It takes a lot of time to check bad apples scammers etc.

I run three mining locations. Small but still take time.
I build rigs for miners and support them.
I run the long alt coin mining thread.
I do reviews.
I have a small YouTube channel.
I pop in and out of threads on this site.
I do some escrow.
I sell some in marketplace here.
I spot check twenty five sites for gear.

All of the above is a one man show.
Damn list is long is it not?

I am retired or it would not be possible to do it all.

I also look for scams.

Lastly I liked the first thread about this and decided to poke my nose into it as milkz and bill gator were both bringing up good points.

About ten days ago maybe 13 I saw so many scammers on the first two pages of market place I was impressed enough to post a warning thread. Hoping to save some people grief .

Okay I should hear from him on Thur or Friday .

this  is correct.  gear should runs days on end for windows and weeks on end for linux

op is doing something wrong.



many people believe in squeezing every drop out of the cards and push clocks too much.

or some other issue  is happening.

get this one


 http://www.corsair.com/en-us/rmx-series-rm1000x-1000-watt-80-plus-gold-certified-fully-modular-psu-na-refurbished

No  I used it with 13 gpus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5zXdRMxxc

I will shoot him an email on monday.

we have not  exchanged emails  for a while

loud as fuck  it is a dec  2017   14th model.  I am holding it on the side as a buyer has  stuck funds so I told him I will wait.


Buysolar's 3 board model may be  old firmware.

I also think he has a two board with old firmware.

I am moving some gear around on Monday  I will check out exactly what  we have in s-9's

I am personally down to the 14th 2 board. and it has a dead board which may be fixable

buysolar has

 three  board  12.3 th
 two     board    8.0 th  with old firmware.  only 2 boards

Okay  I see lots of marketplace abuse with self modded threads and locked threads.

I am a well known seller on marketplace and I do self mod.

I would like to think I am not abusive of that privilege.

The problem is what is a good way to discourage abuse in the marketplace.

Ban new sellers?

I do not know if op has the best idea but at least he is trying.

yeah it is always a juggling act

gpu gear
asic gear
coins
cash
power price
power cap
heat cap
debt
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diff
coin price
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all 10 above  need to be studied and shifts made with the ones I can control.

I am :

gpu heavy
asic lite
coin lite
cash heavy right now
power price controlled
under power cap
under heat cap
0 debt

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diff
coin price
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I am prepping for dragon miners next month

and as always can not control diff and coin prices

the other 8 I have choice

As time has moved on  

I was a  5,000  dollar guy
Then  a 10,000 dollar guy
Then  a 20,000 dollar guy
Now   a 50,000 dollar guy

By Jan 2019 ?

https://www.retailmenot.com/  is good I am

Happy to say  they just sent my paypal 300 usd. 150 for each pc.

which  made a good deal  better.   2327 - 46 (cc rebate) = 2281 - 150 = 2131 net  for each one.  Not a bad price for this unit.

BTW  they raised the price about 100 usd since yesterday.

I will help here

I gave 3 to op.

I gave 1 for icalical he has a translation service post.

I will check on it time to time

it is why  I have drifted away from asics towards gpus

I still have 30k in gpu gear.

and I have  under 10k in asics.  I have 1 two board s-9  buysolar has   3 or 4 s-9s

I don't trade as I don't gamble/speculate.

With  the  set power cost  deal I have I will always profit  as long as I don't go far past the arrays power cap.

So a gpu with a 3 year warranty not pushed will last the 3 years and always earn over power cost.

Of course  my earnings   may not hit 15k a month like in dec .


I am 1181 all mine      1181
and 187    50-50            93
and 2566  50-50          1283

total = 2557  after all costs

and I left out  2 board s-9 on 50-50   that is 0.02385 btc 50 -50   a month   about 90 more

so 2656 usd a month net.

When buysolar found me and showed me his plan for the array  I realized I could   get rid of one risk in mining that is power.

We started out with  avalons and s-7s  and gear broke a lot.  S-7's  and psu's more so then avalon.

after study of cost factors.   I realized  we could shift towards gpu mining and get rid of   gear breaking issues.

Then gpus took off last year.  So I do lots of cost  risk projections and gpus  are almost always better due to solid warranty.  Plus  fans break more then any other thing and that is a cheap fix.

I like the idea of a better asic like this dragonmint but right now  at 16th and 1200 watts

my deal   would be 8000 th and 0 power  so in a year  it earns 2000 usd

that  creates  a risk for me if it breaks

for a guy like you  in a year  at 4 cent power  it nets 3600.

I used 8000  a coin with flat diff  we both know diff won't be flat and price is ?

I imagined price rise to equal diff rise.  so  the asic for you is less risky then for me.  mostly due to my power deal.

Buysolar tends  to   have a few extra  asics all to himself on the array .  While our shared miners are the gpus which I own completely.

I hesitated to buy here at first due to preorder wait which kills me math wise.

yeah  that is a good board for me.

if you can get it  post in my alt coin thread

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2674194.0

There are a few prebuilt 1080tis with two cards. At decent price.

I did a lot of math a 2400 usd gaming rig earns 7 bucks profit a day if it has 2 1080tis.

It burns about 425 watts.  Or 10kwatts a day.

It makes money sense to buy it.

Which means 1080tis make sense for miners in the 900 dollar price area.

Which means card won’t be cheap for a while.

The solar has a 20-30 year life span.

With New Jersey rules and incentives it will pay off in 3-5 years.

So at worst 15 years to 20 years of viable paid off energy.

I have six and they may or may not work.

I ran an eBay buisness with multiple accounts

The two has a third board it may or may not be repairable.

I have on offer for it and it is pending at the moment.

The third board is available and buysolar told me I can lower asking price to 1925.

I am in New Jersey. Can ship it on Monday.

Maybe a little flex on the 1925 price.

Here is the problem with removing self modded threads.  Honest sellers get fucked.

Now obviously I self mod  and I sell a lot of gear and I do right by  my buyers.

But I self mod most all my threads as people tend to shit on them.

I also quote the shit and leave it be on all my self mods except for my sale threads.

As  when I self a gpu for 20 usd above list and a moron shits on the offer I give which is 200 lower then any one any where I am deleting that shit head.

but if you look at my major information threads I quote the delete and say why I did it.



below is a sales thread I had to delete someone.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2816327.0

Do you have a good neighbor brother sister mom dad at different address?  If not it is a no go.

link.  I  only use riser free boards  what does this board look like?

looks like you have only riser style boards here.