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Nothing to lose but electricity costs... Let's see how things go.
Nothing to lose but electricity costs... Let's see how things go.
I'll have to try 850/1000 clocks later, but at 947/1250 (avg 820 kH) or 977/1250 (avg 860 kH) my 290s seem to do okay. Here's what I've had a chance to test for a couple hours now:
One of my "test" mining rigs:
Edit: I should note that GPU-Z reports Watt values between 165W for the lowest card and 198W for the highest card now. If 850/1000 clocks can cut that further and still maintain an average of 800 kH per card I'd be very happy.
Looking at how my 7950 gets 650KH/s, the R9 290 getting only 800KH/s seems so little considering how power hungry it is.
Is AMD's CCC running in the background, denying Afterburner from actually changing the voltages/frequencies? Either way, shut that sucker down if it is (end task from task manager).
DEDICATEDPOOL => I will avoid themBlackcoin can no longer be mined by PoW. It is only PoS now. You should mine another coin on our site like Zeit, Mint, etc. Please see the Blackcoin thread for more information
The one week you had to withdraw your coins is up. Wallet is now offline. We are not a bank.
I started with Blackcoin for a short time on release. I didn't even notice the change to POS until after the fact. I left my coins in the pool since I thought I'll transfer them to an exchange if they even make it to an exchange. I thought I'll start avoiding installing all of these new coins wallets if possible since there have been attempts to put malware in them etc.
I was traveling for a while and when I tried to get back into the pool again they had a notification.
DEDICATEDPOOL => I will avoid them
You may want to avoid them. Apparently they grabbed everyone's coins and sold them, at least those who didn't cash out within a week. I didn't see any notifications when mining, they apparently decided to make a few $ this way.
I didn't lose much at all, I just noticed when Blackcoin was skyrocketing and tried to get the coins.
Normally I would make a local wallet and immediately send them there. This is the only time I didn't and initially I thought it wasn't going anywhere (plus I didn't know mining was so short). This happened to be one of the few coins which actually went somewhere.
I just want to name them here, primarily due to my unawareness of the whole plan. I don't recall if I switched to another new coin that same day or why I quit BC but either way I had no idea that dedicated pool was going anywhere.
I will admit that I should have read more about the mining -> turning into PoW, since I missed that initially. In the end I don't care too much, but the principle is annoying to me since I didn't notice any info about going offline soon. The whole mining to offline may have been over a couple-few weeks, however I was traveling etc. and not following it and it was very quick when you don't expect it. I'm just glad I didn't sit on it any longer.
I emailed them and they just replied with an arrogant email about not being a bank. Well, I will avoid them and name and shame them.
I started with Blackcoin for a short time on release. I didn't even notice the change to POS until after the fact. I left my coins in the pool since I thought I'll transfer them to an exchange if they even make it to an exchange. I thought I'll start avoiding installing all of these new coins wallets if possible since there have been attempts to put malware in them etc.
I was traveling for a while and when I tried to get back into the pool again they had a notification.
DEDICATEDPOOL => I will avoid them
You may want to avoid them. Apparently they grabbed everyone's coins and sold them, at least those who didn't cash out within a week. I didn't see any notifications when mining, they apparently decided to make a few $ this way.
I didn't lose much at all, I just noticed when Blackcoin was skyrocketing and tried to get the coins.
Normally I would make a local wallet and immediately send them there. This is the only time I didn't and initially I thought it wasn't going anywhere (plus I didn't know mining was so short). This happened to be one of the few coins which actually went somewhere.
I just want to name them here, primarily due to my unawareness of the whole plan. I don't recall if I switched to another new coin that same day or why I quit BC but either way I had no idea that dedicated pool was going anywhere.
I will admit that I should have read more about the mining -> turning into PoW, since I missed that initially. In the end I don't care too much, but the principle is annoying to me since I didn't notice any info about going offline soon. The whole mining to offline may have been over a couple-few weeks, however I was traveling etc. and not following it and it was very quick when you don't expect it. I'm just glad I didn't sit on it any longer.
I emailed them and they just replied with an arrogant email about not being a bank. Well, I will avoid them and name and shame them.
Pool owner, Binaryclock, had the pool open 10 days after POS started.
Keep better track of your coins :awe:
I've never had a problem with Dedicatedpool
I have only thought about this for a short time, but I don't think this is actually that serious.FYI, the Kimoto Gravity Well block difficulty setting algorithm (EDIT: Sorry, Dogecoin is implementing DigiShield, which is similar to KGW but supposedly improved, hopefully it won't have this problem) was found to have a flaw. Coins with fast target block times were more easily affected by it. E.g. 30 seconds. But it's not inconceivable that it could show up in Doge with its 60 second block target.
I still think he should have had set an autopayout. If he didn't reach the payout limit, he shouldn't have kept his coins at the pool. It's always vulnerable to loss.That's an asinine comment if I ever saw one. But given you hardly ever have any real knowledge about topics of discussion you inject yourself into, let me clear things up a little.
Given I know what's involved in running a pool, leaving the pool up for an extended period of time - a month, 3 months, even a year - would have negligible impact on the rest of their pools.
What's more, given that's BlackCoin changed to Proof of STAKE, that's a pool operators wet dream right there, to have idiots (no offense wand3r3r) leave their coins in the pool wallet. That's free money for the pool since the stake would be credited to the pool's wallet as liquid funds and not the individual miners at all. Dedicatedpool actually LOST money by doing what they did.
Not only that, this isn't the first time Dedicatedpool has done crap like this. They give little notice to shutting down pools, and they do it in such a way that they maximize how many people get scammed out of mined coins. It's their MO. Saying "we're not a bank" is a cop-out, they're just trying to make themselves sleep better at night.
No I don't have CCC installed on that comp, just the driver.
That's an asinine comment if I ever saw one. But given you hardly ever have any real knowledge about topics of discussion you inject yourself into, let me clear things up a little.
Given I know what's involved in running a pool, leaving the pool up for an extended period of time - a month, 3 months, even a year - would have negligible impact on the rest of their pools.
What's more, given that's BlackCoin changed to Proof of STAKE, that's a pool operators wet dream right there, to have idiots (no offense wand3r3r) leave their coins in the pool wallet. That's free money for the pool since the stake would be credited to the pool's wallet as liquid funds and not the individual miners at all. Dedicatedpool actually LOST money by doing what they did.
Not only that, this isn't the first time Dedicatedpool has done crap like this. They give little notice to shutting down pools, and they do it in such a way that they maximize how many people get scammed out of mined coins. It's their MO. Saying "we're not a bank" is a cop-out, they're just trying to make themselves sleep better at night.
On one hand I hardly blame them, but on the other hand it was a bad move from their part regardless.