InterPlanetery Broadcast Coin (IPBC) With a Web Media Miner

3 Feb
2018

InterPlanetery Broadcast Coin (IPBC) is a new project for sharing digital content online with with an integrated cryptocurrency ecosystem. Think along the lines of YouTube, but without any advertisements, instead users uploading videos on the platform get compensated by the people watching them. IPBC comes with a web media miner that essentially uses some of your computer’s resources to mine while you watch the video and all the used hashpower gets credited to the person that has uploaded the video. There is no need for visitors to download and use a dedicated miner, everything happens directly inside the browser and the mining does not interfere with the video watching.

The best thing is that even though IPBC is still a new project the video platform with mining integration is already available, so it is not just something promised to come out after months as it is already out there. You can of course also mine IPBC coins the traditional way, the project uses Cryptonote/Cryptonight (just like Monero) and there are already quite a few pools out there (aside from the official ones) that offer you to mine it. Of course if you are a video content producer you might want to also try the IPBC platform and upload some videos and try that as well. There is also a web-based miner available for users built inside the platform, though you probably would want to stick to GPU mining with dedicated mining rigs than to use the web-based CPU miner yourself.

The project looks promising and is already doing quite well even though it is just a few days since the official announcement, the team has already announced their plans to have the coin listed on an exchange (listing on Livecoin has been announced for February 21st) as well as other interesting plans for improvements and new features… remember that it has just launched and the IPBC platform is still in beta.

– To check out more details about the InterPlanetery Broadcast Coin (IPBC) project…

NiceHash Will Initiate Reimbursements to Users Starting February 2nd

31 Jan
2018

NiceHash has announced its plans to start reimbursing all users that were affected by the security breach that happened on December 6th last year starting this Friday, February 2nd. The NiceHash Repayment Program will initially reimburse 10% of the old balance amount to all users that were impacted by the security breach. NiceHash will continue to periodically repay the remaining amount to all users in the coming months until the full amount from the old balances is paid back. The old balance will be repaid in Bitcoins (BTC) and not in the fiat value or any other cryptocurrency…

Repayment program for internal wallet users
Users that were registered on the NiceHash platform before December 6, 2017 can log in to their account and can see their old balance tab under the Wallet section on their Dashboard. The old balance shows the total amount of Bitcoins (BTC) that users had on their wallet address prior to the attack. This balance will be fully reimbursed by NiceHash to users current balances, starting with the initial ten percent of the total amount on Friday, February 2, 2018. Registered users should enter the Repayment program by clicking the “Enter repayment program” button on their Dashboard. Users will be notified about all future payments in advance.

Repayment program for external wallet users
Users who were not registered with NiceHash at the time of the attack and were using the NiceHash service with their external wallet address will also be reimbursed in the same way as internal wallet users. External wallet users can go to the dedicated page and enter their external wallet address (that they were using at the time of the attack) to see their old balance. This balance will be fully reimbursed by NiceHash to users external wallet addresses, starting with the initial ten percent of the total amount on Friday, February 2, 2018. Users will also be able to monitor repayment progress on the miner page.

Conditions for payment to external wallet addresses do apply with the Repayment program. When you reach 0.01 BTC you are eligible for payment. NiceHash will include your old balance in this amount. For example, if your old balance (that is going to be reimbursed) is 0.009 BTC, you still have to mine an additional 0.001 BTC to this external wallet address so you reach 0.01 BTC in total. Once the combined balance shows 0.01 BTC, payment will be made to your external wallet address.

– For additional details about the NiceHash crypto mining platform and their services….

A 3D Printable PCI-E Riser Lock Can Save a Lot of Headaches

29 Jan
2018

Every time you get new PCI-E risers for a new GPU mining rig you may be surprised with build varying build quality and that can affect the stability of the system you are building. Even when the quality is fine there is another common problem that the standard PCI Express risers using USB 3.0 cable printed upwards exhibit – they have the tendency to move a bit in the slot and even at times disconnect. This can cause a bad connection or even a broken one and one or more of your GPUs suddenly disappearing from the miner and you starting to wonder what happened and diagnosing the whole system to find the culprit.

Fortunately there is a simple solution available if you have a 3D printer or a friend with one that can help you print a small and simple, yet very effective PCI-E Riser Lock. The 3D model is available for free on the Thingiverse website made by a user called totembe who is accepting Vertcoin tips from happy users of his creation. The simple plastic clips that you can 3D print hold the small PCB with the PCI-E x1 connector very tight to the PCI-E slot on the motherboard, so that there is no more play and the chances to have these getting disconnected are becoming pretty slim.

The PCI-E Riser Lock take just a few minutes to print and use just about 1 gram of filament and are really useful. You can clip them on both sides of the PCI-E slots, for example if there are some components preventing you from attaching the lock on the front of the slot, then just clip it on the back, it will work. The only slots that you cannot attach these locks are the ones that come with metal shielding/strengthening as they do not have a place to attach the lock to. Also some mining motherboards with more than the usual number of PCI-E slots such as AsRock H110 Pro BTC+ will not work as the slots there are too closely spaced to each other.

Do note that the design of the 3D printable PCI-E Riser Locks is not compatible with the newer designs of the PCI-E risers that have slightly larger x1 PCI-E PCBs and angled USB connectors, but then again these do not seem to suffer from the same issue of getting disconnected as the older design with the USB cable pointing up. It is possible to modify the design of the locking adapter to also work with these relatively easy, but as we’ve said already it might be pointless to use these anyway. We are yet to see similar problems with the angled USB connector risers as with the straight up USB ones, and as you already probably guess the USB connector and cable pointing up is what is causing the problems.

– For more information and to download and 3D print the PCI-e Riser Lock 3D model…

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