Curious as to what the 1030 is doing for you in this rig?  Seems like a good rig for doing some speculative mine and hold in-between mining eth.  You gonna do any mining of the Octopus algo and hold a few coins in case they are more than a fad?  Or any other coins?

Gear prices are defiantly nuts right now. 

Newegg is doing a daily "Shuffle" for some hot items.  It's essentially a raffle like Japan does for new console launches. The AMD 5600x and 5800x CPU's seem to be an option pretty regularly.

They also throw in some GPU's mostly the higher priced AIB models.   

Goes live usually around 2pm to 5pm est.  Get like 3-4 hours to purchase if "your selected.

https://www.newegg.com/product-shuffle

Site shows as expired till they load the new stuff for the daily shuffle.

Wow Phil that's one monster system!  Puts mine to shame!  Best of luck with that baby.

That's nothing. At least the USPS operates as a public service, not a for-profit business. This increase is in line with their usual increases which happen every year or two. It's also in line with the target inflation rate.

In contrast, I'm easily paying 20-50% higher prices on many things I buy on Amazon vs. a few years ago. But I think the case of Amazon is especially egregious because they are jacking prices up after cornering lots of markets. I'm sure it's not purely a matter of costs or inflation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service ...

"The USPS is often mistaken for a state-owned enterprise or government-owned corporation (e.g., Amtrak) because it operates much like a business. It is, however, an "establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States", (39 U.S.C. § 201) as it is controlled by presidential appointees and the postmaster general. As a government agency, it has many special privileges, including sovereign immunity, eminent domain powers, powers to negotiate postal treaties with foreign nations, and an exclusive legal right to deliver first-class and third-class mail. Indeed, in 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision “The Postal Service is not subject to antitrust liability. In both form and function, it is not a separate antitrust person from the United States but is part of the Government, and so is not controlled by the antitrust laws" such as the Sherman Antitrust Act.[89] Unlike a state-owned enterprise, the USPS lacks a transparent ownership structure and isn't subject to standard rules and norms that apply to commercial entities. The USPS also lacks commercial discretion and control.[90]

The U.S. Supreme Court has also upheld the USPS's statutory monopoly on access to letter boxes against a First Amendment freedom of speech challenge; it thus remains illegal in the U.S. for anyone, other than the employees and agents of the USPS, to deliver mailpieces to letter boxes marked "U.S. Mail".[91]

The Postal Service also has a Mailers' Technical Advisory Committee and local Postal Customer Councils, which are advisory and primarily involve business customers.[92]"

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So ive finally built my rig with those 3080 cards ive bought and noticed it generates plenty of noise and heat, is it possible to store it in an enclosed balcony, it has plastic windows on 2 sides, a concrete wall from one side and a plastic door for entrance, theres no way any rain can reach it, but what about condense and moisture? Is that a possibility.
With the heat it produces im pretty certain it would make the balcony dry and warm and since outside nowadays its either below 0 or just a bit above i think it would keep the rig pretty cool.

To summ things up, im asking if a rig could be stored in an enclosed balcony without exposing moisture to it.
Willing to provide photos of the balcony if needed.

Side question on a different topic, would a usb antenna work for mining if i wanted to switch from ethernet to wifi, need to use less cables if id put the rig in the balcony.

Yes, if we see eth from 230 to 480 usd, bull pattern. When we see 480 to 310 usd, bear pattern, and we still see the hashrate increasing even with a lower price that means price will likely follow next few days. The more hashrate, the more competition, less likely mined coins will be dumped, increasing the price.

The interesting thing, eth price is getting support faster than I thought it would be after a price crash like that and it shows there are not many sellers at that price range. That is very bullish. I guess at 700 plus will be the resistance, if eth bulls get through that then we might see 1000 usd again.

The price is not back at 400 usd yet because there are people who think bitcoin will still crash to 9600 again to fill that magical cme gap. That might have been filled already. Although is close to that price point, whales dont want to go to 500 usd and then back to 350 usd, so if that gap was not filled then it will be filled before it moves upwards. So there is a chance eth will still crash to 300 ~ 320 and bitcoin to 9600 and then we move to 12k bitcoin and 450 ~ 500 usd eth.

It's all good. Take a look at the front of the bottom.

And it shows GDDR6x on 3080 & 3090 can reach 110C when mining Eth. Yikes!

@philipma1957 can you please tell me how you get those RX5500XT at 209$ each? That is a good price mate, please tell me where you get them at such price, I can't find such price on amazon and ebay, any help will be appreciated

talking about spares...

spare riser, space cable, spare battery. if you troubleshoot and confirmed that a certain "stuff" is dead/with issues/problematic. throw them away, why? because in the future when you troubleshoot again, you might think that "dead/with issues/problematic" stuff is a "spare" LOL at a certain future headache hehe

I have some DOGE, received from faucets. Not much just around 500.

After the increase in the transaction fees of BTC, I have thought of converting my BTC and LTC to DOGE for the transactions and keep them as DOGE. On the second thought, I thought of converting my DOGE to LTC and keep.

I have gone through some articles about DOGE's future price and I got some 50-50 opinions. I discussed with my friend and he suggested me to hold till mid-2021, I can't say why till mid-2021.

It's true that many sites have started accepting DOGE, thus it is getting popular so there is a chance that the price may increase. Still, my knowledge says there are certain loopholes like there is no upper limit in mining DOGE and it is still much easier to mine compared to others. In short, the demand & cost curve is a bit of a failure here. Though one can't say what might happen after 20 years.

Here I want some expert advice on this. Whether it is a good idea to convert and hold or keep my DOGE reserve constant.

So true.  I could have written your comment word for word, since I have also lived in that corporate world for only a short bit, for obvious reasons.

One of the most annoying things of that corporate environment was the value placed on the perception of looking busy rather than of doing actual work. ... A friend would recount to me of the years of lay offs at his employers (a large hardware, cell phone, tech co.), where the majority of those getting laid off were the engineers that worked non-stop, and so didn't have time to speak up and be noticed.  While the ones that didn't get the boot were those that spoke up and got noticed by the managers, but weren't necessarily the ones doing the heavy lifting. ... (part of the internal policy was to lay off 10%, but they hired all the time, this was thought to keep workers on there best behavior, instead it created bad blood) ... After years of this, the quality of the product, and the lack of new product suffered.  All the while with the those at the top not understanding what had happened.

(my btc FU fund has come in handy these past few months, lol)

I have taken notice of the value of quiet time to ponder and do nothing.  It took years to notice this something that I was doing all the time, but now I take advantage of it to solve complex problems.   While working on large data structures, or complex digital/analog circuits, if I come across a tough obstacle, I set it aside for later. ... Then I go for a walk, or just sit and find a book to read, or tinker with something else.  In a few hours the solutions to the tough complex problem come pouring in.  I usually write them down on paper as quickly as possible so as not to forget.

Thus, I have learned how to find solutions to some tough engineering problems with zero effort, I just let the subconscious do all the work.  I apply this every now and then.