ATH in price is only one side of the coin. the other is market cap.

in 2013 the market cap was ~12B at its peak, and litecoin was less than $100M.

today bitcoin is almost $19B, and the next 5 top coins have a combined $2B.

cryptocurrency as an entire sector is up 8 *BILLION* dollars, or ~66% since the 2013 peak.

if i recall, that sale was in early 2014 when price was around $750/BTC

Thats like asking how many valuables you should have in your house before you buy a safe to put them in.

IMO the trezor is excellent. even if you only have 1 BTC, the trezor is a simple and secure way to store and spend it (or add more coins to in the future)

pretty sure philip or someone else figured out how to control the fan speeds (though IIRC it needed a VRM and some DIY wiring) - but i think the default fans had gpu temps <60C, so they could probably be slowed down or replaced with slower fans and still keep the cards cool

am i missing something - how are you turning your 230V AC into 230V DC for the chips?

you could easily take that photo, then switch in a brick before mailing. (at least thats the buyers scam argument)

responded. as mentioned EU shipping can be costly, but packages under 2kg are "small packet".

32pcs of 24" cable (leads or pcie-pcie) should just squeak under the limit, with ground shipping at ~$40, and air at $~65.   Otherwise >2kg packages start ground shipping around $60 and up.

doesnt it? the antminer UI has a "foundblocks" column (at least on most of the miners) where it would indicate if you had any success.  that said, if "solomining" through antpool it might not function correctly.

also, it only records that stat for its uptime. if it finds a block, and later the miner restarts itself, it will drop the stat back to '0'

^hes saying the buyer can claim the box with the same serial number arrived, but was empty.

ie: you ship me a gpu i bought via ebay/paypal. it arrives but the box is empty, except for a 2lb paperweight (about what the gpu would have weighed). i send ebay/paypal a photo of the paperweight sitting inside a box that has the advertised serial number. clearly you shipped the advertised box, but theres no way to prove that it contained a gpu and not a paperweight

the amount of tritium in a small glow rod is negligible - there are many other items in your house that emit more radiation (such as a smoke alarm, or radon gas)

i think a lot are selling thier gpus now, because profits are falling and gpus that seemed like a great investment when they made $3/day might be making little or no profit now, especially where power costs >$0.15/kwh

anyone paying <$0.15 is probably holding tight to their gpus. anyone paying <$0.08 is probably still buying up gpus quite happily

IMO, a few things wrong in your analysis.

1) 2x 480 might *mine* faster than a single 1080, but for gaming the 1080 (or even a 1070) would win hands down at most tests - using crossfire doesnt offer a 200% performance, its more like 150% the speed of a single card  http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/7770/amd-radeon-rx-480-crossfire-beating-geforce-gtx-1080-4k/index9.html  (tldr: CF RX480 perform weaker than the 1080 in most cases, and outperform in some games that are optimized for multiple GPUs)

generally speaking, a single GPU is bound to work great at everything, whereas crossfire (or sli) only help on games that are programmed to benefit.

2) 2x480 costs the same (or slightly more) than a 1070. The 1070 has better power consumption, and as mentioned is better for games that dont have any DX12/crossfire benefits.

3) the 980 launched over TWO years ago (end of 2014, versus its now 2017). not to mention launch pricing is always high, and drops 10-20% within the first few months. the top-of-the-line cards sell at a massive premium too as they are aimed at a hardcore crowd. the best performance/$ is always found in the mid-tier cards (the 270/280, the 970/1070, etc)

and finally, as amph mentioned the 10XX series has done an excellent job of making money since release - the 1070 made almost $20/day at lbry for a week or two. I bought mine a few days into the hype, and its made back ~80% of what i paid so far, and the card still holds ~70% of its original MSRP on kijiji/ebay

i thought you need to run different driver versions anyways?

lots of 24" cables in stock, but no splitters at the moment.

shipping to EU is possible, but more expensive than US shipping

laptop wont mine anything.

build a gpu rig or buy a bitmain asic miner

its actually about 20%. 400 vs 480w

thats just being silly. 4.9BTC bid from me out of the gates just to save everyones time

is loaded important to you? i have some redeemed 5BTC coins that might be more what you're looking for.

anything less than a 1BTC premium on the 5BTC coins is laughable - IMO 6.0-6.5BTC is a fair price in todays market for an unopened coin

i remember that was the selling point of the block erupter "300MH/s means 1 block erupter replaces a GPU!"  3-4x computing increase for GPUs in 4 yers seems pretty close to Moore's law

This system has a handful of advantages over a custom mining rig with fullsize gpus:
1) its pretty much plug-n-play, whereas a custom rig can take a several hours longer to assemble, install OS/drivers, etc even when done en masse
2) higher power density. you can stack these in a tight space (like a datacenter)
3) fans should last a long time, and are otherwise replaceable (80mm server fans i assume?)

This system isnt really for home mining. its for those who want to install a large number of GPUs where power is cheap and openrigs are not accepted (or require too much maintenance).

theres no reason why the rx480 wont remain relevant to mining (even if better cards are released) for at least 2 years. look at the fact that the 2xx series and 79xx series have both been profitable on ethereum and/or zcash over the past few months. even if the mxm cards can be upgraded, its likely most buyers wont be buying upgrades for it until 2019 or beyond (the case/mobo/cpu is only a small part of the overall unit price anyways)

MXM cards dont resell easily i imagine - so by upgrading youd be putting your rx480 cards aside to gather dust. As mentioned, i have 3 270x cards that are still turning about $0.30/day/gpu profit. I bought them in ~2014 for the litecoin boom, so its been over two years and they are still relevant

That said, i dont see why pandaminer wouldnt be able to obtain and sell upgrade boards to its customers eventually. I bet they can get the MXM cards at a good price (should be cheaper than a full GPU), tack on a bit of profit, and still sell them for cheaper than a fullsize GPU in stores.