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Storj Doing Final Beta Tests With Test Group C

26, Jun 2016

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Storj has announce that they are launching the final beta testing of their upcoming blockchan-based distributed cloud storage service that uses dedicated crypto currency tokens as a rewards for users. The beta testers of Test Group C will test real world network conditions before the full official launch of the service later this year. The participants in the beta test will be rewarded with a total of 1,000,000 SJCX for contributing storage capacity and telemetry data to the network over the next few months.

The 1,000,000 SJCX will be rewarded to farmers based on their actual contributions to the network. Farmers will be compensated for the following: Storing data, Transferring data and Sending telemetry data. Do note that similar to previous stages of beta testing the service you are still required to have some SJCX coins in your wallet in order to be eligible for receiving full rewards. The minimum balance you need to maintain is 1000 SJCX, though if you have less than that you would apparently still get some rewards, but it could be less than the regular ones. This simply means that you would need to purchase 1000 SJCX coins if you already don’t have at lest that much in order to be able to participate and get full rewards. Do note however that participating in the beta tests of Storj so far has not been very profitable, so do not expect to make a lot of money helping in the latest test group of beta testers either. This is more for people that want to help and that are interested in the service and the idea behind it, once Storj finally launches the official network it might be more interesting for people that want to make some extra money.

– For more information about Storj final beta tests with Test Group C…

Possible Ethereum Hashrate for the New AMD Radeon RX 480

22, Jun 2016

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We have received a tip from a reader claiming he was able to run an Ethereum hashrate test on the upcoming AMD Radeon RX 480 GPUs providing us with a photo proof that we are publishing here. Do note that for the moment we cannot confirm this result for sure, but it does seems legit enough for us to consider it as a highly possible. Unfortunately the hashrate that is apparently achieved at stock frequencies is a bit disappointing at just around 24 MHS for Ethereum Dagger-Hashimoto mining with about 100W, we are also told that with a memory overclock 26-28 MHS are possible with about 120W of power usage. If these results turn out to be true the Radeon RX 480 would not be that great for mining Ethereum as we suspected recently. On the other hand the RX 470 could end up being a much more interesting choice for low power Ethereum mining if it manages to achieve the same hashrate, but at a better price when it hits the markets sometime next month. Guess we’ll have to wait a bit more to see confirmations if this is the actual hashrate for RX 480 mining Ethereum, but with the 256-bit memory bus these results unfortunately are on track with the pessimistic expectations we already had instead of the optimistic version…

X11 ASIC Miners Daily Profitability At the Moment

21, Jun 2016

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It seems that there are already more than enough X11 ASIC miners available in order to essentially kill the profitability and make the purchase of a new X11 ASIC unprofitable on the long run. So what remains is the purchase of a small and affordable X11 ASIC miner for hobby miners that are not there just for the profit like most other miners are. Here is a quick check for the different X11 ASIC miners to see what daily profit you can expect via the What to Mine service. It seems that among the more established X11-based coins (they are not many and that is one of the problems for X11 ASICs) currently the most profitable one is Adzcoin (ADZ) followed by the leasing of your X11 hashrate at NiceHash and mining for DASH is a few steps below.

PinIdea DR-1 500 MHS X11 ASIC Miner:
– Adzcoin (ADZ) – $11.52 USD equivalent per Day
– Nicehash X11 – $7.05 USD equivalent per Day
– DASH – $6.39 USD equivalent per Day

iBeLink DM384M 384 MHS X11 ASIC Miner:
– Adzcoin (ADZ) – $8.84 USD equivalent per Day
– Nicehash X11 – $5.42 USD equivalent per Day
– DASH – $4.95 USD equivalent per Day

Baikalminer 150 MHS X11 ASIC Miner:
– Adzcoin (ADZ) – $3.42 USD equivalent per Day
– Nicehash X11 – $2.09 USD equivalent per Day
– DASH – $1.87 USD equivalent per Day

PinIdea DU-1 9 MHS X11 ASIC Miner:
– Adzcoin (ADZ) – $0.21 USD equivalent per Day
– Nicehash X11 – $0.13 USD equivalent per Day
– DASH – $0.11 USD equivalent per Day

The numbers above are based on the current exchange rate and do not include power costs for running the miner, so they are for the revenue you get from the miner, not the actual profit that remains when you deduct the power costs. As you can clearly see the X11 ASIC miners are already pretty expensive compared to what they are able to deliver in terms of daily earnings. If the situation remains like that you might be looking at something getting close to a year to get back your investment before starting to actually earn something on top, and things will most likely get even worse before (if) they start to get better. So if you already have an X11 ASIC miner you might want to either sell it or look for new coin launches that may temporary increase your mining profits. People that are not yet aware of the presence of X11 ASIC miners on the market that are rapidly increasing the hashrate should forget about mining X11 with their GPUs.


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