I switched to ethpool (from nanopool) and so far I like the concept. It seems annoying to wait 3-4 days between payouts (290x and Fury Nano), however it seems to be fair.Don't use Dwarfpool. Too close to 50%. I'm using Ethpool atm.
I switched to ethpool (from nanopool) and so far I like the concept. It seems annoying to wait 3-4 days between payouts (290x and Fury Nano), however it seems to be fair.
New Ethereum release, Homestead, coming in ~2 weeks with block 1,150,000.
https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/02/29/homestead-release/
It's a hardfork, so you'll need to update your wallet and clients.
What exactly does that mean? Is there going to be a second ethereum currency rendering the original worthless?
No - everything rolls into it. You have nothing to worry about.
The price seems to be going up pretty steadily. I wonder if we'll see $10 USD anytime soon. I also wonder if at 10$+ we're going to see another short term mining craze where AMD cards start flying off the shelf again.
The price seems to be going up pretty steadily. I wonder if we'll see $10 USD anytime soon. I also wonder if at 10$+ we're going to see another short term mining craze where AMD cards start flying off the shelf again.
Is there a chart to see dollars per day for various different video cards, possibly accounting for electricity used per day? I have three 7950s just sitting around doing nothing, but I assumed it would cost more to power them then I could make mining with them.
Eth now over $9 a coin.
If I remember correctly, Litecoin's price hit $10 a coin when Bitcoin's price was near $1000 - but didn't see quite this price increase alone. I was expecting Eth's price to go up near the end of the mining phase in the summer, not this early. Interesting.
Litecoin actually peaked close to $50 when both it and Bitcoin went on their stratospheric run near the end of 2013.If I remember correctly, Litecoin's price hit $10 a coin when Bitcoin's price was near $1000 - but didn't see quite this price increase alone. I was expecting Eth's price to go up near the end of the mining phase in the summer, not this early. Interesting.
Are there any Etherium pools where you can mine for the pool, but they pay you in Bitcoin? I used to do that a while back for, ah, was it clevermining or something? I just like getting paid directly in Bitcoin without having to convert, but maybe that's dumb since Eth is taking off now?
Switched my GTX 970 from Windows 10 (anemic hashrate of ~8 MH/s on 10) to Xubuntu and on nanopool (ethereumpool.co/eth.pp.ua was down for a few hours - wonder if they are being DDoSed or something... may have to switch pools). Now getting ~17 MH/s without any tweaking of the clock speeds. Should have switched to Linux or Win 7 earlier, really, but I hadn't realized the gap was that large until I started looking at mining hardware comparisons.
Still working on building my dual R9 Nano system, but not going to be completed until next month since I'm building the case from scratch. I intend on using it for gaming and not just mining, though, so I'm not in an enormous rush.