Got my Feb 28th s9 today. Plugged it in and 1 board is only reading 37 asics instead of 63 ...
Try opening a ticket. Did you shake it lightly to see if a heat sink fell off? Yes, I tried that. nothing loose or making any noise. I opened a ticket and waiting for a response. The problem is having to pay $250 to ship it back to them. Fed-Ex US -> China, isn't cheap. Unless they offer to pay for the shipping. Which they should, since it was defective out of the box. But I'm not gonna hold my breath. I'll probably wind up send it to Colorado for repairs. |
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Got my Feb 28th s9 today. Plugged it in and 1 board is only reading 37 asics instead of 63 and hashing at about 100gh/s. The other 2 boards are hashing normally. Tried restarting several times with different psu's/cables and get the same result every time. Nothing's loose or rattling around. Damn Bitmain. When are you guys gonna get your act together? I'm done buying their gear.
Makes me wonder if they tossed some old chips from an s1 in there.
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I'm the owner of a mid sized solar powered company with I think a good few hundred cpus and servers. I've been wondering if there is such a software I can install on all my machines that during off business hours will start mining for me and stop during normal business hours?
Anyone know if there is a way to do so? These are all windows based.
Even though your power is free through solar, I don't think you would make enough to cover the shortened life of your equipment. Why are so many people operating under the misconception that solar power is free? It is not!In fact, it is one of the most expensive forms of electrical energy currently available barring some outrageously generous government incentives. It is alleged to prolong the life of the planet however. He said he already had solar power running his business and was looking to earn in the downtime. Not that he was buying a new solar setup. That would suggest free to me as the solar setup is already in place. And some states have pretty good incentives in place to help lessen the huge cost of a solar setup. |
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I never had a delivery from Bitmain on Monday in US, but maybe you will.
You're right. It left HK yesterday and arrived in Alaska today. FedEx sent me updated delivery for tomorrow by 10:30am. I should have my first S9, 13.5TH/s, tomorrow!!! Enjoy! S7 was the end of the line for me at home as far as loudness is concerned. S9s went straight to hosting. Mine go to the garage. until summer. Then they are going to Oregon mines for hosting. |
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I'm the owner of a mid sized solar powered company with I think a good few hundred cpus and servers. I've been wondering if there is such a software I can install on all my machines that during off business hours will start mining for me and stop during normal business hours?
Anyone know if there is a way to do so? These are all windows based.
Even though your power is free through solar, I don't think you would make enough to cover the shortened life of your equipment. |
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I never had a delivery from Bitmain on Monday in US, but maybe you will.
You're right. It left HK yesterday and arrived in Alaska today. FedEx sent me updated delivery for tomorrow by 10:30am. I should have my first S9, 13.5TH/s, tomorrow!!! Main made a brief stop in Taiwan, but is in Alaska now too. Must be on the same plane. And it looks like it cleared customs too. |
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This forum is full of scammer, but i believe there are honest gift card sellers.
Could you please name some?
Greetings asxs
What kind of Gift Cards are you looking for? If you look online you could find some reputable Companies that ask for Bitcoin and are willing to trade a Gift Card for them. Gyft.com is a very popular website that accepts Bitcoin. They have a bunch of selections that you could choose from (Gift Cards that could be used at stores like Brinker Restaurants down to Zappos.com) and I think that their list is growing each month. If you don't see a Gift Card that you want from them or if you want to resell some Gift Cards at Gyft.com then send a message to merchants@gyft.com. I've used their Gift Cards before while Bitcoin was at a lower price and they worked like they should. It seems like they sell the gift cards for the normal price. I want to get a discount on the normal price. Greetings asxs You can try ebay.com. There are deals there from time to time. |
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Block by cobramining! This is your 16th Kano block and our first of the day!  And another good size block with lots of fees! Go Kano! |
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Great Day!!
The only thing that would make it better is back to back blocks!  Come on Blocks! |
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Block!
And another Fatty to bring us back up over 100% for the month. |
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Our lucky is unstable. Is everything wrong with the Bitcoin market?
There is no such thing as stable luck. It not something you can control. The next share your machine, or my machine, or any other machine on the entire bitcoin network might be good enough to solve the block. Then again it might not. That's luck. It's the same as playing the lottery, the only control you have is how many tickets you buy. The more tickets you buy increases the chance of winning. No amount of skill, second guessing, dreaming the winning numbers, or buying it from leprechaun at the luckiest store in town guarantees the win. You are not guaranteed to win, unless you have every possible combination. You're odds of winning do not increase every week that you buy a ticket. Each drawing has it's own separate outcome and you have the exact same odds every drawing provided you have the same number of tickets. There is no cumulative effect. If your odds of winning are 100 million/1, that does not mean that if you play in 100 million drawings you will win one. You might win the first time, but you might never win. In the bitcoin world, it's how many hash your machine produces or how many the pool you joined produces. The current world wide hash rate is approximately 3,200,000,000,000,000,000 every second. That's a lot of hashes competing for the solution. But you can't win if you don't play. |
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Sure but can you tell me just how small the small miner is?
26.5 TH/s That's very close to what I run. I have been averaging ~0.6 BTC/mo figured over the last 45 days. All that said, it can vary significantly. That's before power cost. That looks like about .1 higher than Antpool. Are the "significant" variations outside .1 range? Ever had a point when you couldn't pay the electric due to these unexpected variants? Thanks! In this pool the transaction fees are included in the miner reward minus pool fee of 0.9% of the total value of the block. The antpool does not include the transaction fees. That is the difference in the payouts you get here. As always you can reasonably expect 100% everywhere you can point your miners but most places do not give you those transactions fees. On top of that, PPS pools charge around 4% so your expected earnings drop to ~96% maximum. Variance can be high here sometimes because of our small size but it is usually measured in days and not over longer time spans so it has never affected my operating costs (electricity, hosting fees, etc). I've been at the Kano pool for the past 1354 blocks and I have been able to grow my hash from about 20TH to 120TH along the way. One other note, we do not get daily payouts and most new folks can't seem to wrap their heads around that issue. We get paid by the block hit based on this explaination found on the Help/Payouts page: The block 'Status' must first reach '+101 Confirms' on the Blocks page, and then is flagged as 'Matured' before the reward is distributed.
The block reward transaction is created manually before the block matures, and sent out automatically a minute after the block matures.
The payout uses a zero fee transaction, so we will confirm it with the next block we find after the transaction is sent out. We have 3 blocks in the queue waiting to be paid out. As soon as we hit our next block, we will receive all three payouts.  Edit: corrected grammar usage... Over last 3 months our average reward (after pool fees) has been 13 BTC per block, and 12.9 BTC since the halving. That's an extra ~4% in the pockets of everyone mining here. It may not seem like much, but over the last 1000 blocks (42.5 weeks) it added 1 full BTC extra in my pocket. Pools like Antpool keep that for themselves. Yes the blocks are more frequent there, but the reward is far less. So, if you are in it for the long term, this is the place to be. |
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I read many articles about mining and it seems to be a good way to earn money, I know softwares to use for this activity like cgminer etc. But the problem is I don't really know that much about programming and stuffs, many articles say things about GPU and stuffs and I don't really understand though I know that it is a graphic processing unit. Please help me mine in any computer even with simple hardwares.
GPU mining has been dead for a long time. If you want to mine you need to buy an asic miner. The newest and most popular ones can be obtained directly from the manufacturer. https://canaan.io/ for the Avalon miners or https://www.bitmain.com/ for the Bitmain miners |
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I am tired of being angry about my bitmain gear. I use to run difficulty contest in speculation for about 2 years I gave away thousands of usd in the form of BTC not a single charge.
I am trying to come up with a guessing game about my two Bitmain r4's.
No rules looking for ideas on how to do this prize would be 25 bucks I think I would let it run from difficulty period to difficulty period.
Phil, with all you do for the community, I for one would feel bad about taking any prize for guessing what fails next on your gear and just donating it back to you if I won. I get that you trying to make lemonade from lemons and have some fun with a bad situation. Therefore, I would suggest something along the lines of the Marvel "No-Prize". I think it would be just as fun, while tossing some nostalgia in there. I mean, who wouldn't have been proud of receiving a the coveted Marvel No-Prize from Stan the Man. Maybe call it the Bitmain No Confidence Prize or some such. I think it would be just as much fun. |
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Are there really about 40K in transactions unconfirmed in the mempool, or did I see that wrong?
It might be worth suspending the pool payouts for a short time just to pick up the extra transaction fees that are out there when we find our next couple blocks. I mean, in the long run, it would put extra coin in our pocket. Just a thought.
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Over an hour since the last network block. Sure would be nice to get this one with all those fees out there!  Come on Blocks! |
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Far as I know, Bitmain Warranty is not Bitmain at all but a separate entity that got good at fixing Bitmain's stuff on their own and decided to make a business of it.
Additionally, Bitmain never sold a 335MH stick miner.
It's quite probable that I have the mh/s incorrect. It's been a while since I fired them up. They were USB miners. kinda funny though, they made me almost as much money as my r4 does today at quite a bit less cost. As for Bitmain Warranty. I just assumed they were affiliated, since they were using the same font/logo as Bitmain albeit a different color ant. |
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Charging for a repair? That's ridiculous! ITS under warranty. The real problem is with trying to run the unit with only one board is the airflow. The air takes the path of least resistance and will bypass the heatsinks if you try to take out the other board. Mine originally worked with both hash boards, but I noticed that it was only hashing on one board. So the natural thing to do is restart it....DONT! Then you have to troubleshoot the bad board and disconnect it from the hash plug to make just the one board work. They should advanced exchange a mining board on something less than 30 days old. I don't mind paying for the board and waiting for a credit, but to buy something "brand new" and have it not make it 48 hrs is ridiculous. In any other industry the company would be run in to the ground and no one would support them EVER AGAIN! Now we know why United States has laws governing too much control of an industry. Makes me sick I have to work on anything I just paid money for. Can you imagine buying a new Ferrari and the tire falls off and they say oh we are sorry, please send back your $ 300k car for a month while the value of your new car is going way down so we can do what we should have done in the first place!?  I am not happy. Bitmain needs to address this issue! I will pay the .25 btc for a hash board to be sent NOW and then when you get my defective one I ALREADY PAID FOR back then return my .25 BTC deposit. The difficulty is going thru the roof since they just disconnected all these machines and hooked up their "new in 2 months" to us machines when we pay for those machines. Does anybody else think this sounds unreasonable? any other company would advanced exchange the entire unit for a new one *but I understand BTC is a different game. They would need a deposit.... Please chime in... Boomin How about not even 4 hours. Well, I had good luck with Bitmain's stuff. I've been buying their products since the 335mh stick miners. So when I got the first R4 and it worked well, I figured I'd gamble on a second. Bitmain Warranty is and isn't Bitmain. I personally think they should be honoring Bitmain's 180 day warranty, especially if they are gonna call themselves Bitmain Warranty. The fact that I even have to pay anything to ship it back to them irks me, but I knew their terms when I gambled on it. Paying for shipping to Colorado vs Hong Kong plus the shorter downtime, might be worth it if the repair cost was cheap enough. |
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