypt)

->> http://maxpool.sytes.net <<-
Need more workers!
0% fee, stratum, vardiff, proportional payment system
cgminer/cudamier/cpuminer supported
Correct HashRates
Based on MPOS

[onliner]

maxcoin will be add it tonight in coinmarketcap CoinMarketCap ‏@CoinMKTCap  45m
@maxcoinproject Thanks for the link, will add it tonight. get ready and thanks coinmarketcap!

Great news!

[freeworm]

Maxcoin has been added to Bter.com

in the BTC market

https://bter.com/trade/MAX_btc


You can deposit at

https://bter.com/myaccount/deposit/MAX

[metallicelmo]

I see a lot of screenshots from cgminer, high hashrates but very low WU value... Can anyone comment on this? I believe the WU value is the one that indicated how effective you are mining right? Someone told me that with Scrypt-coins the WU value should be almost the same as your average hashrate?

[Alphi]

with R290 doing something like 600MHZ

Wait, what?  Please list settings to get 290 to 600Mh/s.  Best I'm able to do is about 450.  

I don't have any 290s only 7970s. I was just guessing from what I read on the forums. I probably should have used a number closer to 500Mhz.
but that being said the software is not optimized yet.. so who knows what we can get eventually.

[Alphi]

maxcoin will be add it tonight in coinmarketcap CoinMarketCap ‏@CoinMKTCap  45m
@maxcoinproject Thanks for the link, will add it tonight. get ready and thanks coinmarketcap!

Great news!

I agree though it will probably attract more miners once they see how profitable it has been recently.

[SkillRoad]

Anyone know how to get cgminer 3.6.6 to go over 14 intensity for my 7950's?   Mine are only  hashing at half rate 300 mh/s each . Here is my current settings    -I 14 -g 1 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 21712 --gpu-engine 1025 --gpu-memclock 1575 --gpu-powertune --auto-fan --gpu-fan 80

Thanks!

300MH/s is not half rate, that's going pretty fast, and some of those flags don't do anything, they are scrypt only.

300MH/s is not half rate, that's going pretty fast, and some of those flags don't do anything, they are scrypt only.

[w0lf0.]

Can't get normal speed on one farm with miner from http://max.1gh.com/.
There is 3 gpu there: 290x + 290x + 270x

Here is bat:

cgminer.exe --keccak --no-submit-stale -o stratum+tcp://maxpool.1gh.com:17333 -u WALLET -p x --intensity 19 --gpu-threads 1 --worksize 512,512,256 --thread-concurrency 27400,27400,21568 --auto-fan --temp-cutoff 95 --lookup-gap 2

and it showing speed like scrypt (2 Mh). Other 3 farms (with 7970 and 7990) showing normal keccak speeds (~900+ Mh).

Any ideas, bug or feature?

I'm new to mining SHA-3, but I've found with the new (3.7.3 build) Cgminer that any of the upper intensity settings (18-20) result in scrypt-like hashrates (3 orders of magnitude low).  I've been sticking with 14 and under, and don't find anything over 11 or so usually to yield any significant gains.  I definitely find I can overclock my cards much higher at the lower intensities than I used to be able to with Scrypt at the higher ones (18-20).  YMMV

where can i download the new cgminer?

[B737]

Guys,  WU value is way off compared to normal Scrypt, right?

[Neon001]

I'm new to mining SHA-3, but I've found with the new (3.7.3 build) Cgminer that any of the upper intensity settings (18-20) result in scrypt-like hashrates (3 orders of magnitude low).  I've been sticking with 14 and under, and don't find anything over 11 or so usually to yield any significant gains.  I definitely find I can overclock my cards much higher at the lower intensities than I used to be able to with Scrypt at the higher ones (18-20).  YMMV

where can i download the new cgminer?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=392322.msg5062439#msg5062439

[DaveNYC1]

Finally threw the towel in and gave up on CPU mining.  5 days & .2027 maxcoins later. 

Switched over to Amazon servers with NVidia Grid K520 cards & can't get the cudaminer to work.

I connect via terminal services and run the cudaminer_start bat file (yes... have put my wallet info in there) it looks like it's trying to run but it gets stuck in a loop.

The following "cudaminer -1 K600x16 -a keccak -o stratum +tcp://maxpool.1gh.com:17333/ -u -p x   Ooops"

then "goto loop"

then repeats.

Anyone have any idea why?  Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

[sentry_]

Guys,  WU value is way off compared to normal Scrypt, right?

I'd like to know this, too. My hash rate is 1.17 Gh/s, yet my WU is only 264/M. This can't be right ...