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• General Discussion

  Catch up on the latest chatter, on all things miner related!

  Crypto Currency FAQ

  CryptoCurrency News, Rumors, and Chatter
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  In today’s edition of The Daily we cover another cryptocurrency venue that now requires verification from traders, the latest exchange to update the BCH ticker since the recent hard fork, a new solution for reporting crypto taxes for cannabis merchants, and a new way in which founders are demonstrating commitment to their crypto businesses. Also Read: Crypto-Focused VCs Invest $30 Million in Digital Banking App CEX Requests Papers Please London-based exchange CEX.io has notified its users that verification has now become mandatory for anyone wishing to trade on the platform. Holders of unverified accounts will have to choose between passing the verification process or withdrawing their funds. The company has reassured clients that it’s a straightforward process, using the mobile app to submit a photo of either an international passport, a national ID card, or a driving license. They insist that the stored personal information is subjected to encryption for enhanced security. The CEX.io team explained: “We believe that this update will help us provide you with an even more secure trading environment and even better trading opportunities. On our side, we’ll continue improving our platform to make the crypto world more accessible.” Okex Updates BCH Ticker Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange Okex has announced that it will update the ticker of Bitcoin Cash following the ABC chain from BCHABC to BCH, and change that of Bitcoin SV from BCHSV to BSV on Thurs. Dec 13, 2018 (at 5 a.m. CET). At the same time, spot trading of BCHABC and BCHSV will also be suspended. All remaining balances of the original BCH futures will be settled, and the asset will be removed from clients’ accounts. The spot trading services of BCH and BSV are expected to resume after just two hours. With this move, Okex falls in line with the rest of the industry, which set the same trend following the recent hard fork. Cannabis Industry Gets Crypto Tax Tech A new partnership between two technology providers promises to make the crypto tax reporting process more simple and straightforward for cannabis shops in the U.S. This is due to the integration of Node40’s cryptocurrency accounting platform into Alt Thirty Six, a blockchain payments platform designed for the cannabis industry. The two companies say their partnership enables retailers to stay tax-compliant and within the law, while the IRS will be aided in receiving the taxes it’s due from the growing legal marijuana industry. Perry Woodin, Chief Executive Officer of Node40, commented: “With the many cryptocurrency transactions Alt Thirty Six facilitates, our solution will make it simple for them to maintain accurate reporting and sound compliance. With this partnership, Node40’s Balance platform is expanding its reach to serve enterprise clients, in addition to individual cryptocurrency holders.” New Crypto Tattoo Trend? With the current market being what it is, some traders who are too new to have experienced past bear cycles are losing faith. One way for business leaders to demonstrate that they are fully committed and not going anywhere, according to Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, is to get a tattoo. Last week, CZ showed off getting the Binance logo inked on his arm alongside two friends from the industry. He then joked with readers that the token listing process on his platform will ask promoters if they are willing to tattoo their own logo. “Savage, I know. But I do believe strongly that founders should be fully committed to their project before they do an ICO.” Following this, CZ said that his marketing team asked if they should run a promotional campaign for Binance tattoos. However, he declined because: “Tattoo is the ultimate demonstration of loyalty, it should not be bought. It has to be voluntary.” What do you think about today’s news tidbits? Share your thoughts in the comments section below. Images courtesy of Shutterstock, Medium. Verify and track bitcoin cash transactions on our BCH Block Explorer, the best of its kind anywhere in the world. Also, keep up with your holdings, BCH and other coins, on our market charts at Satoshi’s Pulse, another original and free service from Bitcoin.com. The post The Daily: CEX.io Enforces KYC, Okex Updates BCH Ticker appeared first on Bitcoin News. https://news.bitcoin.com/the-daily-cex-io-enforces-kyc-okex-updates-bch-ticker/
• Product News

  The latest updates and changelogs for PiMP and miner.farm!

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  pimpup 20181130: Added gmonitor utility to view nvidia device resource usage. Added ubqminer (amd+nvidia ethminer fork) (currently v0.17.0-alpha.1) for ubiq fork + ubqminer.pcfg + profile 3321. Added wildrig-multi (amd multi-algo miner) (currently v0.13.4) + wildrig-multi.pcfg + profile 1871. Updated minerfarm service to get better stats for bminer when in dual mining mode. Updated avermore to v1.4.1-13. Updated bminer to v10.7.0. Updated cast-xmr to v1.6.5. Updated cryptodredge to 0.12.0 and added pipe/dedal examples to the pcfg. Updated ethminer to v0.18.0-alpha1. Updated lolminer to v0.6-alpha3. Updated sgminer-fancyix to v5.6.1-nicehash-5 Updated t-rex to v0.8.3 and added x21s ritocoin examples to the pcfg. Updated teamredminer to v0.3.8 and added logging+logrotate support. Updated z-enemy to v1.25. Notes: xmr-stak/xmr-aeonstak work with amd, amd+cpu, nvi, nvi+cpu, but not amd+nvi. Researching why.
• Getting Started

  New users welcome thread, installation, setup, commands, and terminology.

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  Definitely a good note to add quick if you don't want to spend hours at the computer :) Fixed that in the post now! Also thanks for including of an image of expected output. Great addition!
• Miner.Farm Support

  Take your miner management to the next level!

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  Thanks for the update! We are still building out more servers so graphing may hiccup a bit today, but we are proud to say the migration was completed during the weekend! :)
• Configuration and Daily Use

  How to do the day to day on PiMP: Guides for various miners, and other common questions.

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  Hello PiMP's! A real quick guide on how to quickly reset your PiMP OS Key in MINER.FARM. Youtube Video
• Enhancements and Modifications

  Fine tuning, optimizations, and increasing security.

  Overclocking and Power Management
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  New method - works on 2.8.6: growpart /dev/sda 1 then resize2fs /dev/sda1
• Troubleshooting

  How to solve problems with hardware, software, and how to fix mining issues.

  How to Troubleshoot your Rig
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• Rig Showcase

  Show off your build!

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  6x XFX RX580 GTS Celeron G3900 Asus B250 Mining Expert 16GB DDR4 Ballistix 2400 178 Mh/s Rig
• Strategy Guides

  Guides How to Mine, Hold, Buy, Sell, and Stake, Overclock For, various coins, algorithms, miners, hardware, and more!

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  Our friends over at SnowGem have a lot of development going on and we wanted to give you an update. This coin is profitable to mine and also to run a masternode. It is based on the Equihash 144,5 variation so nvidia users should definitely take note. November updates We just updated the example profiles for bminer.equihash.pcfg (nvidia) and lolminer.pcfg (amd/nvidia) miners with some quick updates: to remove the miningspeed pool, we are sorry to see them go, we mined a lot of HUSH with them too, another equihash coin. to add the snowgem official pool, pool.snowgem.org, which has a beautiful and easy to use interface. You can quickly check by GPU here to see what you would make using their Profit Calc: https://snowgem.org/resources/calc For more details on SnowGem as a coin, we do see a great future here. Their Roadmap: https://snowgem.org/blog/snowgem-roadmap-2019 How to mine on PiMP OS the fastest way You can quickly add bminer or lolminer and test it out with just a few commands: pimp --add shows you all available miner profiles to add. We can see bminer and lolminer in this list because this rig has nvidia AND amd gpus in it: Nvidia: use bminer: pimp --add 2511 AMD: use lolminer: pimp --add 3401 Then you can use the pimp --test and pimp --edit commands just like you always do. For a quick refresher, check out the guides and videos here: https://forum.getpimp.org/topic/10/setting-up-miner-profiles and here: https://forum.getpimp.org/topic/24/editing-the-miner-confs Short version though, you can see here the SnowGem examples in bminer and lolminer: bminer.equihash.pcfg: lolminer.pcfg: in this one dont forget to change the port in the FLAGS= section! This miner needs it separate from the pool definition given in POOL1 in the top section. Remember - if you get stuck, post here, or jump in the Discord for happy helpers! For those that prefer the GUI, here is a nice tutorial on how to mine SnowGem using Bminer on PiMP and editing using the GUI Leafpad app: https://forum.getpimp.org/topic/3623/nvidia-profile-mining-tutorial-1-snowgem-xsg-using-bminer-bminer-equihash-pcfg Masternode info Sad to say due to the way this works it's not as simple as adding a feature to PiMP OS, but we are happy to guide you to the instructions! To create a master node you have to have a VPS with an IP address, this is really cheap at most cloud providers now, and SnowGem has a great guide to help you set that up. They also are very helpful in their discord chat. Here is a link to their setup video for that: https://youtu.be/yjD3nXmmerU You can also rent Masternodes: https://evonodes.com/pool/XSG For more news / to discuss Remember - we meet every Wed 3PM Pacific / 6PM Eastern / 11:59PM UTC in the Discord Clubhouse Call - Come join us to talk about Snowgem and any other topics that you like!
• Comments & Feedback

  Got a question? Ask away!

  Feature Requests
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  Currently, no, this is not possible. I will move this to the feature requests and then once we can figure out how to determine the difference between miner stopped due to a fault vs miner stopped by user request, it maybe possible to implement. Thanks!
• Referral Program

  Resources and strategies for making coins by referring your friends to PiMP!

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  Hey pimps and thanks for using the PiMP referral program. Many of you recommend PiMP to your friends, co-workers, customers and family and we wanted to make sure that you share in the success of PiMP. We are by miners, for miners and we all want to succeed together. That being said, nobody likes spam or being annoyed by advertisements, and we work hard to prevent these things from bothering our own community forum, discord, and threads. Therefore we are always looking for a good balance between growing the PiMP community and making sure that it is done tastefully and respectfully, in a helpful way. Many forums will not allow you to post many links and/or banners, even in your own signature, and even if the post itself is very helpful or useful topic on that forum. It's sad, but everyone tries to fight spam in their own way. We want to make sure that we never fall into the category of being considered spammers. So... if you have your own discord, website, forum or community, obviously you are able to post as you see fit. We provide a referral url and track everything for you in your My Referrals section. We find that being helpful and showing new or troubled miners the way is the best chance of making their mining life better by getting them upgraded to PiMP. Helping others is also how we started this journey. Setting the example and being friendly and guiding others to success is one of our main visions for the PiMP community. Once the other miners see this they will want to hang out with us and share in our fun and success. Feel free to comment or question below if you have any questions about using the links and banners!
• Weekly Clubhouse Calls

  Notes and Questions for the Weekly Clubhouse Calls

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  Welcome to the Notes for Clubhouse call: Dec-5-2018 To get to the Call..... Click "Mining Clubhouse!" voice channel in PiMP Discord! Last meeting's notes: https://forum.getpimp.org/topic/5479/2018-11-28-mf3-launch-less-than-a-week-away-pimp-2-9-soon-more-miners-faster-coin-comeback All Notes: https://forum.getpimp.org/category/23/weekly-clubhouse-calls Welcome/Intros (intro thread: https://forum.getpimp.org/topic/1465/please-introduce-yourself-here/ ) Attendance: AnjinMeili cutty971 DocDrydenn Eketubol Lily Louis melt Sequal Smartguy Agenda: Coin prices discord is bumping lately! people are active - pimps helping pimps - and miners are building rigs and using pimp Masternode coins? Yay or Nay? How does this fit into the mining world so far? ZEC launch on Coinbase today - Will this rise ZEC? Not so far - still down about 10% - the only US approved exchange for crypto Mining profits / difficulty ETC, ZEC diff down a lot - difficulty was reduced automatically in the software to keep the coin transaction times healthy. - and adjusts for the amount of mining hashpower on the network. etc difficulty down by 38.59 % and eth down by 24.86% so great for hobby miners More rewards for us Treasure hunters will keep looking for a little bit of profit True Believers will always mine - they know it will be worth something later or have other reasons - involvement in projects The Joy of mining / tweaking / building - Hobbyists enjoy it The original big exchange was cryptsy AWS Blockchain (see link) - many things will be using crypto applications for their business - this is why Ethereum has been world-changing (smart contracts) trusted entities - boxes of bananas, temperature trucks, etc. 2019 will be the year of applications. (see ibm link) Hardware corner https://www.mineority.io/ IS GONE! There was a huge falling out in their key dev team - No available software - and their store redirects to https://store.squirrelsresearch.com/ just a quick and dirty "Pre-order" sales site AMD Navi RX 3080, 3070 & 3060 Specs & Prices Leaked – RTX 2070, GTX 1070 & GTX 1060 Challengers at $249, $199 & $129 THE OG for mining - Although they are less efficient overall, as miners we can TUNE them for efficiency! and they are very cheap. RX 570/580s around $120-180 Ryzen 3000 (16core 5.1GHZ AM4 CPU) Innodisk M2 GPU? only 256MB video ram, but a good start! no MSRP yet. Brash - Your Crypto Accountant Highest IRS designation we work together to pave the road for crypto related businesses being fully compliant he wants to answer your questions and needs! and we want to help miners become more compliant: email ask@getpimp.org Miner.Farm 3 Same as last week - finishing the last bits. Forum<->MF3 federation. Doc's working on getting the promo video done by launch. PiMP OS updates miners release updates often - considering changing to weekly pimpups - in 3.0 it could be continuous delivery for miners new miners coming to pimp: phoenixminer, gminer, ubqminer how can we get more beta testing participation? Spread the word! https://getpimp.org/beta pimpup3 apt-based package management - alpha testing going well - limited beta soon What do you guys think of implementing a "teamviewer for SSH only"? This would allow you to share a console or remotely access your console https://www.teleconsole.com/ - option to run our own proxy too (prob not necessary but good branding) Who uses other non-PiMP mining OS currently? We need feedback from you. Windows for GPU / CPU mining on kids pc's They run the miner application directly (cryptodredge, etc.) - so after MF3 launch, we will be adding Remote Rig control to the Agents - this will be one of the first improvements for the client side - for pimp3. (Add non-local miners to manage miners over the network) Windows and other rigs - ASICS - One pimp rig could run as the agent for the rest of the farm Links https://wccftech.com/amd-rx-3080-3070-3060-navi-gpu-specs-prices-leaked-rtx-2070-gtx-1070-gtx-1060-challengers-at-249-199-129/ https://www.tomshardware.com/news/powercolor-8gb-red-dragon-radeon-rx-580-deal,38198.html https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-3000-specs-prices-leaked-upto-16-cores-5-1ghz-on-am4/ https://www.anandtech.com/show/13677/innodisk-launches-m2-graphics-card-with-4k-output https://ethereumworldnews.com/amazon-web-services-launches-a-managed-blockchain-service-and-quantum-ledger-database/ https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/solutions/food-trust Q&A What about a pimpminer with no fee? ~Smartguy We wish, but we do not have the resources/time for that - mining development is a whole other skillset we don't currently have on the team Send us some talent! And subscribe to miner.farm so we have funding to pay them. C++ support, and CUDA / OpenCL AMD GPU talk directly to the kernel - and this is why one dead AMD can kill a rig. AMD was talking about building a HAL At some point (Hardware Abstraction Layer) NVIDIA GPU have an abstraction layer in between - and this is why it doesn't take the rig down. We facilitated the sgminer 5 generation - multi algo and multi profile support - and worked well with GM to improve it Wrap Up Missed the call? Listen to the podcast at https://soundcloud.com/getpimp/tracks Thank you for your support!