Mining on a laptop is just plain stupid.

If you want to mine, you need to buy proper equipment.

It takes money to make money.

I cant imagine these go flying off the shelves at those prices. No games can take advantage of the new tech yet, founder edition cards are always hot loud pieces of junk, and the mining payback period on these things is like 2 years at best.

The ignorance in this comment is astounding. First off, the only ASIC on the market for ETH is a piece of junk, it is not contributing to the lack of profits in any meaningful way.


The second comment cant just be ignorance, it has to be pure stupidity. Forking BTC away from ASICs?


You guys listen to all the anti asic propaganda and then say some of the dumbest shit imaginable. Its nearly unbelievable how much bad info people will parrot without ever doing research on their own.

.13 is horrible efficiency, why would anyone buy these?

The reliability doesnt make up for all that extra power being burnt versus the competition. I sure hope the 9 series lives up to its advertised specs, it would be nice to see Avalon not behind the pack on efficiency which has been the case the entire time I have been in this industry.

you must have a small sample size. I have managed over 6000 RX 470s and I can say for sure the failure rate is at least 5%

Your preview requires a login, you might want to fix that

Also the OP is claiming under $1 a day when thats just not true. Even at the depressed prices it makes around $5.85/day before power costs.

Sure if you are trying to run a miner on expensive power it wont make money, but thats pretty much all miners right now.

They key thing you said is "right now". Crypto is hitting historic lows this week, so you are looking at the absolute worst possible mining revenue right now. In a week it could be making 3 times as much, you just never no. Making a decision or forming an opinion based on a single snapshot of profitability is a mistake.

Another option is to run a raspberry Pi and use scripting to do it. Ansible works great for something like this, you can just pass raw SSH commands directly to each unit to reboot it

You cant. ASICboost is a hardware level thing, no software is going to make it happen

Why do you people parrot this stupid shit without understanding what you are saying? ASICs for all major algos have been shipping for months. Get off the FUD train and do a little independent thinking for once.

Welcome to crypto mining.

I cant speak for the APW7 but I run thousands of APW6's with no issues. I would assume the APW7 is more of the same.

what makes you think you can install windows 10 on the laptop and just move it to another computer.

Install windows on the mining rig.

Or, if you were smart, you would install linux because windows is shit for mining.

Anyone buying a machine meant to only mine a single coin with no history of profitability cannot blame bitmain for their own stupid decision.

Also, the GPU code was written after the miner was released, so you are trying to blame bitmain for not predicting the future.

Quit whining and blaming everyone else for your bad purchase. Nobody forced you to buy it.

You can fix this issue by running linux, which you should be doing anyway if you are mining.

I found the problem. You are running the wrong OS for mining.

No you wouldnt, not at all.

Again this is a long game and the vast majority of hash rate is controlled by mining farms these days. We do not stop expanding just because of a few bumps in the road. The price literally has nothing to do with expansion or putting more miners online when it comes to running a business.

I really think you are just not looking at it through the right lens, you are looking at day to day profit which might matter to someone at home running 2-3 miners, but the larger players just arent worried about it.

Mining and hodling bitcoin is a long game, only the uninformed and ignorant panic at every dip. When you are in the business of mining, you dont just shut your machine off because you dont like that the profit is low, thats a sure fire way to go out of business. You have to ride the highs and lows to be successful

Its been common knowledge for YEARS not to mess with bitmains firmware yet you people are bricking your units left and right for no good reason at all. Pushing these machines past the rated hash rate decreases efficiency and eats away at any extra profits you think you are squeezing out of the machine.

Just plug your miner in and run it the way it was built to run. Stop being stupid and letting greed take you down a wrong path.