Well you know, someone could organize a group buy.
We'd need someone reputable like Philipma to escrow and host the group buy first. I've been waiting for Bitfury hardware to pop up recently so I might be in for one if the group buy actually comes into existence. |
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There's no other effective miners out right now besides the S9, Ebit E9s and Avalon miners (excluding vaporware that's popping up everywhere). Outside of this unless you're using older hardware or have free electricity there's not much to choose from. There is some Bitfury hardware that was in extremely limited production, but that's about it.
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there are a bunch of Chinese hardware offered in Aliexpress.com. You might want to look at it. I don't know however if this hardware are reliable or can last for a long period of time. Just suggesting...
They're not new which means you can get comparable hardware locally in most cases or off a site like eBay. In my experience these run just as well as any other used miner but unless you're buying exclusive hardware only sold there prices are higher than even what eBay scalpers charge nowadays. You used to be able to find U3s and Gridseed Orbs on there pretty cheaply with PSUs though, nowadays I only see overpriced large miners. |
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Back when bitcoin was young you could mine in a web browser. There were also snippets of code you could insert into your website (header I think) that would mine for you when people had those websites open. It didn't take off because the difficulty started to rise, but at least for a short while it was hot.
I don't think it would work today under your proposed model unless you could prevent others from hijacking your code and redirecting the hashrate somewhere else. Unless of course these were websites under your control.
I remember this as well, and there was also a phase where it was popular with Litecoin with Litecoinpool integrating a now deprecated Java-based LTC miner into a webpage (it's still there, just search- one of my first posts was about this!). It's still possible to do this today with an Altcoin of some sort, whether it's in plain sight or not. I'd imagine it'd take a few lines of code changed and optimizations to hashing algorithms, etc but it's definitely possible. As long as it's for good intent. |
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We had a little issue over paypal funds and it was resolved pretty quickly with only that minor issue. I'll definitely be using you guys in the future for PayPal because of your quick response and timeliness.
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I've stopped mining completely and switched over to purely holding like i used to. Profitability has dropped all over the board and except for the big three (BTC, Scrypt and X11) there's not a whole lot left to mine nowadays. If price resurges on alts and a new generation of GPUs comes out that is better at mining than the current generation of miners that'd help draw miners back.
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Bitcoin mining with smartphones seems like an even bigger waste than altcoins, regardless pretty interesting. Unfortunately their desktop PC comparison was to an i7 2600 that's three years older than the S5. Beginning feels like bait to me, comparing the phone to 'stronger than a desktop processor'.
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Well things dumped below $10 real fast! https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/dash?HashingPower=17.5&HashingUnit=GH%2Fs&PowerConsumption=950&CostPerkWh=0.12At this point in time, at 17.5gh at 950 watts and 12c kWh.....it is (wait for it!) $8.28 a day! FML. (how many more batches do we have in the wind? Assuming the majority of the Nov 1-15th batch has hit the world?) Three more batches in the wind since that? Also I read that the A5 Dominators at 30gh plus have not shipped yet (late) The only coin I've heard any hype about for X11 is the Helium coin...supposedly.....we need hope Obi Wan! Ah hell, its only money right? Knowing Bitmain there’s probably already more miners being made right this moment and thousands in their farms. The arms race in X11 won’t help out too much, Innosilicon has always underdelivered so I don’t expect a whole lot from them. I think anyone need help to change on d3 algo or add other algo similar baikal for help whit ROI for this machine ... we can ask this help to bitmain developer? Thanks
Not possible because the chip inside is an ASIC unlike the FPGAs Baikal probably uses. Unless Bitmain also changes to an FPGA design in their chips then you’ll also suffer from lower efficiency, which nobody wants in this day and age. |
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That’s GMO, and iirc they are offering an ICO token that can be used to buy their miners. They’ve got capital but no track record for miners at all, it’ll be interesting to see what they can make. Hopefully the hardware they make doesn’t underperform like Innosilicon or other previous ASIC manufacturers.
Of course as in the case of most ICO's their Token sale will only give the scammers investors who already sunk millions into the company a way to cash out at the expense of new Investards. Yep, sad to see they’re so money hungry already. I hoped this wasn’t going to be the case but it seems they’re already taking a step in the wrong direction. Hopefully it turns out okay for their miners at the very least. |
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It’s possible but not worth the time. In any responsible mining setup a change in hashrate like a miner switching pools is easily noticed and if you have hashrate notifications you’ll see it in a couple hours or so. Plus it’s not hard to reflash your miner in the event it’s hijacked out of your control.
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It takes literally less than a minute to google ‘electrical cost calculator’ or pull up a mining calculator and see your electrical expenses for a miner. Ask the forums for more technical questions than this. Hint: Rapidtables has one.
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Seems like Bitmain has had a pretty strong corner on the market for ASIC hardware for some time. . .
I have recently seen Avalon and Syan which look like decent competition. . .
Anyone else know of any good alternative ASIC hardware companies?
Seems like there must be more hidden gems of the mining world out there!
I have had really good experiences working with Bitmain. . . but I kind of shudder when I think about one company almost single-handedly controlling the Network Hashrate. . . carefully planning their batch releases. . . *shudder*
~Meni
we still need more hardware companies to build more ASIC hardware for the miners. Bitmain has dominated the market for long and for us to really expands blockchain technology more companies need to get into the business of hardware production. I hard that there is a company in Japan that has also gone into mining tools production. I think before 2020 outside the one we have now other companies are going to be involved in mining business and Bitmain is always out of stocks because of demand. That’s GMO, and iirc they are offering an ICO token that can be used to buy their miners. They’ve got capital but no track record for miners at all, it’ll be interesting to see what they can make. Hopefully the hardware they make doesn’t underperform like Innosilicon or other previous ASIC manufacturers. |
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*** Syan miner is a SCAM! If someone buys their miners without a well-known and trusted Forum User 1st getting one for doing a review and posting it here then well, you have been warned ***Heard it for first time.but Spec is good...
...Removed bullshit specs...
Did you even bother reading the thread? Of course they didn't. That would take actual effort on their part and makes their brain hurt.... Und as you may have noticed - now adding SCAM warning header to all my posts about this. A little SEO can go a long way  You can change the subject of posts as well if you want a little extra boost. |
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Please read. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2333230.0The exact same question was asked yesterday almost word for word. It takes a couple minutes to skim through a few pages to what you want on the forum. Don’t repost things that are asked every other day. For the US it varies based on the cost of the miner and there are import fees. They’re usually quite low and less than $100 per miner IIRC (haven’t bought direct in a while). you’ll pay the customs fees and fill out a few easy forms. |
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I swear bitblender was in that thread just a week or two ago, I remember seeing it on there for sure. Not sure why it was removed, the campaign has been running for a year or so with no issues. |
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I'm having a similar problem but flashing firmware (both to newer and back) don't seem to help.  Have 2 other miners working and I have copied and pasted settings for pools, I have also tried different PSU's. Are the other miners in the same batch? Copying firmware from those miners might not work anyways because of minute batch differences. Find the batch number of the affected miners and download the firmware from Bitmain for them if that’s the case. https://shop.bitmain.com/support.htm?pid=00720160511022802617GoPmQhNb06CFI didn't copy the same firmware. This is a S7-F1 and I've been using fresh downloads of the 1FAN firmware from Bitmain. Relink the image to Imgur? I’m having issues viewing the link for the image on the site you had it on. |
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Nah, It's cool, be that guy. The only thing you linked is a bunch of china wait 2-4 weeks. These are here and will ship within 24. Check other US suppliers like bitmainwarranty.com which runs out of stock nonstop and after shipping.... You know what, your right, I will lower it. I must have been drunk, or was it a typo? hows $35 suit your fancy? Scrap' Seems good, good luck with sales! I woulda bought a few of these if I still had as many miners as I used to have but I have sold most of mine except the sticks. Noise was getting to me  for someone who needs fans quick price seems justifiable. |
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