R9 280 can make mining 
Use that card for ZEC.
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The difficulty bomb will go away in August with the Metropolis release. However there are talks of reduced blocks rewards instead.
I do believe this is not the right thread to start asking which card works for mining.
Going back to the topic, would it be safe to say that new miners still have until December 2017 to reach ROI before the difficulty bomb freezes everything?
Going back to the topic, would it be safe to say that new miners still have until December 2017 to reach ROI before the difficulty bomb freezes everything?
what about gtx 1060? anyone test it and share results?
They work well... with "full size" GTX1060 (dual fan) I'm seeing 4 of them equal to about three 1070s all at stock speeds.
The "mini" single fan ones are a bit behind that rate... the MSI Mini ones are the better of what I've tried, the EVGA Mini runs 10 degrees C hotter... luckily only got two of the EVGA.
I can't say that I've sat down & heavily tuned them... just drop power down in Afterburner and they are quite efficient.
what about gtx 1060? anyone test it and share results?
R9 280 can make mining
It can do without any problem. The best coin it can mine is the Zcash but the problem with that card is that it consumes a lot of energy so it is not that profitable compared with the RX 4xx and 5xx series, there is a big difference between the two. If you have it in your PC you can start mining if you like to test the waters.
... it seems you all don´t get it:
You can´t escape the difficulty bomb !
Do your own research or cry later !
You can´t escape the difficulty bomb !
Do your own research or cry later !
well it's not like ETH si the only coin that you can mine out there, plenty of choice are awaiting you, just mine somethign else, oh wait amd can not, because they are stuck with ETH, will be funny to see the huge hashrate desperately switch to another alt when ETH go pos
Actually, I went back and checked my posts from last year; I said the slowdown in rewards (slowing average block times) would start in April 2017 and it did start in April 2017.
14seconds to 14.3seconds average block time before April 8th.
Afterwards, slowed to around 14.8 seconds.
27th April slowed to around 15.2 seconds.
13th May slowed to around 15.85 seconds.
29 May slowed to over 16 seconds.
21 June slowed to over 17 seconds.
So far - there has around 21.8% reduction of Ethereum rewards for POW.
In july block times will increase to 30 seconds so it will be pretty bad then.
That could cripple the network considering the congestion currently is getting bad.
Which could mean panic sells and price dump among the fear.
The price of Ethereum is high because mining rewards are being reduced. So, I'm sure the Ethereum price will do just fine - because people have been snapping up Ethereum because they know it will be rarer tomorrow, than today!
Congestion is being artificially created by the structure of Initial Coin Offerings - they do time limited offerings, which encourage people to try to watch the blockchain and then throw in their Eth at the last minute when they think it has been underfunded and they will get more of the new tokens for each Eth.
However, it is better to have all of this ICOs business in the long-run - a little short-term inconvenience always comes along with a rapidly growing ecosystem.
No the price of ETH was much higher $400 while mining rewards were higher and now less rewards yet price has slide down nearly $80
Look at this chart and tell me if you think 30 sec or 1 min block times won't cause problems https://etherchain.org/charts/capacity
Price adjustment started around the beginning of March - one month before the reductions in Ethereum mining rewards. Reductions in Ethereum reward was scheduled to begin at the beginning of April.
And, it has continued to rise as reductions in Ethereum POW mining rewards has been realised.
This, is quite normal, for cryptos with reductions in their POW mining rewards.
... it seems you all don´t get it:
You can´t escape the difficulty bomb !
Do your own research or cry later !
You can´t escape the difficulty bomb !
Do your own research or cry later !
well it's not like ETH si the only coin that you can mine out there, plenty of choice are awaiting you, just mine somethign else, oh wait amd can not, because they are stuck with ETH, will be funny to see the huge hashrate desperately switch to another alt when ETH go pos
Actually, I went back and checked my posts from last year; I said the slowdown in rewards (slowing average block times) would start in April 2017 and it did start in April 2017.
14seconds to 14.3seconds average block time before April 8th.
Afterwards, slowed to around 14.8 seconds.
27th April slowed to around 15.2 seconds.
13th May slowed to around 15.85 seconds.
29 May slowed to over 16 seconds.
21 June slowed to over 17 seconds.
So far - there has around 21.8% reduction of Ethereum rewards for POW.
In july block times will increase to 30 seconds so it will be pretty bad then.
That could cripple the network considering the congestion currently is getting bad.
Which could mean panic sells and price dump among the fear.
The price of Ethereum is high because mining rewards are being reduced. So, I'm sure the Ethereum price will do just fine - because people have been snapping up Ethereum because they know it will be rarer tomorrow, than today!
Congestion is being artificially created by the structure of Initial Coin Offerings - they do time limited offerings, which encourage people to try to watch the blockchain and then throw in their Eth at the last minute when they think it has been underfunded and they will get more of the new tokens for each Eth.
However, it is better to have all of this ICOs business in the long-run - a little short-term inconvenience always comes along with a rapidly growing ecosystem.
No the price of ETH was much higher $400 while mining rewards were higher and now less rewards yet price has slide down nearly $80
Look at this chart and tell me if you think 30 sec or 1 min block times won't cause problems https://etherchain.org/charts/capacity
It's not the end of the world - and it's hardly a bomb. We'll see how Vega deals with it.
...and we'll see how AMD deals with it.Legitreviews tested nvidia gpus vs polaris gpus at higher epochs and saw that nvidia gpus weren't affected almost at all. This suggests that AMD might be able to fix the issue in the driver.
If they do, we should all be happy chaps for a little longer.
R9 280 can make mining
Why not? What exactly is MooWrapper? Milkway?
Some type of Folding experiments?
BOINC projects.
Moo Wrapper enables BOINC participation in the distributed.net RC5-72 project (which I've been active in for almost 20 years now).
Milkyway is mapping our galaxy, and is very reliant on DP FLOPS (which is where the Tahiti chips shine, somewhat less so Hawaii though they're sorta-close, and nothing current outside of workstation-specific cards and NOT ALL OF THOSE).
The longer block times for ETH are going to hammer profitability some, unless ETH resumes it's price rise enough to compensate - THAT might be where the ETH mining crash ends up comming from, I'd forgotten about that part of Ice Age happening.
The price of Ethereum has NOTHING to do with miners though - miners REACT to the effect of price on profitability they don't CAUSE the price to change.
R9 280 can make mining
It's not the end of the world - and it's hardly a bomb. We'll see how Vega deals with it.
... it seems you all don´t get it:
You can´t escape the difficulty bomb !
Do your own research or cry later !
You can´t escape the difficulty bomb !
Do your own research or cry later !
well it's not like ETH si the only coin that you can mine out there, plenty of choice are awaiting you, just mine somethign else, oh wait amd can not, because they are stuck with ETH, will be funny to see the huge hashrate desperately switch to another alt when ETH go pos
Actually, I went back and checked my posts from last year; I said the slowdown in rewards (slowing average block times) would start in April 2017 and it did start in April 2017.
14seconds to 14.3seconds average block time before April 8th.
Afterwards, slowed to around 14.8 seconds.
27th April slowed to around 15.2 seconds.
13th May slowed to around 15.85 seconds.
29 May slowed to over 16 seconds.
21 June slowed to over 17 seconds.
So far - there has around 21.8% reduction of Ethereum rewards for POW.
In july block times will increase to 30 seconds so it will be pretty bad then.
That could cripple the network considering the congestion currently is getting bad.
Which could mean panic sells and price dump among the fear.
The price of Ethereum is high because mining rewards are being reduced. So, I'm sure the Ethereum price will do just fine - because people have been snapping up Ethereum because they know it will be rarer tomorrow, than today!
Congestion is being artificially created by the structure of Initial Coin Offerings - they do time limited offerings, which encourage people to try to watch the blockchain and then throw in their Eth at the last minute when they think it has been underfunded and they will get more of the new tokens for each Eth.
However, it is better to have all of this ICOs business in the long-run - a little short-term inconvenience always comes along with a rapidly growing ecosystem.
... it seems you all don´t get it:
You can´t escape the difficulty bomb !
Do your own research or cry later !
You can´t escape the difficulty bomb !
Do your own research or cry later !
well it's not like ETH si the only coin that you can mine out there, plenty of choice are awaiting you, just mine somethign else, oh wait amd can not, because they are stuck with ETH, will be funny to see the huge hashrate desperately switch to another alt when ETH go pos
Actually, I went back and checked my posts from last year; I said the slowdown in rewards (slowing average block times) would start in April 2017 and it did start in April 2017.
14seconds to 14.3seconds average block time before April 8th.
Afterwards, slowed to around 14.8 seconds.
27th April slowed to around 15.2 seconds.
13th May slowed to around 15.85 seconds.
29 May slowed to over 16 seconds.
21 June slowed to over 17 seconds.
So far - there has around 21.8% reduction of Ethereum rewards for POW.
In july block times will increase to 30 seconds so it will be pretty bad then.
That could cripple the network considering the congestion currently is getting bad.
Which could mean panic sells and price dump among the fear.
... it seems you all don´t get it:
You can´t escape the difficulty bomb !
Do your own research or cry later !
You can´t escape the difficulty bomb !
Do your own research or cry later !
well it's not like ETH si the only coin that you can mine out there, plenty of choice are awaiting you, just mine somethign else, oh wait amd can not, because they are stuck with ETH, will be funny to see the huge hashrate desperately switch to another alt when ETH go pos
Actually, I went back and checked my posts from last year; I said the slowdown in rewards (slowing average block times) would start in April 2017 and it did start in April 2017.
14seconds to 14.3seconds average block time before April 8th.
Afterwards, slowed to around 14.8 seconds.
27th April slowed to around 15.2 seconds.
13th May slowed to around 15.85 seconds.
29 May slowed to over 16 seconds.
21 June slowed to over 17 seconds.
So far - there has been around 21.8% reduction of Ethereum rewards for POW.
... it seems you all don´t get it:
You can´t escape the difficulty bomb !
Do your own research or cry later !
You can´t escape the difficulty bomb !
Do your own research or cry later !
well it's not like ETH si the only coin that you can mine out there, plenty of choice are awaiting you, just mine somethign else, oh wait amd can not, because they are stuck with ETH, will be funny to see the huge hashrate desperately switch to another alt when ETH go pos
Thank God I went Nvidia, fully justified. Nvidia always comes out on top one way or the other.
As soon as RX cards go the 7950/7970 way (13 mhs or lower) you'll see all Nvidia stock dry up for 1050ti, 1060 and 1070.
As soon as RX cards go the 7950/7970 way (13 mhs or lower) you'll see all Nvidia stock dry up for 1050ti, 1060 and 1070.
Lol...
You do not seem to realize that ETH is just one coin you can mine. Granted nvidia do better on coins like zec, but AMD is still the way to go for mining with the fastest ROI on most of the popular coins (granted, they need to be in stock for 200$ or less). This is what matters, ROI. Just mho, not saying I'm right, but this is how I see it.
Your nvidia cards won't matter with the artificial ETH difficulty increase anyway. POS will come soon and your nvidias won't be more usefull than AMD cards for mining the coin anyway.
the two i own don't, they give only about 160-170
but yes, recently they mined equihash a lot as well
My 290s are mixed right now - got one rig of them still pointed to ETH mining, but the other 2 have moved over to GRC via BOINC and the MooWrapper project (that rig is very close to hitting #1 on the "top host" list).
My R9 280x moved to GRC / BOINC / Milkyway though they spent a short time on MooWrapper before that.
My HD 7870s and HD 7850 also moved to GRC / BOINC / MooWrapper.
These were not moves due to greater profitability, they were moves due to "I can AFFORD to do this now".
8-)
I might move my RX 470s over to MooWrapper as well at some point, they have almost the same performance on that particular project as the R9 290s do.
What exactly is MooWrapper? Milkway?
Some type of Folding experiments?
sold my 3 1070s for 350€ (~390$) each, here the competition is hard, you get them new for 395€ 
1070 all sold 1060 only with highest prices or 1 fan and ITX versions But lot of 1050 ti in stock Jump to: