Mining Sia

[Klee]

I wanted to try to expand my portfolio of coins to include some newer ones that I think are undervalued and are mined with low difficulty on the off chance that they will increase in value.

So first up is Sia, I installed it and ran it on a GTX 650 before I received my GTX 1080 Ti.

I first tried to get the miner that uses Cuda to work in Linux, its called Marlin but it errored out with a apparently common issue.

So I rebooted into Windows 10 and started over and installed the SiaUi wallet, took freaking forever to sync, but its easy to install then installed Marlin and they work like a champ.

The best performance with my GTX 650 was ~120 Mh/s.

And this past Tuesday I installed my 1080 Ti, of course I tried a few games and other things before I tried to mine with it, but after I fired up Marlin to mine Sia I was in for a shock.

Out put of Marlins benchmark command:
C:\Users\ \Desktop\sia\marlin-1.0.0-win64>marlin.exe --benchmark
2017/06/29 23:59:14 Starting marlin 1.0.0
2017/06/29 23:59:14 CUDA (driver version 8.0)
2017/06/29 23:59:14 [0] GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (CC 6.1)
2017/06/29 23:59:14 OpenCL: NVIDIA CUDA
2017/06/29 23:59:14 [1] GPU: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
2017/06/29 23:59:15 [0] default : 3416.3 MH/s (intensity 30)
2017/06/29 23:59:16 [0] m1p0 : 3552.0 MH/s (intensity 30)
2017/06/29 23:59:17 [0] m1p1 : 3575.7 MH/s (intensity 30)
2017/06/29 23:59:18 [0] m1p1x32 : 3494.1 MH/s (intensity 30)
2017/06/29 23:59:18 [0] m1p4x32 : 3599.7 MH/s (intensity 29)
2017/06/29 23:59:19 [0] m2p0 : 3552.0 MH/s (intensity 29)
2017/06/29 23:59:20 [0] m2p1 : 3540.3 MH/s (intensity 30)
2017/06/29 23:59:21 [0] m2p1x32 : 3471.5 MH/s (intensity 30)
2017/06/29 23:59:22 [0] m2p2 : 3552.0 MH/s (intensity 30)
2017/06/29 23:59:23 [0] m2p2x32 : 3494.1 MH/s (intensity 30)
2017/06/29 23:59:24 [0] m2p4 : 3460.3 MH/s (intensity 30)
2017/06/29 23:59:25 [0] m2p4x32 : 3494.1 MH/s (intensity 30)
2017/06/29 23:59:26 [0] x1p1 : 3575.7 MH/s (intensity 29)
2017/06/29 23:59:26 [0] x1p1x32 : 3471.5 MH/s (intensity 30)
2017/06/29 23:59:27 [0] x1p2x32 : 3575.7 MH/s (intensity 30)
2017/06/29 23:59:28 [0] x1p3x32 : 3528.6 MH/s (intensity 30)
2017/06/29 23:59:29 [0] x1p4x32 : 3528.6 MH/s (intensity 30)
2017/06/29 23:59:30 [0] x1p5x32 : 3599.7 MH/s (intensity 30)

It is literally almost 30 times faster than a GTX 650

I can mine Sia for one day on a GTX 1080 Ti and get about the same or more coins it would take a GTX 650 a MONTH to do.

Sia is only valued at ~1.5 cents each but I really think it will go up, how high I don't have a clue.

 

[Jeggs101]

Is my math right that that's $150/ mo worth of Sia?

 

[Klee]

Is my math right that that's $150/ mo worth of Sia?

I did not check until just now but at 3599.7 MH/s that ends up being $154.07 per month and 10,770 coins mined.

At $.014 each its not a lot of profit and there are other coins that I could mine that would make me more profit now, but if it doubles to a whopping $.03 each it will double my money.

I'm hoping to mine Sia pretty steady until the asic's come out and then i'll have to stop because the difficulty will skyrocket but I hope the value skyrockets also.

 

[Klee]

I had to turn the overclock down a little because Marlin crashed this morning.

At the current difficulty I'm going to avarage a little over 300 coins per day.

Of course this is a desktop so I will stop mining when ever I need to.

At almost stock settings:

 

[Patrick]

Why not mine something more profitable then trade?

 

[Klee]

Why not mine something more profitable then trade?

Because when I first tried to mine Bitcoin they were worth about $.06 each and could not get mining them to work.

Now i'm on a kick to mine new low difficulty coins that I think (hope) that will increase because they might bust loose.

I plan on mining a few interesting coins that I think will have a future and save them on the slim chance that does happen.

With Sia there is an asic coming out that hopefully will not be vaporware so If I mine a few tens of thousands of coins and the price goes up to a couple of dollars or more its worth the chance.

Oh and i'm still mining Monero on my Open Compute server's and now they are up and running I just don't have to touch/play with them at all and need some new coins to play with.

 

[Klee]

Well trying to compile Marlin on Ubuntu 17.04 was just not happening so I found a precompiled binary that works.

Marlin
https://siamine.com/marlin
Its a little slower on Ubuntu because it running at the stock speed unlike running on Windows 10 and using MSI Afterburner to tweak the settings.

 

[Klee]

Seems to run fine.

 

[Klee]

At intensity set at 26-30 its too much to also use the desktop, just too sluggish.

At intensity of 20 the desktop is VERY usable and still mines at 2700 -2800 MH/s

So now when i'm not using my pc I set the intensity to 28 and when im using the pc I set it to 20.

EDIT: This is under Ubuntu 17.04

 

[Klee]

It seems like I can run the intensity at 30 under Windows 10 and it really does not affect the desktop responsiveness much at all.

Plus I can bump the fan to %95 and the power limit to %140 with Afterburner and it runs about 250 MH/s more.

Temp is 69-70c which is cooler than the 72c under Ubuntu 17.04 .

 

[capn_pineapple]

I cannot get this to mine for me, massive issues on windows 10. The SIA UI just doesn't want to let the either the CPU or GPU miners start.

 

[Klee]

What miner program?

You do not have to have the SiaUI running to mine with Marlin in Windows.

 

[Marsh]

@Klee thanks for your SIA mining guide.

I installed SIA-UI , created a SIA wallet, start mining 3 min ago.
Dig out my old GTX 750ti cards, it is doing 310 mh/s on windows 10.
Next up is trying it out on Ubuntu.

 

[capn_pineapple]

I'll grab marlin for windows

Update: Marlin works... it's super slim in terms of profit (talking a few c a day thanks to 25c/kwh), but it's better than a kick in the nads.

Using a GTX780 getting 415MH/s

 

[Klee]

I'll grab marlin for windows

Update: Marlin works... it's super slim in terms of profit (talking a few c a day thanks to 25c/kwh), but it's better than a kick in the nads.

Using a GTX780 getting 415MH/s

Marlin is the easiest so far.

I'm not trying for instant profit, just want to get a few thousand coins to keep before the asics hit so hopefully I'll make something on them in the future.

 

[Klee]

@Klee thanks for your SIA mining guide.

I installed SIA-UI , created a SIA wallet, start mining 3 min ago.
Dig out my old GTX 750ti cards, it is doing 310 mh/s on windows 10.
Next up is trying it out on Ubuntu.

Sure thing!

It's real easy as long as you use the pre-compled binary under Linux, I had too many issues trying to comple it from the source on Ubuntu 17.04.

If your running 16.04.02 it might compile without problems.