My electricity price is 0. But I don't know how much I can pull from my wall plugs.
Whats your budget? Even if you're on 120v15a there's still things you can do. We can find out with you, if you answer notlist3d's answers. But other things such as neighbors, roommates, outside temperature, etc is crucial to your capacity. Not just your electrical circuits. |
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Even if you have free electricity ROI is hard to reach if you spend money for miners
In 4 years with free electricity, one still may not make their money back? I'm personally not a miner, and I understand it's too late in the game for the general population to get involved... but that sounds ridiculous. With free electricity, OP still shouldn't expect to turn a profit? Tell us more about your mining capacity, and your location. The way i would do it right now is grab all the S3 for under 80$ i can. Grab all the S5 for under 250$ and mine them for the next year. Wait until the halving to see what happen. But these generate Heat and Noise. So free electricity is not the only concern. Give us more information.  |
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Just a thank you to all. When I first came here, ck taught me how to mine. I was a slow learner, probably took me two weeks to get my first 7970 to actually generate shares. So much for the past.
This and here and now is an equally excellent adventure and I feel the same sort of enthusiasm I had at the start. So, thank you to anyone and everyone who shares their thoughts and ideas.
I'm thinking of opening a new account under the screen name "village idiot" (if it hasn't already been claimed).
The premise is that even folks with elevating rankings don't have all the answers they need, I'm what, a full member, and I don't know squat.
I swear I've seen senior or hero members asking essentially how to use a power supply cable . There's topsy and there's turvy.
I envision a 'thread' where no ones identity is revealed, yes your ranking would be useful to tailor the responses a bit. I personally wouldn't be giving any answers unless I felt competent to do so. Anyone who responds to a question would be ethically responsible, and obviously we're not going to ask for your trading secrets.
I'm thinking about 'stupid stuff ', the things you're embarrassed to ask.
e.g. when mining if I get a share greater than the network difficulty, does that automatically mean I found, won, solved, a block?. Do I get the coins? And now that I got the coins, the question remains..did I find it, win it, or solve it.
On the other hand, there may be questions like 'will my 12 volt power supply be enough to run my 5 volt usb hub'.
So there you can see, there are those of us in the 'middle'.
I can't answer the first question but I know the answer to the second (you need a 5v PS with as many amps as you can afford to run what you're dreaming of).
Just a thought, pretty much the only one I've had today.
I don't think your rank is of any importance to what question you ask. Its just a badge that show your activity on the forum, not how knowledgeable you are. If you feel too shy to ask questions because you are "Full Member" then just make a new account and go post on it. But i think there's some self-esteem issues here somewhere because nobody cares about your post count or know your IRL identity. At least they should not. Just keep asking, and keep getting answers. I'm sure many will be glad to help. |
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I see lots of people talking about these things
what is it, and what is better ?
there is also something like Bob(Number like 100) what the hell is that ?
BIP* Bitcoin Improvement Proposal; https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Improvement_ProposalsXT is dead, forget about it. The block size limit how many transaction per second the network can handle. Some people have been pushing to fork BTC to their own altcoin so they become the core dev or some such Drama. Just wait, when we can't handle all the TX being push into the network, people will actually start voting for the block size increase. For *you* this means absolutely nothing. You may notice a rise in TX fee when we are near the limit. Thats about it. |
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2016 and only 12.5 btc's per block. A lot will get out. Can't wait.
Not after the price goes up. The LTC halving didn't do much for the price, so i don't really think the BTC halving will make BTC skyrocket to the moon like everyone is hoping/expecting/believing. Meanwhile it seem we finally hit a slow week to compensate for our amazing luck in the last 1-2 months. Hopefully it normalize soon! |
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Looking for confirmation here. Let say i buy 1/3rd of a S5+ without a controller, i CAN run those 3 blades of a regular S5 controller, right? All i need is flash the S5+ firmware on the BBB or?
There are posts where people have run it the other way. Tupsu would be the one to confirm about doing it this way. I would make sure before I laid the money out, but even if I had to buy an s5+ or S7 controller it would be worth it to me. If you have an S7 ordered you can certainly run them along with the S7 boards from the S7 controller. I definitely remember someone posting recently they ran S5+ boards using the S5 firmware. I have little doubt what you want to do will work. Regarding chip communication, the string design, the hardware interface, it is all the same. The S5+ simply introduced more ports on the controller when discussing anything in the context of what you are doing. If you know of someone selling S5+ hash boards please PM me as I am interested. I need to check out some places. You can buy here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1178317.0I already have a S5 controller so i'm just wondering if the S5 controller run the S5+ blades with the S5 firmware or it need to be flashed to something else. And that user refuse to sell outside the US so i would need a seller that doesn't mind filling a 30 second form for shipping to Canada. So i cannot pick up that deal. Also 30cents per GH is a bit too expensive, especially when you add import/shipping costs. |
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No payments will be lost. If a payment fails to make it through and confirm into your Bit-X account you'll be sent another payment.
BitcoinBoy and I are working to get them through as soon as possible!
You can't get them through if such an exploit is being done in the network. I do wish that this is fixed ASAP as I need the funds to buy something later this morning.  EDIT: Please, if possible, can I request that my payment be sent to a separate address and not on my Bit-X account? i urgently need it for something, really. Sorry I can't do that as per campaign rules. Not being a prick or anything, but I think you must resend the payment since it will not be confirmed due to the chain of transactions being included in malleability attacked chain. He will, but to your Bit-x Address. As per the campaign rules. Just wait until Marco and Bitcoin boy can fix it. |
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i dont have a job so i will go full time in bitcoin, and my goal is to gain 0.5 to 0.10 btc a day. i think thats not hard it's indeed possible with multiple account and signature campaign, 1 hero give you 0.12 a week, so with 5 of those you're there 0.6 a week i can't see any other way to earn that much without buying bitcoin how about gambling? that way faster to earn 0.10 btc per day + couple bottles of beer if you got lucky, just dont forget your limit. your goal is to gain 0.10 only, nothing more because we know all being greedy will make you lose Gambling by definition mean you have a chance of losing that money, which isint "earning". And if you can consistently and risk-free earn that much per day, then it is not gambling. All in all, sound pretty risky to start "gambling" with your money when your goal is to make a living. |
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open voting  please vote for more people as possible thanks I dont think one year is a good idea. The prime lifetime of a miner is something around 6 months after its original online-ing. As such you'd have to produce many spares for the S5 while its already obsolete. That make absolutely no sense. A system where if your miner goes crap after 3 months would be to receive part value in coupon toward the next miner. I don't think it would be a good idea for Bitmain to continue producing antminer S5's until the end of 2016 just because some people bought one in late 2015. Think about it. Why the hell would they do that AND why the hell would WE want them to do that. It would jack up the price a whole lot and i'd be even harder to ROI. |
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Looking for confirmation here. Let say i buy 1/3rd of a S5+ without a controller, i CAN run those 3 blades of a regular S5 controller, right? All i need is flash the S5+ firmware on the BBB or?
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If you really want an S5 badly enough your only choice right now is that other thread on here where he is selling 30 S5 for $320 USD each. He's in Ontario probably so shipping will be cheap for you.
I'm not in any hurry. I'm looking for deals and am open to offers. If Skycoin Lab's S5's are v1.91 i could be interested close to that price, but i'm not that interested in buying one for 330$~ total, and the price is not good enough to bother asking yet, but i will probably make an offer sometime soon, see if he can sweeten the pot. Otherwise i might just pick up some deals for S3's. Where do you go about finding those local S3's you're talking about? Just the fact they would be located in Canada would cut the shipping cost in half and may prove of interest. I have S5's for sale for $320 and S3's for $70 Buyer pays shipping. PM me if you interested 7 x S3 Units and 4 x S5 units left to sell Now have budget to pick up another S5 or such. If you have something, let me know. Also interested in S5 parts; -A working PCB -The black plate you bolt the controller on and into the frame to keep everything solid. I'm also considering picking up portions of S5+ since its basically just a beefed up S5. |
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It has been easy to use bitcoin to buy physical goods.
One alternative is by buying amazon gift cards (for 10-30% OFF)
And buy with them the goods that you want, easy yeah?
How do you go about acquiring legit cards (not stolen, exploit, etc) from a reputable seller in good enough amounts? I've heard someone was doing that with his BTC and his amazon got locked and he need to go through much effort to even get in contact with Amazon. The techs on the phone don't know what is up and they can't help or anything. |
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where can I buy a coffee with BTC?
You can buy a starbuck gift card and get all the coffee you want, or get a bitcoin debit card and buy anything you want at all. There's no much limitations to buying stuff with Bitcoin anymore, unless you live somewhere in the world with no banks or debit cards. |
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It will happen. I'm a long term bull. But in the short to medium term. We are generally going down. Best case (side ways for a while). Probably hit $133 or so. Just my smooth-cents. Well not very optimistic thought you have there, and I'm sure the value of it will rise soon, lets just be hopeful and continue believing in it. Well i think the opposite what smoothie is pretending. The price normally should increase at least from the next year. Because there will be a 50% less in reward from the block. I think statistically and with marketing stock trend and all that jaz, its more likely to see it drop quite a bit before it stabilize and truly start slowly raising. And also there's always normal up and downs. Saying there will be no more downs is kind of. Impossible :S |
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There are still people's who think if bitcoin is ponzi scheme, they not understand about bitcoin basically and just judge without thinking/understanding. *snip*
Buy--> Use = No profit no lose when used as money
Buy-->Hold-->Use = Big profit,NO Lose. Profit only when used as investment.
I like this. There are still people's who think a few milleniar ago, there was Adam and Eve and she bit in an Apple because a snake say so. Or that the earth is flat or Canadians live in igloos. Better just forgot about it, imo. |
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Thats a really nice rig Phil. Its nice to see the variance on performance from stick to stick. Is it accurate that the last stick run at 7.xGH/s average while the others are close to 11gh? |
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I was watching a video for coinbase.
It seemed like when you sell bitcoin to USD, that it instantly goes to your bank?
Is there any wallet that will let me convert/sell bitcoin to USD then leave it in the wallet in USD?
I also need to be able to register and do this without a bank account. I plan to open a new bank account this week, but I would like to gegt the bitcoin sent to me ASAP and have it sit in my wallet as USD until the bank account is open and ready for transfer.
You can use Payza, it accept Bitcoin and you can from your Payza account exchange your BTC to USD in your wallet on Payza. They are pretty new, not that established, but definitely better than paypal and with less restrictions. It seems like old companies always fuck up in innovation. I`d use them. Maybe so but if OP wants to store USD online, i don't think Payza is it. In term for safety, Paypal might be better, but in truth i think this simply should not be done. Buy gold and hide it pirate-style 6 feets bellow in your garden or something. On the upside, if Fiat ever break down, Gold will still be worthwhile. |
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What would be more helpful is explanations for newbies on how they can succeed at following all of these commandments. For example: - How do I mask my IP using a proxy service?
- How do be "extra" cautious on social media?
- What communication tools for email, messaging, and VOIP are safest?
Knowing the commandments is a great first step, but not unless one learns how to follow them. Share what you know! The first thing i try to drill into people that are kind of... goofy on the internet is; Dont. Click. Random. Shit. "But it said i have a virus and it will fix it if i click it, for free!" NO! DO NOT! xD Some random link posted by random? Don't touch it. Some ad that look super cool? Don't even think about it. Etc. In other word; Better safe than sorry. that's a valid point, thx! I just gotta find a way to incorporate that info into the 10 commandments or the site at least. Maybe recommend them to use Ad Block. It would reduce the amount of stuff they'd be likely to click or click by accident. For some sort of Tool section. I also highly dislike those Internet security thing that whitelist/blacklist website, scans them and prevent you from going to "bad sites", because they are overzealous. But internet security suites might be good for them old ladies that understand absolutely nothing about the internet. |
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in terms of making more btc from your current you have 3 options: either you go all in on one investment and hope for the best, or diversify or just hold. i myself diversify as i dont have the patience nor the capital to hold btc for a few months
I`d go allin but i have other investments too, i mean i used to invest in estate but not anymore, now i`m in trading quick instruments. I don't think buying BTC and holding is a good investment right now, i think investing to multiply your BTC is a better idea right now. Sure maybe the BTC will have skyrocketed by 2025 or 2035, which is all good, but i think we're still in the mining phase and as thus we should be getting all the BTC we can. And that mean reinvesting wisely. |
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More than 1 , less than 100.
I don't believe in discussing ones exact personal wealth though. You don't discuss money, religion & politics in great detaip with people you don't know.
Well the thread ask people if they have one Bitcoin, under 100BTC is information you volunteered yourself  Beside the morality issue about it is kinda moot. BTC isin't about hidding wealth, its about making it impossible for people to steal it if properly managed! |
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