2019-02-20 eth fork is coming, vega support in the works, gtx1660 looks promising, and grins all around!

melt

Welcome to the Notes for Clubhouse call: Feb-20-2019

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

Last meeting's notes:https://forum.getpimp.org/topic/6155/2019-02-13-gtx-1660ti-talk-event-handling-ideas-crypto-regulation-new-releases-and-miners

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

Attendance:

cutty971
DocDrydenn
FileMissing
Geo
Lily
melt
Sequal
SleazyTrain

Agenda:

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10,000 French Retail Shops Will Sell BTC, XRP, ETH, LTC and Dash (4)

Hardware corner

Vega support coming. Will have one in the lab next week.
Early benchmarks have the nVidia GTX 1660 performing as good as a Titan X on gaming? Unsure what this translates to for mining. MSRP $279?! (1)
Intel getting into the GPU world? (6)

Coin/Algos (Prices/Mining Profits/Difficulty)

LTC boosting (3)
ETH climbing (2)
Upcoming ETH fork (5)

Coin spotlights:

NIMIQ:
- The Browser-based Blockchain - traditionally CPU only, but now GPU mining is now possible.
- what is nimiq: https://coincentral.com/what-is-nimiq/
- market/graph - https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/nimiq/
- 20% ? WHAT? SushiPool has a static fee set to only 2% CPU / 20% GPU, which helps fund server infrastructure, future developments, giveaways and much more.

GRIN:

Miner Dev Teams (Bminer, Gminer) seem to be working hard on getting their software stable on this algo. Expect many miner updates to come.
Early adopting miners are finding stability issues in the current miner versions when running on 12 GPU's.
f2pool announcement re US and EU Grin pool ip addresses:-
"Good news! We have launched our EU and US servers for Grin mining now!
Recommended: grin31.f2pool.com:13654 US server: grin31-us.f2pool.com:13654 EU server: grin31-eu.f2pool.com:13654"
Good to see Grin presence increasing, and it's only a few months old

Support Team:

Reminder: Those who find themselves in need of PiMP help can always hit up the PiMP Forum or jump into the PiMP Discord channel.
Security Tip: Never run your wallets on your mining rigs.

Miner.Farm:

Miner.Farm is running smooth.
Only very small bugs left and they're getting squashed.
Note: This is not Miner.Farm's final form. Updates, upgrades, and new features are always in the works.
Got a new idea or suggestion? Please feel free to let us know.

PIMP OS news:

pimpup
Dev Team is working hard to push out new/updated miners as fast as possible.
v2.9.x
New video drivers
v3.0
New applications

Links

(1) https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gtx-1660-ti-leaked-benchmarks-pricing,38630.html
(2) https://nulltx.com/ethereum-price-continues-its-push-toward-130-despite-bearish-bitcoin-momentum/
(3) https://themerkle.com/litecoin-price-increase-triggers-expectations-of-50-and-higher/
(4) https://ethereumworldnews.com/10000-french-shops-sell-btc-xrp-eth-ltc-dash/
(5) https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/constantinople-countdown-ten-days-for-the-next-ethereum-hard-fork-and-why-is-it-important/
(6) https://hothardware.com/reviews/intel-answers-gpu-questions

Q&A

Wrap Up

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