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Yep. To date I have had a policy: I would never buy a bitcoin with dollars, only as payment for the results of my work.
Yes, kind of Rand-ish and stupid but there it is. Odd.
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I am actually, seriously considering buying my first bitcoin......
Hm....
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Stock voltage should be fine. At this point there is not a lot to be gained banging on the Neptunes. Hash rates and such are gotten by using the APIs from BFGMiner.
C
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Hm. A good rule would be to start at 50% of full power. Chips tend to run fairly efficient until the avalanche effect happens with the transistors. At that point heat goes up and efficiency goes down. So try 300mhz on all dies (this is a neptune) and see how it runs.
Now that it is getting cold in the N. Hemisphere, an added benefit could be extra heat, so there is that...
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As the first mention already said, they only reply to every 3rd email. Give us the info so we can buy new controllers, even though the rig is still under warranty. Just reply in a very timely manner, like the rest of the world that knows what customer service is. Miners make the most money when you first buy them, so not letting us fix our own rigs, is seriously costly. Even when we are happy to pay, even thought he rig is under warranty, still no reply.
I get it, but this seems to be a common thread with mining companies. Even Ant is getting more grumbling these days, if they would just release schematics and some notes it would go a long way towards people being able to service the miners. But they don't, which is weird. I don't own any inno stuff, are the controllers proprietary? |
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Ya, Feel free to contact them, but don't expect an answer. They only answer every third email, unless your buying a new rig. But if you need to order parts because the controller got hot, or some other reason, they're busy now making big money selling rigs, they can't be bothered with little things, like keeping your rig running after you buy it.
Hm. Let them know I'd be happy to help, I'm not free (well, information is free, service is money) but fair. |
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In the meantime, all caught up on repairs for the moment, taking a breather before the next batch arrives.
Got my first real return; this was one I fixed about a year ago; at the time it had burned out drivers so I fixed those and had all four dies running. Came back "not working" along with a couple of new cube repairs so I took a good look at it.
The entire power plug was burned to a crisp. The plastic had been broken off and it was six burned power pins. Drivers were ok oddly enough but it had a pin 8 short (8 ohms) and burn marks on the back. Checked the signal lines to the chip and sure enough; one of the lines was dead so I isolated it, put a new plug on it and cleaned out the insect parts under the power supplies with alcohol and Q-tips.
3 dies running, cause of death was running it way too hard. Please keep the hashing speed on these things at around 1,000mhz per board. That would be 250mhz per die (275 maybe) with 4 dies, 300 with 3 dies. Anything more really damages the connectors and can short out a die or the whole cube.
Hope this is a useful tidbit.
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John lost his marbles a long time ago. At this point I would not trust him to park my car.
He's kind of like Pournelle was in the 80's. I'd recommend not trying to live in his world.
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This is amazing. This is actually some people doing groceries. I can't look away. Boobs. But kind of stupid. |
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Or find a couple of Sidehack's 2PAC usb stickminers... about 12GHs on standard USB power of 5v 500ma or 2.5W... Still only good enough for solo Lottery mining but beats the pants off of MHs speeds...
Odds are BFGminer might still support them, I know it ran my 10GHs BFL Jala's.
Oh yes, 30GH, not MH. Man it's been awhile. The cool thing about the Chili if I recall was that the code could monitor each chip's temp and distributed the work to all the chips instead of the engines on each chip. Faster, really cool hack, but was obsolete in a year. Still have one, got it for .7 BTC if I recall. Don't really see stuff like this anymore, Ant owns the shop. |
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Back up to 3650 or so. See, things are not all bad.
I shat myself a little this morning. Not sure I'm totally out of the woods yet. I'll keep y'all posted. Why? You probably got your stash at 40. Fine, you won't be buying his and hers Ferraris, you'll have to settle for Teslas. People envy you. Women wish to mate with you. You have Bitcoin... |
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Back up to 3650 or so. See, things are not all bad.
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Well there's a lot of info, but these were great in their day, not so much now. Basically they take 5w of power to make 1mh of hash, 30mh per board, for that same 150 watts you can get about 1gh using a .15w/gh s9 or whatever.
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This is a nightmare.  Naah....  |
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Haven't looked at Ethereum, but man Litecoin is getting creamed. Down over 50%.
Ah well. Glad I cashed out enough to cover supplies and taxes. For the rest I'll just sit back and watch.
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Eh, big deal. Wake me when it drops below $600.
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That's crazy, you should do it the JJG way. Project your expenses 6 months from now and then sell at the top so you don't have to sell during a "lillie dip". How hard is that? If you don't have perfect market timing then you must be "overly invested".  Or just put him on ignore. He is the first and only person I've ever ignored and it is blissful. So arrogant and loves to see himself type. Eh, whatever works. I've sold bits at insanely high prices, sold at low prices (remember when it was $600 or so). Probably averages out, and since I do FIFO accounting the CG taxes or losses are minimal. Besides, when coin values go up lots of people send me stuff to fix. When they go down not so much. Which is odd since I am charging in coin not money per se, so it should be relative..... |
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Had to sell a bit to cover Q3 taxes and equipment. I hate selling on a dip, drat....
A sign of being overly invested.. in other words, you do not have your expenses projected out on a long enough timeline in order to provide you a large enough float.. whether that float needs to be $1k or $10k or $20k is something for you to determine ( but seems like you don't quite have it down, yet). I tend to project my expenses out a minimum of 6 months and frequently into the 18months or more timeline... so a lillie dip like this (and only for about 2 weeks) has not been going on long enough to cause anything close to cash flow pressures - Sure, if it goes on for 6 months or it goes down another 50%, then that could be another story for me, and I would want to start adjusting now for what could happen 6 months from now so I am not selling at the bottom, if that were the case. Incorrect. I run a business here, one that needs to pay for itself first. If I were to pay for things using pocket money then I would be essentially investing that in bitcoin, which is not my intent. Therefore when I have to buy supplies I batch withdraw some bitcoin and note it in the ledger. Same with taxes and such. Besides this little dip is in the middle of the most amazing run ever. I don't try to time the market, I let the chips fall where they may. |
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Chase Paymentech, or more formally JP Morgan Chase Paymentech has a vested interest in the status quo. You know, the easily hackable Equicracks status quo.
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