Is it just me or did Kraken EUR/BTC just go bonkers on Bitcoinwisdom? Displaying 27089151782715.50 or some ridiculous number for me right now and very little volume. I hope BTC will get there someday, but seems like their API or something of the sort broke.

Other coins are sometimes more profitable but they aren't most of the time, and it's better to just mine BTC straight up most of the time. Some people also switch to BCH during EDA for extra profit. I haven't heard of the store you mentioned yourself, you'd have to find someone else who can verify it's legit.

It's not possible to change the fan for quieter operation because any other fan will not have enough static pressure and/or airflow to cool the miner aquedately, and other possibly suitable fans will be just as loud. Philipma has a YouTube channel where he documents quieting Avalon miners and it'd work for your Ebits as well; it should be cheaper than a soundproofing cabinet. The channel is called Philipma 1957.

Parallelminer also has a nice coupon code "slush" right now for 5% off IIRC. The paperclip trick is easy to do but if you somehow can't do it people do sell switch like things that do the same thing. Here's how you can do it if you get a standard computer PSU: http://aphnetworks.com/tutorials/psu_paperclip_trick

They work but there’s no guarantee of the quality of these risers, so beware of that. It’s always best to run your cards from straight 8 or six pin power cords, but if you need to monitor the cable to make sure it doesn’t burn or something like that. With server power supplies you can wire the cables yourselves so you can get more six and eight pin connectors and they tend to be more reliable in my experience.

They’re fun to run and they’re also nice collectibles. I have a long obsolete Block Erupter I bought from 2013 and I only keep it to remind myself of the old times. They also look pretty nice as display units. Then you have lottery mining too with more recent sticks. Mostly I like them because they aren’t as plug and play as the big miners nowadays and it brings us miners back to the days when huge miners didn’t exist.

I ran a couple miners (ASIC and GPU) around 0 degrees Fahrenheit last year, and the operation ran smooth as butter with temperatures doing very well. As time goes on the temperature of the devices themselves will eventually go up too. Realistically it’s just a matter of keeping them in a stable place with ventilation and shelter from the elements and you are set. I also like to keep humidity down.

Normal computers aren’t even used in mining Bitcoin anymore, but they are used for Altcoin mining (eth,etc). For Bitcoin mining you have several options for ASIC (specialized devices specifically for mining Bitcoin and other SHA256 algo coins) miners like the Antminer S9, Avalon 7 and Ebit E9 to name a few. You’ll need power supplies for them (Server PSUs are cheap and reliable, easy to wire). For a building, large buildings like old factories are good places for big farms (ventilation and ways to keep out rain and keeping humidity low is required), but some people mine in their sheds for small operations (ventilation still needed). You’ll also need to check your electrical costs- below ten cents per kilowatt is good for mining, above not so much. Those are the basics but there are many more things you’ll need to calculate before trying to mine. The Hardware section is a nice place to learn the basics of mining and such. Good luck!

There's no point when you can mine yourself or just buy into cloudmining services directly anyways, or simply HODL which provides great returns. Cloud mining is and has always been risky too, and I personally would only trust Hashnest with any of my money for cloud mining. Remember if you choose to cloud mine- only invest as much as you can afford to lose.

There hasn't been any and with no real consumer 7nm chips even out for desktop and laptop processors, I'd stick with NotFuzzyWarm's estimate of late 2018 at best. Sales also haven't been announced yet at all, seems reasonable as the tech isn't even there for any real 7nm production yet.

They just won't give up on the useless crypto, and it was probably the price rise that "warranted" the price rise. Perhaps when S2X crashes and burns they'll finally start accepting BTC again. For now I highly recommend Canaan as an alternative supplier; although they do mine slightly slower and aren't as efficient, they still mine very well and are much more reliable than Antminers.

Compressed air can be pretty cheap and if you want to spend a little more money you can get one of those electric computer blowers. I prefer old fashioned canned air though. Make sure the fans don't move when you dust them out to prevent any possible damage. For the stuff the air can't dislodge, I use paper to get it off.

It’s a pretty obvious scam, nobody in their right mind would sell an S9 for $670 and chances are he will not take escrow and will ask for you to send your money first. Plus his account is brand new. Would not trust him at all.

Some people may be buying up just to get 2X coins too; it seemingly happened the last time a fork like this was scheduled (BU). We're back in the green, at least temporarily, but who knows how long we will be here...

Laptop cooling sucks. Most laptops nowadays are designed to be super slim and mining often makes the fans spin at very high rates which can cause early fan failure on the laptop and heat throttling and just plain high temps. Throttling also means you'll be getting less performance on most laptops. There's a reason why mining is usually only done on desktops, and there's good reasons why.

Ah, thanks for letting me know. I will lock the thread now, it is a very nice motherboard despite all the negative reviews on Newegg (probably the worst place for reviews lol). Shame Newegg can't have deals like this all the time.

There's no better place to escape the trolls (mostly) and get up to date information without rampant censorship like sometimes seen on Reddit. The forum has always been friendly and reliable and it's going to stay that way. Sometimes people do not see things from all sides and that's probably what happened to people that didn't get why Bitcoin went over $1000 the first time.

I completely agree. As long as Bitmain has a hold over mining, they have a huge influence over Bitcoin all crypto as seen with S2X, etc. Hopefully we can get back to times like ‘14 and ‘15 with more viable options so we don’t have Bitmain dictating every move and making shitty miners because they can.

It’s also a learning experience for the newbies here, mining is profitable but not as much as it might seem. Sometimes it’s better to take BTC for relatively more stable ROI than more risky investments, remember mining is not all what it looks like and there’s luck involved.

Newegg does a good job with open box items and I have personally never had any major issues with their open box items. Most of the reviews are just from newbies who don't know how to setup a mining rig properly, and any savings are good when you're mining. 30 days is usually enough to expose any major issues with a motherboard anyways, so I feel the savings are justifiable for an open box item.

Most websites use Javascript to load an altcoin mining script on the browser that can be used to mine various coins, usually XMR. Adblock can stop this. No website or plugin actually mines Bitcoin, so I would suggest moving this thread to the Altcoin Mining section.