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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Modified GPU BIOS for Mining
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thinkfar
on 26/07/2018, 12:01:02 UTC
Please help to mod Giga rx580 8Gb mem: Micron. Below is original rom.

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=10314722865388211127

I am mining cr7 bittubev2.

Thank you.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Bytom Mining - ASIC algorithm now cracked by GPU miners? Big profits?
by
thinkfar
on 08/06/2018, 07:31:23 UTC
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: DIY FPGA Mining rig for any algorithm with fast ROI
by
thinkfar
on 04/05/2018, 01:26:25 UTC

I am saying it makes no financial sense. The major GPU coins already have asics, with ETH being the biggest. And those coins that have no asic on it will have asics on it before the FPGA will come close to ever breaking even.


And everytime an asic takes over an alternate coin, all the GPUs and FPGAs that were mining that coin will go to a non-asic coin. That means the remaining non-asic coins will have difficulty skyrocket and guess wat, that means your GPUs and FPGAs mining make less money. Everytime a new asic comes out, the FPGAs make less money. So, there is no niche. There is a limited amount to be earned from mining u see. If the asics keep appearing to take some of it, the switchers (FPGAs/GPUs) will have less and less.


Why not u calculate how much it would cost to make an FPGA that can do the equivalent of mining 504mh like the L3+ or 14TH like the S9.
Run your numbers and see the gap. While I dont have the numbers, I dont think it can work.

Anyways, good luck in your endeavors. Maybe I am wrong.


Just my 2 cents

While your point of view is true in general, there are a couple of exceptions: mainly space and power constraints. Let’s be very specific in our comparison to avoid meaningless comparisons, XCVU9P ($4,000 FPGA) vs GTX 1080 Ti ($800 GPU).

Now let’s take the Phi1612 algorithm and give the FPGA a more realistic 5x performance advantage against the GPU at a power consumption rate of 150 watts (0.150 kWh). I would rather run a 100 FPGA farm (17.5 kWh) vs a 500 GPU farm (87.5 kWh) any day and here’s why. Lower overall costs if you believe the 5x advantage ascribed to the FPGA.

4x FPGAs and components approx. ($16K + $1.2K) in server chassis and add 100 watts for overhead.
4x GPUs and components approx. ($3.2K + $0.65K) in frame and add 100 watts for overhead.

$430K 100 FPGA farm vs $481.25K 500 GPU farm. Can you at least agree that this makes financial sense?

Please don't take the power usage here, let's consider only the hash power and the cost between XCVU9P ($4,000 FPGA) vs GTX 1080 Ti ($800 GPU)

The difference in cost is 5x, does it apply to the hashpower or not?

How quickly does FPGA programming adapt to new algos or the change of old algos?

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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Open Source XPM (Primecoin) GPU Miner & Pool xpmforall.org
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thinkfar
on 04/05/2018, 00:58:08 UTC
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded NVIDIA Maxwell / Pascal kernels.
by
thinkfar
on 02/05/2018, 14:39:19 UTC
Primecoin 3 month chart..

impressive pump

https://image.ibb.co/k9P3yn/primecoin.png

Now impressive dump, from 4$ to $3.4


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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded NVIDIA Maxwell / Pascal kernels.
by
thinkfar
on 24/03/2018, 01:27:05 UTC
The service was available before the mining Cards hit the market. you can google the forum to find the "scammers" that sold the 40MHASH modded 1070 bios'es. A well known bios scammer is wolf0. He made 100BTC on the scam that turned out to be a real improvement.

The improvement is now implemented in all the Nvidia mining cards.


Does it mean we don't need to manually mod our 1080ti? or what?

I see this topic for bios modd: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1758267.0

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Re: CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded NVIDIA Maxwell / Pascal kernels.
by
thinkfar
on 27/11/2017, 12:05:40 UTC
Total hashrate is only 2.79THs
Yep, when I see something like this I point my miners at it and go to sleep. When I wake up I see that the diff went up 2+ times and I don't have nearly as many coins as I was hoping for. Happens to me all the time. Cheesy And in the long run it just nets me less than btx.

It remains low at smartcash hashrate for quite a long time. Smartcash soon introduces smartnodes and listed on Venezuela Monkeycoin exchange.
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Re: CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded NVIDIA Maxwell / Pascal kernels.
by
thinkfar
on 27/11/2017, 01:53:12 UTC
it does sometime, but at the end, the total coin will be approximately the same as expected.

I sometime during the nice hash, I switch to other coin and come back.
Well, it's been happening to me for a few days in a row, so I eventually just gave up and switched to Bitcore. Been getting more from mining BTX than from Smartcash before. I also tried mining smartcash solo, but didn't have much luck for some reason. Spent 3 or 4 days on that and got a lot less coins than I was getting from the pool before. Could've been luck, I don't know..

Total hashrate is only 2.79THs
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Re: CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded NVIDIA Maxwell / Pascal kernels.
by
thinkfar
on 26/11/2017, 23:49:51 UTC
Smartcash is one of the coins that is always not as profitable as one might think. Cheesy There are quite a few people out there who like to rent nicehash keccak miners and they regularly hit the network with a gazillion of MH/s. And that greatly affects profits for regular miners. Happened to me a few times, I see the diff is at around 50 or less so I point my miners to it, hoping to get some coins for the next 24 hours, but then a couple hours later nicehash comes and the diff increases up to two-three times, sometimes even to 300. That goes for a few hours and then they disconnect. And the diff goes back down. The next day I check my 24h total, and I see that I've got a lot less than I was hoping for. The diff is still at ~ 50 though. So I keep mining but the same thing with nicehash happens the next day as well. Cheesy It's a weird coin to mine, sometimes it does pay off, but with all those wandering nicehash dudes jumping out of nowhere it wasn't nearly as profitable lately as it used to be.

it does sometime, but at the end, the total coin will be approximately the same as expected.

I sometime during the nice hash, I switch to other coin and come back.
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Re: CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded NVIDIA Maxwell / Pascal kernels.
by
thinkfar
on 26/11/2017, 12:22:28 UTC
zcoin profit already became half....... after sp_ opened his eye on it .
Yea. Thanks to all these motherfckrs

Mine another more profitable coin.

Zcoin is currently beeing harvested.

smartcash is really profitable to mine now. 450$ per day for 100GHs.
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Re: CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded NVIDIA Maxwell / Pascal kernels.
by
thinkfar
on 16/11/2017, 12:10:14 UTC
Bitcore is trading at $41 $48 I wouldn't be surprised if the value rise to $150 (bitcoin gold).


Already down to 32$.
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Re: CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded NVIDIA Maxwell / Pascal kernels.
by
thinkfar
on 01/11/2017, 07:31:21 UTC
1 november: Where is bitcoin gold?

Again delay.Smiley
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Re: CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded NVIDIA Maxwell / Pascal kernels.
by
thinkfar
on 18/10/2017, 22:47:38 UTC
Its all very well and good posting about these profitable coins, as soon as you do it kills them.

This is only for a couple of days. Then the market will return to normal.
Scroll a few pages back and you will find profitable coins. Your changes of a having a profitable mining experience increase with the sp-mod optimized kernels.

This is bullshit. It will not return to normal. It has happened with other coins too that when you mention it here, profit goes trough toilet. You only say it because you want to sell your modded miner. But you are free to say what you want, I am not here to judge you. Just saying how it goes. By the way difficulty already jumped to whopping 227k, it's just insane. Even costing about half of million farms are now interested...

It seems that there is already ASIC for Keccak as I see, the network jumps high (10 times) at extremely high speed without increasing a lot of workers, like someone is testing their ASICs.
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Re: CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded NVIDIA Maxwell / Pascal kernels.
by
thinkfar
on 16/10/2017, 14:03:28 UTC
This is the keccak algo. Can be mined in nicehash/zpool.ca or coins directly.

some of the coins:

smartcash
maxcoin


There are a lot of people reading this thread, immediately after this post, the diff jumps up to 107k:(
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded NVIDIA Maxwell / Pascal kernels.
by
thinkfar
on 10/10/2017, 09:18:55 UTC
14.2 GHASH @ yiimp already and they mine with a profit.. (60% of the hash is sp-modded)


http://yiimp.eu  (hsr)

2% to epsylon

284 000 MHASH in fee. That equals to around 47 gtx 1060 cards mining with the opensource miner directly to epsylons pocket.



The profit of yiimp it rising from fee  thanks to spmod.

But all coins on yiimp and zpool sooner become not profitable due to auto-switch machines.

So if someone spreads the spmod, then the profit dramatically decreases.
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Re: [ANN][BTCZ] BitcoinZ
by
thinkfar
on 03/10/2017, 20:39:30 UTC
Site is stable again and running as expected. We had some issues switching the wallets over to the new server due to our hosting provider putting our account on hold. Things are now fixed, deposits complete, withdrawals complete and I just finished responding to all support tickets and emails. If I have overlooked anything please don't hesitate to open a new support ticket as I will be more available now that things are stable. Thanks everyone for their patience and early support.

https://trade.cryptobroker.io/markets/btczbtc

i still can't deposit:(

https://prnt.sc/gswnlv
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Re: CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded NVIDIA Maxwell / Pascal kernels.
by
thinkfar
on 29/09/2017, 11:58:54 UTC
There is no need to make ccminer mod for bitsend as the ccminer-alexis has reached 885MHs at yiimp


ccminer/alexis-1.0   59   -   59   87.65%   885.8 MH/s
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Re: [ANN] SpreadCoin | Decentralize Everything (decentralized blockexplorer coming)
by
thinkfar
on 28/09/2017, 13:15:01 UTC
I've been following this thread silently for years. For the last 2 years, Georgem gives promises and nothing changes... I've also seen some accusation about Georgem being Mr. Spread himself. When we will see real development rather than Georgem's screenshots?

after this accusation, the price down:)
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Re: [ANN] SpreadCoin | Decentralize Everything (decentralized blockexplorer coming)
by
thinkfar
on 22/09/2017, 23:50:02 UTC

This is subject to exchange confirmation, so it is subject to change.

cross-post from Slack

@teckii2 I see you have a count down clock - please remember the announcement we made yesterday needed the exchange to confirm. The effort and process from our side is now ok and tested, but we need the exchange to be 100% confident with everything on their end, in particular the allocation of people resources to the whole process to match all the coins against many, many accounts.

So please do expect we may have to alter the block height once all parties are in complete agreement.

We have given a block height because we want everything to happen as soon as possible and that was our indication that we want it to be sooner rather than later. The timing is an indication that we are narrowing down to launch.


You mean you will lauch mining pool for spread or Hellium?
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded NVIDIA Maxwell / Pascal kernels.
by
thinkfar
on 20/09/2017, 09:27:04 UTC
My mod is doing 600h @ 50watt on the 1060. 3x 1060 cards, 1800@150watt.

SP_ please answer my message in private inbox.