The best thing to do with mixers, is to avoid them altogether, there should be no need for an honest income to ever need this sort of obfuscation and it is a "cute" term for money laundering. If you must use them, just look around for big threads here, lots of good reviews and minimal scam reports.
yeah, you are right about nobody with honest income wants to hide his income. but you are forgetting about privacy. a lot of the people who use mixers, use them to reach some level of privacy and anonymity. it is not necessarily with bad intents. for example a person might not want any random person on the internet to know how much he owns bitcoin and where does he keep them. besides, sometimes it is good to reach this level of privacy and anonymity because you might be targeted for phishing attacks and other sorts of hacking if it becomes known how much bitcoin you own and where you keep them. I think privacy can be obtained by those wanting to store BTC in a stash and not want people to know about it. I can understand people who want this as some don't want holdings to be known about. And that is their right as it's really no ones else business in most cases. I personally.... don't think mixers are best for this I would mine it myself to an address. You could not convince me to trust any mixer enough to send money and hope it comes back. But some love them. The big thing I see is if you ever want to use it you really lose the anonymous part of it. If you exchange for good/service likely can be linked to you. So I think if your end goal is to use it trying to hide it through mixers is kinda a waste of time even. |
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Phil is right with the newest batches they already are being pushed on frequency. They took out chips... and pushed remaining chips harder. This makes for cheaper production cost on miners.... but not a great miner for OC. I personally would not OC any batch 8+ S7's.
What are you risking? Actually a lot, your giving up warranty if new. And you could do damage. So lots of down side to it.
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im new in mining's world ! may i ask for useful advises as a beginner? i have free electricity and good weather, i'm living in Egypt. what is the best mining hardware give me good profit and where can i buy it with good price and grantee manufacturing ?
my respect
thanks
Don't know what "good weather" is considered there. Wish I knew more but that is a country I don't know a ton about. But your off to good start with free electricity. What is your weather like? Do you have VAT/Import taxes on miners? Also is noise a issue? And how much "free" power do you have? Those questions should help us some on your chances of ROI. |
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I don't know, I have always just followed the factory reset instructions in the manual, then installed the latest fw.
Unfortunately, the 7/18/2014 version of the manual no longer includes that information. UGH Anyway, I will definitely give your suggestion a try before anything else. Are you just looking for info on reset? It's dated but still accurate - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=697474.0 . It's a good troubleshooting thread but it shows how to reset. |
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Looks like prisma and dragon  It is... He said it was old used equipment. That 1.5T dragon is a HEAVY miner to. It was in 40-50 pound range if I remember right. I think shipping of them is going to be a little hard. I selling that one and after was like ohhh crap this is heavier then I remember. Are they selling in bulk? Or just single units? I'm surprised if they are interested in spending time selling old gear 1 by 1. The good news... maybe they are closer to spec on B11 and making room. |
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... Not forgetting waiting for Spondoolies to actually produce the mystical SP50. I am still annoyed as I have 300a @ 240v (3x 100a feeds) of ultra cheep power that I just want to stack out with Spondoolies kit. However I gave up holding my breath for Spondoolies servers a while back. On that note how long has it actually been since SP-Tech actually released anything? not including the SP50 obviously  In the mean time I am just sat buying batches of 12 S7's, which I don't particularly like compared to the SP3x series. but what else can I buy in all honesty? regs You should not build out an area for a miner that is not out, that goes for any company not just SP. But even when SP50 was talked about more they seemed like data center sales a customer with hobby level amount of electricity... was not on radar it did not seem. I do miss this forum being about hardware though. So I give you points for a hardware post in here. But as far as what you can buy easily right now it's A6's and S7's. Net gen... is a good question. But as far as easy to get it's all this gen. If it makes sense will all depend on your electricity price. |
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No, you dont understand. Bitcoin is secure regardless of the halfing. It can only go up.
I support it because it is an anonymous currency. The governments of the world want rid of cash and want money all electronic so it can all be accounted for. So they can have controll. I love Bitcoin for what it has done for the worlds markets.
If you wanted to buy crack, would you want to pay with paypal or Bitcoin?
You speak things that are not true. Bitcoin can only go up... many of us are here from day's of 900+ coins. We have seen it can go down. One would think having would help in price but there is not 100 percent guarantee. Not sure why you focus on criminal activity.... I think they can operate on fiat money to. And if bitcoin's main reason becomes for activity you use as reasons.... I think your in for a severe drop in price. And it's anonymous to a point. But what if you want to use it or cash some in? There is a point most will be tied to. Bitcoin can only go up in long term, maybe in 10 to 20 years. It was down since later 2013 ($1200) to 2015 (400). There is no guarantee it can only go up long term. As investors.. we hope this is true but there could be things we don't know and it goes down a lot, or replaced with a new coin one day. Fact is we just don't know, and cannot possibly predict BTC 10-20 year frame. You act like 400 is cheapest it's been in that timeframe. But look in it sometimes in period was in 200's..... and some paid 1K and are still holding. So there are some bad timing lost lots of money. Don't invest more then you can afford as there are no guarantees in this game. |
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with that rate you're not making any profit, it's better to leave mining where it is and investing in bitcoin directly, it will reward you soon
Yeah home mining is dead. The only way is to get your miners placed in a datacentre. Which is quite expensive. Also remember that you need to buy a PSU too, which makes it hard to get ROI. PSU should not be the deal breaker though. Most if you buy decent hold price surprisingly well. And you can always sell or ROI and use again for multiple generations. Personally I like to keep and use over and over. Home mining... you need free/cheap electricity. No it's not dead but its harder and harder. |
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looks like i missed it. i would have said +4.8
I missed it to I have been sick this week. Finnaly able to type more then a few words. I tried to do a few posts earlier in week... by the time I got to end they were some of the ugliest posts I had ever done.. so did not put much this week. I think around 5 would be my guess. I still can't explain why we went crazy jumps and slowed down. Makes 0 sense to me, and what scares me is it could happen again. I think when next gen hits spec we will see some big jumps, but when... no clue. Also could still see some jumps from some making last gen ROI. I would imagine bitmain still could do S7's internally and make ROI a few times. But if they do ... that is the question. |
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Really not moving a ton right now kinda in same spot in bitwisdom:
Bitcoin Difficulty: 158,427,203,767
Estimated Next Difficulty: 166,349,397,372 (+5.00%)
Adjust time: After 978 Blocks, About 6.4 days
Hashrate(?): 1,265,158,995 GH/s
Price has went up a little to over 420 in past 24 hours... so nothing big but still headed in right direction.
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Well, smaller miner will exit the game, and hash power will concentrate on fewer miners.
On the bright side, the price per coin probably will rise, otherwise, even fewer miner will be.
I think it's hobby miner and home miner will have a hard time if it continues. Both are not big enough to get gear discounts when buying. But it will all come down to electricity. Those small miners with included electricity/free.. will continue to make money. So all depends on that electricity. Well it all depends also with performance as well, not just free electricity. But yeah thats a huge component where most of us cant avoid, so lets stop with this mining dream lol. In the future, there will be little progress in the efficieny of the miners. So the miners will compete with cheap electricity. There will always be work on more efficient chips as long as there money in the industry. BTC is still the gold of crypto, so even after next gen hits there will be some perfecting next gen and working on even farther. We will not cap out on best machine. But electricity is always important it is today and still will be in future. Yes. But the progress of making efficient miners will be lower than now or in the past. 10 nm will be limit for now. Not sure that was worth bumping thread for... But we have always been in a continuous progress of new miners being made. We really don't know a whole lot about what limit is .... as we don't know R/D as most companies don't share it. Sure we can guess nothing under 10 nm, probley a safe bet right now but this will change eventually. And we will have no idea when it does change until it's public.... which is hard to say. I mean look at bitmain they are biggest maker of home miner I would think. And we know 0 about their next gen. I think that shows us how little we know, as they have to be having some R/D chances are as we speak. |
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with that rate you're not making any profit, it's better to leave mining where it is and investing in bitcoin directly, it will reward you soon
I'm a miner at heart and always will be. But I have to admit I did do a little buying of coins. When I sold my last gen gear I saw either I could buy current gen... or wait. And waiting is had hard for me as it's no fun having lower hashrate. But I ended up buying coins and holding. I plan on buying next gen miners with it. I'm hoping I will see value go up a bit and I can make some off of that... then buy back in. But hard to say how lucky I will really be. |
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looking for dead bodies of ANTMINER S5+ chickens)
You are buying dead units? sorry for delay yes I would like to purchase some(several) for experiments >>>> looking for dead bodies of ANTMINER S5+ chickens)
You are buying dead units? Dead bodies? What? The heatsink, husk or the boards? I got some dead boards, i could sell one and the other with Sidehack's permission i guess. If I understand all the things correctly than I need units with working controller and dead or better partially dead hashboards >>>>>> to Notlisted and VirosaGITS I do mean S5+ and chickens was about golden eggs they make)) You are going to pay a lot more for your experiments for going after S5+ parts vs S5 parts. Just was not a lot sold on S5+ compared to the amount of S5's out there. S5+ is a great machine, and one of my favorite. I had mine run over a month multiple times. But if your just wanting parts for experiments I would suggest going with regular S5 I think it will be much cheaper overall for dead parts. Just again due to amount out there. |
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Price does not make sense really though. Your talking 270ish to run 1 S7. You can get the bitmain PSU for 140, so almost half of the cost. And you only have 1 PSU vs 3 much cleaner. Even if stuck on 110/120 I think there are much better options price wise. |
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I still cant make sense of it:
Mar 04 2016 158,427,203,767 -3.10% 1,134,066,098 GH/s
Feb 19 2016 163,491,654,909 13.44% 1,170,318,852 GH/s
Feb 07 2016 144,116,447,847 20.06% 1,031,625,717 GH/s
We had 2 in a row of huge increase. Then a negative... which I still cannot understand. This period we will gain that negative amount plus some... will be interesting to see how much though.
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If something is working good.... don't update the firmware. There just is simply no reason. Only bitmain one there was a great reason was one S3 firmware reset button did not work.... now that is huge deal update firmware.
I am the guy that begged people to never run a bitmaintech firmware.
many reason and stories abound.
Well there was also the S5 where the updated firmware would keep the machine from melting down in the event that it lost internet connection... That was a very hit/miss problem though. I never had it in mine. But I guess I always had big fan's pushing air. But I not all that lost internet burned up. Only bitmain machines I played with a lot on firmware I had were S4's and C1's. Those I would put nicehash or regular depending on pay. But my ones that did not use SD card (like S3,S5,etc) I tried to avoid upgrading like the plague. |
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Sell some of my miners, take the "profit" and invest in Bitcoin itself.
I'm not running a huge farm, so I'm more than likely going to cut my losses prior to the Havlening. Won't sell off my miners until a few weeks after the Halving, just to see how much more difficult things get.
I have a feeling in last few weeks pevious gen will take a decent jump down. Current gen... not sure on it unless something else better comes out. I would not wait till last minute. I sold mine a bit back on last gen, and invested in coins. So far I did much better then I would have mining older gear (I have normal not cheap electricity) |
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How many U3s can the router manage without a powered hub?
I did 3 with a very cheap usb 2.0 hub and it had no problems at all. Not sure what is highest it's been pushed to. Also with it having external power I don't think powered/non-powered have near as much effect as a miner such as stick miners that run off usb juice. |
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If anyone can correct or embellish my understanding of what I am seeing, please do so.
I am not sure if anyone ever responded to this so I will go ahead. Just to be safe I would verify the 4 pin cable is good and change the micro usb cable but it sure looks like you are seeing a continuous restart loop of the AUC dongle. You will almost assuredly need to replace it. As far as power requirements go the Rpi should have at least a 1.5 amp power supply (I would recommend a minimum of 2amp personally). A 1 amp power supply will not support the AUC dongle and the RPi at the same time. The dongle will sit idle with just a single green LED on and the Pi itself will crash and only have its red power LEDs on. My impression is it is corrupt firmware on the dongle causing the boot loop. Avalon does has firmware for the AUC on its canaan creative site but I do not know how you would actually reflash the dongle itself or if that will even fix the problem. I have found this wall wart can do 2 rasp pi's http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014ZMOZY0?I have found this usb 2 cable to be very high quality http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015MJLEUS?If you do the usb cables above with the wall wart above and you have a fail then the little dongle converter is very likely no good. but I would give them a try. use two of the three usb cables one for power to the rasp pi one for power to the dongle save the third one for back up I don't do anything special on my RPI power. I had a decent amount of phone charger's and usb cords. So I just used them and then there was zero cost. I'm all for re-using parts. I have a good amount sorted at this point just waiting for projects. |
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video has since been taken down. does this mean you fixed it? or is it a giant expensive paper weight.
what psu was/is being used? was/is the psu powerfull enough to run the unit? saw 1 guy selling 1 and he was using a 1300w evga, definitely not enough power for a unit like this.
I'm guessing fixed it. The power issue was a hard one as makes it where you can reflash over a bad flash ( and please please don't just update firmware on bitmain miners most of time no reason). But worst comes to worse he should be able to buy a BBB on bitmain's site and get back up and running for not to bad. And consider it a lesson learned. |
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