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Re: WinMiner v1.109a - auto switch windows app for multi miner optimization
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Lexdeath
on 09/02/2018, 16:56:56 UTC
Any chance you guys are working on an altcoin ASIC capability?  I ask because I run my card systems half on NiceHash and half on WinMiner, but I am very limited to where I can run my Baikal Giant X10s and Bs.
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Re: WinMiner v1.91a - auto switch windows app for multi miner optimization
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Lexdeath
on 26/12/2017, 19:29:54 UTC
Well I turned off the currencies that can use dual mining, and my live feed revenue is lower a bit (approx 6-8%) the statistics have returned to what would equate to what the live feed and my logs are showing.  Looking back on the logs, every time one (or more) of my GPUs turned to dual mining, all the work that was done by the dual mining was not making it over to the statistics and payout.  So lesson learned after about 28 hours of my GPUs working for free (well I still have to pay the electric bill).  Until Winminer lets me know that they have corrected the bug and updated the miners I will stay away from dual mining on my cards.  So if you are having this problem, check to see if your low payout times correspond with duel mining your GPUs.

thanx
Garth
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Re: WinMiner v1.91a - auto switch windows app for multi miner optimization
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Lexdeath
on 24/12/2017, 14:08:43 UTC
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I have a rig with 8 VOLTA card TESLA V100s it makes between $86 and $90 per day.
You really must be full of it, or completely insane for using $140,000 worth of cards to mine $90 a day!  Your ROI is over 1400 days not counting power!
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Re: WinMiner v1.91a - auto switch windows app for multi miner optimization
by
Lexdeath
on 21/12/2017, 20:17:40 UTC
Well winminer is doing it again.  I am showing in the live feed and my logs around a 9.50/day mining rate, but in the statistics and payout only about 40% is being posted on average!!  At one period I was mining at an average of 9.92/day for the hour and the stats and pay showed 1.45!!!!!!  This has been going on now for approx 4 hours.  I say again, because this was happening 10 days ago, and it took over 2 days to rectify the issue (with no pay for the underpayment for mining, I might add).  It was blamed on slow exchange markets then, and we were assured that the missing funds would "catch up" once the backlog was cleared -- never happened!

I would like to know if this is now the norm for operations.  Let us mine for a few days, then skim half of the hash for a few days, then everything back to normal for a few days?  This is truly screwy, and I cannot believe that all these payout issues in the last two weeks are not related to each other.  I would like to know from winminer and other users if there is a valid explanation for the apparent shady payout propositions.  Maybe I just dont get it, and my math skills have atrophied to the point of uselessness since I got my engineering degree, but I just don't know why this is happening.

thanx
Garth
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Re: WinMiner v1.91a - auto switch windows app for multi miner optimization
by
Lexdeath
on 12/12/2017, 14:49:13 UTC
Okay, I just ran the numbers this morning, and here is what I came up with on one of my rigs:

The hash rate for the rig was similar to the reported has rate in the live view.  I will have to assume that the reported fees collected for the hash rate are accurate for the coins that were being mined (I have no way to determine the "live value" of the contract being fulfilled)

When the hash rate is compared to the reported statistics (once again assuming that the $US is being reported correctly) over a 30 minute period where my miners were working on the same currency for the entire time with not breaks of service or re-benchmarking, the live assessed value breaks down to 4.3666 cents US per 10 minute reporting period, while statistics reporting for the same period breaks down to 3.884 cents per 10 minute reporting period (over a 22% difference).

I specifically chose a time period without large fluctuations, limited my mining to 2 currencies, averaged over 3 reporting periods, and verified hash rates and expected pay rates once a minute for 30 minutes starting at the reported start time for a reporting period.  I do not know how to make this any more of a legitimate test of hash integrity than this.

I will also say that the payout amount does match the total amount on the statistics page with obvious rounding to the nearest cent only on the final payout amount (not every reporting period like some organizations do to pad the bottom line).

I will gladly reverse this post and fully support Winminer if there is a reasonable explanation for this, but for now what my log and the live reporting are very close to what my computer is telling me it is doing.  And the idea that the live reporting is in error (even if my computer is telling me that it is doing the work that is being reported) and the numbers on the stats page are correct (even though they don't even come close to what is being done by the rig), and trust them they are doing the right thing for us, I am having a hard time believing that.  Especially after the NiceHash and the MtGox incidents that I have worked through.  I don't begrudge a ring from a little skimming to aid in the founders retirement plan (after all they did provide the services that you are making money on), and I don't bitch about a 3% fee for transfer of funds (the price of doing business).  I do think that 22% skim is going a bit too far to look legitimate to me.  What I believe is the live reporting is reporting the correct mining, but they have not figured out how to add (or subtract in this case) the skim program into the live version, so the discrepancy is being blamed on the live reporting being inaccurate.  I might be paranoid (doesn't mean that they are not out to get you all the time), but I know what my equipment should be doing, I know what work my equipment has done, and I know that the amount being reported is not correct.

Please let me know if you have any questions about this analysis.  If anybody has any reasons that would explain this discrepancy that I have not listed or discussed please let me know.  The truth is the ultimate sanitizer of all theories.
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Re: WinMiner v1.91a - auto switch windows app for multi miner optimization
by
Lexdeath
on 12/12/2017, 02:03:19 UTC
First, I had just installed Winminer as a back up to NH the night before the big hit, so I do not want to trash this program yet, because my rig was running 2 hours after the NiceHash theft.  I do have some serious questions about what I am seeing.
1)  I do not know what numbers on the site to trust.  My payout is lower than the payout chart, the payout chart is lower than the live reporting, and my logs do really agree with any of the numbers.
2)  I was willing to say they are just working out the bugs of doubling their user base in a day, and I do give them credit that they did keep it up and running (with some issues, but nothing that could not be explained), and the payments were uneven due to the large contracts and over use of the network available, but things are just not adding up.  My balance moved up 2.12 today (24hr power on and mining), while my logs show, and the live tracker was showing that I should have mined in the range of 7-8 in the same period.  But I have to ask who is the customer of the contracts that we are mining?
3)  I would also like to see at what rate we are mining, in the coin that we are mining.  That way we could see what the payout actually was.

They kept me mining, and I really appreciate that, but I am seeing some troubling issues.  I know that I am super paranoid after the NiceHash thing, and loosing over 25 bitcoin to the MtGox sh*tstorm, but it really feels like winminer is causing my spidy sense is kicking back in.  I need to see some more proof of the contract purchasers, the numbers at least need to match between the different elements of the same system, and I would prefer to see the actual coin that I am hashing, and the pay for the coin.

I am hopeful that I will get a response from winminer.  I am also hopeful that the charts, payouts and live monitoring could be explained.  I am now looking for another miner program that I can use as a backup (or possible replacement) that pays out in US$ or Bitcoin, and requires minimum programming or specialty knowledge.  My rigs are built for both CPU and GPU hashing (8 core AMD 3.4ghz, I7 7700, GTX970, GTX 1050ti, GTX1060, GTX1070ti, RX580), and I was only just getting back into hashing this year after MtGox.  Allot has changed in this world, and I will need some more time to start figuring out this again after another loss of coin in NiceHash.

Any help or assurances/explanations would be greatly appreciated.