Topic: [ANN] SpreadCoin | True Decentralization (No Pools) | Testing New Masternodes - page 280. (Read 810083 times)

palit stormX 750Ti - 1720KH/s - best price/performance and coller than 65^o

Yes - correct.  I haven't seen anything over 60 watts max.  I actually run (10) of them off powered risers just to be safe I don't overload the motherboards but I don't think it is necessary for 1 or 2 cards.  When the GTX 980 comes down in price I will probably upgrade to them! :-)

As stated above correct. But there are some cards that are made with a 6 pin power connector but I don't see a need for those as they are not much faster than the non powered ones.

Correct.

What? This low!
So this probably means she doesn't even need extra power cable attached, right?
She'll draw what she needs from the PCI-E port, right?

I don't have a meter but I would say it is under 80 watts, probably more around 60 watts or less.

Just going off of what the card is rated.

Would it be easy to port Spreadcoin to this: https://www.facebook.com/qmolelinux
I can't wait for the release of it.

Thanks, I will check it out.

So how much power does it consume when running 100%?

For less than $200 - around $149 new or $90 on ebay - purchase an EVGA - Nvidia 750ti.  It is extremely low power comsumption and processes at about 1.5 mh/s not oc'd.

Mr. Spread your right, in the beginning I have mined 1 block on my Imac   but than stopped (it's my working computer). Everyone SpreadEnthusiast should mine in the spirit of this coin to make it strong decentralised! I am going to do some research on a good way to start mining, perhaps anyone has some suggestions. Thanks

I have a few coins.
But I have no GPU... so I feel a little "strange".
Like a bodybuilder who only trains his upper body, but not his legs...  

Reminds me of Claudius Musculus from the Asterix Comics:



I dont' wanna be this guy. No! 

Let him decentralize mining

Hmm. I would just buy coins for masternodes if I were you.

Hey guys, I'm in the process of buying a GPU to use it just for spreadcoin.

Any recommendations?

Shouldnt' cost more than 200$.

From what I hear, kernel programming isn't too difficult, but takes time.

Hard to say, I'd imagine that it would have to be a large enough bounty to persuade this miner with his improved miner to want to give up his 'improved' revenue stream. And we would have to believe that this improved miner is truly giving us the best improved code and not keeping the best miner for himself while giving us the second best miner.
Maybe if we tiered the bounty so for example it's 500 for the first improved version then 750 for the next improved version then 1000 and so on so at least we're always upping the incentive for these miner programmers to constantly offer what is hopefully close to the best miner they have? I am very untechnical though and have no clue how difficult it is to program a miner.
JL

You bring very valid points regarding miners' devotion towards a coin with no pools Solo-mining can be incredibly painstaking, especially when you go long hours without blocks.

Speaking of mining... do you think we should set up a community bounty address towards an improved miner?

I'm beginning to come to huge realizations here on why Spreadcoin is different:

-Lack of pools means miners don't get a steady stream of income but rather must now devote time and must have a sense of belief in the coin that they will eventually find a block. This belief has been lacking for a year now since the emergence of mega-miners and pools. This sense of belief is also what leads to buying on exchanges as some miners either a) figure out that buying and holding makes more economic sense than mining and waiting, or b) lose patience with waiting to find a block.

-Dynamic masternodes will basically cause these same believers from above to do whatever it takes to continue holding a masternode. Mr. Spread has stumbled upon what could likely be a major feature for every Crypto going forward, including bitcoin. As Mr. Spread continues with innovations, Spread's believers will fight to continue holding their masternodes. Miners, who no longer have the patience to wait for blocks, will instead prefer to run masternodes to increase their SPR.

-Like bitcoin, eventually the believers and miners will increase so much and will become so vocal that merchants will have no choice but to accept Spreadcoin.

IMO Marketing now should be decentralized in the form of us constantly figuring out what the payout is to miners (SPR/mh/day). We know SPR is one of the only profitable coins to mine, so take that message to the mining boards here on bitcointalk.org. I took that message to them a week ago and suddenly difficultly has doubled along with price and there were dozens of posts here from new faces asking how to mine...and we're again on the precipice of yet another move up for both.

Anyhow, again, the lack of pools means miners have to devote time, effort and belief into SPR... And that is what makes value go up, not a cheesy PR article appearing on Yahoo Finance's business PR page or an article on Coinbase which the PnD crowd use for a short-term pop.

TL;DR Spreadcoin is very subtlety different. No pools means a different mindset is needed,, and a sense of devotion, not unlike the mindset bitcoin had years ago before ASICs. And dynamic masternodes will only create buying frenzies among these devoted. And eventually those devoted will demand merchant acceptance.

JL

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Where is wolf0 now ?
he was here a couple of days ago and said he was testing the improved GPU miner.