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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Baikal Giant X10
by
burnsauce
on 15/12/2017, 08:43:50 UTC
I found something very interesting while poking around the x10 file structures.

I found these 2 lines:

Code:
poolAdd({url:'stratum+tcp://nist5.mine.zpool.ca:3833',pass:'x11=1,quark=1,qubit=1,groestl=1,nist5=1',priority:'6',algo:'nist5',extranonce:true});
poolAdd({url:'stratum+tcp://groestl.mine.zpool.ca:5333',pass:'x11=1,quark=1,qubit=1,groestl=1,nist5=1',priority:'5',algo:'groestl',extranonce:true});

So I am guessing either the 2 new algos are nist5 and groestl, or they originally had nist5 and groestl and decided to change the algos to skein and myr-groestl.


I also found this line:
Code:
sudo mv sgminer_300MHz_fix_NoHW  /opt/scripta/bin/sgminer

So I am assuming they have their own custom sgminer with a fixed clock rate so there goes the overclocking dream.

Guess someone at Baikal didn't remove all their traces. Now I wonder how would we get nist5 and groestl back on there. LOL.

I ran across the 300Mhz_fix line as well. If you look at early screen-shots that Baikal provided, you can see the miner chips are running at 420mhz, but producing the same hash-rate they are now (at 300) on our machines. I suspect this is the cause of the efficiency increase from the original stated numbers as well.

The poolAdd lines you found are _very_ interesting.  I had myself somewhat convinced that someone was/is indeed using these things to mine groestl.