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Yes. The Team Black miner was added on 22th October 2021.
Since, TBM can produce more than 1-2 % stales with high intensity (--xintensity), pools that reward stale shares is the best for this miner.
Also a high difficulty pool port is recomended with a high intensity setting.
Note that the ethereum blockchain rewards stale work/blocks. They are called uncle blocks. The uncle blocks are protecting the security of the blockchain. The ethereum blockchain pay 87.5% for level 1 stale shares. 6 levels of stale shares are payed, but the lower levels have a lower payout (lower level means later in time).
Most mining pools reward stale work, but some have a buildt in limit of 5% allowed stales. So if you mine with more than 5% stales, the pools can start rejecting your shares or ignore them.
Good pools for TBMiner:
- miningpoolhub (100% reward for level 1 stale shares)
- 2miners (100% reward for level 1 stale shares)
- nanopool (100% reward for level 1 stale shares)
- woolypooly (100% reward for level 1 stale shares)
- antpool (100% reward for level 1 stale shares)
- spiderpool (100% reward for level 1 stale shares)
- f2pool (100% reward for level 1 stale shares)
- uupool (100% reward for level 1 stale shares)
- xnpool.com (100% reward for level 1 stale shares)
- ezil (70% reward for stale shares)
- hiveon (50% reward for stale shares)
You can try for yourself or ask others. Different GPU cards might have different best settings, both with OC and the intensity setting. And the pool is important.
High --xintensity, higher amout of stale shares, higher speed.
Some pools doesn't pay for stales so the setting is pool dependent.
--dagintensity: 1-8(9) is for high memclocks. Use when dag buffer crash on validation. 1 is low (slow dag) 8 on amd is the fastest, 9 on nvidia (0 is default).
--kernel: Different kernels can give a speedup on different models. Your power setting can also count. Autotune will try to find the fastest kernel for you.
NVIDIA:
Miners have reported that --xintensity 3100 and --xintensity 4096 works good on f2pool.com and 2miners.com
AMD:
AMD intensity settings are 1/4 of NVIDIA. For no stale shares use something like --xintensity 24 (flexpool, crazypool, nicehash). -- xintensity -1 is good on miningpoolhub, nanopool, f2pool and 2miners.
- --xintensity 60 works good on the RX 580.
- --xintensity 78 works good on the 6800XT.
Ask us to add it. We will configure the miner.
Yes it might. You can lower the intensity setting (--xintensity) to reduce stale shares.
With the right settings you could have none.
But you can also see stale shares as an extra bonus to accepted shares if you use a pool that pays for stale shares.
A lot, mostly the new cards.
Nvidia RTX series 20xx, 30xx and Amd series 5xxx, 6xxx are known to work very well with this miner.
Run The Black Pill in the background to get a 100% unlock
https://github.com/sp-hash/TheBlackPill
The blackpill will unlock LHR cards on all the supported algos: Ethash, Etchash, Ethash-ZIL , Verthash
Add the commandline option --dagintensity with a low value to prevent computing errors with high OC.
New feature in the latest version. GPUS in the rig can copy the dag buffer between eachother.
Run 1.48 or later. Lower the memclock on one of the gpu's until dag verification works. Then the program will copy this dag onto the other devices. As an alternative you can add another card in the rig that can create the dag. 3080, 3090, 1080ti, 1070, etc..
tips: Try to increase the memclock of the cards that get the dag buffer copied to. You can run stable on +100-200mhz higher mem clocks compared to other miners..
No. No way. But viruses are known to exploit coin mining for profit.
See Vertcoin.
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If it is still not working please submit an issue here at Github.