the s5 still has alot of use..
bitcoin isnt the only coin that the s5 can mine.. the difficulty of bitcoin has made it unprofitable..
but there are other coins, like peercoin, or digitalcoin that have much lower difficulty, making it extremely profitable. also since those coins difficulty isnt jumping up each time, it will stay profitable for awhile.
A lot is based on electricity price though. Some have a LOT of use left they are good miners. For me selling and buying coin ended up good. And I even have gained some value on coins going up after buying from all my sales. Long term will I have made the right choice... I think so with my electricity rate since is not really cheap more normal. But I could be wrong your right if some alt coin really takes off long term. |
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Does anyone want a S5? My electric costs are about equal to earnings, making it hard to continue...
Whats it worth?
there are insane people selling the S5 for $200, and there are even more insane people buy it for $200. I wouldn't buy one if it's over $100. Of course, who wouldnt like 2 months ROI. Everyone love 2 months ROI. Its still too low for a S5 for now, but it look like the value might be about 160$. Depends on where you sell it ebay you can get more then over here, but lots of possible headaches. I sold all my last gen gear S5's/SP20's/Avalon 4.1's. I made far more selling then what I would make mining at normal electricity rate. I did that bought coins with money.... so far was a very smart move short term. Long term that will go into new mining gear. But I think a lot would be surprised if they run ROI that they are better off selling. And I HATE selling parting with miners. But I know it has to happen at some points. |
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Well hell. My batch 8 has developed a problem. It started beeping and I happened to be nearby so I checked out the GUI and the hashrate was slowly dropping to zero. I noticed that one hashboard said the temp was 96 and two of them said temp 0. So I rebooted through the GUI, it came up and started mining but the temps all say 0 now. I did a power cycle and same thing, all zeros. At least it is hashing though so that's good. It didn't overheat, it is sitting next to a couple other S7's and the temp where they are didn't get up past room temperature and the other machines are fine. When I powercycled it I did gently move it around to check for a loose heatsink but there wasn't anything detectable, plus I think those were mostly in earlier batches. But now all zeros on the temps. Lame.
i`ve add the same issus happens to me on a S4 and a S5, reflashing the machine ( even if it;s the same revision ) cured my problems both times, actually the s5 i had to flash 3 times. let it sit for a day than came back to life the next flashing. try it out. I ended up having to do this. After working fine for a couple days with all zeros for the temps the sensors did wig out and one reported 96 and another reported 32 so it stopped hashing again. The weird thing is, after reflashing it, only those two boards are reporting a temp (a normal one now) but the third board is still showing zero. Something tells me a reset to default would cure this but I'll wait until the machine gives me no other option. Long long ago I was told to reflash when I had a S3 miner with one temp not working... did not fix my problem then. But some have had luck with it all the way to day's of S3 and temp sensors. Just be careful as flashing can be bad if something goes wrong. As long as one has accurate temp you should be fine (not so much if one is to high). But if you have one working right.... it should be ok. |
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Also, at some point we will probably/hopefully see older gear start to fall off, which may help temper the sharp jumps
I suspect the drop off here has been just that. when the s-7 started we had 410 ph in older gear. The problem I think is most of the big operations of old gear (A1's I'm thinking of a lot here). They chances are will upgrade not shut down. They already have the initial investment in data center. I think most re-invest with new machines and have VERY low electricity prices. So not sure old gear coming off is that great of news. |
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Hello,
I am looking for a good online Bitcoin wallet.
I want a wallet that respect my privacy (no log, no asking for ID card, no asking for my first name, etc...).
Low fee.
Do you have any idea ?
Blockchain.info if you don't even want to use your first name. However with coinbase you don't need to verify anything and you get the option of a vault. Plus, they pay the transaction fees for you! And if you use either of these use 2 factor. It truly can save you BTC possibly. Blockchain especially I am pushing 2 factor. I really hope a few read it and decide to use it that werent. Blockchain is the most popular hot wallet. It has been for a long time. Just has a huge user base. |
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I personally never owned a faucet but i used to surf faucets before, i think if you make a faucet with a hourly payout of 500+ then it would surely catch attention of surfers, but less then 500 satoshi faucets are mostly ignored by surfers.
there are many faucets with 200-300 satoshi payouts that have thousands of users. The hard part is finding people who want to do the faucet. Most add up profits and figure they make cents per hours of work. And it's dust in a lot of payments, although Xapo I will admit has helped on that. But still cent's per hours of work does not make me jump at it. I also think finding advertising could be a challenge. you could could do it from phone then it becomes practical.. For example if you wait on the subway or bus, you could grab your phone and do some faucets in the meantime to pass time. Even less practical then I'm using my mobile battery and data usage for a few cent's and you will be even slower doing the faucets. Get paid even less per hour and it is literally cent's per hour. New people do faucets mainly. I wish I could get them to buy a dollar of BTC vs hours of faucets. And google adsense not liking them... is a big thing. Finding GOOD paying ad's is not going to be easy. |
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other person was in the wrong
The problem is not, if the person was in the wrong. There is about live webcam chat SERVICE, and the webmodel claim to send a video, but not live webcam image. This is called usually as "Fake Video" and not a "Live Chat". And in this moment i'm sorprised to see this message as deleted. The mods I think deleted the big huge text post, and likely all posts quoting it. I'm guessing yours was deleted as due to quote of big red text in it. I don't think mods deleted it in support of other person if your thinking that. |
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I personally never owned a faucet but i used to surf faucets before, i think if you make a faucet with a hourly payout of 500+ then it would surely catch attention of surfers, but less then 500 satoshi faucets are mostly ignored by surfers.
there are many faucets with 200-300 satoshi payouts that have thousands of users. The hard part is finding people who want to do the faucet. Most add up profits and figure they make cents per hours of work. And it's dust in a lot of payments, although Xapo I will admit has helped on that. But still cent's per hours of work does not make me jump at it. I also think finding advertising could be a challenge. |
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By working  But in all honestly I get my BTC from a download site that pays me when people download my files. They dont have survey lockers only advertisements on the site but it pays good.  What type of content do you upload? I think the key is finding a that. I think it is a hard thing to find content most want to download. It is a good idea but I think trouble will be finding the content that is going to get downloads. |
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Posting in all red and huge text to grab attention... I think you know why it was deleted. If people would post like this in threads it would kill them. Would make hard to read and become a contest to have bigger and brighter text.
If you would have stuck with smaller text and not huge red letters I don't think there would have been a problem. But I could be wrong.
There are many posts in this mode, and to make them with "Big Size Text" i have start not, but seems deleted is this, and other insults are still in thread. Sorry I edited my post. I misread names other person was in the wrong I appolgize on that. I think yours was deleted just for having theirs in your post. Being after that caused the delete I think. |
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Posting in all red and huge text to grab attention other person was in the wrong, you just happened to be after it. So I think you being after other persons and quoting it caused the delete.
If people would post like this in threads it would kill them. Would make hard to read and become a contest to have bigger and brighter text.
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Hello sorry I haven't replied sooner you were spot on it was the power brick.
Glad it is fixed! It seems a lot of times it goes back to power brick glad that was all it was! |
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Thanks for posting picture! Glad it all worked out looks like pretty clean setup considering was oven's electrical. I do love to see neat things in home mining, and you definitely did it with this! Now you just need more miners to fill that spot  |
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sorted not sure how i did it took me 2 hrs to sort with a laptop lol
You lost the IP or interface so just reset it .. There is a little pin hole in the back by the ethernet port. Put a toothpick in there and hold for 5 seconds and release. Wait about 3-4 minutes to reboot, after reboot power down the power supply and reboot one more time. After it comes back up you will see it on the default IP which is 192.168.1.99 Some people needed to do this process twice but it always worked for me on the first shot. I think you missed a few posts. I already suggested reseting it, and asked him what did the trick after he posted: sorted not sure how i did it took me 2 hrs to sort with a laptop lol
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Hi guys is there any good third party review of these miners?
I would like to have an impartial impressions before buying some. Thanks in advance.
I'm pretty impartial. I make 0 dollars if you purchase one or not. If you get a R1 with crazy guy's firmware and run a few you will enjoy them. No dealing with zombies, and a low power controller. This is a good combination. If you plan on running on a full sized windows computer. You are going to have high power controller... not good long term. Also you will grow to hate zombies, the more you purchase the more you will see it. I had 3 on windows and grew to hate them. The constant zombie issue is a pain and you have 0 lotto chance if they are zombied. But got the R1 as said above and instantly it was better my little u3 farm of 3 ran great off of it and I no longer manually reset zombies. So I think automation is key to if you enjoy them or grow to hate them. |
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Seems like somebody woke the Beast again. Crazy run-up today.
Yeah I think we are going up and up until the end of this diff I think long term we will be up. I can't understand why we slowed so much, I can throw tons of theories none backed by fact's though. The fact is difficulty is scary since Jan 26 to me: 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 Jan 26 2016 120,033,340,651 5.89% 859,232,121 GH/s Add that up and we get almost 40 percent. I just am hoping even with new NM chips we don't see this again. I can't take to many of these quick and fast jumps or my profit margins are out the window. Something that REALLY scared me was when I first realized whats really happening with % increases. With respect to the Jan 26 difficulty, it is not 5.89% + 20.06% + 13.44% = 39.39%, it is 1.0589 * 1.2006 * 1.1344 = 1.44218012, or 44.2%. Reminds me of the Einstein quotes: "Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it." and "Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe." Compound interest really is a amazing thing. I can't believe I did not think about this guess I was already shocked and stuck at 40 percent. 44 percent is almost having number... and that is since Jan 26. People are scared of having but we almost did it just with difficulty changes in a very small period of time. I hope it stays down... but I'm guessing once next nm is perfected we see some big jumps. The good news is I don't know if this is a near term problem. We could still have some time before this. |
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I think this will vary depending on batch. Considering batch 8+ were using less chips and higher freq..... should be more tempature.
Pre-batch 8 were talking more chips and lesser freq. I would think less temperature I think that is something to consider. But once you start to talk underclocking I'm sure you can get quieter and less heat. As some have mentioned.
I just don't mind the noise or heat with my mining area it's kinda a moot point on noise for me. My fan's are loud but put out a lot of CFM and move some serious air. So sound has become a moot point ever since I built my mining area.
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So all depends on your situation and controller you use. I personally liked my U3's after I got crazy guy's firmware on a R1. What is this? Is this a firmware update for the antminer U3? Not an upgrade for the U3 but an upgrade for the R1 Antminer firmware, which is then used to control the U3's Rich It's a huge upgrade if your going from no automation. The R1 with crazy guy's firmware if it detects zombie it is able to try to fix and even restart R1 to get back up and running. Compare that to when I had to babysit it seemed my U3's it was a great change. I had 3 US's and before automation multiple times a day I got zombies. I have a U3 running on windows 7 and i did have problems with it going Zombie every 24h but i switched to using high quality USB leads. They need to be screened usb leads. I used some i had from an old printer. The leads have clear insulation so you can clearly see the screening braid. They are thick and chunky so i guess that they have wire with a greater cross sectional area than the flimsy ones you get supplied with the U3. The leads have a ferrite filter on the USB B end too. Also be sure to use a good USB HUB and an ATX PSU that can do at least 10A. My ATX is just 160watt from an old pentium 4 pc and powers the 5v hub as well as the 12v for the U3. The U3 pulls around 4.4A under normal load but they can surge for short durations up to 8A. (the psu bricks that come with them will catch fire and are dangerous) Also use the latest cgminer4.9.2 (no over-clock code) The U3 gets hot on the blue base too so i added a small 12v CPU fan to blow air underneath. I hooked the cooling fan between the +5V and +12V rails of the ATX giving 7v. This way the 12V fan is not too noisy as it is not screaming flat out. So no! they will not work well “out the box”, Moreover: they are a 50gh/s miner not 63gh/s. Over-clock at your own peril. However, No baby sitting. Fit and forget. And... you can get them for £30 second hand on ebay as people don't get on with them. Mine just mines! But add up all you did to get that running. Sounds pricy for 50 GH on new power brick for each U3. There are some modified cables going to a PSU that you can use for multiple. And add to this the ongoing use of a regular computer it sounds like as controller. If all that for 50GH... it kills the long term lotto. Your just speding to much. I'm sure the power bricks are not amazing stock. But they did the job for me, ran 3 for 2-3 months I'm guessing and no fire or hot issues. I will admit my lotto miners were well cooled with extra cpu fan's ran from a fan controller. But as controller used R1 and low power. I don't think full PC is way to go with electricity cost. |
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sorted not sure how i did it took me 2 hrs to sort with a laptop lol
Was it the reset that did it? Or did you do something on laptop. We like to have resolutions of what fixed it for others' to read and might help someone in future. |
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