I did everything said on the thread, but it seems that there's no spot left according to a few peoples in the lastest posts. So I apply here. What do I have to do else to be accepted ? Nothing ?
Post like the previous user; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=877765.msg12437068#msg12437068And Marco will probably reply at a later point whether new users were accepted or not. |
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Well for starters, i don't think anything can be planned until we know the exact length of the S7 PCB/which area need to be covered. After that we just need to find a watercooled heatsink that can fill that area and dissipate 150-200w.
So i'll put the thread on watch and see if we can get more information before we get started.
whe should ask syscooling to order or sample 1 board en let them make waterblocks. btw i emailing them right now  Thats a good idea but they will probably raise the same question as me. Nor will they want to front 2k to check it out. Regardless it's not possible to get them just yet. Sending a email to Bitmain requesting the dimension needed of the heatsink may prove more productive if you which to shave off some time before the S7 get shipped. |
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My Antminer s5 produce half as much discarded shares and it mine just fine so i wouldn't worry about Discarded share stats any longer.
Just make sure your hashrate on the poolside is where it's should be at.
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We have a few of those. Send an email to orders@toom.im if you still need one. Could you tell us how much you are selling it for? Do you accept escrow? |
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It's more accurate to say mining is a dead investment when you think about other investment options. You can earn more money by Bitcoin trading, opening a BTC exchange, offering forex trading services etc.
Mining could be profitable but the profit you get would probably be less than all other investments'.
Like what? What beat Mining's 200% per Annum? Are you saying you can ROI faster with trading, safely, with minimal time investment, whatever you put in Trading every 4 months? I am not tracking here. You are suggesting that a mining enterprise produces a 200% per year return? You buy a $2000 S7 today, and you'll have $6000 at the end of one year (i.e. a 200% return)? I don't think even a Ponzi scheme will produce those kinds of returns. +200% per year is not possible. You can only hope for a +150% bump in BTC price. Even the long fabled "Free Electricity" will not produce a +200% return in a year. No i meant Break even in 4 months, then at least another 100% over the rest of the year + what the ASIC is worth at that time. Should be 150-200% total, yes. So maybe i should say "Break even every 4 months". |
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Okay. I grabbed zadig now for when i will need it. I will probably try to use the gekko cgminer version and set it up when i receive my stick. I'm guessing soon.  Was just thinking the link should be in OP, since a ctrl+f of zadig doesn't find anything there. |
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Well for starters, i don't think anything can be planned until we know the exact length of the S7 PCB/which area need to be covered. After that we just need to find a watercooled heatsink that can fill that area and dissipate 150-200w.
So i'll put the thread on watch and see if we can get more information before we get started.
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Below is a screenshot of one of my AntMiner S5's which does not seem to want to hash. I replaced the fan because it was not running. The replacement fan runs and the green light is flashing. I replaced the controller and reset to default. I have swapped ribbon cables with another unit. It looks like the fact that I get a 0 temp on board 1 is keeping me from hashing. Any suggestions on what to do. Thanks, Tom Travis https://www.dropbox.com/s/ylh7aunhjvuzo1m/AntminerScreen.jpg?dl=0Does it work with only the second blade? It might be possible if one blade is completely wrecked that it messed up the controller. |
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I was just thinking, maybe at 86.5 or 75mhz the board would take maybe lower volt OR you can up the volt just a tiny bit but still get better efficiency at lower hz / hashrate.
Agreed, however 100MHz is the lowest that is selectable from cgminer. So I need to know the file to edit to add an additional frequency like you used to have to with an S3? Rich Indeed, you would need to go to config/cgminer.conf and edit the json manually. For instance mine is set to " "bitmain-freq" : "3:393.75:1f06"," or " "bitmain-freq" : "3:381.25:1e06",". I am not sure exactly what the hex value means, 1e06 is 7686 and 1f06 is 7942. What could it be? Voltage? Would be funny if thats how voltage is controlled on S5 but i doubt it would be this easy. |
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Err..? But why? You can farm with simple devices like the antminer U3 ~70 times faster than current gen computers, why would you want to downsize for more electricity consumption to mine bitcoin. You will only stuff yourself over in the long run, there are reasons for devices being created solely for mining SHA-256d (Bitcoin's algo) Computers are way too slow to do anything since early 2014. No profit will be made, electricity will be wasted. Don't try it No but OP doesn't seem to know anything. If he mean to mine altcoins, its feasible. Then the payout can be in BTC, hence earning BTC. @OP If you tell us what kind of hardware you have and what you pay for electricity it may be possible to point you to something worthwhile. But with merely old computers, without any decent GPU, that would be unlikely. And just to make it doubly clear. No you can't mine strait BTC without current, up to date dedicated BTC-mining machine "ASIC". |
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Oh so that would have been the trick huh? Use XPY as collateral when it was alleged to be worth 20$ per. And then BAM. "Sorry guys i can't replay my loan, keep the collateral  " XPY should be erased from history. |
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@OP. Could you tell me what your electricity cost is? If you give me more information i can definitively tell you what to buy must most importantly what NOT to buy.
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it better to put it in trading..
or buy new coin and hold it ..
first you need to do research in coin
it will take time but will give you lot of profit..
I think 3 AntMiner S5 would be the best. 5THs should give good income for a while if you have cheap electricity and you're not margin trading for small profits or holding cheap altcoins, gambling that their prices will go up. I think you would need a couple more. There is a famous youtuber that has a small mining operation, I think 3 AAntMiners, and he makes about 300 USD a month or at least thats what he got a couple months ago when I saw the video. Also have in mind that he is in a lucky position with his electricity bills. It is about 80$ per S5 at the moment because of the BTC price drop and increase in difficulty. I'm not sure how lucky getting cheap electricity could be. I mean; You just need to set up in a location with cheap electricity. Or did you mean he get free electricity somehow by biggy backing or something? |
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So if USB standard is standard, then all 2.0 ports are created equal and I fail to see how one product/hub can supply "more power" than another. Shouldn't any usb hub should be just as good as the next one since they all supply the same power per port? Whether you have a 4 port hub or a 40 port hub, the power per port is the same. I'm missing something here, someone please hit me over the head with it.
I'm also curious how one gets 1.5 amps or more out of a single usb port, was the port modified to supply additional amperage?
What is the max. frequency/voltage that the compac will run on @ 2.5 watts?
Electricity is so confusing.
Because Volt is not how much power it use, its like the bandwidth or like how large the highway is. Its the electrical potential. I guess. The amp is the flow rate. So when you do amp * volt, you get how much watt it can support. Watt = Joule/s. But if the wires are super super tiny, you maybe only be able to support 0.1amp. Which would be 0.5Watt since 0.1a*5v = 0.5Watt. Nothing prevent you from taking 10Amp of power, which will drain 50Watt but since the physical wires and stuff are not able to support that much current, it will fry. |
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I was just thinking, maybe at 86.5 or 75mhz the board would take maybe lower volt OR you can up the volt just a tiny bit but still get better efficiency at lower hz / hashrate.
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It's more accurate to say mining is a dead investment when you think about other investment options. You can earn more money by Bitcoin trading, opening a BTC exchange, offering forex trading services etc.
Mining could be profitable but the profit you get would probably be less than all other investments'.
Like what? What beat Mining's 200% per Annum? Are you saying you can ROI faster with trading, safely, with minimal time investment, whatever you put in Trading every 4 months? |
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I am planning on buying an AntMiner S5 in the next week or such. I'm interested to see if i can get a better deal than what everyone is trying to sell it at, right now. Shipped to Canada.
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I think we're going to keep seeing 5%+ as all the new gen hardware comes online and the northern hemisphere cools down for fall. The network may keep growing like this all the way to the halving.
I think so which really is sad. Roi at today's prices is hard at 5+.... just is going to be tough to mine. Will come down to cheap electricity only. And just think were still approaching having each period were one closer. Scary future looking at it. At 2% & 0.05$/kWh you won't even be able to ROI the S7 before the halving according to BitCoinwisom calc with 2000$ as total cost. 5% Indeed sound scary, but i don't think 5% can be sustained indefinitely. I am pretty sure in a few months we'll reach the new balance with the new hardware where the Difficulty will be more stable. Still, not sure the S7 is ROI-able either way before the halving. Seem even more gloomy for less efficient hardware. |
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Can we add the basic Zadig link and instruction in OP for windows users that does not have the right drivers?
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it better to put it in trading..
or buy new coin and hold it ..
first you need to do research in coin
it will take time but will give you lot of profit..
I think 3 AntMiner S5 would be the best. 5THs should give good income for a while if you have cheap electricity and you're not margin trading for small profits or holding cheap altcoins, gambling that their prices will go up. |
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