Cryptocoin Mining?

[taq8ojh]

Can anyone confirm nasty artifacts while mining with Catalyst 14.2 installed? I hope my card is not bad.

 

[frowertr]

Not to step on Sunny's toes, but I setup a Doge P2pool node. I use to run one a while ago but thought I'd fire it back up with the resurgence of Dogecoin the last couple of days.

http://doge.sptmining.com:22550

 

[nwo]

Can anyone confirm nasty artifacts while mining with Catalyst 14.2 installed? I hope my card is not bad.

Yes! Both 14.1 and 14.2 cause crazy artifacts while mining on multiple systems I've tried. So you are definitely not alone and your GPU is (most likely) not the one to blame. Go back to 13.12 and things will go back to normal.

 

[xodusgenesis]

http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html

I hate journalists.

 

[SunnyD]

Not to step on Sunny's toes, but I setup a Doge P2pool node. I use to run one a while ago but thought I'd fire it back up with the resurgence of Dogecoin the last couple of days.

http://doge.sptmining.com:22550

It's all good.

I've been avoiding the incumbent coins anyway - unless I know that there's about a gigahash of people waiting for me to set up a pool for one, there's really no point (see AuroraCoin )

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Not to step on Sunny's toes, but I setup a Doge P2pool node. I use to run one a while ago but thought I'd fire it back up with the resurgence of Dogecoin the last couple of days.

http://doge.sptmining.com:22550

I might jump over there. My ipad can't get anywhere near anything like that URL though. Sptmining.com, doge.sptmining.com and that URL all make safari crash.

 

[IEC]

http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html

I hate journalists.

Nakamoto is probably disgusted with how BTC has become the money machine of mining cartels and is glad to no longer be working on it. Just saying.

Edit: I should also mention the possibility he's just a red herring meant to catch journalists, but isn't the real creator.

 

[JBT]

I might jump over there. My ipad can't get anywhere near anything like that URL though. Sptmining.com, doge.sptmining.com and that URL all make safari crash.

Install Chrome on your ipad.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Install Chrome on your ipad.

Can't, it's school owned. :awe: I'll get to it later today. I'm not even mining ATM.

 

[frowertr]

I might jump over there. My ipad can't get anywhere near anything like that URL though. Sptmining.com, doge.sptmining.com and that URL all make safari crash.

That's weird. I don't have an iPad so I can't test it on my end. Just going to sptmining.com should take you to a temp Godaddy holder page. Adding the doge to the beginning should take you to the pool (assuming you type in the port at the end).

 

[Bubbleawsome]

That's weird. I don't have an iPad so I can't test it on my end. Just going to sptmining.com should take you to a temp Godaddy holder page. Adding the doge to the beginning should take you to the pool (assuming you type in the port at the end).

It might be my school network. Has a special DNS on it. Still odd though.

 

[frowertr]

It's all good.

I've been avoiding the incumbent coins anyway - unless I know that there's about a gigahash of people waiting for me to set up a pool for one, there's really no point (see AuroraCoin )

The problem I had with Aurora is that its diff jumped too high too fast. I just couldn't make sense of the math trying to mine it on a pool with less than 1Gh like you said. Hell, even pools with that amount of hashrate were still sometimes going over 12 hours without finding blocks.

But I (we I can probably safely say) am all for jumping on new longer lasting trends with lower diff coins. I think we do a pretty good job here at AT keeping each other informed of what is hot and what is not. Just gotta keep on the lookout.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

http://ponzicoin.co/ ... Semms legit

 

[njdevilsfan87]

The problem I had with Aurora is that its diff jumped too high too fast. I just couldn't make sense of the math trying to mine it on a pool with less than 1Gh like you said. Hell, even pools with that amount of hashrate were still sometimes going over 12 hours without finding blocks.

But I (we I can probably safely say) am all for jumping on new longer lasting trends with lower diff coins. I think we do a pretty good job here at AT keeping each other informed of what is hot and what is not. Just gotta keep on the lookout.

Unfortunately this is pretty much the story of the every single new coin now. Difficulty goes very high very quickly, and unless followed by a 1000% pump (like AUR) it isn't really worth bothering with. And then half the launches end up being messed up in some way that results in a complete waste of time and effort.

I've pretty much stopped chasing new alts, though I do mine a new one here and there that I like (like BlackCoin recently, though that hasn't worked out as of right now). I really prefer my own uninterrupted personal P2Pool node I have running.

 

[bob32768]

http://ponzicoin.co/ ... Semms legit

Wow, people are falling for this?

Players make deposits in line with the minimum and maximum investment limits. As more players make deposits, older ones are repayed at 120%

Convince enough suckers to pay in, and you make 20%.

 

[slashbinslashbash]

Overhyped pump'n'dump? You don't say. Tell me more!

I really don't think it's a traditional pump'n'dump, in that I don't believe that the dev has dumped at all from the premine. He is good at getting publicity though, which really was just intelligent choices in terms of the "official" tie-in to a "sovereign nation" which is a unique concept at this point. At this point it is more like a mine'n'dump while the effect from the pump is still active. At least I made some pretty good profits from mining, and sold a good amount when they were roughly double the current price. I'm hodling the rest for now.

Not to step on Sunny's toes, but I setup a Doge P2pool node. I use to run one a while ago but thought I'd fire it back up with the resurgence of Dogecoin the last couple of days.

http://doge.sptmining.com:22550

Dogecoin has had a resurgence?

 

[bob32768]

It's not clear how much viability is left with the profit-switching scrypt pools. Wafflepool, Clevermining, and Middlecoin are all essentially trending right with LTC lately (sometimes worse, sometimes better).

If there was a variant of cgminer which could switch hashing algorithms when requested by the pool it would be possible to extend it further.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Wow, people are falling for this?



Convince enough suckers to pay in, and you make 20%.

Is it a ponzi scheme if they tell you it's a ponzi scheme?

 

[frowertr]

Dogecoin has had a resurgence?

The last several days both LTC and Doge have been top 5 - 10 coins to mine on coinwarz as far as profitability goes. Although today everything looks like crap. It's just not an alt coin kinda day.

 

[holden j caufield]

what was the the difficulty on doge before february? Seems like 1000 difficult is a bit high

 

[TeknoBug]

... CEO found dead?

 

[frowertr]

what was the the difficulty on doge before february? Seems like 1000 difficult is a bit high

Oh, I can't remember. I wanna say like 1600ish right before the reward halving happened which was a couple weeks ago. I think the current diff jumped a bit due to rise in price the last couple of days.

My theory is that when the warmer weather starts to hit the northern hemisphere, we will begin to see all the alt coin diffs begin to drop and hopefully bring bigger rewards/profits. I'm thinking there are lots of miners (Doge especially) who just use outside air during the winter time to cool their rigs and won't want to pay the added costs for running the A/C.

 

[nwo]

what was the the difficulty on doge before february? Seems like 1000 difficult is a bit high

Doge difficulty spiked to over 1k roughly towards the end of January if my memory serves me correctly.

 

[slashbinslashbash]

It's not clear how much viability is left with the profit-switching scrypt pools. Wafflepool, Clevermining, and Middlecoin are all essentially trending right with LTC lately (sometimes worse, sometimes better).

If there was a variant of cgminer which could switch hashing algorithms when requested by the pool it would be possible to extend it further.

Well, in a way, that's a good thing. There's no reason why profitability of one coin should be much different than that of another. Arbitrage brings them to the same level over time. Maybe we've simply reached that point, although there will always be a new altcoin that takes a while to reach the masses.

Speaking of your cgminer variant idea, last night I had an idea for a coin that would randomly switch hashing algorithms every block, based on the hash of the last block. So say it would change between SHA256, scrypt-jane, keccak, and a few others. I think that such a coin would come close to being multi-pool-proof, botnet-proof, and ASIC-proof. Choose algorithms that are all well-optimized on GPU's, but provide enough variety that it would be pointless to build an ASIC for it since the ASIC would require like 6 different sections in order to mine all the different algorithms. Of course, it would need a custom version of cgminer. I guess that those with SHA256 ASICs could selectively mine only those blocks, but switching costs are not trivial, and maybe each algorithm could have its own scaled difficulty setting. Anyway, just a thought experiment. If any of you build a coin like this, be sure to credit me somewhere

 

[njdevilsfan87]

My theory is that when the warmer weather starts to hit the northern hemisphere, we will begin to see all the alt coin diffs begin to drop and hopefully bring bigger rewards/profits. I'm thinking there are lots of miners (Doge especially) who just use outside air during the winter time to cool their rigs and won't want to pay the added costs for running the A/C.

I live in a part of the country that is not friendly to mining pretty much starting now, and I'm going to mine as much as I can, especially with scrypt ASICs rumored to get here later this year.

If you setup a proper miner with elevated and spaced GPUs, they can run all year. And if the room starts to break 100F, you can sacrifice 20% hash power, undervolt, and again your GPUs will be fine. There's really no need to run the AC right onto the GPUs, unless you're going to for maximum hash power.

People would be silly to stop mining simply because it's getting warmer.