Hello All!
AIOMiner Alpha 7 is here and with it comes AMD support.
In this release we have given you the fastest way to mine for new people. In 5 clicks after install you can be mining and be on your way.
For anyone new, this is used to help you run your rig or desktop miner to help you manage your pools and mine with ease.
But here are some key new things, read more on the GitHub Page

• AMD Support
  
• Dual mining supprt (with advanced configurations)
  
• Ability to change the miner settings for each pool (advanced settings for the selected pool)
  
• Now installs with a new installer to help make it easier to install (you download the files from servers now)
  
• The ability to remove the reboot on failures
  
• You can now change how many failures would be required for a reboot to happen
  
• Supported pools (FlyPool, Ethermine) now have a blue link when mining so you can see where you are mining to with a simple click (we support all pools, but these pools give a blue link to show a quick link to your workers)
  
• Monitor Window is gone, it's now a status bar on the main page
  
• Fixed Test Pools to work with all algo's
  
• Replaced ETHMiner with Claymore
  
• Added more mining software to it
  
• Allowed the enable/disable of GPU's where avaiable for the application ()
  

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GENERAL INFORMATION

0xBitcoin (0xBTC) is the first mineable ERC20 token on Ethereum. It uses mining for distribution, unlike all previous ERC20 tokens which were assigned to the contract deployer upon creation. 0xBTC is the first implementation of the EIP918 mineable token standard (https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-918), which opened up the possibility of a whole new class of mineable assets on Ethereum. Without any ICO, airdrop, pre-mine, or founder’s reward, 0xBitcoin is arguably the most decentralized asset in the Ethereum ecosystem, including even Ether (ETH), which had a large ICO.
The goal of 0xBitcoin is to be looked at as a currency and store of value asset on Ethereum. Its 21 million token hard cap and predictable issuance give it scarcity and transparency in terms of monetary policy, both things that Ether lacks. 0xBitcoin has certain advantages over PoW based currencies, such as compatibility with smart contracts and decentralized exchanges. In addition, 0xBTC cannot be 51% attacked (without attacking Ethereum), is immune from the “death spiral”, and will receive the benefits of scaling and other improvements to the Ethereum network.
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GETTING 0xBITCOIN TOKENS

0xBitcoin can be mined using typical PC hardware, traded on exchanges (either decentralized or centralized) or purchased from specific sites/contracts.

-Mined using PC hardware

-Traded on exchanges such as

• Enclaves (https://enclaves.io/trade/0xBTC) 0xBTC/ETH
  
• Fork Delta (https://forkdelta.app/#!/trade/0xBTC-ETH) 0xBTC/ETH
  
• Mercatox (https://mercatox.com/) 0xBTC/ETH and 0xBTC/BTC
  
• IDEX (https://idex.market/eth/0xbtc) 0xBTC/ETH
  
• or Traded OTC on the 0xBitcoin Discord or wherever traders see fit.
  ~more listings are in the works. Feel free to suggest 0xBTC to your favorite exchanges!
  

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MINING IN A NUTSHELL

0xBitcoin is a Smart Contract on the Ethereum network, and the concept of Token Mining is patterned after Bitcoin's distribution. Rather than solving 'blocks', work is issued by the contract, which also maintains a Difficulty which goes up or down depending on how often a Reward is issued. Miners can put their hardware to work to claim these rewards, in concert with specialized software, working either by themselves or together as a Pool. The total lifetime supply of 0xBitcoin is 21,000,000 tokens and rewards will repeatedly halve over time.
The 0xBitcoin contract was deployed by Infernal_Toast at Ethereum address: 0xb6ed7644c69416d67b522e20bc294a9a9b405b31

• MINING IN MORE DETAIL (Gee-Whiz Info)

0xBitcoin's smart contract, running on the Ethereum network, maintains a changing "Challenge" (that is generated from the previous Ethereum block hash) and an adjusting Difficulty Target. Like traditional mining, the miners use the SoliditySHA3 algorithm to solve for a Nonce value that, when hashed alongside the current Challenge and their Minting Ethereum Address, is less-than-or-equal-to the current Difficulty Target. Once a miner finds a solution that satisfies the requirements, they can submit it into the contract (calling the Mint() function). This is most often done through a mining pool. The Ethereum address that submits a valid solution first is sent the 50 0xBTC Reward.
(In the case of Pools, valid solutions that do not satisfy the full difficulty specified by the 0xBitcoin contract, but that DO satisfy the Pool's specified Minimum Share Difficulty, get a 'share'. When one of the Miners on that Pool finds a "Full" solution, the number of shares each miner's address has submitted is used to calculate how much of the 50 0xBTC reward they will get. After a Reward is issued, the Challenge changes.

• HOW DIFFICULTY ADJUSTMENT WORKS

A Retarget happens every 1024 rewards. In short, the Contract tries to target an Average Reward Time of about 60 times the Ethereum block time. So (at the time of this writing):
~13.9 seconds \* 60 = 13.9 minutes
If the average Reward Time is longer than that, the difficulty will decrease. If it's shorter, it will increase. How much longer or shorter it was affects the magnitude with which the difficulty will rise/drop, to a maximum of 50%. * Click Here to visit the stats page~ (https://0x1d00ffff.github.io/0xBTC-Stats) to see recent stats and block times, feel free to ask questions about it if you need help understanding it.
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MINING HARDWARE

Presently, 0xBitcoin and "Alt Tokens" can be mined on GPUs, CPUs, IGPs (on-CPU graphics) and certain FPGAs. The most recommended hardware is nVidia graphics cards for their efficiency, ubiquity and relatively low cost. As general rules, the more cores and the higher core frequency (clock) you can get, the more Tokens you will earn!

Mining on nVidia cards:

• Pascal (GTX 10x0) cards are usually the best choice due to their power efficiency. Maxwell-Generation 2 (GTX 9xx) cards are also a good choice and are often great overclockers, but they use more powegenerate more heat. Any fairly-recent nVidia card supporting CUDA should be capable of mining Tokens. It's possible to mine in OpenCL mode on nVidia devices, but It is preferable to use a CUDA for substantially better performance. (See Mining Software section.)

Mining on AMD cards:

• AMD GPUs are quite capable of Token mining, though they can't achieve quite the same performance that nV/CUDA GPUs can at this time. Because of their typically-high memory bandwidth (especially cards with HBM/HBM2), it is possible to mine 0xBitcoin/ERC918 Tokens alongside a Video Memory-intensive algorithm like Ethash or Cryptonight! (See Mining Software section.)

Mining on IGPs (e.g. AMD Radeon and Intel HD Graphics):

• This type of GPU is considerably less powerful than a discrete GPU, but is still capable of mining. They can supplement hashpower from other devices. The best performance should come from a chip with a larger number of Shader cores (like a Zen-based APU), but even typical Intel IGPs can submit shares and earn Tokens. (See Mining Software section.)

Clocks and Power Levels:

• The algorithm used for 0xBitcoin and Alt-Token mining uses the faster memories in a GPU core instead of Video Memory. As a result, it is advisable to underclock the Memory, which will save a little power, reduce memory temperature and sometimes enable the GPU core to hit higher clock speeds with stability. A card's Power Limit and Core Voltage can be tweaked to attain the best efficiency for individual cards.
  ~Pascal cards (like GTX 10x0) are generally more temperature-sensitive when overclocked. Reducing Core temperature can often stabilize higher overclocks better than adding voltage can. Maxwell-Gen2 cards (like GTX 9xx) can usually be overclocked further at higher temperatures.
  

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MINING SOFTWARE AND DESCRIPTIONS

For the most up-to-date version info, download links, thread links and author contact information, please see this thread: https://www.reddit.com/0xbitcoin/comments/8o06dk/links_to_the_newestbest_miners_for_nvidia_amd/ Keep up to date for the latest speed, stability and feature enhancements!

COSMiC Miner by LtTofu:

• V4.x versions are a near-total 'Modern' C++ rewrite/redesign for 64-bit Windows, built for speed, ease-of-use and stability. It supports nVidia/CUDA devices and Pool Mining. Solo/CPU mining both planned. Features a fully-integrated GUI, numerous optimizations assembly functions for speed (nicknamed 'Hashburner'), and supports multiple GPUs running in a single instance since v4.1. Auto-Donation/devfee of 1.5% (default of 1.5%.) Under active development!
  

  -COSMiC Miner 3.4t by LtTofu:

  A fork of 0xBitcoin-Miner designed for enhanced speed and less invalid shares at the Pool level. It is somewhat older and is built using a combination of NodeJS/C++/CUDA. It has versions available for 64-bit Windows and Linux and runs from a command-line interface. Comes in multiple versions with 1, 1.5 or 2% "Auto-Donation"/devfee. Not under development at this time, but still relevant.
  

SoliditySha3Miner by Amano7:

• A Command-Line Interface miner that aims to provide functionality similar to that of "CCMiner" for other algorithms for 0xBitcoin and other ERC-918s. As such, it offers an API for integrating with Mining management software and integration with HiveOS & EthOS. It also supports OpenCL devices (such as AMD cards and Intel IGPs.) Has a minimum Auto-Donation/devfee of 1.5% (with a default of 2.0%.) Under active development!

AIOMiner All-In-One GPU Miner:

• AIOMiner is an All-In-One GPU Mining software for Windows that boasts support for over 55 different algorithms, is free to use, and eliminates the need to configure batch files through its easy to use interface.

TokenMiner by MVis (Mining-Visualizer):

• TokenMiner is based upon Genoil Ethminer and was the first to add support for OpenCL devices (AMD GPUs/APUs.) It supports CPU and Pool/Solo mining from its command-line interface (in -C or -G, -S or -P modes.) It can also mine on nVidia/CUDA cards (in OpenCL mode, albeit with lesser performance.) Has a 1% "devfee" running in Pool Mode. This miner has since been forked for compatibility with some FPGAs!

"Nabiki"/2.10.4 by Azlehria:

• v2.10.4 is an enhancement of the original 0xBitcoin-Miner with CUDA support added by Mikers and enhanced by Azlehria. "Nabiki" is a C++-only version, with no NodeJS code, which supports Pool Mining (just not Solo) and works on Windows 64-bit and Linux. Source code is available with pre-packaged binaries and a GUI in the works. Has a 2.5% "devfee". Under active development!

~Older Miners: Older and possibly-unsupported miner versions can be found at the above link for historical purposes and specific applications- including the original NodeJS CPU miner by Infernal Toast/Zegordo, the '1000x' NodeJS/C++ hybrid version of 0xBitcoin-Miner and Mikers' enhanced CUDA builds.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION...

If you have any trouble, the friendly and helpful 0xBitcoin community will be happy to help you out. Discord has kind of become 0xBTC's community hub, you can get answers the fastest from devs and helpful community members. Or message one of the community members on reddit listed below.

Links

• Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/xAPwaDC
  
• 0xBitcoin Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/0xbitcoin/
  
• 0xBitcoin Forum: http://forum.0xbtc.io/
  
• Token Mining Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/tokenmining/
  
• 0xBitcoin Website: https://www.0xbitcoin.org
  
• MineableToken.world: https://www.mineabletoken.world/ ERC-918 Mineable Token information portal
  

  Community members-ping for more info

  Infernal_Toast
  snissn
  LieutenantTofu
  userbrn1
  BlazeHuntley
  beeherder
  

DigiByte

What are cryptocurrencies?
Cryptocurrencies are peer to peer technology protocols which rely on the block-chain; a system of decentralized record keeping which allows people to exchange unmodifiable and indestructible information “coins,” globally in little to no time with little to no fees – this translates into the exchange of value as these coins cannot be counterfeit nor stolen. This concept was started by Satoshi Nakamoto (allegedly a pseudonym for a single man or organization) whom described and coded Bitcoin in 2009.
What is DigiByte?
DigiByte (DGB) is a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. It is also a decentralized applications protocol in a similar fashion to Neo or Ethereum.
DigiByte was founded and created by Jared Tate in 2014. DigiByte allows for fast (virtually instant) and low cost (virtually free) transactions. DigiByte is hard capped at 21 billion coins which will ever be mined, over a period of 21 years. DigiByte was never an ICO and was mined/created in the same way that Bitcoin or Litecoin initially were.
DigiByte is the fastest UTXO PoW scalable block-chain in the world. We’ll cover what this really means down below.
DigiByte has put forth and applied solutions to many of the problems that have plagued Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general – those being:

• Maintaining decentralisation.
• Maintaining low fees.
• Maintaining fast transaction times.
• Maintaining robust security + the immutable ledger.
• And most importantly assuring massive scalability on chain.

We will address these point by point in the subsequent sections.
The DigiByte Protocol
DigiByte maintains these properties through use of various technological innovations which we will briefly address below.
Why so many coins? 21 Billion
When initially conceived Bitcoin was the first of a kind! And came into the hands of a few! The beginnings of a coin such as Bitcoin were difficult, it had to go through a lot of initial growth pains which following coins did not have to face. It is for this reason among others why I believe Bitcoin was capped at 21 million; and why today it has thus secured a place as digital gold.
When Bitcoin was first invented no one knew anything about cryptocurrencies, for the inventor to get them out to the public he would have to give them away. This is how the first Bitcoins were probably passed on, for free! But then as interest grew so did the community. For them to be able to build something and create something which could go on to have actual value, it would have to go through a steady growth phase. Therefore, the control of inflation through mining was extremely important. Also, why the cap for Bitcoin was probably set so low - to allow these coins to amass value without being destroyed by inflation (from mining) in the same way fiat is today! In my mind Satoshi Nakamoto knew what he was doing when setting it at 21 million BTC and must have known and even anticipated others would take his design and build on top of it.
At DigiByte, we are that better design and capped at 21 billion. That's 1000 times larger than the supply of Bitcoin. Why though? Why is the cap on DigiByte so much higher than that of Bitcoin? Because DigiByte was conceived to be used not as a digital gold, nor as any sort of commodity, but as a real currency!
Today on planet Earth, we are approximately 7.6 billion people. If each person should want or need to use and live off Bitcoin; then equally split at best each person could only own 0.00276315789 BTC. The market cap for all the money on the whole planet today is estimated to have recently passed 80 trillion dollars. That means that each whole unit of Bitcoin would be worth approximately $3,809,523.81!
$3,809,523.81
This is of course in an extreme case where everyone used Bitcoin for everything. But even in a more conservative scenario the fact remains that with such a low supply each unit of a Bitcoin would become absurdly expensive if not inaccessible to most. Imagine trying to buy anything under a dollar!
Not only would using Bitcoin as an everyday currency be a logistical nightmare but it would be nigh impossible. For each Satoshi of a Bitcoin would be worth much, much, more than what is realistically manageable.
This is where DigiByte comes in and where it shines. DigiByte aims to be used world-wide as an international currency! Not to be hoarded in the same way Bitcoin is. If we were to do some of the same calculations with DigiByte we'd find that the numbers are a lot more reasonable.
At 7.6 billion people, each person could own 2.76315789474 DGB. Each whole unit of DGB would be worth approximately $3,809.52.
$3,809.52
This is much more manageable and remember in an extreme case where everyone used DigiByte for everything! I don't expect this to happen anytime soon, but with the supply of DigiByte it would allow us to live and transact in a much more realistic and fluid fashion. Without having to divide large numbers on our phone's calculator to understand how much we owe for that cup of coffee! With DigiByte it's simple, coffee cost 1.5 DGB, the cinema 2.8 DGB, a plane ticket 500 DGB!
There is a reason for DigiByte's large supply, and it is a good one!
Decentralisation
Decentralisation is an important concept for the block-chain and cryptocurrencies in general. This allows for a system which cannot be controlled nor manipulated no matter how large the organization in play or their intentions. DigiByte’s chain remains out of the reach of even the most powerful government. This allows for people to transact freely and openly without fear of censorship.
Decentralisation on the DigiByte block-chain is assured by having an accessible and fair mining protocol in place – this is the multi-algorithm (MultiAlgo) approach. We believe that all should have access to DigiByte whether through purchase or by mining. Therefore, DigiByte is minable not only on dedicated mining hardware such as Antminers, but also through use of conventional graphics cards. The multi-algorithm approach allows for users to mine on a variety of hardware types through use of one of the 5 mining algorithms supported by DigiByte. Those being:

• Scrypt
• SHA256
• Qubit
• Skein
• Groestl

Please note that these mining algorithms are modified and updated from time to time to assure complete decentralisation and thus ultimate security.
The problem with using only one mining algorithm such as Bitcoin or Litecoin do is that this allows for people to continually amass mining hardware and hash power. The more hash power one has, the more one can collect more. This leads to a cycle of centralisation and the creation of mining centres. It is known that a massive portion of all hash power in Bitcoin comes from China. This kind of centralisation is a natural tendency as it is cheaper for large organisations to set up in countries with inexpensive electricity and other such advantages which may be unavailable to the average miner.
DigiByte mitigates this problem with the use of multiple algorithms. It allows for miners with many different kinds of hardware to mine the same coin on an even playing field. Mining difficulty is set relative to the mining algorithm used. This allows for those with dedicated mining rigs to mine alongside those with more modest machines – and all secure the DigiByte chain while maintaining decentralisation.
Low Fees
Low fees are maintained in DigiByte thanks to the MultiAlgo approach working in conjunction with MultiShield (originally known as DigiShield). MultiShield calls for block difficulty readjustment between every single block on the chain; currently blocks last 15 seconds. This continuous difficulty readjustment allows us to combat any bad actors which may wish to manipulate the DigiByte chain.
Manipulation may be done by a large pool or a single entity with a great amount of hash power mining blocks on the chain; thus, increasing the difficulty of the chain. In some coins such as Bitcoin or Litecoin difficulty is readjusted every 2016 blocks at approximately 10mins each and 2mins respectively. Meaning that Bitcoin’s difficulty is readjusted about every two weeks. This system can allow for large bad actors to mine a coin and then abandon it, leaving it with a difficulty level far too high for the present hash rate – and so transactions can be frozen, and the chain stopped until there is a difficulty readjustment and or enough hash power to mine the chain. In such a case users may be faced with a choice - pay exorbitant fees or have their transactions frozen. In an extreme case the whole chain could be frozen completely for extended periods of time.
DigiByte does not face this problem as its difficulty is readjusted per block every 15 seconds. This innovation was a technological breakthrough and was adopted by several other coins in the cryptocurrency environment such as Dogecoin, Z-Cash, Ubiq, Monacoin, and Bitcoin Gold.
This difficulty readjustment along with the MultiAlgo approach allows DigiByte to maintain the lowest fees of any UTXO – PoW – chain in the world. Currently fees on the DigiByte block-chain are at about 0.0001 DGB per transaction of 100 000 DGB sent. This depends on the amount sent and currently 100 000 DGB are worth around $2000.00 with the fee being less than 0.000002 cents. It would take 500 000 transactions of 100 000 DGB to equal 1 penny’s worth. This was tested on a Ledger Nano S set to the low fees setting.
Fast transaction times
Fast transactions are ensured by the conjunctive use of the two aforementioned technology protocols. The use of MultiShield and MultiAlgo allows the mining of the DigiByte chain to always be profitable and thus there is always someone mining your transactions. MultiAlgo allows there to a greater amount of hash power spread world-wide, this along with 15 second block times allows for transactions to be near instantaneous. This speed is also ensured by the use DigiSpeed. DigiSpeed is the protocol by which the DigiByte chain will decrease block timing gradually. Initially DigiByte started with 30 second block times in 2014; which today are set at 15 seconds. This decrease will allow for ever faster and ever more transactions per block.
Robust security + The Immutable Ledger
At the core of cryptocurrency security is decentralisation. As stated before decentralisation is ensured on the DigiByte block chain by use of the MultiAlgo approach. Each algorithm in the MultiAlgo approach of DigiByte is only allowed about 20% of all new blocks. This in conjunction with MultiShield allows for DigiByte to be the most secure, most reliable, and fastest UTXO block chain on the planet. This means that DigiByte is a proof of work (PoW) block-chain where all transactional activities are stored on the immutable public ledger world-wide. In DigiByte there is no need for the Lightning protocol (although we have it) nor sidechains to scale, and thus we get to keep PoW’s security.
There are many great debates as to the robustness or cleanliness of PoW. The fact remains that PoW block-chains remain the only systems in human history which have never been hacked and thus their security is maximal.
For an attacker to divert the DigiByte chain they would need to control over 93% of all the hashrate on one algorithm and 51% of the other four. And so DigiByte is immune to the infamous 51% attack to which Bitcoin and Litecoin are vulnerable.
Moreover, the DigiByte block-chain is currently spread over 200 000 plus servers, computers, phones, and other machines world-wide. The fact is that DigiByte is one of the easiest to mine coins there is – this is greatly aided by the recent release of the one click miner. This allows for ever greater decentralisation which in turn assures that there is no single point of failure and the chain is thus virtually un-attackable.
On Chain Scalability
The biggest barrier for block-chains today is scalability. Visa the credit card company can handle around 2000 transactions per second (TPS) today. This allows them to ensure customer security and transactional rates nation-wide. Bitcoin currently sits at around 7 TPS and Litecoin at 28 TPS (56 TPS with SegWit). All the technological innovations I’ve mentioned above come together to allow for DigiByte to be the fastest PoW block-chain in the world and the most scalable.
DigiByte is scalable because of DigiSpeed, the protocol through which block times are decreased and block sizes are increased. It is known that a simple increase in block size can increase the TPS of any block-chain, such is the case with Bitcoin Cash. This is however not scalable. The reason a simple increase in block size is not scalable is because it would eventually lead to some if not a great amount of centralization. This centralization occurs because larger block sizes mean that storage costs and thus hardware cost for miners increases. This increase along with full blocks – meaning many transactions occurring on the chain – will inevitably bar out the average miner after difficulty increases and mining centres consolidate.
Hardware cost, and storage costs decrease over time following Moore’s law and DigiByte adheres to it perfectly. DigiSpeed calls for the increase in block sizes and decrease in block timing every two years by a factor of two. This means that originally DigiByte’s block sizes were 1 MB at 30 seconds each at inception in 2014. In 2016 DigiByte increased block size by two and decreased block timing by the same factor. Perfectly following Moore’s law. Moore’s law dictates that in general hardware increases in power by a factor of two while halving in cost every year.
This would allow for DigiByte to scale at a steady rate and for people to adopt new hardware at an equally steady rate and reasonable expense. Thus so, the average miner can continue to mine DigiByte on his algorithm of choice with entry level hardware.
DigiByte was one of the first block chains to adopt segregated witness (SegWit in 2017) a protocol whereby a part of transactional data is removed and stored elsewhere to decrease transaction data weight and thus increase scalability and speed. This allows us to fit more transactions per block which does not increase in size!
DigiByte currently sits at 560 TPS and could scale to over 280 000 TPS by 2035. This dwarfs any of the TPS capacities; even projected/possible capacities of some coins and even private companies. In essence DigiByte could scale worldwide today and still be reliable and robust. DigiByte could even handle the cumulative transactions of all the top 50 coins in coinmarketcap.com and still run smoothly and below capacity. In fact, to max out DigiByte’s actual maximum capacity (today at 560 TPS) you would have to take all these transactions and multiply them by a factor of 10!
Oher Uses for DigiByte
Note that DigiByte is not only to be used as a currency. Its immense robustness, security and scalability make it ideal for building decentralised applications (DAPPS) which it can host. DigiByte can in fact host DAPPS and even centralised versions which rely on the chain which are known as Digi-Apps. This application layer is also accompanied by a smart contract layer.
Thus, DigiByte could host several Crypto Kitties games and more without freezing out or increasing transaction costs for the end user.
Currently there are various DAPPS being built on the DigiByte block-chain, these are done independently of the DigiByte core team. These companies are simply using the DigiByte block-chain as a utility much in the same way one uses a road to get to work. One such example is Loly – a Tinderesque consensual dating application.
DigiByte also hosts a variety of other platform projects such as the following:

• DigiPay – A jqeury online payment protocol portal web plugin.
• DigiByte DigiHash - The official DigiByte foundation mining pool.
• DigiByte Digi-ID – A platform for identity verification to be used in lieu of two factor authentication and passwords.
• DigiByte Playground – An interactive Javascript sandbox for developers.
• DigiByte Emma AI – A DigiByte interactive artificial intelligence assistant.
• DigiByte DigiMan – A web browser plugin to be used as a security layer two protocol.
• DigiByte DigiSeeder – A background seeding service which assures all wallets quickly find other peers in the network.
• DigiByte DigiMessenger – A ground-breaking messaging application built on top of DigiByte which features robust and virtually unbreakable encryption.
• DigiByte OneClickMiner – An easy to set up application which allows users to quickly start mining DigiByte on their home machines.
• DigiByte DigiBot – A telegram bot for users to interact with DigiByte and more.

The DigiByte Foundation
As previously mentioned DigiByte was not an ICO. The DigiByte foundation was established in 2017 by founder Jared Tate. Its purpose is as a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and developing the DigiByte block-chain.
DigiByte is a community effort and a community coin, to be treated as a public resource as water or air. Know that anyone can work on DigiByte, anyone can create, and do as they wish. It is a permissionless system which encourages innovation and creation. If you have an idea and or would like to get help on your project do not hesitate to contact the DigiByte foundation either through the official website and or the telegram developer’s channel.
For this reason, it is ever more important to note that the DigiByte foundation cannot exist without public support. And so, this is the reason I encourage all to donate to the foundation. All funds are used for the maintenance of DigiByte servers, marketing, and DigiByte development.
DigiByte Resources and Websites
DigiByte

• DigiByte.io
• DigiByteFoundation.org
• DigiExplorer.info
• DigiHash.co
• DigiByteNetwork.com

Wallets

• Windows Wallet
• OS X Wallet
• DigiByte Go
• Android Wallet
• iOS Wallet
• Rasberry Pi Wallet
• Trezor Hardware
• Ledger Hardware Wallet

Explorers

• Digiexplorer.info
• chainz.cryptoid.info/DGB

Please refer to the sidebar of this sub-reddit for more resources and information.
Edit - Removed Jaxx wallet.
Edit - A new section was added to the article: Why so many coins? 21 Billion
Edit - Adjusted max capacity of DGB's TPS - Note it's actually larger than I initially calculated.
Edit – Grammar and format readjustment
Hello,
I hope you’ve enjoyed my article, I originally wrote this for the reddit sub-wiki where it generally will most likely, probably not, get a lot of attention. So instead I've decided to make this sort of an introductory post, an open letter, to any newcomers to DGB or for those whom are just curious.
I tried to cover every aspect of DGB, but of course I may have forgotten something! Please leave a comment down below and tell me why you're in DGB? What convinced you? Me it's the decentralised PoW that really convinced me. Plus, just that transaction speed and virtually no fees! Made my mouth water!
-Dereck de Mézquita
I'm a student typing this stuff on my free time, help me pay my debts? Thank you!
D64fAFQvJMhrBUNYpqUKQjqKrMLu76j24g
https://digiexplorer.info/address/D64fAFQvJMhrBUNYpqUKQjqKrMLu76j24g

• This version is out-of-date! Please update to v4.1.3t available on my Bitbucket. *

Release Thread: https://www.reddit.com/0xbitcoin/comments/c1590e/cosmic_v413t_update_nvidiacuda_win64_guibased/
Thanks!
Hello, 0xBitcoin Community! I'm happy to share my work with you today! This is a brand new CUDA miner for Pool-Mining 0xBitcoin and similar ERC-918 tokens like 0xBitcoinCash/0xKIWI. I've rewritten COSMiC from the ground up, using the best parts of v3.4 (the fastest/most stable release prior to this one.) Presenting, COSMiC V4! As I add more features to this miner, my goal is to make it as simple and pleasant to use as possible for newcomers to 0xBitcoin and mining in general.
SCREENSHOTS:

• https://imgur.com/a/w6YjKXJ

DOWNLOAD: (Out-Of-Date: See v4.0.1 link above)

• https://bitbucket.org/LieutenantTofu/cosmic-v3/downloads/COSMiC%20V4.0a%20Public%20Test%201.7z (7Zip)
• https://bitbucket.org/LieutenantTofu/cosmic-v3/downloads/COSMiC%20V4.0a%20Public%20Test%201.zip (ZIP)

FEATURES:

• Totally rewritten. All C++ and CUDA, with no NodeJS aftertaste.
• It's fast. Might be the fastest. On my systems, it outpaced the other 0xBitcoin CUDA miners I've tested, including 3.4t by a small margin.
• Very low CPU usage and a fraction of the application size.
• Has a Full Windows GUI for maximum ease-of-use, quick configuration and stable, at-a-glance display
• Designed to receive remarkably few Invalid Shares at the Pool Level compared to previous miners
• In testing, worked nicely with +1 intensity vs. my usual settings with COSMIC v3.4t for a boost from 502->513 MH/s on my 1060-3gb (stock). Also getting great performance with my good ol' GTX970.
• Tested on Pascal (1050ti, 1060-3GB) and Maxwell Gen2 (GTX970), should work on cards as old as Kepler
• Auto-Donation is set by default to 1.5%. This can be adjusted in the Options->Configure... dialog box. Your support is greatly appreciated :)
• Optimizations and changes to the CUDA engine ("Hashburner") from v3.4/3.5a(test) have been applied to V4.0a.

WHAT'S COMING SOON:

• Mining on multiple GPUs in one instance of the application
• Reintroducing the Hardware Monitoring features of the v3.5a Test (temperature, power, fan speed, automatic thermal shutdown)
• Solo Mining of 0xBitcoin and "Alt-Tokens"

COMPATIBILITY:
Should work on nVidia(CUDA) cards Kepler(6xx-series) and up. Tested on Maxwell Gen2(9xx) and Pascal (GTX10x0). Developed on Windows 10. Should work on 8.1 and up (probably works on 7.) This is a 64-bit application and expects a 64-bit version of Windows.
Non-English Windows Users: **If the program crashes or doesn't launch when you double-click Cosmic.exe, please open the file Cosmic.exe.Config and change the 1.5 to read 1,5 - This is a bug with how decimal points are handled by a Windows function. I will add a fix right away. This workaround will hopefully fix the issue for you in the meantime. :) You should not need to edit the Config file manually in any other circumstance- just use the Options->Configure... menu item to quickly get set up.
You can probably also change this setting in Windows' 'Region & Language Settings' > 'Additional Date, Time and Regional Settings' > 'Change Date, Time or Number Formats' > 'Additional Settings' > Decimal Symbol `.`
HOW TO USE:
This is a brand new miner and as such only runs one GPU per instance. Multi-GPU support coming soon. See below for more info on using multiple GPUs.

• Extract the 7Zip or ZIP file to a convenient location.
• Check out README.txt or choose About->Help/About in the Menu Bar, or Press F1.
• Run Cosmic.exe.
• Configure the miner using the Options->Configure... menu item. There is normally no need to manually edit the config file. If you've already configured, your settings will be saved from last time.
• Click 'Start Mining!'

MULTI-GPU INSTRUCTIONS:

• Launch Cosmic.exe, Configure and Start Mining. If you've already configured, your settings will be saved from last time.
• Launch the program again the same way. Choose menu item Options->Configure... Pick a GPU # (numbering starts from 0!) and appropriate Intensity.
• Save Settings and Start Mining!
• Repeat as needed.
• NOTE: When you open the Configure... dialog, it will display the last configuration that was saved. You can extract multiple copies of COSMiC to their own folders, named with the device's number or however you prefer, which have their own configuration file.

A WORD ON INTENSITIES:

• You will need to find the ideal intensity for your devices(GPUs). Try turning it up in increments of 1 and Start Mining. Increase until hashrate stops rising, hashrate drops or instability occurs. Then lower it slightly.
• Turning down Intensity can improve system responsiveness in the OS/other applications if the card is used as your Display Adapter (connected to a monitor, set as Primary, etc.) You can also disable Hardware Acceleration in applications and reduce GPU usage by Windows.
• I've found that I was able to use an Intensity setting 1 higher than with v3.4(t), for example, 26 instead of 25 on my 1060-3gb. This yielded a boost from 502 to 511 MH/s average (stock). See what your card(s) are capable of. :)

PERFORMANCE TIPS:

• Other applications using the device (Discord, Chrome, Firefox, Windows) will lower hashrate. Try disabling Hardware Acceleration if you have a strong enough CPU.
• Be sure to set the ideal intensity for your particular hardware. Default is 24.
• Decrease your Video Memory/VRAM clock speed to stabilize a higher GPU Core overclock (all overclocking is done at your own risk!) I suggest trying -300 MHz below your default speed.*
• COSMiC uses no video memory, and instead does all of its work inside the GPU, using registers and caches which are much faster. Therefore, lower VRAM clocks can work in your favor by reducing power draw (allowing higher GPU boosting) and potentially stabilizing better core OCs.

Please let me know what you think and help me to make this the best miner that it can be. :) I can be found here on Reddit or, for a faster response, look for me on the Discord (see sidebar) with the username @LtTofu [ Mag517 ]
Thanks for your support and feedback!

This is an update to COSMiC V4, an nVidia(CUDA) Token Miner for 0xBTC and other ERC-918 tokens. Users are encouraged to upgrade. Read the rest of this thread or check the README / About/Help Dialog box for info on changes. Enjoy and Happy Hashing :)
** NOTE: this is a very old build! Newest version (4.1.3t) as of this writing, see release thread: https://www.reddit.com/0xbitcoin/comments/c1590e/cosmic_v413t_update_nvidiacuda_win64_guibased/
or the Bitbucket downloads section- latest uploads are at the top: https://bitbucket.org/LieutenantTofu/cosmic-v3/downloads/
** thanks! **

SCREENSHOTS:

• https://imgur.com/gallery/78xgxKR

DOWNLOAD:

• https://bitbucket.org/LieutenantTofu/cosmic-v3/downloads/COSMiC_V4.0.1t-Win64.7z (7-Zip)
• https://bitbucket.org/LieutenantTofu/cosmic-v3/downloads/COSMiC_V4.0.1t-Win64.zip (ZIP)

GETTING STARTED VIDEO:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uEczwlFBbE (for a previous version, but the same instructions apply.)

CHANGES THIS VERSION:

• Added an Auto-Start feature (enable in the Config... menu dialog). If enabled, the miner will start on its own when launched.
• Fixed a bug which could cause the program not to start on Windows regions that use , instead of . in decimal numbers.
• Better handling of network/pool comm. errors. Automatically pauses on many consecutive errors. The miner will re-start mining when the pool can be contacted again.
• Compiled for a wider range of GPUs. All CUDA devices from Kepler up to Volta should work.
• Difficulty Update Frequency can now be configured by the user. This is helpful for Dual-Mining pools or VARDIFF ones. Hover over the option in Configure ... dialog to read how it works.
• Substantially reduced memory usage.
• Condensed UI for a smaller, neater window.
• Various bug-fixes and cleanup.

FEATURES:

• Mining of 0xBitcoin and Alt-Tokens on TokenPools
• Uses nVidia CUDA Devices (e.g. GPUs) with architectures from Kepler to Volta
• A Full Windows 64-bit GUI Application w/ easy point-and-click interface
• No need to edit Config files manually (does not use .0xbitcoin dir)
• Very Fast: Possibly the Fastest ERC918 CUDA Miner in the Cosmos!
• Aims for minimal stale/invalid shares at the Pool Level- in testing I can go 40 hours without an invalid share (mining w/ a 1060 and a 970)
• Configurable Auto-Donation (a.k.a. DevFee, min default is 1.5%.) I donate tokens to promising projects, such as @0x1d00ffff's excellent 0xBitcoin Stats site. :)

WHAT'S COMING SOON:

• Mining on multiple GPUs in one instance of the application
• Reintroducing the Hardware Monitoring features of the v3.5a Test (temperature, power, fan speed, automatic thermal shutdown)
• Solo Mining of 0xBitcoin and "Alt-Tokens"

COMPATIBILITY:

Should work on nVidia(CUDA) cards Kepler(6xx-series) and up. Tested on Maxwell Gen2(9xx) and Pascal (GTX10x0). Developed on Windows 10. Tested to work on Windows 7 and newer. This is a 64-bit application and expects a 64-bit version of Windows.

HOW TO USE:

This is a brand new miner and as such only runs one GPU per instance. Multi-GPU support coming soon. See below for more info on using multiple GPUs.

• Extract the 7Zip or ZIP file to a convenient location.
• Check out README.txt (or after launching the application, choose About->Help/About in the Menu Bar / Press F1.)
• Run CosmicV4.exe.
• Configure the miner using the Options->Configure... menu item. There is normally no need to manually edit the config file. If you've already configured, your settings will be saved from last time. *If you are updating from a previous version, don't reuse your old Config file, enter your settings in Options->Configure... dialog again. This should only take a moment. :)`
• Click 'Start Mining!'

MULTI-GPU INSTRUCTIONS:

• Launch CosmicV4.exe, Configure and Start Mining. If you've already configured, your settings will be saved from last time.
• Launch the program again the same way. Choose menu item Options->Configure... Pick a GPU # (numbering starts from 0!) and appropriate Intensity.
• Save Settings and Start Mining!
• Repeat as needed.
• NOTE: When you open the Configure... dialog, it will display the last configuration that was saved. You can extract multiple copies of COSMiC to their own folders, named with the device's number or however you prefer, which have their own configuration file.

A WORD ON INTENSITIES:

• You will need to find the ideal intensity for your devices(GPUs). Try turning it up in increments of 1 and Start Mining. Increase until hashrate stops rising, hashrate drops or instability occurs. Then lower it slightly.
• Turning down Intensity can improve system responsiveness in the OS/other applications if the card is used as your Display Adapter (connected to a monitor, set as Primary, etc.) You can also disable Hardware Acceleration in applications and reduce GPU usage by Windows.
• I've found that I was able to use an Intensity setting 1 higher than with v3.4(t), for example, 26 instead of 25 on my 1060-3gb. This yielded a boost from 502 to 511 MH/s average (stock). See what your card(s) are capable of. :)

PERFORMANCE TIPS:

• Other applications using the device (Discord, Chrome, Firefox, Windows) will lower hashrate. Try disabling Hardware Acceleration if you have a strong enough CPU.
• Be sure to set the ideal intensity for your particular hardware. Default is 24.
• Consider using processor graphics (such as Intel HD graphics, AMD APUs' Radeon graphics) or a cheap older card as your display adapter and the mining GPUs not connected to a display if you're using the machine for more than mining.
• Decrease your Video Memory/VRAM clock speed to stabilize a higher GPU Core overclock (all overclocking is done at your own risk!) I suggest trying -300 MHz below your default speed.*
• COSMiC uses no video memory, and instead does all of its work inside the GPU, using registers and caches which are much faster.
• Therefore, lower VRAM clocks can work in your favor by reducing power draw (allowing higher GPU boosting) and potentially stabilizing better core OCs.

Please let me know what you think and help me to make this the best miner that it can be. :) I can be found here on Reddit or, for a faster response, look for me on the Discord (see sidebar) with the username: @LtTofu [ _Cosmic Miner_ ].
Thanks for your support and feedback!

Hello 0xBitcoin and Token Mining community! I'm happy to share my work with you today. COSMiC v4.1t is a public "beta" which brings multiple enhancements, including support for mining on multiple nVidia/CUDA devices in one instance and a redesigned GUI.
Suggestions/feedback greatly appreciated: I will use your input in forthcoming updates to the miner. :)
CHANGES THIS VERSION:

• Now supports mining on multiple devices concurrently, in a single instance
  
• CUDA devices are detected and listed automatically in the mining window
  
• Redesigned mining window to display active devices' status and more useful information
  
• Mining Events pane shows recent solutions, incoming mining parameter changes, status updates, etc.
  
• CUDA devices controlled by separate CPU threads
  
• Optimizations to CUDA core (seems to most benefit Maxwell-Gen2 GPUs, i.e. GTX 9xx)
  
• Bug fixes and optimizations throughout
  

SCREENSHOTS:

• https://imgur.com/gallery/Fxknkty

DOWNLOADS:

• https://bitbucket.org/LieutenantTofu/cosmic-v3/downloads/COSMiC%20v4.1t%20(Multi-GPU%20Public%20Test).7z (7Zip archive)
  
• https://bitbucket.org/LieutenantTofu/cosmic-v3/downloads/COSMiC%20v4.1t%20(Multi-GPU%20Public%20Test).zip (ZIP archive)
  

INSTRUCTIONS:

• See README.txt for more information.
  
• Extract either the 7z or ZIP archive on a Windows (64-bit) computer with at least one fairly-recent CUDA(nVidia) device
  
• Run Cosmic.exe
  
• The miner should detect and list compatible CUDA devices.
  
• Select "General Options..." from the Options menu and enter your desired pool/Ethereum address. Hover over an element of the GUI with mouse pointer for more info.
  
• Devices will default to an Intensity of 24. Right-click one and select "Configure This GPU..." to pick a different one for optimal performance. This setting may need to be lowered/raised depending on your hardware.
  
• Uncheck any devices you don't wish to mine on and click "Start Mining!" Click the button again to stop.
  

COMING SOON:

• The return of Hardware Monitoring since my first test of it in 3.5a, plus improvements
  
• Under-the-hood improvements
  

WHAT'S PLANNED:

• Multi-threaded CPU Mining
  
• Solo Mining of ERC-918s
  
• Proper Website and Source Repository
  
• Perhaps OpenCL and a Linux port :)
  

CONTACT:

• LtTofu#6168 on the Discord (see Sidebar of this Subreddit. Fastest response) or PM me on Reddit. Thanks!

Hello All!
AIOMiner Alpha 7 is here and with it comes AMD support as well as Vertcoin Support!
In this release we have given you the fastest way to mine for new people. In 5 clicks after install you can be mining and be on your way.
For anyone new, this is used to help you run your rig or desktop miner to help you manage your pools and mine with ease.
But here are some key new things, read more on the GitHub Page:

• AMD Support
  
• Dual mining supprt (with advanced configurations)
  
• Ability to change the miner settings for each pool (advanced settings for the selected pool)
  
• Now installs with a new installer to help make it easier to install (you download the files from servers now)
  
• The ability to remove the reboot on failures
  
• You can now change how many failures would be required for a reboot to happen
  
• Supported pools (FlyPool, Ethermine) now have a blue link when mining so you can see where you are mining to with a simple click (we support all pools, but these pools give a blue link to show a quick link to your workers)
  
• Monitor Window is gone, it's now a status bar on the main page
  
• Fixed Test Pools to work with all algo's
  
• Replaced ETHMiner with Claymore
  
• Added more mining software to it
  
• Allowed the enable/disable of GPU's where avaiable for the application ()
  

Quick Start: Download,Install, Help, Add Wallet, Save, Click start
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I’m not sure about you, but for the past few years, I’ve been hearing people go on and on about PCs "superiority" to the console market. People cite various reasons why they believe gaming on a PC is “objectively” better than console gaming, often for reasons related to power, costs, ease-of-use, and freedom.
…Only problem: much of what they say is wrong.
There are many misconceptions being thrown about PC gaming vs Console gaming, that I believe need to be addressed. This isn’t about “PC gamers being wrong,” or “consoles being the best,” absolutely not. I just want to cut through some of the stuff people use to put down console gaming, and show that console gaming is incredibly similar to PC gaming. I mean, yes, this is someone who mainly games on console, but I also am getting a new PC that I will game on as well, not to mention the 30 PC games I already own and play. I’m not particularly partial to one over the other.
Now I will mainly be focusing on the PlayStation side of the consoles, because I know it best, but much of what I say will apply to Xbox as well. Just because I don’t point out many specific Xbox examples, doesn’t mean that they aren’t out there.

“PCs can use TVs and monitors.”

This one isn’t so much of a misconception as it is the implication of one, and overall just… confusing. This is in some articles and the pcmasterrace “why choose a PC” section, where they’re practically implying that consoles can’t do this. I mean, yes, as long as the ports of your PC match up with your screen(s) inputs, you could plug a PC into either… but you could do the same with a console, again, as long as the ports match up.
I’m guessing the idea here is that gaming monitors often use Displayport, as do most dedicated GPUs, and consoles are generally restricted to HDMI… But even so, monitors often have HDMI ports. In fact, PC Magazine has just released their list of the best gaming monitors of 2017, and every single one of them has an HDMI port. A PS4 can be plugged into these just as easily as a GTX 1080.
I mean, even if the monitoTV doesn’t have HDMI or AV to connect with your console, just use an adaptor. If you have a PC with ports that doesn’t match your monitoTV… use an adapter. I don’t know what the point of this argument is, but it’s made a worrying amount of times.

“On PC, you have a wide range of controller options, but on console you’re stuck with the standard controller."

Are you on PlayStation and wish you could use a specific type of controller that suits your favorite kind of gameplay? Despite what some may believe, you have just as many options as PC.
Want to play fighting games with a classic arcade-style board, featuring the buttons and joystick? Here you go!
Want to get serious about racing and get something more accurate and immersive than a controller? Got you covered.
Absolutely crazy about flying games and, like the racers, want something better than a controller? Enjoy!
Want Wii-style motion controls? Been around since the PS3. If you prefer the form factor of the Xbox One controller but you own a PS4, Hori’s got you covered. And of course, if keyboard and mouse it what keeps you on PC, there’s a PlayStation compatible solution for that. Want to use the keyboard and mouse that you already own? Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Of course, these aren’t isolated examples, there are plenty of options for each of these kind of controllers. You don’t have to be on PC to enjoy alternate controllers.

“On PC you could use Steam Link to play anywhere in your house and share games with others.”

PS4 Remote play app on PC/Mac, PSTV, and PS Vita.
PS Family Sharing.
Using the same PSN account on multiple PS4s/Xbox Ones and PS3s/360s, or using multiple accounts on the same console.
In fact, if multiple users are on the same PS4, only one has to buy the game for both users to play it on that one PS4. On top of that, only one of them has to have PS Plus for both to play online (if the one with PS Plus registers the PS4 as their main system).
PS4 Share Play; if two people on separate PS4s want to play a game together that only one of them owns, they can join a Party and the owner of the game can have their friend play with them in the game.
Need I say more?

“Gaming is more expensive on console.”

Part one, the Software
This is one that I find… genuinely surprising. There’s been a few times I’ve mentioned that part of the reason I chose a PS4 is for budget gaming, only to told that “games are cheaper on Steam.” To be fair, there are a few games on PSN/XBL that are more expensive than they are on Steam, so I can see how someone could believe this… but apparently they forgot about disks.
Dirt Rally, a hardcore racing sim game that’s… still $60 on all 3 platforms digitally… even though its successor is out.

• PSN - $60
  
• Xbox Live - $60
  
• Steam - $60
  

So does this mean you have to pay full retail for this racing experience? Nope, because disk prices.

• PS4 Disc (Amazon) - $45
  
• XB1 Disc (Amazon) - $26
  

Just Cause 3, an insane open-world experience that could essentially be summed up as “break stuff, screw physics.” And it’s a good example of where the Steam price is lower than PSN and XBL:

• PSN - $60
  
• Xbox Live - $60
  
• Steam - $50
  

Not by much, but still cheaper on Steam, so cheaper on PC… Until you look at the disk prices.

• PS4 Disc (Used, Amazon) - Currently $28
  
• XB1 Disc (Amazon) - $24 (discounted, regular $30)
  

See my point? Often times the game is cheaper on console because of the disk alternative that’s available for practically every console-available game. Even when the game is brand new.
Dirt 4 - Remember that Dirt Rally successor I mentioned?

• PSN - $60
  
• Xbox Live - $60
  
• Steam - $60
  
• PS4 Disc (Amazon) - $45
  
• XB1 Disc (Amazon) - $45
  

Yes, you could either buy this relatively new game digitally for $60, or just pick up the disk for a discounted price. And again, this is for a game that came out 2 months ago, and even it’s predecessor’s digital cost is locked at $60. Of course, I’m not going to ignore the fact that Dirt 4 is currently (as of writing this) discounted on Steam, but on PSN it also happens to be discounted for about the same amount.
Part 2: the Subscription
Now… let’s not ignore the elephant in the room: PS Plus and Xbox Gold. Now these would be ignorable, if they weren’t required for online play (on the PlayStation side, it’s only required for PS4, but still). So yes, it’s still something that will be included in the cost of your PS4 or Xbox One/360, assuming you play online. Bummer, right?
Here’s the thing, although that’s the case, although you have to factor in this $60 cost with your console, you can make it balance out, at worst, and make it work out for you as a budget gamer, at best. As nice as it would be to not have to deal with the price if you don’t want to, it’s not like it’s a problem if you use it correctly.
Imagine going to a new restaurant. This restaurant has some meals that you can’t get anywhere else, and fair prices compared to competitors. Only problem: you have to pay a membership fee to have the sides. Now you can have the main course, sit down and enjoy your steak or pasta, but if you want to have a side to have a full meal, you have to pay an annual fee.
Sounds shitty, right? But here’s the thing: not only does this membership allow you to have sides with your meal, but it also allows you to eat two meals for free every month, and also gives you exclusive discounts for other meals, drinks, and desserts.
Let’s look at PS Plus for a minute: for $60 per year, you get:

• 2 free PS4 games, every month
• 2 free PS3 games, every month
• 1 PS4/PS3 and Vita compatible game, and 1 Vita-only game, every month
• Exclusive/Extended discounts, especially during the weekly/seasonal sales (though you don’t need PS Plus to get sales, PS Plus members get to enjoy the best sales)
• ^{access to online multiplayer}

So yes, you’re paying extra because of that membership, but what you get with that deal pays for it and then some. In fact, let’s ignore the discounts for a minute: you get 24 free PS4 games, 24 free PS3 games, and 12 Vita only + 12 Vita compatible games, up to 72 free games every year. Even if you only one of these consoles, that’s still 24 free games a year. Sure, maybe you get games for the month that you don’t like, then just wait until next month.
In fact, let’s look at Just Cause 3 again. It was free for PS Plus members in August, which is a pretty big deal. Why is this significant? Because it’s, again, a $60 digital game. That means with this one download, you’ve balanced out your $60 annual fee. Meaning? Every free game after that is money saved, every discount after that is money saved. And this is a trend: every year, PS Plus will release a game that balances out the entire service cost, then another 23 more that will only add icing to that budget cake. Though, you could just count games as paying off PS Plus until you hit $60 in savings, but still.
All in all, PS Plus, and Xbox Gold which offers similar options, saves you money. On top of that, again, you don't need to have these to get discounts, but with these memberships, you get more discounts.
Now, I’ve seen a few Steam games go up for free for a week, but what about being free for an entire month? Not to mention that; even if you want to talk about Steam Summer Sales, what about the PSN summer sale, or again, disc sale discounts? Now a lot of research and math would be needed to see if every console gamer would save money compared to every Steam gamer for the same games, but at the very least? The costs will balance out, at worst.
Part 3, the Systems

• Xbox and PS2: $299
  
• Xbox 360 and PS3: $299 and $499, respectively
  
• Xbox One and PS4: $499 and $399, respectively.
  

Rounded up a few dollars, that’s $1,000 - $1,300 in day-one consoles, just to keep up with the games! Crazy right? So called budget systems, such a rip-off.
Well, keep in mind that the generations here aren’t short.
The 6th generation, from the launch of the PS2 to the launch of the next generation consoles, lasted 5 years, 6 years based on the launch of the PS3 (though you could say it was 9 or 14, since the Xbox wasn’t discontinued until 2009, and the PS2 was supported all the way to 2014, a year after the PS4 was released). The 7th gen lasted 7 - 8 years, again depending on whether you count the launch of the Xbox 360 to PS3. The 8th gen so far has lasted 4 years. That’s 17 years that the console money is spread over. If you had a Netflix subscription for it’s original $8 monthly plan for that amount of time, that would be over $1,600 total.
And let’s be fair here, just like you could upgrade your PC hardware whenever you wanted, you didn’t have to get a console from launch. Let’s look at PlayStation again for example: In 2002, only two years after its release, the PS2 retail price was cut from $300 to $200. The PS3 Slim, released 3 years after the original, was $300, $100-$200 lower than the retail cost. The PS4? You could’ve either gotten the Uncharted bundle for $350, or one of the PS4 Slim bundles for $250. This all brings it down to $750 - $850, which again, is spread over a decade and a half. This isn’t even counting used consoles, sales, or the further price cuts that I didn’t mention.
Even if that still sounds like a lot of money to you, even if you’re laughing at the thought of buying new systems every several years, because your PC “is never obsolete,” tell me: how many parts have you changed out in your PC over the years? How many GPUs have you been through? CPUs? Motherboards? RAM sticks, monitors, keyboards, mice, CPU coolers, hard drives— that adds up. You don’t need to replace your entire system to spend a lot of money on hardware.
Even if you weren’t upgrading for the sake of upgrading, I’d be amazed if the hardware you’ve been pushing by gaming would last for about 1/3 of that 17 year period. Computer parts aren’t designed to last forever, and really won’t when you’re pushing them with intensive gaming for hours upon hours. Generally speaking, your components might last you 6-8 years, if you’ve got the high-end stuff. But let’s assume you bought a system 17 years ago that was a beast for it’s time, something so powerful, that even if it’s parts have degraded over time, it’s still going strong. Problem is: you will have to upgrade something eventually.
Even if you’ve managed to get this far into the gaming realm with the same 17 year old hardware, I’m betting you didn’t do it with a 17 year Operating System. How much did Windows 7 cost you? Or 8.1? Or 10? Oh, and don’t think you can skirt the cost by getting a pre-built system, the cost of Windows is embedded into the cost of the machine (why else would Microsoft allow their OS to go on so many machines).
Sure, Windows 10 was a free upgrade for a year, but that’s only half of it’s lifetime— You can’t get it for free now, and not for the past year. On top of that, the free period was an upgrade; you had to pay for 7 or 8 first anyway.
Point is, as much as one would like to say that they didn’t need to buy a new system every so often for the sake of gaming, that doesn’t mean they haven’t been paying for hardware, and even if they’ve only been PC gaming recently, you’ll be spending money on hardware soon enough.

“PC is leading the VR—“

Let me stop you right there.
If you add together the total number of Oculus Rifts and HTC Vives sold to this day, and threw in another 100,000 just for the sake of it, that number would still be under the number of PSVR headsets sold.
Why could this possibly be? Well, for a simple reason: affordability. The systems needed to run the PC headsets costs $800+, and the headsets are $500 - $600, when discounted. PSVR on the other hand costs $450 for the full bundle (headset, camera, and move controllers, with a demo disc thrown in), and can be played on either a $250 - $300 console, or a $400 console, the latter recommended. Even if you want to say that the Vive and Rift are more refined, a full PSVR set, system and all, could cost just over $100 more than a Vive headset alone.
If anything, PC isn’t leading the VR gaming market, the PS4 is. It’s the system bringing VR to the most consumers, showing them what the future of gaming could look like. Not to mention that as the PlayStation line grows more powerful (4.2 TFLOP PS4 Pro, 10 TFLOP “PS5…”), it won’t be long until the PlayStation line can use the same VR games as PC.
Either way, this shows that there is a console equivalent to the PC VR options. Sure, there are some games you'd only be able to play on PC, but there are also some games you'd only be able to play on PSVR.
…Though to be fair, if we’re talking about VR in general, these headsets don’t even hold a candle to, surprisingly, Gear VR.

“If it wasn’t for consoles holding devs back, then they would be able to make higher quality games.”

This one is based on the idea that because of how “low spec” consoles are, that when a developer has to take them in mind, then they can’t design the game to be nearly as good as it would be otherwise. I mean, have you ever seen the minimum specs for games on Steam?
GTA V

• CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs) / AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core Processor (4 CPUs) @ 2.5GHz
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• GPU: NVIDIA 9800 GT 1GB / AMD HD 4870 1GB (DX 10, 10.1, 11)

Just Cause 3

• CPU: Intel Core i5-2500k, 3.3GHz / AMD Phenom II X6 1075T 3GHz
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 (2GB) / AMD Radeon HD 7870 (2GB)

Fallout 4

• CPU: Intel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz/AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz or equivalent
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• GPU: NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or equivalent

Overwatch

• CPU: Intel Core i3 or AMD Phenom™ X3 8650
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460, ATI Radeon™ HD 4850, or Intel® HD Graphics 4400

Witcher 3

• Processor: Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz / AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940
• Memory: 6 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660 / AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870

Actually, bump up all the memory requirements to 8 GBs, and those are some decent specs, relatively speaking. And keep in mind these are the minimum specs to even open the games. It’s almost as if the devs didn’t worry about console specs when making a PC version of the game, because this version of the game isn’t on console. Or maybe even that the consoles aren’t holding the games back that much because they’re not that weak. Just a hypothesis.
But I mean, the devs are still ooobviously having to take weak consoles into mind right? They could make their games sooo much more powerful if they were PC only, right? Right?
No. Not even close.
iRacing

• CPU: Intel Core i3, i5, i7 or better or AMD Bulldozer or better
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• GPU: NVidia GeForce 2xx series or better, 1GB+ dedicated video memory / AMD 5xxx series or better, 1GB+ dedicated video memory

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds

• CPU: Intel Core i3-4340 / AMD FX-6300
• Memory: 6 GB RAM
• GPU: nVidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB / AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB

These are PC only games. That’s right, no consoles to hold them back, they don’t have to worry about whether an Xbox One could handle it. Yet, they don’t require anything more than the Multiplatform games.
Subnautica

• CPU: Intel Haswell 2 cores / 4 threads @ 2.5Ghz or equivalent
• Memory: 4GB
• GPU: Intel HD 4600 or equivalent - This includes most GPUs scoring greater than 950pts in the 3DMark Fire Strike benchmark

Rust

• CPU: 2 ghz
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• DirectX: Version 11 (they don’t even list a GPU)

So what’s the deal? Theoretically, if developers don’t have to worry about console specs, then why aren’t they going all-out and making games that no console could even dream of supporting?
Low-end PCs.
What, did you think people only game on Steam if they spent at least $500 on gaming hardware? Not all PC gamers have gaming-PC specs, and if devs close their games out to players who don’t have the strongest of PCs, then they’d be losing out on a pretty sizable chunk of their potential buyers.
Saying “devs having to deal with consoles is holding gaming back” is like saying “racing teams having to deal with Ford is holding GT racing back.” A: racing teams don’t have to deal with Ford if they don’t want to, which is probably why many of them don’t, and B: even though Ford doesn’t make the fastest cars overall, they still manage to make cars that are awesome on their own, they don’t even need to be compared to anything else to know that they make good cars.
I want to go back to that previous point though, developers having to deal with low-end PCs, because it’s integral to the next point:

“PCs are more powerful, gaming on PC provides a better experience.”

This one isn’t so much of a misconception as it is… misleading.
Did you know that according to the Steam Hardware & Software Survey (July 2017) , the percentage of Steam gamers who use a GPU that's less powerful than that of a PS4 Slim’s GPU is well over 50%? Things get dismal when compared to the PS4 Pro (Or Xbox One X). On top of that, the percentage of PC gamers who own a Nvidia 10 series card is about 20% (about 15% for the 1060, 1080 and 1070 owners).
Now to be fair, the large majority of gamers have CPUs with considerably high clock speeds, which is the main factor in CPU gaming performance. But, the number of Steam gamers with as much RAM or more than a PS4 or Xbox One is less than 50%, which can really bottleneck what those CPUs can handle.
These numbers are hardly better than they were in 2013, all things considered. Sure, a PS3/360 weeps in the face of even a $400 PC, but in this day in age, consoles have definitely caught up.
Sure, we could mention the fact that even 1% of Steam accounts represents over 1 million accounts, but that doesn’t really matter compared to the 10s of millions of 8th gen consoles sold; looking at it that way, sure the number of Nvidia 10 series owners is over 20 million, but that ignores the fact that there are over 5 times more 8th gen consoles sold than that.
Basically, even though PCs run on a spectrum, saying they're more powerful “on average” is actually wrong. Sure, they have the potential for being more powerful, but most of the time, people aren’t willing to pay the premium to reach those extra bits of performance.
Now why is this important? What matters are the people who spent the premium cost for premium parts, right? Because of the previous point: PCs don’t have some ubiquitous quality over the consoles, developers will always have to keep low-end PCs in mind, because not even half of all PC players can afford the good stuff, and you have to look at the top quarter of Steam players before you get to PS4-Pro-level specs. If every Steam player were to get a PS4 Pro, it would be an upgrade for over 60% of them, and 70% of them would be getting an upgrade with the Xbox One X.
Sure, you could still make the argument that when you pay more for PC parts, you get a better experience than you could with a console. We can argue all day about budget PCs, but a console can’t match up to a $1,000 PC build. It’s the same as paying more for car parts, in the end you get a better car. However, there is a certain problem with that…

“You pay a little more for a PC, you get much more quality.”

The idea here is that the more you pay for PC parts, the performance increases at a faster rate than the price does. Problem: that’s not how technology works. Paying twice as much doesn’t get you twice the quality the majority of the time.
For example, let’s look at graphics cards, specifically the GeForce 10 series cards, starting with the GTX 1050.

• 1.8 TFLOP
• 1.35 GHz base clock
• 2 GB VRAM
• $110

This is our reference, our basis of comparison. Any percentages will be based on the 1050’s specs.
Now let’s look at the GTX 1050 Ti, the 1050’s older brother.

• 2.1 TFLOP
• 1.29 GHz base clock
• 4 GB VRAM
• $140 retail

This is pretty good. You only increase the price by about 27%, and you get an 11% increase in floating point speed and a 100% increase (double) in VRAM. Sure you get a slightly lower base clock, but the rest definitely makes up for it. In fact, according to GPU boss, the Ti managed 66 fps, or a 22% increase in frame rate for Battlefield 4, and a 54% increase in mHash/second in bitcoin mining. The cost increase is worth it, for the most part.
But let’s get to the real meat of it; what happens when we double our budget? Surely we should see a massive increase performance, I bet some of you are willing to bet that twice the cost means more than twice the performance.
The closest price comparison for double the cost is the GTX 1060 (3 GB), so let’s get a look at that.

• 3.0 TFLOP
• 1.5 GHz base clock
• 3 GB VRAM
• $200 retail

Well… not substantial, I’d say. About a 50% increase in floating point speed, an 11% increase in base clock speed, and a 1GB decrease in VRAM. For [almost] doubling the price, you don’t get much.
Well surely raw specs don’t tell the full story, right? Well, let’s look at some real wold comparisons. Once again, according to GPU Boss, there’s a 138% increase in hashes/second for bitcoin mining, and at 99 fps, an 83% frame rate increase in Battlefield 4. Well, then, raw specs does not tell the whole story!
Here’s another one, the 1060’s big brother… or, well, slightly-more-developed twin.

• 3.9 TFLOP
• 1.5 GHz base clock
• 6 GB VRAM
• $250 retail

Seems reasonable, another $50 for a decent jump in power and double the memory! But, as we’ve learned, we shouldn’t look at the specs for the full story.
I did do a GPU Boss comparison, but for the BF4 frame rate, I had to look at Tom’s Hardware (sorry miners, GPU boss didn’t cover the mHash/sec spec either). What’s the verdict? Well, pretty good, I’d say. With 97 FPS, a 79% increase over the 1050— wait. 97? That seems too low… I mean, the 3GB version got 99.
Well, let’s see what Tech Power Up has to say...
94.3 fps. 74% increase. Huh.
Alright alright, maybe that was just a dud. We can gloss over that I guess. Ok, one more, but let’s go for the big fish: the GTX 1080.

• 9.0 TFLOP
• 1.6 GHz base clock
• 8 GB VRAM
• $500 retail

That jump in floating point speed definitely has to be something, and 4 times the VRAM? Sure it’s 5 times the price, but as we saw, raw power doesn’t always tell the full story. GPU Boss returns to give us the run down, how do these cards compare in the real world?
Well… a 222% (over three-fold) increase in mHash speed, and a 218% increase in FPS for Battlefield 4. That’s right, for 5 times the cost, you get 3 times the performance. Truly, the raw specs don’t tell the full story.
You increase the cost by 27%, you increase frame rate in our example game by 22%. You increase the cost by 83%, you increase the frame rate by 83%. Sounds good, but if you increase the cost by 129%, and you get a 79% (-50% cost/power increase) increase in frame rate. You increase it by 358%, and you increase the frame rate by 218% (-140% cost/power increase). That’s not paying “more for much more power,” that’s a steep drop-off after the third cheapest option.
In fact, did you know that you have to get to the 1060 (6GB) before you could compare the GTX line to a PS4 Pro? Not to mention that at $250, the price of a 1060 (6GB) you could get an entire PS4 Slim bundle, or that you have to get to the 1070 before you beat the Xbox One X.
On another note, let’s look at a PS4 Slim…

• 1.84 TFLOP
• 800 MHz base clock
• 8 GB VRAM
• $300 retail

…Versus a PS4 Pro.

• 4.2 TFLOP
• 911 MHz base clock
• 8 GB VRAM
• $400 retail

128% increase in floating point speed, 13% increase in clock speed, for a 25% difference in cost. Unfortunately there is no Battlefield 4 comparison to make, but in BF1, the frame rate is doubled (30 fps to 60) and the textures are taken to 11. For what that looks like, I’ll leave it up to this bloke. Not to even mention that you can even get the texture buffs in 4K. Just like how you get a decent increase in performance based on price for the lower-cost GPUs, the same applies here.
It’s even worse when you look at the CPU for a gaming PC. The more money you spend, again, the less of a benefit you get per dollar. Hardware Unboxed covers this in a video comparing different levels of Intel CPUs. One thing to note is that the highest i7 option (6700K) in this video was almost always within 10 FPS (though for a few games, 15 FPS) of a certain CPU in that list for just about all of the games.
…That CPU was the lowest i3 (6100) option. The lowest i3 was $117 and the highest i7 was $339, a 189% price difference for what was, on average, a 30% or less difference in frame rate. Even the lowest Pentium option (G4400, $63) was often able to keep up with the i7.
The CPU and GPU are usually the most expensive and power-consuming parts of a build, which is why I focused on them (other than the fact that they’re the two most important parts of a gaming PC, outside of RAM). With both, this “pay more to get much more performance” idea is pretty much the inverse of the truth.

“The console giants are bad for game developers, Steam doesn't treat developers as bad as Microsoft or especially Sony.”

Now one thing you might’ve heard is that the PS3 was incredibly difficult for developers to make games for, which for some, fueled the idea that console hardware is difficult too develop on compared to PC… but this ignores a very basic idea that we’ve already touched on: if the devs don’t want to make the game compatible with a system, they don’t have to. In fact, this is why Left 4 Dead and other Valve games aren’t on PS3, because they didn’t want to work with it’s hardware, calling it “too complex.” This didn’t stop the game from selling well over 10 million units worldwide. If anything, this was a problem for the PS3, not the dev team.
This also ignores that games like LittleBigPlanet, Grand Theft Auto IV, and Metal Gear Solid 4 all came out in the same year as Left 4 Dead (2008) on PS3. Apparently, plenty of other dev teams didn’t have much of a problem with the PS3’s hardware, or at the very least, they got used to it soon enough.
On top of that, when developing the 8th gen consoles, both Sony and Microsoft sought to use CPUs that were easier for developers, which included making decisions that considered apps for the consoles’ usage for more than gaming. On top of that, using their single-chip proprietary CPUs is cheaper and more energy efficient than buying pre-made CPUs and boards, which is far better of a reason for using them than some conspiracy about Sony and MS trying to make devs' lives harder.
Now, console exclusives are apparently a point of contention: it’s often said that exclusive can cause developers to go bankrupt. However, exclusivity doesn’t have to be a bad thing for the developer. For example, when Media Molecule had to pitch their game to a publisher (Sony, coincidentally), they didn’t end up being tied into something detrimental to them.
Their initial funding lasted for 6 months. From then, Sony offered additional funding, in exchange for Console Exclusivity. This may sound concerning to some, but the game ended up going on to sell almost 6 million units worldwide and launched Media Molecule into the gaming limelight. Sony later bought the development studio, but 1: this was in 2010, two years after LittleBigPlanet’s release, and 2: Media Molecule seem pretty happy about it to this day. If anything, signing up with Sony was one of the best things they could’ve done, in their opinion.
Does this sound like a company that has it out for developers? There are plenty of examples that people will use to put Valve in a good light, but even Sony is comparatively good to developers.

“There are more PC gamers.”

The total number of active PC gamers on Steam has surpassed 120 million, which is impressive, especially considering that this number is double that of 2013’s figure (65 million). But the number of monthly active users on Xbox Live and PSN? About 120 million (1, 2) total. EDIT: You could argue that this isn't an apples-to-apples comparison, sure, so if you want to, say, compare the monthly number of Steam users to console? Steam has about half of what consoles do, at 67 million.
Now, back to the 65 million total user figure for Steam, the best I could find for reference for PlayStation's number was an article giving the number of registered PSN accounts in 2013, 150 million. In a similar 4-year period (2009 - 2013), the number of registered PSN accounts didn’t double, it sextupled, or increased by 6 fold. Considering how the PS4 is already at 2/3 of the number of sales the PS3 had, even though it’s currently 3 years younger than its predecessor, I’m sure this trend is at least generally consistent.
For example, let’s look at DOOM 2016, an awesome faced-paced shooting title with graphics galore… Of course, on a single platform, it sold best on PC/Steam. 2.36 million Steam sales, 2.05 million PS4 sales, 1.01 million Xbox One sales.
But keep in mind… when you add the consoles sales together, you get over 3 million sales on the 8th gen systems. Meaning: this game was best sold on console. In fact, the Steam sales have only recently surpassed the PS4 sales. By the way VG charts only shows sales for physical copies of the games, so the number of PS4 and Xbox sales, when digital sales are included, are even higher than 3 million.
This isn’t uncommon, by the way.
Even with the games were the PC sales are higher than either of the consoles, there generally are more console sales total. But, to be fair, this isn’t anything new. The number of PC gamers hasn’t dominated the market, the percentages have always been about this much. PC can end up being the largest single platform for games, but consoles usually sell more copies total.
EDIT: There were other examples but... Reddit has a 40,000-character limit.

"Modding is only on PC."

Xbox One is already working on it, and Bethesda is helping with that.
PS4 isn't far behind either. You could argue that these are what would be the beta stages of modding, but that just means modding on consoles will only grow.

What’s the Point?

This isn’t to say that there’s anything wrong with PC gaming, and this isn’t to exalt consoles. I’m not here to be the hipster defending the little guy, nor to be the one to try to put down someone/thing out of spite. This is about showing that PCs and consoles are overall pretty similar because there isn’t much dividing them, and that there isn’t anything wrong with being a console gamer. There isn’t some chasm separating consoles and PCs, at the end of the day they’re both computers that are (generally) designed for gaming. This about unity as gamers, to try to show that there shouldn’t be a massive divide just because of the computer system you game on. I want gamers to be in an environment where specs don't separate us; whether you got a $250 PS4 Slim or just built a $2,500 gaming PC, we’re here to game and should be able to have healthy interactions regardless of your platform.
I’m well aware that this isn’t going to fix… much, but this needs to be said: there isn’t a huge divide between the PC and consoles, they’re far more similar than people think. There are upsides and downsides that one has that the other doesn’t on both sides. There’s so much more I could touch on, like how you could use SSDs or 3.5 inch hard drives with both, or that even though PC part prices go down over time, so do consoles, but I just wanted to touch on the main points people try to use to needlessly separate the two kinds of systems (looking at you PCMR) and correct them, to get the point across.
I thank anyone who takes the time to read all of this, and especially anyone who doesn’t take what I say out of context. I also want to note that, again, this isn’t “anti-PC gamer.” If it were up to me, everyone would be a hybrid gamer.
Cheers.

UPDATED VERSION https://www.reddit.com/0xbitcoin/comments/8ttg2a/cosmic_miner_v401t_update_windows_64bit_nvidiacuda/
Hello, 0xBitcoin Community! I'm happy to share my work with you today! This is a brand new CUDA miner for Pool-Mining 0xBitcoin and similar ERC-918 tokens like 0xBitcoinCash/0xKIWI. I've rewritten COSMiC from the ground up, using the best parts of v3.4 (the fastest/most stable release prior to this one.) Presenting, COSMiC V4! As I add more features to this miner, my goal is to make it as simple and pleasant to use as possible for newcomers to 0xBitcoin and mining in general.
SCREENSHOTS/GETTING STARTED VIDEO:

• https://imgur.com/a/w6YjKXJ
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uEczwlFBbE

DOWNLOAD: (out of date: see https://www.reddit.com/0xbitcoin/comments/8ttg2a/cosmic_miner_v401t_update_windows_64bit_nvidiacuda/)

• https://bitbucket.org/LieutenantTofu/cosmic-v3/downloads/COSMiC%20V4.0a%20Public%20Test%201.7z (7Zip)
• https://bitbucket.org/LieutenantTofu/cosmic-v3/downloads/COSMiC%20V4.0a%20Public%20Test%201.zip (ZIP)

FEATURES:

• Totally rewritten. All C++ and CUDA, with no NodeJS aftertaste.
• It's fast. Might be the fastest. On my systems, it outpaced the other 0xBitcoin CUDA miners I've tested, including 3.4t by a small margin.
• Very low CPU usage and a fraction of the application size.
• Has a Full Windows GUI for maximum ease-of-use, quick configuration and stable, at-a-glance display
• Designed to receive remarkably few Invalid Shares at the Pool Level compared to previous miners
• In testing, worked nicely with +1 intensity vs. my usual settings with COSMIC v3.4t for a boost from 502->513 MH/s on my 1060-3gb (stock). Also getting great performance with my good ol' GTX970.
• Tested on Pascal (1050ti, 1060-3GB) and Maxwell Gen2 (GTX970), should work on cards as old as Kepler
• Auto-Donation is set by default to 1.5%. This can be adjusted in the Options->Configure... dialog box. Your support is greatly appreciated :)
• Optimizations and changes to the CUDA engine ("Hashburner") from v3.4/3.5a(test) have been applied to V4.0a.

WHAT'S COMING SOON:

• Mining on multiple GPUs in one instance of the application
• Reintroducing the Hardware Monitoring features of the v3.5a Test (temperature, power, fan speed, automatic thermal shutdown)
• Solo Mining of 0xBitcoin and "Alt-Tokens"

COMPATIBILITY:
Should work on nVidia(CUDA) cards Kepler(6xx-series) and up. Tested on Maxwell Gen2(9xx) and Pascal (GTX10x0). Developed on Windows 10. Should work on 8.1 and up (probably works on 7.) This is a 64-bit application and expects a 64-bit version of Windows.
Non-US English Windows Users: **If the program crashes or doesn't launch when you double-click Cosmic.exe, please open the file Cosmic.exe.Config and change the 1.5 to read 1,5 - This is a bug with how decimal points are handled by a Windows function. I will add a fix right away. This workaround will hopefully fix the issue for you in the meantime. :) You should not need to edit the Config file manually in any other circumstance- just use the Options->Configure... menu item to quickly get set up.
You can probably also change this setting in Windows' 'Region & Language Settings' > 'Additional Date, Time and Regional Settings' > 'Change Date, Time or Number Formats' > 'Additional Settings' > Decimal Symbol `.`
HOW TO USE:
This is a brand new miner and as such only runs one GPU per instance. Multi-GPU support coming soon. See below for more info on using multiple GPUs.

• Extract the 7Zip or ZIP file to a convenient location.
• Check out README.txt or choose About->Help/About in the Menu Bar, or Press F1.
• Run Cosmic.exe.
• Configure the miner using the Options->Configure... menu item. There is normally no need to manually edit the config file. If you've already configured, your settings will be saved from last time.
• Click 'Start Mining!'

MULTI-GPU INSTRUCTIONS:

• Launch Cosmic.exe, Configure and Start Mining. If you've already configured, your settings will be saved from last time.
• Launch the program again the same way. Choose menu item Options->Configure... Pick a GPU # (numbering starts from 0!) and appropriate Intensity.
• Save Settings and Start Mining!
• Repeat as needed.
• NOTE: When you open the Configure... dialog, it will display the last configuration that was saved. You can extract multiple copies of COSMiC to their own folders, named with the device's number or however you prefer, which have their own configuration file.

A WORD ON INTENSITIES:

• You will need to find the ideal intensity for your devices(GPUs). Try turning it up in increments of 1 and Start Mining. Increase until hashrate stops rising, hashrate drops or instability occurs. Then lower it slightly.
• Turning down Intensity can improve system responsiveness in the OS/other applications if the card is used as your Display Adapter (connected to a monitor, set as Primary, etc.) You can also disable Hardware Acceleration in applications and reduce GPU usage by Windows.
• I've found that I was able to use an Intensity setting 1 higher than with v3.4(t), for example, 26 instead of 25 on my 1060-3gb. This yielded a boost from 502 to 511 MH/s average (stock). See what your card(s) are capable of. :)

PERFORMANCE TIPS:

• Other applications using the device (Discord, Chrome, Firefox, Windows) will lower hashrate. Try disabling Hardware Acceleration if you have a strong enough CPU.
• Be sure to set the ideal intensity for your particular hardware. Default is 24.
• Decrease your Video Memory/VRAM clock speed to stabilize a higher GPU Core overclock (all overclocking is done at your own risk!) I suggest trying -300 MHz below your default speed.*
• COSMiC uses no video memory, and instead does all of its work inside the GPU, using registers and caches which are much faster. Therefore, lower VRAM clocks can work in your favor by reducing power draw (allowing higher GPU boosting) and potentially stabilizing better core OCs.

Please let me know what you think and help me to make this the best miner that it can be. :) I can be found here on Reddit or, for a faster response, look for me on the Discord (see sidebar) with the username @LtTofu [ _Cosmic Miner_ ]
Thanks for your support and feedback!

THIS VERSION IS VERY OLD: FIND COSMIC V4.1.3 HERE: https://www.reddit.com/0xbitcoin/comments/c1590e/cosmic_v413t_update_nvidiacuda_win64_guibased/
This update includes multi-GPU support, higher hashing performance, an improved UI, greater compatibility with older GPUs (Kepler and up), and more (see the changelog)
. . . . .
Hello, fellow GPU Miners! I'm happy to share my work with you today! This is a brand new CUDA miner for Pool-Mining 0xBitcoin and similar ERC-918 tokens like 0xBitcoinCash/0xKIWI. I've rewritten COSMiC from the ground up, using the best parts of v3.4 (the fastest/most stable release prior to this one.) Presenting, COSMiC V4! As I add more features to this miner, my goal is to make it as simple and pleasant to use as possible for newcomers to 0xBitcoin and mining in general.
SCREENSHOTS/GETTING STARTED VIDEO:

• https://imgur.com/a/w6YjKXJ
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uEczwlFBbE

DOWNLOAD:

• https://bitbucket.org/LieutenantTofu/cosmic-v3/downloads/COSMiC%20V4.0a%20Public%20Test%201.7z (7Zip)
• https://bitbucket.org/LieutenantTofu/cosmic-v3/downloads/COSMiC%20V4.0a%20Public%20Test%201.zip (ZIP)

FEATURES:

• Totally rewritten. All C++ and CUDA, with no NodeJS aftertaste.
• It's fast. Might be the fastest. On my systems, it outpaced the other 0xBitcoin CUDA miners I've tested, including 3.4t by a small margin.
• Very low CPU usage and a fraction of the application size.
• Has a Full Windows GUI for maximum ease-of-use, quick configuration and stable, at-a-glance display
• Designed to receive remarkably few Invalid Shares at the Pool Level compared to previous miners
• In testing, worked nicely with +1 intensity vs. my usual settings with COSMIC v3.4t for a boost from 502->513 MH/s on my 1060-3gb (stock). Also getting great performance with my good ol' GTX970.
• Tested on Pascal (1050ti, 1060-3GB) and Maxwell Gen2 (GTX970), should work on cards as old as Kepler
• Auto-Donation is set by default to (min) 1.5%. This can be adjusted in the Options->Configure... dialog box. Your support is greatly appreciated :)
• Optimizations and changes to the CUDA engine ("Hashburner") from v3.4/3.5a(test) have been applied to V4.0a.

WHAT'S COMING SOON:

• Mining on multiple GPUs in one instance of the application
• Reintroducing the Hardware Monitoring features of the v3.5a Test (temperature, power, fan speed, automatic thermal shutdown)
• Solo Mining of 0xBitcoin and "Alt-Tokens"

COMPATIBILITY:
Should work on nVidia(CUDA) cards Kepler(6xx-series) and up. Tested on Maxwell Gen2(9xx), Pascal (GTX10x0) and TITAN V. Developed on Windows 10. Should work on 8.1 and up (probably works on 7.) This is a 64-bit application and expects a 64-bit version of Windows.
Non-US English Windows Users: **If the program crashes or doesn't launch when you double-click Cosmic.exe, please open the file Cosmic.exe.Config and change the 1.5 to read 1,5 - This is a bug with how decimal points are handled by a Windows function. I will add a fix right away. This workaround will hopefully fix the issue for you in the meantime. :) You should not need to edit the Config file manually in any other circumstance- just use the Options->Configure... menu item to quickly get set up.
You can probably also change this setting in Windows' 'Region & Language Settings' > 'Additional Date, Time and Regional Settings' > 'Change Date, Time or Number Formats' > 'Additional Settings' > Decimal Symbol `.`
HOW TO USE:
This is a brand new miner and as such only runs one GPU per instance. Multi-GPU support coming soon. See below for more info on using multiple GPUs.

• Extract the 7Zip or ZIP file to a convenient location.
• Check out README.txt or choose About->Help/About in the Menu Bar, or Press F1.
• Run Cosmic.exe.
• Configure the miner using the Options->Configure... menu item. There is normally no need to manually edit the config file. If you've already configured, your settings will be saved from last time.
• Click 'Start Mining!'

MULTI-GPU INSTRUCTIONS:

• Launch Cosmic.exe, Configure and Start Mining. If you've already configured, your settings will be saved from last time.
• Launch the program again the same way. Choose menu item Options->Configure... Pick a GPU # (numbering starts from 0!) and appropriate Intensity.
• Save Settings and Start Mining!
• Repeat as needed.
• NOTE: When you open the Configure... dialog, it will display the last configuration that was saved. You can extract multiple copies of COSMiC to their own folders, named with the device's number or however you prefer, which have their own configuration file.

A WORD ON INTENSITIES:

• You will need to find the ideal intensity for your devices(GPUs). Try turning it up in increments of 1 and Start Mining. Increase until hashrate stops rising, hashrate drops or instability occurs. Then lower it slightly.
• Turning down Intensity can improve system responsiveness in the OS/other applications if the card is used as your Display Adapter (connected to a monitor, set as Primary, etc.) You can also disable Hardware Acceleration in applications and reduce GPU usage by Windows.
• I've found that I was able to use an Intensity setting 1 higher than with v3.4(t), for example, 26 instead of 25 on my 1060-3gb. This yielded a boost from 502 to 511 MH/s average (stock). See what your card(s) are capable of. :)

PERFORMANCE TIPS:

• Other applications using the device (Discord, Chrome, Firefox, Windows) will lower hashrate. Try disabling Hardware Acceleration if you have a strong enough CPU.
• Be sure to set the ideal intensity for your particular hardware. Default is 24.
• Decrease your Video Memory/VRAM clock speed to stabilize a higher GPU Core overclock (all overclocking is done at your own risk!) I suggest trying -300 MHz below your default speed.*
• COSMiC uses no video memory, and instead does all of its work inside the GPU, using registers and caches which are much faster. Therefore, lower VRAM clocks can work in your favor by reducing power draw (allowing higher GPU boosting) and potentially stabilizing better core OCs.

Please let me know what you think and help me to make this the best miner that it can be. :) I can be found here on Reddit or, for a faster response, look for me on the 0xBitcoin Discord (https://discord.gg/xAPwaDC) with the username @LtTofu [ _Cosmic Miner_ ]
Thanks for your support and feedback!