Count me in!

Bitcoinwisdom shows a +13.53% increase. Insane, but also completely out of the range of our guesses. Better luck next time for all of us! I assume this will be rolled over to the next diff period.

It can be done but don't expect insane amounts of profit from it. It will indeed take time even for just ROI to be reached at $.10/kWh (above this it isn't worth mining BTC), but it will still reward you with profit. The one big thing people don't talk about with home mining is noise, the S9 is essentially a vacuum cleaner on steroids and you will need to find a spot to keep it that won't drive you crazy.

Why the hell would you buy a pre-order on eBay anyways? From all the places...

Very obvious scam, I hope nobody buys it. Also, why would they talk about ROI when this """ships""" in Q1 2018 and difficulty will be much higher due to L3+s flooding the market? Nonsense.

Why swap S3 fans when stock is already pretty quiet? S5 with an actually halfway decent static pressure fan sure will work. Other models newer than that are just plain loud no matter how you set them up, there's no way around it.

I can't even tell what you mean (help of a faster ROI ). The S9 ROI is pretty decent for me and it isn't horrible, at ten cents per kilowatt you will make ROI in around a hundred days. There aren't any better competing BTC miners out there so if you are looking for a Bitcoin miner, this is what you will want.

Literally all miners come from big companies. Avalon, Bitmain, Bitfury... Sidehack gets his chips from Bitfury, a big company. There's no way around this economically.

This is just the beginning. Wait till the next batch of L3+s and more ship out and difficulty will probably be over 500k and 1m in a short time. Huge risk to buy those miners nowadays, it's either buy them shipped now (no shit Bitmain preorders) and possibly make some profit or hope difficulty won't grow exponentially and won't make your miner nearly obsolete when it arrives, which it will.

Those coins are usually only profitable for a very short amount of time and you're better off mining the stale coins we've been mining for as long as most new miners can remember. As adaseb said, most new coins are unfortunately POS, preventing mining. I guess it's a new trend nowadays. You can try mining some unknown coin that you find on the six hundredth page of an exchange but the chances of that coin ever being noticed or pumped are exceptionally low and it is very low reward most of the time.

Bitcoin or Peercoin seem to be the most profitable coins mineable at this moment with SHA256. Other ones pop up sometimes but they only last more profitable than BTC or PPC for a short time. Keep in mind the Coincraft miners are extremely outdated with terrible efficiency compared to current gen miners and unless you have free electricity you are losing money running it.

I think there's no way price will hold at 2000 during and after August 1. The sheer level of fudding and panic will probably bring price down below that, and with some planning to move to other chains if Bip148 fails it's just going to be a clusterfuck during August and price will likely bounce around a lot. Personally waiting for this to blow over but it seems time just moves more slowly in response to my patience.

Alphabay, a huge anonymous market which supposedly pulled an exit scam on its users. Could possibly be a reason why Bitcoin's price is going down right now. Chaos is ensuing right now as other anonymous markets are shut down as well or closed their doors to new registrants as people flood to find alternatives.

Like I suspected the blades are indeed Gridseed blades but it appears the sold you G-Black blades, which are different from the normal Gridseed blades you will find. Will keep you informed on power, could possibly be some weird proprietary shit.

Couldn't find much info on these weird wires, going to guess Gridseed made some proprietary connector or bought some weird one and they made it fit on their own PSU. Low gauge is somewhat understandable as these things don't draw that much power. I would personally try to wire this up to a PCIE 6 or 8 pin connector and see if it works if nobody else chimes in.

Too bad I don't use Skype. If you truly are a reporter for Vice, the videos I've seen from you guys are great and you guys should keep it up!

That being said I still do have a little bit of an opinion and even if it isn't going to be used I'll keep this out on the forum anyways. The fork is largely political and to be honest, most miners I know including myself don't really care as much about it as the big guys. Fees and Asicboost is a big part of the motivation surrounding the entire thing, and neither of those things affect our own payouts very much. Of course the future of Bitcoin is important, but for most profit-oriented miners it really doesn't matter.

You have the option for a more secure method of storage so I'd take the privkey and transport it to electrum or make a new wallet in electrum and send all the BTC there. Just like 2FA, can't hurt to enable it.

Blockchain's had a policy of not really messing with your stuff for a while and has only had several minor issues with their wallets so I'd say coins there are relatively safe. Just don't keep too much there, as some people who lost coins there never got them back.

Electrum works just fine for storage, full wallet isn't really needed. IMO blockchain won't do anything in the event of the UASF anyways but as I said before, electrum takes little storage and has most of the functionality of the full wallet.

Mobo is the motherboard. If it is too big, see what's in the way. If it is a sort of drive bay for HDDs and you don't need to use it or it is empty, you can cut it off with a saw and it should work. If that doesn't work you can always cut out the back IO shield on the case (don't recommend) and it may fit, albeit sticking out if it even does.

I would not buy anything if any decently priced cards are not available. Best you can do is hope Ethereum tanks, Metropolis goes into effect, and miners start selling cartfuls of GPUs discounted.

Price is way too high when I can buy non vanilla keys from a Bitcoin key bot for around $2.07 each and get them pretty much instantly with a high tx fee.

Damn, you Canadians have horrible hardware prices. I recall sales for these 4GB cards for 120USD plus shipping and a little bit less than 2 weeks ago. I personally run an RX 460 4GB card and it seems to hash just as well as a 1050 ti, shame it's a powercolor "oc" edition and has a tiny OG heatsink and fan.

As for EVGA, they offer expensive shipping with their cards if I'm not mistaken. Makes it not worth it for me.

HP manufactures so much proprietary shit that can't be replaced, make sure the mobo uses connectors that the PSU actually supplies and the PSU is not SFX or something odd. Then replace the PSU, make sure the 295x2 actually fits (big problem!) and put it in. You may need to cut some plastic out of the case to do it. Also make sure there are fan slots to mount the liquid cooler and that you can fit that as well.