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Monero, XMR (aka MRO)

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xsuperbgx

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Monero (XMR) is a new privacy-centric coin using the CryptoNote protocol The open source reference implementation of CryptoNote was coded from scratch based on the CryptoNote reference implementation, and is not a fork of Bitcoin.

Monero aims to be a fungible and untraceable digital medium of exchange. It intrinsically has a higher degree of anonymity than Bitcoin or any of its various forks. It was launched on April 18, 2014 (preannounced and no premine/IPO/etc.).


Btctalk thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.0

CPU and gpu mineable.

GPU miner by claymore: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=638915.0

Other things of interest:
i2p and MONERO partnership: https://geti2p.net/en/blog/post/2014/05/25/Monero-partnership
annotated white paper for cryptonote: http://monero.cc/downloads/whitepaper_annotated.pdf
 
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For reference - I'm currently getting 250 h/s per R9 270, 70 h/s for my 6870 with the current Claymore miner.
 
What o/s are you on? My hashes seem low for 290x, are there any settings or configuration changes to be made?
 
Win7 64 bit.

I don't think my 7950 is hashing any faster than the 270s, honestly - the main rig with the one 7950 and one 270 is only doing 480 h/s.
 
Any idea on the BTC/day?

Say perhaps BTC/scrypt Mh? :shrug:

Also, why only hashs/sec?
I figured a CPU with AES instruction would put out at least a few Kh..
But since it's not, must be one hard algo to mine with.

What's power and heat like on this coin?
 
heat is lower than scrypt. I am unsure about that other stuff as I am still trying to sort things out. Though price went up nicely today :) as well as network hashrate. :(
 
Thanks for the link!

A rough guess of 500 h/s is about 0.007 BTC/day. Not half bad at all :)
Will look into Monero tomorrow for sure. Getting late here :-/

Yeah, it looks like I'm heading for 0.014 per day if I can keep all the good cards mining it. As soon as I added the 4GB 270X to the 2GB 270X, that machine went to 550 h/s. The 4GB card alone is pulling down 300 h/s.

Finally found an algo that extra memory makes any difference at all on :p
 
It looks like 290x's are at 1580h/s or so , for the 3 cards. I am at 240h/s for the cpu. I added the wolf's binaries into the simpleminer directory for easyminer.

Mess around with the cpu thread count if mining on cpu. More threads is not better.

Edit: Also, I am holding this, not selling right now.
 
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I'm at 1.93 XMR this morning with 4 hours to go before putting in a full 24 hours.

Not bad, so far, but I need to figure out why the main rig isn't driving the 270 to its utmost potential. That card is only doing 175 h/s. Maybe it just doesn't like being in the same rig with a 7950.

I think I'll pull it out, run just the 7950 in the main rig, and stick the 270 in place of the 7770. I've said it before, and now I really mean it - time to retire that slowpoke of a card.
 
As soon as my CPU finishes folding this WU, I will set up Monero on GPU's + CPU.
Hopefully my lazyness didn't make me miss out on the profit train....

Looking like 0.0024 BTC/day on Waffle's X11 BTW. :-/

EDIT: Guys, how big is the block chain?
 
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Remembered the hard way that the rig that had the 7770 only had a 32 bit Win7 installation, so there's no point trying to run the Asus 270 in there. So, I swapped it with the 6870, and now the 6870 is running X11 in the 32 bit machine.

I need to get that dedicated mining rig up and running and give it all the 270s. Still short a CPU for that.

The 7950 now mines at 260 h/s all by itself. Faster than it was, still slower than the 4GB 270X. Right now it's not mining at all so the rig's usable - got the 2500K mining instead at 140 h/s. I should go do something else and let all the fast cards mine for a while.
 
Remembered the hard way that the rig that had the 7770 only had a 32 bit Win7 installation, so there's no point trying to run the Asus 270 in there. So, I swapped it with the 6870, and now the 6870 is running X11 in the 32 bit machine.

I need to get that dedicated mining rig up and running and give it all the 270s. Still short a CPU for that.

The 7950 now mines at 260 h/s all by itself. Faster than it was, still slower than the 4GB 270X. Right now it's not mining at all so the rig's usable - got the 2500K mining instead at 140 h/s. I should go do something else and let all the fast cards mine for a while.

And where are we mining this?
Is everyone here on the same pool?
 
There is some issue with mining at a large pool causing issues with small amounts in many transactions (dust), so if you are at a pool that gets many blocks, but you only get a small fraction of an xpm, it can cause issues with transaction size when you try to spend your xpm. It is recommended to use a smaller pool.
 
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