Cryptocurrency specific topics

[suchamoneypit]

Right now we have a combined area for coin mining, folding, and BoinC. Being a community of hardware enthusiasts, I feel LTT is a great place from crypto-mining specific discussions as well. Coin mining is a very general term, and its clumped in with kinda unrelated topics.

 

I propose we create some Algorithm specific topics. As we are a tech subreddit [lol] Forum, currencies mined well by consumer hardware (not ASIC) would be the focus. Leaving bitcoin for example out of the discussion, Ethash and Cryptonight/Cryptonote would be a good start. This covers currencies such as ETH Ethereum, XMR Monero, and ETN Electroneum. It makes sense to sort them by algorithm as setting up miners and mining efficiency is specific to the algorithm. For example I would use the same miners, and get the same mining power on my hardware if i was talking about ETN or XMR, which both are cryptonight/note algorithm currencies.

 

Would be interesting to discuss with other hardware enthusiasts what kind of performance and what setups they are running, and to have discussions like the best currencies to mine at the time, good items to buy, questions, sharing of mining setups.

[Energycore]

Hey! I've seen this suggestion brought up in the past. At the time we had concluded that mining was fine to stay grouped with Folding and BOINC. However, an argument is to be made that we could have a cryptocurrency / blockchain technology subforum, where we can discuss both the market side and the mining side. It would keep clutter away from the albeit diminishing number of topics that concern BOINC and F@H.

 

Also,

4 minutes ago, suchamoneypit said:

As we are a tech subreddit

How dare you man, this community is an order of magnitude more civilized than reddit. /rant

[suchamoneypit]

4 minutes ago, Energycore said:

Hey! I've seen this suggestion brought up in the past. At the time we had concluded that mining was fine to stay grouped with Folding and BOINC. However, an argument is to be made that we could have a cryptocurrency / blockchain technology subforum, where we can discuss both the market side and the mining side. It would keep clutter away from the albeit diminishing number of topics that concern BOINC and F@H.

 

Also,

How dare you man, this community is an order of magnitude more civilized than reddit. /rant

Haha didntt mean to say subreddit.

 

But yeah exactly I think it would be cool to discuss mining in terms of mining and hardware, as well as the markets and trends with tech-minded people.

[LienusLateTips]

5 minutes ago, Energycore said:

Also,

How dare you man, this community is an order of magnitude more civilized than reddit. /rant

also we are better at tech

 

most of them still recommend stuff like the i5 7600K and EVGA B3 and B1 PSUs, some even bitfenix enso cases.

[colonel_mortis]

 

[suchamoneypit]

7 hours ago, colonel_mortis said:

 

I don't see the reason for NOT separating them though, and I fail to see any negatives of doing so. Even LTT is putting out a bunch of videos on mining themselves as well as mining it themselves.

[colonel_mortis]

1 hour ago, suchamoneypit said:

I don't see the reason for NOT separating them though, and I fail to see any negatives of doing so. Even LTT is putting out a bunch of videos on mining themselves as well as mining it themselves.

We already have a lot of sections, more than enough that people don't find the section that they should be posting in or are interested in, so adding more, especially when it would be splitting one of the least frequently used sections into two even less used ones, is not something that we particularly want to do.

[suchamoneypit]

15 minutes ago, colonel_mortis said:

We already have a lot of sections, more than enough that people don't find the section that they should be posting in or are interested in, so adding more, especially when it would be splitting one of the least frequently used sections into two even less used ones, is not something that we particularly want to do.

 

 

Right now we have one topic, make it two. One specific to Folding/BoinC, and the other for Crypto Mining, and have it have those little subcategories like the above screenshot for the specific algorithms? Both communities satisfied with minimal clutter added.

 

Clear and clutter free way of adding it. Just a suggestion. I wont be upset if it doesn't happen just adding to discussion.