I read just now, that the 'lightning network' for BTC is now LIVE...

here is the link to the article

https://www.finder.com.au/bitcoin-price-weekly-analysis-2018-01-28


seems sketchy as the only article I can find...do they mean just live on 'main net' to test

or is it really ready for prime time?

anyone with better sources? Feel free to post

take the poll if you wish

I read just now, that the 'lightning network' for BTC is now LIVE...

here is the link

https://www.finder.com.au/bitcoin-price-weekly-analysis-2018-01-28


seems sketchy as the only article I can find...do they mean just live on 'mainnet' to test

or is it really ready for prime time?

I messed up my calcs ..(to be fair....I will never ROI on the 2 D3's but with all my x11's (counting the 300 Baikal cube..I will, however, ROI on X11 machines on a WHOLE ..it

is all in how you frame your decisions for the old 'ego')

So anyway, looking at ALL x11 machines (2 D3's and the 300 cube baikal since MAY 2017) and seeing I squeaked by 'barely' with ROI and still making more than I'm using

with electric for the 2 D3's kinda ignored stuff.....so MISSED the fact I'm getting TWO payments of DASH per day...so I"m really getting 0.018 dash per day for about

(at today's price of $780.50 Dash or at 0.018 dash per day that is = to $14.05 per day which is much better than the $7.03 (before electric) I previously thought with my 'wrong to use'

dash calculator pointed out and my plain mistake.

Sorry, for the confusion..nice to see I'm wrong for once in the correct direction  $14.05 per day (before electric) is considerably different than the $7.02 I thought I was getting!

So, anyway, duh.....looks like I can still run these for a couple more months...sometimes it is 'good' to be clueless...(if you catch it)

sorry for the confusion..thanks for the help in pointing out a better calculator and that forced me to re-look at my 'assumptions'

brad

the guys English is sOOOOO bad, I have a hard time believing he is NOT legit.... I mean, if he was faking, it could not be that indecipherable right? (or how my logic on this works)

IF you are legit..go to a local electrician he can make you a temp power cord that will last more than long enough to order a proper cord at 220v. At least till you order some more.

but yeah, I want this guy to get into the details on how his A3 runs/ and the wife/ and the rest...with the bad English explanation on the thread here....it will be a hoot!

sheesh....I remember when they were going for ..I think it was $1650?

nope...running mine into the ground..not looking to get any more at this point

the swap'ing crypto for equip died IMHO, sometime last July 2016...with the price of crypto shooting up...

just can't do it anymore..them days may be past (however, selling crap on a rummage sale and then using FIAT to gamble on mining equip may still be a hedge)

but straight mining crypto for equip ..yech...

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Go to local electrician. They can make you a rough temp cords to use for a few days.

I use these euro version surge protectors 220v on my stuff..have saved my ass 2x over 4 years or so

https://www.amazon.com/Tripp-Lite-International-Protector-EURO-4/dp/B00006HZ4M/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1516937849&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=220+euro+tripp+lite

they come with a psu cord to the tripp lite unit itself...I myself just ran ONE per miner in the basement (had like 5 at one time in basement) the stuff at the data hall

has its own protections...

anyway, so the cord from your psu (funky sockets in pic) ARE included in the box...from the box to the wall you have a choice of 3 types of outlet plugs

I set up the below kind in my basement from the electrical service

below is the cord that comes with the above surge protector

https://www.amazon.com/Tripp-Lite-IEC-320-C14-IEC-320-C13-P004-015/dp/B00FBA1UC6/ref=sr_1_5?s=industrial&ie=UTF8&qid=1516938075&sr=1-5&keywords=220v+power+cable


below is the cord I use to the wall from the surge protector above

https://www.amazon.com/Lynn-Electronics-C13620P15A-10F-60320-C13-10-Feet/dp/B0093WFT5C/ref=lp_3034281011_1_1?srs=3034281011&ie=UTF8&qid=1516938216&sr=8-1

my setup below in basement if anyone is interested w/fans cooling etc

lostgonzo.imgur.com


anyway....pricey...but figured ONE per miner and 1 20amp 220v circuit to each miner was overkill...but again ...did save me some equip 2x in 4 years I'm sure

from storms.....

so anyway, what I did

brad

never really could figure that one out......i understand the add your own difficulty rate..just never have a clue...so I just use the snapshot method or KISS principle....

on a calc...but I guess the calc I picked sucked for that purpose..

not sure how you are getting 0.008 dash per day..I'm getting 0.009 per day for 2 das miners at 35gh?

IF I was to do what you do..it would be 40% (my income bracket with mining etc) and 10% STATE Income Tax..so for income OR capital gains my state adds 10% tax

this is probably why you  see some folk say 50% tax rate....(so I mine its 40% tax rate and 10% state tax..if I sell crypto it is 40% capital gains and 10% tax rate (state

calls it income) so either/or I lose 50% on ANY crypto I make and/or use if less than 1 year and a day ....

annoying.....

you may have to reflash the SD card...or that is what I'd check first.....I think you can try a factory reset as well....

(been so long...I never did a factory reset..on such confusions I just did a new scandisk 8gb flash...and it then revived..

happened a couple times, If I remember right)

the calc likely is, as you say NOT correct, but I only mine 0.009 dash per day! 0.009x 800 is 7.20 usd ..but no way do I mine over 0.013 per day!

them days are gone....


what is a more LEGIT calculator? (more or less)

Well, looks like I have maybe another month mining these 2 D3's. Between the 2 of them I get 35gh at 10c kWh usd @2400 watts at the wall at 220 volts.

or $5.10 a day after electric.

https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/dash?HashingPower=35&HashingUnit=GH%2Fs&PowerConsumption=2400&CostPerkWh=0.10&MiningPoolFee=0


does not bode well, even if I bring them back home from the data hall and use as a basement space heater this rest of winter.

alas!

Ack! looks like work...will contemplate the concept of GPU mining with my 1 card Alienware laptop and expansion chassis (1 GPU card) by EXTENSIVELY field testing it  with the Destiny 2

game....this may take a while...got to run the GPU card thru its paces don't ya know...be secure in it being stable an all that (cough!) (again with the throwing of stuff at me in

bitcointalk...jeez)

Bitcoin better damn well rise again.....my aspirations on an improved lifestyle/gold digger girlfriend and Lambo depend on this!

(damn it.....its mine, mine, mine)









This MUST happen...my dubious/dreams/gold digger future girlfriend and trip to Davos ... and sanity depend on it...

enlighten us here (asic owner since 2013) is there still a good enough reason to get GPU's for mining...or is this fading?

curious

(i have ONE 1080 gpu card with my alienware R7 laptop for the computer/crypto biz (cough!) and of course got the espansion chassis to add the option to mine coins (cough!..hey...I

see you roflao about that ...I mean would I really use this as a crypto equip deduction just to game? (cough...er choking as I type this)

best 5k I ever spent at the high on BTC......as a crypto computer equip deduction (cough!) ......but alas..the biz needed a new laptop (ducks from thrown items in bitcointalk

hey..someone could take out my eye here!)

anyway, worked for me and GPU mining (cough!) now if I actually could figure out HOW to GPU mine.this may make more sense...but so far ..games (er I mean) crypto research

is keeping me occupied enough.

Don't have a decred miner coming...but if I did I'd be waiting for the other shoe to drop from Bitmain....I bet you..they will announce a decred

miner within the next month...count on it....

(bitmain: evil is how we roll!) (tm: bitmain)

yawn...no pics...no demo...no miner....(or so it seems).....the dubiousness is increasing.....

yeah...real names on South Korea exchanges..not sure what the fuss was about if all they are gonna do is follow USA guidelines on exchanges like coinbase...

was the FUD just for FUN..to make the lawmakers in South Korea look like they were relevant?

Well,do you believe the regulators in various countries that say that Bitcoin and Crypto are all schemes to take our money and avoid taxes and
terroism and the dark net?

That is the claim, for increasing regulation and tax compliance and the rest of the FUD...


IF above concerns you, you should take your profits and run...

myself, I mine, I'm legal, my hoard is legal etc

So IF the majority of folk can live with regulation and paying taxes and crypto is NOT used in the above manner all the Gov't and other are FUD'ing about

well, the price will resume an upward path, simply because the majority of us HONEST folk using crypto and BTC will HOLD

and with 80% of all BTC mined

it will HAVE TO AT LEAST GO SIDEWAYS FOR A BIT IF NOT UP IN THE LONG TERM



place your bets, gentleman, are you on the Dark Side of your view of Crypto (banks/gov't concerns) or are you on the light side of crypto (honest use as an alternative

to banks/corrupt gov't's and an alternative way of moving money and a decentralized store of value)


anyway, how I'm looking at it...and I have a significant amount of coin that the dump of BTC in the $9K range...'hurt my tummy' more than a little bit

I do believe however there will now be international coordinated FUD and regulations to limit crypto, but they can only do so much if the majority of us are legal and hold,

even in those countries where BTC and crypto is outlawed....you can still slip it out via USB drive to a relative or whatever outside that country exchange (me thinks)

anyway, pick your viewpoint


(We wanted BTC and Crypto to gain mainstream attention, goes to show: be careful what you wish for, you may surely get it!)

Imagine a world where Satoshi, went to the banks and had a patent for them on blockchain...today we'd be looking at a growing class of Trillionaires..in that they would still charge
the same rates and be able to move $$$ via crypto w/o any real fees

not to mention the savings on labor etc....so a 1-2% transaction fee for everything banking wise yet...with no real costs

they would kill

the above is what has the bankers really pissed at BTC/crypto and Satoshi...what was he thinking? They could all be 10x to 100x richer if he had just done the above

(ah the hate, let it flow off the bankers, into the dark side of the force)