Crypto currency mining

[ulfilias]

Hi There,

Started playing with my GPU rig the other day, installing old driver and different miner and hit a bit of a brick wall around the low 50s. Also getting a few stale shares. I also managed to get a fan wire tangled in my CPU fan which knocked the machine out for an afternoon, but was thankfully easy to solve and now I know CPU overheat protection works!!!
Since I wasn't entirely happy with the rig, I got a USB drive and a download of Ethos. Plugged it in last night and it almost worked straight away. Only issue was I had a wifi dongle and it needed an ethernet cable which was easy enough as it was sat near a switch. Change a few lines in a config script and away it went. Again low 50s, so it confirms my theory about the DAG effecting Etherium hash rates. It overclocks nicely though and i'm now up to ~56 and interestingly my stale shares have dropped too.
Doing some more reading and the Nvidia cards arn't best suited to Ethereum so i'll be having a play with Zcash tonight!
There's an inbuilt miner for it in Ethos, though I may switch back to Windows 10 as that's literally just unplug the USB stick.

That's definitely a useful tool to have to check things and as an instant get your self out of trouble if you break something in Windows and it's bed time!

The A7 is doing really well on Slushpool. Don't know quite what happened over the weekend but the blocks were worth 20+ rather than the normal 15-16. Meant i was pulling in 0.00012 BTC rather than 0.00008 BTC a coin and they were dropping nicely too. Average drop was about 2:15 and is now down to 1:45 so they were coming in thicker and faster.

Netted 0.00166 BTC on Sunday, That's £8.25 for a day!!!

Am guessing something to do with fee's ?

Would love to snag a reasonable S9 or even an R4 (saw a couple at £1500 over the weekend!!!)

Lee