I hope all is well with you and yours.
That son of yours must be rather larger these days than when that photo was taken! :-).
The last time I remember seeing you hanging around here was when you contributed what turned out to be the final post in a long and quite fiery thread about one of Akos Fekete's optimised apps that got withdrawn.
That was more than 12 years ago!! Where've you been hiding!! :-).
Hi Gary, yeah he is an inch or 2 taller than me now. You have a better memory than mine with regards to the fiery thread. There were quite a few in the early days! LOL 26 credits per hr! Those were the days....
Crunching and keeping up with the Jones's was getting too costly, so a clean break was required. I just come back on occasion to see how new hardware performs. When running a wu on these embedded Intel GPU's slows the CPU speed right down to min GHz which really effects CPU crunching times (well duh). Looking forward to emptying the queue of S@H GPU WU's and just let this lappy crunch E@H to get a good handle on avg daily credit. I might be around for another couple of weeks.....
In case no knows it yet PrimeGrid has asked to be taken off the GridCoin White List, meaning you could earn GrdiCoins for crunching for PrimeGrid. They did it for security reasons as more money means more incentive to cheat, right now a given user can make about $12 per day but when the price was higher it was up to $270 per day. PG says they have not had a successful hack yet but thought it was just a matter of time so are being pro-active. Collatz got hacked earlier this year and it took a while before they got back online again with the security holes plugged, but they are still on Gridcoins White List. I wonder if other projects will follow PG's lead and ask to be taken off of the White List too, Science Projects being hacked means bad Science is being produced.
I just read another post on Primegrid where there are more cryptocurrency Teams out there and some of their members are apparently cheating as well, Rosetta has been advised of a possible hacker. The two other cryptocurrency ones mentioned are: Byteball.org (https://byteball.org/) and BiblePay (https://www.biblepay.org/) but I'm sure there are others too.
What is this thing called making money using BOINC that I have inferred from your above posts?
Most people do it thru Team Gridcoin, but you MUST join their Team to get the money. There is another way by joining a pool but it didn't seem worthwhile either with the price of Bitcoins dropping down to around $6,000 each right now. At these prices someone who makes alot of credits per day at a place like say Collatz can make about $12 per day more or less. That isn't even enough to pay the electricity costs of running an Nvidia 1080Ti card that you need to get the credits to get that kind of money. The problem is there are some BIG players out there and there is a fixed amount of money every day, meaning the big guys get more credits than you or I do so they get the largest percentage of the money available. For instance I'm doing almost 20 million credits per day at Collatz while the Gridcoin teams and pools are in the 185 million credits per day range. Of course the more people in the Team the less money is available for each person. They have a 'white list' of projects that they will pay gridcoins for the credits you earn every day and of course they are all on the highest credit paying projects and a few of the lower credit paying projects. A Gridcoin is a very small fraction of a Bitcoin.
The Gas Giant wrote:Just
Hi how have you been doing? I haven't seen you around for a while, I hope everything is okay and you are back at the crunching stuff again.
Just warming up a new work
Just warming up a new work laptop for a bit before fading into the background again.
Paul
Hi TGG, I hope all is well
Hi TGG,
I hope all is well with you and yours.
That son of yours must be rather larger these days than when that photo was taken! :-).
The last time I remember seeing you hanging around here was when you contributed what turned out to be the final post in a long and quite fiery thread about one of Akos Fekete's optimised apps that got withdrawn.
That was more than 12 years ago!! Where've you been hiding!! :-).
Cheers,
Gary.
Hi Gary, yeah he is an inch
Hi Gary, yeah he is an inch or 2 taller than me now. You have a better memory than mine with regards to the fiery thread. There were quite a few in the early days! LOL 26 credits per hr! Those were the days....
Crunching and keeping up with the Jones's was getting too costly, so a clean break was required. I just come back on occasion to see how new hardware performs. When running a wu on these embedded Intel GPU's slows the CPU speed right down to min GHz which really effects CPU crunching times (well duh). Looking forward to emptying the queue of S@H GPU WU's and just let this lappy crunch E@H to get a good handle on avg daily credit. I might be around for another couple of weeks.....
Live long and crunch!
Paul
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LMOL!! That's a first!!! LOL!!!
In case no knows it yet
In case no knows it yet PrimeGrid has asked to be taken off the GridCoin White List, meaning you could earn GrdiCoins for crunching for PrimeGrid. They did it for security reasons as more money means more incentive to cheat, right now a given user can make about $12 per day but when the price was higher it was up to $270 per day. PG says they have not had a successful hack yet but thought it was just a matter of time so are being pro-active. Collatz got hacked earlier this year and it took a while before they got back online again with the security holes plugged, but they are still on Gridcoins White List. I wonder if other projects will follow PG's lead and ask to be taken off of the White List too, Science Projects being hacked means bad Science is being produced.
I just read another post on
I just read another post on Primegrid where there are more cryptocurrency Teams out there and some of their members are apparently cheating as well, Rosetta has been advised of a possible hacker. The two other cryptocurrency ones mentioned are: Byteball.org (https://byteball.org/) and BiblePay (https://www.biblepay.org/) but I'm sure there are others too.
What is this thing called
What is this thing called making money using BOINC that I have inferred from your above posts?
Paul
The Gas Giant wrote:What is
Most people do it thru Team Gridcoin, but you MUST join their Team to get the money. There is another way by joining a pool but it didn't seem worthwhile either with the price of Bitcoins dropping down to around $6,000 each right now. At these prices someone who makes alot of credits per day at a place like say Collatz can make about $12 per day more or less. That isn't even enough to pay the electricity costs of running an Nvidia 1080Ti card that you need to get the credits to get that kind of money. The problem is there are some BIG players out there and there is a fixed amount of money every day, meaning the big guys get more credits than you or I do so they get the largest percentage of the money available. For instance I'm doing almost 20 million credits per day at Collatz while the Gridcoin teams and pools are in the 185 million credits per day range. Of course the more people in the Team the less money is available for each person. They have a 'white list' of projects that they will pay gridcoins for the credits you earn every day and of course they are all on the highest credit paying projects and a few of the lower credit paying projects. A Gridcoin is a very small fraction of a Bitcoin.