2019-01-02 More Mainstream Crypto adoption, Strategy for ETH hardfork, and more

[melt]

Welcome to the Notes for Clubhouse call: Jan-02-2018

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

• Last meeting's notes: https://forum.getpimp.org/topic/5789/2018-12-26-merry-christmas-and-to-all-a-higher-eth
• 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
danyotie530
DocDrydenn
Eketubol
FileMissing
Louis
melt
Zamasu
nick44

Agenda:

Hardware corner

Coin prices/Mining Profits/Difficulty

• Coins starting 2019 off strong - today, majority are all in the Green.
• 900+ Retailers accepting Bitcoin Cash (see link below)
• ETH Hardfork. POW->POS (Jan 16th)
  -- POS could be the end of GPU mining of ETH.
  --- Could see a mass exodus to another Ethash coin. ETC?
• LOKI: Diff way down, end up with twice the coins per day
  Stock market vs Crypto Market
  ETH Prices for 2018 looked like a % of BTC Prices
• 2018 Top Cryptocurrencies Ranked (by Github activity) (see link below)
• Fortnite accepting XMR (see link below)
• nVidia lawsuit

Support concerns

• Old hardware
• PiMP OS Key resets - Reminder, these can be done by end users via their own Miner.Farm account.
• Reminder that ETH DAG size is currentl sitting at 2.86+GB. 3GB GPU's are dropping out of the ETH game.
• Everything else working great!

Miner.Farm 3

• Working solid. Stable and clean.
• Very minor bugs being squashed fast!

PiMP OS Updates

• The PiMP Family is always looking for new Beta Team members. Apply now at https://getpimp.org/beta

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####pimpup This Week

• Tons of new miners
  -- Cryptodredge, Ethminer, Bminer, and more!

v2.9

• Newer drivers and newer packages.
• Dev Team is still working hard on it.

v3.0

• Still working on the new PiMP-apps (pimpup3, helpme3, etc...)
  -- Better information and more details along with some more automations.

Links

• https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-up-7-and-ethereum-surges-19-good-2019-start-for-crypto/
• https://www.ccn.com/over-900-retailers-now-accepting-bitcoin-cash/
• https://forum.getpimp.org/topic/5862/2018-s-top-cryptocurrencies-ranked-by-github-activity
• https://forum.getpimp.org/topic/5857/the-daily-wallet-brings-bitcoin-to-facebook-fortnite-store-accepts-crypto

Q&A

• Anyone attending crypto meetups/conventions?
• Please provide your known working OC settings.

Wrap Up

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