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Crowd Funded Tournament! The 2018 Crypto-Cup!

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[SK]Russell
Profile Joined August 2017
25 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-08-21 05:04:28
January 25 2018 21:49 GMT
#1
The 2018 Crypto-Currency Cup
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For the Community, By the Community

Official Website
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CLICK HERE TO BEGIN MINING - The longer you can run this in the background the more it will help!
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Current Progress/Particupating Miners

Introduction:
This will be a 8 player invitational tournament hosted by myself and whatever helpers I can rally. Players will be invited based on the wishes of the mining contributors. The prize pool will be crowd funded through cryptocurrency mining. This works by donating some of your computers processing power. Monero coins are generated and these can then be converted to a real money prize for the tournament winners.

The tournament will be scheduled and official invitations will be sent out once the tournament is funded! The funding goal will be 0.3 Monero coin (currently $100 USD value). The tournament may take a month to fund, but this greatly depends on the amount of mining power donated by the community.

The tournament will be streamed and casted on www.twitch.tv. If anyone needs to reach me I am on clan [SK] discord.
https://discord.gg/H82gMt

About me:
I've played broodwar most of my life. I've followed the foreign starcraft scene through much of that time, (especially since remastered). I'm also a cryptocurrency enthusiast. It would bring me joy if this project could support the foreign starcraft scene. I was previously a B team coach for clan [SK] in PATL.

The CryptoCup Format:

-This will be a 8 player single elimination tournament.
-Players will be chosen by the miners.
-The map pool will be a selected from ladder maps being played when the tournament is held.
-First round will be Bo3, semifinals and finals will be Bo5.

Invitations voted by miners so far: (Last updated: Feb.20th)
Contributed mining hashes will decide tournament invitations (see below how to vote with mining hashes).

Top 8 will receive invitations.

Most voted:

1st-Sziky
2nd-Dewalt + DEWALT
3rd-DRACO
4th-ToT)Testie(rS
5th-Dandy
6th-Dinot
7th-Bonyth
**8th-ToT)Mondragon(



Reserve list: (These players will start to be invited if any of the above are unavailable to play.)
*9th-sAviOr[gm]
*10th-Nal_rA
*11th-Oops]Reach
12th-Terror
13th-eonzerg
14th-Ty2
15th-kogeT
16th-jaeyun +Jaeyun
17th-Bakuryu
18th-zzzero
19th-Entaroadun

* = Korean Professional Player (I will try to be ready to extend the invitation, but it may not be realistic.)
** =Retired player (may not be available to play), please make a post if I am mistaken.

Rules:

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Competitive_Rules Apply

-All games must be played on Starcraft: Remastered

-Play on the Battle.net US EAST server, unless there's a problem in which case you must arrange it with your opponent.

-If we ask to cast your series, you must allows obs.

-During the first round, players will be disqualified if they haven't shown up after 15 minutes. Further rounds will be after 10 minutes.

-Replays should be saved as they will need to be submitted.

Prizepool: (Goal = 0.3 Monero (or 0.3 XMR) = roughly $100 USD Current Monero Price)
Last updated progress: [image loading] (0.3 XMR)

Mined Monero will be converted to USD using an exchange and paid out on Matcherino.
Winner of the tournament takes 100% of prizepool.

(Being paid in Monero is also an option if desired!)

Why Monero (also called XMR):
With proper computer hardware, configuration, and time there are more profitable mining methods, however, Monero is ideal because it can be simply CPU mined and any computer can do it! Inclusion is a major goal, since this is a crowd funded project.

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE --> :
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-Snip- - The longer you can run this in the background the more it will help!
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This link will begin using some of your CPU's processing power to mine Monero.

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Seeing this means your miner is working! H/S is how fast you're mining (Hashes/second). The slider controls CPU resources used. Cpu threads (cores) used can also be adjusted.

How to suggest a player to be invited?
To vote for your favorite player to be invited to the tournament you must edit the link. Simply change "VoteHERE" to your players name and re-enter the link into your address bar! Keep in mind you should be choosing someone who still actively plays and would attend a tournament like this .

https://www.webminerpool.com/?address=41xRahpJmqX4VpLN4jfX9V4m7hh9RztiyYrJMFkEV8Nfa7wTpKQy7Vgb1CekTfMFAbW4BEqnfWoCi1k2r1m4kAhRAB5gpZ7&pool=moneroocean.stream&autostart=true&throttle=50&password=VoteHERE

How to check our mining progress?:
Current Progress/Particupating Miners

Troubleshooting:
Some anti-virus software may reject this link. Cryptocurrency is sometimes mined without the users consent on a malicious website.

You could try running the link in incognito mode (google chrome).

Advanced mining for Power-users:

If you find yourself especially interested in mining cryptocurrency, there are more powerful and efficient methods of contributing. If you are interested in configuring a very powerful GPU mining software, I recommend XMR-Stak. This software is open source and reasonably easy to setup (see the guide).

GPU mining guide

Mining pool connection information

CryptoCup Monero wallet address:

41xRahpJmqX4VpLN4jfX9V4m7hh9RztiyYrJMFkEV8Nfa7wTpKQy7Vgb1CekTfMFAbW4BEqnfWoCi1k2r1m4kAhRAB5gpZ7


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SCC-Faust
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States3736 Posts
January 25 2018 22:05 GMT
#2
This is what daddy wants to see.
I want to fuck Soulkey with a Zelderan.
[sc1f]eonzerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Belgium6794 Posts
January 25 2018 22:08 GMT
#3
dont you need super computers made specifically to mining ?using personal computers is not good and the power used is huge.
[SK]Russell
Profile Joined August 2017
25 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-01-25 22:26:54
January 25 2018 22:26 GMT
#4
You don't need a super computer to mine, although obviously a purpose built machine is better at it. Even a tablet or smartphone can mine a small amount, although laptops and desktops are preferable.

Running this application on your computer will cause it to use a small amount more electricity, but only about 50 watts extra for an average desktop PC (Less than leaving an older style light bulb on). There is a slider bar to have the mining application utilize a smaller amount of your CPU.

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drykeegan
Profile Joined January 2018
2 Posts
January 25 2018 22:32 GMT
#5
Great idea. Excited to see this.
drykeegan
Profile Joined January 2018
2 Posts
January 25 2018 22:34 GMT
#6
Is there a way to see how close the pool is to the targeted 1 monero // what players have hash credit?
[SK]Russell
Profile Joined August 2017
25 Posts
January 25 2018 22:45 GMT
#7
https://moneroocean.stream/#/dashboard

Click track address at the bottom and enter:

41xRahpJmqX4VpLN4jfX9V4m7hh9RztiyYrJMFkEV8Nfa7wTpKQy7Vgb1CekTfMFAbW4BEqnfWoCi1k2r1m4kAhRAB5gpZ7
[SK]bageL
Profile Joined August 2017
8 Posts
January 25 2018 22:47 GMT
#8
This is a really smart idea.
Bakuryu
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Germany1065 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-01-25 23:08:48
January 25 2018 23:05 GMT
#9
this looks fun, i wonder who everybody will vote for and if some real miner will jump into this xD. i just pray hard that i get voted :D
you cashout on korean exchange for that added premium bonus?
also is there an option to receive the prize as monero?
[SK]Russell
Profile Joined August 2017
25 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-01-25 23:13:06
January 25 2018 23:12 GMT
#10
also is there an option to receive the prize as monero?


Yes. If a winner actually wanted the Monero, they could absolutely have their prize in that form.
Gamlet
Profile Joined December 2012
Ukraine336 Posts
January 26 2018 15:01 GMT
#11
Really cool tournament idea!
Kiev
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10687 Posts
January 26 2018 16:51 GMT
#12
I was about to ask, how intensive is this on the computer / hardware if you are mining constantly? And at what rate per person / hr or whatever does the mining really benefit? I won't mind helping, but I am a little concerned about the stress it causes to the machines.
AKA: TelecoM[WHITE] Protoss fighting
Hatchet_man
Profile Joined December 2013
Russian Federation249 Posts
January 26 2018 17:50 GMT
#13
I think it is useless to run this at home, because you can just take money that you will pay for electricity and donate it. Personally, I will open this miner at work, so I won't need to pay for it.
[SK]Russell
Profile Joined August 2017
25 Posts
January 26 2018 18:45 GMT
#14
I was about to ask, how intensive is this on the computer / hardware if you are mining constantly?


The application has a slider that will control how much of the CPU resources are utilized. The default is 50%, this shouldn't be exceptionally stressful - cpu's are designed to do work. How many of us are concerned about being on discord, playing a song on youtube and gaming at the same time?

Even in a worst case scenario, maybe an old dusty laptop with a cat sleeping on top... modern CPU's are designed to cut back performance once they're reaching higher temperatures. This is called thermal throttling.

[SK]Russell
Profile Joined August 2017
25 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-01-26 19:58:31
January 26 2018 18:50 GMT
#15
I think it is useless to run this at home, because you can just take money that you will pay for electricity and donate it.


You are correct, for people paying their own electricity costs and using a much older (less efficient) computer this operation could be more of a break even. It might be better for these people to only contribute while they're already using the computer for other tasks.

The math could be done here:

www.cryptocompare.com

I never suggested it was free money, only that we could conveniently crowd fund it.
Entaro[AoV]
Profile Joined July 2009
United States184 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-01-26 19:48:09
January 26 2018 19:40 GMT
#16
I"m running it at work atm hahaha
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iCCup.Face
Profile Joined February 2014
Italy447 Posts
January 26 2018 23:06 GMT
#17
Good idea [SK]Russell
People have the right to be stupid. Some people abuse that privilege.
jimminy_kriket
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada5523 Posts
January 27 2018 06:46 GMT
#18
Is there any way to view the overall leaderboard? The link in the OP only shows people who are currently being mined for. If someone stops mining they disappear from the list.
life of lively to live to life of full life thx to shield battery
Qikz
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United Kingdom12024 Posts
January 27 2018 10:31 GMT
#19
Runing a bitcoin miner seems incredibly stupid to do at work. If it's found out you'll likely be fired from work.

At home you'll pay more for electricity than you would to mine the coins.
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[SK]Russell
Profile Joined August 2017
25 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-01-27 11:21:51
January 27 2018 11:18 GMT
#20
Is there any way to view the overall leaderboard? The link in the OP only shows people who are currently being mined for. If someone stops mining they disappear from the list.


A given miner will disappear from the list while inactive, but the total # of hashes it has completed is retained.
This means you can start/stop mining (voting) for your player over multiple days and it will still be counted/culmulative.

I've spoken to the operator of moneroocean.stream about slightly modifying the open source code for the mining pool, but that's still a work in progress lol. I've been keeping track of the # of hashes (votes) for individual players and updating the forum post with a ranking list.
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