Bitcoin Forum

hi guys,

i've noticed a lack of dedicated UK mining information - and after speaking to a few people online ive started up a small forum - www.ukminers.co.uk - its not intended to replace bitcointalk - i like it too much but to make it easier for us UK miners to find information relavant to us.

it gets irritating on the sales forum when trying to buy stuff in the UK (especially when its a bargain and then realise its in the states or somewhere else and it suddenly becomes expensive due to shipping and import fees!)

I'm also looking for help managing the forum so if anyone (uk based) wants to help please PM me :)

i'm inexperienced when it comes to managing forums so please post any constructive criticisms!

Awesome :)

Can I promote my pool that is nearing the end of testing and debugging phase...

http://fuzzypool.mine.bz/

p2pool that has merge mining on it, so u earn 6-9% extra BTC from Namecoins, devcoins, ixcoins, i0coins.  0% BTC fee (sorry ignore the fee stated on the site atm... correct one in the FAQ section)
over 160GH locally and lot more coming soon!!

I am located in the UK and mine on the pool with other UK miners.  Server is currently located in Amsterdam but looking at moving this to the UK should enough interest arise from UK miners on the pool.

Any questions please PM me

Nice work on the forum as well

FuzzyBear

Welcome to UK Miners - i've replied to your post with a couple of questions - it might be an idea to add it to the pools list ;)

I'm still looking for UK miners to join the forum - need some helping keeping it updated though - recent events for me have changed my priorities and BTC/mining has taken off again :)

This is good. A lot of sites I try to use don't cater to UK users. Definitely a step in the right direction :).

I am a UK miner and will sign up for your forum. Happy to help as well.

There are a few of my buddies that are mining for LTC and Zeta as well. Will let them know about the forum

Hi mate, great idea with the forum. If you need any help in any way just let me know. Love to see UK bitcoiners sticking together.I've been mining for almost 3 years so looking forward to seeing the forum grow as more users hear about it and get involved.

Good work!

Bitcoin will take over GBP one day! ;) I know what I'd rather be paid in!

i asked my boss to pay me one months salary in BTC early in the year... if he had i'd be retired now... :P

I need some help basically keeping it active and getting more users - some of the info is a bit old and needs sorting :) i started mining in 2011 - shame i didnt keep all the coins i mined instead of using them :(

i actually looked into something similar and you actually did it - respect! I'm happy to help in any way i can... i'll head over now and sign up.

In the mean time are there any specific things you need help with?

News and getting some interesting conversation going ;)

I have a couple of projects on the go, i'm going to upload a few pictures of my rigs on t/here tonight too - i have just found/realised that i had 2 5 card motherboards just doing nothing and a few GPUs doing nothing so i now have the capacity for 14 GPUs without actually buying any more hardware (apart from GPUs) - am planning on getting a few 7950s or 7850s depending on what i can find cheap enough :P

Tbh the best you can do if you have unused spare cards from the 6x gen upwards is selling them in ebay. SHA-coins are dominated by ASICs, Litecoin is not profitable currently and soon there'll be FPGAs/ASICs for scrypt coins.

Unless you have use for them in key cracking, scientific computing, etc.

Atm i'm running my mining rigs at a good profit on a few multi-scrypt groups - its working quite well lol

We are close to the ASIC era though. Thankfully these cards will still hold some resale value for 1-2 years more.

i registered :)

Excellent idea from Sunny Wales !!!

Will join up now...

Can anyone recommend a decent priced Motherboard to support x5 GPU's ??

I want to put x2 direct on x16-x16 risers and x3 on x1-x16 cut powered risers with two PSU's.

Thanks

I registered, also PM'd about moderation etc.


I've only ever seen a mother board which can hold 4 Graphics Cards. Try looking at Scan (http://www.scan.co.uk/) or Ebuyer (http://www.ebuyer.com/).

I have a few usb asics mining in uk ,nice to see something UK based since everything seems dominated by usa.

I wanted to start a business that accepts bitcoin but all the payment processors are eur or usd not one gbp based tool .

None of my customers would want the hassle of doing sepa or international currency to get some work done  to their properties .

Signed up.
A section for links to places that take BTC might be a good idea...then people can add them when they find them? Links in general really..UK biased ones. :)

Joining now :)

Still looking for more UK miners to join the forum - i've had a few hiccups with RL but now looking to push this even harder and get running properly :)

Thanks for creating this, useful just being a UK bitcoin user. Will check it out.

Hi Guys,
Looking for hardware for mining rigs I saw this topic.
Happy to see this group.
I'm in.BTCBTC 8) 8)

Fantastic.

About time for us to have a local to us forum here in the U.K.

Now we can get better timed replies without the time differences and our sense of humor will match.

I have some spare time during the day to help. I'm self employed and could help possibly with some Mod work ( if it's not too complicated ) keeping spam off. I suppose it being just started up it will be easier to learn rather than when it gets busy.

Going over now to sign up. Hopefully I can get in early and use the same I.D. LMAO

I would use it but hate dark forum skins

Oh excellent i'm new anyway and will join the UK forum also

Signed up.

Nice looking Forum.

Jacko

Will register up.

2 of us in the UK run https://www.united-miners.com :)

Always good to have more "local" folk!

Thanks for registering Add1ct3dd.

More people from the U.K. is always good.

Jacko

Cool, I've joined and sent the to link to some of other UK miners.

Agreed, dark forum themes are horrible!

If you don't like dark themes. Just a suggestion. The Guy running it is really open and friendly. Why not join and pm hardwired007 and ask him to change the theme. It might work.

I like the Theme. Maybe you should start selling Mining equipment to UK buyers to boost your site a bit.
Might even be able to make yourself some money in the process. Plus you can do advertisement etc.

I'll pass the information on to Hotwired007.

You never know he just might.

If you're wanting to sell stuff for bitcoins and you're a miner then presumably you don't mind holding bitcoins yourself, so why not just:

• Offer the customer a spot price in BTC for a GBP equivalent.
• Let them make the BTC payment.
• Settle up the GBP amount with your business personally.
• Take personal ownership of the BTC.

?

That is the model currently used by Individual Pubs Ltd, e.g. Pembury Tavern in East London.

You talk about customers making SEPA transfers though so perhaps I have misunderstood what you meant by "I want to start a business that accepts bitcoin"

Did you mean that there are no UK bitcoin exchanges for your customers to obtain bitcoin to pay you in?

If so, I agree, that is an issue.

Still, some UK people do buy on EUR exchanges.

Also some mine to get coins.

Also some buy at e.g. LocalBitcoins or in-person trades.

And it is a bit of a chicken and egg situation - increasing demand for bitcoins will help to build the case for a local exchange.

There was Intersango and Britcoin once up on a time. I understand they had banking difficulties and were forced to shut down.

I hear stories of UK banks being hostile to bitcoin businesses. At this point franky1 may jump in and rant at me again about how the banks are fine and only incompetents fail to work with them, although in that particular case I would happily accept incompetence as the real reason for their failure given who was behind those efforts.

Anyway, there being things to buy locally with bitcoins is just as important as there being ways to buy bitcoins locally. :)

Presumably you would allow customers to pay by both BTC and GBP anyway, right?

Its a while since my original post ,Yes my issue was that there is no were for my customers to easily get bitcoin but I think localbitcoins is the answer to that .
I have since made a website with a QR code on the home page so they can easily pay me .

Hi guys, the theme is just one i liked - it can be changed easy enough ;) any suggestions? I wanted it to be obviously different to the bitcointalk colour scheme.

I don't follow with the selling equipment suggestion - do you mean i buy equipment with GBP then sell for BTC? There are a few services that offer that in the UK already (if there was a big enough demand for it i could look into it. (I have a reasonable amount of redundant second user equipment that i could sell)

I've activated the prosilver theme so anyone who registers can choose either the red/black theme or the blue/white theme (in User Control Panel > Board Preferences > My Board Style)

I like the blue theme, it's easier on my eyes. Each to his own, but more choice is better  :)

Cheers Hotwired.

Jacko

Well a new milestone reached we now have 50 members at the UK Miners Forum.

All you UK Miners keep coming Guys and Girls.

The aim is to not compete with Bitcointalk but to be a place to enhance the info here with UK specific information, equipment sales and shops and businesses accepting Crypto Currency.

Jacko

Well we have 51 members now - am hoping to get a few more buy the end of april - can we get to 100 (or even higher?)

I'm looking at a few bulk/Group buys on mining hardware if anyone is interested? Antminer U2s and gridseeds are the two that seem most popular.

Still looking for new members - need to get some buying/selling going through the forum :)

Bump.