i'm preparing/already have other sources of income, since i like mining the places where is do things have always "mining" in mind so when/if the next scam POW pump happens, I'll be ready to scale up again.

this mining thing is not constant it comes in ebbs and flows. agility and flexibility is key.

there is a person whom i haven't met in years, asking how to send BTC to a scam ponzi of some type, they told me it is just a small amount of money they are willing to gamble on and lost that money..........i said to my self.. "the top is near or it already topped" LOLOL

you know if he still have his two master nodes?. Or did he finally give up and sell in the face of falling prices?

I always thought he was a good guy who helped those who had any problem on the board. Wherever he is, I hope he does well.

He doesn't post here anymore, but he does post in the Dash Discord from time to time under the moniker Anonysuom#6766. 

Check out his post history, he is "legendary" because he helps people build rigs. No reason to believe he has any more grasp of the theory of cryptocurrencies than his, erm, porcelain throne. If he weren't a coward looking to stir up shit he'd respond to my very reasonable questions instead of picking fights with bystanders.

As a casual observer not affiliated with the project in anyway I have to say that Kaspa is one of the most promising projects I've come across in my 5 years of exploring crypto. There is a sea of crap out there so it's refreshing to find a project that offers not only unique tech but also strives to uphold the OG philosophical roots of crypto, keeping things as decentralized as possible. I came across the work of daglabs from a coindesk article written in 2018 and was intrigued enough to follow their research and development  to the eventual launching of Kaspa. If it's a con it's a really, really, really, long con... "Kaspa is a community project, completely open source, no central governance, no biz model. The mainnet was openly launched without premining or any other preallocation of coins." There was no premine if you did even a little research you would find that the devs try to keep everything as transparent as possible with the community. Will it make folks money? No one can know that for sure but so far things are looking great IMO.

Will it make folks money? No one can know that for sure

qwizzy was right. You are a great leading indicator of the future of Dash.

When yo wrote it was less than $ 120 and in a few hours we are more than $ 140

Thanks and best regards

yes they did.

My choice was buy

7x A5000
2x A2000
7x A4000. get them by Friday the 7th of Jan

or wait for 36 x a2000 get them by 7th of March.

just about 29000 usd for get the gear now and hash rate of  1200mh

or wait 2 months and get hash rate of 1440mh cost of 23000. on paper waiting was a tiny bit better. but sometimes a bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush.

Took the gear now. we will be at 9gh by next Monday.

Those youtubers are evil, most of them work with scammers and scalpers.

Anyway, enjoy the last bulltrap, because after that the only thing certain is hehell, misery and death for eternity concerning mining if eth goes to pos. You trolls have no idea how many gpus are in ethash right now, where that hashrate will go? nowhere, people will stop mining and sell their 6x msrp overpriced gpus they bought at huge discount of 80% or more because it will be millions of gpus to be sold and nobody to buy because there will be no profit, the 0.1% of miners that will stay/survive, will mine ravecoin and other pow coins at negative profit till next bullrun and dont expect those pow coins to be as profitable as eth next bullrun and i'm not even sure if any of them will be pumped next bullrun, scammers love pumping new coins, lots of tokens created from thin air in few months gone up to such extent that showed scammers that is the way to go, aggressive marketing to get sheeps/idiots in their project then wait bullrun end and then dump/kill that token and then next bullrun create new token, hype, market it and then scam sheeps again, rinse and repeat.

If you can't do some troubleshooting then don't build rigs yourself, even the best B250 pro motherboard can give bad signs at times, you need to know some basics about motherboard if you want to be a miner for example changing CMOS battery, finding faulty ram sticks, changing settings in bios etc this are just normal things to know

Cooling strategy depends on which country you are living in, right now it's harmattan season in my country and I'm using my GPUs mining rigs to warm my body, my GPUs hardly reach 50°C   I'm so happy about this result even my RTX 3070ti are all doing so well, you will be fine with whatever cooling design you go with mate cos I have a friend that uses A/C in is mining farm since last year no single GPU dead so far

The GA-970A-DS3P has been a good choice for many miners for many years. Very cheap components and no BIOS settings, works out of the box. Serves excellently for over 5 years.
Only specialized motherboards for mining are better than this motherboard.
Used such motherboards are sold after 4-5 years of mining, and may have problems in the form of broken ports, etc. I do not recommend buying without checking.

You know it won't, if eth price is unchanged and it stays sideways for the next 2 years then because of difficulty, profit will always go lower and lower till we hit that x where farms are not profiting anymore and by then anybody with higher than their electrical cost are out of the game but it depends on many things, I guess only farms with eth asics will survive and make some profit because they are the most efficient per kwh x mhs and those farms will push profit lower and lower because they can. That is if eth does not go pos next 2 years, mining now is a dangerous game because hardware is expensive and the future is uncertain.

Anyway, the truth here is only scammers are earning good money in this bullmarket, scammers create a new scamcoin everyday, market and hype it, sheeps then try to get into close to the top of the pyramid scheme as fast as they can so they can lure other sheeps and slaughter them, rinse and repeat every cycle.

About the market, the same thing will happen this time, will be no different than 2011, 2014 or 2018, crypto is a very high risk market, nobody wants to hold the bag once things go south because selling high and buying very low is the way to go to increase your money next bullscamrun, reason why people are not selling yet their btc or eth is because they still believe there will a last bulltrap and I'm one of them, many coins have been bleeding no stopping since may and others since september 2021, meaning they are not buying them and are concentrating on eth and btc and some other top 10 coins on that last bulltrap that is coming, 99% of coins will not rise much in value if btc and eth prices rise 40% and the reason is history, in 2018 everything rose with btc and eth, and everything crashed faster than btc and eth to record low, people will not make the same mistakes they have done in 2018, so I think only top 10 coins will have a dramatic rise on the last bulltrap, everything else will see a minor rise and once eth and btc starts crashing from top then those coins will be liquidated very fast to another record low, that is when bear market will be upon us, manipulators have one more card to throw then gameover and they know it. So my advice is, dont buy altcoins other than ravecoin, rvn halving is approaching, that can have a dramatic increase too and then a huge crash after the halving hype, rvn have been bleeding since its top which was $0.30 and now is around $0.08, use extreme caution when dealing with altcoins.

About mining, if you have gpus keep mining, no point buying or selling gpus right now, expect the hehell crash then sell gpus first sight hehell crash is upon us, trust me you will still get a good value for them if you act fast and remember if eth devs are really merging eth1 + eth2 in july 2022 then gameover, mining is done for a long time, till we see something in the horizon next 3 years or so, profit will be negative, just like it was from november 2018 to july 2020. Even if eth devs dont merge in july 2022 then expect negative profits too for a long time, no place to run here but will be less felt and dramatic  than if the merger happens. If the merger happens then will be death everywhere, the extension of the pain, misery will be the worst seen in mining, if you think 2014 and 2018 was bad, the magnitude of that will be 100 times worse than 2014 or 2018. So extreme caution here is necessary if you value your financial life.

I have changed the thermal pads today, I dont mine with my 2 x evga 3080, so I never bothered about changing it, since my deep learning software dont use memory aggressive like eth, these gpus i bought back in february for $900 each, so evga was still using bad thermal pads, many people who bought old cards need to change if they want to use aggressive memory overclocks.

EVGA 3080 ftw3 needs both 1mm and 1.5mm, combine them into a 2.5mm and use it on the memory, vrm and mosfests can be used the same ones that came with the gpu as there is no need to cool them down more than it was already done by evga pads, so no need to spend money on that and buy a 15kw for it, if somebody wants a little better memory temps 3mm for the back is also good too if you place a fan on the backplate of the gpu. I used gelid 15wk, https://www.amazon.com/Gelid-Solutions-GP-Ultimate-90x50x0-5mm-TP-GP04/dp/B0824ZMJLY?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1

This https://www.amazon.com/Thermalright-85x45x2-5mm-Conductive-Resistance-Silicone/dp/B094Z9TLJ7 is a better alternative and it has at 2.5mm however it is at 12.5kw, little less effective than the gelid 15kw however its price cant be beaten and as gelid has no 2.5mm, so this product is a lot better in value.

End result mining eth
before padding,  memory 106 - 110c,
after padding, memory 74c - 80c

Yeah, you need a bit of patience. I spent 4 hours on both gpus. Anyway now if I want I can mine memory intensive algos, will keep them on imaging and deep learning for now, actually changing thermal pads was fun.