Just a quick update, been mining using cast 0.8 for 4 weeks now with no problems whatsoever. I really wanna go on for longer but I might switch to something else since monero mining has slowed down so much. It wouldn't be so bad if I could get more vegas but those cards are hard to get, almost impossible for close to msrp.
NO, but seriously LOL!!!!! What are you even talking about?? Cryptonight coins are the most profitable coins you can mine bar any card anywhere on this planet. If you have vegas you you have the most profitable mining cards arguably one can buy paired with the fastest miner.
6 1080Ti vs 6 Vega 64s
https://whattomine.com/coinsCompare for yourself.
I don't know why.... just so much dumb posted here all the time.
Well, you may be able to get those Vega at MRSP soon if Cryptonight coins continue to depreciate, but may not be worth buying them though.
They are quite profitable at mining Nicehash with Cast at the moment but by the look of things it may not last very long. more on that later.
Cast is better than Stak on Nicehash because of the -fastjobswitch option. Nicehash difficulty is very high and Stak generate a lot of stale share (does not have fastjobswitch) almost 20% stale shares sometimes, While Cast does hardly make any stale share. At least on my rigs Cast can mine for days with 0 stale shares, while STAK would deliver 20% within an hour.
A part for Nicehash, at the moment Criptonight currencies have well entered the category of shitcoins, even XMR not doing so well.
Sumo.... I mean, below 7/8 dollars is not even worth looking at it. Pools are inefficient and shady, difficulty is quite high, you get a lot less than what your rig is hashing for. Plus SUMO can only be Exchanged at Cryptopia for Bitcoins. The only decent option to change it with was Litecoin is not available anymore, USDT was never an option. In fact, Sumo value is slowly drifting down the drain.
Electroneum, the next Ethereum.... after few months is still only on Cryptopia and sold off badly any times it dares to pop. I know it is supposed to get in 2 more exchanges soon, but let's see if that happens. One of those 2 exchanges is not even open yet...
These privacy Cryptonight coins, may be in trouble for good since governments are asking for transparency and to pay taxes on profits, or they will shut down exchanges and mining pools. When that happens, probably not even hookers and pushers will want to touch a Monero.
Vegas are mostly good for Cryptonight only. Pascal maybe... do you really want to mine that?
For Ethereum you are better off buying 2 RX580 per every Vega you could buy at the same cost: 1 Vega 44 mhs vs 62 mhs of the two RX580, even with the extra 80 watt the 2 of RX 580 needs, they are still ahead.
There is a reason why AMD have not been bothering to push Vega for mining, unless they are going to unlock the driver and make VEGA hash 60mhs per card in Ether.....
Ethereum is more likely to see 2000 USD this year, than any of those Cryptonight are going to be more profitable than they are right now.
The good thing about Vega cards is that they use little energy and it may be worth keeping them for mining Ether, if Nicehash Criptonight will go down in value.
That can well happens.
2 weeks ago it was 30/40% more profitable than mining Ethereum, but today is almost the same.
IMO.
