What do you recommend printing for the return or "ship from" address when generating a shipping label?
I put my address to and from. I use the canary's zip 60181 (double check that) as a different ship from zip there is a spot where it asks is the ship from different then return address. I would date it for tues and make sure to print/save it to pdf before tues. At least pay the extra 2.40 for a signature. priority has 50 bucks free insurance. So if you order 4 sticks or less you pay 5.xx plus 2.xx = 7.xx to the post office. After 4 sticks use your judgement as to more insurance. But the signature is your only good proof you got it. When I order 20 sticks or more I add 200-300 insurance. I don't ever add more then that. I have had 70 sticks with 300 insurance and a signature. I have had 3 blades with 200 insurance and a signature.
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Please make sure you have your wires correct or you will kill the hub.
use a volt meter!
I should photo this and post. my setup.
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I would like 20 sticks all colors please. if I remember 20 sticks will fit in a padded flat rate.
I will send in 3.6 btc sunday morning as i am waiting on coinbase. I am not going to split order this time.
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how about oregon usa some miners are under 6 cents a k watt
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Hey Guys, This is all exciting news, I vote amateur. All the collocation proposals from GB members looking good, my preference still goes to philipma1957, Keep in in Jersey, woah! ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) I am also really happy to see Sam, voxelot, and Bobsag team up. I am interested in some shares so who do I talk to? Diff rates are going up so we better go big or go home. I am working on a pet project that might be a help to us, might not too so I am still working out the details before I open my mouth here. So SaVoBob get in touch and we can talk. I AM GOOD for lots and lots of spare parts. The wife will kill me if I host. In house I am going to stick with sticks. In fact I just sold 3 blades at cost on ebay as the wife said no go. i will run about 100 sticks and maybe 2 jallys as mining is very addicting.
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okay first off I got the 3 old style blades yesterday fast shipping from the canary I looked at the packages all new all sealed. I am thinking I don't want them. I like the sticks better.
The old style were 10-13gh cost 5btc
the new are 10gh locked cost 4btc.
I am thinking of ordering more sticks at .18btc each. But I would like to use a new blade if it was plug n play like the sticks. So far no info on the new blades.
I use bitminter and java the old blades will not let me do this. So before I order new blades or more sticks I need to know the story as to how the new blades run.
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okay I just got my last 6 coupons fulfilled they came today.
I got my 3 old style blades yesterday. I have decided to sell them and stay with sticks. I prefer the sticks and even though the older blades can push 12gh or 36 sticks I like the sticks better. Canary has been a really good seller to me I think I have purchased 200 sticks and 3 blades I have to go back and add it all up.
So enjoy the Labor day weekend and thanks for good business practices. Phil
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My 3 blades came today. Does anyone run them with bitminter/java?
The ASICminer blades have their own mining client built in. But it is rather primitive and only supports the old getwork protocol. The recommended way to mine with them is through a stratum proxy. You can set up Slush's stratum proxy on your computer, pointing it at BitMinter, and set up the blades to point to your computer running the proxy. You can get the proxy from: https://github.com/slush0/stratum-mining-proxyAnd run it something like so: mining_proxy.exe -o mint.bitminter.com -sp 3333 -gp 8332 (if you already have something running on port 8332 you may have to change the port number) In the blade configuration for user name use something like: username_worker:workerpassword,username_worker:workerpassword So if my user name is DrHaribo, my worker is Blade1 and its password is abc123, then I put DrHaribo_Blade1:abc123,DrHaribo_Blade1:abc123 This data must be entered twice. For host/IP put the IP of your computer running the stratum proxy. That IP must also be entered twice with a comma between. So if I am running the proxy on a computer with IP address 1.2.3.4 then I put 1.2.3.4,1.2.3.4 Now you are set for efficient mining. The Stratum proxy will receive block templates from the BitMinter server and use it to generate work for the blade(s). With the blade and computer on the same network the blade will be able to fetch new work very quickly. I believe you can enter data for another pool as backup as the data after the comma, instead of the exact same thing twice. You'll probably need to set up two stratum proxies on different ports to make this work. Maybe someone can confirm whether this is failover or 50/50 mining. Luke-Jr's latest bfgminer release has support for blades. It's basically running an internal GBT/Stratum proxy for the blade. Not quite sure how it works, or if it's known to be stable yet. The new blades also can connect via USB, but I'm not sure if that has opened up any new ways to communicate with the hardware or if it's still requiring a getwork->gbt/stratum proxy. UPDATE: Looks like as of right now it isn't yet included in the windows binary releases, so you'll have to build it yourself. README.ASIC has the instructions for using a blade with bfgminer. thanks to both of you. . for info I have new old stock voltage unlocked miners. No usb only ethernet. I do have a mulit port switch for the 3 extra ethernet connection that I will need. I will try to do Slush's stratum proxy on sat morning. I will get back with results. I have a quality pc (i7 3770t cpu) with a quality mobo asrock z77-itx-e fast ram and a ssd. pretty quick powerful pc. it runs the 90-100 usb stick well. If i get it all setup I will be back up to 60gh
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A friend of mine is getting the same error about 3 times a day with the latest mining client. He only runs two SC Singles.
The auto rescan isn't finding them I guess because they don't work properly for a while after they come back. It sees a new COM port, probes it, determines there is no mining device. After that it doesn't try again, but the single starts working again a couple minutes later. At least that is what this sounds like. I think I'll need to put in a new option for the auto rescan to keep retrying all ports not just new ones. It will produce a lot of errors on computers with COM ports that are not for mining. But it seems useful in this case. doc I got 3 blades today I only use java and bitminter will java probe an ethernet jack I know it looks at usb ports and will find asic miner usb sticks pretty well or do I need to use a different client? I have been reading bfgminer trying to figure out how to setup with bitminter pool.
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My 3 blades came today. Does anyone run them with bitminter/java?
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canary, i understand that your busy, but i havn't recieved a response from you regarding the most tecent coupon offer, last time a lack of response cost me a week as after a week when i enquires about my order you finally told me i didnt pay enough for postage, so please give me the heads up that you have recieved my payment and your sending my shipment
LOL, when the price is 0.15 Bitcoin everywhere else, he will ship the miners that actually are supposed to be distributed at 0.1 BTC? No regulation because it's BITCOIN. I see the use of bitcoin here. I saw someone at 0.17 BTC at some other threads if you guys want to buy, unsure if that was a reputable vendor. well .15 btc includes shipping and handling. So if you got 2 or 3 sticks he makes no money. Many people were entitled to only a few coupons. Your argument is less then perfect for many of his customers. Myself I got 36 coupons so I paid 5.4 coins rather then 3.6 coins and say .3 -.4 for handling/shipping. So some would say he over charged me 1 to 1.5 coins. I say fast shipping, a few returns accepted for dead sticks. 2 out of 200 how arrived doa. the orders correctly filled. More then 70 btc paid to him with no issues. Well that extra 1-1.5 btc should buy him and his family a nice dinner and the treat is on me! Happy to buy from one of the few btc people that deliver the goods on time.
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I am curious about opinions.
Just say you have a person today that wants to start bitcoin mining. How do they start and be able to at least ROI their investment? Just curious about what your plan would be.
No one can give real chance of ROI as a certainty.. But I would tell the buyer if he has BTC buy a new blade from Canaryinthemine cost is 4btc plus shipping. so about 500 usd. set it up to a low powered piece of gear. use a simple pool like bitminer. If you have the other gear the investment would be under 600 usd. you may or may not make roi. If 600 usd is high for a new guy and if you do not have any btc. Go on ebay there are very good sellers with 10 year 1000 plus perfect feedback selling the usb sticks.(a shameless plug about myself) One guy sells a 3 pack for 102usd in hand . another seller sells 1 stick for 34 usd . And the prices have dropped a lot on ebay. or buy a 6 stick kit with a quality hub and fan for about 260. (shameless plug again) you won't get your money back with the kit but you will get in the game. at 65 mill diff the kit would earn .0154 coins a day or .154 coins in 10 days at 75 mill diff the kit would earn .0133 coins a day or .133 coins in 10 days at 85 mill diff the kit would earn .0118 coins a day or .118 coins in 10 days at 285 mill diff the kit would earn .0035 coins a day or .035 coins in 10 days about 4.20 usd in 10 days and 1-2 spent in power you would spend about 1-2 usd for 10 days on power. So at todays numbers of 65 mill diff sticks look good at future numbers of 285 mill diff sticks do not look good. I think diff will will not shoot up to the 200 mill fast like by sept 30. we are at 65 going on 75 right now. going to 200 in 30 days is no way going to happen
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your are correct that ups with battery would only work for about 4-6 hours for one unit. So in a long blackout (think hurricane sandy) we could be down a week.
I lost power in NJ on and off a total of 3 out of 17 days after sandy and I was lucky compared to many. One thing I always had was the net. But next big storm who knows. with amateur hosting two or 3rigs could be moved to a backup (hoster) in a big storm power outage.
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For a 0.335 GH/s device to recover 0.17BTC with only a 20% diff each change ... it would take ... 190 Days ... at 1000 days it is ... 0.17936377 BTC (so pretty much never reach 0.18 BTC) If on the other hand it was 30% diff each change ... at 500 days it will have generated ... 0.11957525 BTC ... 1000 days ... 0.11957587 BTC ... so it would never reach 0.12BTC ... of course 0.5W isn't free either ... especially after 1000 days ... http://www.tradebtc.net/bitcalc.phpEdit: for a 10GH/s device at 20% increase each change, it would take 89 days to get 4BTC at 30% increase it would ... 500 days 3.56940335 BTC ... 1000 days 3.56942180 BTC ... so never reach 3.6 BTC But the electricity is pretty relevant also ... Yes many people buying AsicMiner hardware will not get their many back ... yeah and if it is 10% you will do fine not to mention if btc goes up after purchase.. of course if btc tanks oh well. btc volatility influence on mining equipement purchase profitability does not make sense 1 BTC is higher than .75 BTC no matter what the exchange rate is. If it is the yield that a mining equipment is giving, you are better just sit on your bitcoins. For some holding coin is one part of a multi spread the risk plan. 100% mining or 100% coinholding is not the way to go. (and this is way off topic for bitminter but still is very interesting). I hold coin, I have btc stock,s I have mining gear that I mine with on bitminter and I resell mining gear on ebay to newcomers . So I spread risk around. Your hold coin plan can work well for you. For me I have a steller ebay sales record so selling gear at a low price for a small profit really removes a lot of risk for me. I still hold coins long term. I also try to keep everything under 10k. Stocks, coins, ebay stock my mining gear. More a part time job then a living.
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