Still mining as well but seriously contemplating turning most of it off. I have a variety but I only have 7 GPUs and they have been mining at a loss for a few months now. I want to have something to sit on in case there is a turn around in the markets but I'm very close to calling it on the GPUs. My S9's are also really marginal these days. They still make a decent amount per day but they have to be really close to dropping below the breakeven point right now in terms of cost to run. So I am contemplating turning those off as well. Have a few other asic miners that are still worth running for the time being but none of those have broken even for the purchase price yet either.
But on the other hand I have been mining for a number of years and my obsolete pile of gear has BFL, asicminer, gridseed, innosilicon, and bitmain stuff in it. So turning stuff off and piling it in the corner isn't an entirely new concept to me. Not replacing it with the latest and greatest kind of is new though, and right now I have zero plans to buy anything out there.
Yeah new m10 gear is about 2k once you add the trump tax to it. So it does not pay to buy them. I am still not sure if I will get a back bill for 500 usd on the one m10 I got either I beat the deadline by a day or I lost by a day. So far no bill for it. Right now my 1920x threadripper is doing well on xmr v8. See how long that lasts. Wait, isn't XMR v8 the one that started yesterday? EDIT: Ha! Nevermind. I was thinking that threadripper was an asic for a second there. I had forgotten about the CPU. |
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Still mining as well but seriously contemplating turning most of it off. I have a variety but I only have 7 GPUs and they have been mining at a loss for a few months now. I want to have something to sit on in case there is a turn around in the markets but I'm very close to calling it on the GPUs. My S9's are also really marginal these days. They still make a decent amount per day but they have to be really close to dropping below the breakeven point right now in terms of cost to run. So I am contemplating turning those off as well. Have a few other asic miners that are still worth running for the time being but none of those have broken even for the purchase price yet either.
But on the other hand I have been mining for a number of years and my obsolete pile of gear has BFL, asicminer, gridseed, innosilicon, and bitmain stuff in it. So turning stuff off and piling it in the corner isn't an entirely new concept to me. Not replacing it with the latest and greatest kind of is new though, and right now I have zero plans to buy anything out there.
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That's brutal. I have Windows 10 on my mining rigs and considered EthOS. I have been hacked before with Teamviewer and won't install that on my rigs, or any other remote enabling software. I don't even check email on them. I'd follow the previous suggestions and maybe see if it is possible to lock your ports down. Not sure if that will help to prevent this in the future.
In my case they were able to gain access to my Teamviewer account.
I had read about that teamviewer account hack a while back. You can lock down teamviewer so it only accepts incoming connections from specific computers. That's what I started doing after hearing about that hack. I know it isn't exactly relevant to this discussion but thought I would throw it out there. |
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I lost more than 88000USD in less than a year. Now i get nothing and my contracts are zero out  Yikes. Did you hold your mined coins? If so, keep holding, you may yet make something. Generally speaking, cloud mining is the biggest scam going in the cryptocurrency space. I always buy my own hardware and then resell when it gets near end of life. |
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I may be awfully wrong, but from the first look and what I understand you seem to use a Bitcoin miner on an altcoin multipool.
The pool already suggests some miners. Please make sure the miner you use is for the algorithm / coin you actually try to mine.
It doesn't drop any life signs at all, it doesn't show speed, WU=0/0 Why? What hardware are you using to mine? It appears not to see any devices (CPU, GPU, Asic). What does it say when it first starts? That would be where I would expect it to state what hardware it had discovered. There are so many versions of cgminer written for so many different devices and algorithms, without knowing what you are trying to use and what your command line looks like you really haven't provided enough info to see what the issue is. |
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I wouldn't be surprised if his "business" is some sort of "church" or "charity" Has to be that. Only place or people that would "forgive" him and then throw money at him for repenting like that. Has to be some sheeple in a church ready for a fleecing. No other way anyone sane would do business with him now. Where's that young pastor that got roped in for half a mil, wow completely forgotten his name. Even had live video shows. Matt something? Only way possible one can get large sums of money while being a convict. The more heinous the better the bigger the tears for forgiveness the more the money rolls in  Didn't they already create some scam charity or church like setup early on? Totally this is it, Homero's next big heist, seances to the the Almighty above through used glass dildos. His whole religious affiliation thing is a sham. As I recall, he and his wife were listed on their church's website as giving some talk about how to have a successful marriage or some shit in the very midst of his scamming. He's been claiming to be a jebus freak all along while simultaneously lying and scamming people and cheating on his wife. Anyway, glad to see the shitbag got actual prison time. The very least he deserves. Too bad carlos the drunkard isn't getting some too. |
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Anyone opened up the miner to look at the boards? I'm curious if there are markings on the weak hashing boards to indicate some sort of difference and that bitmain knew something about them. Seems very coincidental that so many of these batch 2 miners have 1 weak board.
So because you cant OVERCLOCK one board as much as the others you are jumping right to a conspiracy theory that bitmain is doing things on purpose? The boards are not weak, they hash just fine at the factory speeds. There is NO guarantee of overclockability, you should be thanking bitmain for putting out a unit that can overclock by 40-60% in the first place. They only promised 10k sols out of the device.... Seems like maybe you projected a whole bunch of shit I didn't say into what I actually said. |
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Anyone opened up the miner to look at the boards? I'm curious if there are markings on the weak hashing boards to indicate some sort of difference and that bitmain knew something about them. Seems very coincidental that so many of these batch 2 miners have 1 weak board.
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Just so we are clear, you realize that is the Z9 full size you are talking about right? The mini has a different firmware. Regardless, I would guess OCing the full size will be a matter of figuring out which files to manually edit. Yes, I understand that. I was replying to the question of if the full size Z9 could be overclocked without modifying the firmware. Yeah I thought you might be actually but I wasn't sure since the start of that quoted conversation portion started with talking about OC'ing the mini. Carry on friend! |
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Just so we are clear, you realize that is the Z9 full size you are talking about right? The mini has a different firmware. Regardless, I would guess OCing the full size will be a matter of figuring out which files to manually edit. |
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At the moment anyway it's a bit hit or miss no matter what. I had a brokerage fee through UPS on the first Z9 mini and none on the second one which arrived a couple days ago, also via UPS. Both from China for whatever that is worth.
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Just edit the cgminer.conf file and set whatever freq you want.
What directory is this file in? After editing the file, do I restart the miner? My batch 1 Z9's made it really easy to change the freq from the drop down under advanced config, these batch 2 miners, at least the ones I got, only shows "balanced" under advanced config, so they are hashing at 50% less than my batch 1 Z9's. That whole "balanced" option thing appears to be a different firmware that only some of the batch 2 miners came with. The cgminer.conf change I am referring to is something I have done on the old firmware so I don't know if it will work on the new one or not. Somewhere around here though I saw a link someone posted about getting around that limit on that new firmware version, you may want to look for that if the cgminer.conf thing doesn't work on that version of the firmware. The cgminer.conf file is in the config folder on the old firmware version. You do have to restart cgminer after the change for it to take effect. You can do /etc/init.d/cgminer.sh restart or you can just go to the miner configuration tab in the GUI and hit "save&apply" without changing anything and that will do it too. |
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I get my z9 mini in a couple of days. I only have not the orginal Bitmain psu. Do I really need the psu of Bitmain or can I use my 1000 watt quit psu (6+8 pins) ?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4404847.0;topicseen Pick this thread up buddy we have been talking on this thread for 2 months now about pools and clocking the z9 mini Yeah I read the whole topic (30 page's a lott of pages) but I saw never if I could mine with a other PSU then the orginal Has anybody the answer ? There is no original PSU as it does not come with one. So whatever PSU has enough wattage is fine. I ran my batch 1 on a corsair 750 for the past month but right now I have two of them running from an EVGA 1600. As long as you have enough wattage and 4 x 6-pin PCIe connectors that's all you need. |
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My 2 latest z9s will not do 750. faults
I have the batch one at 756 and it's getting 16.4 ksol. How did you get up to 756? my batch 1 only lists a maximum of 750. Just edit the cgminer.conf file and set whatever freq you want. I tried higher but had to lower it since the higher values either weren't stable or produced a lower hashrate. Eventually I settled on 756 as the sweet spot for this unit. As others have said about their batch 2 miners, the third board on my batch 2 miner just doesn't handle OC very well. The other two boards seem to do fine with the higher numbers but that third one either doesn't hash at all or does so very poorly. I have to limit the OC on the whole thing to accommodate that board. |
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My 2 latest z9s will not do 750. faults
Same. My new one will do 712 though, so that's decent. I get 15.5 out of this one. My batch 1 unit does better. I have the batch one at 756 and it's getting 16.4 ksol. |
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Maybe we can tell the government we are farmers (farming cryptos) and we can get some of those sweet government handouts that they are going to give the farmers to offset their losses from the new tariffs of the trade war.
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So are we great again now?
Except this isn't a trump thing... that classification grouping pre-dates trump... and the rate is specified as 2.6%. -j Weird. Out of somewhere close to 20 orders made over the years I have only ever been assessed a brokerage fee for two of them and one of them I actually got them to reverse. The only one I ever paid and didn't protest was the one on my batch 1 Z9-mini. The one that arrived today had no fee. All shipped through UPS I should add. The ruling on "antminers" classification was June 8th -- but that's just standard processes, I think... somehow or another it came to their attention to look at in more detail. The quote and apparent calculations of 25% is def. wrong as best I can tell with the current information. Mine are Z9s so I'm expecting to deal with this next week, hopefully by not having to deal with it at all. I just know at 3 Z9s * 25%, I'll fight any way I can to validate the classification -- 2.6% I'd rather not pay, but it is tolerable at least. The new tariffs went into effect at the beginning of August. It was 2.6% in June, it's 25% now: https://twitter.com/USTradeRep/status/1026936085434327040https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2018/august/ustr-finalizes-second-tranchehttps://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/enforcement/301Investigations/Final%20Second%20Tranche.pdfI'm confused. Are we great again or not? |
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So are we great again now?
Except this isn't a trump thing... that classification grouping pre-dates trump... and the rate is specified as 2.6%. -j Weird. Out of somewhere close to 20 orders made over the years I have only ever been assessed a brokerage fee for two of them and one of them I actually got them to reverse. The only one I ever paid and didn't protest was the one on my batch 1 Z9-mini. The one that arrived today had no fee. All shipped through UPS I should add. |
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So are we great again now?
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I just got a text message from UPS about import duties. I am in Texas, USA.
The are charging me 367.87 !!!!
This is the breakdown:
IMPORT CHARGES
NOTE: the total value used for calculation of all Duty-based fees is 0.00.
Government Charges: 356.87
Brokerage Charges: 11.00
Freight Charges: 0.00
356.87 / 1400 (2 Z9 minis at $600 each + shipping fees) = about 25%
Looks like US folks are getting hit with the new Trump tariffs on Chinese goods.
Ugh. Is anyone facing the same issue?
Same in NJ. That's fucked. Does it say anything on the UPS tracking page? UPS doesn't have my info to text me about it but the tracking says I should receive mine today. The batch 1 miner had something like a $60 fee but it mentioned a fee being due on the UPS tracking page, although not the amount. This one does not mention a fee on the tracking page so I am hoping I dodged it. Did you order one or multiple? Maybe 1 is below the threshold where the customs fee is applied? I ordered 2 with DHL and I had no import fees. Weird that just using a different company gets you out of paying those fees. Well to be sure it has always been basically random as to whether or not UPS charges a brokerage fee. Sometimes they assess one and sometimes they don't and who can say why? |
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