Sometimes I think about xdn. But I did not get enough from XMR. But XMR looks like to be a leader.

Yes there is an Nividia miner, whether he'll not play COD, Battlefield etc to let you mine is another story all together

can i trust your pool ?!

If you are worried about it just use a limit order. put it as low as you are willing to let the price fall before you feel uncomfortable.

Can anyone give me 280x hashrate and most important whats the power usage? %reduction from scrypt is fine.

Hi. IMHO, 3 Weeks is nothing. I'm comfortable hodling XMR for a couple of years from now. If it dips, it'll rise again. :-)

MoneroForum.org up and running!!!

Please check it out guys and get involved. I know its hard early on when we dont have network effects, but the only way to generate network effects is to get in there and start talking even when there arnt very many people listening. I may do a promotion a little later to help bootstrap the forum.

I think you mean underwater.  Not so strange to me.  It has all the red flags of a massive scam, and nothing going for it, at all, really.

Its a little frustrating to keep coming across miners who say "I will only mine on pool with most hash, or more than 20% of net hash, because they make me most profit", if we get too many who follow that (wrong) logic then we'll end up with only 4 or 5 pools and all the miners will be crying when they get DDoSed, or fees are increased. I'm not saying go mine on a pool with only 5KH/s as that would require some patience, but a little more understanding of variance would help. Simple way to look at it is to say "will the pool find at least 50 blocks in the minimum period I'll be mining for?", as that shld be enough for the variance to even out.

If you have a bunch of rigs and switch coins every day or two for the best profit then you want a pool which finds a block at least every 30min on average, which mean 1/30th of the net hash rate - with net hash at 20MH/sec that means a pool hash rate of around 600KH/s

If you are running a few CPUs/GPUs and dont want to be changing things all the time, then you could consider a minimum mining period of 6-7 days, so a pool hash rate of 100KH/sec should be sufficient


Remember its not how often the blocks are found which determines how much you earn, its the overall efficiency of the pool at finding those blocks plus your hashrate, minus any downtime. Its always a good idea to keep your own records of your hash rate plus average difficulty and block reward each day so you can check your actual earnings against what you should receive, especially if your pool doesnt provide any stats on block efficiency/luck or the number of hashes per round.

i'd even go beyond that. Even if you switch every day or two your variance on one particular coin doesn't really matter. If you get unlucky on one coin, the next day you might get lucky on another. Keep going and you will have a mix of good days and bad days.

I think your 50 blocks in the period you will be mining suggestion is a good one, but it doesn't need to be on each individual coin, just overall.

As long as you are getting (pieces of) blocks consistently you should be fine.

Also consider how much the variance even matters to you. Miners can go a bit overboard on optimizing things. If you are making a few dollars worth of coins per day does it really matter whether you make a dollar or two less on one day and a dollar or two more on another day?

I don't know anyone's financial situation, so it may be for some this does matter. I'm just suggesting to consider it realistically because too much optimizing of variance leads to everyone joining the largest pools and harms the network, as RentaMouse said. If you realistically don't have a reason to care please do what helps the network instead of hurting it.