Topic: Folding At Home With Medic Coin Earn Big Money with your GPUs - page 2. (Read 1576 times)

Damn whole time I didn't check the actual prices on medic coin. its not 16cent a coin like the op said, its 1.46c (0.00000064 BTC) lol. I have 146 coins and its worth like...well $2.13. Lesson learned....NEVER take anything at face value.

Hmm good point. I just assumed it was converting it into a USB signal just because unlike a ribbon cable, it doesn't have enough wires to accommodate all the pins.

High quality USB CABLES can easily exceed that, when not used for actual USB service.

Don't confuse the "usage spec" with the "hardware spec", like folks using "PCI-E 6 pin connections" to power ASIC miners sometimes do.

Just in case 

Our developers came up with a way to merge mining with Folding Coin.  We are tweaking it right now.

Well said!

Also if you want to get into a private discussion of the flaws of this coin I would be happy to. I am fully aware of how much effort it takes to even make a bad coin. It is clear that a lot of time and effort was put into this project, but it still needs TLC and starting a thread by saying a single card makes $90 is misleading to say the least.

I am sorry for talking smack about your coin. Been seeing a lot of FUD around the internet and it rubs off I guess. Best of luck with your project, I just can't get on board without a easy way to get the private key and have bigger exchanges on-board. I have to pay the power bill somehow ya know.

Also The only REAL BIG MAJOR criticism (besides everything I already said) I have is why the need for 199K coins to create a masternode. That is 2.23 BTC (32K) just to be a node (did the math wrong, its $30). ZENCash requires 42 and other even less. BTW the wallet say 500 when you select create just so you are aware.

Thanks for giving us a try.  Your research on the coin was wrong about the exchanges and private key.  We take constructive criticisms very seriously and try to improve on them, but putting wrong information out there that could hurt the coin and thousand of investors we do not appreciate.  Have a good day.

I've been folding on and off 10 years. CPU with a AM64, than waaaay back on a 9600 GSO (old folders remember this being a beast of a card for performance ratio). I've done testing with many cards because I did find a fold forum post on folding forums that someone testing this waay back in 2010 that the OP said he/she found no difference. This was true at the time because the cards were not powerful enough to saturate the full bandwidth on even 4x PICE 2.0. Things have changed a lot in the last few years. I'm looking at my 1070Tis right now and they using 56% bandwidth of PCIE 3.0 8X or roughly 4.421 GB/s if you do the math on it. PCIE 3.0 1x is 984.6 MB/s. That means a single 1070Ti is using 4.49 times the bandwidth of 1x 3.0. Now that is not saying you will lose 75% when on USB risers. Its project dependent but with 1x I was around 330K and with a 8x slot (not fully used) it is reporting 768K PPD on average. Same card, same computer, same project.

Edit: Also don't forget folding really does need a CPU core per card or it will suffer more than a USB riser would do to it. Test it out. Put you CPU to full and watch you card PPD drop to nothing.

Food for thought....

Edit 2: Oh I also forget that any USB cannot exceed 500MB/s. Thunderbolt can, USB cannot, so really even if its reporting being in a 3.0 Slot, its more like 1x 2.0.

Thanks

You should check Crypto-bridge out.

At the end of the day does it matter what team you are folding on?  Stanford gets the benefit regardless.  And to play the Devil's Advocate, Curecoin could have easily set up the same system without a team requirement.   Personally if its a new coin I don't care how big the exchange is as long as there is a way to sell my earnings.  btc-alpha is small time but they have been around for a few years.

I'm far from a fanboy and I even stated their website is terrible with confusing information.  For what its worth, so is Curecoin's and taking the prize for the most confusing is foldingcoin.

Let us know when you manage to get listed on a MAJOR exchange - I've never even heard OF any of those exchanges before now.

Not "zero" like the post you were replying said, but pretty bloody close.


It shouldn't be hard to set up ability to merge fold with Curecoin - just kill the "need to be on OUR team" requirement.
Merge-folding with Foldingcoin is going to be a lot tougher, since you both require wallet address as part of your name.

Because it offers a LOT MORE SUPPORT FOR FOLDING if this coin could be cooperative with the LONG STANDING Curecoin and Foldincoin initiatives - which have supported "merge folding" for years.
A LOT of coins support "merge mining" - reference DOGE for the best-known example.

Since the STATED objective of all 3 coins is to "support Folding@Home", it is a lot more logical for all of them to WORK TOGETHER as opposed to your "of course" MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN them idiocy as being able to get all *3* for folding work gives a lot more incentive for more folks to DO folding.


You CAN use USB risers in folding, but higher-end cards suffer a significant performance hit if you do so, ballpark 25-30% in some brief testing I've done on my Aorus GTX 1080 ti cards.
If you were seeing 500k on one, you either had a "pain" work unit type or there was something else limiting the card, even on a USB riser I normally see more like 800-900k on most work units (vs 1.2M AND UP on most work units on non-riser setups).
The hit is less on lower end cards, but still noticeable.

On the positive side, a riser-type rig is a LOT easier to keep cool, and USB risers are INFINITELY easier to work with than multiple "16x ribbon" type risers.

One REAL CPU core per GPU is definitely needed - "hyper-threaded" cores need not apply they can't keep up with higher-end cards and WILL throttle your performance badly.
More than one core per GPU does not help, as the folding client isn't coded to use more than one CPU core per "thread" and it runs one "thread" per GPU core.
If you DO have spare cores, you can use those for other stuff though - like folding on them or XMR mining.
Even REAL cores are starting to get marginal sometimes - I was doing some testing once on a G-series Pentium (G4560 or G4600 forget which offhand) and a single 1080 ti was loading one "real" core on that to over 90% average, and I THINK I was taking a small PPD hit on the GPU even so.

For 12 1080 ti cards in a rig, 12+ real core Threadripper or 12+ real core recent Intel server CPU are the only viable options for full PPD - but you're going to be impacted by USB risers as well even WITH enough CPU power.

Ballpark half of last year the Foldingcoin income was more than the Curecoin income - part of that was Curecoin went though it's first "halfing" somewhere in that year.
I never understood the "more folding = more coin value" BS out of Vorshalk either.
When he decided to bring hig HUGE farm online, it ticked off a lot of long-time folders and put a serious HURT on the profitability of folding.

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nsummy ah the lonesome fanboy. Just because they got a nice website, doesn't mean the FAQs are useful lol. I looked for the private key, couldn't find it.

Anyways for folding you want to dedicate 1 CPU core per video card or you'll have some very low results. Plus you cannot use the USB risers. Those are 1x. You need at least 4x PCIE 2.0 to get clear of the bandwidth issues. Even so, with a 1080Ti 4X PCIE 2.0 isn't enough, 3.0 is though. So unless you have a X79 or X99 with 7 full 16x slots (running in 8x mode) you are actually not using the video cards anywhere close to the full potential. When you say 12 cards, that instantly says mining board and all at 1x.


1080Ti running in 1x yields around 500K PPD, 4x (2.0) 800K, Full speed 1.3Million.

Edit: Looks like I made 32.69 coins for an hour of folding yesterday. If anyone want them post your address. Otherwise they will be gone forever.

You should get atleast an intel i5

I don't get anywhere near the folding power I should.

Is a slow CPU a limiting factor (running 12x 1080 TI)? What CPU would you advise?