Topic: CoinChoose - alternative site to show respective profitability of the alt coins - page 62. (Read 150624 times)

absolutely! That'd be great.  You rock!

I can add it to mine   Just asking if you will use it.

ah ok, I don't.  Do you know of an api I can use to get the current YAC info? (and does that have the value vs BTC?)

Right - I don't have it as it skews my charts.  Do you have it on your site right now?

I am... although, YAC doesn't seem to be appearing in the api

I will check.  Highcharts may have smoothed the line a bit, but I switched to the Visualization charts so I can add additional filtering.  There is likely an option to smooth it a bit and I will take a look.

Sal, what's wrong with terracoin graph? Earlier, when there where older graphs, TRC graph was wave-like, like it should be with TRCs floating difficulty, and now it's more like almost straight line, is there something wrong with data, or I miss something?

Are you pulling from my api.php?  If I added YACoin there would you display it?  Seems a lot of people want it, but to me it only makes sense when seeing dollar revenue, which I don't / won't display.

I set up a site last week that helps show the earnings for various coins depending on your hash rate - www.WhereToMine.com .  It uses the coinchoose data as well as from other sources to give a good idea on what would be the best coin to focus on.  It's a constant work in progress, so let me know if you find it helpful!

Maybe set a fixed number of high volume slots and put only the most traded in BTC value in them, then split the rest (middle/junk coins) with an aggregated amount of trade level or/and bids which must be reached to escape the "junk" qualification (I've seen coins with less than 1BTC of bids, they certainly aren't worth mining: by the time the coins would have matured all bids could have gone).

Once the rules are set, there shouldn't be much complaining: this would be centered around the number of slots and level values (which could be dynamically chosen by users).

In the API don't try to split things, just add the relevant information (volume) by creating new keys. API users will always know best how they want to process the data, just feed them all you can and they will be satisfied.

One tip for computing mining efficiency. My observation of orphan rates points to a collision window on a coin P2P network of ~5 seconds. What this means is that the orphan probability on a stable network (with no big hashrate swings) is 5/block_interval

Bitcoin should have 5/600 = 0.83% orphans
Worldcoin should have 5/15 = 33% orphans

There's a margin of error here: some networks are a little more stable/fast than others but the numbers don't deviate much from that. When the flock comes on a new coin, the actual block interval is smaller by quite a bit until difficulty is adjusted: the orphan rates rises often to insane levels (that's not easy to detect unless you are solo-mining the coin yourself and I actually coded fall-back measures in my coin-choosing bot to detect such cases).

This is crucial for computing mining efficiency, I've face-palmed more than once when people mined Worldcoin and other fast block interval coins like there was no tomorrow, most of them did probably loose quite a bit of coins while coinchoose.com made them look profitable.

And... vircurex ;-)

Makes sense - but the issue is if the target audience of coinchoose still CPU mines and uses the site to determine which coin to mine with the CPU.  I may open a poll to gauge that and if large enough, think about adding YACoin.

if you could somehow factor in the speed reduction for each N interval* it might work. an i5 2500 currently mines this at 23 khash, heh

* http://yacexplorer.tk/graphs.htm#tech

True - just because it is so different on mining, it will skew the numbers quite a bit.  Last time I added it, it looked very profitable, which is misleading since you can't (normally) GPU mine it.

its also on bter

oh right thanks Sal --


hey hey - Untick , click !

goodbye !

Unfortunately, no.  Since Yacoin does not have a consistent method for GPU mining, it is a tough comparison with all of the other coins that do.  In other words, I guess if I am only mining on my CPU, it is interesting whether Yacoin is more profitable than BTC, but I think the real question is if it is profitable at all (taking into account energy costs).  Those calcs are more typical of wheretomine.com which has the dollar rates.  

FYI - it is on an exchange (Cryptsy).

is it on an exchange with an API? - if not , no  probably not.

hope that helps !

I don't have time to go to through 21 pages, will Yacoin be added? Thanks - and great job!

yeah i totally agree -

but volume was the first thing i could think of , so maybe yeah look at the data .

maybe there is a magical mix you can find?

Impaler  has some credit worthy ideas there - , hmm its tricky ...

but i think this general idea is the answer. - is going to give you so much more space , and personally i think you are going to  get a bit of a cult thing going on with the graveyard , even i'd want to go an see all the dying currencies ,pick thought them and see if there is a pumper in there?

that way we can probably thank HAzard and co -