This is great advice - and maybe even though I been mining for well over a year this is a newb question - but I have a feeling there's some problem with my electrical, though not 100% sure.  Something weird happen with my power supply after windows 10 update.  It kept beeping.  It's actually a UPS, cyber power.  I unplugged the UPS, tested it with another device and it worked but still beeped.  I unplugged UPS for 5 minutes, replugged it back in, plugged in my rig, rolled back windows 10, and now its working.  However, one of the sockets on the UPS stopped working after a storm a few months ago (I foolishly had a heavy duty power cord connected).  I only have 4 GPUs, 1000 watt gold psu.  I'm in a fairly nice sized home, haven't had any issues with electrical yet, but I'm starting to wonder.  And beyond this, I don't know much about electrical.  Where can I start? Any guidance at all is helpful.  I was thinking to call electric company. I don't want to really hire an electrician for my measely one rig, but I also want to avoid a fire, etc.  Also my gpus are overclocked now, they weren't last summer.  I'm wondering if now that we're turning the central air on, it's impacting that?  Any advice is appreciated!  Thinking of resetting my GPUs from overclock or just shutting it altogether until I figure this out.  I think it would be fine, but don't wanna take any chances!

I mined a small number of coins a few months back.  I wanted to send them to stocks.exchange.   I look on the blockchain, the whale explorer (in the ann thread), and see that I have a balance.  I go into the mywhalewallet page (same one also from ANN), and there is nothing to send in my wallet.   Can someone please advise? Anyone else have similar issues?

I don't find it on bitshares

lol dude crypto ain't going no where - humanity ain't changed.  It was the same shit when the internet came out.  I don't even know what happened w/ the drama here, I just came for some info on the amd gpu mining, dont really care about the drama, shit will sort itself out.  Don't get too emotionally invested in one project though, tbh.  maybe except bitcoin

and even that, should have a well diversified (but not over diversified) portfolio regardless of buying / trading / mining - from trading I learned not to get attached to a project .... it was hard to let go, trust me

and i ain't saying ravencoin won't be a huge project that changes the world, it very well may be, it's one of the more promising ones in my pov, but i've also now got my own set of indiciators i use to determine potential use case, market target, dev team, mining opportunity, etc

I am curious, I've searched this but haven't really found a straight answer - and asking someone is always better imo.  I have a GPU rig I put together, I'm extremely interested in CPU mining for Crypto night solely - how does it compare in electric against GPU? If you haven't mined GPU, I mean, or anyone who has knowledge on this, will I feel a steep hit in my electric from CPU mining? Does CPU require generally more wattage?  I'm pretty tech savvy, but do not know enough about the basics of how electricity works (in a detailed form, concerning CPUs & electronics in general), actually making me think I should read a book on such.

I guess in short - my question isn't if CPU mining is "worth it," cause according to many people right now GPU mining isn't "worth it," ( and i strongly disagree).  I guess in short my question is, if you believe in the long term value of coins that can be CPU mined such as Monero, is it any cheaper/more expensive/the same as GPU mining?

I guess I imagine I can a lot more easily find spare CPU chips then I can GPU cards ( although there's been a recent influx of GPU stock and availability probably due to declining prices) - but even such, I think it's way easier for me to find CPU parts I could easily put a rig together, but is it going to be more electric like per chip or something?  I also am having trouble fully understanding how to run multiple chips in one computer rig, but there's plenty of resources online on that, that's just me being a little lazy (or burned out haha)

Thanks in Advance

And thanks claymore for making wonderful miners - :-)

At least this is a different approach compared to everything else all this other nonsense that's out there.  I actually just reviewed the white paper - not sure if it was changed or not, but last time I reviewed it I don't remember being as impressed as I was when I just reviewed it.  I think it starts really strong than can use some work or more details, but the beginning impressed me, I really like this concept and idea.  I can see this succeeding, it has a unique concept whereas so many new forks, eth clones, or icos, are literally the SAME "INNOVATIVE" things over and over.  Like, I'm tired of hearing about AI!!! I think at this point even if a coin managed to actually incorporate AI, it will not be very innovative to me.  Plus, Google already got AI.  The only thing blockchain and bitcoin tech is doing for AI is making sure that we're not taken advantage of with it (I think, but then again, I don't know everything, at all).  People be grouping AI and Crypto together and everyone (including me at one point) falls for that shit like its the next best thing since sliced bread.  But what is your AI machine going to friggin do!? LOL.   There may (and probably is) a legitimate use case and project out there that's leveraging the benefits of both AI and blockchain/bitcoin tech, but at this point, I want something NEW!  Excited about AURA!!!  Dev keep us updated to keep the community motivation up! Word of mouth marketing, people telling their friends, is always the best.

 This will and typically does change with time.  The entire market cap is down right now lol, but it's a good time for miners to take advantage of the low difficulty and stock up for making a (what I hope is) a smart decision early on and taking a little bit of a risk and sacrifice.  This doesn't necessarily kill the value of the coin.  The value of the coin will come as it develops and as the market learns the value of it, and then if the market determines it's valuable, the value of the coin will go up, more miners will know of it, mine it, and difficulty will go up.  Unless there's something I am missing? 

I've been mining with one rig for about a year, but I'm no expert in difficulty rates and such, so maybe there's something I am missing lol.

Just curious how many team members you guys have? and what area are you guys from?  Ive been mining for a few days, just  trying to get a better sense of this project.  No offense to the dev, I'm sure there's a good chance you're working hard, but there's a lot of scams and shitcoins out there, so as part of the community, we gotta do our best to do our due diligence? Also have you guys been planning this awhile?  I see prior work on the github, but I think that was from the fork of eth (my coding skills are very minimal so forgive my ignorance).  Thanks, best of luck, since I'm mining of course I want it to do well.

I'm mining, and the project looks like it has potential, offers a bit different from other projects I see on here, but one thing I will mention, I see Aura is intended to be for youstock.io - I would recommend you guys make sure that youstock.io is https:// encrypted  .... since encryption is a key thing (no pun intended) for all crypto, and maybe the site doesn't yet have sensitive details, but personally when I see that, if I didn't do a bit more research (or if I wasn't just giving the benefit of the doubt as I believe there are diamonds in the rough), it would immediately be a reason I didn't think the project was legit.

Not trying to shit on your project at all, as I said I'm mining and looking forward to what you guys bring, but just a little feedback ....  (I know it could be something you guys just forgot to turn on as you probably have other stuff you're attending to)

Also - love the website, and love the dev actually is a person that has an identity ( i tried to add another post on this but the forum rejected it and now I lost my text lol) .... seems like dev is working hard on project... oh, also I appreciate you have the address on the YouStock site, very rarely do I see an actual address ANYWHERE - so +1 for real-ness lol.   

Best of luck

Burst was the first coin I mined when I got into crypto as I had an extra HD laying around that was 4 TB, I made like a couple hundred bucks in a few months by holding until the altcoin craze, sold at a little below the ATH.  I stopped with Burstcoin cause the community started to seem shady, some guys that were heavily involved in promoting it, at least.

HOWEVER, I recently saw that Burstcoin is using some new mining mechanism, or a new plotter or something, (don't quote me, this is just off the top of my head), something has been recently revamped, may be worth looking into.  And also, I may have made a snap judgement with thinking the promoters were shady, the coin's devs from what I read the other night seem to actually be dedicated, but again my research was minimal. 

In my mind, if anything is worth some satoshi, and it's not causing you to be in the red, and you can hold, it can be worth it, but that's a risk. And also gotta think about the time you invest.  It's kinda more a hobby type of thing for me.  I also have seen really cheap 4-8 TB drives lately, so maybe b/c of the drop and the rise in difficulty is why the prices of HDD went down?  I dunno, but honestly I think it's good to mess around with, not sure if it'll be profitable.

I almost forgot the point of my post - yes, that I recently read some new developments within burstcoin that was changing things up a bit ....

Not sure if this helps anyone, as my reputation on the forums is pretty new, I been a lurker for well over a year now 

But I've been using stocks.exchange only since mining intensecoin, and I've had absolutely no problems with it (knock on wood), I within the last couple of months was even able to mine directly to the exchange (altho i wouldn't recommend it as I think that can get messed up, some mining pools allow for it and require certain configuration)

I don't think it's a scam, at least I personally have seen no evidence of it being a scam. I probably should do more research on it, but it kind of resembles what I think would actually be a decentralized exchange (not sure if it is), if it's on a blockchain or not.  I know I could easily Google and I will after I post this lol.....but just wanted to share my experience. 

I'm now mining XSH there.  The only minor issue I had was when ETH network was congested and it took awhile to get some ETH out, which wasn't stocks.exchange fault, it was the ETH network.   For anyone who's had issues w taking out btc/eth, was it during the periods of major congestion?  Cuz there were complains about basically every platform, project, etc and exchange during that time.  It actually turned someone I know away from ETH completely cause he thought the ETH network was always that slow LOL.

Anyway, if I have any other experience in the future, I'll post, but so far I've been pretty impressed to be honest with stocks.exchange.  A few times, I would look on it for shitty coins to buy really low that I know will pump soon, volume kinda sucks tho so I stopped doin that, but again, mining intense coin introduced me to it, and I thought it would be a nightmare exchange, but it hasn't been at all.  Deposits and withdrawals have all been quick for me.

Bibox is one exchange I deposited on and it was a fucking nightmare - I am not sure if there server or website was just having issues at the time, but it took LONG, i'm talking several hours, just to cancel a fucking order. I couldn't believe it.  I don't mean to talk shit about bibox if that was a one-off, but just sharing my experience.  That's the type of shit I'm afraid of encountering on an exchange.  Stocks.exchange isn't bad to me so far.

dude even if this is the case, you've got to try to understand the economics of it .... I can see it going to 35 billion market cap as just a couple weeks ago the top like 30 coins were over a billion market cap .... but the only way siacoin will ever be 1k usd is if  the usd becomes as hyper inflated as germany in the 1920s (which is a possibility). 

Look at SC in terms of BTC value, not USD.  SC USD price is directly impacted by the USD price of bitcoin (or eth, but mostly and primarily BTC, like all other altcoins)

I am new to the forums (been lurking a year), pretty new to mining, with a passionate interest in computer hardware in general and mining hardware - thank you for doing what you're doing and keeping the price low.  It's inspirational to see - you're 100% right you can make them cost 149 and they'd still sell out-  especially w/ the mining craze that seems to heighten more and more each time prices rise - I haven't ordered one of your devices yet, but I'm looking to ... even if not for profit, extremely interesting and exciting.

And who knows, long run, they most likely will be profit

Also exciting for the tech in general, something beside GPU mining (i'm still trying to understand more about what's under the hood of the [Suspicious link removed]putations in creating crypto, and how hashpower is created in general by GPUs and even by something like a USB stick, or storage space), but devices like yours help grow the competitive landscape of crypto mining, help make it accessible, help grow the tech.  Although I've just entered the rabbit hole and took the red pill a year ago, I'm well versed in computer technology and work in a tech related field.  I do believe there must be even more efficient ways of mining and obtaining energy in a more cost effective manner. I strongly believe you're contributing to that future.

*(Sidenote, I'm about to go study computer tech hardware from A-Z starting with the telegraph to understand everything as I would love to contribute eventually as well.  SO much to learn, so little time!!)*

Anyways, thank you!

Does anyone know if it's still okay to have some WTC stored on My Ether Wallet as an ERC 20?  I know when QTUM for example switched chains, you couldn't have it on MEW.  Did WTC do this yet? I haven't kept up with details lately - I want to make sure I get my WTC wherever it has to be for when this happens.  I had put a small amount on MEW when I was nervous w keeping money on the exchanges ....

Also a masternode is 2500 right?  

Will WTC have some partnership with IOTA?

See the twitter quote - HUGE news!

https://twitter.com/Waltonchain/status/952024577713975296

And I had sold a very small amount (like 20) of my WTC today cause it was up, just cause I felt like things always go up and down and that I could buy it back - but this news was astronomical !!

I found WTC back in Sept and thought it was one of the actual use case coins - something that can be put implemented sooner rather than later.  Of  course I wish I bought more, wish I got more for a guardian masternode, it took off from the 1-2 usd mark quicker than I could ever have imagined, but I'm still extremely happy I held onto the bulk of my coins ....

Man I spoke to soon, I put this exact config and replaced it with the info for my coin, and I am getting "unknown option setx" unknown option for each item ....

Can it be because it's monero-focused and I'm trying to mine intense coin?  I  actually just updated from v9.7 to 11  - didn't even realize I was running an older version.  Thought that contributed to my recent issues too - I guess not though.  Arghhhh.....  Will mess with it a bit more.  Any guidance is appreciated by anyone who's had some similar issues

@Call_Me_Bambi, thanks for this ... I actually just realized I didn't have the GPU Force line items set up for my crypto note configuration ... I'm gonna use your config and adjust for intense coin.   I was mining electoroneum for awhile a month or two ago, mined a good number of coins, don't have enough patience to try and get them out of the wallet though.  The only way is to wait for it to sync up, which took me hours, I think I may have even got it synched up, and then my coins still weren't showing up, couldn't sweep the paper wallet.   Where do you mine to?   The paper wallet?   You can't mine directly to the exchange yet right?

If you haven't yet, check out intense coin, I think difficulty is up now b/c the satoshi value went from averaging 28-38 to over 200 recently....but I was mining a large number of coins before with a good return even at 28-38 satoshi value.  Coin seems slightly promising, still unsure about it haha.  But the return right now is good.

Also, a bit of a side note (in reference to my post above)

Linux any better?

One thing I'm kinda regretting is not using Linux to setup my mining rig.    Wondering how difficult would it be to change OS, and is it worth it?  Like most on here, although I only been mining for about a year and a half, I'm a techy person, I can figure that shit out, just not sure if it's worth the time needed to invest.  Initially when I made the OS decision, I'm sure I did research, and ultimately I feel like I remember hearing that if you setup using Linux, you may be limited w/ mining software.  But that was a year back likely.

GPU vs CPU Mining for CryptoNote
One thing I don't entirely understand (despite the year and a half of mining), is if it ever makes sense to run a CPU mining software on a GPU set up.  Is that just a waste of GPU power?  This claymore Miner kinda filled that gap for me and I trusted it was utilizing my GPU power to get maximum return via a GPU miner.  I understand the difference between the two, my understanding was always that there are two different types of ways to mine - GPU & CPU (beside Asic & other sorts) - but I never quite understood how Claymore may utilize GPUs and for example CPUMiner (forked by LucasJones & Wolf) may not .... (this could totally be just a marketing thing with the name of the miner, but that wouldn't make much sense to me).  Sorry if there's some newb aspects to this, there's just some loose ends I don't understand regarding that that would be great if someone can help me tie up!


Thanks again guys in advance.....I'm pretty new to bitcoin talk forums, although I been lurking for awhile (ironically I was having trouble signing  up for months, kept getting weird issues).  I'm learning how to navigate these long ass (albeit, extremely valuable and much appreciated!) threads, but wanted to see if anyone at this time can recommend a better / more maintained cryptonote GPU miner as mentioned above and also if anyone can offer any feedback on the above topics.  happy holidays yall !

Hey guys,

I was using claymore cryptonote to mine intensecoin for awhile, had no issues - worked like a charm.  I switched to mining eth with the other claymore miner for awhile, and am now trying to mine some more intensecoin being the recent price increase and ROI.

However I keep getting this damn devfee error -

DevFee: Job timeout, disconnect, retry in 20 sec.....

then there are some shares found, tries dev fee again, disconnects, and repeats this over and over.  I lost some mining time over night cause I didn't realize it didn't sort itself out (not sure why I assumed it would, just was used to have it on eth/etc the last few weeks and not even paying attention to it hah)

Any one else have this type of issue - any tweaks / recommendations of what I can try?  Or possibly a different GPU miner for Cryptonote ?  (got 6 AMD cards)

I'm running Windows 10.  I did try a reboot, didn't work.


Thanks in advance