%?

They're just flapping their gums to hear some noise in the room.  I haven't seen any signs of such a thing and I followed them pretty closely for the past month.

Anyone make a Bitmain dartboard to hang on their wall yet?  I'm pretty sure most of us could vent some frustration throwing darts/sticks/stones/old_hardware at it once in awhile. :/

When you increase the barrier for entry you block out someone that could have had the answer for all your problems.  But I know those that have power like to stay in power whether or Not it’s good for the rest of us or not.  Keep pushing out those that had heart for this into the hands of those that just want to see others suffer so that they can have a better life turns this whole project into nothing better than fiat.  Except we now take money printing out of the hands of the federal reserve right back into the hands of more bad actors.  Until we start as humans looking at the real root of the problem “money” then we are just going to keep playing this dance.  

I can’t wait for ai to be used for good. Not for fucking ad revenue generators.  Fuck my life. What are we doing people.  Is this really the best we can do?

We now have more hashrate than kano pool, if this after effect of the whale's visit holds.

Mineority exit scammed?

My small take:

I think what is really biting TSMC is the fact that nvidia screwed up and thought they could milk the 10 series for more than they could imagine;    instead of holding to their usual product release strategy they attempted to milk it....  Th process on the dies was already down.   Its usually cheaper for a second batch of chips.  So;  why did the price keep going up?    That's right.... "artificial inflation" due to "demand".

it all backfired.  and they are hurting TSMC by pushing back and trying to recoup on their stupid mistake;  instead of chalking it as a loss and moving forward.

If they had taken that mistake, and:
1) released a 1080ti with less ram
or
2) sold the overstocked chips at a cut-rate price to sell and drain inventory for the next round

TSMC would have not had such a huge problem. (this aside from the fact that they must plan for the eventuality of these problems in their business model)



In the end;


All of it.... is people fighting to have the biggest slice of the pie.   Some people gotta lose.... and when you risk it big, you can loose it big.

us peons;  just get to ride the waves.

IMO they are just focusing on diversifying their business portfolio.  They are opening offices in San Francisco and Sao paulo, and have been actively investing in other businesses, not to mention their AI chips.  In 2019 they will be traded on the Hong Kong stock exchange.  They have made a lot of money on mining equipment but that is just peanuts compared to other ventures.  Its kind of like Nvidia, we can complain about no new GPUs, but their main income is coming from AI and HPC. not geforce graphics cards.  

And lets just say Bitmain could magically double the efficiency of their S9, which would be huge, it would still only be making a $1 a day.  With current prices I don't think asic miners are flying off the shelves.

Innosilicon  now beats bitmain for efficiency with every product they have.

Why hasn't bitmain built more efficient gear for sale?

Btc

T2  is 1430/17200 =   83 watts per 1 th  or +10% = 91 watts a th
S9 is  1400/14000 =  100 watts 1th  or -2%  =  98 watts a th









Zec  

A9  is 620/ 50000 =  12.4 watts 1000 sols
Z9  is 266/ 10000 =  26.6 watts 1000 sols


LTC

A6   1500/1230 =      121 watts 100 mh
L3+  800/505    =     160 watts 100 mh


Cryptonight

A8   480 watts /248 =  193 watts  100kh  
x3    550 watts/220 =   250 watts 100kh    

DASH

A5 750 watts/32500  =  23.07 watts   1gh
D3 970 watts/17000  =  57.05 watts   1gh

 Sia

S11 1380 watts/4300gh   = 320.9 watts 1000gh
A3   1275 watts/815gh     = 1564 watts 1000gh



I am not sure about a bitmain  decred miner

and Innosilicon does not have an Eth miner  or a B3 miner


but bitmain  is a clear cut loser in efficiency to everything  you can buy listed above.

This is not about service of the gear
This is not about price of the gear
This is not gear working or being durable

This is about  efficiency  and bitmain  either sucks at that (I don't think so)

Or bitmain  has  better gear they don't release

or something else

At moderators.

I only listed  the entire list of gear byc and alt because the pattern is very clear  and that is the way to show it.

So will bitmain  put a better miner out or continue the price war with the s-9?

I can believe that bitmain  loses  in every model  listed above  so whats up here?

Sometimes you get complacent when you become the big dog. No longer hungry. No longer innovating. Bitmain is raking in so much they just stopped innovating. With things the way they are, they might ease out of their slumber and try to cobble something together. Who knows.

A big pool failover has made the hashrate hit new record highs. Here's hoping we get some blocks while they're here.

Philip,

I also have a few 2PACs.

Would it be more wise then to load balance between the solo and multi ck pool to have chances on both?

And as backup as a pool might go down.

As title says have 8 unopened I want to sell 1.2k ea. Buyer pays first or OGNasty as escrow at buyers expense. Payment in BTC accepted from all, Paypal from a select few.

Need these gone within a week. Bulk discount available.

1500 at somewhere between 1000 and 1300 watts, on a 14/16 nm node process (possibly that "12nm" that's really an upgraded 16nm process).

900 wouldn't be worth it for them with the Innosilicon stuff around.

@philipma: How did you paid for squirrelsresearch site with coins? I have option to pay only with ACH, what is not to easy from Brazil cause of hourly USD value changes.

Can someone clarify the ramp up/ramp down again for me? I'm a small miner and have less than 100 gh at the moment. I've been mining here for months and managed to earn $1.06 as of a few days ago (not sure my herp/derp numbers as this was from the computergenie site.

Anyway, I get a problem with my miner and had to take it offline for 48 hours before I could start it again... Only to see my prior work is essentially erased and now I'm sitting at $0.05 in pending payouts.

So my question is if it is even worth my time mining here. I can't guarantee my miners won't have downtime in the months to years it will take to get in the payout pool, and if my prior work gets superceded by the guys with the real hashrates in only a few hours I will never earn a payout.

I don't expect to turn a profit mining, I do it to support the network but if I'll never even get a miniscule payout I might as well join the solo pool and give up here.