Right, but i am saying, they can replenish their stock with S5s they currently run in their mines and maybe some they have in storage. And they sure do have a lot of them.

Since they can simply power down a section of the miner and refurbish the S5's they can effectively replenish the stock at any time.

Indeed. There is not much in term of specs released for Xpoint, so its hard to say and their technology is interesting for non volatile storage, for faster SSDs. But usually with high speed come a storage reduction and high prices. So in term of cost effectiveness, this won't be it, i suspect.

But if you look at AMD's 3D stacked ram, you quickly see there's not much interest there in the world of crypto, currently.

For gaming i would love that stuff and its very interesting for stuff like Graphic cards but now its just moving the bottleneck to something else. Like CPU response time. Which Mantle API looked to fix. Anyways, veering off topic.

I bought these http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Insulated-Terminals-Ratchet-Crimping-Plier-AWG-22-10-0-5-6-0mm-HS-30J-/111411896671?hash=item19f0aaa15f they look very similar so i hope they will work for this. I bought these one because initially i only needed them for crimping insulated terminals.

Those are great link, i wonder if i could find a supplier in Canada. Doing this sound like fun, but it look like the materials cost for certain cable would be the same cost as buying them made. I'll keep an eye out!

Hehh, the high bandwidth high cost version of storage isint going to be useful or efficient. The mining, blockchain and also Eth technology really isint built around the need for Ram-like bandwidth performance. The need for memory is very small and the need for storage vary, but the storage devices again don't make use of ram-like or better performance.

No the S6 is going to be skipped, for now the S4+ is it. Those a rack mounted format. Maybe they will go back to S6 for the next gen rack mount ASIC but they said they would announce the S7 SoonTM.

xD Bitcoins arent actually in a wallet, generating a privkey offline and then sending btc to that address still is going to link the old address with your new offline address. So if the previous address was linked to you, the new one will be too.

You can't send BTC offline, how are you going to send a transaction offline

Why would it be? Not everyone start each month with 0 capital, all spent.

Bitcoin is pretty lucrative right now, its just fine as a job. Sure its value could crash some day or another, but that doesn't mitigate the current income it provide. You don't lose previous income because some day in the future its worth less.

Bitcoin as your only source of income is just fine. People lose regular job everyday, its just as or more a problem than BTC crashing. Whether that's a problem or not to the individual is how well prepared they are to changing job.

Yes... Marco said to PM him if you find a user that isint up to the Bit-x Campaign sig. Not start a holy crusade spanning all the Sig Campaign spammers.

Hmm luck affect the guessed network hashrate too, i wouldn't go saying Bitmain went and offlined 100PH in a shot. It's not 296 today either, look more like 360. But its possible they onlined a bunch of hardware yesterday and offlined a batch of S5 today to be ready to ship for the 14th+ august date.

I find the up spike and then down spike exactly syncing with bitmain's S5 event days pretty funny. And maybe suggest that Bitmain is truly doing what everything think they are doing...


They can replenish the stock at anytime, too.

Hmm, i suppose that may be true, but i don't think the difference between 2 weeks of mining with new hardware in itself change much. It's just that subsequent wave of more efficient hardware raise the diff a bit and knock off some older hardware. I'm just not sure how much impact new waves will have on the difficulty.

Also i'm not sure Bitmain is going to have much competition, since they seem in a good position and very much inclined to knock them off if one try to rise. Then again, i guess we'll see soon enough.

A list of campaign sig spammer would also be biased and cause drama. Isin't it up to the manager of individual campaign to judge the post quality of the members or members to be of his campaign?

I see, thanks.
And I didn't find one. To be honest, yours is built better. I'm just more familiar to building logic on Python, i'm not sure how it would be in VB.

Regardless i'll wait for the S5 and then i'll see if i feel like poking around stuff.

Unless something major hit BTC i don't believe it can go that low, we found a lower level of minimal floor value, i think it can go lower than the one we last found, but not that low.

If something major do hit BTC, like a major failure with some humongous dump it might lower drastically but otherwise, why would it? The SUPPLY raise rate is getting halved, that will put upward pressure, not crash the price in half.

I will try the software and report results when i get my S5.

Curiosity, are you strictly working on this in vb? I was kinda hoping to get similar software in Python for me to mess around with.

Going through the web make you even more traceable. However if you can register without giving private information, use encrypted email and vpn to connect, you may be able to negate that part.

Still, whenever you interact with websites, wallet to a wallet, you create traceability. You need to wear gloves for everything and the best is to avoid doing anything traceable. The level of anonymity you really need depend on what you're doing and who/where you are, however.

I also think if Bitmain is refitting their mine with newer hardware, the form factor and connector factor is going to remain the same. It make it more likely for what i'm hoping to happen, happen.

I'm just not sure Bitmain need to sell the new stuff yet, but at the same time, wouldn't it be more worthwhile to sell the hardware before the Diff go up?

It's easy, i don't know how special of a tool you need, the one i ordered from ebay seem to do them and Insulated terminals. At least there is a picture of all the terminal it can allegedly crimp and this is one of them. The thing look like this;

Thats the female one.
Then you just slide them in the socket and it hold there on its own. To remove them you usually use a small tool that push the hook so you can pull them out, i believe.
xD Don't worry about it if its a hassle to go through. If it is more than 2-3$ per cable it is likely to be too much regardless.

Hello, do those 6 to 6pin really work as replacement cable for the modular EVGA psu? The PCI-e sockets in the power supply are 8 pins and they usually end in 6+2 or 2x6pin.

That aside, can you get cables that end with 2 pci-e connector? Buying 1 spliter on top of each cable pretty much double the cost. At that point they are same cost as retail.

Another type of cable i'm interested are cables that would fit in the 6pin perif/sata modular connector from the EVGA g2 that end with a 6pin pcie. I'm not exactly sure of the pinout but it look like it would support direct 6pin since you can use an adaptor that turn molex into a pcie 6pin.

I've seen multiple reports of Bitmain replying to user when they ask "when will be the next generation released". The current target seem to be that Bitmain will make an announcement at some point in late September.
So personally i am buying at the moment since i figured i have at least 1.5-2 months of stability for getting a return on my purchase. With the return i can make in 2 months, the units are almost half repaid and at this point i am not worried about the miners devaluating that much.


You're welcome, feel fee to continue posting about your mining adventure here, i will be glad to be of further assistance!

@philipma1957
Might i ask how much you ended up paying for those 4 cables?

@Tigggger
Those are pretty expensive, they are most costly than retail from EVGA, but it gives me an idea of price comparison anyways, thanks!

@toptek
That might actually be workable. I live in Canada, and so does he, so the shipping rate are actually optimal. I will have to ask him if he can make exactly what i need but it might come down to either i buy them from him or i make them myself.

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I like the split cables, since it put less heat into one connector. I'll have to work out the math but forking over 40$ is quite possibly worth saving the hassle.