PM sent  Your problem is very minor.... *edit* just saw the pun in this one


Soooooo excited!  I have been anxious for the BF pods.

When they are finally released, I plan to try and build up a proper sized individual solar/battery system for them =)  Power outages are rampant in my area.  This will help alleviate much of my heartache with my home miners.  My internet connection is cellular and already on a similar system.

I've always been giddy about the concept of single devices that could come close to 100w/1Th.  Unthinkable not long ago.

From what I can tell you can input pool configs.

Just configure a wallet and daemon properly;  sync the blockchain, then point the miner at it via the settings when you configured it...  same as any pool operator would do per-coin they mine.

I am 99% Nvidia.

I used to do profit-switching multi-algo;

Then I stuck to Lyra2Rev2 because of the insane hashrate bonus compared to other cards (on the Maxwell/Pascal series)

And it seemed to die off in profitability several weeks ago.  Went from ~0.005BTC/day on 2 video cards to just ~0.0015-0.0025..  pretty big hit.   The profitability/consistency was starting to fall off like decred and LBRY did. (I mine with pools that do direct BTC exchange for payouts).

Recently;  I have been mining skein based coins....  It seems to be consistent and steady so far...

I tried mining on Nicehash with their different-named algo that reports in sol's... I think Equihash it was called or something similar?
Wasn't near as profitable as the skein coins.  Which is what im working on for now.

Yeah.  Maybe just have a second pcie as a model option to cut costs if the connector cost changes things by a bit.

Cable management with any device setup has always been a concern.  This is why I am liking making GPU rigs for friends.  They are compact units that basically sit on a shelf and only have a power cable =)

Exactly.

Even if it was something as simple as a female pin connector on top and bottom, and you can just use a straight pin connector to link them, or leave out to not....

If there could be a top/bottom connector for power sharing across pods (something like a pod tower), it would be awesome.  Even if it can share a single USB connection somehow....   But I'm assuming that's a little more advanced than you want to get with a first run

As of right now, all the mining rewards coming from my personal PC will be solely saved and spent on the pods from you


Can't wait for them to be finished!

Matt, if you need the funding for a pre-sale of sorts towards a potential future pod; just ask me.  I will consider it a donation with hopes of a future product.


I am sure a few others will be on this boat as well... But you have my support for what I can afford


I want to see your business thrive.  It would mean the world to the community.

I like the 15 chip pod idea.  I'd surely be in for one or a few; already donated almost that amount; so it shows the config and more importantly price bracket to be well in an acceptable range.

I'll power mine off a small Honda car battery and a solar panel I have sitting around.... See if it can get it to be a standalone unit not even in the house.

Just donated 0.056855 to the burger fund.

*edit*
https://btc.blockr.io/tx/info/f7c5ac1e142246052c5f9a5f5686272c790212abcc67374819e3401d56424bcc

I can't find it anywhere within reach....

I like the smaller wattage idea.  But it's still in the realm of not being too small.

And, sure, post the address, I'll pass some your way.

10 TH, 1000W, @ ~0.5BTC....  I would be in to try one as well.  It fits within the "single circuit" end-user mentality, and it will be stable and reliable... then I can easily see it making back it's cost and more (given my free power sites I have).

Yeah amen to that.

Even my windows 10 mining machines have rock solid uptimes, and usually only go down due to power failures or a windows update/reboot, but I have a startup file in them to auto-launch the miner apps upon boot.

On my home machine I have 2 video cards mining at 90-100% intensity, and can still play 3d games and such while its mining.  I'll only lose ~2-5% hashrate while gaming.  But it's still pretty solid.   The only time I need to be at a rig is to update the miner app or script (if I don't have a VPN to the site).

GPU rigs are set and forget as long as you keep up on their temp and airflow maintenance now and then.  Since it's winter time, I am going to be probably getting more friends wanting to heat their house and earn a little funds on the side.  The GPU rigs (like a gtx 9 series rig)with no active cooling (past a few low speed CPU fans for airflow across the machine) are actually pretty quiet.  The fans never really go over ~40-68%.... and temps hover between 55-75c.

So what algos do you mainly run with your rigs (nvidia and ati I would assume different algos for algo efficiency differences between them?)

I am guessing Lyra2 or LBRY, and ETH correct?  Do you pool mine with exchange or solo mine?

Personally, if i'm mining lyra2 and profits are just lacking for over day, ill switch my rigs over to X11evo for a day and switch back after.  Seems to keep profitability to a nice even amount.

I'd probably do some ETH mining myself, but I don't like maintaining wallets and typically mine to a thin wallet based off a cellphone and xfer to coinbase or my hardware wallet for storage till use.... and since there are basically none for ETH.... and I can't just mine to my coinbase wallet... it's kind-of a drawback for me to start on ETH myself. (most of my regular net connections are cellular, so the traffic from wallets and blockchains are not feasible for me to keep online).

This is why I focus on GPU rigs now.    Spend ~$2200 on a 4 card 1070 rig, and even just running lyra2v2 you can probably be ~20-25usd/day per rig.  @150W/card... it looks better and better the more you compare to an asic.  Especially when you know in a year youll be able to easily sell each card for $100-140 given how resale of GPU has been these past few years.

I returned my final hosted asic about a month ago.  Even though the power was free, it just wasn't worth the bitmain heartache, and the power could be more efficiently used on other devices.

My sentiments as well.

I want to put my financial support and purchase from the community rather than a bloated giant that squeezes the market from all angles to make the consumer basically as non profitable and competitive as possible.

I am so in for this development.  If there's some way I can lend a hand, I would/will.

Guys, last time ill personally say it:

All of this chatter needs to be in a separate discussion thread about the issue.  you can let crackfoo know about the thread and I am sure he will check it if asked.

You were asked several times to do this.

Answers and question highlighted from the same post that asked where... and that posting quoted was the one right before it.

Please.  Stop.

Yes.

Something is happening.

Don't say what it is unless you can prove what it is.  I agree that a proper block share % on a same-as-mined coin should be 98% of that block assuming you have 100% of the total shares.    Don't fall short on this recognition.  But without a full dataset of proof on the block rewards, then yes... I am skeptical and look into every possible cause.  I don't irrationally focus and make claims that I have no full evidence of.   I speculate.


It's like trying to prove a black hole exists without the math behind it.... only pointing towards a dark speck at the sky saying... look... see for yourself.

It's rather annoying that you just sit and repeat what you seem to hold as a fact without proof.  You have yet to verify the pool works the way you believe it is coded.