Crypto currency mining

[ainarssems]

Just a quick update about my Scrypt-N and Garlicon testing with single RX 580 card. So I made a rig on MRR to rent out, I priced it half of the next cheapest rig to make sure it gets rented out and only available for short periods of time. It got rented out very quickly for 6 hours and earned 90p worth of BTC for that time so it would be £3.60 for a full day and £7.20 if it was at the next cheapest available price, not sure if it would get rented at that price though. I then made it unavailable and was mining Garlicoin using backup pool on MRR, in 18 hours it has earned me Garlicoin worth £2 even after £30% drop in price since yesterday. This compares favourably to about £2 it would earn on CryptoNight at the moment. Power consumption looks to be more similar to CryptoNight rather than Ethash. Not too keen running Ethash due to higher power consumption, temps and noise but need to look at the numbers for that.

I am looking at converting all my AMD cards apart from Vega to Scrypt-N rigs on MRR with Garlicoin as backup. Vega does not do well with only 240kH/s comparing to 280-300 for Rx480 or RX580. There might be some tweaks available to make it better but at the moment does not look good. Also for some reason it does not want to run on one of my rigs, it just says 'Scrypt n algorithm not found' even if I am using the copy of the same folder with same files that run on other 2 PC's .

Well I was going to rebuild it on another motherboard anyway so will see how it goes on that one with fresh copy of Windows.

[MikkiJayne]

What miner are you using for Scrypt-N? I had a look yesterday and totally could not figure it out. I found some references to Vertcoin, but that appears to use Lyra2RE? Either Google is getting confused by the '-' in the search terms, or my Google-fu has failed me this time. Nicehash seems to have a pool for ScryptNf which I guess is the same thing?

[ainarssems]

I think ScryptNf is the same as N-Scrypt or Scrypt-N, there is not much info on the net. I am using sgminer https://mega.nz/#!XAlVmQYQ!HwFI05l2o...6kBmjpHt2_e90Y, I also tried it for CryptoNight in the past as it does not have dev fee and is supposed to be the fastest with 900+ h/s for RX580 cards but could not get it to work. It would crash in couple of seconds on one PC and did not work at all on another. As there is very little info about it on the net I abandoned it's use for XMR.

Seems to work OK for Scrypt-N and I figured out why it would not work on one PC, it needed GPU platform changing from 0 to 1, that was probably the issue why it was not working for XMR as well. But when it tells you algorithm Srypt N not found it's very confusing and there is little online info available. It should have said something like no usable GPUs found instead.

Garlicoin price has gone down by 50% in last 2 days so it's less profitable to mine but difficulty is down as well by 25%. Not sure if it's a coin worth 'hodling' or just a joke and exchanging small qties for other currency is probably not that profitable. It does look like more of a joke but then look at Dogecoin - it was supposed to be a joke and was pretty much worthless for a while. for now I am keeping 2 cards mining Garlicoin as a trial for now but not switching the rest over. The rig on MRR is not getting rented out at the prices just slightly below the others so I have dropped price to half of others but even at that price it would be over £8/day for 2 cards, the question is if somebody will rent it.

Maybe will give another go getting sgminer to work on XMR and will monitor situation with Garlicoin

Here is the Garlicoin profitability for 2 cards at the moment:




Lot of coins going up in value again, star riser for me is Litecoin with almost 35% up, and the most profitable coin for scrypt at the moment - good news for my 3x L3+s. Cardano 30% up as well I have been meaning to buy some of it but have not got round to it, now I don't know do I buy it now or wait for the price to drop?