2019-01-09 ETH fork, ETC controversy, portfolio and coin tracking, getting updated news on coins and miners, and more

[melt]

Welcome to the Notes for Clubhouse call: Jan-09-2019

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

• Last meeting's notes: https://forum.getpimp.org/topic/5867/2019-01-02-more-mainstream-crypto-adoption-strategy-for-eth-hardfork-and-more

Welcome/Intros (intro thread: https://forum.getpimp.org/topic/1465/please-introduce-yourself-here/ )

Attendance:

cutty971
DocDrydenn
Geo
Lily
Louis
melt
spacecrustacean
TT

Agenda:

Hardware corner

nVidia RTX 2060's are on par with nVidia GTX 1070Ti's
AMD announces the $699 Radeon VII: 7nm Vega, coming February (see link below)

Coin/Algos (Prices/Mining Profits/Difficulty)

ETH Fork

• Difficulty is up by 15% in the last couple of days
• ETH reward reduced from 3 to 2 (33.33%)

ETC 51% Attack (see link below)

• ETC value is down 20%

BEAM

• Requires a running wallet to receive payouts.
• Security issues? Most miners do not like haveing "hot" wallets.

Portfolio Tracking/News:

• Melt Likes Blockfolio.com
• Doc Loves CoinTracking.info

Support Concerns

PiMP is running smooth.
Reminder: You can now reset your own PiMP OS Key(s) from within your miner.farm account page. You no longer have a waiting period.

Miner.Farm

Solid and Stable!
Please report any issues you might come across.
Feature requests are also accepted.
Miner.Farm change log has been created.
Reminder: The pay system was also updated. "Subscription" is now a pay-in-advance type - just like how PiMP OS v3.0 licensing will be done.

PiMP OS Updates

New Miners

• Tested for PiMP OS standards before we release them to the PiMPs.
• Not all mining software meets the PiMP OS standards.
• The PiMP OS Team is always reaching out to miner Dev Teams to try and get issues fixed.
• Many new miners are being monitored. Should they meet the PiMP standards, we'll get them added.

Miner Updates

• Bminer (just released another version - 3rd one this week!)
• Aeon-stak
• Gminer
• T-Rex
• WildRig

PiMP OS v3.0

• New PiMP Tools (pimpup3, helpme3, gputool3, etc...)
• Newest video drivers/Linux packages/etc...

Links

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/amd-announces-the-699-radeon-vii-7nm-vega-coming-february/
https://cryptonewmedia.press/2019/01/09/crypto-exchange-gate-io-confirms-51-attack-on-ethereum-classic-promises-refunds/

Q&A

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

Wrap Up

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