Well, mine arrived. Pretty darned quiet and low temps, even with a bit of overclocking. I think these can climb pretty high OC wise, especially in an environment where noise isn't an issue...

So far I haven't been able to run it on any pools other than antpool, though, which sucks. 0 shares on nanopool for ZEC and suprnova pools for ZEC, ZCL, and BTG, on 10-20 minutes each, even though all three read as alive (all shares get rejected). Instant 10 shares while revving up on antpool. Guess I'll leave it there for now.

Make sure your wallet address is correct in your settings. It will match the one you're using to see your results on Nanopool. Check it against your myetherwallet address, and double check that your settings are all correct in ethOS (follow instrux on Nanopool). If you can get up to 15ETH on Nanopool, then you clearly can change your settings, so your configuration is correct, the only problem could be the wallet address, make sure that is correct.

Also note that myetherwallet, while excellent, offers many different coin settings and options and can be confusing, there are literally unlimited wallet addresses and they automatically make several of them available to you, so search around for the one you are currently using. Make sure you are using an address from the ETH section (upper right) and that you're logged in properly. If you are using myetherwallet via a hardware wallet, you can just follow the instructions they lay out.

If all else fails, switch to a pool that does not have automatic payouts and will hold your coins until you can sort it out.

Neither of those are your hashrate, both of those are specific to the pool/network. Your hashrate is below, in the section below where you enter your address and see your payouts and stuff.

Was that rate on the X3 dashboard or the mining pool website?

Also, a great site to use to get a decent (note: not exact) estimate of your earnings:

www.whattomine.com

Click the ASIC tab at the top and select the CryptoNight algo (it'll be the last one, second row). It is preset to stock hashrate and power consumption, you can enter whatever you want there and hit enter. If all the algos are highlighted, you'll need to turn off each one manually (click the algo name), if none are then just click the CryptoNight one...

I bought around $15 and sold around $30 because I needed the money for rent. Literally like a WEEK later it jumped to $150. Live and learn.

I've since bought back in at various amounts at low points, but yeah, it's one of the few investing mistakes I'm kicking myself over.

I use a wallet. I never mine directly to an exchange, I don't trust them.

Check the official site. They run a web wallet too. I use the ETN web wallet, seems to run smoothly enough, but for BCN I have a wallet from way back when I first learned to mine. Here's a link to both:

https://bytecoin.org/downloads

This right here. You just took like four short sentences to say what I spent paragraphs trying to explain.

I own stock in Tesla. Overall as a company, I like them, but they spent six months dragging their feet on my project (2 months of which was my fault, granted), until the Oregon state solar initiative, around since the 70s, expired. It would have paid out in tax rebates (note: not deductions) $1500/year for four years. Basically it made it affordable. Tesla wasn't able to complete a simple job, one which I had already paid to alter my roof to meet their requirements, the rebate expired, and now I have no solar panels. So great company, inadequate training/staff...

And ok, if you want to understand this stuff, read through what I wrote and some of what the others did, and try to ignore any attitude coming off them. The only gpu miners that are truly bitter are ones who bought during the huge inflationary point around Dec/Jan, but some do feel encrouched upon as mining becomes more and more a business and less a hobby. ASICs are a stepping stone towards centralization, or at the very least, taking the altcoin market out of the hands of the average person and turning it into an industry only the wealthy can afford to weigh into. It's understandable that there is some backlash as a result of that, but a lot of what they have to say is worthwhile information.

As for your hashrate increase, what pool were you using before and which one are you using now? Are the hashrates you're referring to the numbers in the panel or in the pool? Just curious, as there is zero reason you should see an increase in your own hashrate if nothing has been changed on your end.

As for gpu rigs, let me just say this: at average cost, you can buy 4x1070s and a mobo for the same as one X3. Currently, that isn't worthwhile, but then currently neither is the X3. However, if all your electricity was free, I would personally choose the 1070s, as I know a year from now there will still be coins I can mine with it, whereas we're down to, what? 6 coins the X3 can mine, and none of them are really longterm holders (though if you're cashing out into fiat or bitcoin regularly, that's not particularly relevant I suppose). Both a 4x1070 rig and an X3 will run at about the same electricity consumption rate, the rig probably slightly lower. Fine tuned you can shave probably about 100W off that, making it more efficient. And you can add to it and change algorithms.

The real difference, though, is lifespan. Super simply (as I'm at work), as I said before, the difficulty determines how effective your personal hashrate is and how hard it is to find a block. When a block is found, depending on your pool, that's when you get paid (there are some pools for some coins that pay for work regardless, but most pay for overall share percentage of work in finding that block). The block is worth XX amount of coins, which is split amongst the pool based on that percentage. YOUR hashrate determines how much you are contributing; it s a constant you set, and will vary while mining but ultimately over time evens out (as the pool determines what your hashrate is by how many shares you've contributed, and those vary due to many factors, but most pools are pretty close). In other words, your hashrate is a determinate of your contribution as a set amount, not a percentage of the whole. The global hashrate is how many people are contributing their hashrates to the coin, which in turn has a direct impact on how difficult (i.e., how many shares needed) finding a block becomes. So more miners=slower blocktimes=less income. And even simpler, your hashrate is more of a guideline, your actual shares determine how much and often you get paid.

So yeah, the fork and subsequent machines moving to new coins has dropped what you will earn daily. In terms of coin, that amount will likely decrease in direct correlation (algorithmically, mind, not 1:1) to the increase in global hashrate. In fiat currency (for us, USD), that is also effected by the value of the coin, but basically Bytecoin went from bringing in about $18/day to around $12/day at stock hashrates within five minutes of the ETN fork, and that daily earning will likely drop a bit more then stabilize until the next batch of X3s ships, when it will drop significantly further.

To give an example, my A3 was earning $150/day the day it arrived. Within a day it was down to $60, within a week down to $50ish, then another week or two down to $30ish, where it stayed, slowly dropping, for a while. Then another batch came out and it dropped to $10. Currently, it earns about $3/day which, after the rather large (comparatively speaking anyway) electric cost in running it, it currently loses about $.50/day to run it at $.10/kWh.  THAT's what we're all talking about. If you were buying today, the Z9 is the smartest option, and until the next batch of gpus comes out, a rig isn't all that wise unless you get a deal on a used one, but overall? Historically way more profitable, even with the larger profits ASICs CAN provide, and over time far more usable.

So, all of that in mind, some of the bitterness over the X3 and Z9 (and, to a lesser extent, the E3) is that they are targeting algos that, after SHA256, Scrypt, and X11 were devoured by ASICs, were considered to be not only ASIC proof, but specifically targeted to gpu/cpu miners. In turn, cpu miners have a similar reaction to some coins that went GPU friendly, and many asic owners will likely have issue with FPGA owners once the second wave of fpgas takes over for a bit. Then the next wave of gpus will come out, then the next wave of asics...rinse, repeat. Plus a lot of people on this board (myself NOT included) have a real issue with Bitmain as a company. So there's a lot going on in here, but what you're doing--attacking an entire branch of mining--is just pissing people off, and that's why you're getting the response you're getting. Remember that many fpga, gpu, and cpu miners, as opposed to ASIC miners, are also devs who have sunk a lot of time and money not just into their setups, but also into understanding the coding and tech side of it, and may have even developed their own coins, algos, miners (software, not hardware), etc. and have a lot more knowledge of this stuff than I do after a year of spending, daily, hours researching and maintaining my own rigs, much less someone new. It'd be like someone coming into your office or wherever you work, taking a look around, and assuming they know more than you do. It isn't personal, if you ask instead of angrily state you'll get a far more positive response around here.

Also I have owned around 8 different ASICs of different algos, and the only two I currently run are the X3 and the B3 (and as of tomorrow, the Z9). But I have 18 gpus and I have been running them non-stop for almost a year. Stick around long enough and you'll understand the benefits and drawbacks of both.

No, he's talking about you. You do not understand how global hashrates and earnings work, you do not understand how gpu mining works, and you don't seem to understand profit/loss. And all attempts to discuss it with you are met with snarky attitude and a complete blind eye to all information you are provided. All he was suggesting to me was to not waste my time trying to explain it to you, and I was going to ignore him until you posted that. So, sincerely, I wish you luck, as I also own and run an X3 and I would like it to earn for a while longer. If you would like to understand what we're talking about, though, do some research on profit/loss on the A3.

And if you still believe in the X3 so much? I'll sell you mine for $1200 right now. That's $500 less than Bitmain is selling the next batch for, and I'll even ship it UPS 2day so you'd have it by Saturday (if you live in the US).

Also, sincere props on the solar panels. If Tesla/Solar City didn't have such a shitty managerial staff, I'd have them too.

Your hashrate changing isn't related to what we are talking about. I have no idea how or why your hashrate changed, but it has nothing to do with how profitable or unprofitable a coin is in general (unless you switched to Aeon or something, in which case your hashrate change is super low, it should have doubled AFAIK). YOUR hashrate is about the algo and your hardware's settings (or the pool--if you're overclocked and were previously only earning 270, you weren't on the best pool), not the blockchain. The hashrate we are talking about is the global hashrate, which is a key factor in determining profitability, not each individual hashrate.

The point is that difficulty/reward and market value are what determine profitability (difficulty and block reward determine total coin payout, market value determines the coin itself's worth). Your hashrate determines how much you contribute and are rewarded (directly if in a pps or pplns pool, indirectly if solo mining). Your hashrate does not change based on the global hashrate (a 1.15TH S5 still mines at 1.15TH today, it just earns less than it costs in electricity now, whereas it used to earn a lot).

And your knowledge of GPU mining is also way, way off. My gpu rigs were, dollar for dollar, easily the best investment in mining I've made, and STILL earn in the $15-20/day for me, which is currently more than the X3. Yes, overall the rigs were more expensive, but they've also been running continuously for more than a year and are well past the profit point. With ASICs, unless you bought in the first round, you're lucky to break even (unless you have free electricity or the coin surges).

All of the above said, my second best investment was my L3+, and my cpu mining rigs are actually doing pretty well as well since the monero algo fork. It's all relative.

And you don't need to be so defensive about all this, feel free to ask about things you might not understand, we all learned that way (and MOST of us are friendly around here).

The work you're putting in is fantastic, and you deserve both your markup (and I appreciate how low it is) as well as your cut of the dev fee. I am game to give it a go. Depending on the final price I may be interested in as many as 8, but I'm definitely in for 1-2.

I'm not sure you know how this works? Your hashrate wouldn't change at all, it's your earnings that do as a result of difficulty...

Actually he was spot on. 50%+ of the hashrate moved to BCN.

I'm using Fairhash, they opened some ASIC specific pools for the ETN fork. I liked them for ETN and they're pretty good for BCN so far. Getting about 300kh/s poolside for 310-15 on my panel. I'm good with that.

So then include it? Good call on beertendr, by the way, they're the only pool I've found that registers my hashrate correctly and pays out accurately. I earn 3x what n3rd3d was paying out on beer.

You will also get a better hashrate if you use fireworm's version of cpuminer in case you aren't already. It can up it as much as 20%.

I'll go $150 shipped.

This.

Except for the initial $800 offering, that was based on the assumption ETH would fork. When they announced they wouldn't, the price basically tripled (2.5ish, really, but still).

Save it for facebook, boys, there's no need to fight in here.

Also if you have a $5k rig and are only making $1.75/day you're doing something very, very wrong. A rig that size should be earning at least $15-20/day AFTER electricity. Just like how the X3 will be LESS profitable after the end of the month, but it'll still earn (especially at its wattage).

Power consumptionwise? Try 4...

Can you test a completely different sd card? It may just be a bad card or a make or class that isn't working.

Also it may very well be the cable. Here are the ones I used that actually worked (went through two other sets before I found them):

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B072BXB2Y8/

Also you may want to check the odroid forums as well, their support personnel actually respond to threads there...