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Thanks MJ.

Are you Adam Krynski? or do you work for him? is this your address and contact?


Not trying to make life difficult for you, just need to confirm if you are the real Asic Master listed on Whatsminer's list.

It has been a month, may I ask why haven't you reported back your results at least out of respect to the people that tried to help you?


There is a minimum amount that you need to hit before getting any payouts, all of the details will be on Nicehash's website.

I am not aware of any ready-to-use scripts, you can most certainly write your own using something like python, or you can hire someone to do it, it shouldn't cost much because it's pretty simple, of course, depending on what parameters you need to look at it could get more complicated, I mean, fans at 70% form 1pm to 5pm and then 40% for the rest of the day will be simple.

Having to read chips' temps and initiate a timer to trigger that function and switch the fan speed accordingly will be slightly more complicated.

With that being said, if you are using custom firmware you can always use something like Awesomeminer, they have all of this stuff built in and you can make the software handle the fan speed based on many factors (temps, hashrate, time of the day, profitability, and etc), I have enough experience to write my own script but I just couldn't be bothered with reinventing the wheel, many programs already offer that for very low fees, sometimes for free if you are using their firmware.

I was talking about the t17 model, but the whole 17 series is trash, the s19 is of a better quality that is for sure, but you should also consider whatsminer m30s, they are solid gears but unfortunately no custom firmware for them, you will have to use the immersion stock firmware they have which might be limited to some degree.

Gave you merits for reporting back, most folks don't bother after getting their issues fixed.

38TH and even 42TH is easily doable with air cooling alone even in relatively warm places, or at least that was my own "short-lived" experience with these piece of junk hardware, I am sure you can push a lot higher given your immersion cooling, but that will also increase the likely hood of gear damage, so I'd say just focus on temps, I personally think 80c is good 85c is where it start thinking about reducing my hashrate or otherwise increase the cooling if possible.

You can also attempt to lower the voltage, lowering the voltage while keeping the same frequency might result in lower temps with the same hashrate, the only issue with this model is that you can't have different voltages on different boards, so chain 1 might do ok with a lower voltage, but then chain 2 or 0 will start acting weird, it will take a lot of trial and error to get your gear's optimal settings.

But if you are a lazy old man like me, then be happy with the readings and get some rest.

Not sure if it's the correct word, but I think "continue" is the better word to use here.

Mining has no memory, it's not like you are downloading or uploading something which will cause you an issue if your power goes out, you are randomly guessing a random number and every share you submit is completely independent of all the other shares you did/will submit.

Another way to look it at, assume your miner can hash at speed of 24 hashes per 24 hours, so if your miner is online for the whole day, it will have 24 chances of finding a block, if the power goes out for 4 hours, your miner will have 20 chances of finding a block, so while that reduces your overall chances of finding a block due to fewer shares being submitted, it has NO impact on your previous hashes (which are now useless anyway) nor your future hashes.

That's true, the government can also take you to a detention camp and beat the shit out of you until you show them all your transactions, but it's all a matter of how far are they willing to go? mining pools are unregulated for the most part because their business model is very complicated, they deal with no banks, and most of them operate in places where most governments like the U.S or EU countries don't have power own, like China.

But then, even if we were to go with the assumption that a said government will go as far as doing what you suggested, you can still use a passthrough running on some server, that way, you break the connection between Nicehash and the pool, nicehash will tell your government that you mined to server xyz (which at least in theory nobody knows about), from there, unless they find a way to get into your server, they won't know where the hashrate went to, unless they contact every mining pool on planet earth.

The second and better option would be using a decentralized mining pool like P2pool where the blocktemplate is generated by your own node, you connect Nicehash to your node or one of the public nodes, there is no company called p2pool which governments can ask for information, so the link between your incoming hashrate and outgoing hashrate is broken, it will be extremely difficult to anyone to link the pieces back together.

One way which they can track you is by asking Nicehash for the total hashrate you pointed and then attempt to estimate how much "BTC" would have come out of it, and then they would track addresses that received a similar amount, but given that there will probably be a few hundred thousand miners getting that same sum of outputs, it will be extremely difficult to narrow it down to just you.

Another thing they might filter is the addresses that didn't receive BTC before the hash rental took place, this will someone reduce the size of the circle, but it will still be very, very unlikely to know exactly.

Also, creating a decentralized mining rental marketplace won't be all that difficult, that way, you kind of break the chain at the first step of the way, making it even more difficult for anyone to track you.

With that said, I am not saying this is the perfect solution for privacy, the efforts and cost are higher than the traditional ways mentioned in other comments, the hash rental method is really like exchanging BTC for tomatoes and then selling the tomatoes for BTC to someone who lives on the other side of the world, it will take more effort and will cost more, it will also be a lot slower, but it will be more effective than going to supermarket to buy tomatoes with your BTC and then sell it back to them for BTC.

Facts:

1- Tesla model battery capacity is either 54, 62, 75 or 82 kWh, so 82 kWh at most ( we will work with this number).
2- It costs $20,000 and $35,000 to get a full battery module replacement for the Model 3.
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in the best-case scenario, the 82 kWh will average 70% for its lifespan, it will be worse given the inverter loss and the 100% DOD, but let's just say it's 57kWh, an S9 will drain it to 0% in 40 hours, so he has 1500*40 hours to mine with the battery before it's done, in other words, every cycle is good for 1.6 days, so 1500/1.6 days = 937 or let's just round that to 30 months.

given that we used the largest battery possible, then it's fair to use the $35,000 figure for battery replacement, that's burning $1,166 a month to make a $100 mining with S9.


The other GPU guy mentioned in the article might be in a better spot, given that GPUs yield a lot more $ per KwH, so let's assume the 800$ they mentioned is correct, he still loses $366 every month.

Not taking into account the cost of their setup, the time and energy wasted during deriving the car to where they charge it for free, voiding the warranty, and the inability to drive a car which they paid a few tens of thousands to obtain.


I found some other sources that claim battery replacement is 14k for the same model, which means the GPU guy is "in theory" making some profit until he is not, but let's just use another approach for the 14k figure.

14k to get a total of 57*1500 or 85,500 kWh, which means it costs 16 cents per KwH, the average miner in the U.S get a lot less than that, large mining corps get 2 cents, folks in NY maybe get 8-10 cents, I am not sure about the rest,  but if anyone pays more than that, might as well use the battery to power their house instead, because mining at 16 cents is a losing game.

The experiment is very interesting nonetheless.





 

True, and that is more than enough, it will take some cooperations between the pool and the rental service (nicehash or whatever else) and that's very unlikely to happen, because the two services are so far from regulations unlike many of the exchanges.


You are correct, that's the drawback, but still, you can find PPS pools with 0% fees, also nicehash has been paying 5% less than the market on the 7-day average reported on whattomine.com, so that might even get you more sats than you deposit, but of course, this isn't always the case and thus one should go with the assumption that it will cost anywhere between 3% to 6% to obtain those coins.

With that said, if my life is at stake, and I want the maximum privacy I could get - I would still prefer a similar method to any exchange of any sort for these reasons.

1- Using an exchange of any sort means both your deposit and withdrawal addresses are known to a single entity, so they or anybody who hacks them or forces them (like a government) to reveal their data will know about your new address.

You can overcome this issue if you use 2 different exchanges as you mentioned earlier, but then that's also an extra layer of risk added on top of an already risky approach.

2- Most exchanges fall under the regulation and KYC b.s, at any point you might be forced to give away your identity, while a mining pool or a rental service are the last places to be regulated due to the complexity of their business model.

Also, getting some outputs with little to no history is a plus, but it really all depends on how far are you willing to go. Will I pay 5% in this process given that my life isn't at stake if someone happened to link my transactions together? hell no, would I even risk using an exchange for that purpose? also no, to me, using a good mixer like Chipmixer while applying a few of the many tips mentioned here is more than enough in my case.

How about (ab)using hash rental websites like nicehash, deposit mixed coins into your nicehash wallet, rent SHA-256 hashrate, and mine to a large pool that pays every 24 hours (you don't have to pay withdrawal fees), you get fresh coins or otherwise completely unlinked.

The pool doesn't know where your hashrate came from, nor how you obtained it, it only knows the address you are going to deposit to.

Ok, so what the tuner is telling you is that chain 1 and 2 were tuned successfully but then chain 0 had an issue with at least 1 chip, and thus it's trying to reduce the frequency of that hash board to get to a stable point, that also perfectly matches what wndsnb mentioned about one of your hash board showing a temp sensor error in the kernel log you posted earlier.

Eventually, the tuner might get it to a stable stage, but that could take very long and thus you are better off manually setting the frequency, use 600MHz on the two good boards and start with the lowest frequency on the bad board, and then slowly increase it until it becomes stable, keep in mind that sometimes even with the lowest frequency the hash board won't hash well which means you will need to unplug so that it does not affect the other two hash boards.

On a side but related note, the two working boards seem to do very well with a frequency of 600MHz, which means you could probably increase it, that gives you more hashrate and of course more heat, so you need to find that perfect spot.

I can't tell for sure without seeing the tuning log, you can find them in Miner configuration > mining profiles > at the bottom of the page, copy and paste them here, please use the code tag when doing so, without it will be messy and hard to read.

You do realize that these numbers are just random right? you could be mining for 10 years and not get 12 digits, you can get 15 digits and hit a block after just 1 day mining with a tiny USB stick, it's all random, my best share is a lot higher than yours despite being further away from the server than you are.

You need to pay attention to the accepted and rejected shares, a high amount of rejected shares means problems, if you are getting little to no rejected shares then you are doing great and it's just a matter of luck.

I don't disagree with this common belief, fundamentals can crush technical analysis with one bite that's for sure, I mean if WW3 starts or our planet is invaded by aliens, who would want to buy BTC? probably nobody, but since "we don't know what we don't know" you can't tell for certain that a recession is coming, I mean some folks have been calling for a recession for so many years now, it might take 10 more years to happen, maybe 40 years, we simply don't know.

Based on that, I believe it's wise to use the tools at our disposal, which is TA, when the market crashed in the first wave of the pandemic, it bounced off the 200MA on the weekly despite the fact that everyone was calling for a crash in the market, I remember how most people were shitting their pants and thinking of how are they going to die from the virus, but the markets made huge gains despite all the death and the fear.

This time things are slightly different, yes we have a major war in EU which could turn into nuclear war and take BTC to $100 or close to zero, but it could also end at any second, one might think the aftermath will be brutal and no way for us to recover, but keep in mind that people are sitting on billions of $$ that can enter the market at any moment, in the same time that people are now losing their money, homes and even lives, other people are making a fortune, where do you think all the money that these defense contractors are making will go to? I think it will find its way to the stock market and BTC sooner or later.

Well apparently g64 is the coinbasevalue "which is maximum allowable input to coinbase transaction" this is returned by getblocktemplate and it's not a constant value and thus I don't think dividing it by 200 results in 0.5%, maybe it should be *.0005, I don't know, it's going to take a lot of digging into the code to figure that out, which should give you more proof that the source code isn't a plug and play, it's a functioning code, maybe, but for it to be running perfectly and not making any mistakes, it's going to take a lot of experience and work.

As for mining to a solo pool without being able to verify your hashrate isn't being stolen, it's really a matter of trust, which is why we the fools folks paid for cksolo server, I mean it's a pool that found over 200 blocks and paid all of them, ck is a trustworthy community member, there was no safer/better pool, even Kano's pool wasn't online by then.

You are right that this is an added risk, but what other choice do you have? solo mine to your own node that runs on your old PC? there is a lot more risk involved in that approach than trusting someone like CK or Kano, there is no way that your code, server, and connection can be better than said pools, or at least I know mine won't be.

No thanks, I'll pass, I have better things to do.


I'll have to quote Direwolf to reply to this one.

Exactly, some of these DT members here can't help with the urge of wanting to practice their "power". I too don't buy into the "office friends" b.s, but as long as no rules are being broken, no campaign is being cheated, and nobody is being scammed, who cares? except if you have all the free time in the world, and nothing better to do.

Three and a half years ago, I used some simple TA to identify the bear market bottom and was lucky/successful, this time, I will use the same exact tools and see how we stand.


1- 50 Moving Average on the monthly chart.



Never in BTC's history has it had a monthly close below the 50SMA, right now, it's at $20,600, back in 2018, we did not even touch it, the 50MA was 5-6% lower, and thus I expect a similar or better scnerio to unfold this cycle.

2- 200 Moving Average on the weekly chart.



Sitting pretty at $21,850, sometimes small wicks below it, but nobody has ever regretted buying BTC near the 200MA, ever.

3- The low 20k range is a major support/resistance level.

This historical ATH has a massive support potential, it's highly unlikely that we see even a daily close below this level, it's probably the place where the last bear will just sit on their hands and do nothing.


4- The Stochastic RSI on the monthly chart.



Pretty damn close to the 2015 and 2018 bottom levels.

5- The RSI on the monthly chart.




Currently sitting at 47.3, in the previous cycles it bottomed at 44.5, pretty close.

6- The ichimoku cloud on the weekly chart.[/b]



"Nothing much to say about this, it's clear that every time the red cloud appears, the bear market get's closer to end."

The cloud begins in July, so could July/Aug be the bottom? could very well be.


Finally, I'd like to quote myself



We needed 4 months, to get out of the 3-6k zone, I won't be surprised if we take 4 months or even more to break free from the 20-40k trap, while all the indicators used in this topic point to more decrease in price and possibly 19-23k, timing the exact bottom is just stupid, 2-3 years from now if this turns out to be the bottom, it won't matter if you bought at 20k or 25k, just how it didn't matter buying at 3k or 4k back in 2018.

This line means a new block was found by the network, so it could be anyone mining to any pool that found this "new" block and your pool is letting you know that a new work for a new block is being generated and that you are up to date.




Not valid anymore, Cksolo runs on one location now which is the U.S


EU to US is just a short ride, i am sure your ping is below 100ms (you can try it yourself), but I remember CK mentioned in the past that anything below 200ms is somehow fine.