Phill. Can you check in with these guys? Are they still selling? Did they change the moq and price? I lost thier contant.

Miners and almost everything that works with electricity is rated at W and not amps unless the voltage is specified then it's wrong to use these amps readings, the Avalon 1246 draws 3420W -5%~+8%, so at worst it's 3,700w, there is no way it would use 30 amps unless the voltage is 123V, but then you said your guy measured it which mean you are suggesting that miner was indeed running at 123V which isn't possible as the PSU would shut down at that voltage.

What is the voltage you are using on these gears anyway?

Finally and most importantly, if you managed to burn the line coming from the grid, it's likely because your main breaker size is way too large, it should be smaller than what the wire can handle so that it will trip before the wire gets too hot regardless of the voltage, also if the ends aren't tight enough that is just a recipe for disaster.

Same here, nothing unusual, the .net website was posted in their official Telegram group which I know is legit because I have been there long before this mess, and the payout (just about an hour ago) went through with no issues.

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I noticed something strange happened earlier on, which could be a bug in cgminer!, at one point and out of a sudden, some miners went offline (not showing on either pools), about 20-30 of them, I thought there was an issue with the electricity or something, but when I accessed them via anydesk, everything seemed fine, but all pools (including cksolo which is the secondary pool) were showing dead on those miners, but cksolo was showing alive on the other miners.

When I added the new stratum link on the primary pool (viabtc) the miners started hashing and ckpool was showing alive, I know ckpool was good the whole time judging by the other miners, I just didn't know why those miners failed to connect to ckpool when viabtc went offline for a brief while.

of course, I didn't bother investigating the matter any further, I just used Awesomeminer to change the primary pool on all miners pointed to viabtc to the new URL viabtc.top, and everything started working just fine.

On a side but related note, Binance pool seems like the only Chinese pool that was prepared for this, hashrate was safu.

I hope you are joking, I was going to ask if you meant "years" and not "quarters", but then even that doesn't change much, because $550k BTC in 2 years is just ... wishful thinking, even the very generous S2F model is predicting 550k  by Q2 of 2025, I am as pretty bullish on BTC I just think that having unrealistic and unsustainable predictions serves no purpose.



hmm

Maybe it was a different pool? anyway, it will work just fine, but do you really want to gamble with a 10k worth of $$$ + the power bill on solo mining? the hashrate is too tiny for a block and kind of too much to gamble with, I just hope you are aware of the odds/risks and all that.

يمكنك صنعها بنفسك ولن تكلفك ربع الثمن الموجود في هده المواقع, لقت قمت بتصميم بوكس مشابه لهدا في الماضي عندما كنت امتلك جهاز ماينر واحد https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YTW0PGOYb0

الفكرة بسيطة جدا ويمكن صنع الصندوق من اي نوع من الخشب الرخيص, ويمكن وضع اسفنج على جوانبه ان اردت, من تم تصنع به فتحة كبيرة وتخرج منها خرطوم duct تجده في اماكن بيع مستلزمات المطباخ والمطاعم وفي العادة يبعاع بالمتر, وفي نهاية هدا الخرطوم تقوم بتركيب مروحة شفط مثل هده

https://www.amazon.com/VIVOSUN-Inline-Blower-Ventilation-Certified/dp/B077492C4C/ref=sr_1_34?keywords=duct%2Bfan&qid=1638016489&sr=8-34&th=1

ستجدها ايضا متاحة في السوق المحلي, وضيفتها سحب الحرارة من الصندوق واخراجها للشارع, ستحتاج ايضا واحدة اخرى مثلها في خرطوم الدخول.

هدا مثال اخر https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqAw1LgyW0M

بالنسبة لمروحة الشفط قد لاتحتاجها ان قمت بوضع ماينر واحد داخل كول صنودق وكان طول الانبوب قصير نسبيا, الامر يعتمد على درجة الحرارة الغرفة بالدرجة الاولى, لذلك سكيون عليك ان تقوم بالتجربة بنفسك.


بالنسبة لتبريد الماء او الزيت تحتاج الاتي
-مبرد سيارة (راديوتور)
- سائل غير موصل للكهرباء (سعره غالي نسبيا وهوا اغلى جزء من النظام) اعتقد ال 20 لتر يصل سعرها لي 100$ في حال استخدام سائل ذوء جودة ممتازة
- اي حوض غير مسرب للماء مثل فريزر تالف او خزان حديد او بلاستك
-مضخة لسحب الماء من الحوض وضخها داخل المبرد لتبرد وتخرج من الجهة الاخرى وتعاود الدخول الى الحوض

طبعا ميزة هدا النظام ان درجة حرارة الماينر ستكون منخفضة جدا جدا , الصوت الوحيد الذي سوف يخرج من المبنى هوا صوت مروحة مبرد السيارة وهدا الصوت ليس عالي نسبيا.

وهده بعض الامثلة

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nysdh3FKObc

طبعا يمكن الاستغناء عن مبرد السيارة واستخدام مبرد اخر بمراوح اخرى مثل الفيديو, ولكن الامر في النهاية يعتمد على عدد الاجهزة والمناخ و و.

of course it does get more expensive, this also somehow helps with suppressing the difficulty rise to a certain extent, which means, more sats to those who don't have to leave, as for right now:

Anyone who mines with anything that is less effienct than 60w/th and pays 20c or more is mining at a loss and will probably shut down pretty soon, those with 10 cents are good all the way to 30k, so I see no major impact coming soon, the only expectation would be the overclockers, overclocking makes your mining gear a lot less effienct and when prices fall like this, it makes sense that many folks will want more efficiency.

But keep in mind that I have seen many people include the power bill in their initial investment, it is like they pay the power bill upfront and then don't even bother if their miners are currently mining at a loss or not, so really the effect of price on difficulty is rather complicated and hard to predict in the short term.

لايوجد اي طريقة فعالة لكتم الصوت لدرجة تحمل صوته داخل المنزل او مكان العمل, كل الطرق المتاحة هي فقط "لتقليص" شدة الضوضاء ليس اكثر, لذلك يجب عليك سرد بعض التفاصيل, مثل مكان اجهزة التعدين, هل يه في القبو؟ ام في غرفة ما في المنزل؟

ايضا المشلكة الاخرى ان الاجهزة التي تمتلكها ردئية جدا وذات جودة سيئة, وايضا لايوجد لها اي فيرم وير خاص بتبريد الزيت او الماء على علمي وهدا سوف يزيد من تكلفة العملية.

It is, they put an announcement in their telegram group saying:


and previously they posted the following:



It's funny that they expect everyone to be on telegram, they should have sent out emails right after this shit happened, anyway, mining is going alright, heck, this is less scary than my experience with Poolin a while back, the pool was working just fine but my hashrate was showing zero.

Do you mean you rebooted your router? Well if you did so then it explains why they can not connect anymore as explained in my first post.

Yup except for the 2 gears that rebooted the rest kept mining with no issues, in fact the app worked for a while a few mins back and the hashrate was showing pretty normal.

To most folks, it's probably just the website, out of nearly 200 gears I got running on Viabtc only 2 switched to the secondary pool because they were rebooted by awesomeminer for having "sick asics", the rest are unaffected and 0 seconds time on the backup pools.

The miners that switched to the secondary pools now showing Viabtc "dead", it will probably go away if I reboot them but I want to see what happens, so my guess is that if the miner wasn't rebooted during these DNS issues -- no issues, someone who runs a pool like Kano probably knows what could have been the problem, why are the previously connected miners running fine, and the ones that are negotiating for a new connection aren't.

Anyway, one should always be prepared for such a scenario, the back pool needs to be in a different geographical location.

Your question is very general, nobody has the answer for such a question, the general information is available on Google, you need to at least spend a few hours reading about mining and then once and if you have a very specific question -- come here and ask.

Not that the decision is mine, but to me, as long as the main focus is on BTC difficulty then it deserves to be here, if NotFuzzyWarm doesn't agree (which I doubt given how reasonable he has been in managing this topic) you can always start your own topic.

I am pretty sure a BTC maximalist reported it and the mod didn't bother reading the whole post and simply deleted it for containing words such as "ETH", although anyone who read the whole post would see that the main focus of that post was regarding BTC, the idea is this "altcoins like ETH keep breaking ATH in terms of diff, BTC's diff isn't, so it's likely that gear manufacturers are focused on making alt gears which is why bitcoin diff isn't spiking as fast as it could/should", I believe his post is

1- Good quality.
2- Right on topic.

But ya, shit happens, if you want to know "why" was your post deleted you can always post in meta, here, I found your deleted post thanks to LoyceV > https://loyce.club/archive/posts/5851/58515243.html

What do you mean by "remove"? you can clear the log by rebooting the miner, but then it will start filling based on the current status of the miner, the miner logs resets at every reboot, the pool log stays there forever until you reset the miner or/and flash a new firmware.

I believe it's a combination of both, your theory is valid tho and phill has pointed that out a while back, altcoins mining gears make a lot more money than BTC mining gears when power is the only factor, but this can't be the only reason, because even the manufacturers that are not known to be making altcoins mining gears and focused mainly on BTC gears aren't making enough gears.

Power shortage is real and people are having a hard time getting their gears hosted, just to give you an example, in one of the major hosting groups today, I saw a few folks looking for 1MW+ hosting, the total is around 23MW, in return, only 11MW was offered, price is 6.25c per KWw, when I saw that I was like damn that's cheap, but then he said "customer pays capex" which means you need to pay for the transformer, container, and all the wiring and whatnot, so ya, finding a place to host your gears is pretty damn hard.

Sorry to hear the bad news that was brought to you.



I admire your knowledge, I have always been skeptical about the hosting business for many reasons, this one you mentioned being on the top of my list, and then you got nearly the whole world facing power shortage and increased gas/oil prices, it makes things even worse.

By the way, this isn't just you, it has been the "trend" on telegram, many people are facing issues with various hosts all over the globe, I saw someone looking for a new home for a 1000 miners he had somewhere in Russia which the host can't host anymore.



That sounds like a plan, maybe someone should start an " immersion cooling" dedicated topic where we all can collectively collect information about suppliers, the Dos and Don'ts of immersion cooling, and whatnot, something like the difficulty topic we have, let me know what you think.

Gave your first forum merit for reporting back, since most people just vanish after getting their issues fixed.

I know it's funny, it's too basic that I myself almost always forget to check it, sometimes we go as far as changing PSU/Control board before checking something so simple like a network cable or a loose ribbon cable, I don't think this has anything to do with your IQ, it's just how human beings are, we over complicate small matters way too often.

I think you are talking about Craig Wright case, many "fools" believe that the judge will declare him as Satoshi and that BSV will overtake BTC and all the hashrate will move there, what most people don't know is that case has nothing to do with the identity of Satoshi, the judge will either make CW pay Kleiman half of the alleged 1.1M BTC (which we all know he has no access to), or the judge will dismiss the case and the Kleiman family loses, regardless of which way it goes, no judge will declare who is/isn't Satoshi.

Besides, the only way for anyone to declare himself Satoshi would be to sign a message using the address from the Genesis block, even if every judge in the world declared someone as Satoshi -- it will change exactly nothing, and bitcoin and its mining won't be affected by all of that nonsense.


Anyway, to follow up on my previous post, here are some interesting reads


https://thediplomat.com/2021/11/kazakhstans-power-shortages-crypto-miners-and-geopolitics/
https://eurasianet.org/kazakhstan-to-restrict-crypto-miners-amid-power-shortages
https://cointelegraph.com/news/we-are-the-number-two-crypto-miner-in-the-world-and-we-see-practically-no-financial-return-says-kazakhstan-president-tokayev

Kazakhstan is the second-largest mining hub according to the latest Cambridge study, with 18% of the total hashrate, many Chinese moved there after the ban in China, sadly for them (luckily for the rest) the country started facing some serious power shortage and everyone is blaming the "foreign miners" for that, the president demanded for more regulation, and there have been some moves against those who mine illegally.

a few days ago they confiscated 4,500 miners and are still hunting for the other illegal operations, so probably many illegal miners have shutdown before the police identify their locations.

Now it's also very likely that the tariff on power for mining will get another spike, the president said


So, you have a power shortage crisis, the majority of the income goes to foreign miners "mostly Chinese", you export coal at a premium and now you have to burn it to avoid blackouts, so it's a -lose-lose situation, how do you recover that? shut down all the illegal miners and tax the heck out of the ones who mine legally, if they stay -- you make more money, if they leave -- you use less coal and get to sell it to China.

This whole mess is a net positive as far as the difficulty is concerned.

First of all, let's just say that the IP report button is pretty useless as far as what you are trying to do is concerned, in fact, it could create issues for you, so stop pressing it, if you bought the miner brand new then it comes with DHCP enabled, meaning that the miner will negotiate with your router and will be given a certain IP within the DHCP table range set on your router.

A good tool to use would be "angry ip scanner" to scan for all devices on the network, if that still doesn't solve your issue, it probably means the miner is configured on static settings which is almost impossible if you bought it directly from Bitmian, but either way, you can just reset the miner and will go back to DHCP.

Also, it's funny to say but please, make sure your network cable is good and that your router has DHCP enabled.