So guys i have 4 days left to make the payment for one d3.....should i go and make the payment tomorrow or is better to make new rig with the money ?Nov delivery

Your miner is basing its hash-rate figures on how much work it is doing. Even though it is performing the hashing function it may not be generating acceptable shares at the rate the pool uses to estimate how much hashrate x number of shares over a certain timeframe equates to.

Pools such as Nicehash can only use how many valid shares they receive from your miners as a metric and then use that figure along with time to display a guesstimate of your hash-rate. Luck, latency, pool issues, developer fee shares, or even subtle miner hardware fluctuations can all contribute to a large difference between submitted and accepted share-rates at the pool compared to what you miner is displaying.

As far as are you losing profits, in almost all cases mining at Nicehash will result in less profits than mining a coin directly and then trading it yourself. Consider Nicehash charges buyers 3% to "rent" your hashrate. They also charge you 3% for the privilege of renting it out to the buyers. Also consider the people buying or renting this hash-rate need to overcome this spread in order to profit on whatever coin they are after, so assuming they aren't losing money this needs ot be an additional 2-3% or more profit to make it worthwhile. So adding all this up, as a seller you need to overcome from 6-10% of fees to make what you could just by mining whatever profitable coin people are willing to pay Nicehash to mine for them.

I've just compared switched my small farm (5 Gh/s Eth) to Nicehash and I'm not happy at all. While the idea of just mining the most profitable algo is compelling, there are a few challenges:

* It doesn't use the best/most efficient miner (often you get better rates with modded miners targeted to your HW)
* OC settings are incredibly hard for multi-algo, wich means you need to go subtle / generalized OC and loose a couple Mh/s there too
* Fees are too high (its just too high)

I switched back to Signatum mining using ccminer for now, still exploring better mining options.

Buying coins is a safe choice and the most passive option so you don't invest your time. If you put a number behind that its the most profitable I assume. While I'm in for the long game and its exciting to figure out new stuff I would have been better of investing the money just into BTC or ETH.

You didn't get my point, let me explain you

Point # 1

I ordered L3+ from bitmain and its price was $2000 including shipping PSU, so i requested them that when you send out for customs declaration send invoice as $90, they did it and it saved me money on customs. CLARIFICATION: I AM NOT SAYING that bitmain gave me discount of $1910, instead they took the $2000 and the customs invoice was issued worth $90 only. Do you get the point?

I requested same think to iBeLink and they denied......this is rude specially when they don't have any loss in doing so. Because in my country the custom duty on miners is huge.

Point # 2

Regarding your argument that Bitmain is sucking its competition, i agree to some extent and that's why i gave the suggestions to iBeLink that help the customers and in return you will get the miners loyalty. Ask YOURSELF if iBeLink give you free upgrade or lets say upgrade at nominal charges, won't you show them some respect and loyalty?

The miners i talked to, 99% of them said YES.

Point # 3

I am myself big fan of iBeLink, and advocated them all over the forum when bitmain initiated the price war, however remember only those trees survive for long in devastating storms which are flexible and NOT RIGID.

Business is all about strategy, that is what Bitmain is doing and iBeLink needs a good business strategist.

I personally want iBeLink to become biggest manufacturer but again like you said wanting something is separate and different then reality.

Thanks.

Ok, sure. Guess they lowered the taxrate. It was at 27 percent at one point, as far as I can see currently it stands at 24 percent. Not a huge difference but still everything counts.

That's the way it should work, but most countries don't allow most deductions. France won't let me deduct anything without a SARL. A French limited liability company.

If you're a business you can write off the cost of purchases. Any money reinvested in the business is deductable.

well...in my case, I mined the LTC used....so this year...1/2 can go to the tax man ...or that same 1/2 can go to equip with an additional 25% due to 100% equip deduction in 1 year
applied to taxes I owe..or know I'm gonna owe this year

So the gamble was 25% more in $$$ on equipment...than just paying the IRS the 50% off what I mined in coin

sucks...but that is how it is...so worse case I figure it is a wash

Glad I was paranoid and only got the ONE though....

I also HOPE that bitmain will release a firmware update (like Baikal eventually did in the past) to do X13 and X15 coins. What the heck, probably won't happen, but would allow
me to mine something, if when these miners destroy/pump/boom the X11 coins out there in the world.

Anyway, still (in my case) I'll probably get by...but again...circumstances...I feel sad for those who may have bet the farm.

Whenever bitmain REDUCES PRICE DRASTICALLY as they have done with product in the past..it usually means something else is dire in the crypto world

but damn, even this one miner I got could be a 'doorstop' by December 2017 ..what an arms race!

Bump.

An answer would be nice, I've already lost a month of mining on the R-rig..