Setting up a store page on the BTC Guild website right now (only visible to me for now).
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If all goes well, expect orders to be opened up on Friday for the first 100 units.
Can't wait to see the store. |
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Buying ASIC miners goes against the common good. It give an individual the upper hand for a while until most miners upgrade to ASIC. By that time, a 5Ghps miner will give the same a amount of bitcoins as a 200Mhps GPU miner gave 6 month before.
In the long term, we all loose and the only winners are the ASIC manufacturers.
This is a fine example how group behavior eventually goes against the common good.
But I guess it's too late for that now... the hash rate snow ball is rolling faster and getting bigger by the minute.
It depends on what your personal goal is. If you want to be a big time miner and mine more than everyone else and rake in big profits then you need to pay the price by investing in that mining hardware no matter what it is at the time. If you want to mine to contribute hash's to the network for the sake of Bitcoin then ASIC's are the way to go since they consume a fraction of the power of CPU/GPU's and create less waste heat and they can be had for a cheaper price than GPU's, unless, you want to be a big time miner, that is. Hash rate is irrelevant, it really is. So pick, your own personal good or the good of the network. I've made my choice. I could really care less about being the big dog on the network. Attempting to be the big dog by trying to stop hardware improvements helps no one and, as you stated, is impossible at this point. Sam |
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Damn!  Thanks a lot  No problem |
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Each line is .bat file is a new command. CGMiner and all command line arguments need to be one line. Such as cgminer --failover-only -o stratum+tcp://coinotron.com:3333 -u user -p pass -o http://mint.bitminter.com:8332 -u user -p pass |
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got it
how do you mine with it? With CGMiner 3.2.1+ |
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Nothing set in stone yet guys, just trying to gauge interest before I place an order. I'm mostly interested in them as a way to experiment with ASIC mining [since I bet I'd get them before my Batch 2 ships], as well as be able to help people who have problems setting them up. However, it looks like I won't have a problem reselling them at reasonable prices with smaller orders.
I've been very happy with CGMiner 3.2.1 on my Win7 mining rig. I have had trouble with running multiple instances on multiple pools but if I mine them all on one pool everything runs flawlessly. They are fun to experiment with. And the blinky lights are very nice Sam |
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Merely FYI. I like this calculator: http://www.coinish.com/calc/#With the new cost of 1btc per unit, looks to me like the profit at twelve months will be between -$35 and -$60 USD. (It all depends on your difficulty rate of increase assumption.) IOWs, you might make back about half of what you paid with twelve months of 100% efficiency mining. If you start mining on it *today*. Well a calculator is a useful tool, but is not reality. Only time will tell if they are a good deal or not. Also we have no idea how long they will last, nor what will happen to BTC prices. I got 2+ years out of my GPU's mining 24/7. Block Erupters make allot less noise, heat not to mention use allot less electricity. So I plan on mining these for years, if they last that long. Sam |
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Just out of curiosity, are any of the US-based Guild miners interested? Price would be 1.01 BTC per ASICMINER USB (~330 MH/s).
Sure, I'll take 6 more at that price. Sam |
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I understand the math.
Increasing difficulty in stratum increases hw error % across the board for me.
It's slight, but it's there.
Didn't mean to imply you didn't understand, sorry. What is your "slight" increased rate? from what to what? Calculating Diff1 shares won't be exact so there will be slop in how many diff1 you would have submitted if you weren't using higher difficulty. Sam |
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I have 2 Lancelots and first I tried setting up bitminter couldn't get it so I tried to follow a couple u tube videos but there not for dummies like me. Help
I don't know anything about FPGA's. You could download CGMiner and read the FPGA Readme file that comes with it. CGMiner is fairly easy to setup. |
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Can someone help me I'm new to mining been trying all day to get this setup.
I lack access I guess?
Well, what are you trying to setup? |
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I just got a hd 6670 and installed catalyst. Cgminer won't start. I then added app sdk 2.8, same result. I'm at a loss :/
Q: Which AMD SDK is the best for cgminer? A: At the moment, versions 2.4 and 2.5 work the best for R5xxx and R6xxx GPUS. SDK 2.6 or 2.7 works best for R7xxx. SDK 2.8 is known to have many problems. If you are need to use the 2.6+ SDK or R7xxx or later, the phatk kernel will perform poorly, while the diablo or my custom modified poclbm kernel are optimised for it. Q: Which AMD driver is the best? A: Unfortunately AMD has a history of having quite a few releases with issues when it comes to mining, either in terms of breaking mining, increasing CPU usage or very low hashrates. Only experimentation can tell you for sure, but some good releases were 11.6, 11.12, 12.4 and 12.8. Note that older cards may not work with the newer drivers. |
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Im using difficulty 128 , HW values seem high . Any feedback would be helpful , I will be moving my hardware to a PI today.  Higher difficulty threw more errors in my testing. Don't know why Because you need to convert your shares to Diff1 to calculate HW errors correctly. Thanks for the feedback. So the way I read that is HW/(A*Diff) which is 115/(200*128) = 0.0044921875 = .449% Seems pretty good to me. Sam |
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Minor cosmetic change: Hall of Fame Rankings no longer show miners that haven't submitted a single share in the last hour, which drastically increased how fast that page loads [and reduced the load of a script, yay!].
Now if we(I) could only see the page to admire your handiwork. I would have thought that the attacker would have gotten bored by now. Surprised you would have a problem with Under Attack mode [all my phones/tablets/computers pass the checks]. I did turn it off just now, forgot to do so when I woke up this morning. Sorry! I guess the page requires java script. I have that disabled. |
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Minor cosmetic change: Hall of Fame Rankings no longer show miners that haven't submitted a single share in the last hour, which drastically increased how fast that page loads [and reduced the load of a script, yay!].
Now if we(I) could only see the page to admire your handiwork. I would have thought that the attacker would have gotten bored by now. |
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Im using difficulty 128 , HW values seem high . Any feedback would be helpful , I will be moving my hardware to a PI today.  Higher difficulty threw more errors in my testing. Don't know why Because you need to convert your shares to Diff1 to calculate HW errors correctly. |
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Seems like the NMC-bonus is mostly interesting for high MHash/s-miners. Too bad.
Or long term miners. I set my payout to 1NMC and set the address to graet's. He can worry about the conversion . |
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-d 0 --remove-disabled this does not work.. anybody else have this working properly?
It worked for me with 2.10.4 |
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How do I use CGminer to ONLY mine using my ASIC? I have block eruptors plugged in and I get an INSANE error log while my Jalapeno, and 2 GPU's are mining. I want it to STOP mining using my GPU's and STOP trying to connect to the Block eruptors.
Use CGMiner-nogpu. Block Erupters are ASIC's too. If they are getting errors try putting some fans on them and use the WinUSB driver like it says. If you don't want to use the Block Erupters then unplug them from your USB ports. |
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Mining officially sucks. It is just a rich person game now. Goes against everything Bitcoin stands for. Feel so suckered, glad I only bought 2 ASIC miner blades. They can rot in hell with their greedy overpriced crap.
Cry me a river. I'm really tired of this cry baby attitude. With two ASIC Miner Blades you have more hash rate than I do and maybe more than I ever will. So in the bitcoin world that makes you rich if you ask me. I'm sure you could sell your blades for a profit and move on to something else that's within your tolerance level. |
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