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    March 11, 2018

    GPU Mining BEWARE: Cheap power cables on eBay / Amazon!

    BEWARE: Cheap power cables on eBay / Amazon!

    Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:22 PM PST

    For example this auction: https://www.ebay.com/itm/232684607194

    What he is NOT telling you is the Audiopipe 16 AWG speaker wire [which apparently is sold at Wal-Mart] he is using is CCA [copper clad aluminum] wire and not pure copper, which is only 60%-70% as effective in power delivery.

    Then he claims 30 Amps per cable..... which is amazing since the pins on the ends are only rated to 9A each.....

    This is exactly how fires are started :| - I already messaged the guy and told him he should fix his stuff, we shall see if he does.

    Then you have other auctions like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/292462925021

    Which obviously show a much higher class of cable and craftsmanship. The price is much higher, but the fact that the cables are crimped and soldered, and use the proper type of wire is something you cannot take for granted in your power delivery system.

    Moral of the story - not all cables are created equal. Do your research before making a purchase. $20 extra for cables or $30 extra for risers can save you a house.

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    Powershell module for interacting with SGMiner/CGMiner API.

    Posted: 11 Mar 2018 08:45 AM PDT

    What its like Mining Cryptocurrency in 2018 - BTC/ETH/ZEC - VoskCoin March Farm Update!

    Posted: 10 Mar 2018 06:47 PM PST

    12 grand for this piece of shit?

    Posted: 10 Mar 2018 10:49 PM PST

    1080 TI Overlock Analysis. Why Would You Not Go 100% Power Draw?

    Posted: 11 Mar 2018 08:56 AM PDT

    Mine Cryptocurrency from Your Desktop PC by Using Minergate!

    Posted: 11 Mar 2018 08:31 AM PDT

    Mining On Your CPU Increases Your GPU Hashrate

    Posted: 11 Mar 2018 08:08 AM PDT

    Unstable hashrates in claymore, anyone has an idea why this might be happning,? 6x1070 Oc -150/+600.

    Posted: 11 Mar 2018 06:20 AM PDT

    Multi-rig Strategy: Mine 1 Coin At A Time?

    Posted: 11 Mar 2018 05:19 AM PDT

    I'm very curious what other multi-rig miners are doing out there. I have about 5 rigs now (a few are pretty small) and have been thinking about allocating some rigs to other coins. Previously I was putting all hashes towards one asset. I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on focuing on 1 coin at a time or diversifying their hashes.

    I really can't see an advantage of diversifying in today's choppy/bear market.... but maybe I've been looking at it wrong. During a bull market, it seems to make sense to diversify because you're more likely to catch a breakout in one of the coins you're mining. Thoughts?

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    Linux undervolt limit?

    Posted: 11 Mar 2018 04:38 AM PDT

    I recently moved to HiveOS and noticed an increase of 10% on my powerusage.

    A friend told me linux doesnt go lower than 900mV, that you can pay someone named "wolf" to enable this, but I cant find any info.

    Can anyone confirm on deny this?

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    Simple GUI Miner: An open source, free GUI for DSTM Equihash Miner

    Posted: 10 Mar 2018 08:03 AM PST

    Hey all, Fishmonger here. I'm usually known on the interwebs by like 45 people for my World of Warcraft fishing bot, but recently I've been getting into crypto mining and enjoying it. I have mainly NVIDIA cards, and started concentrating on equihash since it was the most profitable. After checking out different miners, I settled on DSTM for its speed and reliability.

    However, while I can certainly make use of command line, I always felt a lightweight GUI is best, especially when done right and kept streamlined.

    Enter "Fishmongers Simple GUI Miner" [catchy name I know] which is a script written in Autohotkey that adds a GUI to easily communicate with the popular 0.5.7 version of the DSTM miner.

    Link and info here: https://wowfishmonger.weebly.com/mining.html

    Youtube Video with info and my sexy face: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnYofYuPue8

    Totally open source, totally free to use, totally something I've been doing in my spare time.

    Why would I need something like this you ask?

    Well, I don't know, maybe you don't, but I felt that maybe their was a need for something that combined the ease of use of the Nicehash client with the freedom of using on any pool you want. Great for saving profiles if you want to manually swap coins on MPH without using the auto swapping ports.

    Is this any better than DSTM version 0.5.7?

    No, it is not a miner program, just a GUI that you can use to access the DSTM miner. It just adds some ease of use so you don't have to meddle with command line or multiple .BAT files for different configurations, or some other functions that DSTM does not nativly support.

    Do you charge anything? Skim hash? Eh?

    Nope, however the default DSTM miner does have a 2% fee which goes directly to him. Nothing goes to me.

    Do I need Autohotkey to use this?

    If you want to use the .AHK script and run it directly, then yes. Otherwise I do have a download available with a compiled .EXE you can use that does not require Autohotkey.

    Is it safe?

    The code is in plain text, you can read everything. Read away, but please understand I'm self taught so don't ridicule my lack of standards.

    What is this MINER_DSTM.EXE file that is in there as well?

    That is the 0.5.7 version of the DSTM miner. I renamed it so I wouldn't accidentally overwrite the original when I was testing, but left as-is so the program can specifically call out and interact with that window and not interfere with any other versions you may also be running at the same time. The SHA256 of that file 100% matches the 0.5.7 version of DSTM miner since, you know, its the same file just renamed.

    So again, why would I need this?

    Maybe you don't, but for instance I am a big fan of open source software and the community around it. I made this for myself, but for others who also may be interested in doing something similar. I also don't like some of the hardcore miners out their like Awesome Miner that have way too many buttons and settings that I don't need. I am totally fine with using MiningPoolHub and having it auto convert coins for me, and my GUI will allow me to have it always run in the background and start mining when it detects my system is idle, just like NiceHash legacy.

    I'm always looking for suggestions on things I can add to this as well, so feel free to comment and let me know what I can do or what you think. Thanks for taking the time to read this, and if you like what you see and you want to buy me a beer, I'd appreciate the tips.

    Bitcoin BTC: 1Q1LBSzmCXSgx6QxwMQpwARCRWL6XBr9rB

    Bitcoin Cash BCH: 14V2uwekZizTUxKHdAUoGphUdVF1B43F1i

    Litecoin LTC: LeKdeVRFdb5upn5VW92CBmdxvBE7MABpqW

    Ethereum ETH: 0xC791b2EaAC5f627c028FDbCe1F56b6306F86b936

    Zcash ZEC: t1gD8JJuSWVhh5PZVnKoKyScomCK65ujuJK

    -Fishmonger

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    Has The Cold Weather Got You Down, How About A Nice Warm GPU?

    Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:29 PM PST

    Octominer, not impressed.

    Posted: 10 Mar 2018 08:36 AM PST

    The MB has a BIOS issue, I contacted live chat and was told it had the wrong bios edition and needed to be updated. Contact us via email.

    I have done that and I have had a personalised reply telling me the email has been received but after that nothing.

    I contacted live chat again and I was told that it's likely it cannot be updated and the MB is bricked and again advised me to contact via email which they still do not reply to.

    I have seen online that they have had good after sales and maybe this post will result in some communication with them as I really don't like to have cards sitting around doing nothing but really am I the only person here to have a problem with them?

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    MSI Aero RX 550 4gb anyone having luck? Only getting 8.5mhs

    Posted: 10 Mar 2018 08:20 PM PST

    Getting 8.5mh/s at stock and 10.5mhs with one-click bios but it crashes with bios mod. Also appear that overclock settings must be set in bios--can anyone confirm?

    I've seen people have luck with these cards, but my rig keep crashing with anything other than stock. Not sure if crashes are showing BSOD or error code because I am logged in remote.

    Anyone having luck with these cards?

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    RavenCoin (X16R) now listed on coinmarketcap

    Posted: 10 Mar 2018 12:55 PM PST

    Hive OS Overclocking Problem

    Posted: 10 Mar 2018 01:40 PM PST

    I'm testing out hive os to see if I like it enough to use it on my main rig. I'm having a problem with overlclocking my 570s. They have their bios' modded and on windows they get 28-29mh/s. On hive os I only get 19mh/s. The whole system is running on a Pentium 4 as it is a spare cpu and motherboard.

    Could anyone help me with my overclocking problems? I've tried both hive os' overclocking tab and claymore's overclocking parameters.

    Also does hive os support r9 390 overclocking?

    EDIT- I think I figured it out. I had installed the oldest version of hive os. The downloads page shows the oldest file first.

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    Experience with BSOD pool? Letfovers staying on pool?

    Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:18 PM PST

    Hey guys I been mining a bunch of stuff on BSOD pool lately and I notice only partial payments are made by BSOD to my wallets, there's always something staying behind.

    In one such example, I mined 0.5 XGD, and only 0.44 got sent to me , while the rest never gets paid.

    Anyone have experience with this or can explain it? Any way I can pull the rest?

    Like here http://prntscr.com/ipiwwl​ example of stuff left on bsod and not paid, even if i crossed the minimum payment by far in some cases.

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    Buying used mining rigs - new to this

    Posted: 10 Mar 2018 08:55 PM PST

    I've been interested in mining for some time now, mostly been just hodling. I've seen some miners for sale on kijiji and ebay. How risky are these? Some sellers are saying they can mine a few hundred $$ a month of xyz coin.

    For starting out, learning, are these ok to pick up?

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    Changing PCI Latency Speed in BIOS on Gigabyte Aorus Z370 Gaming Wifi (Rev.1) Mobo?

    Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:01 PM PST

    Hello fellow miners.

    I've got a couple of rigs up and running and I am having a little bit of trouble changing some BIOS values on the second rig. One uses a Z270 which is fine, and the other is a z370 which I am having trouble with.

    First rig features an MSI z270 Gaming M5 which has every setting clearly labeled in the BIOS. Flashing the BIOS, enabling 4G encoding, disabling the audio driver, toggling power after AC outtage, and PCI Latency were all easy to find. That rig has been running stable for weeks now. The second rig is another story.

    On the 2nd rig, I'm using a motherboard I got for "free" as a package deal when I bought one of the GPUs for it. The model is Gigabyte Aorus z370 Gaming Wifi. I have been able to disable audio driver, flash BIOS, enable 4G encoding and configured the power settings. The one thing I'm having trouble finding anywhere in the BIOS is the PCI Latency speed. (32, 64, 96, 128, 256, etc).

    Does anyone have experience using this board? I'm not the most tech savvy person, so please don't laugh when I ask if there is some way to change these settings in the OS? I really should have sold it and used that money for another MSI board (I love that Gaming M5) but I essentially paid pennies on the dollar and had all other parts ready to get the second rig going.

    Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm not experiencing any MAJOR problems, but it puzzles me as to why I was able to change this on the MSI board, but not on the more "updated" 8th gen Gigabyte board.

    Thank you!

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    0xBitcoin finally got a Windows AMD and NVIDIA open source GPU miners set. Highest profit margin for GPU mining of any coin at the moment.

    Posted: 10 Mar 2018 10:50 AM PST

    We are a totally decentralized project and are very excited at the possibility that 0xBitcoin mined on Ethereum will eventually be both a real store of value and payment mechanism. We have hundreds of miners and an active community and discord.

    Check out the new developments on https://www.reddit.com/r/0xbitcoin/ . We have a new Nvidia GPU miner for both Windows and Linux, as well as an AMD GPU miner for Windows, in addition to the mining pools and CPU miners already presented, all open source! These developments were made by a decentralized community of developers, holders, and fans.

    More information is also available at https://0xbitcoin.org/

    Coins can be sold at ForkDelta (https://forkdelta.github.io/#!/trade/0xBTC-ETH) at the moment and we are actively pursuing listing on other exchanges such as IDEX and Radar Relay.

    If you have any urgent questions or difficulties with the miner, feel free to inquire at the community Discord channel: https://discord.gg/kkVMJn

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    Is there a Mining application benchmark tool?

    Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:42 PM PST

    I'm looking for a way to benchmark a bunch of different mining applications across a bunch of different algorithms on different hardware, and correlate the data to find which is most efficient for each algorithm.

    Right now, it's rather hit and miss for finding the most efficient miner for each algorithm. I can either scour thousands of subreddits, bitcointalk threads, and other sites, or just collect the data myself.

    It seems like this is something someone would have come up with a way to do by now. But I've been unable to find any projects that do this.

    The majority of the benchmark statistics sites are related to specific hardware, and often don't even mention which mining application is being used. Or they're just focused on a single coin (usually Eth).

    Anyone have any suggestions?

    submitted by /u/man_of_mr_e
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    Why my surge protector tripping with 6gpu?

    Posted: 10 Mar 2018 03:15 PM PST

    I got 12 gou rig. Just installed 8of them to test before installing all 12. 6 GPU was working fine, but now 8gpu trips the surge protector. Dropped the number to 6gpu and it does the same now. Should I just get a cheap power strip instead of surge protector? GPUs are Sapphire nitro RX 580 8gb. They are undervolt do and pull 130-135W each. I got 1500W PSU and 1000W PSU.

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