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.40 btc a day from my rigs that would otherwise be sitting making heat...lol

about $20 a day after electricity, usually around 5000g/hash, but i can get up to 6,500.  i guess that qualifies as 'medium'. 

but there needs to be another category.   when i sold everquest items, i had a few people that bought a couple grand worth, a whole bunch of ppl that bought a few hundred, one person that bought around $10,000 worth of goods, and another that spent about $30,000 (and the lingo for that is "super-whale" and "whale").     i would say someone that's around 15ghash or so would be a "big" miner, but it needs a "huge" or "i use more electricity than a small village" category

I voted #3. I got all my money in ASICs, and I'm hoping to have > 200GH/s before too long.

My early BTC endeavors were almost completely the fourth option, buying me small toys like SSDs or new monitors. Now all my BTC gets reinvested back into buying more hardware.

currently sitting on a whopping 300 mhash making around .12 btc a day. it's not much, i know. i want to get into ASICs (own a few shares of ASICMINER already!) and eventually rig em to solar/wind/whatever for free electricity and live off the mining revenue. finally free me up from the rat race.

My log scale definition, pls feel free to criticize / correct / comment

Big= >=100GH/s
Medium= >=10GH/s && <Big
Small= >=1GH/s && <Medium
Tiny= >=1MH/s &&<Small

That would be me...about 150 MH/s, mostly from a Radeon 7750, with a little bit contributed from a couple of GeForce 9500GTs and a GeForce 210 I already had.  I have a couple of Jalapeños on preorder, though, and would like to use the proceeds to build up to something bigger, just as the Jalapeños and the Radeon were purchased with proceeds from finding a block with CPU mining on my VPS a while back. 

dunno, not many with 10GH+.  the problem is there needs to be another category above medium.

someone mining at 9gh/s isn't "small".  that'd put them in the top 20 miners at a pool doing 2thash atm.

more like tiny <1ghash
small <3ghash
medium <10ghash
big <50ghash
squandering enough electricity to light up small hamlet >50ghash

I'm an ex miner.

I'm a tiny miner, averaging a little under 200MH/s on a 5770 I already had. Kinda wish I'd looked into mining 6 months ago, but oh well.

new miner, small running 2 5850's getting about 750 mhash. Want to grow but I want to see how much just running these 2 cards really affects electricity, just started officially yesterday!

Small miner doing it mainly for the fun, but secretly hoping to get big.

I think that's all of us, truth be told.

10gh seems like a nice number to be hitting sometime soon -

1Gh/s atm want to go ASIC when released  ;D

Running x2 5830's netting me .3btc a day with 520mhash. Im setting up a second rig this weekend though adding my old 6850 to the family  ;D. So yea, im one of those small timers trying to go big too.

725 ish with 2 rigs, 3 cards, and one dream of being a big shot miner one day. :3

Mining with 7 5870s at 400Mhash each for a total of 2.8Ghash.

Average hashrate in last 10 rounds: 2805 Mhash/s

Been doing this for awhile but for a long time I wasn't at full capacity due to broken fans and things which had to be fixed. General cooling issues for instance (I have 2 cards running outside now). Now that the difficulty is high I am at full capacity since I had the motivation to fix the issues. I wonder how many others have done the same. I could probably overclock a bit but then stability becomes an issue...

We used to have 8 cards but last summer the kill scripts weren't so great so one melted. :D Also have broken 2 A/Cs along the way...

So does that make us small? I want to be a medium sized miner!! ;)

Null miner < 10MH/s

Block relay and verification. Like the CPU miner I was running over the week-end.

Got into mining late in the GPU game and got very excited about it. Spent a decent amount on FPGAs and now I can't get my mind off of bitcoin. Take all my money ASIC pre-orders  ;D

New Scale:

• Very Big: >=10% of network hash rate
• Big: >=1% of network hash rate
• Medium: >=1/1000 of the network hash rate
• Small: >=1/10,000 of the network hash rate
• Tiny: >= 1/100,000 of the network hash rate
• Very Tiny >=1/1,000,000 of the network hash rate
• Null: < 1/1,000,000 of the network hash rate

At the current network hash rate of 21.3 TH/s, that corresponds to:

• Very big: over 2.13TH/s
  
• Big: over 213GH/s
  
• Medium: over 21.3GH/s
  
• Small: over 2.13GH/s
  
• Tiny: over 213MH/s
  
• Very Tiny: over 21.3MH/s
  

Edit:
yes. ;)

I'm almost Tiny, I lack 13Mh/s, but waiting for a couple of jalapeños.

Regards

lol, I prefer the old scale :D

gpu turning asic  :) high hopes

lol, still waiting for someone to say "oh, just the regular under 18 kind."  Get it, miner/minor? :P speaking of that, I think there are zero people who aren't around my age (mid 20's) in the bitcoin community, rofl.  This reminds me of DDO.

Anyway, not mining atm but I used to be a high overclocking GPU miner.  Now I'm just waiting for a working, glitch-free, low failure rate ASIC that's proven to work to be released before I get one.  Hmmm what classification would that be...oh yeah, "smart miner" lol.

working and glitch free??? then WHAT will you do with your spare time?
i love diddeling with my mining riggs lol :D

small and do it just for fun, I came into the mining scene WAY to late to be a big miner. 

Its good to know that mining has paid for my gaming desktop

Tiny miner. 2 card at around 500 mhash. Im slow, but its going :). I have high hopes for the future of bitcoin. In about 2 weeks I will be ordering a 60 g/hash device. Have 1 jally on preorder. Mining its a growing process I believe. Start with a few devices, and continue to reinvest. We'll see how it goes :)

7.96 GH/s of GPU mining over 3 rigs, 10x radeon 5970 cards, 1x radeon 7970
...in my pants

Also when asic arrives it'll be...

67.96 GH/s
...in my pants

 ;D

I see 3rd degree burns in your future with all that mining going on in your pants...

I started out June 2011 as a small miner with 1 6970. Since then I've owned, traded, and mined with 5770s, 6770s, 5870s, 5970s , 6990s, 7970s and BFL singles. My currenent configuration is 9 singles and 3 7970s. I'd like to think of myself as a med miner but some of you guys mine hard!

I've been mining away on a 5770 for a year and a half now.. I remember thinking how bad the jump up to 500,000 diff was.. doesn't seem so bad now. But I still missed all the real fun before that when the GPU miners first came out. It's been amusing to play around with though and hope it continues to grow.

This poll is great I'd love to see a follow up pole on how many Ghash you wanna have when ASIC hits...

small for fun.


I have been averaging 210MH/s on each 5770.  300MHz memory, 950MHz core, 1.1V.  I bought two for $100 each when I found out about bitcoin a little over a year ago (I only had nVidia cards back then).  Mined in a pool for a bit until I had $200 worth of BTC to justify buying the hardware instead of coins directly, then I mined solo when the pool I was in kept going down because of lack of maintenance.


I learned about bitcoin after GPUs were already mainstream.  I then forgot about it for a while with my 2x5770 just running in the background, and last week just used the 2 lucky blocks I found to pre-order a bASIC.  Haven't been paying attention to difficulty, I didn't even notice I found the second block solo until 3 months after when I needed to reboot my computer.