Yeah, not very happy about this either... Why not just add more servers at the original location? AFAIK not many were complaining about connectivity issues from the states.

Good points, I suppose I just have a hard time trusting some of the exchanges for obvious reasons.
By "clean" you mean that I'm not using BTC to launder money acquired through illicit activites? Then I'm good.
If you mean reporting them on your taxes... well I'm not sure what to do about that one yet lol

Thanks for the input.


I'm just a lowly miner that got into the game a little late, but I've worked really hard for what I've earned, so I'm just trying to be cautious.
If I lost it somehow, I'd be angry but not living on the streets or anything, I never risk anything that I cant afford to lose.

Just using that as an example... lol.

There's been a lot of talk lately about BTC going up again, however I'm not here to speculate.

Let's say BTC jumps to 5k per coin, and even small-fry BTC holders like myself, suddenly have 5-6 figures worth of bitcoin. What do we do then, if we want to sell some for fiat?

When dealing with tens, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin, how can you actually safely conduct a transaction for that amount of money?
I don't even feel comfortable using something like Coinbase with ~200$ USD in BTC, let alone trusting them to not cause any fuckery if a single BTC was pulling 5k$ or more.

I've seen people mention going to the deep web to sell, but how is that any better? Do you use escrow? What about local BTC selling services?

Basically, I'm looking for the safest way to move higher-valued amounts of BTC to Fiat (and not get screwed by someone) in the event that I choose to do so.

Just trying to be prepared! Thanks.

Depends on how "Rich". If it were millions...

I would open/fund mental health and education charities.
Pay back my parents for putting me through college.
Buy my friends sweet cars.
Invest in something sustainable to live day-to-day from.
Get a house in Savannah.
And Maybe a Nissan GTR

In no particular order...

Could someone please post an example of what the pool config should look like to auto switch x11, x13, and x15? Thanks!

I'm on Goldshredder's side here. If you want your coin (or anything for that matter) to be taken seriously, at least do some basic grammar/spell checking. If English isn't your primary language, find someone to help proof read? It also drives me nuts when people misspell kernel... it's not popcorn damn it.
To me, one of the first signs of a scam is bad spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors. That was one of the reasons I didn't buy into the Edgecoin IPO... but primarily because they were using a gmail address lol.

With decent airflow, my 290 rigs didn't go up that much, they're still running ~72C which isn't terrible, but the fan speeds have gone up quite a bit. Still nowhere near how scrypt was cooking them. Get some box fans maybe? haha

I really don't think the red flags in virustotal are anything to worry about.
Remember you're scanning an executable (GIANT RED FLAG THERE), from an unknown source/publisher (Another red flag), for an unknown program (another red flag). Why WOULDN'T virustotal throw some flags? Plus zips containing batch files are also going to make them go nuts.

ALSO, "sgminer.exe" has probably been reported as a virus (in their databases) from being maliciously included in downloads (usually from torrents) to mine on people's computers without them knowing.

Just be careful, and watch for odd behavior ... like hidden mining quotas and such

Still tries loading cklovias kernels, followed the example .conf... nothing. Not using Cgwatcher or anything.

I've noticed this behavior on one of my rigs too, it starts out at 13.5 Mh/s, 10 hours later its down to 12.7, temps look fine, and I'm only running single thread configs. It requires the whole system to be restarted in order to bring the hash rates back up, very weird. Using Win 8.1, Catalyst 13.1 (maybe I should try 14.4?)

I've been mining on NiceHash for quite a while now, and while I love the simplicity of the service, and the payouts have been good. However I have a question about how the btc/ghs/day price is determined.

From what I understand, the site takes an average of all existing, not-dead orders to determine what the current payout is for shares coming in (that number next to each algo on the main page). The problem I'm seeing is when people add orders that are so low-priced, orders which will never actually get filled or worked on, are still bringing down the average payout price. Could this be abused by simply adding a bunch of lowball orders that never will receive any hash power, just to lower the overall average? Or are those orders marked dead after sitting idle for x time? If not, wouldn't it make more sense to take the average of the orders that are currently being worked on by miners, as opposed to including ones sitting there doing nothing?

Sure, this could be offset by using the price limit feature, but they seem to have encouraged a lot of people to not use it. If more miners used the price feature, people putting in very low orders would be guaranteed to never receive hash power, even if the service get DDOS attacked, and new orders cant be put in.

I'm using the one on the software page.

Love this idea. However, I cant seem to get it to actually switch the kernel it's running.
Each time I start the miner, it will switch to the correct pool, however it just creates a cklovias .bin file and throws hardware errors, instead of the appropriate (in my case) marucoin-mod .bin file.
This would indicate somewhere in my config it's not loading the correct kernel. Or the miner isnt loading it.

When I do it manually with the 33xx port numbers, it works.

I took the kernel, and algorithm arugments out of the config entirely, except under the pool settings where it's "pool-algorithm".

Do any of these builds have the fixes for nicehash incorporated?

This is awesome guys! Working great with my 290s. 3.59 MHS each with just my old scrypt settings.

I suspect there could be further optimization for Hawaii cards. If a 280x can do 3.4mhs, a 290/x should do 4+ :-)

Looks good. I'll try it out. What driver version are you running?

I'd be happy to test the windows binary if someone could compile it. I don't have my Ubuntu machine set up anymore. That drive got repurposed for a mining rig :-P.

Cool, you guys are way smarter than I am when it comes to this stuff. All I'm capable of doing is setting up a development environment in Ubuntu to compile from source lol.  The only help I can offer is testing :-) Take your time. I'm sure you'll figure it out!

First of all, great work reverse engineering the kernel!

My 280x/270 rig is running wonderfully.

There is definitely something missing though.

I have 2 other rigs with all MSI 290 cards in them.

With the 2% version, I can keep my normal settings that I've been using in x11 sgminer, and each card will pull 3.5mhs with no adjustments whatsoever.
That config includes each card set at Intensity 20.

With this version (windows compiled version) It just crashes the drivers, and will require some tinkering with the settings.

So clearly there is something different between girino's 2% fee version, and lasybear/Remember's versions.

Either way, awesome work guys!