My biggest suggestion is do some ROI math.  Find out what your electricity price is with taxes and such.  If you know this posting it on forum we can give you a idea if mining is good idea or bad.  And ofcourse double check it yourself on a good ROI calculator. My second question is does your country have a vat.   Some of Europes vats are very high.

And those do not mean you cannot mine even if they are horrible.  Just means I would look into data centers.  A data center if you have high vat or electricity can make it much cheaper to mine.

Best of luck get well soon.  Some things are more important then mining.  And a persons health sure is.

This can all wait till later.

I like the real number much more then the bitwisdom number.  It still is very ugly:

Bitcoin Difficulty:    72,722,780,643
Estimated Next Difficulty:    80,401,658,248 (+10.56%)
Adjust time:    After 1867 Blocks, About 12.6 days
Hashrate(?):    548,401,065 GH/s

I'm assuming your trolling with 1 post total.  For reasons above it truly is not  the best wallet.  One of the most convenient that is for sure.

But security is nothing compared to cold storage.  So again it's good for it's purpose but not good for big storage.

It's not the worst idea out there.  Took me a minute to find the material but at least you are not making an altcoin in hopes to fund solar technology.   - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1214592.msg12734126#msg12734126  , about coin dev - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1204912.0

And if the whole altcoin idea does not pan out try to get people to join and do the work - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1220483

I am amazed sometimes what people think others will invest in.

Thank you I did miss that...  I feel a little better after seeing that.  But I easily could become up there.

Looks like I have around 6.5 months till I have to hit it.   So still could be quite a bit of time till I get there.

Thanks shorena for doing the math. I appreciate you doing it.  It allows me to see how much statistics hate me .

I guess this is why I don't gamble.  The odds are in my favor but does ever work.  Do we know who the most unlucky hero was to hit legendary?  I'm just curious how close some have gotten twords top end before getting legendary.

Was looking through old pictures trying to find some of my old GPU pics.  Did not find it but found my setup of black asic miner block erupters


This is one of the two main ones I had during the time.  One was black and the others were blues for some reason I was really into mining with the same color sticks back then.

I agree it's early that is part of why I mention I'm still testing in my review thread.  There are still a lot of possibilities.  And a lot of people do have a favorite mining company and get use to it's software, I can understand this.    I just personally enjoy trying multiple companies it's part of the fun for me.

As far as controller Avalon 6 will win with RPI.  I truly wish bitmain would use RPI instead of custom controller.  If you get a bad flash or electricity outage, internet outage, etc.   The S7 might be a brick till replacement.  As with the Avalon 6 I have RPI's in my project area I can go grab one.  So it hands down will win on controller.  I will be honest I hope one day bitmain uses RPI instead of custom and this becomes a moot point.

As far as you mentioning a boards within the miner I'm sure there are some custom boards that could bring it down and need a new part.  No miner is 100 percent unstoppable that is part of reason of warranty is to test out miner and make sure it's not a dud.  But a board within it I see as different part then controller. 

I have only bricked one bitmain controller but it was not fun and enough to make me like RPI option.  So I could be jaded from my experience of bricking a S3.

Yes there is a special adapter to connect to the RPI.  Part of this adapter is a cord that you can daisy chain multiple Avalon 6's together.  So hook first one in via usb, then daisy chain the other's with cable from one to the other miner.

The image I put on front page is from BlockC's  RPI kit they get all credit on making it DHCP and easy to set up on static from there.   You just have to flash a sd card with it and put in RPI.

As far as default no a RM1000 would not do.  They suggest using a 1200 watt PSU.  It does get around 1k watts... so at default freq no one should be using a 1k watt psu.  If you lowered freq yes you can get it to run on lower watts but you lose speed so I would get a proper PSU like they suggest.

I have not noticed a big difference in reporting.  But i have been playing with it and testing different things.   

I will leave it alone for a day or two and see how it does just running on it's own.  A lot of the things I was playing with reset cgminer so my accuracy would be better and have a better anwser in a few days.

There is no such thing as a S6 .   I'm guessing you mean Avalon 6?

Keep in mind the default setting is 20 percent on the fan.  If you feel it is getting to hot turn the fan up higher and it will help.  Considering it's at 1/5th of max fan it has a lot of room to go on fan.

The things I see right off the top:

• RPI Controller:  I highly like using a RPI as I can easy back it up, reflash, or purchase a new one quick. Compared to S7 where you have a controller you need to contact them and wait to get.
  
• Sound: I have kept it in my room for hot air normally miners go straight to my mining area after a few day's testing, and rest is done there.
• Only Use 4 PCIe cables: Biggest for me was having 4 PCIe cables instead of 10.  This meant PSU's I already ROIed on I was able to grab one and use with no extra cost.  The 10 PCIe on S7 is just a ton and limits options.

I'm still early in the testing.   I can see point's why people would like S7 and see points on Avalon 6.  I would rather keep this about information on the Avalon 6 as it's a review of it in this thread.  If your really wanting to debate the two miners it's a valid point, just not really right place in Avalon 6 review thread.  Please use threads such as ones made for comparisons - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1195199.0 .

The goal of this thread is to have information for those wanting it on Avalon 6's.  Not a debate thread on S7 vs Avalon 6.  And again that debate is worthy of it's own topic and does have one already: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1195199.0 .

Ahhh IC.  Next time I suggest to link to original source or mention it's not yours.

Just scrolling through page it appeared to be yours.  Any kind of words saying source would solve this.

Some of your things are just wrong.  The Raspberry PI controller is a pro... most would agree with this.  If your controller bricks or goes don a RPI is easy to get back up or get a new one quick.  S7 you need a custom controller board. So Avalon wins with using RPI.

It's actually pretty close as far as efficiency to S7, neither are really that far from other.   And Avalon has been able to be overclocked to 4T, we still have not seen a underclock yet but Phil is trying a few things to get one. 

Also consider it only takes 4 PCI-e cables so I was able to use a ATX psu I had sitting here already ROIed on.  On S7 the 10 PCIe cables makes psu selection much smaller.  I think Avalon wins on number of PCIe cables as it opens door for many more PSU's.



I think yours all comes down to no 5 on your list.  And I can't blame you if your mad over losing BTC back then.  But the company is now Canaan-Creative not avalon making the miner, and they got rid of some of the top level people.

On this everyone is welcome to their own opinion. I have dealt with them on 4.1's and it went good.  And on Avalon6 dealt with BlockC and it went good.  So I have no big complaints.

But all my personal opinion I could be wrong if others don't agree with me.

I would be a waste of time mining with regular CPU's, and GPU's.   Asics have taken over at this point.

You almost sounding like a botnet.... if that's what your talking about I hope you don't get much help.  I hope I'm reading to much into it though.

Heck of a solar setup Vika NSFW.  I might suggest moving from the Jalapeno to a more modern one.  If you used like a compac seems like you would get a lot more life out of battery.  It would not ROI... but would be a fun project.

Did they mention any kinda time frame?  That is good news to hear if they make it where it under clocks.  The 4.1 was kinda a king when it came to under clocking.  I still view the miner as a good miner and have had good luck with it.  I know I'm enjoying the free heat.

Right now it's not a huge deal but come after winter if they have a firmware ready to underclock, that would put them in a much better spot then S7 I think depending on under clock.

Me to on wishing I took more pictures.  I was in such a hurry to sell cards on ebay I did not get pictures of all my rigs... sucks looking back.

But by hurrying to ebay it gave me extra ROI, and I invested it in asics... so still a win.  Just not near as many pictures as I wish I had.

They are one of the few that actually have insurance for holdings.  That is why they do not allow private key to be taken.  They want it locked down to meet requirements to be insured.

If you get hacked for your own fault you do not get insurance.  If someone hacked the entire coinbase site then yes there should be insurance paid out to people.  So keep this in mind as coinbase is not the typical online wallet with this.