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Hi Guys,

I am from Lahore Pakistan usually mining BTC using CEX and Alt-Coins with my GPU. Wondering if there are others here and what coins you mine? Follow up with your city / coin. Maybe we could share information / suggestions locally including hardware.

My Current hardware, 1 6950, 2 6970, 1 6990, 1 5870 and hopefully soon a 7970. Total Hash power of roughly 2.5 MH/s. I do plan to increase this to 4 sometime soon.

I hope you are mining litecoins with these ;D

Welcome here Bro,

I am probably the first miner from Pakistan. If you need any help just P.m Me. I am from KHI. :)

Best Regards
Nawazish.

What alt-coins are you mining faysal?

ok,i like this,love you! :D

I know another guy who's been mining BTC since at least 2012. Then there is a guy who's into LTC mining from back when CPU mining was still viable. This forum does not represent the situation of Pakistan as a whole.

That is why i used the word probably. :P But i am sure that I am the only Pakistani miner who is active in forums as well since April 2013. :P

Don't mind just playing. ;D

Ok man :)

Have you noticed every new guy who shows up wants to know about mining? One experienced member made a thread telling newbies not to mine:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=380009.0

Mining BTC at least has now gone industrial scale:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=380187.0

No wonder BTC difficulty went up 30% again.

Well He is 100 % right but that only applies to Bitcoin because of it's difficulty. He is also right about the point that there is no free money in mining. You must invest in hardware or directly purchase some Bitcoins or alts only then you can think of earning some money.

Altcoin mining is the best bet at this moment but it won't take too long for Asic developers to change the game here as well. With in a year I can see those coming.

So this is the best time to get invested.

I see phenix coin failed. Which coin are you mining now?

Hello friends and welcome!!!  :)

Phoenix coin can never fail as long as I am in the team. :)

I hold more then 100k of them :D

And just going to buy a new mining rig.

Greetings!!! :)

Entered in mid december, mining with a 6950 and a 7950 and a gtx 650 for now. I am wanting to know which method works best for a btc to usd to finally your hands when it comes to Pakistan. Don't want to loose my hard earned crypto and fiat all together :$

P.M me and all will be ok. :)

good luck and happy mining!!

Actually I am a newbie who know nothing about crypto currencies. Can you please tell what is GPU, Alt coins and other technical terms you have used? If it is hard to tell here than at least give a link that shall help me understand easily. Thanks in Advance 

You can sell your bitcoins to me :) Please see my site: https://bitcoinspakistan.com/sell-bitcoins/ . Also I've PMed you.

I wanted to ask how big/mainstream is bitcoin right now in pakistan?

http://lmgtfy.com?q=GPU (http://lmgtfy.com?q=GPU)

It is ultra-niche. Barely anyone has heard about it.

But it won't take much time to spread in whole Pakistan just like Dengue Virus. I just went to Buy 4 more GPUs threee days back.

And I fouund one shop keeper who knew about Litecoin. He said many people are coming to buy GPUs these days so that they can mine LTC but most of them don't know how it all works excatly. I shared some info with the shop keeper as well. :) Abdussamad I think you & me have very precious knowledge safe in our brains. :D

So let's talk about mining specifics, shall we Nawazish? What do you do in summer when it is too hot to run a GPU at full blast and even if you could keep it cool how do you deal with voltage fluctuations? I think it would cost too much to get a UPS for all the mining rigs. Keep in mind that in Karachi at least we have hot weather 9 months of the year with about 3-4 of those being extremely hot. You must run the GPU during a lot of those 9 months if you want to ROI.

Lol, which city are you from?

Same as yours! Welcome. :). Your story seems interesting cause you are an early adopter of BTC.

Nice. Do you know any places in Karachi where I can buy GPUs/Other parts at reasonable price? I recently bought two 7950s and they cost me RS. 40,000 each.

Lol! 40,000 rs what brand?? I am guessing it's saphire.

The brand is HIS. I'm currently getting about
1200 KH/s with both the cards.

If it is HIS then you have been looted my buddy. I bought the same brand 10 months back for 34,000. from
http://galaxy.com.pk/

And know recently bought Gigabyte R9 270 for 27,000 can do about 470 KHs with temperature of 65-70 C

I bought here.
http://sahulatit.com/graphic-cards/nvidia/amd-radeon-hd-r-9-27oc-2gb-256-bit-graphic-card-best-price-in-pakistan

Note that I am using riser cables to run all four of my new cards on the same board to save the costs.

Just saw it in the bill and it was 37,000 and not 40,000.  :D And btw what kind of machine do you have for mining and how many KH/s do you get? Like which processor, power supply and how much RAM have you got?

Mobo: Gigabyte H77-DS3H
Processor: Intel Dual core G2020 LGA 1155
Ram: 4 GB Value select DDR 3
Hdd: 40 GB sata
PSU: Cooler Master M2 PRO 1000 Watts.

Total Average KH/s: 1870 Kh/s or 1.87 Mh/s

Will upload a Pic or tw as well but now load shedding time.lol.

Wow that's nice. How much did the whole build cost you?
And haha, same here. It's loadshedding time here too.

Edit: And how much electricity bill do you have to pay monthly?

Total cost was nearly 150,000 rs. Have yet to see monthly bill. ;D on a single GPU it was not a big difference.

I'm also waiting for power bill for this month, hopefully it won't be too much.
1.8 Mh/s after spending 150,000 is good. I get 1.2 Mh/s, spent 200,000 on my PC.

200k is alot for that :o. I did alot of research before buying and got the best deal. Sorry forgot to tell you that I bought the Risers from Ali Exrpess. Got them dilvered in two weeks.

My main mistake was to get an i7 processor because I thought low end CPUs wouldn't handle 2-3 GPUs. I'd also use something like crates as casing and it would cost less, but you know, I get friends and family members to visit every now and then and I don't want to tell much people about what I do.  :D I'm also planning to get riser cables once I get some money for another GPU and might use Aliexpress or dx to order them from.

Family and friends are a big problem. Even if we want to tell them it will take a week to make them understand all this.  :D.

Yes true. Although my parents know about this and even my father gave me most of the money for the rig but they don't know how this exactly works. I once told a friend about mining and he was like, you're getting scammed. But what can we do, people here don't want to learn new things, they just want to work from morning till night for 10-20 thousand rupees.

Well Gigabyte GPUs don't go higher then 75C even in really hot weather. I used my HIS with one fan for 8-9 months and the temperature was at 70-80C at 570 Kh/s. So a two fan GPU can do much better.

I don't care about voltage fluctuations and load shedding. I have a simple stabilizer to keep my rig safe.

Well if we talk about ROI so it depends on strategy you are using. I prefer to mine the next big pump & dump coin. This time its Coinye. the second strategy is to use http://www.middlecoin.com/ pool. It mines the most profitable coin and pays in BTC.

To calculate profit per day on various coins use this site.


http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency

Same story here But for my first GPU. this it is the same but with a twist and its that I am holding the coins I mined previously. If I sell them now I can Easily buy a new rig and still will have money left for one more Rig. ;D ;D

It's good to save some coins, who knows the future. I'm still holding the first ever BTC I bought, it cost me about $10 at that time and now it's at $800+. Also got some LTC and WDC which I'm saving long term. There's always a risk but it could also make us some good money in the future.

Except BTC & LTC i hold all the other coins you hold lol. ;D Well I am holding PXC & ADT along with WDC. For PXC I have some plans being a team member.

I'm also holding some FTC, CAT and 2 NMC. Also got about 50 PXC which I got from someone. Never heard about ADT.

Androidstoken = ADT.

Well keep holding your PXC & FTC. CAT seems good too.

Yes I'm holding them.  :) Also from which seller did you buy the riser cables? There are many sellers on AliExpress selling riser cables.

I bought two types of Riser cables 16X to 16X & 1X to 16X. I bought the first one because I didn't know that that second one can be used in all types of ports. so I would recommend to only buy 1X to 16X if you don't play games on your Rig.

Here are the links

1X to 16X  (Dileverd the product in two weeks maybe due to custom clearance.) (Out of five cables one is non functional.)

http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/310324831.html

16X to 16X  (Dileverd in one week) (all four cables are working but my motherboard is not supporting it in primary X16 slot but in Secondary X16 it is working perfectly.)

http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/310982709.html

Sounds great. I'll be getting the first one when I plan to get another GPU, it should be fine because I don't do gaming on my mining rig.

Well the thing is that voltage fluctuations over here mean that your PC restarts all the time. If it can't stay up it can't mine!


What payment method are you using to pay them?

I am using CGwatcher to keep my miner always running. :)


Webmoney

CGwatcher is software right? It can manufacture electricity as well?


Cool! Do you have to verify your webmoney account (KYC/AML) or is that not necessary?

Good news I just found out that 16X was not having problem with the primary slot the problem was it is not properly locked in the slot. Even a little moment creates the problem. Currently working like a charm.

I modified my Rig for a little height. Here are some new pics.

http://s02.imageupper.com/1_t/8/T1389701016522347_1.jpg (http://imageupper.com/i/?S0200010080011T1389701016522347) http://s02.imageupper.com/1_t/8/T1389701016522347_2.jpg (http://imageupper.com/i/?S0200010080021T1389701016522347) http://s02.imageupper.com/1_t/8/T1389701016522347_3.jpg (http://imageupper.com/i/?S0200010080031T1389701016522347)

Looks awesome now. :D

Looks nice. Are you getting the same hashrate or has it increased now?
Also do you use a stabilizer or a ups to stabilize the voltages? Found out that a 1000 watt UPS would cost me 30k+ which is too much.

Lol no, But trust me Rig doesn't restart because of small fluctuations. But yes the Miner does have some problems some times a GPU gets sick, Sometimes there is a driver crash so CGwatcher is a must have software to keep your rig operating in any case.

Not sure if it is necessary but I think a verified one would be good.

Here is a guide on how to do it.
http://www.itconsultation.net/main/

And money can be cashed out to PKR using this exchange. http://www.itconsultation.net/main/
Recently did a make over of there site.

This one is also good used it two times. http://www.e-cash.pk/buy-sell-cashout-webmoney-wmz-in-pakistan/

Hashrate doesn't depend on the type of slot or cable you are using. It only effects gaming.

It is a  constant 1.87 Mh/s.

Well as far as stabilizer is concerned buy a simple relay stabilizer. no need to buy a servo motor one. Most shopkeeper will suggest servo motor for PC. But it does not have a huge difference. The only effect servo can have is to keep your rig up even in huge electricity fluctuations which is not required. A normal one restarts PCs in the same scenario.

Who said anything about small fluctuations? Over here I have a basic c2d system with IGP and LCD. This thing probably uses <80w in total and it restarts all the time during the summer months. As in all day long! A dozen restarts a day due to voltage fluctuations is the norm. A mining rig pulling 1kw is going to struggle to stay up for a couple of hours a day.

I think you forgot that I have ran a miner with one GPU that consumes nearly 400 watts of Electricity in peak of summer. And barely had a problem running it all day long. except the load shedding timings. You need to check your wiring buddy. ;D

Hi Guys I'm From Hyderabad Pakistan, I Guess I'm The First BTC Miner Here Who 've 3 SP20 Jackson  ;D

Mining seems to be dead in Pakistan there are hardly any here. The power problems and costs are just too high...

Power cost's are hard to avoid if high.  Causes a lot to go cloud/hosting. Both are much better paying to much in electricity or to high of import taxes.

What is your electricity price seem to be like there?

no idea

Its goes from 15 to 28rs or 14 ot 27 cents kwh

Hi,
 Anyone from Pakistan wish to sale out their BTC rig ? like s3+ or s4 or s4+ or 5s from bitmain or any other good Ghz or Th machines ?

Try asking in

 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232519.0
 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=75.0

Thanx mate already posted there.