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a. for a start only altcoins can be mined using a PC. This area is BITCOIN only. Contrary to what the myriad of apparently clueless altcoin miners think, Bitcoin is NOT a general term for all crypto coins. BTC is a specific coin with very specific hardware needs and we outgrew CPU/GPU's years ago. Yes the altcoins mined can be exchanged for BTC but that does not support the BTC blockchain by processing transactions. It is NOT the same as actually mining BTC which does process our transactions and support the BTC blockchain.
b. you are talking software/services - that is not here.
c. re: points a & b - learn to post in the correct areas where folks actually care about what you offer.
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What about atx Power Supplies?
Overall ATX supplies - even 'server' ones - are CRAP when it comes to powering miners. They were never designed to run 24x7 at or near full load nor in the fairly high temp areas that are around miners.. Why do folks insist on spending $$$ for miners and then try to go cheap on PSU's? They are critical to how a miner performs. Browse eBay, Amazon etc and you will find many folks selling decently priced miner PSU's based on real HP and IBM server supplies along with the needed breakout boards that can each easily power a miner. |
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As has been repeated here time and again it is NEVER 'safe' to use multiple PSU's.
Can it be done? As long as you never ever try to power a single board with more than one supply ja it works but the risks of improper hookup (frying the miner or PSUs) plus the miner power now being questionable far outweigh being able to do it.
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Because Nicehash does some - odd - things in the background passing the work your miner does around to folks paying for rental hash and BM was nice enough to accommodate them. Personally that is just another reason I do not use Nicehash and mine in a pool. I mine for ME with no middle-man taking a percentage of the earnings.
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This has nothing to do with Hardware so why post it here? Learn to use the right areas...
Reported to mods for moving.
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Aww too bad.... Also too bad ya posted in the Bitcoin area - not altcoins where this belongs. Ya *do* know that Bitcoin is a specific coin and not a generic term for any crypto coin, right? BTC means CPU/GPU's do not work so folks here could care less. Go to the altcoin areas for folks who care. |
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Ask in the ALTCOIN areas.This is the Bitcoin area and we don't use no stinkin' CPU/GPU rigs here. The first topics at top of this area explicitly state that if you had bothered to read a second or 2 before posting. |
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Mine sit in an unused space under the basement stairs. Stairs are in the middle of the wall so cool(er) air is drawn in from one side of the basement comes out hotter the other side. In the process of circulating back to the intake side a lot wafts up the stairs helping with heating rooms near the stairs. I will add that I have an unfinished basement so upstairs floor is exposed and that no doubt helps (in winter). If the basement ceiling is closed off - try and route the hot air through it along some joists? Beyond that, one of the basement miners is a gimpy near silent R4 so when cold weather really get here it gets moved up into the living room. Only 1 board works but is a perfect 4.7THs @ 490w space heater  |
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Again, -ck's main point: CGminer is not for mining altcoins. Just SHA256 coins. Primarily of course BTC You want alts, go to the altcoin areas to find alt mining software and sympathetic souls. Beyond that once again, if the D3 is using ASIC's then all they can EVER do is mine said altcoin or some other one that uses the exact same algo. ASIC-based miners cannot be reprogrammed. Period. End of story. (don't know what D3 uses as I don't mine alts) If they are actually using scrypt processing chips maybe they can be re-purposed but that is strictly between you and their maker. |
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Gotta agree 100% with ^^. Ever since my Compuserve dial-up days I still relish small fast data dl - these days aka fast page loading. The caching used in the early new-fangled web (still dialup) --- once the pics for a sites background were cached, pretty but god forbid ya go to a different new page  Static pages is fine by me since a quick ctrl-R and page is reloaded at will anyway. If I want to see near RT performance I'll look at what Awesome Miner says how the farm is doing. Don't even get me going on cross-site scripting (non) security... edit: Well I'll be damned. that brief trip back got me to looking to see if Gopher still lived. It does! Reborn for The Evil Web as GoodGopher Poking around there now... edit edit: Good Gopher's Independent Media filter list of sources is rather - out there - but they do also have an Academia list filter. That is looking damn good at filtering out Fringe material  |
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Okey Dokey.
For the most part since s1 days (late 2013-mid 2014) all of Bitmain's miners have been stand-alone using first RasPi then BeagleBone and now BM's custom ARM SOC computers. Pretty much setup once and just let run.
I do agree BM should emphasize to update ONLY if directly instructed to by Bitmain as part of a troubleshooting issue. Hell, virtually all of my s9's going back to Batch-1 were running as-shipped with zero issues. The only updates I did were ones to totally remove the controversial (never used) AB along with (again never used) user remote-access code that Bitmain left hanging around since the s7 days.
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Don't argue with idiots, kanosan. First they drag you down to their level, then they beat you with experience. Ja, but as you've so often seen with me one still has to try and point the confused one in the right direction to understand how mining/pools/etc work. If they insist on remaining  well then... |
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Hi friends
I m not sure that I am at the right place but could you please confirm that
this thread belongs to the cgminer which is used for D3 Antminer units of Bitmain ?
if so , We ( thousands of people ) are in trouble with this shitty units, because of low profitability, we also looking for a solution to additional algorithms via firmware update .
Could you share your professional toughts regarding if adding algo's to D3 is possible or not ?
There is another thread about that , also an change.org campaign still ongoing
Er, sorry to say this but Bitmains continual blatant rip-off of -ck's CGminer and their violation of Open Source License requirements makes them persona non-Gratia here. Of course final word on this I'm sure will be forthcoming from -ck himself... As far as looking for a solution to additional algorithms via firmware update, the D3 is an ASIC-based miner right? If it is all it can ever mine is the same algo that DASH uses. It's literally hard-wired into the chips. Same applies to Bitcoin miners - all they can ever mine is BTC and the few other SHA256 alt coins. |
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idk, but mine AUC3 shown green. i ordered a 5 pins cable, let's see if it's a cable or not. Can you guys share me your kernel log, i want to see if my Controller run normally or not.
My latest few AUC3's are normally are green and flash red every 30-sec or so during data xfr. Work perfectly of course. I'd think the CGminer API log will be more useful for you to compare. Here's mine running 2x 741's [Firmware Version] => Avalon Firmware - 20170603
luci: ffc1d59
cgminer: 2354004
cgminer-packages: d309c69
Reply was 'STATUS=S,When=1487563128,Code=70,Msg=CGMiner stats,Description=cgminer 4.10.0|STATS=0,ID=AV70,Elapsed=187738,Calls=0,Wait=0.000000,Max=0.000000,Min=99999999.000000,MM ID1=Ver[7411706-3162860]
DNA[01369cf123a0cb42]
Elapsed[187740]
MW[2076681 2076681 2076681 2076659]
LW[8306702]
MH[430 412 452 373]
HW[1667]
DH[2.291%]
Temp[37]
TMax[89]
Fan[5760]
FanR[87%]
Vi[1207 1207 1217 1216]
Vo[4447 4452 4429 4447]
GHSmm[8216.69]
WU[110290.24]
Freq[729.46]
PG[15]
Led[0]
MW0[8264 8246 8322 7811 8295 8099 7796 8189 7901 8032 8056 8534 8291 8381 8119 8047 8246 8315 8188 8334 8401 8550]
MW1[8094 8408 8041 8325 8440 7925 8090 8526 8183 7907 7904 8111 7886 8087 8072 8129 8050 8164 8243 7992 7983 8210]
MW2[7323 7628 7635 7854 7674 7862 7488 7816 7830 7410 7471 7678 7529 7906 7456 7333 7504 7412 7584 7688 7681 7945]
MW3[7422 7500 7397 7561 7361 7322 7280 7286 7350 7582 7622 7371 7301 7116 7317 7570 7250 7485 7611 7579 7542 7479]
TA[88]
ECHU[0 0 0 0]
ECMM[0]
FM[1]
CRC[0 0 0 0]
PAIRS[0 0 0]
PVT_T[21-77/7-87/84 0-78/12-89/83 21-74/7-84/78 0-71/10-80/77],MM ID2=Ver[7411706-3162860]
DNA[01395b75388d57d7]
Elapsed[187740]
MW[2076681 2076681 2076681 2076659]
LW[8306702]
MH[395 407 424 376]
HW[1602]
DH[2.574%]
Temp[37]
TMax[90]
Fan[5790]
FanR[99%]
Vi[1194 1194 1191 1191]
Vo[4424 4434 4429 4406]
GHSmm[8270.65]
WU[110994.38]
Freq[734.26]
PG[15]
Led[0]
MW0[7869 8215 7560 7978 7621 7829 7972 7943 7808 7968 7602 7769 7638 7734 7855 7911 7678 7851 8074 7995 7989 7748]
MW1[8175 8190 8146 8435 8328 8013 8117 8021 8164 8088 7980 8024 7828 7952 7830 8003 7961 7821 8099 8121 8411 8056]
MW2[8166 8055 7949 7837 7857 7852 7895 7840 7850 7875 7912 7703 7932 7822 7879 8076 7773 7949 7983 7888 8066 8186]
MW3[7839 7996 7886 7944 7593 7709 7714 7370 7808 7633 7633 7437 7604 7484 7894 7762 7552 7683 7974 7720 7734 7919]
TA[88]
ECHU[16 512 512 0]
ECMM[0]
FM[1]
CRC[0 0 0 0]
PAIRS[0 0 0]
PVT_T[21-76/11-85/81 21-83/12-90/83 21-77/9-87/79 0-76/12-84/80],MM Count=2,Smart Speed=1,Connecter=AUC,AUC VER=AUC-20151208,AUC I2C Speed=400000,AUC I2C XDelay=19200,AUC Sensor=13354,AUC Temperature=35.14,Connection Overloaded=false,Voltage Offset=0,Nonce Mask=29,USB Pipe=0,USB Delay=r0 0.000000 w0 0.000000,USB tmo=0 0|STATS=1,ID=POOL0,Elapsed=187738,Calls=0,Wait=0.000000,Max=0.000000,Min=99999999.000000,Pool Calls=0,Pool Attempts=0,Pool Wait=0.000000,Pool Max=0.000000,Pool Min=99999999.000000,Pool Av=0.000000,Work Had Roll Time=false,Work Can Roll=false,Work Had Expire=false,Work Roll Time=0,Work Diff=14615.00000000,Min Diff=4098.00000000,Max Diff=14615.00000000,Min Diff Count=567,Max Diff Count=1236141,Times Sent=47374,Bytes Sent=6763169,Times Recv=53550,Bytes Recv=10046139,Net Bytes Sent=6763169,Net Bytes Recv=10046139|STATS=2,ID=POOL1,Elapsed=187738,Calls=0,Wait=0.000000,Max=0.000000,Min=99999999.000000,Pool Calls=0,Pool Attempts=0,Pool Wait=0.000000,Pool Max=0.000000,Pool Min=99999999.000000,Pool Av=0.000000,Work Had Roll Time=false,Work Can Roll=false,Work Had Expire=false,Work Roll Time=0,Work Diff=0.00000000,Min Diff=0.00000000,Max Diff=0.00000000,Min Diff Count=0,Max Diff Count=0,Times Sent=2,Bytes Sent=158,Times Recv=5,Bytes Recv=1602,Net Bytes Sent=158,Net Bytes Recv=1602|STATS=3,ID=POOL2,Elapsed=187738,Calls=0,Wait=0.000000,Max=0.000000,Min=99999999.000000,Pool Calls=0,Pool Attempts=0,Pool Wait=0.000000,Pool Max=0.000000,Pool Min=99999999.000000,Pool Av=0.000000,Work Had Roll Time=false,Work Can Roll=false,Work Had Expire=false,Work Roll Time=0,Work Diff=0.00000000,Min Diff=0.00000000,Max Diff=0.00000000,Min Diff Count=0,Max Diff Count=0,Times Sent=2,Bytes Sent=158,Times Recv=5,Bytes Recv=1602,Net Bytes Sent=158,Net Bytes Recv=1602|'
[STATUS] =>
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[STATUS] => S
[When] => 1487563128
[Code] => 70
[Msg] => CGMiner stats
[Description] => cgminer 4.10.0
)
[STATS0] =>
(
[STATS] => 0
[ID] => AV70
[Elapsed] => 187738
[Calls] => 0
[Wait] => 0.000000
[Max] => 0.000000
[Min] => 99999999.000000
[MM ID1] => Ver[7411706-3162860]
DNA[01369cf123a0cb42]
Elapsed[187740]
MW[2076681 2076681 2076681 2076659]
LW[8306702]
MH[430 412 452 373]
HW[1667]
DH[2.291%]
Temp[37]
TMax[89]
Fan[5760]
FanR[87%]
Vi[1207 1207 1217 1216]
Vo[4447 4452 4429 4447]
GHSmm[8216.69]
WU[110290.24]
Freq[729.46]
PG[15]
Led[0]
MW0[8264 8246 8322 7811 8295 8099 7796 8189 7901 8032 8056 8534 8291 8381 8119 8047 8246 8315 8188 8334 8401 8550]
MW1[8094 8408 8041 8325 8440 7925 8090 8526 8183 7907 7904 8111 7886 8087 8072 8129 8050 8164 8243 7992 7983 8210]
MW2[7323 7628 7635 7854 7674 7862 7488 7816 7830 7410 7471 7678 7529 7906 7456 7333 7504 7412 7584 7688 7681 7945]
MW3[7422 7500 7397 7561 7361 7322 7280 7286 7350 7582 7622 7371 7301 7116 7317 7570 7250 7485 7611 7579 7542 7479]
TA[88]
ECHU[0 0 0 0]
ECMM[0]
FM[1]
CRC[0 0 0 0]
PAIRS[0 0 0]
PVT_T[21-77/7-87/84 0-78/12-89/83 21-74/7-84/78 0-71/10-80/77]
[MM ID2] => Ver[7411706-3162860]
DNA[01395b75388d57d7]
Elapsed[187740]
MW[2076681 2076681 2076681 2076659]
LW[8306702]
MH[395 407 424 376]
HW[1602]
DH[2.574%]
Temp[37]
TMax[90]
Fan[5790]
FanR[99%]
Vi[1194 1194 1191 1191]
Vo[4424 4434 4429 4406]
GHSmm[8270.65]
WU[110994.38]
Freq[734.26]
PG[15]
Led[0]
MW0[7869 8215 7560 7978 7621 7829 7972 7943 7808 7968 7602 7769 7638 7734 7855 7911 7678 7851 8074 7995 7989 7748]
MW1[8175 8190 8146 8435 8328 8013 8117 8021 8164 8088 7980 8024 7828 7952 7830 8003 7961 7821 8099 8121 8411 8056]
MW2[8166 8055 7949 7837 7857 7852 7895 7840 7850 7875 7912 7703 7932 7822 7879 8076 7773 7949 7983 7888 8066 8186]
MW3[7839 7996 7886 7944 7593 7709 7714 7370 7808 7633 7633 7437 7604 7484 7894 7762 7552 7683 7974 7720 7734 7919]
TA[88]
ECHU[16 512 512 0]
ECMM[0]
FM[1]
CRC[0 0 0 0]
PAIRS[0 0 0]
PVT_T[21-76/11-85/81 21-83/12-90/83 21-77/9-87/79 0-76/12-84/80]
[MM Count] => 2
[Smart Speed] => 1
[Connecter] => AUC
[AUC VER] => AUC-20151208
[AUC I2C Speed] => 400000
[AUC I2C XDelay] => 19200
[AUC Sensor] => 13354
[AUC Temperature] => 35.14
[Connection Overloaded] => false
[Voltage Offset] => 0
[Nonce Mask] => 29
[USB Pipe] => 0
[USB Delay] => r0 0.000000 w0 0.000000
[USB tmo] => 0 0
)
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[ID] => POOL0
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[Max] => 0.000000
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[Pool Min] => 99999999.000000
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[Work Had Roll Time] => false
[Work Can Roll] => false
[Work Had Expire] => false
[Work Roll Time] => 0
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[Min Diff] => 4098.00000000
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[Max Diff Count] => 1236141
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[Bytes Sent] => 6763169
[Times Recv] => 53550
[Bytes Recv] => 10046139
[Net Bytes Sent] => 6763169
[Net Bytes Recv] => 10046139
)
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[Work Had Roll Time] => false
[Work Can Roll] => false
[Work Had Expire] => false
[Work Roll Time] => 0
[Work Diff] => 0.00000000
[Min Diff] => 0.00000000
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[Min Diff Count] => 0
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[Times Sent] => 2
[Bytes Sent] => 158
[Times Recv] => 5
[Bytes Recv] => 1602
[Net Bytes Sent] => 158
[Net Bytes Recv] => 1602
)
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[STATS] => 3
[ID] => POOL2
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[Wait] => 0.000000
[Max] => 0.000000
[Min] => 99999999.000000
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[Pool Attempts] => 0
[Pool Wait] => 0.000000
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[Pool Min] => 99999999.000000
[Pool Av] => 0.000000
[Work Had Roll Time] => false
[Work Can Roll] => false
[Work Had Expire] => false
[Work Roll Time] => 0
[Work Diff] => 0.00000000
[Min Diff] => 0.00000000
[Max Diff] => 0.00000000
[Min Diff Count] => 0
[Max Diff Count] => 0
[Times Sent] => 2
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[Times Recv] => 5
[Bytes Recv] => 1602
[Net Bytes Sent] => 158
[Net Bytes Recv] => 1602
Seems to show all relevant activity of all devices.[/code] |
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.....  You spent all that money on a miner and never bothered to read Bitmains operator manual I take it? Why  ?? It *is* on their site ya know... The miners ship with the latest stable release of Firmware. NEVER EVER update FW unless you have some issue requiring it. Frankly unaware of that ever being the case (needing to update). They are stand-alone miners. No PC required, just a something with network access and a browser. RTFM |
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Nothing really new here. Folks have been using them to replace/supplement cold weather heating needs for years. I have 5kw of miners running at home keeping the basement at 85F even in winter. The heat comes through floor taking care of the rest of the house. Only when it gets to below 10F outside do I need the furnace to run so in winter now the miners not only earn enough to more than pay for their feeding but in fact earn even more because rarely does the furnace run. As reference, pre-mining days it typically cost me around $400/mo for the heating bill.
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Very good summation of the shenanigans behind BitCH coin. To test out Canaan's Avalons I had already gotten 3x A721's then 3x of the 741's and 1 last pre-BCH-only s9. Very happy with the Avalons so when Bitmain went to saying ya gotta pay with *their* altcoin that just sealed the deal of me saying good-bye to using them. It really is a shame Bitmain pulled this stunt. Starting with s1's back in April 2014, to-date I have bought 105 Ants from them of all flavors aside from the s5+ and their U series, faithfully upgrading the entire farm and expanding it with each new release. Now, as long as they insist on accepting only BCH screw that. Their competitors are more than happy to take either BTC or other means of payment plus they have decent gear so win-win for us and Bitmain's competitors I guess... Farm currently @ >250THs and 45THs of that is Avalons which include several more purchased after Bitmain gave us the  Ja, over 205THs of that is s9's and T9's however I like the Avalon's so much that I will get a several more to replace some s9's which will be taken off-line to hold as spares (at my power limits). Already recently had my 3rd s9 hash board die within the last 2 months - all from different pre-autotune miners - so took the 2 good boards from latest failure and put in the other 2 miners. They are pleased as punch being back to full 13-14THs but I also now have an empty s9 chassis.... Then again - so happens 2x more A741's arrived last Friday sooo overall farm is a few THs faster than ever |
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Wherever you decide to buy from, do remember that using a reseller means NO Factory Warranty and given the reliability issues Bitmain miners can have - Buyer Beware.
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Look at using Awesome Miner It gives full remote access, user permissions, etc. |
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Hi,
Anyone, please suggest with Amazon links to buy the best hardware for upgrading My PC or making a Bitcoin Minner my self. What are the best hardware to be used for making a bitcoin minner.
Your help will be much appreciated.
Just started with bitcoin
Any free hits to : 17VN8vkz8BFYFuiZd7gccvoJ4Q6Kq7rmMD
As stated in many many other threads here you cannot make a Bitcoin miner nor can you directly mine it with a PC. BTC outgrew CPU/GPU's several years ago and is now ASIC-based only. If you want to use a PC then you must mine ALTCOINS (which can be exchanged for BTC), they have their own areas here. Use them as this area is for Bitcoin only and not alts. |
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