This is awesome, thank you! Have you tried out Kano vs Slush Pool (or antminer) to see which one is 'more lucky'?
Also, I didn't realize there were bank transfer fees. How much do you pay and any way to possible avoid
Luck isn't what you want to look at when considering pools as it comes and goes with the wind. Smaller pools like Kano have more variance, which is the reason why the month's not been so great there recently. It's better to look at their actual fees and payment methods. Slush has a ~2% flat fee on mining IIRC and Kano takes just 0.9%. Kano's always paid better for me. |
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You'll be just fine on 4GB though performance may be marginally better on 8GB with some algos. Whatever's cheapest and easily memory moddable is what you should be going for when picking cards for mining. DAG size was explained in the post above.
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This entire section of the forums is called Mining. If you take a look at just a few pages here your answer will be answered very quickly. Electrical costs and how much electricity you can access are the two most important preliminary questions when it comes to mining. Ideally you want your costs for electricity to be around or less than ten cents per kilowatt.
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Just hop on coinmarketcap and you'll find a list of exchanges that have pairs for TRX. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tron/#marketsI personally like to use Binance but their fees for withdrawal are much higher than the rest. Unless you're going to be constantly moving your coins Binance should be fine. I also use Bitfinex for trading TRX and other crypto, but you need to verify before using them unlike Binance and I know some people don't want to go through that hassle. |
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Anything around 70-80c is actually pretty decent for S9s considering how they're designed and they're capable of hashing around or over 100c for extended periods of time. 115c is their temp cutoff point, and unless you're extremely limited with ventilation you won't hit that point. A reasonable goal is under 100 and it won't impact your miners significantly.
Just recognize a basic aspect of physics: All reactions speed double every 10C. That holds for chemical reaction rates (and accounts for spontaneous combustion) as well as the lifetimes of circuits. I won't argue with the poster that an S9 can run at 100C, but its going to do so for a much shorter time. Might not be an issue if you plan on selling it in under and year (and a good reason not to buy used ones!), but if you plan on hanging onto it for awhile, I'd suggest cooler temps. I've had experience running S9s and S7s near 100 and 105 during the summer months in South Carolina, and my S9 ran at temps around 80 regularly and 100 in the summer with no hiccups for a year and a half until I sold it locally recently. I know people worry about summer temps, and it's okay if you're not going to be running the units at near 100 for longer than a few months. Most of the time when you're near those temps it's just ventilation that's the culprit, and it's not difficult to add more in most cases. Just a few large fans in and out should keep them at good temps. |
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If you can't mine at home or mine with your gear hosted at a datacenter or another hosting location, don't mine. It's simple enough. You minimize risk by mining at home or at a trusted facility, and you also have full control of where and how you are mining by doing so. GPU mining is a good place to start if you don't like the noise of ASICs, particularly BTC ASICs. I particularly dislike cloud mining for the sole reason of the fact that you do absolutely nothing and learn nothing about actually configuring a miner and troubleshooting by buying into a cloud 'miner'.
I've operated deals with forum users regarding the trading of Hashflare subscriptions in the past, and they typically took a couple hours to respond. They're probably under more load now with the crypto boom, give them some time.
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Anything around 70-80c is actually pretty decent for S9s considering how they're designed and they're capable of hashing around or over 100c for extended periods of time. 115c is their temp cutoff point, and unless you're extremely limited with ventilation you won't hit that point. A reasonable goal is under 100 and it won't impact your miners significantly.
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Just thinking about mining Litecoin Cash. How much we will get with this S9 13.5th?
I have been following this fork and it looks interesting. Supposedly it was created to give old bitcoin miners like s7's something to mine that would be profitable. Since the fork happened 2 days ago it has been mooning to over $9 as of now. But wallets are not available yet and therefore it can't be mined yet. But wallets should be ready shortly. There are only a couple of exchanges that support it at the moment like yobit and the only people that were able to sell it were litecoin holders on those exchanges when it forked and had LCC dropped into their accounts. I imagine when everyone is able to access their lcc and sell it the price will come down quite a bit. I'm just going off of memory from a form I read but I want to say someone calculated that they would be able to mine 26 LCC per day with about 60th but when everyone is able to mine the diff will jump a lot and price may come down a lot. Probably like the A3 did with siacoin. But it might be a good bet to mine it right now at least for a little bit. There's a thread on it here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2876538.0If it becomes possible for old miners to mine this coin then the chain will become more profitable than BTC, which'll just result in people pouring into Litecoin Cash and profitability becoming even once again all over the board. Unless you're early to the show I wouldn't expect much. |
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I have strong feeling that new asics and next gen gpus are just around a corner,
There's no doubt those new devices are going to come out. Development on miners has always happened and will continue to happen. Both GPUs and ASICs have their ups and downs, I prefer BTC mining myself but GPUs tend to be quieter, have decent resale rates and are more customizeable than ASICS (the S9 is loud as it's an industrial-grade miner after all). I assume you won't care about noise much though since you mention having industrial electrical access. You can mine on dial-up speeds as long as your internet is consistent. Speed hardly matters unless you're running a large operation, which I assume you won't be doing right now. In the end, if noise doesn't matter to you it's really just down to what prices you can get for either the GPUs or ASIC. |
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EBWF has worked best for me with my 1060s hashing fastest with it, though there are people that use dstm out there. Its always best to test yourself though, download whichever miners you feel are the fastest and test them for a while. You'll find out pretty quick which ones are fastest.
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Coinwarz is another mining calculator that's fairly popular and is one that covers quite a lot of coins. They've been running as long as I can remember being involved in mining, though the data they provide isn't as detailed as some other calculators.
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Has anyone received the promised cards from the Amazon, or everyone still waiting?
I've pre-ordered several other mining-related things besides cards from Amazon recently and they mostly shipped around their estimated dates. Amazon's usually pretty good with preorders unless they're very heavily backordered like with Vega a while back. |
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I typically find the BTC and Altcoin mining sections house more people with more than two brain cells than any other section. Most others are filled with spammers, but those two have been safe havens most of the time. It's a shame so many people spam, but that's just the way it's been since campaigns have existed.
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I feel like the reason could be related to how many people are coming onto the forums recently. Even campaigns paying $30 a week (like the one I previously left) are getting applications, and campaign managers accept pretty much anyone who has two brain cells and can type readable English. I'm happy to be paid at all for posting, but it is a bit disappointing that payrates for some campaigns have fallen below how much they were even a year prior.
Let's see what pans out with the merit situation. It may either peter out or become a very powerful tool to sift through the dreck out there. Even if you're a certain rank, you may not be considered without enough merit. There've always been tons of people applying. Managers will be able to be more selective and that may reflect in better pay rates for people who are accepted. I'm a bit disappointed with the merit situation as of right now, but I understand probably improve in the future. Half the campaigns in the Services section of the forum don't use Merit as some sort of criterion to accept posters at all, and some sections of the forums have very little use of merit at all like the Mining sections (and there's people out there that aren't aware what Merit is at all!). Merit was a great idea, I just wonder whether or not it'll actually succeed or if it'll flop. |
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I feel like the reason could be related to how many people are coming onto the forums recently. Even campaigns paying $30 a week (like the one I previously left) are getting applications, and campaign managers accept pretty much anyone who has two brain cells and can type readable English. I'm happy to be paid at all for posting, but it is a bit disappointing that payrates for some campaigns have fallen below how much they were even a year prior.
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GameCredits and Verge have been consistently profitable over the last couple days. I'd normally say just go for Litecoin but it's actually been less profitable than the two aforementioned coins for quite some time. I bought my first L3 in Sept, it arrived in December and I have been bouncing around mining quite a bit of coin. I used MultiPool and CoinWarz to get the best rates per day but I did find Madcoin (MDC) that seems to make a good return but it is a total $hitcoin. I mine 50 to 80 coins a day which is $18 to $30. I trade them off every few days on Crypto-Bridge for XVG or LTC
I have ordered two more L3+ Antminers and they will be shipping soon. I was wondering what everyone else is mining with their Antminers?
Wouldn't you have expected the difficulty to go down even more since they are going to ship more L3+s? They have atleast 3 batches coming in March. Why would the difficulty go down if they're shipping more miners? |
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I took a look at ledgerwallet site. It says its preorder now. First off, there is option of standard vs usp express which is 7-21 business days vs 3-5 business days. Do almost all of you get the 3-5 express business days?
I live in Pennsylvania in the US and I get those exact same options. Seems like 22.63€ for express delivery to me, which is about $28 US. If you're buying one from Amazon you run the risk of getting a compromised device. I haven't heard of too many incidents of this happening as of lately, only time I've heard of a tampered device costing the owner money was a couple months ago and from an eBay seller, but if you're looking for the most security, buy direct from the retailer or an authorized retailer like the member above you posted. |
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I have a prediction for all the naysayers. Let posit that BTC difficulty and price come to where there is basically no profit to be had. Some folks will still mine with free or almost free electricity, like Phil. But I would imagine with all this hardware out there that it would not be much more than just a firmware flash away to mine something else. Maybe that's SHA256 based or? Who knows, innovation is always driven by these kinds of events.
That's not to say buying this equipment isn't a risk. But I imagine we'll always find a use for it.
What do you mean? These machines can only mine SHA256 with the ASICs they are outfitted with (as ASICs are built to do one thing), and they can only hash SHA256 as a result and nothing else. Flashing them to mine something other than a SHA coin wouldn't work. Flashing for more algos only worked on the Baikal alt miners a while back as they were FPGA based iirc. Maybe, also maybe someone else comes out with another SHA256 coin, or maybe something we haven't thought of. Just never say never... I just find something like that exceptionally unlikely. If there were to be another SHA256 coin that comes out (happens very often), it'll likely be mineable by regular SHA ASICs, and there are plenty of algos besides SHA out there that are more popular for new coins. If you're looking into buying an S9 I wouldn't count on a miracle like this happening though, always plan for the worst. |
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I've always used the paperclip method since I began mining and rarely ran into issues with it, except for some times when I didn't fit the clips in all the way. It's cheap and simple, adequate for most of your needs unless you want something that looks neater, which is where the ATX splitter comes in.
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