Cryptocoin Mining?

[JBT]

cgminer.exe --scrypt --shaders 1792 -o pooladdress-O login info

I just recently added the shaders part and it didn't help at all



cgminer 3.7.2

cat 13.11, I might be on a beta version



crossfire is enabled, and I the check box to turn it off doesn't seem to be where it used to, I assume that can cause issues, it used to with BTC mining

Remove shaders and change it to --thread-concurrency 24001

or somewhere around there. Then change -I 12 to start, then ramp up to 18 or 19. 20 seems to get more hashes, but also more rejects.

 

[nwo]

Zargon, here is an example of my bat file for my 7950:

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
pause
G:\Downloads\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://FAST-POOL.COM:3333 -u -p -d 0 -I 19 --thread-concurrency 24000 -g 1 -w 256 --failover-only -o stratum+tcp://188.165.164.185:80 -u -p

You do not need to put the shaders line in your bat file.
Disabling crossfire is highly recommended and probably mandatory as well in order to obtain the best results.
You need to ramp up the intensity to at least 18 for the best hasrate.
What are your cards clocked at? Last part of fine tuning is overclocking.

You can ignore and take out "-d" command from the bat file. I have that in there because I run different cards in the same system and have to use a different bat file for each card. If you are using same cards, then take that part out.

Follow these steps and you will have great success ^_^

 

[taltamir]

so my shit is messed up then, im getting ~17 on each card.

cgminer.exe --scrypt --shaders 1792 -o pooladdress-O login info

When I tried using an R9 290X, using recommended setting (wraps, etc).
-I auto gave me 20 kh/s. (this is basically what you are using)
-I 18 made it go up to 80 kh/s
-I 20 made it go up to 620 kh/s

System wasn't useable with intensity of 19+ as anything other than a mining rig.
Actually oddly enough AMD driver crashed instantly with I19+ until I updated the intel iGPU driver. Then it became stable (but too laggy to use, even desktop stuttered)

My 620 KH/s is still only 2/3rds of what the card should have been capable of, I returned it instead of tweaking it for full performance because I suspected there was an issue with that specific card (something was off about its memory clock), and nvidia keplar just came out with insanely good performance.
Still 620 beats the pants off of 20 which was 2% of its capability.
So basically, first step is to manually set your intensity

 

[BD2003]

Unlikely unless they had a massive GPU farm and got in on DOGE early and held until February. Or were one of the early BTC miners and held BTC until November 2013. Even then I would hope they would just fade into the sunset to avoid the vultures...

Also, you're looking at less than $5 a day per GPU at this point, so I'm not sure it's worth the heat, noise, and aggravation for a lot of people...

Yeah, I don't really expect anything in the way of profit, not building a mining rig or anything. Just figure might as well let the GPU I already have mine away, just for the fun of it. The entire concept is fascinating to me. I know most people are looking at it as nothing but a get rich quick scheme, but I think the idea of cryptocurrency has legs now that I understand it.

I think I'm profiting like $1-2 a day after accounting for power, although technically the waste heat is offsetting the boiler, so it's prob more like $3-4. I figure I'll let it mine away until it's no longer profitable or fun, keep the wallet in cold storage, and see what it's worth 18 years from now when my son goes to college. If that's even still a thing by then.

I still can't believe anything is investing their life savings in this stuff. But OTOH, I think the idea behind cryptocurrency is so good that long term, like 10ish years from now, I bet anyone buying today would come out ahead. Although whether or not it would beat the S&P 500 is anyone's guess. Although If I could buy an ETF that somehow tracked cryptocurrency in general, I'd prob give it a chance.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

I still can't believe anything is investing their life savings in this stuff.

 

[BD2003]

What is that supposed to show me?

 

[geokilla]

There is no way you can get 5k doge with 600kH/s. I think you just got lucky within the first couple of hours, but keep me posted because I am very curious to see how much you get on a daily basis.

10 hours, last 3 hours no blocks found by the pool. However I got 800 DOGE. I think if it depends on the blocks found. If we consistently found blocks, maybe I'd get around 3000 DOGE per day?

 

[walloyyy]

I just received my 270x this week and I'm planning to mine with it. I have 4 cards...

Will these USB risers work in a 16x slot? http://www.poweredrisers.com/flexible-usb-3-0-powered-pci-e-1x-to-16x-risers-30cm-slim/.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

What is that supposed to show me?

It's never been a bad investment, even if you bought at the peak of a rally. $2.22 to $575 (not even counting recent high of $1163) is a hell of a gain in a little over two years.

 

[nwo]

What is that supposed to show me?

BTC value trend over the last couple of years.

10 hours, last 3 hours no blocks found by the pool. However I got 800 DOGE. I think if it depends on the blocks found. If we consistently found blocks, maybe I'd get around 3000 DOGE per day?

I just got credited ~10k doge on fast-pool after I switched all my miners over to sunny's KDC pool 2 days ago. I guess they are compensating me for the hardcore shafting I've been getting for weeks

Even 3k doge per day is very optimistic for 600kH/s but it can certainly vary with the pool's block finding luck.

 

[taserbro]

I'm currently using wafflepool, but can you explain what is meant by 24 hr timeslots? I just set my machines up and don't pay much attention to timeslots, though I'm unfamiliar with how you use it?

Oh sorry, I'm not using some macro or scheduler. It was just a figure of speech poking fun at the ephemeral nature of altcoin speculation where one day I'm ready to divorce the whole thing and 24 hours later, everything has changed...

I suppose that someone with a bit of programing skills would be able to write something along the lines of a personal middlecoin-like program wrapper for your miners that automatically changes what you are mining based on an api feed from exchange prices. I'd put a bounty on that...

 

[BD2003]

It's never been a bad investment, even if you bought at the peak of a rally. $2.22 to $575 (not even counting recent high of $1163) is a hell of a gain in a little over two years.

It's an impressive short term investment if you got in before the october spike, although I use the term loosely, since anything this volatile is hardly investment grade. Just saying that something incredibly volatile and near it's 6-month peak is not the kind of thing you'd want to stash your entire life savings in. You'd never one to put your eggs in one basket, let alone one as rickety as this. Anyone foolish enough to have thrown all their money into it when it was nearly $1200 in December is really hurting right now.

It might still pay off if you're willing to gamble, but lets be honest about what we're dealing with. It's about as suitable for real investing as a penny stock.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Anyone foolish enough to have thrown all their money into it when it was nearly $1200 in December is really hurting right now.

I won't deny that, and as such I was recommending people to sell between $1100 and $1200, but what about those that went all in at the peak in April last year? Despite the volatility, their $260/BTC investment is still up over 100% right now, and that's still an impressive gain for 10 months. If history repeats, then the next couple of weeks are the best time to buy according to the charts. We should be seeing new peaks in July/August, and those who bought @ ~$1200 should be seeing some decent gains.

 

[KingFatty]

I decided to spend some cash and purchase a portion of a BTC. My thinking is that all this week the news cycle has included negative coverage of something related to BTC. Now it's the weekend, the news cycle will reset, and Monday we'll see fewer if any negative BTC news because it will be old hat. So that will remove the negative price pressure, and I'm guessing BTC price will rise.

 

[BD2003]

I won't deny that, and as such I was recommending people to sell between $1100 and $1200, but what about those that went all in at the peak in April last year? Despite the volatility, their $260/BTC investment is still up over 100% right now, and that's still an impressive gain for 10 months. If history repeats, then the next couple of weeks are the best time to buy according to the charts. We should be seeing new peaks in July/August, and those who bought @ ~$1200 should be seeing some decent gains.

If there was any basis to expect a peak in July, or any other time, everyone would have bought in already on that expectation and the current price would reflect that. That may be what's fueling the peak to begin with. Those who bought at $1200 could see decent gains, or they could lose even more than they already have. It's outright foolish to believe you have the clairvoyance to know where this is going short term. Whether or not history repeats itself can only be judged in hindsight.

The magnitude and rapidity of the gain is irrelevant, since those gains are in the past. Anyone could hit the roulette table for a 100%-36000% gain in 30 seconds, and at least you'd know the odds going into it. This is a complete crapshoot.

Regardless, it's a crapshoot I'm willing to drop $100 on just for the hell of it, but that's $100 I'm fully prepared to lose. I think the idea of cryptocurrency is too good not to have an impact in the world, but there might be an undiscovered flaw in bitcoin that completely debases the currency and makes it worthless. Or it might skyrocket over the next year, then the US gov might declare it illegal, and even if after the subsequent crash it was still worth more than you paid, you'd be risking prison by trading it.

I hope for your sake you don't have all your money tied up in something this risky.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

but but if I just extrapolate out the lines of the graphs while "investing" I'm sure to make money!

 

[Mark R]

I'm having trouble getting my KDC wallet to sync. Would anyone mind dropping me a copy of their peers.dat file? Or a list of nodes?

 

[Attic]

http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/andreas-antonopoulos

Andreas Antonopoulos does a wonderful job bringing the benefits of Bitcoin into an accessible forum here.

I think his understanding and what he's doing is only a matter of time till more people get it. A big part of it is freedom.

The podcast has a bunch of adverts to start, it gets good at 15min and the great stuff is after the halfway mark.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Blackcoin mining has officially stopped.

It'll be interesting to see where it goes from here.

 

[ultimatebob]

I won't deny that, and as such I was recommending people to sell between $1100 and $1200, but what about those that went all in at the peak in April last year? Despite the volatility, their $260/BTC investment is still up over 100% right now, and that's still an impressive gain for 10 months. If history repeats, then the next couple of weeks are the best time to buy according to the charts. We should be seeing new peaks in July/August, and those who bought @ ~$1200 should be seeing some decent gains.

The big difference between April 2013 and now is that governments and private corporations weren't publically trying to outlaw Bitcoin to fiat currency transactions back then. They are now.

Sure, BTC is still trading around $550 now, but it could quickly go under $100 if the banksters start teaming up and actively block Bitcoin currency transactions on their end for the supposed "safety of their clients".

 

[hondaf17]

Isn't the KDC "fork" supposed to be coming soon? Can someone explain to me in simple English what affect this is supposed to have on values?

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Isn't the KDC "fork" supposed to be coming soon? Can someone explain to me in simple English what affect this is supposed to have on values?

Simple English: Price of the coin will either rise or fall because the amount of coins coming from the blocks will decrease.

 

[BD2003]

but but if I just extrapolate out the lines of the graphs while "investing" I'm sure to make money!

I know right? It's like real estate, it could never go down. Just look at the graph!

 

[BD2003]

Anyway, on a more serious note. The biggest roadblock I can see to adoption is how long it takes for a transaction to go through. Unless I'm missing something, it appears to take several minutes at best before a transaction is preliminary confirmed, and quite a bit longer to be absolutely 100% certain. That makes it pretty much unsuitable for any serious B&M retail use.

Is there any way around that? Any cryptocurrencies with a faster transaction, and what do they gain/lose by that?

 

[Kenmitch]

Anyway, on a more serious note. The biggest roadblock I can see to adoption is how long it takes for a transaction to go through. Unless I'm missing something, it appears to take several minutes at best before a transaction is preliminary confirmed, and quite a bit longer to be absolutely 100% certain. That makes it pretty much unsuitable for any serious B&M retail use.

Is there any way around that? Any cryptocurrencies with a faster transaction, and what do they gain/lose by that?

It looks like tigerdirect and overstock both use coinbase for their bitcoin transactions. Being an exchange a person has to have their bitcoins already in their account to use....Think it's instant going from one account to another on coinbase.