2019-01-30 More Mimble for your Wimble (GRIN/BEAM talk), new Sapphire cards, some bug fixes, gputool 3 ideas, helpme3 preview coming soon!

[melt]

Welcome to the Notes for Clubhouse call: Jan-30-2019

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

• Last meeting's notes: https://forum.getpimp.org/topic/5958/2019-01-23-how-to-pick-new-coins-to-mine-nvidia-1100-series-gpus-new-amds-coming

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

Attendance:

AnjinMeili
DocDrydenn
Eketubol
Geo
jgrabsky
Lily
Louis
melt
rizo
Sequal
Smartguy
spacecrustacean

Agenda:

Hardware corner

AMD's yet to be released card which doesn't require an additional pcie power cable, and how that might perform re mining

Sapphire Radeon RX570 16GB (4)

Coin/Algos (Prices/Mining Profits/Difficulty)

GRIN and BEAM and what people think about it and if it's the one true "privacy coin"?! (1) (2) (5)

POW / POS / MN / Minting / HD POW, etc and their future and of POT (3)

Miner software Dev's going quiet? Bminer is updating weekly (sometimes 2-3 times a week). Others have "grown cold"?

Support Team:

Reminder: PiMP OS key's can now be "reset" by end users from within their Miner.Farm account.

Note: Updating your miner software without updating your PiMP OS version can cause problems. To ensure that you can use the newest mining software, you should be running the most current version of PiMP OS.

PIMP OS news:

MINER.FARM:
New feature: Halt Agent Host - Allows a user to fully shutdown a rig. No different than running SD directly from within PiMP OS. (Note: When this is done, the machine will have to be restarted manually. Miner.Farm has no way to "power up" a machine that is off. If all you desire is a restart, then use the Restart Agent Host option instead.)

PiMP OS:
New feature: pimp --add <text> This will filter your pimp --add output. (Example: To get just a list of available AMD miners, just run pimp --add amd)

v2.9.2 - Currently in BETA Testing now.
-- Expect a v2.9.x public release sometime mid-Feburary
-- Newest AMD & nVidia drivers (including CUDA 10)
-- New: Teleconsole

v3.0 and PiMP apps/tools (currently in Alpha & select Beta Testing.
-- pimpup3
---- Backup & Restore Functions.
---- Commandline and graphical interface
-- helpme3
---- More detailed output and troubleshooting assistance
-- gputool
---- Commandline and graphical interface
-- Dev Team is working on a PiMP OS installer
---- Idea: Just like installing any other distro... "burn" image to thumbdrive, boot from thumbdrive, and install PiMP OS.

Links

(1) https://scalingbitcoin.org/papers/mimblewimble.txt
(2) https://www.mycryptopedia.com/mimblewimble-explained/
(3) https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/the-great-crypto-debate-is-pow-pos-or-pot-the-best-blockchain-mining-consensus/
(4) https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sapphire-rx-570-16gb-hdmiblockchain-graphics-card,38483.html
(5) https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/intro.md

Q&A

• Anyone attending crypto meetups/conventions?
• Please provide your known working OC settings.
• Looking for "creative" ways that PiMP's are balancing the cooling/heat issues with mining. Ideas on reusing the heat? Alt energy plans? Etc...

Wrap Up

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