Has anyone considered what the tax ramifications are going to be when you buy a non-fungible token (NFT) in the US? For example, you buy a crypto Kitty for ETH. In a program like https://bitcoin.tax/ you can record that transaction in the "spending" section. But you didn't spend the ETH on a goods (like food or drinks), you exchanged it for an asset which may or may not increase in value over time. I don't know if this topic has been considered yet as NFT's have just started taking off this year.

Thank you for your time.
 

My deposit finally showed up in Cryptopia. I think there is an issue with their connections to certain coins. For example, when I clicked on "coin info" and then Ellaism, it was stuck on block 757467 for hours. Today it is caught up and is displaying block 762390. I sent over a PIRL deposit last night and it showed up almost immediately (while still waiting for the ELLA deposit).

Anyone having delay issues with Cryptopia? I sent over some Ellaism about an hour ago and 470 blocks ago and it's still not pending. The Cryptopia wallet address that was supplied does show the coins but not the site.

Thanks

Hi All, I am mining Electroneum on EasyHash.io My rig is currently producing 4,700 h/s. On the EasyHash site, it states that my hashrate is 3.0 KH/s. Any idea why there is such a large difference between actual and reported? Shouldn't I be at around 4.7 KH/s?

Thank you

This is what I get when I run sgminer 5.3.8:

clDevicesNum returned error, no GPus usable
Command line options set a device that doesn't exist.

This is my batch file:
setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_MAX_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_MAX_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

sgminer --kernel tribus -o stratum+tcp://yiimp.ccminer.org:8533 -u D9Msc3bEAPrj9Y5tuUYwkjwDo5Qmu1ArkQ.2 -p x
pause

I am using AMD RX 480 8GB cards and driver version 16.9.2 which I read is good for Claymore which I am using now for mining ETH.

I have (6) XFX Radeon 480 8 GB cards. I can not get sgminer-x64-5.3.7 to run on my Windows 10 machine. I can get a different version of sgminer to run and mine, but each card is only getting 15 mh/s which is half of what it gets when mining ETH. Any suggestions why I can't get the optimized version to run? When I run the .cmd file, a few things flash by but I can't read them and then I am taken back to the c:\ prompt. I am using AMD 16.9.2 drivers.

This is the dnr.cmd file:
@echo off
echo "starting up sgminer"

@setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
@setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
@setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
@setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

Call :start

pause
GOTO ENDE


:start

@set GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT = 100

DEL /F *.bin
sgminer.exe -c sgminer-dnr.conf -d 0
EXIT /B 0

:ENDE

and this is the sgminer-dnr.conf file:

{
  "pools": [
    {
      "name":"yiimp",
      "priority": "0",
      "url": "stratum+tcp://yiimp.ccminer.org:8533",
      "user": "D9Msc3bEAPrj9Y5tuUYwkjwDo5Qmu1ArkQ",
      "pass": "c=DNR,sgminer",
      "profile": "tribus"
    }
  ],
  "profiles": [
    {
      "name": "tribus",
      "algorithm": "tribus",
      "shaders": "1792",
      "lookup-gap" : "4",
      "intensity": "19"
    }
  ],
  "kernel-path": "kernel",
  "default-profile": "tribus",
  "failover-only": true,
  "failover-switch-delay": "60",
  "gpu-dyninterval": "11",
  "queue": "2",
  "quiet": false,
  "expiry": "90",
  "scan-time": "20"
}

Maybe I was doing something wrong on Nanopool, but for the 6 hours I mined, I got 76 Sia. Does it catch up over time because it is PPS? Doing the math, I still think Eth + Sia is the most profitable combination right now. Anyone disagree?

As for Ethereum difficulty, I guess as long as the price keeps going up it is still worth it to mine. On 4/25 one ETH was worth $49.94. It took me 12 hours to mine .1 ETH so, $0.41 per hour earnings (ignoring cost of electricity). Today one ETH is worth $228.64. It took me 21 hours to mine .1 so, $1.08 per hour earnings.

Has the difficulty for Ethereum gone way up? I use ethermine.org and my total hashrate is 162 mh/s. In April it took 12 hours to earn .1 ETH. Now it takes 21 hours. And is Siacoin really hard to mine? It is worth so little, but it takes forever to mine. I earn 1,000 Sia every 30 hours or so using Siamining.com. Dual mining, I get 3,200 mh/s. I tried nanopool for a while yesterday but earned less than 100 sia in just over 6 hours!

Brian

Hi, I downloaded 16.11.5 from AMD. When I run the GPU-Z utility it reports the driver is 16.11.5 beta. Is that correct? I can't find another version anywhere.

Thanks,

Brian

Wolf0, I do have Samsung memory. Can you explain CAS and what you are suggesting. This is my first rig and I am still learning.

Thanks

That's what I read too, in multiple forums. Doing so increased my Mb/s from 24 to 27. What do you suggest instead xleejohnx? I would like to be at 30 mb/s and as I stated, I can't get there.
 

Why can't I push my system harder? I have an open air case, H81 BTC v.2 motherboard, celeron processor, 8 gb ram, (6) XFX RX480 8GB Black Edition Cards, 2 power supplies. I have modded my bios copying the 1750 timing strap to the 2000. The max I can get per card is 27 mb/s for a total of 162 mb/s. There is a big difference in profit per year at 162 mb/s vs. 180 mb/s. I am using Claymore ver. 9.3 on Windows 10. The AMD Driver version is 16.12.2. Whenever I move my core clock past 1150 or the memory clock past 1950 the miner crashes within the hour. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Brian

I have an Asrock H81 BTC v.2 motherboard with (6) XFX RX 480 8 GB Black Edition cards. I use MSI Afterburner and can adjust voltage, memory, etc. Today, I decided to try changing the primary video from PCI-E to "onboard". When I did this, my total MH/s went up by about 6 BUT Claymore stopped displaying the GPU temperature and fan speed and MSI stopped working. It reports the temperature as 32F, the clock speed 0, and I can't adjust the voltage or fan speed.

Has anyone else experienced this? What would cause that behavior?

Thank you for your help.

Brian
 

Hi All. I am a newbie and have been mining for about 3 weeks. I'm using Claymore v9.3 on Windows 10 64 Bit. My issue is that if I put any sort of stress on the machine at all, It crashes. And it is consistently "GPU 3 hangs in opencl" that causes the crash. What I mean by stress is if I try to dual mine anything, increase the difficulty setting, or overclock the GPU's.

I have 6 XFX RX 480 8gb Black Edition cards. I have modded the BIOS on all 6 cards copying the 1750 timing strap to the 2000. I am using the Crimson 16.12.2 video drivers. The most stable setup I have is when the difficulty is set to 8 on cards 0,1,2,4,5 and 7 on card 3. Using MSI Afterburner I set the voltage to 0, the core clock to 1,100 and the memory clock at 2,000. The fans on all 6 cards is set to 85%.

With all the above settings I am getting aproximately 27.7 mh/s from each card and a total of 166 mh/s. It takes approximately 14 hours to mine .1 ether using ethermine.

I would really like to dual mine and/or get my cards up to 30 mh/s but like I said, anything I try causes GPU3 to hang and restarts the machine.

As for the rig, It is open air with a HP 1200 watt power supply for the six cards and a Thermaltake 850 watt power supply for the mother board and PCI Risers. Riser 1 and 2 are powered by daisy chain 6 pin cable, as are risers 3 and 4. (2 cables, 2 plugs each). Risers 5 and 6 are powered by 6 pin to SATA adapters connected to a SATA daisy chain cable.

Any theories why I can't push this setup any further?

Thank you for reading.

Brian

Hello,

I'm setting up my first rig and have (6) XFX RX480 8GB Black Edition cards. When I open my bios in Polaris Bios Editor, under timing I am not getting the same numbers as described in the examples. For example the first line is 26916491. Therefore I do not know which line to copy and past for the modification.

I tried applying one of the bios files supplied by the author, but when I did that Windows 10 would not recognize it. I had to boot into the command prompt and install the default bios to get it working again.

Can you help?

Thank you,

Brian