5% of CPU with low priority would never cause much of an impact on performance or power drain. Start there and see how many people would contribute.

Some places you can also bargain for cheaper electricity rates outside peak-hours (i.e. in the night time).

Do you believe these large farm guys will turn off their miners during peak time? That means their miner are off 10-16 hours per day. There is little chance of ROI.

I'd go for another explanation. This seems like an utilization of one or more University clusters. There's a great chance that someone (or many) are using the embedded VMs for mining (I'm currently under academic licence of a node that contains up to 255 CPUs). Never used it for mining, but believe me, if someone wanted, it would fit the needs of XMR harvesting just fine...

Monero is multinational crypto currency it's awesome secure so not have any doubts about loss...can use fearless. 

Also You can mine as a speculation of a price increase.

I have setup my 7950 and will dust 4 r9-270's later today. My electric is monster though 0.1958439201451906 k/Wh


Ive been meaning to ask, is this like POS without weight? Or is there a current acronym for it in another coin or will this be a new thing for all coin types?


I would recommend 1%(or less if possible) on one core with the option to vary your settings. I run a AMD 1600T which is not conducive to cryptonote algo.


How would you setup a miner to adjust with diff like this?

There's a common belief that XMR will be the top "alt-coin" among all the others for several reasons. If you're into crypto for a long time (that counts at least over 3 years) then you may be able to understand the semantics. If you don't and want to ride the train, it's a good thing to observe who are among the top followers.

Please do not misunderstand me, I'm not saying "oh look, macsga is on the train, let's ride on", I'm saying that most of the people involved are already holding a "good" amount of BTCs as well. It's all speculative of course, but as it's boldy previously written on this thread:

"It's better to hold some XMR, than not to hold at all"

Let's talk Payment ID's and use-cases of Monero...

Let us imagine a scenario:

 ...An online storefront that sells all kinds of widgets, in varying styles and quantities, and to everyone from Bob and Alice (regular individuals) all the way to large organizations. This Monero Mart needs to be able to take orders from a website and process the payments in order to credit customers' accounts and ultimately package and ship the widgets to them. Some of these customers, although the widgets are all perfectly legal and uncontroversial in every known jurisdiction of every state, province, territory, and nation on earth, still have a desire to keep their purchases anonymous and untraceable to any prying eyes who might peruse the Monero Blockchain. The only two entities that should be privy to the widget order details, most relevant in our scenario is the total cost, are the Customer and Monero Mart.

So, as of now, I see in a thread on the Monero Forum that some individuals in our community have publicly shared their preferred Payment ID's. As I understand it, this is to identify incoming payments from one of these individuals to someone else.

OK, so now Monero Mart is open for business, and they are taking orders for widgets, running a steady flow of orders and outgoing shipments. Each Customer is assigned a Payment ID, as Monero Mart uses 10 XMR wallet addresses for their roughly 500 total customers. So, each wallet address receives about 50 unique Payment ID's for incoming orders. These Payment ID's show up as visible, and even searchable, in the pubic Monero Blockchain.

What are the ramifications of a customer's Payment ID being leaked (in regards to past orders, assuming it is changed once the leak is discovered) and what effect does mixin count have on the anonymity of a Customer whose Payment ID is publicly known?

Does mixin count increase the time required for confirmations? Does a transaction with a higher mixin count have to "sit and wait" for additional transactions to occur on the blockchain, in order to mix with them? What if in a given minute or period of minutes, there are no additional transactions, only the "mined block reward(s)?" Can a high mixin count transaction mix with block rewards?

Let us discuss...

It easy to script something that works off the difficulty reported by the 'getinfo' API for example. Better still might be using the 'getinfo' API from a node and a price API from an exchange.

We suppose to support Monroe for rise up this is trustful and secure currency