Cryptocoin Mining?

[T_Yamamoto]

Mining Blackcoin and BitQuark atm

I've mined a couple hundred blackcoins myself.

I've also been mining KDC since the halving is coming up in around 4000 blocks.

 

[KlokWyze]

Makes sense... I gotta switch all my rigs over from doge since I seem to be getting shafted... Not even pulling 10k per day with 3.5MH/s...

Im pulling like 6500 a day at hashfaster w/ 2.1 mH.

At this price of BTC it's not looking so good.

 

[nwo]

Im pulling like 6500 a day at hashfaster w/ 2.1 mH.

At this price of BTC it's not looking so good.

6.5k per day with 2MH/s sounds about right.... I can't even get that much with 3.5MH/s on fast-pool :\

Check out KDC, its BTC price keeps going up.

I have 3/4 of my rigs pointed to it right now and I even threw some of my spare BTC change at it. So far, so good!

 

[Zargon]

I could not get the KDC wallet to work last week so I stuck with MMC

 

[njdevilsfan87]

Mining Blackcoin and BitQuark atm

BlackCoin is blowing up big right now. It's at 40 GH/s network hash rate. Depending on how MINT and BC perform after going PoS, I feel we may soon see a new crazy of "quick PoW" followed by either mostly of fully PoS stage. BC goes PoS in another 3.5 days I believe. It's about 50% mined now.

 

[IEC]

Heads up to Sunny about KDC - BTCtalk thread update says Mandatory update to wallet and services:

"Mandatory update!

Please download the new wallet and update any services you run!"

Did they code in the new block changes already?

 

[SunnyD]

Heads up to Sunny about KDC - BTCtalk thread update says Mandatory update to wallet and services:

"Mandatory update!

Please download the new wallet and update any services you run!"

Did they code in the new block changes already?

Everything is in code, but set to take effect AFTER a certain block. I will be updating things tonight. I've already posted a news update on the pool about it earlier today.

 

[KlokWyze]

Look at this ebay auction. They are selling a 6x Sapphire 270 setup. Bidding is @ $2600... Crazy. I should just buy a bunch of cheap cards, build a pretty rig and auction it off. I know it's still profitable to mine, but that is quickly fading. I even have pretty cheap electricity ($0.11). Difficulties are too high.....

 

[nwo]

Look at this ebay auction. They are selling a 6x Sapphire 270 setup. Bidding is @ $2600... Crazy. I should just buy a bunch of cheap cards, build a pretty rig and auction it off. I know it's still profitable to mine, but that is quickly fading. I even have pretty cheap electricity ($0.11). Difficulties are too high.....

I think the major reason it's fading is because of the BTC price crash. As soon as BTC/LTC recover, it will be appealing again. But still not as appealing as it was 4+ months ago due to the ridiculously high difficulties.

 

[IEC]

Except if it's anything like Amazon, the seller will be screwed if the buyer changes their mind. I fully tested one of my 280X before selling it on Amazon and it got to the buyer two days ago during the BTC "crash". Guess what? He's claiming defective and wants a refund.

I know I mailed a working card and he doesn't claim any shipping damage, so either HE broke it, or he's lying just to get a full refund knowing Amazon will back the buyer. Either way I'm beyond pissed off and am glad I took the steps of videotaping and photographing the card working, serial numbers, stickers, box, etc. So I'll know immediately if he swapped the card for a broken one or attempted to remove the heatsink.

Best case I get the card back and it's working 100%, then I charge the @$*Her a 10% restocking fee for wasting my time and shipping money.

 

[KlokWyze]

I think the major reason it's fading is because of the BTC price crash. As soon as BTC/LTC recover, it will be appealing again. But still not as appealing as it was 4+ months ago due to the ridiculously high difficulties.

Yeah I mostly agree, but there are more and more and more and more miners coming online. IMO, there could be a sector of mining that is as profitable as it was 4 months ago, but it would need to be a specialized peice of h/w in combination with a new algorithm. Now, I know there were a couple new threads about it.... jane-scrypt or something? One or two others? Would still need to invest early and take a gamble on it. IMO, the AMD GPU-scrypt side of things is already too big to have legitimate profits unless you have a real farming operation. And then Spring is coming....

 

[faxon]

Okay, I have a really weird one for you guys. I have two Sapphire Dual-X 6950s and 1 AMD unbranded 6970 (which does 1000/1500). the 2 6950s at stock were each getting like 385mhs and the 6970 was able to hit 500 at the clocks listed. I've since moved them to a single rig, but for some reason the rig won't let me get any of these cards above 315 or so. It was also super throttling my 7950s when i had them in the same box to around 420 or something at full 1100/1500 OC when they are easily capable of 600+ at that. I'm not sure what is going on other than the fact that i'm not using the recommended slot arrangement (for crossfire) because it shouldn't matter for mining. config is as follows bellow

x3 720 BE in an MSI 890FX-GD80, the 3 ATI cards i listed, and 1 4GB stick of corsair DDR3, running off a name brand 900w PSU, with a single 500GB Seagate 7200.7 (old as fuck but still running no smart errors no bad sectors over 7 yeas total on time).


All 3 cards mine faster in other systems but don't play nice driver wise with any of my 7xxx cards. I was hoping to riser the whole board out and add my 2 5870s to it since they did but if it's not letting anything mine fast enough I'm wondering what the hell is wrong with the board or if It's just that I'm using an x4 electrical slot with an x16 card in it. I'm thinking of trying the hot wire mod used on x1 slots on the slot if need be, but it's physically x16 design makes me wonder why MSI would even include that at all if it didn't support graphics cards at all.

 

[geokilla]

Anyone interested in Zeitcoin? Seems solid. Going to read more about it in the morning.

 

[pandemonium]

Omg, Auroracoin. Wow. The price has skyrocketed in anticipation of the premined coins being distributed out to the public. This is especially ironic for me, since I just got back from Norway on an aurora hunt and saw this and thought to myself that it was an interesting concept.

Auroracoin is based on Litecoin, a descendant of the Bitcoin protocol, the foremost cryptocurrency in the world. However, it is started by an “Airdrop” of auroracoins to the Icelandic nation, designed to reach almost every Icelander. This one-time event will create the conditions for Icelanders to start using the currency, by providing them with a start and making them aware of the currency and its possibilities. After the Airdrop, the only way to acquire auroracoins will be through mining and transacting. Auroracoin will mirror the development of Bitcoin in the near to medium term.

The Airdrop will start to take place on March 25th 2014. A national ID database, created by the government will be used for this purpose. Although the thorough registration of the entire Icelandic nation into one database is unfortunate, it creates opportunities to reach a large part of the public through various means. About 330,000 Icelanders will be made able to claim f 31.8 each over the following year.

Developers are encouraged to create tools for Auroracoin to support the adoption of Auroracoin. Such software, e.g. for payments, will help Icelanders start using the currency in their daily lives.

 

[Zargon]

Everything is in code, but set to take effect AFTER a certain block. I will be updating things tonight. I've already posted a news update on the pool about it earlier today.

I see to be connected but not actually mining

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Anyone interested in Zeitcoin? Seems solid. Going to read more about it in the morning.

Its a pump and dump for me.

 

[TeknoBug]

Except if it's anything like Amazon, the seller will be screwed if the buyer changes their mind. I fully tested one of my 280X before selling it on Amazon and it got to the buyer two days ago during the BTC "crash". Guess what? He's claiming defective and wants a refund.

I know I mailed a working card and he doesn't claim any shipping damage, so either HE broke it, or he's lying just to get a full refund knowing Amazon will back the buyer. Either way I'm beyond pissed off and am glad I took the steps of videotaping and photographing the card working, serial numbers, stickers, box, etc. So I'll know immediately if he swapped the card for a broken one or attempted to remove the heatsink.

Best case I get the card back and it's working 100%, then I charge the @$*Her a 10% restocking fee for wasting my time and shipping money.

Good thinking on filming your process and recording the S/N and such. Customers like that are exactly why I don't sell computer parts or cell phones or whatnot online, I usually sell them locally where people can come and look at what I have to sell.

 

[SunnyD]

I see to be connected but not actually mining

Need a bit more details...

 

[Kenmitch]

SunnyD

I pointed my pair of 290's at your KDC pool for a little while for fun.

Same addy as here

Was going to do it earlier but wanted to break the 10 LTC mark first. Small time miner but figure with 10 LTC balance on BTC-E I can play the ups and downs and make it grow.

I just used the same settings for my cards as LTC changing only the server info. Pretty much all that's required? Looks to be hashing at the same rate as it was for LTC.

 

[IEC]

Yup, KDC is an scrypt-based coin so you can use the same settings as LTC. Just change the pool address, port number, and worker info (if applicable).

 

[SunnyD]

SunnyD

I pointed my pair of 290's at your KDC pool for a little while for fun.

Same addy as here

Was going to do it earlier but wanted to break the 10 LTC mark first. Small time miner but figure with 10 LTC balance on BTC-E I can play the ups and downs and make it grow.

I just used the same settings for my cards as LTC changing only the server info. Pretty much all that's required? Looks to be hashing at the same rate as it was for LTC.

Yup, it's just a plain old scrypt coin. Same as LTC.

Not bad boys and girls... we're at 5% of the network hash rate on the pool.

<Agent Smith>More. MORE! I want MORE!!!</Agent Smith>

 

[slashbinslashbash]

Well, looks like I was wrong about the price of ProtoShares... the thing that I did not take into account was that the AngelShares donation scheme has a direct BTC donation mechanism. So people can buy into the BitShares distribution without having to hold PTS, or convert their BTC to PTS. Donations have been around 150 BTC per day for the past week or so. If those BTC had to be diverted through the PTS markets, the price of PTS would have gone way up.

So, expect the PTS price to crash later today after midnight GMT (roughly 7 hours from now). But you'll be able to import your PTS wallet into the BitShares wallet when it is released, and get 1.3 BitShares per PTS owned of record tonight. Just think of it like a stock that's just gone "ex dividend"; it still has value, but less value than before the dividend.

 

[Zargon]

Yup, it's just a plain old scrypt coin. Same as LTC.

Not bad boys and girls... we're at 5% of the network hash rate on the pool.

<Agent Smith>More. MORE! I want MORE!!!</Agent Smith>

Ill point a 7950, a 5870, and maybe another 7950 your way

 

[Virge_]

Yup, it's just a plain old scrypt coin. Same as LTC.

Not bad boys and girls... we're at 5% of the network hash rate on the pool.

<Agent Smith>More. MORE! I want MORE!!!</Agent Smith>

Careful what you wish for. I just switched 20% of my farm to your pool for giggles. Seat belt, please!

 

[Virge_]

Whats the block reward, by the way? I turned on a few workers and found a block after ~10 seconds or so of mining.. looks like it was a nasty one @ almost 500%! (but with an amazing reward!)

Edit: Just found another one. =O