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Re: Zoin - Privacy Based Zerocoin Protocol - Zoin
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dark_city
on 02/10/2018, 02:56:59 UTC
Dear "Real" Zoin team, at least please listen to wise men.

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
                                                   ― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching
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Re: Zoin - Privacy Based Zerocoin Protocol - Zoin
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dark_city
on 01/10/2018, 12:18:53 UTC
Is it just me who feels L. Sunshine character's english is pretty bad for a native speaker? The record is becoming a bit old now, repeating the same thing all the time.
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Re: Bitcoin gold dev found out to be a Chinese script kid hacker
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dark_city
on 03/11/2017, 15:15:17 UTC
Fascinating how this young man has so much knowledge that feels like he almost single-handedly managed to code all the necessary changes in BTG. The responsibility is immense. The whole worlds is looking at him now. There is a reason why all this is happening. We just don't know or will never know the full extent of this BTG endeavour.
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Re: List of hard forks?
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dark_city
on 25/10/2017, 08:47:02 UTC
Ok, here's one outdated list to start with on page 4
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Significant softforks, hardforks and blockchain splits in Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ethereum Classic
http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/patrick.mc-corry/atomically-trading-roger.pdf
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List of hard forks?
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dark_city
on 25/10/2017, 05:39:49 UTC
Hi,

With so much "cutlery" a.k.a. forks around, has anyone even tried to create a list of cryptocurrency hard forks to keep track of things?
I was wondering how many of us don't really even know that there has been another chain split. The reason for this is quite obvious - if you had funds on the forked chain then you may have some funds in limbo.

Cheers
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Miner electricity bills
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dark_city
on 25/08/2017, 11:04:18 UTC
Dealing with supply charge 0.75 cents per day, electricity charge 0.21 cents per kW unit.
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Re: 1080Ti Specific - Best mining option
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dark_city
on 22/08/2017, 09:41:19 UTC
Well I didn't enabled anything in bios before windows setup but I've made bootable usb with Rufus, GPT partitioning for UEFI systems, so I assumed that it'll for sure be UEFI.
Only thing I've changed in bios was 4g Enable, because it was disabled by default, and 3 of my cards was with yellow triangle in device manager, switching 4G solved it, but during some boots not all cards are again found by OS, and they appear as Unknown VGA Device on Unknown Device's list.
Really don't know what I've messed up. Maybe PSU draw offset is too low? It's 1600W, even when counting efficiency on 100% load it should be minimum 1350W (85%).  Dont know how much Zotac and Asus draws at 75% tdp but MSI was ~210w on skein/ea so I've just distributed them 2 on one psu with mobo and cpu, and 3 on other alone.
Worth checking if motherboard chipset drivers are up-to-date or any system related driver in that matter. Manufacturer website should provide the right files for download.
Apply UEFI (BIOS) update, if available.
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Re: 1080Ti Specific - Best mining option
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dark_city
on 17/08/2017, 03:42:39 UTC
What do you mean by autotrading?  Like the giant multipools that automatically convert what you mine to btc?
Your miner is set to mine SIGT, pool receives shares for SIGT, you get paid SIGT in the background, pool bot continuously moves your earnings (let's say accumulated earnings every 15min) to supported exchange, automatically sell SIGT/buy BTC and nominate transacted BTC to your account. Now the SIGT/BTC rate for that particular transaction may not be the most favourable. I assume this is what you were asking...
What has been pointed out is you accumulate SIGT, then move SIGT to exchange and make the transaction yourself when candle chart has some nice green bars in the higher ranges. Though, writing about it is always easier than applying the theory in real situations.
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Re: 1080Ti Specific - Best mining option
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dark_city
on 17/08/2017, 02:48:27 UTC
I'll have my 3x1080ti order shipped by monday, by far i think they are the best cards for mining. Got 2x MSI Gaming X on board, ordered another one, one Zotac Amp Extreme core & one Asus ROG Strix. Choosed different ones because of sale and stupid 1GPU/Customer restrictions.

Leass, have you tested (very likely though) all these cards side-by-side with default settings? I've been wondering how big of a difference there is between them. Would anyone spend that extra money if the cards actually hash at the same rate with stock factory settings.
One of the reasonings for spending extra is relying on the resale price in the future. For example, buying second hand Galax/KFA2 or Gigabyte Aorus 18 months later? It's like, Galax who, but costs less for sure and could earn you the same money while crunching bits.
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Re: 1080Ti Specific - Best mining option
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dark_city
on 16/08/2017, 22:56:04 UTC
Based on simple empirical approach, pointing 1080Ti towards XZC, got me into believing that accumulating this coin is actually worth it. lyra2z algo stresses GPU a lot less - temperatures are lower more than 10C° @100% TDP (default settings) compared to ZEC statistics. Power graph shows ~2.4kW for XZC and 2.7kW when hashing ZEC. All about marginal gains these days ...
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Re: 1080Ti Specific - Best mining option
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dark_city
on 09/08/2017, 07:22:52 UTC
so now, im accumulating coins , and hope to sell in the next 6 month's
Or from an other perspective - it's so confusing when there are too many choices a.k.a. The paralyzing problem of too many choices which was introduced in '70's.
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Re: 1080Ti Specific - Best mining option
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dark_city
on 09/08/2017, 07:09:47 UTC
What are right now the best drivers for 1080ti's? Do any of you run the 1080ti at stock or overclock?
General consensus earlier seemed to agree that any recent driver version is equal in performance. Have kept version 384.76
EWBF's Zcash CUDA miner 0.3.4b, +100 Core, 95% TDP (does this categorise as stock or overclock, not sure).
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Re: 1080Ti Specific - Best mining option
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dark_city
on 09/08/2017, 03:20:32 UTC
It's been pretty confusing for the most part to keep up with the so called most-profitable-coin movement. As universalresonance pointed out it really is easy to set and forget at first but after a while simple human curiosity takes over which may end up losing money.
1080Ti for ZEC has been not too bad recently and looking at the current price pump rewards some of those patient miners.
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Re: CPU mining 2017?
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dark_city
on 08/08/2017, 11:38:46 UTC
I've been mucking around with different coins in MPH to yield more bling and seem to default back to XZC for CPU. Although the recent jump in difficulty was not the most interesting things to see. Turned out a group of individuals found a way to manipulate with Amazon AWS service. Go figure!

So with current 5-5.5k difficulty and 2.3 MH/s, MPH is rewarding the user with 0.25 XZC/Day (which at the time of writing is 2.29 USD).

To compare the above with others while having the same CPU setup:
Grosetlcoin: 200-500 difficulty, 3.5 GRS/Day, 0.43 USD
Zclassic: ~40k dificulty, 0.18 ZCL/Day, 0.24 USD
Granite: so bad ... wrong algo
and so on...

Even without patiently waiting for larger statistics/data sets to analyse XZC is a good option. Zcoin is officially deemed as CPU-friendly anyway.

If you are now wondering is mining with CPU profitable - no.