2018-12-26 Merry Christmas, and to all a higher ETH!

[melt]

Welcome to the Notes for Clubhouse call: Dec-26-2018

To get to the Call..... Click "Mining Clubhouse!" voice channel in PiMP Discord!

• Last meeting's notes: https://forum.getpimp.org/topic/5713/2018-12-19-coins-going-back-up-rating-rigs-for-power-needs-miner-farm3-updates-and-more

• 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:

cutty971
DocDrydenn
Eketubol
Geo
Lily
Louis
melt
pvoile

Agenda:

• Hope everyone had a great holiday season.
• Did you miss the Dec 2018 Newsletter? Get it from the https://getpimp.org/news/ page.
• Tax Season is coming. Be prepared.
• Looking for some quick tax (US) advice send your question to ask@getpimp.org and we'll run it by Brash our Crypto Tax Accountant
• Podcasts of these meetings are available. Check out https://getpimp.org/pimppodcast/

Hardware corner

• AMD Radeon 3000-series in 2019 (link below)

• AMD Radeon 590 (known)

• AMD Radeon Vega 2 (link below)

• nVidia 1160 and a 2060? & nVidia 1150 and a 2050? (link below)

• nVidia 2000-series... Anyone jump on these for mining yet?

• nVidia CUDA 9 to CUDA 10 - not much improvement on most cards.

• AMD may soon have drivers capable of not locking up the bus when a GPU fails/no more hard reboots.

Coin prices/Mining Profits/Difficulty

• ETH made a jump
• Upcoming Forks?
  Zcoin (XZC) forked to MTP algo: Mining will be with wildrig-multi-mtp, ccminer-djm34, and cryptodredge. Most likely cryptodredge will be seamless update, and wait for a real amd miner to pass QA for pimp update.
  details https://cryptomining-blog.com/tag/wildrig-multi-mtp/

-- Large network spikes?... ASIC introductions?

Support concerns

• Most requests are centered upon PiMP OS Key resets. (see Miner.Farm 3 section below)
• Everything else working great!

Miner.Farm 3

• Email Alerts are active. Know when a rig, miner, or device is having a problem. Notifications sent directly to your email.
• Squashing bugs faster than they can be found!
• Optimizing is on going.
• PiMP OS Key resets are no longer automatic (done every hour)... now, users can clear their own PiMP OS Keys from within MINER.FARM.
• Currently working on minor back-end cleanup.
• New features are in the plans.
• MINER.FARM will have a published Change Log

PiMP OS updates

pimpup (next expected release 2018-12-28)

• Gminer, Bminer, Cryptodredge, and .... Claymore Dual! [All are being tested and will be released as soon as possible via pimpup]
• XMRig is also on the tracker!

If anyone comes across a algo, coin, or miner that PiMP OS doesn't support (yet), let us know and we'll look into adding it to PiMP (if possible)

PiMP OS v2.9

• The stepping stone to PiMP OS v3.0!
• Currently in Alpha and being tested by the PiMP OS Dev Team
• Will have newest video drivers.
• Audio will be restored to PiMP OS - makes watching the PiMP How-to videos easier.
• Could bring back support for older GPU's... pending testing.

PiMP 0S v3.0

• Fully automated
• helpme3, pimpup3, gputool3 - Under development - possible "teasers" to come!

Links

https://www.techradar.com/news/amd-may-launch-a-new-radeon-gpu-at-ces-2019
https://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-vega-20-gpu-xgmi-pcie-4-interconnect-linux-patch/
https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-2050-gtx-1150-specs-performance-leak/

Q&A

• Anyone attending crypto meetups/conventions?

Wrap Up

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