6 Mouse traps around miner and PSU,  If fan fails, which is unlikely, S9 will just stop hashing,  or you can get a buddy to check in on it,  Awesome miner I believe lets you set up notifications for 1 device for free?  Then call your buddy and say, hey can you unplug it if anything goes wrong.

FYI Mice will probably stay out of the area the S9 is in, its way too loud.  I know what I feel like when I enter the garage with 5 in there, its worse than the two in my office.  I just want to leave as well.! :-0)

Alberta  .05183 cents for electricity,  .010047 Distribution, .019463 Transmission  plus tax 5%,  Total is .085407 cnd
I assume 1100 kWh per S9 and 110 kWh for the fan I have extracting the heat.  These are per month.  ( I used a meter for a while and calculated the monthly /30 day rate )

EDIT: There is fixed fees of like 0.47 per day for local access fee  maybe some toher fixed fee, but those are constant even if I dont use any power, the above is what is extra becuase of the miners.
These are residential rates, the distribution and transmission fees go down on commercial rates,  probably by 1 cent total, and get a bit more on the higher commercial plans.  Although the daily fees go up a bit,  you will still pay less if you use enough electricity though.  Easy in this business.


Back in December the rate was .03996 for the electrical portion. Distribution and Transmission was the same.

UGG.  I just did the calculation for electrical usage at my new floating rate for Feb.  will be close to 670.00 cnd to run 7 S9's and 1 big fan to extract heat..  Think of all the natural gas I am saving on though.

looks like it will be 7810 kWh and also the 600 or so I use for the other stuff in the house. So  yeah,  I think a jump from 600 kWh to 8400kWh will probably end up with a phone call or a ring of the door bell  :-)

Par Avion - I don't know how many people I speak for on this pool/forum   Please leave.  You have been nothing but an idiot complaining.  I read posts quickly, and I come across general questions answers and opinions, then I read a really stupid negative one, and just for fun, because I really never look to see who posted it, on the negative ones, I see your name... ALL THE TIME

Maybe it was you that brought bad luck?  When did you join?

Others, please Register your vote - to Kick or not to kick  :-)

I have not tried this, but you may want to look at it
https://github.com/getminera/minera

Need better mining equipment....


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And we know you love your parents, but......  rent a hotel for them... :-)
The hotel is cheaper than the BTC you lost : -P

WOW, what a jump in hash rate.  I thought an increase from 28 to 40 was good, So I added 2 S9's to help out....  Now its up at 57 PH and dwarfs my 7 S9's....  Need to get more.  Garage has no more power though...    Need to buy new house.... haha

Ahh  just will need to buy a warehouse and get that bigg ass green transfomer and never run out of power!

Seems like you know something.....  but didn't share it all?  :-)


My two extra S9's might help!  I will have to do some explain to the electrical company, went from 600 kWh per month to about 8400 kWh... hmmm
I'll just say, I'm putting it through the meter.. its all legit!

Can you guys show me how your A3 does $50 a day?  I will look right now and get REAL numbers as I write this post.

From siamining.com
Hash Price Report
The last block was at height 139,794. The current block reward is 160,205 SC. Based on this and on the current difficulty, miners are being paid 0.0133 SC/TH, which corresponds to about 1.15 SC/day per GH/s

1.15 * 815 = 937.25      * .04 ( Cents)   37.49  

37.49 in bitcoin at 11000 BTC = .0034 BTC per day
I am doing .0021 per day per S9 X 2 for the trade i did = .0042 BTC per day for 2  S9

YES 1 A3 makes more than 1 S9  but for how long.  That rate of decay on the 1.15 SC per GH/Day was ALOT higher only a few days before.  The rate of decay has slowed, and will dropp more when next batch is online.  In the interm of two weeks  Assumed average of 30 per day after decay rate factored in is only a mere 10 dollars per day more than the S9.   14 days X 10 dollars is 140 dollars. YES more.  But this will drop even more SOON.  It was the best decision to drop the A3. I did it soon enough there was beleife that the A3 would be performing better than it was.

If it was so good, then why all of the sudden did so many come up for sale on the local classifieds?  They are only 980 at bitmain now.

If it made 50 a day NOW, you would have an agrument.  Redo your math and see what you are really making.  YES I know SC price can go up, and it did for a bit while network hasrate looked like it leveled off, then network hashrate went back up a bit, and price fell.  This means uncertanty. It would of been ok if there was no annoucement of the batch 2 at such a low price.

Besides I made 550 dollars the couple days that I had the A3 before it was gone.  This is about 14 days at the current profitibility.
I wish you guys luck on it, I was hopeful too, I knew the risks, and the rate of drop in the profit was the key indicator to get out.  This was backed with the Batch 2 release at the 980 price.

If any complainer cares...

I did a comparison with someone I know that had 12 S9's on Nicehash at the same time I had 5 on Kano from Dec 27 until Jan 28.

My total pay was a very small marginally higher than what his was, when worked out to each 13.5 TH S9.

The difference was I had 1 S9 already ramped up, and the other 4 started the ramp up from Dec 27.  I am too lazy to work out how much that would be IF they were all ramped up for that period. But I do know that it is more than nice has.  I actually do recall a post I made with the payout when worked out as if they were fully ramped up.

At the end of the day, yes, it is complicated to understand the 5nd ramp up and how it affects the earning initially.  I had that same thoughts when I came over since good ol nice hash got hacked.

I am glad I did, the payouts are better, and the total payout is better. I have proven this time and time again.

Unfortunately, I am sorry guys, I have to take a bigger piece of the pie.. I just added my two S9's that I traded for 1 Antminer A3 ( YES A STEAL OF A DEAL! )  So I have 7 now, and just under 100 TH/s

When all else fails, just spread out those 4 blocks in 2 days to average it out over the last week.  I hate the 200 % blocks too, but these just have an extra armor coating and need more attention! :-P

OK, so after reading all of the last bunch of pages..  I guess it was a good idea that I swapped the A3 I had for two S9's?
Considering that they are 980 USD now and profitability went down so drastic.

So on siamining.com it shows 1.35 SC per GH/day.   = 1100  x .04 cents = 44.01 per day.    Two S9's make about that too I guess :-)

And that profit level will drop even more.  It is however not dropping as fast as the first couple days. WOW.  I knew it would happen, but I didn't think it was going to be that quick. 

Be happy though, as long as you are higher than 20 dollars like an S9 is bringing in, you are still ahead of the game.  That is 0.7 SC per GH/Day.

Or hold onto your SC and become a millionaire when its worth more than 4 cents.

I am so glad I am out!  Learnt a lot!

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Crack open your nuts!

Snow white and the 7 Dwarfs? not snow white and the 7 blocks?
    c ?

Well, I Did it,  Took the two S9's for that A3.  Have one pointed here already, and the second i have to use elsewhere to get past the .01 Threshold to get paid out on an off brand pool.  Should be done in about 1.5 days, then I will bring that one to Kano as well.  ( I know... i should point it here right away, but my poor GPU has been working there for EVER and it needs help to get to .01)

What is going on is in the name of CGMINER...    Crypto Greed Miner!  I don't understand why people pay so much and their ROI is 8+ months with a flat calculation, and not calculating in rate of decay of income.  But hey...  just makes the rest of us look smarter!

I traded my A3 for two S9's that were 2 weeks old... :-)
Rate of decay was too much.  Figured jump ship.

Need an opinion...  I bought a Antminer A3 and have been running it for a couple days, the rate of decline is pretty fast, was 330 SC per hour and 36 hours later it was at 120 SC per hour.  I know the rate of decline will continue but to who knows where...

If you just bought that thing and were offered two Antminer S9's in exchange for the A3, and the S9's were only 3 weeks old.  Would you do that trade?  No Cash exchanged.

Fair deal,  Good deal for me, or good deal for the other guy.?  Just wanted some ideas.  A3 made me .0205 BTC ( After exchanged SC to BTC) in 21 hours.  Before I seen the rate of decay.

And of course, they would be pointed here - but don't let that influence your opinion. :-)

On Siamining stats page, pool and network hash rates are starting to level out?  just wonder how long that will be. I was AMAZED at how many less coins per hour the A3 was doing in the last day,  went from 330 per hour yesterday to now at 164 per hour  That was over a 18 hour period.
YIKES!  as long as it makes more than an S9 I'll be happy

Unplug and replug the white control cables. CHeck them to see that the wire is actually done properly, IE the crimp to the metal pin on the inside of the plug,  you can check with a multimeter.  I had an issue with an Improperly seated connector on an S9.  replugging fixed that same problem.  If the board was dead, or the asics you would at least have PCB temps on the screen for it.  This means no data/control from the board.