The day's of CPU mining really are behind us.  Some will continue to do it.... but in most cases it does not bring a profit and does not even pay electricity.    Low powered computers are great for controllers ... but miners themself not so much.

One I still want to test out as a controller for other lotto is RPI zero.  I'm still holding out till I find it for the 5 dollars it should be, I refuse to pay extra.     It is amazing how long it has kept selling for higher then what it's normal price should be.  But I think a RPI zero could be interesting for running a compac or two.

Basically on cpuminer you should be able to enter the number of threads.   If you are cpumining and for some reason need to use it for other things aswell use less threads for cpumining.

I have a feeling you will be better off not even messing with CPU mining though as it tends to be unprofitable. So your likely causing headache for little/no gain.

It is expensive in most of EU.   I would suggest looking at hosting in a place without VAT/Import tax.  I have a feeling by time you pay vat there you will be paying a good amount over what a S7 is worth.  And EU electricity tends not to be cheap (in most cases).  So fighting a uphill battle.


I would guess it is in area of 20-30 percent (which sucks).  I would find someone in UK to check but I think you will find VAT kills the deal for most.

It seems it's not that easy anymore alts can rise and fall without BTC.  They seem to not be 100 percent synced.  I remember day's of LTC and BTC they pretty closly followed each other (been a while since I messed with it).

Some alts have gotten crazy returns for people who believed early on.  I just am afraid as I see a lot of pump/dumps out there.   

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Is just a nature o gambling that you can always lose if you are not satisfied what you win.. better to control your self and be satisfied i you make 0.003 better to withdraw it because you just claim it in faucet for free..
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It's the nature of gambling that you lose long term.  Does not matter what you do... how good you are... most gambling is tilted twords house.  Some say they can beat this with card games... but most of the BTC are like dice or something such as that.  And it's all random with odds against you.

So I think stay away from gambling is best thing you can do if you want to collect BTC long term.

What wallets did you test? Adding this info would be good info to know what you tested it against.

I still am a fan of hardware wallets.  I think they will become more and more popular.  For those using blockchain.info make sure to treat it as hot wallet.  Also use 2FA I really like Yubikeys for it.

You don't have a ton of data.   You should easily be able to scale any modern connections to 200 TH (cable, dsl, etc).  So internet is not a problem.  Some of the big operations have satellite internet as backup, but for most this is overkill having a hot connection ready to go.

The harder part might be the networking as if that is S7's that is a decent amount of gear still.

They could have sold S7's with 2 fan's from data center on previous batches with Bitmain knowing they would do a new even lower cost 1 fan version.   So it's possible they sold stock they had on shelves knowing they could make money, and do a new batch of even cheaper S7's.  Which could be hitting shelves now.

I'm really hoping it's current gen.  As I have said a few other times next gen scares me on current gear, so I hope not next gen being turned on somewhere.

Last payment went through fine.  I know some mentioned SMS not working, it worked fine for me on the new site.   I did not have to do a call.   

But seems like clean move to new URL.  I like the design of new site really.    Seems like long term it's a good thing new url seems like it will drawl more attention long term.  So looking up I think .

It's a pretty clean rig to, I enjoyed seeing it.  Personally I will not be investing in GPU machines anytime soon I just see it a largely a thing of the past.  On 2 psu's I don't see it as a huge thing.   I use GPU's I have on hand, I would guess he does the same when possible.

It's hard to say on summer mining I use a lot of CFM's personally.  I have it going no matter what for my asics.... his customer might have the same where no additional cooling costs for 1 rig.   Who knows.  I don't feel like bashing him as I like when people share, if it was to much on sale side... ok maybe bash but he really did not push sales so think it's a good addition to thread.

Recently doubled? We have been in 400's for a while at this point.  I don't think there is anything recent about that.   If you go back it's been a long up and down ride many of us remember day's of 900-1000 btc.   But we no longer are there.

I am not sure we will get a doubling with having... just is not sure bet.   People know about it very far in advance so we should see some before if happens.... and again we are pretty steady in 400's at this point.

Best of luck honestly your looking at starting to big.  I would look at smaller investments.  Possibly buy a bitcoin or two and try holding.    It is a good way to start with not a ton of risk if you don't go crazy.

Mining takes a LOT more research on big scale, and no profit is guaranteed.  So is high risk high reward type of business. 

Newbie accounts are not allowed to make picks.  Sadly people abuse it if allowed.   So you will not be able to pick.

Electricity is nothing special, it is on the high side of mining.    What country are you in?  We can tell more on import tax.   But at .09 cent's I would not get to deep in buying current gen gear.

You might be better off buying BTC.  Hurts me to say as a miner but true.

But if they go with your normal investing ... they can loose.  The number invested compared to payout unless it has changed massivly would suggest a lot of people on your system still have not made back investment - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=852857.msg13928830#msg13928830  Feel free to update numbers as it's been a while since you released that set.  But I don't see profit being made still.

Offering some "free" does not make up for other ponzi type investment that loses money.  Why do you continue to post this "u2 cloud"?  

I'm guessing he is talking about his "survey" - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1287718.0 which kinda looked like a attempt to get posts looking at how long it ran, and was all for a pie chart that a very limited number entered into.  Also it being in newbie forum had to effect it.  But even his own survey does not show 99 percent as poor.

The thing about bitcoins is we cannot tie them to a person easily so we can't say blanket figures like 99 percent are poor.   But far less then 99 percent are poor I think.  And what do you consider poor?  As that term means SO many different amounts depending on where you live.

I did not click link due to computer I'm on.  But I personally don't trust mixers to begin with.   Add one that is on a tor site that you have no idea about where it's being hosted, or who's behind it.  Sounds like perfect storm to be scammed and know nothing about who did it.

I strongly suggest people think before mixing.  As eventually if you do use the BTC chances are it's tied to your name if you buy something physicall, digital might not be.   So depends on what you buy.  But if buying a physical item does not make a ton of sense to mix.... as you are buying something to be shipped to you in most cases.

And this is the good thing about some password managers is unique and hard passwords to crack.  Random letters/number/symbols tend to be better then dictionary words when someone is trying to crack passwords.

So say if a database is taken if your using one of these random passwords it should give you more time to change password, compared to a dictionary word.

There is a ton of info out there no need to take up a bunch of meta space for BFL.  But they made asics and sold them as pre-orders and took far longer to make.  Many that bought with BTC lot ton's of money.  They never did really recover, just kept getting later and later on products.   They were a horrible company.

But do some googling and you can find many stories.

We really need to see a electricity price but yes to mine 1 BTC in a day is a massive amount of gear at this point.  You have to think about it 1 BTC a day your talking about 6 figure amount of USD being mined.

I personally would be afraid in current market to throw down enough for 1 BTC a day.  And don't forget difficulty changes that will make a BIG change overtime.  1 BTC being mined will not be near the same in a few months.