2018-07-25 nvidia 11 series game plan, minerfarm and gputool improvements, miner updates

[melt]

Clubhouse call: July-25-2018
To get to the Call..... Click CLUBHOUSE CALLS voice channel in PiMP Discord!

Last meeting's notes: https://forum.getpimp.org/topic/3850/2018-07-11-referral-program-beta-pimp-2-8-coming-amd-changes

• 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
Geo a|ien
Lily
Louis
melt

Agenda:

Nvidia news
1170s are 30% faster than a 1080Ti and uses less power.
10 series were about the same interval boost over the 9's.
7 series we will pretend we never met those.

• Reason for launch delay: They were overloaded with parts from OEMs and needed to sell them all.
• Hot Chips event in Aug - seems to be likely for release

Strategy for getting card on release day?

• Ref cards suck - FE suck - loud - bad cooling - at least last 2 gen
• Wait for vendor cards
• We are thinking we probably need a ref card for the lab to get a jump on the dev.
• Expected price? ~$500-800

Hobby grade miners
Be nice to have our own miner! Calling C++ Dev that wants to help us take over and build a nice, modular pimp miner based on sgminer, ccminer, or ethminer

License mgmt -

Why are the coins going up so much last couple days?

• Always news.
• Why BTC and not ETH? or ZEC? What changed?

Uber co-founder launching fee-free trading site. Voyager aims to compete with RobinHood

BitMain stealing part of the hashrates from the miners?

ASIC mining.

• Fun little things to find on ebay, you can hold in your hand and it's a miner. Free power makes them awesome!
• State of the art Antminer S9 - mining SHA256 - they are the current - we can watch fork.lol BTC vs BCH comparison to choose which
• GMO 7nm miner coming out Sept
• Whatsminer specs supposed to blow all away

Miner.farm sneak preview for the clubhouse pimps

• miner config editing, config cloud storage, push to rigs!
• Change and restart button for changing profiles
• Reseller tools!!

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• gputool improvements:
• the update function was bad, now it works great. and is human readable. AND it works to remove a card or to add a card in now!
• there's still no amd bus serial number / uuid yet, due to their way of subbing out mfg; but we have it for nvidia so far.
• changes coming. new amd pal may make it right.
• new/returning miners
• ewbf comes back
• z-enemy and claymore updates
• unsure why no equihash variants from claymore zcash-amd miner - he doesn't respond to us

PiMP 2.8.1 status - just a few bugs to work out

• next 3 weeks tops

Q&A

Will gputool be in miner.farm?

• So far, miner configs yes, we will be adding capability soon to have gpu-config for gputool attached to a miner profile

• What can spread adoption of the Referral Program?

Wrap Up