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:

• This month's PiMP OS Newsletter is coming soon. If you are not already signed up to receive it, head over to https://getpimp.org/news/
• 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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