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Re: [ANN] CREPCOIN: Start mining now with low H/S devices!
by
docrypto
on 08/01/2018, 23:09:30 UTC
I thought the web miner was an interesting idea but I've come back to take a look at the Windows CPU miner and there are so many issues with this coin:

  • config.txt is missing any documentation, despite this being based on xmr-stak-cpu which comes with embedded documentation: https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak-cpu/blob/master/config.txt
  • config.txt is crippled if you have 3+ cores;  it will only ever use 2 cores maximum
  • config.txt is crippled even more on Windows if you have hyperthreading enabled -- it will use a real core + same core's hyperthreaded core
  • they're using an old version of xmr-stak-cpu - why?
  • more importantly, this is all artificial... anybody can just build the more modern xmr-stak for themselves, which supports GPU mining*
  • pool is crippled and no external pools allowed, you can't see who's mining so you can't see if somebody is already using a GPU miner!**
  • 37kh/s network / 250 miners (rough very optimistic guess, according to pool stats) ~= 150H/s miner which doesn't correspond to numbers I'm seeing people mention here, especially given the 2 core issue above so I suspect there are already GPU miners on the network or there people mining without pointing out the config issues - not a healthy community

* I saw some post about IP banning unsupported mining clients but I don't see how this is possible - how will they know it's a GPU being used? I will be happy to reverse engineer this and build a GPU miner if somebody wants to pay for it, PM me Smiley  See here for the kind of performance you expect to see with GPU mining:  http://monerobenchmarks.info/

** Maybe somebody can build a scraper and check payments

Either the devs are very naive or they are keeping the GPU miner to themselves - effectively a hidden premine.  Or both situations are possible.  Either way, be warned!  I'm annoyed I wasted time CPU mining this without seeing this for what it is.