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3 weeks (early Nov)

52gh/s


(technically 4 weeks, but the GPU mining was just a test)

Just curious.


*Bonus question #1: What equipment is ordered but not implemented?
-->I have another blade on the way.

**Bonus question #2: Are you in a pool? Which one?
-->Slush

Well I started at 100 MHash/s :D Didn't made much. So I bought some mining device.. Long time ago like 2 months :D Don't remember what kind of though.. Then I got about 1 GHash/s But eventually got bored sold that device ... And ended things with BTC and here I am again

I've been at this around a month now.  Managed to lay hands on an 8GH/s BFL Jalapeno for around $300 on eBay before BTC shot up and everyone tripled their prices.  Less than a week ago I picked up two TAV RedHash units and am now cruising along at around 225GH/s or so total.

I've toyed with the idea of a Prospero X-3, but have yet to pull the trigger (although leaning heavily in that direction).

As far as pools are concerned, I'm in the process of a few 24 hour test runs across multiple pools (Ghash.io yesterday, BTC Guild as we speak, then Slush and some of the smaller ones to follow).  Looking to see which averages out the best.  I know there is a tremendous amount of luck involved, and fees play into the equation as well, but just conducting more of a rough, non-scientific baseline so I know to some degree that I am maximizing my mining time.

Managed to pull right around .14BTC from a 24 hour run at Ghash yesterday and I'm tracking a little behind that with BTC Guild today (although only halfway through the run).

Nice! I picked up a BFL Jally that does a steady 7.5gh/s, did local pickup on Ebay for $260. Despite the reputation they built from the late shipments, I've gotta say I like the BFL unit a lot. It looks clean, was a breeze to setup, and it's been super-reliable. Just got another blade so I am pushing a little over 60gh/s now. Please keep us updated on your pool research. Have you considered a shot at solo-mining? One of my rigs found a block with a pool, it got me considering mining solo on holidays or just now and then to play the odds... But I guess there's always SatoshiDICE if I'm feeling lucky, better than scratch-tickets I guess  ;D

Good luck!

Been mining since april 2011.  Started with a single Radeon 5830 and made 1 BTC every 5 days. ;D

Now have about 200Gh of various ASICs and make about the same. :P  Stopped in 2012 because of BTC price dip.

Make most bitcoin now by trading.

started in 8/2011 with two 6850's (I think). Left them alone for a little more then 2 years until one of them started making nasty fan noise. Connected a monitor to it only to find that it had BSOD'd A LONG TIME AGO (according to btcguild).

That was maybe 650Mh's... I've since upgraded to a little over a TH's.

LOL how many months lost?

Hi,

I started GPU mining in early 2012. In September 2012 I ordered a BFL 30GH/s Little Single that was delivered in September 2013 (somewhat ironically, about 8 hours after I left on a 10 day trip...).

I decided to sell that on eBay in October (mainly because of the difficulty going up ~40% per 10-12 days). I got $AU1125 for it (more than I paid), but I bought a 96GH/s BitBurner Fury on eBay a couple of days later for $AU1,575, and that is my current capacity.

No plans to upgrade at the moment.

Cheers.

Mining since June 2013, started with one ASICMINER Block Erupter USB.  Have now expanded to:
9 x ASICMINER Block Erupter USB
1 x Butterfly Labs 7 GH/s ASIC Miner
3 x Butterfly Labs 60 GH/s ASIC Miner
1 x KncMiner Jupiter ASIC Miner

Total hashrate: ~730 GH/s (it varies a bit)

On pre-order:
1 x Bitmine CoinCraft Rig 2 TH/s
1 x KnCMiner Neptune ASIC Miner

Close to a year from what I could tell.  :'(

Is there a source that reports the average hash rate per miner? Seems like a lot of big dogs hang on this forum, curious what the avg is...

I assume your saying per miner as in "user" and not hardware.

That would be an interesting bit of information.

Mined BTC from around Feb 2012 - ASIC release.

Started with 400 M/H, ended up with around 1200 M/H.

Mining LTC with 1800 K/H now.

Are you reinvesting profits from mining or are you adding new capital?

Yes, per user... Even within a pool this would be interesting, kinda wish they provided stats like this. I mean, within a pool we just need to divide the total hash by the number of user accounts. Do any pools share the amount of members they have? It's odd because I've been trying to find this info for a while and haven't had any luck. No scientific approach, basically been searching Google for "decent hash rate Bitcoin" and "average hash rate Bitcoin" etc etc.

Kinda felt like I wasn't too shabby until responses started coming through so much higher. I'd love to see a mean hash value from a random sample. Maybe a poll on these forums would encourage more responses because it's quick and anonymous...

I started mining in like may.  I have 280 GH now and its awesome getting the BTC steady income but dude.  I should have taken the money I spent on the piece of shit and bought bitcoin.  I'd be richer today.

Join slush's pool.  Slush is a genius and his pool is no frills. It's nice.

Slush actually introduced the concept of pooled mining.  He was met with opposition but he understood it all.  Slush IS the shit.

Yeah but through mining you avoid all the psychological baggage that comes with the specific cost basis when trading. I had a stock just post a 110% gain after moving sideways for two months. The decision to hold, close, or just trim a portion was very stressful. After all these years it's never gets easier for me to close when my targets hit. Much easier to dump losers, I enter all my trades with a target exit price but it doesn't make the decision any easier... So if you bought BTC at $50 what are the chances you would have held all the way to $1,000? I know I'd probably have dumped out too early to "lock in the win"- nothing worse than watching a winner turn into a loser, but watching something continue higher the day following a sale sucks almost as much. What I enjoy about mining is that it's just plain interesting, but also it makes cost basis seem completely irrelevant. My position feels more long-term without the added pressure on timing the market for a specified gain or fear of not recognizing a sell-off only to be stuck holding an empty bag later. We've got our gear, we pay a little extra to the electric company, and we build a BTC position built up steadily over time; something I kinda prefer about that arrangement.

Adding new capital. The only BTC I spent on my rig was to purchase custom end-plates for the BFL 60 GH/s miners - for reduced noise and lower temps. 

I understand this sentiment for sure.  The miner I bought certainly paid out in fiat and then some.  Sounds fine to me.  KNCminer was profession and sort of timely as well.  Their next 20 nm product is $13k.  Are you going to go for it? 

Too rich for my blood, no chance for me... I'm just a hobby status.

March 2013 with a GPU  500Mh/s

Current hash rate? 0GH/s lol. Sold of my Jally and LS.

880Kh/s on Scrypt.


1. 4 Units of Avalon Gen 2 miners from Technobit. 96Gh/s total.  ;D
2. Was on slush's, d7 PPC pool and Coinex TGC pool. ca

My current hash rate is about 1.5 TH/s. I make about 1 BTC per day at current difficulty.

Here are my current miners:
1 Avalon batch 2 at 82 GH/s
2 Bitburner 8-board stacks at about 375GH/s each
2 BFL Jalapeños at 7 GH/s each
2 BFL Singles at 60 GH/s each
1 KNC Jupiter at 550  GH/s


I started mining early this year with a BFL FPGA I got from a friend. The Avalon was my first real miner which was purchased in June I think. I've mined about 140 coins so far. The BFL machines were ordered in Oct of 2012 but didn't arrive until this Sept!

I have a batch 1 Hashfast on order (with an upgrade kit) and an upgraded batch 2 (Nov batch) hashfast on order too. Finally I have a KNC Neptune on order.

I mine on Eligius presently but used to mine on Ozcoin.

Ordered a BFL LS back in June and eventually wrote it off as BTC related growing pains. But, it showed up ~3 weeks ago so I was pleasantly surprised and couldn't decide if I was just gonna sell it on ebay or mine. Ended up mining, joined Slush's pool and it's clocked up to ~33 Gh/s. Brings in about .025 daily. :-\ Of course, I had bought quite a bit of mining shares w folks on here and that's going pretty well. It is fun having the auto deposit every week despite knowing that had I kept all my coins I'd be better off in terms of overall coinage.

Decided to try 'cloud' mining I guess, been a week on CEX.io (https://cex.io/r/0/furezasan/0/) mining at roughly 10GH/s

about 4 months, 1Gh/s. Mostly I mine alt-coins but sometimes I'll get some btc dust.

started on 10/2012 with 3x 7970. just use as heater, I have water cooling so its quiet. In several month I found that profitable. upgraded to 10+ 7970 and several 7870s.
Now I have 1.2THs in bitcoin and almost 20Mhs in litecoin.
Draws about 20Kw

Started in November with 4 usb 333 erupters, after a week bought two v2 blades, then bought two more in December.

~40 GH/s BTC Guild ~.03 /24hr

Is your 1.2TH/s just in video cards or is there an asic under the floorboards somewhere?

The largest GPU farm ever built would not be able to even approach 1.2TH/s (back when it was GPU and FPGA the network was only about 15TH/s).  Pretty sure all his cards are on Litecoin.  Bitcoin is left only to ASICs now.

That is what I thought, it just didn't seem correct so I had to ask.

Mining scrypt for 1+ years 80KH/s - 20KH/s  :P

SHA-256 mining for 6 months. At my peak was mining at 3.1 GH/s, with block erupters. Decided to ebay these block erupters as I bought them for $7 and sold them for $50. My plan was to reinvest and buy a blad or 2 with that profit only to watch the price of blade double as well. $500 for a blade....hmmm just cant do it.

I started mining like 6 months ago right before it got tough and it seems like everyone is catching on.  I did like 330 mh/s then I switched to doing some alt mining and then I have almost given up on it and just do it here and there for fun. 

Bought 3 Block Erupters for a hobby when they were cheap($15USD). Been mining with 1Ghash for about 2/3mo, already made an ROI.

Bonus question 2:
Currently mining on slush,  planning on switching to BTCGuild.

there is no reason to switch to BTCGuild atm.

Better round times... If you know a better pool, let me know.

What do faster round times make them better? Just more consistent payments but overall its pretty much the same, on top the fees are higher on BTCguild then Slush's.
 

mined years ago using cpu/gpu and recently got back into it.

Originally I used Red Fury's and then upgraded to some Block Erupter blades.


I am currently doing approx 21 gh/s.

I have 1 X-1 on order....not much ROI with nextgen ASIC equipment so not really investing any $$$ in mining at the moment.

1 Overclocked BFL LS ------ 36Ghs
1 Overclocked BFL Jally ---- 8.5 Ghs
12 USB Erupters ------------ 4 Ghs

Mining since late August, was hashing .25 a day then, .025 currently... My miners made less than 1% of my coins, but I love them!

I've got another 50gh/s on the way, combo of blades and a cube. Managed to find a pair of deals that didn't last long and jumped, bought a bit more than planned... I should be up to 110gh/s total by the weekend if everything ships fast. From there I will do my best to resist upgrading for a while.



EDIT: Correction... add another 2 blades to that. I'm up to 82gh/s with the two that arrived today, with a cube and two more blades on the way; should put me ~130gh/s in a few days. After the new orders arrive I plan on freezing for a bit and seeing how it goes, kinda been deal-hunting and adding hardware each week, need to back off and see how it goes for a while.

You can find deals on blades but it is tough, and the definition of a "deal" is defined relative to the inflated pricing on Ebay. 0.38BTC blades are available on a group buy right now, anything on Ebay with a "buy it now" under $400 sells very fast but it does happen if you watch it enough. Since the Cube is going for $1,100 anything over $400 per blade is hard to justify, but somehow demand is being met at higher prices.

You work for the IRS?

I have been mining for a bit over a year now but have stopped mining BTC before the big diff jump but im still mining scrypt coins and will continue with that for the next year or two. When i was mining BTC i used slush's pool and had 35 gh/s there. had a few blades and usb miners.

Just wanted to update, my total gh/s is around 138gh/s now... Wife is complaining a lot that the apartment is hot, pretty sure she is giving my setup the stink-eye  ::)

Just looking to see how I stack up against the general population here. I wish someone could publish info on average miner speed per user, expenses, and income- to see the data on a time-series plot would be interesting. From what I know parts of this info only exists on a high-level, would be easy math to divide by the number of people mining if that data is available.

Mining since mid-August.  Started with one USB Block Erupter, quickly got 5 more, then 2 Jalapenos, then 2 BlueFuries.  Current hardware total:  21GH.

Started pointing the hardware at CEX.IO / GHash.IO and reinvested mining income into CEX.  Got up to 26 GH on CEX then sold most of it to buy 2 Block Erupter Cubes yesterday.  When they arrive, I should have just under 100 GH in hardware.  Probably point the lot at CEX/GHash again and start building that back up again.

Nice, yeah Cubes came down quite a bit in price, mine's been solid so far. Beware though, those little cubes add significant heat to a room, way more than I expected. My wife keeps saying how hot in here it is, pretty sure when my next cube arrives she's gonna be pissed lol... But then if BTC goes back over $1k she'll ease up ;) Oh yeah, and be sure to open them up and tighten all the heatsinks, you don't want to have a loose one a fry it.

How do you like those BlueFuries? I heard they don't play nicely with some configurations. Was considering them for my RaspberryPi running Minepeon, but I really don't want to order anything that isn't compatible. I have 9 of those little Block Erupters and they just worked right out of the box, super easy. If I can get some indication on the BlueFury setup compared to Eruptors it would be helpful, can you provide any insights?

CrazyGuy is selling cubes for .89 BTC (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375247.0) right now.

Thanks for letting me know about the heat.  If that's the case I'll probably put them in my unheated basement for the duration of the winter.

I haven't used them with a Pi, or any Linux for that matter.  I've not had any problems though.  On Windows with BFGMiner you can't let the software autodetect the BlueFuries if you're also running USB Eruptors, the detect methods conflict.  So I have to specify each Eruptor and BlueFury by port manually.  I never did have much luck with CGMiner.

I understand there were some build quality issues with them, sometimes their performance varies.  I have one that does 2.45 GH and the other only does 2.02 GH.  You might check out the Blue Fury Support Thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=319419.0).  I'm sure I've seen posts about using them with Pi.

This. I day traded BTC a bit at first, but I couldn't keep up with it, just like with stocks. I have a full time job and a family, and while I can slack off a bit at work, I can't constantly keep up with what's happening, so trading is a pretty risky strategy for me. I've found my happy spot is with mining group buys. Make some BTC's, let someone else handle the stress of managing the hardware, occasionally reinvest my profits, and relax.

I'm now up to ~217gh/s (according to pool API stats), inventory is:
1 BFL Jally (7.5)
9 USB eruptors
10 V2 Blades
3 Cubes

Now I need to just stop spending BTC on group buys and just let it mine for a while...

Current hash rates and BTC avg's per day pls.

I'm in pretty deep. I still maintain that I'm in it for the hobby but I have spent alot on miners on eBay. I just wanted FULL coins to play with so I dropped quite a bit on about 400Ghs of various BFL devices and Avalon devices. Currently I'm around 340Ghs right now with one more 60Ghs on its way via FedEx and THAT'S IT!! Unless I can off my gaming PC I might by another or I have been toying with the idea of using it for some scrypt minig. I've been at it only for a few weeks with my first week also being just experimenting with my gaming GPU. As far as pools, I started with slush but so many glitches with payouts drove me to check out BTC Guild where it seems much more stable. It has been a HUGE learning curve for me though and I have not been able to keep all my miners going due some weird thing that always seems to happen. I have only really been mining with the big machines for 1 week and with all sorts of various issues to work out I've managed about .82 BTC. Hopefully when I get that 60Ghs, I'll get them all up and at 400Ghs and will have my glitches resolved and I can keep them up for a good run. I never expect to get my ROI, I just wanted to have some fun and get some full coins to play with. The way these things sell on eBay I'm tempted to think I can still get half my money back out of these things in about 3 or 4 months when I have gotten hopefully around 5 BTC or so. We'll see how it goes.

Total hobbyist here with no delusions about getting rich from it! Started off QRK mining just as it was exploding at the end of November and tried a few GPU coins along the way since then (6950)
I had a spare Pi and spotted the Adafruit display article, so just couldn't resist getting one of those and a few USB miners to go along with it.
As much as I'd love to spend a couple of grand on tech for mining, I just can't justify it, as I realise I'm way too late to the party at this stage... I'd rather just spend it on BTC at the next drop.

*Bonus question #1: What equipment is ordered but not implemented?
A Red Fury, which was originally supposed to be used with my Pi, but I got screwed around on delivery dates and ended up getting some antminers instead. (I'd say I'll just sell the Red Fury on eBay as soon as it arrives, as the going rate at the moment is almost twice what I paid for it)

**Bonus question #2: Are you in a pool? Which one?
BTC Guild. I've been trying other coins along the way, though.

Off and on since 2010... started with whatuever MH/s my old laptop did with stock bitcoind, stopped for a year or so and completely forgot about bitcoin, only to jump back in with ~800MH/s of GPUs

Current hash rate of around 800GH/s

I'm still fairly a noob at this, but all the talk about the boom in BTC at the end of the year got my hopes up that it would be a good investment. Due to a low income, anything would help. Using my credit cards I've invested about $2500 in building these rigs Bought a 37GHs ASIC rig on Ebay which mines about $11 of BTC per day, I have it connected to an old homebuilt Mac-mini-type (mini ITX)  low-wattage box (now with Ubuntu) which only runs the terminal window, and I hope to get an 80 GHs rig when Advanced Miners get their act together and starts shipping. I have another 2 boxes for scrypt mining, one I built 3 years ago and only had a PCIe v 1.0 slot, but I was able to find a new GPU for $200 that will do about 420KHs. The second one is a new box I built about 2 1/2 weeks ago with an R9 280X that does over 700 KHs. These two also net about $11 a day on 1100MHs. I also gradually invested in about $600 of BTC paying cash when it was low, so made 20% profit on that by buying when the price was lower. So all told, I've earned about $500 since Christmas, but didn't get it all up and running until about 2 weeks ago.

Ordered our two Jalapeno's /cry in April 2013 got them in late September, actually they're working fine and have paid for themselves (no profit), both running at a consistent 8 GHs each, lost one PSU which BFL replaced.  Ordered our KNC Jupiter Nov 8th, got very lucky it arrived Dec 9th.   It's been running at 650 GHs ever since.   Started GPU mining with a bargain basement 7950 three weeks ago running on an old Dell XPS 420 we had lying around had to upgrade the power suppy (have a total of $300 invested).  Running at 365 kHs to keep it cool, no ROI but fun, seems like you have to hit the altcoins perfectly to make any money. 

Bitcoin

I've been mining since December 6th.  Current hash rate is 1.34 th/s.

Litecoin

Averaging around 15k kh/s.

Currently, 1,2 TH

started mining when the KNC jupiter november batch arrived.
Followed mining for a long time, started in april/may but never dared to start with gpu mining due to the upcoming of asic mining.
Skipped BFL due to their starting problems and found KNC trustworthy.

Currently
KNC Jupiter 650 GHS
KNC Mercury 150 GHS
Avalon 225 GHS
Avalon 225 GHS

Mining at Bitminter.

I started about 18 months ago mining with GPU, forgot about it until I heard about the price just in November, tried to get my 47 bitcoins out of the mining pool December 2013 and got ripped off by 50BTC!

I now have 110 gh/s from assorted Butterfly Labs ASICs purchased almost new from Ebay.  I am awaiting the deliver this week of another 1.2 th/s from Hong Kong and will be reinvest part of my mining returns monthly in upgrades and staying ahead of the complexity curve!

Soon will be mining at 1.2 th/s +/-

I now transfer all my coins out and will not loose to a pool again, it was a very costly mistake!!!  I mine with BTC-Guild and am very pleased.  I was with EclipseMC when I first purchased my BF ASICs but there were to many connection issues with the pool!

Mtnminer

I just checked; I bought my first 5830 in July of '11. Since then I've bought, mined on, and sold GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs. Right now, my hashrate is zero while I set up some scrypt farms, and I have 3TH on preorder.

Just over a month.

Started with usb erupters but that was too slow, bought two jalapenos a week later, sold the erupters for profit

bought a block cube got it a couple of weeks ago, bought 4 red furys last week.


Currently have about 50ghs.

Going to buy some chips and upgrade my Jallies to 10ghs minimum and if I feeling daring try for 20.

Thinking of buying prospero x1's.

32 hours, 60GH/s, 0.029 BTC.

Will see a return of 1 BTC in 45 days if rate continues. 60 days at worst.

An 5850 mining on 2011-07-22, Jupiter and now have a one ant eligius 730G/S, ordered a Neptune。

A few months now, and around 500 GH/s total between my own hardware (~350) and some other ventures (~150).
Run my own hardware through a Rasp Pi with MinePeon other than a couple of USB miners I got when I first started to check it out - just got those on a hub on my Win7 PC.
I kind of wanted to start a small GPU mining farm, but with the talk of ASICS coming soon to do scrypt mining I feel like it might be too late now, and might be better to wait.

Started early November with 2 KNC Jupiters. Each was mining 1 btc per day. Now each make about 0.15 btc per day.

Right now I have 2 THps, but I have also ordered 3 KNC Neptunes (https://sites.google.com/site/kncrebates/) (hope I am able to run them as they will be very power hungry), so I will be increasing my hashing power it quite a bit.

I started mining in October 2013. Most of my money went into VPS but I don't have any of them still running  :-[

As of right now i'm barely mining anything. I have about 1.3gh/s to my name. Which is kinda pathetic  ::)

Forgot to update, got another blade the other week to fill up my backplane. With the cubes on high clock I'm around 229gh/s. Fighting the urge to add anything new, want to sit back and just let it roll until some new miners are released or the Antminers drop significantly.

3 years; negligible compared to what's coming out soon.

An update, I now have most of my five 200 gh/s Avalon rigs up and running, I have one more to go.  I am at 900-920 gh/s depending on how it floats.  I am waiting on more upgraded power supplies to arrive any day.  That I can get my last Avalon 200 running and overclocked.  Then I will change the power supplies in the other four and overclock them too.

Mtnminer

Just checked my Bitcoin address and I've been mining since Oct 2012

Started on graphics cards. A mix of 6770(died pretty quickly), 5830s (because they were cheap) and 7850s (because they were power efficient) I was part time mining and part time gaming.

I gave up mining Bitcoin in June 2013 because it came unprofitable due to ASICs and switched to Litecoin.

Came back to Bitcoin Nov 2013 buying 270GH of ASICs expecting to mine early December, but they didn't deliver 5/6 until January which ruined my ROI plans. >:( Unlike other people buying Avalon/BFL I gambled on Bitfury staying in the game longer because it was lower power.

I've got another 520GH of Bitmine A1 chips on order for delivery mid Feb. Lets see how that goes.

Made 8.8BTC with GPUs, blew it all on ASICs, ROI only 1.6BTC so far, but 2/3rds not mining yet.

Update: I sold off a few cubes and a BFL Jalapeno on Ebay/Craigslist, bought up a few Antminers. I'm now at 823gh/s and have been mining since November 2013.

I started in Nov '13 with two USB Block Eruptors, went over some Bitfurys, Redfurys, a BFL Jalapeno 8GH/s ant two Cubes. Now I am on 360 GH/s with two Ant S1 plus 100 GH/s with cloud mining (gives me the profit of about 40 GH/s after all the maintenanche and upkeep costs). And I'm also waiting for my 100 GH/s x1 from BA which will arrive about christmas 2483  :'(

I have the Ants pointed to https://bitminter.com/ (https://bitminter.com/) and also started with about 1.3 MH/s Scrypt on https://www.easymining.eu/ltc/ (https://www.easymining.eu/ltc/)

I try to have a zero-game with income and expenses.

I just ordered another 180gh/s Antminer. This will push me over 1th/s. Thing is, do people even consider that a lot these days??

Started mining a few years ago with a CPU back when you used to be able to knock out a few a week, then stopped and picked it up again last year with a bunch of ASICMiner USBs until I got scammed on my next order of 20 more due to my greed of releasing from escrow before receiving them, then picked it up again about a month and a half ago with a partially broken Terraminer IV. Don't think I'll be mining much more in the future despite getting free electricity in my apartment, I like supporting the BTC network but it's becoming a bit too arduous with cables and LOUD fans all over my room.

~1.2TH/s using the Eligius pool.

My Update:

2x260GH arrived but only ran at 2x250GH and was so noisy I had to underclock them to 215GH
ROI is up to 6.5BTC so 2.3BTC to break even.
Total 700GH mining = 0.0575 BTC day so about 40+ more days. ::)