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Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 (Windows/Linux)
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Prom_ZA
on 08/08/2020, 16:51:47 UTC
⭐ Merited by nc50lc (1) ,xandry (1)
Hi.

could you please help me, why i get this error

ETH: Stratum - connecting to `eu1.ethermine.org`<172.65.207.106> port 4444
cannot connect to eu1.ethermine.org
server : listen failed with error 10013

Thank you in advance.
The port is blocked either by anti-virus or windows firewall. Usually on first startup it will bring up a popup to allow full network access.
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Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 (Windows/Linux)
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Prom_ZA
on 08/08/2020, 14:01:22 UTC
Has anybody managed to get integrated graphics to work in Linux? I just get the blank screen with a cursor. Booting with "nomodeset" works but then there's no compute drivers as well. This is only a temporary fix to install/uninstall drivers but there's already the compute drivers installed.
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Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 (Windows/Linux)
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Prom_ZA
on 06/08/2020, 15:37:23 UTC
Nanominer was real slow and gave a lot of incorrect and stale shares. Now I've switched to PhoenixMiner and haven't had any problems yet. It's even better than Claymore. Not a single incorrect or stale share in the last hour yet. Now I just need to get the onboard graphics to work on Linux for when I hit the ceiling on the primary card.
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Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 (Windows/Linux)
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Prom_ZA
on 04/08/2020, 19:33:18 UTC
Claymore is dead for mining on 4GB cards. If you don't have 6/8GB cards forget about it until it's updated. Windows 7 is a no go as you'll be stuck in graphics mode as AMD never enabled compute mode for its drivers. Download AMD compute switcher to make it easier enabling compute mode on windows.
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Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 (Windows/Linux)
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Prom_ZA
on 02/08/2020, 22:42:55 UTC
Well, is nothing wrong in keeping on that if is running without problems and keep it cool, after sometime he will have to lower those clocks anyway. Funny though, this is the reason there are so people complain about their hashrate, so many invalid shares due to that. I have a rx 480 here which was 2155 for 4 years then for some reason it does not keep like that anymore, I had to lower to 2000mhz for it to be stable few weeks ago, but it has run for 4 years at 2155 without problems.
A big problem is throttling where it doesn't run at a constant temp. I saw the cards without adequate ventilation have fans failing before the others. Now I spaced them far apart so they have room to blow and they're running a lot cooler and stable.
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Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 (Windows/Linux)
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Prom_ZA
on 02/08/2020, 22:20:08 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (1)
2175 is pretty damn high for the memory clock 24/7. Remember, these memory chips were designed to run at 16Ghz (2000 clock), the ones that made the cut went into the 16ghz GPU's (like the Rx 580 8Gb, the Rx 590 ) and the ones that didnt were slapped onto boffins at 14Ghz ( 1750 clock) and even lower end 12Ghz (1500 clock). While you CAN oc them to speeds over 2000, its generally recommended to keep the speeds as low as possible and achieving higher hashrate with tighter timings ( better straps ) - keeps the chips from burning out. You NEED to undervolt the memory for 24/7 use and not use it at stock volts. So a 1500 strap running at say 1925 is preferable to a 1625 strap running at 2125 for a similar hashrate.
Well I haven't run into any real problems. What you have to keep in mind is that memory doesn't run at a specific clock like a cpu. The base clock is rather a poll rate and the memory can either keep up or not. Imo it's better to run it at a higher clock but looser timings. The 1625 strap is very tight and unstable.

The recommendation is to rather increase the memory speed and decrease the gpu speed and voltage as that is where most of the heat is generated. Ethereum is in any case so light on power usage that it doesn't really matter. Keep in mind the stock clock is 1750 so there's still plenty of room for stability one day when retiring them.
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Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 (Windows/Linux)
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Prom_ZA
on 02/08/2020, 17:39:42 UTC
after using ONE CLICK TIMING PATCH  of PolarisBiosEditor I got this result:https://i.ibb.co/tsFpqGs/Capture.png
Don't just use one click timing patch. It copies the 1625 strap to the other straps including the 1500 one. I got just over 2000MHz with that. By manually selecting and copying the slightly looser 1750 strap to the 1875 and 2000 straps I was able to stably hit 2175MHz and a higher hash rate of 15.5MH/s on an RX560. So best to experiment to see which one gives the best result.
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Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 (Windows/Linux)
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Prom_ZA
on 02/08/2020, 17:31:38 UTC
Are you bitching in his thread that he's abandoned for almost a year that he's not supporting the software? Several people have already mentioned his last post date.  He's still raking in thousands of dollars every day so "poor excuse of a miner" when over 50% of casual miners were using it at times seems like sour grapes.

The miner works fine when a 6 or 8GB card is placed in GPU0 position. Anything card that doesn't work past that, well that's the whole point of a DAG loaded into memory or Dagger Hashimoto would have been dead way back in 2017 with ASICs.

Go try Phoenix miner.
Sour grapes? LOL, he's the one losing out.

And you do realise that is NOT a real solution? First it doesn't work for everyone and you realise you're only pointing out that it's a flaw with the miner if it can indeed still mine on the cards? As Nanominer is showing. It has nothing to do with the point of the DAG as you are suggesting but rather a flaw in the miner thinking it can't allocate it.
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Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 (Windows/Linux)
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Prom_ZA
on 02/08/2020, 17:25:20 UTC
I FOUND SOLUTION 4gb cards

I have 5 460 cards in rig no onboard vga clay more no do solution. I use Nanominer  no need onboard vga Claymore Make 149mh  nanominer make 145mh I u can see monitor in 3333 port any software
one handicap is no fan control. I use fan control with Msi Afterburner and done continue to mining with 4gb cards.

if u want download Link here

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10svcuZdPFnx6L2cULMH9xkX6MTFCCZMY/view?usp=sharing
Thanks for this, at least someone that tries to come with a real solution instead of saying we should just accept it. A bit slower but seems to work well into epoch 375 so good so far until end of life of the cards. Only problem it seems to assign random names and have split my miner into 2.

So ... umm ... dont use it?
I don't. But not out of choice, LOL.
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Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 (Windows/Linux)
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Prom_ZA
on 01/08/2020, 20:36:37 UTC
The point is not to disable the first GPU.  The point is that have the first GPU have enough extra memory for the OS overhead and still be able to load the DAG.  Then the rest of the cards will run fine at 4GB.  Disabling the first GPU does not solve the problem and misses the point entirely.
You know that disabling it doesn't disable it for the UI and only for the miner right? But even with one less GPU being recognised and used exclusively for the UI it doesn't work. Saying to use a GPU with extra memory misses the point that that isn't the real issue and that the miner is buggy. It doesn't recognise all memory and thinks it's out of memory when it's not. You can also see this bug when the reported memory for each card decreases each time it tries to allocate the DAG. It's also not a "solution" that always works.
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Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 (Windows/Linux)
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Prom_ZA
on 01/08/2020, 13:37:07 UTC
The answer to your question has been posted 3 times in the last 50 posts. But to sum it up for you, GPU has overhead loaded into it. Either put a 6 or 8GB card as GPU0 or use on-cpu video.
I get the problem even when disabling the first GPU. The overhead is a poor excuse for a miner that is simply outdated. His Zcash miner is even more outdated.
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Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 (Windows/Linux)
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Prom_ZA
on 30/07/2020, 16:17:10 UTC
I keep getting "not enough GPU memory to place DAG, you cannot mine this coin with this GPU". This started with epoch 351. I reinstalled Linux and it disappeared until epoch today 352. I thought it might be a bad disk as it's not functioning so well but it's still the same on a new one.

I don't have this problem on windows 10. The whole reason I switched to Linux was it has less problems and is supposed to mine for longer. This can't be a memory problem as it's still mineable with over 250MB free. Also if the DAG size was the issue it would have stopped on card #1 ages ago as this has about 80MB less memory available but it's with all cards.

This miner is buggy and it's been like this even 2 years ago with 8GB cards. I see it's no longer being maintained as well and is 10 months old.
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Re: BITCOIN GOLD SCAM SITE mybtgwallet.com
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Prom_ZA
on 10/12/2017, 13:30:26 UTC
Anybody here that can give us the IP's of "John Dass"? We need the IP's to move forward.
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Re: BITCOIN GOLD SCAM SITE mybtgwallet.com
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Prom_ZA
on 10/12/2017, 13:24:09 UTC
I do not understand why people say do not trust any website and do not import private key or seed. mybtgwallet was on the official bitcoingold website, that is why people trusted this.

I do trust myetherwallet.com and put my private key there, I do trust neowallet.cn and put my private key there, I do trust waveswallet.io and put my seed there, I do trust mymonero.com and put my private key there. These are official or supported wallets by the coins themselves. I thought mybtgwallet is also one of them.

This should be a really bad reputation for bitcoin gold, but as I see most people do not think so and blame users. This is not right.
Exactly. People who say never give out your keys don't know how crypto works themselves and should rather stay away. It is all about trust and in this case we trusted the wrong people. They are responsible for this mess.
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Re: BITCOIN GOLD SCAM SITE mybtgwallet.com
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Prom_ZA
on 20/11/2017, 11:31:49 UTC
Link no longer active
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Re: BITCOIN GOLD SCAM SITE mybtgwallet.com
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Prom_ZA
on 19/11/2017, 23:34:52 UTC
Note, they did come out with this yesterday:

https://bitcoingold.org/safety-is-critical/

However, I don't know that I can buy the "Man in the Middle" attack theory. How many people in crypto, having already gone to jail or going to jail for stealing people's money, have tried this explaination?

Also, the site in question has had two forms: one that was complete, and had footer credits that linked to the repositories the code came from, along with three options for creating a wallet, transferring BTC to BTG (which was disabled until the mainnet launched), and a tab for checking your BTG balance with your private keys (which is when we input our private keys); and the second one was the one that looked broken and "hacked" (which happened just the evening before most of our coins were stolen, and is its current state). The first version of the site had to be the version that stored and transmitted the keys, because for us, that's the only time we submitted them. Changing the site later to look like it's been "hacked" is super suspect to me. Why would the hacker change *anything* after stealing the money? You're done dude; no need to make the site look *more* jenky. And you mean to tell me that the site owner didn't notice this for five days? Or that his site was jenky looking for all days since? And hasn't bothered to lock it down, or fix it? I call shenanigans.

For us, the timeline wouldn't work out. We submitted the keys on the 11th, when the site looked normal, and just after it was listed on the BTG official site and just before the launch of the mainnet. We waited for several days before just transferring it instead to a Coinomi wallet, since the date of last update (which was then 11/10/2017) hadn't changed. Even as recently as the 13th, when you clicked on the second tab to "transfer your BTC to BTG", you'd get a popup that said that this was disabled until the mainnet launch. It was clear that something might be wrong, but there was still little cause for alarm, because the site was still listed on the official BTG site, as far as we were concerned. This is when we started talking about moving the money (which we were actually planning to do).

On 11/14, I checked one last time in the evening, and that's when the site suddenly looked "hacked". But again, our keys shouldn't have been stored anywhere, right? So being "hacked" later shouldn't have affected us. And, if they were "hacked" before, why would a hacker then go out of their way, the day before their big heist, to make the site look horrible to dissuade others from losing their money?

And on 11/15, our money, both our BTC and our BTG, were gone (by about 1:30pm our time, MDT).

The timeline just doesn't work out.

This is my point exactly. Nothing was wrong with the site when I used it on the 12th. The funds got stolen on the 15th. I didn't visit the site again as I managed to get Coinomi working in a VM. Initially I thought it was my fault for using dodgy software or having a virus but realise now I was probably never at risk for any of that. From the reports the site only looked broken or hacked after this. So why was it changed again and a broken certificate added after the keys were already stolen? All of this looks like a cover up after the fact.

Then there's also the issue of using a free host which usually doesn't ask a lot of questions like a paid one would do. Does anybody even really know the real identity of the owner?
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Re: BITCOIN GOLD SCAM SITE mybtgwallet.com
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Prom_ZA
on 19/11/2017, 23:24:42 UTC
Response to some of the comments made

"BTG or the team isn't a scam"
That may or may be the case. Personally I reserve the word "scammer" for people that trick other people out of something. They did do a few things though that would be considered unethical in a regulated environment. They may not have hidden the fee code but they sure as hell weren't upfront about it and snuck it in. Most mining software and pools state their fees upfront for the sake of transparency. How can we trust them?

"Why would the developers steal funds when they did a premine?"
I don't know, why would they sneak in a mining fee in their software? Some people are just greedy like that. The premine is supposed to pay for ALL development yet in this case they didn't think it was enough and wanted more.

"The premine wasn't any different than any other premine or ICO reserve"
Well actually it was. First off it wasn't a premine as they themselves state. Secondly we already knew the base price from the Bitcoin Cash fork instead of it being valueless like with new coins. That means they already calculated what they were getting out of it. That part was a money grab whether the project survives or not. Personally I don't care about this as there are bigger issues. The team is hugely unprofessional with how they handled the fork and it's clear they aren't professional coders that created a lot of issues along the way.

"mybtgwallet got scammed/hacked"
Well that is a matter of debate. I can say for sure it's the same site from my browser history so there was no impersonation and I followed the link directly from the BTG site. It's also debatable whether it got hacked. The site was working fine with no security warnings until the theft occurred. Why was an invalid certificate then added? If this was an issue with a hack then it raises another serious question, why were the private keys stored when they were only needed at the time of a user checking their balance? Even real online wallets don't need to store any keys to function and calculating an address can even be done entirely on the client side. It's negligence at the very least and who uses a free host for something like this in any case? Why have the owners now run away without making a statement as well?
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Re: BITCOIN GOLD SCAM SITE mybtgwallet.com
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Prom_ZA
on 19/11/2017, 19:46:23 UTC
Hi, I am also one of those scammed by this mybtgwallet site. The way I see it is also that the BTG team is at fault here, in multiple ways. Firstly they didn't have a disclaimer that those are community sites and only added it after this incident. They assured everyone on Twitter that the site was safe and they personally vetted the team. Secondly from all appearances it looked like an official site they were running so depended very much on the trust placed in them.

They also had numerous incidents of negligence along the way. They should have had proper replay protection BEFORE the fork. They could have done a private fork and tested this before announcing the official real fork. Instead they ran a competition for a member of the community to come up with a solution. They decided to implement a "unique address format" which itself is good but they should have had an official tool to convert addresses before even announcing the fork. I asked them for this on numerous occasions but they never bothered to even respond to it. Instead we had to use third party tools at literally the last moment or else I would have never provided my key as it was the only way I could get my address at that time. I'm not saying it's the case but it's almost as if it was planned to be like this. I never fall for phishing scams so that itself should tell you something but crypto is a new world where things function differently.

Further they still haven't said anything about this incident, only releasing a general safety bulletin afterwards. We don't know if they are tracking down the individuals involved or provided their information to the authorities. I don't buy the hacker/impersonator excuse they gave for a moment before shutting down the site. You don't run away if you are truly innocent. Firefox gave no warning about the insecure certificate when the site was functioning. It was only after the incident that it complained so that is just a convenient excuse they tried to implement after the fact to try and cover their tracks.

The BTG team should do the right thing here and compensate us from all those blocks they mined. If they don't do it I hope this continues to haunt them till the project eventually dies.