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I think it's very possible, I remember back in the early scrypt days there were pools who did this, jumping back and forth onto other pools chasing the highest profit margins. You could tell by the huge swings in hashing power and worker lists. I'm sure its still being done even with sha-256 pools
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Received my Vapium Summit last week. Initial inspections are that it's very solid. I love how it vibrates when the unit is ready to go, and how the lid for the chamber and mouth piece are held on via magnets, and the air pathway is not restrictive at all from my initial burn off test (without anything in it)
Overall impressions are very good, really small portable device to take on the go.
I'll be posting a better review with some pics and a smoke report in a couple weeks.
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Pm me or reply with what you have
Located in Portland Oregon US
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I just wanted to thank everyone for the responses. I did email Bitmain, and they told me that none of their products support WIFI and that WIFI can not be added. Lol. But, I'll probably buy an S5 and use one of the above methods. I realize that WIFI might not be the optimal setup for mining, but for my situation, it's necessary. I don't mind spending some extra money to add the capability, but I just wanted to make sure that it was possible. Thank you all for your help!
I used to use wifi all the time, Like others have said, go with a wifi bridge, something with a handful of ports on the back so you can scale up in the future with more miners. THey are cheap and easy to setup and as long as your signal is decent you should have no problems.. heck you can even purchase higher db antennae which would give you greater range and signal. |
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is there any risk to this? I might be interested.. US based
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Wasn't the design of the S2 supposed to be that modular machine? A bunch of boards on a backplane that could easily be swapped out. Unfortunately, they (Bitmain) never followed through with any upgrade kits. That kind of setup would be great for the datacenter guys. Keep the chassis and just upgrade the boards.
Yeah I think you are spot on with this. the S2 was supposed to be the answer to everything. Being able to have the boards on a backplane was a good selling point for them and the apparent upgrade path was promising. too bad they never really cared to follow through. |
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Here is our $1,000,000 mining farm installation: https://www.facebook.com/StartHash/photos_streamIf you can get electricity lower than 0.1 USD/kWh, you're good to go. We use about 1kW for cooling, 10kW for ventilation and up to 500kW is available for miners. Everything is designed to fit 1 PH of mining equipment. We are also green energy conscious, so we installed LED lighting and run our pool and monitoring system off a Raspberry Pi. We monitor temperature and humidity and adjust our miners and cooling systems for maximum efficiency. Our in-house alert systems allows us to react to events and check all aspects of our farm's activity. Drop me any questions, I'm sure we can provide some solutions. Looks like a good setup, are you currently at 1PH? How long did it take you guys from start to mining? |
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News from Bitmain: S5 is sold out...
S4+ is sold out...
Please wait the official announcement for any new hardware.
At the moment, U3 is the only miners in stock
So... this means if you were looking for bigger you are lookig at used. Or wait till next gen (whenever that is ). Yeah I think OP should grab something used depending on budget. Dont get a U3, they are horribly inconsistent and require alot of power cycling from what ive seen. R-Box, S3, S5, SP20 are all decent plug and mine capable machines.. it all just comes down to budget |
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I think your best bet would be to try and grab a used S3 or two, see how you like mining and see if it's worth it with your power cost to earnings ratio. After a month of running them you can easily judge whats in your best interest and see if you want to invest more $ into equipment or just purchase BTC instead as an investment.
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I personally have never purchased directly from manufacturers, I find it much more cost effective to buy from panic wholesalers on places like forums, Amazon, eBay, and Craigslist.
If u have never brought from bitmain direct then there is a good chance u have never roi! usually when you get a good ROI chance is being one of the first couple batches on a new unit. after that I also buy second hand as the difficulty and btc price makes roi on higher up batches harder and harder this is pretty much the best way… As a miner threading water is big. breaking even for 6 months then a 1 to 3 week spike and you make a shit ton of money. last good time for mining was in the fall for 2 weeks nicehash rentals were 3 to 6 fold. I earned 2.8 btc in 11 days. Yeah I was using betarigs during that time and it was pretty good also. I might jump back in and get some hardware soon, but debating between sp20's or waiting for future gen stuff "supposedly" this month |
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Hi
Apologies for the delay in reply - Have been away for the weekend.
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Thank you for shipping this out, I will make sure to post a review on your main thread once the vape is delivered  Thanks again |
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Ah, interesting. Looks like I'll be a Hero member sometime in the next few weeks myself, most likely. Congrats and looking forward to info on the new gear! is there new gear even coming from spondoolies? I thought they are making stuff from themselves only now |
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Man, this really sucks. Uber is a perfect setting for Bitcoin corporation. Hopefully as Bitcoin develops as legitimate in the eyes of the public, Uber will reconsider their stance on bitcoin.
Yeah I as thinking the same thing, Bitcoin would be great for uber, they are already getting flak from taxi companies, I think they might as well accept Bitcoin, would garner them a lot more customers and be good advertisement |
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Yes.. Bitmain playin their hand in a market of greed. Mining equipments price should decrease. That would be the norm and honest thing to do not in this market though. Same should be if your product is late to market....time is money. They're all holding back for someone to show their hand.
yeah this is getting out of hand, seems like more and more the days of home mining is dwindling away. companies dont care about timeframes and releasing to the mass market now, they sit on their gear and the big farms contact them to purchase hundreds of thousands of dollars worth |
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I personally have never purchased directly from manufacturers, I find it much more cost effective to buy from panic wholesalers on places like forums, Amazon, eBay, and Craigslist.
If u have never brought from bitmain direct then there is a good chance u have never roi! usually when you get a good ROI chance is being one of the first couple batches on a new unit. after that I also buy second hand as the difficulty and btc price makes roi on higher up batches harder and harder |
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My wife made me sell all of my miners and quit bitcoin because I was spending too much time researching and tinkering with the miners in the garage. Now shes totally against it, ive even tried to pick up mining again but she gets mad and says she will leave me if I buy another miner.  |
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be careful, that website doesn't seem very legit |
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