I got a spare $1,352... No thanks man, those things are, despite being total bad asses, are loud as hell and finicky as fuck. I got one mining outside @ -5C, those things seem to like being frozen  |
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Although the difficulty has been reduced but bitcoin dropped so much. At the end, profitability drop again  True that... on personal mining... you can make that hashing power make a lot more than what the pool pays you. However, Bitcoin's / cryptos are an educated risk taker's game. It's like gold mining, even though you lease a claim with proven gold on it, don't mean you'll get any of it, if you get any at all. Claim owner ain't responsible if you go home broke, you failed to plan. Then the gold buyer takes a cut that can go up to 10%... Master Gold Mining, you'll master Bitcoin Mining a lot faster, that's a guarantee... |
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It don't matter, a PC and a Bitcoin miner is completely different. You can't use an ASIC miner to increase a PC's performance and vice versa. A Bitcoin miner would not reside within your PC, for most part anyways. You can invest in graphics cards but those aren't really feasible for mining unless you get an army of them. However, the graphics card retains a better value and can be used for gaming and video rendering but also get obsolete quite quickly. An ASIC miner has one job, perform cryptology services, nothing else... well that and make heat is a valid argument for Canadians  Essentially, when you mine Bitcoin via ASIC, the device alone does the all work, neither a PC is involved or not. The PC component (Control Board) is usually built in the miner... well, the good builders do. However if you mine via GPU then having a computer as controller is always a good idea since GPU's don't have a built in mining software. In other words, you only need a PC in ASIC mining to set up your pools and change IP / DCHP. You could even ask the builder to preset your pools and then you don't even need a PC. Other than that, most modern ASIC miners are rather hands free. My recommendation, start with an AntMiner S3 ($250 - 440GH/s), don't bother with GPU mining. If you want to spend less, try the U3, which is a USB miner which I beleive is under $100 Best of luck to you and welcome to the game  32MB of RAM.) or to my better and new PC?  What Operating System are you running with 32MB of RAM? I cannot for the life of me imagine a motherboard that can adapt for such small amount of ram... myThinkPad has 32GB RAM lol |
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I bought about $2,500 @ around $650 avg to buy 5 S1's over 3 months. That was after the price tanked on Gox. No longer need to buy Bitcoin nor ASIC miners ever Still buy some when I got loose change. |
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Look at the hash power at XPY from CoinWarz M8  There's nearly 100PH/s there and 250PH/s @ Bitcoin Hmm two difficulty reductions in a row. Could this be a trend? Difficulty History Date Difficulty Change Hash Rate
Dec 17 2014 39,457,671,307 -1.37% 282,449,013 GH/s
Dec 02 2014 40,007,470,271 -0.73% 286,384,627 GH/s
Nov 18 2014 40,300,030,328 1.76% 288,478,854 GH/s
Nov 05 2014 39,603,666,252 10.05% 283,494,086 GH/s
Oct 23 2014 35,985,640,265 2.81% 257,595,247 GH/s
Oct 09 2014 35,002,482,026 0.98% 250,557,526 GH/s
Sep 25 2014 34,661,425,924 16.20% 248,116,151 GH/s
Sep 13 2014 29,829,733,124 8.75% 213,529,547 GH/s
Aug 31 2014 27,428,630,902 15.03% 196,341,788 GH/s
Aug 19 2014 23,844,670,039 20.86% 170,686,797 GH/s
Aug 08 2014 19,729,645,941 5.30% 141,230,307 GH/s
Jul 25 2014 18,736,441,558 8.08% 134,120,673 GH/s
Jul 12 2014 17,336,316,979 3.08% 124,098,191 GH/s
Jun 29 2014 16,818,461,371 24.93% 120,391,236 GH/s
Jun 18 2014 13,462,580,115 14.51% 96,368,902 GH/s
Jun 05 2014 11,756,551,917 12.44% 84,156,677 GH/s
May 24 2014 10,455,720,138 18.10% 74,844,960 GH/s
May 12 2014 8,853,416,309 10.66% 63,375,223 GH/s
Apr 29 2014 8,000,872,136 14.64% 57,272,474 GH/s
Apr 17 2014 6,978,842,650 14.04% 49,956,502 GH/s
Apr 05 2014 6,119,726,089 22.23% 43,806,706 GH/s
Mar 24 2014 5,006,860,589 17.80% 35,840,504 GH/s
Mar 13 2014 4,250,217,920 11.39% 30,424,245 GH/s
Feb 28 2014 3,815,723,799 21.92% 27,314,015 GH/s
Feb 17 2014 3,129,573,175 19.39% 22,402,357 GH/s
Feb 05 2014 2,621,404,453 19.49% 18,764,744 GH/s
Jan 24 2014 2,193,847,870 22.59% 15,704,175 GH/s
Jan 13 2014 1,789,546,951 26.16% 12,810,076 GH/s
Jan 02 2014 1,418,481,395 20.12% 10,153,885 GH/s
Dec 21 2013 1,180,923,195 30.01% 8,453,378 GH/s
Dec 10 2013 908,350,862 28.41% 6,502,229 GH/s
Nov 29 2013 707,408,283 16.07% 5,063,826 GH/s
Nov 17 2013 609,482,680 19.29% 4,362,847 GH/s
Nov 05 2013 510,929,738 30.70% 3,657,378 GH/s
Oct 26 2013 390,928,788 46.02% 2,798,377 GH/s
Oct 16 2013 267,731,249 41.45% 1,916,495 GH/s
Oct 06 2013 189,281,249 27.19% 1,354,928 GH/s
Sep 25 2013 148,819,200 32.13% 1,065,289 GH/s
Sep 14 2013 112,628,549 29.56% 806,227 GH/s
Sep 04 2013 86,933,018 32.22% 622,291 GH/s
Aug 24 2013 65,750,060 29.40% 470,657 GH/s
Aug 13 2013 50,810,339 35.88% 363,715 GH/s
Aug 03 2013 37,392,766 19.63% 267,668 GH/s
Jul 22 2013 31,256,961 19.47% 223,746 GH/s
Jul 11 2013 26,162,876 22.63% 187,281 GH/s
Jun 29 2013 21,335,329 10.32% 152,724 GH/s
Jun 16 2013 19,339,258 23.92% 138,436 GH/s
Jun 05 2013 15,605,633 28.41% 111,709 GH/s
May 25 2013 12,153,412 8.64% 86,998 GH/s Hoping for a double digit difficulty decrease (say that 5 times fast), so I can start mining with my Surface Pro 3! Just playin', but maybe not really.  |
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Again today I'm liking that PayCoin now, looks like it's relieving some much of the excess tension in the Bitcoin network. Also looks like it will go down again, it's already set for a 1.33% decrease next time (@11AM -6GMT) too. |
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I don't buy them, just mine them.
One doesn't need a lot of hashing power to get a bunch of altcoins.
There's some valuable altcoins out there, you just don't see the value that others with more experience & knowledge do.
Also, there are coins that are little known that have great potential value; if you don't look, you'll never find.
I agree that most are not really worth anything or have any real intrinsic value.
Telling people to stop buying altcoins, that's the government's job.
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XPY is nothing more than another quick-rich scheme by Josh Garza. His GAW miners are TRASH! He's hyping up his SHITTY coin to turn investors and miners alike away from BTC and altcoins.
He will targeted and taken out!
I second that statement. Hashlets are grossly overpriced and since no one will buy them for Bitcoin, something else was needed to cover all that wall street money. People want full coins and lots of them, that's what Josh gave his clueless client base. The whole story looks fishy to me and since we only know a fraction of it, I'll hash with ma & pa coins and sit on my harvest. PayCoin was that solution because it could easily be sold, bought and trashed... just another throw away coin made by someone's popularity. It's the only reason it's at the price it is now is because the guy is well known. If any of us schmucks made one, it would be in the bottom with DevCoin; he understands the market and doesn't mind taking advantage of idiots. In contrast, imagine if Bill Gates made GatesCoin tomorrow, all his fan base would buy in and would be #1 coin too. More like a get rich scheme FOR Josh Garza... Ha! |
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One other simple approach is to use something like blockchain.info to see if the tx has been at least picked up (you can right click on the transaction and copy its transaction id - when pasting that into blockchain.info just remove the dash and 3 digits it puts on the clipboard at the end).
It wasn't showing originally in blockchain, that's why I was full of upside down question marks. What happened is I shut off the wallet right after I made payment, kinda like you would in your online banking. Too tired and didn't realize I needed to let the transaction propagate inside the network for it to work. So the Tx was held in my wallet without it having had the time to alert the network of the transaction. Or it's what makes sense in my mind... |
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Wow scary stuff Gigabit! Glad to see the confirms finally hit the Blockchain for you. Personally if I send payments using Bitcoin Core wallet, I'll leave it up and running until I get that first confirmation at least. Which miner did you spring for, if you don't mind me asking? Well I'll be a son of a gun, if it ain't ChuckBuck! It's one of those things that I needed to have had a bad experience with to remember to do it right in the future, could have been a lot worst. The miner I went for this time is a C1 because I needed some SPI cables for an S3 and they wouldn't ship just wires without a fight so I gave in. I also ordered an alternative (Swiftech) pump to try out in case the SysCooling one isn't up to my standards. Doing an entire revamp in my mine from S's to C's (or such is the plan), that's why I am in the forum a bit more asking questions. You solved my "networking kryptonite" and dogie solved my "cooling system kryptonite", so I'm that much closer to becoming a mining superhero  Nice to see ya, hope your family's still alive healthy. |
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To answer everything in one shot... Not sure if my wallet was sync'ed last night but I closed it once I sent the transaction. I normally only sync it once or twice a day because it's expensive to do so. Fatigue took its toll on me and since I pay per bandwidth, didn't want to leave my wallet run all night. So the network probably never got the query about my payment. Bitmain has now acknowledged payment. That was weird though lol Glad I didn't start downloading stuff and tampering with codes... that's ALWAYS a last ditch effort. Sometimes, less is more, just goes to show... an old gold mining mantra, again serves me well in Bitcoin. Thanks to those who helped tho, I do appreciate it Hopefully future readers will do what I did, just wait an hour or so with the client open and fully sync'ed. Well, that turned out a lot better than I expected. |
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Ok, so I followed the "open wallet waiting game" approach and left my wallet open and got 1 confirmation so far.
Thank GOD!
I normally wait a minute or so but was in a hurry last night.
I'm a mining veteran but a blockchain baby.
Never knew the wallet had to be left open for some time after a transaction... they're normally nearly instant.
Maybe I forgot to pay the miner fee this time?
Again, hurry last night so it's not impossible.
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Try entering your "sending" address to a blockchain service like blockchain.info and see where they went. I think they might be in a change address inside your wallet.
I do have a lot of addresses... No idea what my sendign address is. I know a lot more about mining than I do about the blockchain that for sure... I'll check out that guide... |
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Have you checked your sending address(es)? Are the bitcoin still on there?
The coin is no longer in my wallet and the blockchain / Bitmain sees no transaction. |
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So I sent a payment to Bitmain last night.
This morning, I get an email saying that they never got payment.
Here's what my Bitcoin QT says:
Status: 0/unconfirmed
Date: 12/14/2014 17:46
To: Bitmain 12/14/14 - 18BE1CLw5cjDn7tEGuQssiS2g9GoAMsTBf
Debit: -1.243 BTC
Transaction fee: -0.0005 BTC
Net amount: -1.2435 BTC
Transaction ID: 0c79d295ad4732b416ae8ce5744c20b72f7dab31ec7a528ac06da8d7138cf66b
0c79d295ad4732b416ae8ce5744c20b72f7dab31ec7a528ac06da8d7138cf66b-000
Unconfirmed 0 / 6 confirmations is what it says when I hover over the transaction.
Never had this happen before.
Help!
No such transaction on the Blockchain, are you synced? Yup |
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So I sent a payment to Bitmain last night.
This morning, I get an email saying that they never got payment.
Here's what my Bitcoin QT says:
Status: 0/unconfirmed
Date: 12/14/2014 17:46
To: Bitmain 12/14/14 - 18BE1CLw5cjDn7tEGuQssiS2g9GoAMsTBf
Debit: -1.243 BTC
Transaction fee: -0.0005 BTC
Net amount: -1.2435 BTC
Transaction ID: 0c79d295ad4732b416ae8ce5744c20b72f7dab31ec7a528ac06da8d7138cf66b
0c79d295ad4732b416ae8ce5744c20b72f7dab31ec7a528ac06da8d7138cf66b-000
Unconfirmed 0 / 6 confirmations is what it says when I hover over the transaction.
Never had this happen before.
Help!
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Lastly, is it possible to use a pair of 650W PSU instead of one big one?
Got lots of smaller 650W PSU's made by Corsair and SeaSonic, a high quality 1000W is a C$200 bill I don't really want right now.
Yep, it's possible. Due to lack of power I connect in parallel 2 PSU's. One is XFX 750W and another one is Antec 750W. You can buy on EBay appropriate connector. Another solution is to do connection by yourself like I did (because still waiting for this fu...ing connector to arrive from Korea). You should connect green wire from 24pin connector to both PSU's and one of black wire in same manner. I put switch between those 2 wires to start or shut-down PSU's. Than you can use PCIe rails on your C1 from both PSU's. It's work great since day 1 for me. Sorry for my english, but I hope you got idea. Best regards. As long as it's not a big no-no or would void my warranty then it's all I care about. No need to complicate anything. Both would be same power, same manufacturer and same series. Plus by now, I found a good deal on a 1000w 80Plus Platinum PSU under $200 before tax so I might buy trips whilst I can. |
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Is the cooling kit stated in OP a step above from what Bitmain offers? Plus, when BitmainTech says 3.0M Head Pressure and 450L/h flow, how far above that can I go?
Edit: Is it ok to use a pair of 650w PSU's? I guess one could power each card independently... however, I'm not 100% on that.
It is the syscooling / Bitmain kit. You can go as far above it as you want, but you'll just be wasting electricity and costing more with an expensive pump. Pair of PSUs is fine, just don't plug two into one PCB. Much Thanks dogie I was looking at a Swiftec pump kit, to at least, serve as replacement; it's slightly faster but with nearly twice the recommended head pressure. Plus I read Swiftec makes a much more reliable pump and has better service than SysCooling. Or I could even use the SysCooling pumps as backups, we'll see what happens if I bite the bullet and invest in a reliable pump. If I were you, I'd just buy two C1 cooling kits. For $50 you have an exact replica backup set of watercooling. Those 360mm radiators cost $60 in the US anyway! LOL - You're absolutely right, great idea That's a gem of a statement. I'm still gonna get Swiftec pumps, one at first to try them and compare but I'll overbuy SysCooling kits. It's true, even $60 is a good bargain for tricore rads in the US. Plus I can always put the SysCooling pumps for sale on eBay auctions, it might cover a part of the cost of the Swiftec ones If they do in fact, outclass them. All I see is horror stories right, no one comes on to complain about the good stuff.... |
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Golden Rule: Import commercially and it won't cost you anything, nearly anywhere. #Incorporation
I import commercially in Canada and I pay nothing on imports, compared to 10% if I imported privately.
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