You misunderstand.  Algorithms don't use 100% of the card.  Cryptonight is extremely memory dependent and Lyra2Rev2 is almost entirely dependent on the compute units.  Mining just 1 of those algorithms at a time is leaving half of your GPU unused.  I know for a fact that I can already get 145% efficiency compared to global hashrates.  I'm suggesting that someone optimizes software meant to dual mine complementary algorithms.

(This is a repost of something I just posted on Reddit in /r/GPUMining)

So I was hoping to initially use this idea to make a lot of money but I don't have the capabilities. I'll figure something else out. Someone reading this will be able to develop this idea better than I can (I can't) and maybe this is a half-step in the right direction towards fighting ASICs, restoring your profits or some other altruistic bullshit that is making me feel better about sharing this.

So, here goes.

I only started mining last fall. I didn't know shit about it and basically went with the easiest thing for me - Vertcoin 1 click. One of the things I read about setting up my 1070Tis was to turn the memory clock all the way down because some guy on Reddit said that "Lyra2Rev2 doesn't use the memory clock so turn it all the way down."

A few months ago I decided to buy a Vega 64 to play around with. I kept hearing that Vega was so good at XMR because of the HBM2. The thought occurred to me that perhaps different algorithms use different parts of the GPU. I immediately went to work playing around.

It did in fact work. I'm not sure what nomenclature I should use to describe my dual mining so I am just gonna wing it a bit, excuse me. After playing with Cast XMR and Vertcoin 1-click and the Radeon GPU settings I seemed to be able to get 80% XMR hashrate stable (1700h/sec) and ~65% Vertcoin stable at around 45mh/sec. I found that the power slider on Vega mattered *A LOT* here. Those were at stock power settings - so ya, profitability was down. At normal Vega XMR mining settings (-20% power) I think I was getting 1400 on XMR and 29 on Vertcoin - still something like 115% overall efficiency compared to global hashrates.

The bad news is that I couldn't get it to work with my 1070Tis. Maybe its the HMB2 or the memory controller (I'm a bricklayer, I have no idea what I'm talking about fyi) on Vega that lets it dual mine; regardless I had no success with my 1070s. I also couldn't get it stable (refer to me being a bricklayer). I think 20 hours was the longest it ran without crashing.

What I think needs to happen is someone makes this work better from a software angle - Someone needs to put out a mining program that natively supports mining dual algorithms that use different parts of the GPU. I could be wrong though and using something other than Vertcoin 1-click provides long-term stability. It does work and I want the community to play with this. Who knows what optimized software could yield. Perhaps 180% efficiency is on the table. I have only tested Vega 64 and 1070Tis on Ryzen platforms. I'm currently only mining XMR as dealing with a constantly crashing rig wasn't my cup of tea.

If anyone is feeling generous:

BTC: 1N5YKarvpSVQnfMppdk1UAb8UQpRbdoGrZ

XMR: 49cvRA3tqXAhK8vnurep6bNFp47idu3ouMdbbKH42qEpJUWABqqav5Chpsp8Av6hBAUrwqVoLDyWbLr UiNSsC97LUJfCSj6

Eth: 0x2c9a5e05f240fdff29739aee2706bfb1fb80f0a4

OK, cool.  So you're right about the premine.  It was months ago that I read the Nerva announcement and I jumbled that information with another coin, so apologies.

You didn't delete my somewhat negative comment so kudos to you.  That was half of my test to see if you were legit (in my eyes).

So currently at least you feel the major - and perhaps only difference - between Nerva and Blur is the block rewards as neither your project nor Nerva have mentioned other focuses yet (which is fine, getting a truly CPU-bound algorithm down is enough to put someone into top 50 CMC after a few years).  I'll add a little hashpower to your network, though I am still *more* interested in Nerva but I am open to having you change my mind.

I would like to bring up that I am a part of the Guardian team and we just released our beta escrow platform.  It is the first piece of software we released in our ecosystem.  Over the next 12 months we're going to be releasing a rather astounding suite of programs designed to prevent fraud in cryptocurrency.  Safe P2P transactions is one of several dozen areas we are targeting.  I don't want to get into *too* much more detail until our whitepaper comes out in a few days but that's the general gist of things.

Anyway currently listing on our platform is cheap as it's a beta release (thoroughly bug tested, it's safe) and we are trying to build our userbase and awareness of our product.  Trading using our platform is also cheaper than using exchanges as we only charge the blockchain transaction fee after initial listing.  One of our beginning goals with the escrow platform is to provide coins with limited exchange access a way to safely trade/sell their coins.  Listing cost is 1000 GDNC which comes out to about 150 USD.  As our full suite of software starts coming out and the scope of Guardian is recognized we are hoping to be the tide that lifts some other smaller but *extremely* valuable projects.  I am currently working to list Nerva and I believe having Blur on the platform would be beneficial too.

If you're interested in discussing it further let me know, send me a PM.  If you like you can look at our escrow platform:

https://escrow.guardiancoin.online/

What's the difference between this coin and the one it's forked from (Nerva)?  Someone correct me but the only thing I can see so far is that this coin has a premine whereas Nerva didn't.

If you have 2 coins that are essentially exactly the same - because Blur's code is Nerva copypasta - why not pick the original coin without a premine instead of the copycat *with* a premine?

If there is actually anything new here and it's not just a really shitty coder copying someone else's work and selling it to stupid people so he can dump his premine I'll dedicate a few Ryzens to mining it.

So, what's the difference?

I need to speak with a developer from Dimecoin.

I work with Guardian Coin and we have a working 100% safe and secure escrow platform.  We were wondering if you would be interested in working with us for your coin swap.

You can contact me here or in Discord

User: Yeuph#9974

Hi I'm trying to join your Aegus Discord channel but it is acting as though I am banned?  I entered the channel for a moment - said nothing - and lost access to it.  I'm really interested in this coin and I'd like to invest but I seem to be banned?  Can you help?

My Discord is Yeuph#9974

Any help would be appreciated.

I also posted on Reddit.

Is there a discord?

Hey guys - I've just gotten into masternodes recently.  I think this is a really cool project and I'd like to run some masternodes; however I don't know how to do it without those linux "command line installers" that come with a lot of Masternodes.

I was hoping that someone here could help me out so that I could get into this coin.  I guess we can talk on here or via Discord.  I would *REALLY* appreciate some help.

Hey guys, I was wondering if the coin will have any privacy features?

How is the security?  Do toilets have the required hashing power to stop attacks?

Hello Sebastian,

I would like to request the use of your escrow service for the following items:

6 Factory sealed GTX 1080 Tis
Shipping dhl express
Total price: 3250

seller: vallery9s2@gmail.com
buyer: euphoric.daniel@gmail.com

Thanks!

I just lost an uncomfortable amount of money on Alibaba sending someone BTC for GPUs and well - I guess they did the smart thing for them and just fucked off with my money.

So if anyone has some 1080 Tis or knows of a *trusted place* where I can buy them with BTC that'd be fantastic.  I'm actually having trouble purchasing them any other way as my shift card only has a 1,000 dollar a day limit and best case scenario I'll have to come up with 3k.  I'd rather not wire BTC to my bank account because every time I do my bank gets weird af.

Anyway I live in Pennsylvannia.  If anyone is interested or knows of a way I could grab me some GPUs for BTC I'd appreciate it.

This is actually for my second rig and the rest of the parts will be purchased off of NewEgg - if someone has some of the other parts I'd be receptive to buying those as well.

Thanks!

I genuinely feel much better about my investment after being called the scammer lol.  If your analytical abilities have lead you to that conclusion I think we may be in the clear here =)

And no I didn't read the fucking thread above me.  I'm a fucking bricklayer and don't have the technical education to understand any of what is being said or argued.  Yes I understand what copy/paste means but I couldn't know if that was an acceptable thing to do or not.  The guy said had nothing to do with privacy so why would he copy paste it (or something similar) - How the fuck can I agree or disagree with that statement?  I'm a fucking bricklayer dude.

Edit:  I would imagine that a lot of the people here are educated/went to college?  You can't tell me that you guys can't get a hold of a speech analyst to A) analyze the writing of felixando and compare it with this old scammer you keep talking about and B) compare his writing with mine.

When I first saw this "Stone is a scam thread" I felt heartbroken - I felt like I lost my 15 XRB.  In reality the longer this goes on the better I feel about the project and the more apt to defend the lead dev I am becoming.

Man check my fucking Reddit history under this name.  I didn't defend anyone - All I did were report facts based around my experience with what was going on.

If you are calling factual reporting of "Scammers refusing extra money" I believe that would fall very squarely into the FUD category.

"Oh damn this noob asked if the guy wanted more money and he said he didn't!!!  WARNING SIGNS GUYS ITS A FUCKING SCAM."

Grow the fuck up.

Well it's pretty obvious I'm new - In fact I only made my account to donate to the project (You will find my name on the list @ 15XRB - which is a highly "loseable" amount for me regardless of what does or does happen.)

I asked him after I sent my transaction if he needed "or even wanted more money" for something to ask and he replied and I'm quoting "Nah man, just your support on the project."

You guys have a fair amount of evidence (some of it pretty fucking strong) and all of you have been around this block longer than I have but I do have to say that the "scammer" turning down more free money gives me hope.

So like I said - regardless of what happens that 15 XRB won't make or break me.  He seems like a pretty cool dude in PMs - turning down more money.  I'll keep my fingers crossed and hold out some measure of hope that it's a real project being done by a good person.