Sure, go ahead. Make sure you have proper ventilation, temperatures, and decent humidity levels. Make sure the circuit you are pulling power from can actually withstand the power you are running through it and that your power supplies aren't some cheap noname brand. HP and Server PSUs with breakout boards+Super Flower/EVGA PSUs are nice. Finally, make sure you aren't doing anything illegal. It'd be a shame to lose your investment to something dumb like that also note how much power you can get for free.

First rule of Bitcointalk spam is that if anything random ends up in your inbox, it has been spread by bots and therefore it's pretty much useless. Anything advertised like this should be ignored no matter what it is and you should red trust the user for spam.

The site is clearly fake and it's not worth your time. Buying from eBay or Amazon is better than this, and prices there are extremely high, much more than what some forum members charge for in stock items.

Note the S9 and T9 as well as pretty much any modern miner in production are about as loud as having a vacuum cleaner on full blast constantly. GPUs are a quiet option, with long ROI (1yr for some latest gen GPUs at my electric cost, $.06/kw iirc). I'd just buy some coins and HODL.

Temps are going to be your enemy with laptop mining, and the fans on a MacBook aren't designed to be on 24/7 365. GPU and CPU mining work best on desktop units, and you're really just shortening the life of your laptop by mining with it. Best to use it for regular use cases.

The R4 is extremely unreliable and isn't really sold anymore, and the other best options are very old, including the S3 and Avalon 4.1s. Miners are just loud and if you can't handle it, just sell. They're designed to pack as much hashpower and power into as little space as possible with small heatsinks, which means the fans need to be strong and need static pressure to do that. philipma1957 uses ducting and some hole cut outs to make the miners quieter but they are still not silent.

Some models can do around 130-140sols/s last time I checked. Won't be incredibly profitable but it'll probably work, though ROI will be around a year with that sort of hashrate. Even a 1050ti would run better and a 1060 can be found for a decent price nowadays.

I've got an old-ass Rockminer Rbox 32gh that I'd be willing to sell as is. Can't test it as I sold the power adapter with a BFL Jalapeno a while back, but I can let it go for $30 and shipping from US. Hashed full speed last time I used it.

Mining is inherently risky in itself anyways, a reason why a lot of people with even cheap electricity just opt for straight up HODLing or small volume trading. Scalping is also why I try to buy one of each new Bitmain product each time one comes out- you can make quite a lot that way

This could be some well-needed bullish news if it does happen. I've been using Newegg as my primary source of purchasing products with Bitcoin recently, Amazon could be a change. Amazon's an innovator and with any luck it'll pass. I'm also wondering what payment processor they'll use, Bitpay or something custom?

This. Even worse than the bullshit TA people put out every day that is also proven wrong daily. I can't believe people actually follow the claims of paid writers that crank out misinformed shit every day, just pulling numbers out of their ass.

I published it about a year ago so it was always a possibility. Thanks for catching that, I'll edit the OP soon (haven't done so in a year).

I now accept PayPal and prices are being lowered. There's no better time to buy writing than now!

There's auto tune on many batches so it may not be possible to tweak settings much or even OC (correct me if I'm wrong). Only a few early batch models don't have auto tune and they are overclockable, the rest aren't. Temps obviously differ because of different application and such. It's not always possible to get the same amount of thermal paste and such on the miner (check if all heat sinks are on and firmly attached).

Any modern ASIC is comparable to a vacuum cleaner. You'd likely not want them in your living room or anywhere near you. Basement or garage is a good starting point. You can't change the fans or do much about the noise, either,nsince they need to be loud as Bitmain and other companies' miners rely on static pressure to push air through their very tight packed heatsinks. Lesser fans just can't do it.

I'd prefer not, but we could work it out. Please PM me.

The miner runs off of CGminer- see Mining Software on the forum. Youll need to create a BAT file for running the device if you want the process to be convenient, and the rest of the instructions can be found in the readme for CGminer. YouTube is also a great resource, especially for older, simple USB miners. Also make sure your USB port supplies enough power for the miner for it to run at full speed.

You can either pick the current most profitable coin based on what they say and sell asap, or you can mine one coin and HODL the coins, hoping price goes up. The second one is, of course, riskier, but the reward can also be quite nice. It's what I do as a small scale miner and it's made me quite a bit so far, especially with Litecoin.

Power supplies come pretty cheap, especially if you can snag a server PSU and a breakout board or solder on connectors yourself. Sometimes with rebate you can get decent bronze PSUs that can run an S5 for sub $30 as well. The S5 seems pretty expensive, you could get an S7 or A6 pretty easily for that price in the States. GPU mining could also be profitable with last gen GPUs.

When the fees are low and you've got coins to be moved, there's nothing better than using a mixer to ensure you've got total security.

I got in when the mempool was very empty with a TX fee of around 120 satoshis. The website is clean and also accessible on Android devices, something I don't think others have mentioned yet. As soon as the TX confirmed I received a notification on my device saying the coins had been received into my wallet again- quite standard for any mixing service that's competent.

All coins arrived minus fees and TX fees, so nothing much to say here. One thing I'd like to point out is the look of the site on mobile- not horrible, but perhaps if you redesigned the UI on mobile devices the site would be more attractive.

With mixing taking a couple seconds and the TX taking a minute or two with ultra low fees, nothing much to say here. As I said earlier, it's a perfect time to mix with things all low right now, so it can't hurt to try with larger amounts.

It'd be interesting if you guys could implement a .onion site link like the mixer in my signature has- it grants further anonymity and that's good with mixing. Just a thought.

It's still a pretty prominent issue nonetheless and according to many members here they stil have pretty bad reliability issues between batches. It's pretty hard to have a reliable miner when Bitmain uses the cheapest parts and tries to shove them together in an R4 chassis.

For the average Joe noise is the biggest one. They buy an industrial miner geared for the most hashrate and power density in a small space and expect quiet performance, but instead they get a vacuum cleaner. Another one is difficulty making mining more and more difficult; a lot of people sell their miners right before they are completely obsolete to get a little money back.