They do look pretty sweet and this campaign was a nice and unique addition to all the others. If I wasn't a loyal PrimeDice participant I would've been all over this campaign  . Hope to see it return in the future at some point. Maybe you could consider longer term deals to get more exposure or something? I would love to do it again. I know I would happily wear it if they decide to do another  . Was a very nice idea not just BTC but sending a very nice coin. Truly a quality product not a flaw that I could find on coin, great care went into this coin and getting it to me. |
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Do you think I can buy a new controller card from bitmain?
Yes if it's out of warranty you can buy it from them. I believe it's 90 day's of warranty if you purchased from them direct (IE not ebay etc). Contact bitmain warrenty. |
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It doesn't take that long. If they have delayed from the expected you should raise a support ticket again.
They will respond to you what's exactly is the hold up.
I would agree do a ticket with them. It would be sooner then that normally. But hard to say what held it up. |
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Personally I prefer having gear over cloud. If you have decent electricity I still like mining. It is something that i love doing at this point. Started at end of GPU day's and been doing it ever sense.
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Beautiful looking special edition coins! Thanks for doing sig campaign! |
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A lot is involved to answer that question.
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" risk-free " is very hard to decide as a true or not true statement
Once they sell the miner, they have the cash in their hand (I assume they autoconvert their BTC to USD). There's no external risk at that point, they've already made their profit. If they sell their miners, they don't have to worry about difficulty either (their customers do). If they mine with their hardware, they take on substantial external risk. BTC volatility can severely impact their mining business--and so can difficulty. In a sense then, you can see that selling hardware is like a transfer of risk from the seller to the buyer. The seller gets a smaller guaranteed return, while the buyer thinks that they can get a larger return which isn't guaranteed. Which brings us back to them having S6s. I strongly believe that they would be selling their miners as there is little motivation to keep their stuff secret. The more miners they sell, the more money they make--simple as that. no as your method raise diff. raise diff at this point in time is not helpful. It is also short term thinking. They are better off mining with any and all s-6's if they have them. then they can offload all the s-3's in bulk sales of 100 or more . they have 0 need to sell any s-6's until every s-3 s-4 c-1 they have is gone. but take it all with a grain of salt as in WTF do I really know? I just a guy typing on a keyboard in New Jersey. your guess is as good as mine. I would agree. With cheap electricity S3's, S4's, C1's are still profitable. Their S2 still has some life depending on electricity rate. Bitmain is not new they know what they are doing. They are a company they can mine or sell and make a profit. |
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Now the estimated difficulty increase is 15%. Fuck me sideways... Plus the price of BTC has dived, what, 20%? There goes a huge chunk of my profit margin...  Ah well, good thing I didn't put my life savings into mining! It's ugly. The new gear is cutting some electricity costs in half (Possibly less depending on gear). Looking at difficulty it's been a while since jump like this. Hopefully it calms down after this change. But there is no way to know as we only speculate until then. |
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Around a week left looks like a nasty change. Hopefully we do not have a few in a row. With us having such good low numbers for so long one jump is not horrible. It will be the change after, and after that that show me what were in for.
Bitcoin Difficulty: 40,640,955,017
Estimated Next Difficulty: 46,218,129,390 (+13.72%)
Adjust time: After 1138 Blocks, About 7.1 days
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Sorry, they aren't planning to make C1 based on BM1384 chips...
Really. Where did you see that? I would guess it's speculation. I personally have not seen a official message. But it would not surprise me if it's true. Water cooled add's some cost's that air cooled just don't have to deal with. |
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yeap .. almost double of my average household consumption.
You don't need a lot of cooling for 1 unit though. It's like a 70 deg. C room heater good to keep the garage warm in the winter. In the summer, you just need to vent that heat (i.e. keep the garage door cracked, if no animals visit you .. heh).
You're right, one unit is not really a problem. I'm trying to figure out power arrangements for 8 of them and still be able to turn on the lights at the office. A secondary beaker will help. Also if you are underclocking that 8 will take much less power. Depending on your settings the amount of power needed very greatly. |
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I tried asking him (lifeforcepools) if he had any updates at all from hashra. I specifically said that I know that his site specifies jan 19th shipping at the latest, but since hashra promised end of December, I was trying to see if he had any updates from him. All I got for a response was "As ive stated before..shipment before the 19th of January". I'm not trying to post any slander or anything, just stating that I actually got a response although it clearly didn't answer what I was asking. Perhaps he has gotten an update from hashra and just doesn't want to pass the info. I don't know.
Now I'm starting to speculate, I feel so dirty.
The fact that there are no official comments in thread for a while shows a lot. I asked for proof anything besides a rendering. With no parts, chips, etc shown I don't think there is a chance it ships anytime soon. I really wanted to believe (as I want a new scrypt machine) but I'm afraid on this one you will not see the product anytime soon. |
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Have you looked at the recovery sd option? I have not done it myself on a SP20 but you might look at it and not a usb connection.
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Not working.
Any "hardware" solution via USB ? Or something like that
Not plain usb connection. There is serial connection (chances are you use usb for it). But not a plain usb to usb on controller board.` |
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Odd. I ssh'd into the C1 some time back and changed the root password using the unix command passwd, logged out and logged back in using the new password. Today I went to log in and the password had reverted to admin while the GUI was still connected and unchanged.
Reported to engineers, thanks I haven't opened the C1 yet. I understand it has an SD card similar to a BBB? I may have rebooted since first changing the password from the linux command line after ssh'ing in. Perhaps that password change isn't saved to the compressed files on the card. I would think this is a security fault if the root password change remains for the GUI login but reverts back to admin for the ssh login. Yes it is very nice on the SD micro card on the controller. Worst comes to worse you are able to flash a SD card and stick it in. I believe second post links to it. |
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Mining gears are not like Pentium or AMD or xion servers, they do need baby sitting to make sure they run at optimum condition and time to time, you have to power cycle. When you see sign of problems, fix them and intervene before further damages are done!!! If you travel a lot, and want to make sure your mining operation at home is taking place, may want to have some webcam, networkable smoke detectors (heat sensors) and networkable PDU and VPN to access your miner's web control panel for the safe operation! Another board stopped today. Down to 2.6GH
Like mentioned mining can require a little more attention. It's nothing compared to the time I spent babysitting during GPU days. But 2 weeks is a while unless you have it VERY VERY fine tuned. Do you have access to log in to miners? When you restart miner does it go back to working or is the hashing board not coming back no matter what? (If going to be gone for weeks might look at M's program to watch ant miners it can do a lot of things automatically). |
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I hope BitFury burns !
May their datacenters get all burned ahahahahahhahah
Even if they did we would not know much. Bitfury is good at remaining quiet. The players we know such as SP and Bitmain both have new gen chips already and could easily pump out quite a few. With SP they have the SP-35 ready to pack a punch. And Bitmain could easily make some custom ones with 4 boards and fill up a data center. |
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The standard pools are not split it uses 2 and 3 as a backup. IE 1 goes down it goes to pool 2.
You might be able to use Quota if you wanted to split it, but I have never done it myself.
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why ? you actually want it to go bad for everyone ?
no of course not. but at 200 usd I would hope the big guys fold up shop. I have more then 10k on the table. I am not looking for a total meltdown. I have 8 sp20's say 4000 to 5000 I have 15 coins say 4500 I have 7 quality psu's say 1000 so I am at a 10k point. I can deal with price drop to 200 if it stops the difficulty in its tracks. One thing I don't think you are including is a lot of the big guys have done a good job of seeking cheap electricity. Washington state, China (certain places), are really hard to get to a point where you can beat them with such low electricity prices. |
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I want to know if anyone installed multiple C1 in series. For example, if you have 2 C1:
pump#1 > miner#1 > radiator#1 > pump#2 > miner#2 > radiator#2 > pump#1 > ...
I'm looking for redundancy if 1 pump die the miner can still run. Also, I'm looking to use a larger radiator for multiple miners and I want to know if it's a good idea to run them in series. In the end, I want to do something like this:
pump#1 > miner#1 > pump#2 > miner#2 > badAssRadiator > pump#1 > ...
I know miner#2 will run hotter than miner#1 but in average they should run at the same temperature than having them run side by side with a splitter.
I know they made one kit with a huge radiator that was sold for multiple units. Don't think I have seen anyone take pictures of using it. |
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Hello,
I'm using paper wallets a long time now. But my question now is:
Does anyone have an idea how I can store my paper wallet secure?
Which paper is the best that the wallet data will not fade?
Thanks in advance!
Why not seal it into foil that's transparent? Should protect against moisture and fading. Lamination would lock it in pretty well. Just do a home kit (Don't ship it off to a company and trust then with wallet). I think one of the biggest things is printer, use one in private a "dumb" printer is best but a lot will be able to store prints temporary. There are also things such as silver wallets. They provide storage and also you can see if it's been opened because of sticker. |
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