And that's WHY you don't see a lot of folks mining cryptocoin in California - pretty much the whole state has crazy-high electric rates.

 The "way around it" is to MOVE to an area that has lower rates.

Which part of "TESTnet" did you fail to understand?

 It was not a scam, it was YOU not paying attention or understanding the purpose of a TEST net.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2324651.0

 Dunno why you started a new thread.

 That "legitreviews" article is nearly worthless and not even CLOSE to being "comprehensive", since it's ETH only - 1070 and up are NOT good ETH mining cards now that AMD RX pricing has dropped back down quite a bit, but the 1070ti IS the new king on efficient ZEC/ZEN/ZCL mining.

 Given how much heat my miners generate, I have LOW HUMIDITY level issues in the winter, not high.

 You don't get condensation in an operating miner - condensation happens when air that is moist hits something that is COLDER than the air - exact OPPOSITE of what happens with a miner which is trying to DUMP HEAT into the air in large quantities.


 If your miners are getting wet, you need to do something to keep the rain from entering the room - louvers or some such item in the window(s).

 Pool hashrate is calculated from shares found, which VARY.
 This is not an "internet speed" issue, though it might be an "internet LATENCY" issue if you have something like a Sat connection.

 Mining does NOT use a lot of data bandwidth - my junk Virgin Mobile 3G cell connection had more than enough bandwidth to handle several miners, even though it rarely saw much more than 200kbps on a GOOD night.

 Static IP doesn't matter unless you're running a pool you want folks to be able to use from outside your LAN.

 EVGA G2 power supplies are ALL single-rail.


 Burnt connectors MIGHT be replaceable - depends on if the traces on the circuit board were damaged.

For reference - my miners have generated enough heat for the last 3 winters PLUS as much of the current winter as we've had that I've never turned on an actual heater or a furnace in that timeframe, and have had to keep at least 2 windows open with fans running to avoid OVERheating.
The first 2 of those 3 winters were in Iowa - and ONE of those winters was near-record-setting cold most of the winter.

 Yes, miners DO work just fine as heaters - they do a quite efficient job of turning electricity into heat.

 This applies equally to GPU-based mining - it's all about how many watts you are using at a little over 3 BTU per watt.

I never used Hughesnet, but I mined on an Exceed sat connection for about 2 years which should be pretty much the same story.

Occasional outages during stormy weather or heavy rain (but LESS than expected), speed and usage cap were way overkill for JUST mining, latency around 700ms all the time cost perhaps 1% on extra stale shares over a DSL/CableModem type fast connection.

 Interesting timeline - I wonder why they're talking about a Moses Lake location when they HAD been saying they were building up in East Wenatchee.

 (edit) - never mind, the Pangborn location would be their East Wenatchee spot - Pangborn airport IN East Wenatchee.

 Wish I'd noticed that a couple days ago, I was just down IN Moses Lake yesterday running errands, and the airport would have been a short side trip to check out (like the side trip I made to check out Toomin Brothers, but they understandably don't do tours for folks that aren't hosting there).

 Quantum computers have existed for a WHILE now.
 https://www.dwavesys.com/quantum-computing is probably the best-known company making them.

 Best learn to use Github, as many or most cryptocoin miner writers use it.

Quantum computers are good at solving equations with lots of variables.
They are NOT designed to work well with the very simple repeated operations involved in cryptographic work.

 Just point whatever miner you are using at the Nicehash monero pool(s).

 1070 ti is a lot closer to the 1080 than the 1070.

 It's a "one compute unit disabled" 1080 GPU with GDDR5 instead of GDDR5x for ram.

 BTC Gold I don't see having any effect on coin pricing (other than it's own) but I see it having a positive effect on GPU mining PROFITABILITY (not the same thing) as it should suck some hashrate out of other GPU-mineable coins - for a short while at least.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2324651.0;all

Last page or so of posts have quite a few of performance posts, including my fairly extensive ZEC via EWBF testing.

 It appears a few folks recieved their cards on Nov 2 (not sure if they got them shipped or walked into stores) - mine was shipped from Newegg and arrived Nov 3.

 Already done in my testing post, though that was at 100% TDP +700 Memory +200 core - right around 540 hash.
 90% TDP gave pretty much identical result though.

 1080 ti doesn't lose hashrate much between 80% and 100% tdp.
 Starts dropping noticeably around 70%

 Might vary SOME with the card - and temp DOES hurt hashrate as it reduces how much the card can boost core clock.

 My sample size so far on dstm testing is tiny, but I've yet to see it MATCH EBWF on hashrate at the same settings.
 Close though - I can see a possibility it might work better in some cases on other cards.

 I like my 1080 ti cards but show me ONE that can manage better than 4.2 efficiency - and the settings to get there.

 1080 ti is the hashrate king hands down (unless you want to spend crazy money for a Titan or a Tesla) but it's NOT the effciency king.

 Hash/$ at the SYSTEM level it's pretty close either way between the 1070, 1070 ti , 1080, and 1080 ti - unless NVidia decides it NEEDS to answer the recent Vega price drop and drops the 1070/1070ti/1080 prices to stay competative.