That is your DC power positive terminal, without it, there is no power feeding into the hashboard, how else do you think the hashboard is receiving power from the PSU? you will need to resolder that terminal, and make sure it's done by a professional, these things need to be tight for voltage to be in the required range, if it's loose, you could toast the board, be careful while dealing with it, the fact that it fell suggests that it was overheating, that's common if you didn't tighten the screws, loose terminals = heat.

I honestly never tried the proxy on any altcoin mining, in reality, I don't mine any altcoins using ASIC miners anymore, the last coins I mined were LTC and DASH, and that was like 5 years ago or so, I would help you if I had an altcoin miner but the way it's now, it will be impossible for me to offer any help, but what you need to know is that the proxy doesn't work fine with all pools, not all pools are good with handling mining proxies.

You might find some answers in the altcoin mining section referenced in the above comment.

I would wait for the halving before buying anything, then given that you can only run 20kw worth of miners I would try to get as much hashrate as I possibly could to make it worthwhile, otherwise it would be not worth the trouble.

I do think Whatsminer has a better value for money, Whatsminer gears have proven over the years that they are a lot more reliable than Antminers despite being slightly less efficient, i would go for M50 M60, but again, all depending on the prices post halving.

I did not look inside an avalon 1166 but my guess is, there are no screws to attach the hashboards to the chassis, the only two screws are the power terminals (negative and positive) which supply DC power from the PSU to the hashbosrd.

In the old models, power used to be supplied via a 6 pin connector, now it is a busbar connected directly, but it could be something else you are talking about so please post some pictures.

AwesomeMiner is a brilliant software and it is a must to monitor and control your miners, but you need to understand how to use it, otherwise, if there exist any rule with the wrong conditions -- it would cause more issues.

I can help you check the rules and check the logs to see what triggers the reboot, i'd need a PC with anydesk on it, or, you could just read the documentations of the software and once you are familiar with it you can do yourself.

Also, one way to go about this would be to use mass config on vnish firmware to change the password of all miners, once done, awesomeminer won't be to control your gears, in fact, it is pretty risky to keep the default web and SSH logins, you must change them anyway, disable SSH and change the web password.

Most miners nowadays use ASIC miners to mine bitcoin, inviting to mine on testnet would simply rekt it and render it useless for research and development, current testnet diff is about 90M, mainnet is at 85T, that's 85,000,000MH, moving just 1% from mainnet to testnet will destroy it for as long as that large hashrate is sitting there on the testnet, the current hashrate for testnet is roughly

((1) * 97000000 * 2^32 )/600/1000000000000 = 347TH, and diff does drop to 1 very often when blocks aren't found for 20 mins, so it's pretty usable for the average Joe, if you point a few latest-gen gears there, you make it impossible for the rest to use it, so leave it the fuck alone.

Funny that you quoted Bitdeer News because that is a publicly listed Bitmain branch, you know who is the CEO? Probably even the founder? Jihan Wu, rings a bill?

As for thier new chip its most likely just BM1368 rebranded.

Current pace is 95%, i say we get a small 1% increase or so.

I am leaning towards the devpool issue, do you also have AwesomeMiner software running? There could be a random rule causing that.

Reach out to Patrike or post on his thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=676942.0 he would be able to help you better if you provide the API logs to some of the miners you have.

But to save time, change one of the miners' firmware to BO+ or Bitmain stock, if it runs fine then you know it's firmware related issue, also make sure your router firewall isn't blocking the dev pool.

Nop, some of the large orders are public but you can't tell much just by looking at what a few companies bought, there are three major Asic miner manufacturers, Bitmain, MicroBT and Canaan (in order), none of them reveal the info you looking for.

Furthermore, even if we had all that info at hand, you just can't reach a definite conclusion, the real question is, how much power there is and how much it costs everybody to run certain gears.

For all we know, for a country that has a lot of spare electricity can still mine with older gears, we have no clue how many of the old S9, S17, or M20/M20s still run, all we can do is speculate and use common sense although many things in mining don't make much sense anyway.

Phill, there are new gears coming online everyday that's for sure, but the numbers are just massive when you translate them to money and electcity.

We are at roughly 600EH, simple math for those new commers, 1EH = 1,000,000TH.

When we get 1% change in either direction we are talking about 6EH, ,6 million tera hash, Antminet S19 or Whatminer M30 do roughly 100th so you need 60,000 miner to make a 1% change, to make a 5% change you need 60,000*5 or 300k miners.

Using S21 or Whatsminer M60, you can divide the number by 2, so ya for a 5% change it is 150k gears.

Power wise = 150,000* 3.6KW = 540MW, that is the average output of a gas power plant, 10 of them are enough to run a whole country with a small population.

You just can't do this every other epoch, it is too much.

Doorstopper would fit better, they can do exactly that, I have used them for such purpose when i had nobody to hold the door while i carry stuff inside/,outside.

I think the scrap value for S9 was 10-15% in China 2-3 years ago, now with all metals increasing cost, it should be 20$ or so,  so ya, worst case.

Guessing difficulty has been only getting harder, it's even worse nowadays since we are approaching the halving, you just can't tell what people have in mind, but a 5% is a whole lot of gears and power, I still find it hard to believe that it was not a fluke which would correct itself this epoch.

Mind you, even post halving we would still see unrealistic changes like we did the last halving, it would take a few epochs for things to settle down.

The one thing certain is that anybody paying above 5-6 cents and doesn't have S19 or better, is going to face some serious issues.

Too much details in the comments but the most important thing and probably the only thing that really matters would be your buy back prices.

It does not matter if you have 2 or 2000 panels, you can't mine Bitcoin off-grid, so you will always have to buy power from the grid, so how much would your electric provider pay you for it and how much they would sell it back for?

If electricity is too complicated for you, think of it as extracting water from your land, you have a pump that only works for 4-5 hours a day, doesn't matter how much water you get, you can't store any of it to use it for the remaining 19-20 hours, so you extract more than you use, sell it to the water company, and then buy it back when your pump is not working.

It is worth mentioning that usually the issue is in a single chip or just a few of them, so all these S17 floating around for sale have already been fixed and equipped with the single block heatsink, this means, they have a lower failure rate than the brand new ones, not because of the new heatsink, but rather the fact that they have fixed them and used better solder.

They would fit perfectly, the surface of the chip is perfectly flat, and you put a perfectly plat plate on them -- you get an even contact and perfect heat transfer, so these plates do work, but if your question is "will this solve the main problem with all the 17 series?" then the answer is NO.

As I explained before, the issues of bad soldering between the chips and the hashboard itself can't be solved by using this signal large heatsink, it's not very common for heatsinks to fall apart, if that was the main issue then this design would do the trick, but it's not.

It would be easier to remove a single large plate when you need to fix something underneath it, a lot easier than having to heat and remove a dozen small chips, it may provide slightly better cooling than the stock design, but it certainly isn't going to fix the major problem which is the most common, in my honest opinion the person who invented this large heatsink is a con artist, he knew that many people thought the issue was always in the heatsinks, so "pretend" that you have fixed the problem so you can make a ton of money by giving false hope to miners.

My general advice when it comes to these trash miners is -- don't buy them.

المحتوى العربي محدود جدا سواء من حيث العدد او المضمون, طبعا قد يرا البعض هدا على انه عيب في القسم العربي الا اني اراه شي ايجابي جدا, فمثلا لو ركزنا على القسم الرئيسي وقسم المبتدئين سنجد ان 90% في المئة من المواضيع والتعليقات هادفة وجدية ومتعلقة بالبتكوين, مواضيع القمار لا تعتبر مرتبطة بالكريبتو باي شكل من الاشكال فحتى ان كانت وسائل الدفع للكازينو او الربح منه بالكريبتو فهدا لا يعني انها تتعلق بالبتكوين او الكريبتو, يوجد الاف الخدمات والمنتجات التي يمكن شرائها بالكريبتو ونحن هنا لا نناقشها, والامر لايختلف كثيرا بالنسبة للقمار.

اضف على ذلك ماتقدم به الاخوة الزملاء ان مواضيع القمار لن تجد رواجا هنا نظرا لان اغلبنا لانمارسها ولا نهتم بها اما لاسباب دينية او غيرها, شخصيا لا يهمني القمار ولا احب حتى ان اقراء عنه اي شي, فما بالك بكتابة مواضيع عنه.

Ya, I used stock settings as a reference, it would take a while for mods to work well on the Antminer S21 to figure out how low can the w/t go, it could be 15w or anything in that range unless they are already underclocked by Bitmain which doesn't make sense, but my guess is -- it would be a similar drop that S17 had percentage-wise.

As for the bull trap scenario -- it's possible, BTC likes to do things differently every cycle, this is the first cycle where we hit a new ATH before the halving, the majority of people were waiting for the halving to happen and then bull, many other people including myself thought that this time would be different in a negative way, i.e, it would not moon in the same halving year but rather middle or late next year, but what do we know? BTC does what BTC wants to do.

Well actually going as far back as 4-5 years then it's 2019 era, the most efficient publicly available mining gear at the time was Antminer S17 which did 56th for 2500w, this puts it 44.6W/th, fast-forward to today, we got Antminer S21 which does 200th for 3500W, which is 17.5th, that's a little over 60% improvement in efficiency which is HUGE, one would also assume that mining gears manufacturers have already acquired more experience and skills to make the overall production cost lower.

We may not get another 60% improvement in the coming 4 to 5 years, at least not on a single-chip level, but if they can make them cheap enough, they can always stack more chips and run them at lower speeds to achieve better efficiency.

I am really sad to hear this, i know you have invested too much time and effort in that farm, alongside with buysolar, it sucks to stop mining, been there, i know it feels like shit.

I would sell them if I could, wait for another chance to present itself, the longer you keep them the less they are worth in BTC, not an easy move I know -- but good things don't last forever.

With that said, patience is key, I had a deal over for 30KW, was sitting there doing nothing for months, then a 1MW deal came my way, you just have to wait, but while you wait, try to get the best deal for the gears you have, you can always re-buy them cheaper when the time comes.

Energy production is a complex subject. It's neither cheap nor easy. The only reason why electric companies can offer "cheap" rates is because they produce energy in bulk. Setting aside all taxes and other unrelated costs, you need to produce a significant amount of energy just to break even. It doesn't matter how you produce the energy—whether from the sun or wind—you can only generate a limited amount at a given time. For the majority of the day, you will need to rely on power from the grid.

Storing electricity is more expensive than producing it. Battery technology is lagging, so you can't simply produce 240 kWh and use it throughout the entire 24-hour period. If you require 240 kWh per day, you must assume it's only viable for 4-5 hours, meaning you'll need to sell it to the company and then repurchase it.

If the company sells you 1 kWh for 10 cents and buys yours for 5 cents, then you'll need to do some calculations.

For example, if you require 100 kWh every hour during the 4 hours when your solar/wind system is producing energy, you need to generate 40 kWh for your use and 400 kWh to sell to the grid. At 5 cents per kWh, you have a daily credit of 400 * 0.05 = $20.

Then, when your solar panels or wind turbines aren't producing anything for the remaining 20 hours, you'll need to purchase 200 kWh at 10 cents, costing you $20. In other words, you break even; you don't owe the company anything.

However, this means you must invest in a system capable of producing 5 times your actual needs. That's a significant amount of money to invest. Of course, there could be other incentives for running solar, such as tax benefits. If your country/state encourages on-grid solar, they may buy from you at 4 cents and sell to you at 5 cents during the night (not sure if anybody does that, just speculating). It all depends on your location. But in general, building your own energy infrastructure is complicated and expensive.