- Interview with TT-Miner -

Can you say something about you or your team? Where are you located? What’s your work experience?

I'm a single person team, located in Germany - close to Bochum & Dortmund. I'm a C/C++ developer since more than 30 years. Started with development of elevator hard- and software, driver for high volume production scanners and finally trading and mining software.


When did you start with crypto and why?

I got in touch with Bitcoin in 2016 when I joined the creation of Bitcoin NDFs.


When did you start to develop mining software? What was your motivation?

I started to develop TT-Miner in 2018 – just to learn more about the ‘mining-process’ of cryptos.


How do you test your software? Are you mining some hours or 24/7?

I run tests on my GPUs I have (1070 and now a 3060) beside some beta testers. For the software test I run the miner for a few days (maybe 3 or 4) to check if all works as expected.


How much time do you spend on developing the software? Is it a full-time job?

As much as possible beside regular job and friends & family. Unfortunately, the income from the dev-fee does not allow the miner-development as full-time job.


How much rigs and GPUs do you own?

I have one old rig (without GPUs now) that I used in the beginning to test the software with more than 2 GPUs, but now the software is stable on multi-GPU environments and I do not need that anymore.


Do you buy every new GPU which is released?

I would love to, but they are way too expensive – I avoid to spend too much money for new models – I like to go with the XX60 or XX70 series of nVidia.


What are you doing with the dev fee? Spend or hold?

I founded a company to handle the cost of this business and taxes. So, I have to spend the incoming dev-fee to cover the related costs.


What are your plans for the next releases of your mining software?

I do not want to disclosure too much, but I can say that I’m working on an optimization of the DAG creation and handling. On a second path I try to split the mining algos into GPU and CPU friendly parts and I join them so that the performance will benefit. But I’m not sure if this will work in the end.


Is there something that you want to say to your users?

Sure – I want to thanks all the nice guys supporting TT-Miner and helping to make it better. Lots of ideas are coming from the community and I try to implement as much as possible.


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