In reference to the Innosilicon T1 16TH/s SHA256 miner...

You are mistaken on how dehumidification works.

Hot warm air holds more moisture. As the air cools down moisture is released.

If you have been googling dehumidifier for industrial purposes. They pump hot air into a space and then exhaust it to take the moisture out of the plant. I work in a food processing plant and this is done at cleanup so the floor is dry and ready for production in the morning.

All this being said refrigeration or air conditioning dehumidifier a space as well. Again by lowering the temperatures. That's why most portable home AC units have a drain on them.

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Desiccants are only viable in small ENCLOSED spaces, they do not soak much moisture from the air at all per unit of weight/volume.
Dehumidifiers do NOT heat up the air, every "mechanical" dehumidifier setup I've EVER seen was a specialized air conditioner and the air they put out of the "dehumidified" side was COOL to COLD.
There is NO condensation risk on the air out of the dehumidifier, there's pretty close to no moisture in there that CAN condense.

It won't take "dozens" of them to reduce humidity 1-2%, unless you are running MILLIONS of CFM airflow (hundreds of thousands of M^3/minute) and have 80%+ humidity air input - though it would get complicated a bit by the fact they would reduce your intake air temp some, they'd still be pulling SOME of the water out of the air so even if the RH didn't drop a lot the moisture content of the air WOULD which should reduce the rust issue.

Actually, it DOES do so.  The only way for a pool to go from a historical 70% luck back to average 100% luck is for it to run at over 100% luck for awhile.  e.g.  70% for 2 weeks + 130% for 2 weeks = 100% for 4 weeks; more or less.

You do understand that a pools luck can change in a fractions of a second right?  Its not a THING, it has no MEMORY, its 100.000000000% RANDOM LUCK.  The moment you change from an "unlucky" pool, it could find the next block.

Short answer:  no.

Actually, that's not true. Power rates here are not uniform throughout the country. There are some states that have exceptionally dirt cheap rates. And they are also very suitable for a large-scale mining setup. If only the political atmosphere regarding cryptos were a little fairer, we would soon see large scale mining plants being set up in those states pretty soon.

Your missing my point:  All pools have random luck.  That luck averages out over a period of something like 250-1000 blocks to approximately 100% - as expected.   Using the optimistic  250 number, if your Slushpool and find a dozen blocks a day, that is 20 days.  If your Kano and find a block every couple of days, that is something like 500-750 days.

You CAN NOT compare returns over a period of a week or two and have a statistically valid result.

What you can do is run the math and figure out which will pay out better over a year or so.

Yes they are not as effective as a dehumidifier, but OP did not feel a dehumidifier was the best for their setup.

The idea of the moisture being released into the air is the point I brough tup about "regenerating" the desiccant. When it becomes saturated you would move it to the "hot" side of the farm. Using the discharge air to remove moisture along with the heat. So the practicwe would be to have 2 or 3 sets of desiccant that can be swapped out as needed. This provides for a continuous cycle with no extra power consumption.

It's just an idea, I haven't needed it because I do not deal with that level of humidity.


This is an excellent point.

Although initially only the fan grates seem to rust, eventually the controller board rusts dead as well. What are some effective ways to slow or stop the S9 from rusting?

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Only if you like to gamble.  Even Slushpool has good weeks and bad weeks.  Its why their webpage displays their 250 block "luck" - since that should always be close to 100%.  I've seen plenty of times when the other stats there were well below 100%.

Likewise, if you look at the KanoPool block stats, their 500 and alltime average are around 100%, all stats under 50 blocks are well over average, the others are below.

This is not a game to be played for "a week or 2".  

Do not confuse "luck" with "fate" - one looks backwards, the other forward, and they are only randomly in sync.  Its like saying "I predict that half the time you flip a coin it will come up heads" and saying I'm good predictor for future things.

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I just hope they try to focus on coins that already have established ASIC markets rather than trying to create new ones that the community doesn't want. They should come out with an improved Bitcoin miner instead of branching to cryptonight, ethash, and everything else under the sun.

I really feel like the E3 will get bricked like the cryptonight variety did. Nobody like bitmain these days. 

Probably around 25-30 GPUs depending on the cheapest GPUs you can get. You would need 3 motherboards to run them. Then these would probably run at an estimated electric power consumption of around 4000-5000 watts. These are very rough estimates. I wouldn't get into buying GPUs for mining at this time tho. Too much is uncertain.

You can start here:  https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools

The two key aspects are:  Fee percentage (lower is better) & transaction fees being shared

During the boom last December, transaction fees topped 40% of the block reward.  That means pool operators that did not share those fees got rich off their miners work.  

After that, fee percentage rules - if you pay less, you earn more.  Pretty simple.

It gets a bit more complicated when you go down to the next level.  PPS is straight forward, but high risk for the pool operator, so their fees typically range about 4%.  PPSLNS (and various variations) pay when the pool gets a block.  That raises your variance (how regular your payments are), but allows for a lower fee since the pool operator is taking less risk.

Then there is size.  Mining is typically a long term endeavor, but that doesn't mean you might be happy with getting a big payout once a month.  If the pool is too small that is the risk (or even less often for some rather small pools).  Pools like Slushpool typically find dozens of blocks a day, so the payouts are pretty smooth.  Kano sized pools find a few blocks a week - not bad.  Over a long enough time period, that aspect should blend out to be the same for everyone (presuming they find blocks on a reasonable schedule - not once a year!).  Remember:  If the pool you select is small, your payout frequency may be long, but the amount will be bigger - given everything else is equal (fees, transaction fee sharing, etc).

I should also point out that any pool claiming to pay more than 100% is getting those rewards from somewhere.  If you see that, read the fine-print.  Pools are not free to run or maintain, they need to charge something to do so unless they are very very small and running in someones basement.  Nothing wrong with that, but your not likely to get the best support, nor will the pool be able to grow much, with such an endeavor.  For instance, one recent pool is advertising 105% payout.  If you read the fine print, that payout is guaranteed so long as the transaction fees are AT LEAST 10% of the block reward.  The 105% simply referred to the block reward, not the combined block + transaction reward.

We need more competition.....competition in asic development. Bitmain is capitalism gone wrong. No competition, complete monopoly and exploitation. There is no company that can stand against Bitmain that's why they are doing whatever they want. If there was competition then prices would be low and so would be the chance of them mining the hell out of those asics before releasing them. Until AMD and Nvidia develops a mining specific gpu or until a asic resistant coin surpasses ETH's market capital it will be dark ages for gpu mining.

Very untrue, I made a calculation a while back so numbers are a bit off but it paints a (dark) picture:
If we simplify all GPU's to the hashrate of a GTX1070 (wrong, I know, but just for creating an estimation) then;
-There's about 9.5 million GPU's mining in the world of which
-~8 million are mining ETH
-~1 million are mining ZCash
-~0.36 million are mining ZCL
-~0.33 million are mining ETC
and it quickly goes down from there. This means that ~85% of the GPU's that are mining worldwide are being used to mine Ethash.

When profitability goes down as difficulty rises, more and more mines will look for new coins to mine, there's simply not enough coins that have enough liquidity and perceived market value to keep GPU mining profitable. Lots of mines will go bust, some that have very low power cost and overhead will stay profitable for a while. Expect lots of second hand GPU's soon.

The numbers are from 2 months ago but they are probably a better representation as Bitmain keeps adding hashrate on Ethash, which skews the numbers more and more.

Hard fork? What if they are indeed using gpu chips? There no solution except for cpu-only algo's but that gets destroyed by people abusing AWS instances and botnets etc.

It's easier to look at their hashrate chart, but the diff chart will work too.
Note that except for one "single-day" spike on April 26 that was probably LUCK driven (might have been folks on auto-switch miners bouncing out of ETC or some such though), the Ethereum Total Hashrate (and difficulty) has been slowly DROPPING since April 16.

Yes, there was a big surge for several months before that - but the surge is OVER unless Ethereum price starts rising.