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Help Folding@Home COVID-19 Efforts With Your Crypto Mining Rigs

17, Mar 2020

Looking for alien life and folding proteins was a thing long before crypto mining with your computing power became a thing. And while the SETI@HOME project has announced that it will stop distributing work and will go into hibernation at the end of March, the Folding@Home project announced their plans to dedicate their efforts in helping the fight against the coronavirus COVID-19. And so can you do by moving your CPU and GPU mining rigs from mining crypto currencies to folding proteins in order to better understand how the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 can be targeted with small molecule and antibody therapeutics. With the current crypto market situation and hardly any profitability in mining, caused by the coronavirus panic nevertheless, doing something for the common good might not be a bad idea, right?

What you need to do is just download, install and run the Folding@Home client software for your operating system, it is available for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Then just run the software and select “Any disease” in the “I support research fighting” drop-down box and you are good to go to start helping the coronavirus efforts. If you want to be anonymous user you do not need to register a personality, you are donating your computing power anonymously, or you can register and even join a team. There are actually some crypto projects that allow you to even earn crypto while doing work for Folding@Home, but this is not the focus at the moment, just so you know it is also a possibility.

If you are using the dedicated mining operating HiveOS you can also relatively easy switch your CPU/GPU mining rigs to using Folding@Home instead of crypto mining. There is a detailed tutorial available here that guides you through the steps required to switch to Folding@Home without having to switch the operating system of the rig you are using for mining.

– For some more information regarding the Folding@home COVID-19 efforts…

Revisiting PegNet (PEG) CPU Mining At The Orax Mining Pool

16, Mar 2020

It has been a while since we have last talked about PegNet (PEG) CPU mining at the Orax Pool, so we have decided to check if there is any development lately. Well, there is apparently a new miner since the last time we have tried that increases performance significantly and it is well worth updating your mining software if you are using older one. Three or so months ago when we tested performance at the Orax Pool an Intel Core i7 6850K (6C-12T) processor was giving a hashrate of around 65000 H/s LXRHash algorithm (using version 1.0.10 of the miner). Now, the latest version 1.1.0 of the mining software results in almost double the performance of the older version with about 110 KH/s. And if you happen to have an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X (12C-24T) processor you could be getting up to about 140 KH/s with the latest miner.

Unlike with RandomX for instance where the latest AMD Ryzen processors have some advantage over Intel CPUs, here with the LXRHash algorithm used by PegNet (PEG) it seems that Intel does have some performance advantage. Of course the newer and faster Ryzen 3900X with its 12 cores and 24 threads does manage to outperform a 6 core and 12 threads Intel, but not by that much. So if you have a latest generation Ryzen processor you might be better off mining some other CPU coin. Recently we have tried even the fastest AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X with the PegNet (PEG) mining on the Orax Pool with the latest miner and it did manage to provide us with around 350 KH/s of hashrate for the LXRHash algorithm. The problem with the Threadripper 3990X is that he miner could not use more than 64 threads and while the processor does have 64 physical cores it has a total of 128 logical cores, so the miner could not fully utilize the available hardware, otherwise the actual performance should be higher.

– To check out the Orax Pool for mining PegNet (PEG) with your spare CPU processing power…

Adult Industry Literally “Entering” into the Crypto Mining Farms

16, Mar 2020

If you thought crypto could not get any weirder, then think again, the latest genius idea comes from the Czech adult industry in the form of a porn video with an adult model having sex with a crypto farm operator. The video is called “LADY DEE CONTROLS HER BITCOIN FARM” and is described as “Lady Dee was checking out her staff at the bitcoin farm. She enjoyed sex with IT Technician”. Though in the background you can obviously see a GPU mining farm probably for Ethereum mining, but that is really not the point anyway. Every Bitcoin miner’s dream, to have sex in a very noisy and hot as hell crypto mining farm, right?

– To check out the adult video including sex in a crypto mining farm (NSFW!)…


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