ETH Mining

For reference:

• Tweaks for GeForce 1070 mining: presumably still applicable to 1060
• Silent mining with a GeForce 1060: perfect!--with a hardware list that influenced me to buy an EVGA card

Looking for info on running a miner in a VM with Windows running on Linux, I found the exact opposite.  Well, maybe I'll just run on Linux.

The nanopool miner is Claymore.  I like the name.

Bonus article: how to reduce power consumption of mainstream computing hardware to 5.9W...with a few hacks.

HomeGenie

I'm running HomeGenie, an Italian home automation system, to control my Z-Wave devices.  Well, it's very configurable, but not the easiest to actually configure as a result.

Last weekend I wanted to update to the latest version, but the automatic update was broken, so I manually pulled down the package and installed it.  That killed my setup so I had to regenerate it.  It turned out I had backed up my old setup, which I didn't find until after I'd re-created my setup and backed it up again (of course).  The new version included some additional demo code, which took me a while to figure out how to disable.  There are a few things still running that I don't want to be.

I also had to figure out how to turn on power logging.  What I need to know now is how to export logged data!

One page I found talks about how to set up a program to send a photo from a webcam when a sensor is triggered.  It came up when I was searching for an example of using a motion sensor to turn on a light, which is what I have in mind for the utility room.  Still looking....

Bitcoin Protocol

Stream of browsing, an article on doing a raw Bitcoin transaction came up.  Neat.

The Bitcoin wiki has some useful information about messages on the network.  It might be neat to make a client that just sits and monitors traffic.

EOS and Zcash

An article on Coindesk mentioned EOS in reference to a Wikipedia competitor.  I still need to read their other article on EOS.

Zcash also looks interesting, especially when promoted by Snowden.

Ethereum Mining

It's been a quarter since my last post.  Bitcoin is up over $16k, and other cryptos are up too.  Apparently making regular buys via ACH is destined to not be easy, so mining is looking attractive again.  Well, if it's break-even with zero profit, I'm still interested, for that reason.  (Not interested in "cloud mining contracts" because I don't trust code running on someone else's computer.)

Recently I was looking at mining Ethereum because it's still profitable with GPUs.  Bitcoin and Litecoin both have ASICs available, making it a hardware arms race.  Based on several articles (Cryptocompare on hashrate, TechSpot on hashrate, Tom's Hardware on ETH's effect on card prices) it appears that the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 is the best balance of cost and hashrate.  ~18 MH/s in 120W for $280 times three should pay for the GPUs in under a year's time, especially if the price of ETH keeps going up.  Of course, there's the cost of the mobo, processor, memory, and OS (if I don't use Linux).  I have an NOS Soldam case lying around, although I'll have to check if the power supply is sufficient.