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Let's say you wanted to find a pebble of sand on the beach that was a certain color of red. Only that color of red counts. If you find that red piece of sand, you get $100,000. If someone finds the red sand, they announce a new color, and the hunt starts over.
Now, lots of people are scouring the beach looking for this. However, you're smart and organize a group. You get a bunch of people together, and draw some squares. You have person 1 look in square 1, person 2 in square 2, etc.
This is how pooled mining works - the pool gives a little square to a miner, and that miner searches through that square. When they've looked for all the grains of sand in their square they pool gives them a new square or if someone finds the red grain somewhere else on the beach, and then the miner says "Ok, now look for the blue sand". The pool is dishing out the squares to each miner.
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What’s “HW”?
Hardware errors |
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Its either a troll or someone who has a mental disorder. Sounds exactly like someone with some form of schizophrenia.
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That's the difficulty. And again, I haven't released full disclosure and now yet you still haven't really answered my question. I know mining through your server; The blocks are generated at your address and then you send them to my username, my address, after removing your 1% fee. Which is very just. I'm sure solo miners would be happy with a 3-5% fee. As a lottery it could even be a 5-8% fee. But again, people still have a general understanding mining alone is a lottery. It is not actually the size of the bitcoin, it's currently difficulty is still making it a solutions to a mathematical problem that is only about 1.1MB. 1 ACIS (to search) and a MacBook Pro (to solve) ... the MacBook can solve in 10 minutes one of the equation. I reality with the upgraded chip and the ability for my computers to communicate within my internet network 1000X the data per M/H. I don't have the time to go through this with you or not. Did the blocks generate through the CK solo pool or not? 3 times this direct question has not been answered. but if you want to talk to me privately I will explain to you better. If you withhold information from, I will know. And, I will act accordingly to release such information.
You are not finding blocks at all. You do not understand how this all works. |
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You should setup something like PiVPN and use that as a way to connect to the network your miner is on.
Port forward the VPN port, and that's all you need to do.
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I plan to buy 10 antminer s9 or assemble their equibalente rig, I think the rig is a good idea, because if a graphic card is broken it is easier to replace it to continue its operation but I do not know if that sacrifices the effectiveness.
I look for the effectiveness of a s9 in a rig at its own cost, is this possible?
Can I put together a rig that has an Efficiency of 14TH/s? as?
I have a place free of electricity payments, that's not the problem, I'm worried that some s9 can be broken down and sacrifice profitability.
What would be the best cost / benefit?
You'd need something like 50 1080 Tis (at a cost of $35k), eating 20kw of power to match the speed of 1 S9 ($1500 or so) eating 1.5kw. |
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I use in-line PCI-e adapters that have a fan plug wired in. Used to use them to provide extra cooling for Avalon 6's
That'd be exactly what I'd want - do you have a link to those, or did you just make them? |
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Best share 172413942534 !.. Just a little further to go! Cant believe how insanely difficult things have got!
Yep, and with the total accepted of 1563120265334, seems like we're statistically at the point where someone could expect to get a block. |
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[2017-11-19 22:34:55] Message from pool 0: New best ever share for user: 45541.123311
See that? Your best share difficulty is 45k, which would've been great if you were mining in early 2010. In order to find a block, you need a best of 1.4 trillion or higher. You are not finding blocks, because your hardware is slow and it can't compete with the much faster hardware out there. The algorithm to find blocks can't be changed - you have to brute force a valid hash. |
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Like the idiot I am, I fried the fan control on my eBit miner when I was trying to repair a broken fan on it. (I had a bad crimp on one of the pins that I didn't notice until it was too late, saw the spark once it turned on and immediately shut it down.)
However, the miner works perfectly fine, just with no fan so it quickly gets to it's shutoff point of 70C.
I have the right kind of fan, high static pressure, all that good stuff, and I wanted to wire it externally and just run it at 100%.
Has anyone wired up something like this? It's your standard 4 pin high powered, 12v, 3amp fan - so those case fan to USB converters definitely won't power that.
Any tips from the pros on here?
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Buttmain (ha, I still laugh when I see that written) just shipped my power supplies! (three months after I ordered) No update on the batch of S9s that should have shipped with them though. Anyone else get notified?
Still waiting for my November S9s (supposed to ship between now and next week sometime) - shows unshipped and no shipping notification yet. |
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Here's from a reply I posted before in this:
First, you need ASIC mining machines to mine Bitcoin.
You can't mine it directly with a GPU. There's services that let you mine alt coins and convert that to BTC, but this advice below is if you want to mine Bitcoin directly.
On average, the two best in class miners as of this post are the Canaan Avalon 741 and the Bitmain S9.
Second, mining requires lots of consideration.
The 741 costs $800(US) and produces 7 TH/s at 1200 watts (~29 kWh of power.) The S9 costs $1500(US) and produces 14 th/s at 1500 watts (~36 kWh of power.)
Both will require PCIe cables and power supplies, which are an addition $100-$150 or so.
Neither will be in stock for the rest of the year, so if you want them NOW, you'll have to pay a larger mark up on eBay or to a person selling them.
Those watts translate almost 100% into heat, so the more miners you have, the more heat you'll have to deal with (either exhausting/venting it, or using active cooling like AC)
Each miner is a little bit bigger than a shoe box, so you'll need racks to store them - and they're pretty loud, putting out about the sound of a vacuum cleaner.
Many people use a separate space to store them - whether its their garage, a shed they've built/modified, or a warehouse.
The S9 can be unreliable, and while under warranty, your only option is to ship it back to China for them to repair it, which takes weeks at least, months at most.
The Avalon is a little more reliable, but less overall hash rate.
Finally, the difficulty increases every 2016 blocks, or roughly two weeks. This means your miners get less effective all the time. Eventually, new miners come out to replace them, so you're hoping you've made enough coin to pay for those so you can keep up.
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You can't mine Bitcoin effectively with CPUs. In addition, the vast majority of altcoins require a GPU, but they're covered in another area of the forum.
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Guys can someone please tell me if the Segwit2x happened today or not? Thanks!  Nope - the few btc1 nodes running got stuck on a block before the fork was supposed to activate, and there was a fatal defect that prevented the new chain from spawning. The write up here: https://twitter.com/jfnewbery/status/931553531471032320John Newbery on Twitter says: I try to assume good intentions in people. Unfortunately, I can no longer do so for @jgarzik. My judgement is that he is acting to disrupt the bitcoin network to advance his own interests. Segwit2x was announced abandoned last week, but there are still some residual nodes in the network. This morning, those nodes froze at block 494,782. That's two blocks before the intended hard fork at 494,784. ... Looking at the code, it appears that Jeff made an off-by-one error. That's not entirely surprising. The VersionBitsState() code is confusing, and the commit where Jeff added the hard fork code had no review- https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/pull/50I then took a look at the miner activation code. There's another bug there. In the BlockAssembler constructor code, fWitnessSeasoned is being accessed before initialization. The result: no large block can be mined to trigger the fork. This is a simple bug. Any reasonably competent coder would have spotted this (not least because a compiler or static analysis could have warned that a member was being accessed before initialization). Any reasonable review process would have caught this. Sadly btc1 had neither. When I pointed this out to Jeff, he immediately created a patch and pushed it out. In case it's not clear: SegWit2x only makes sense if it has consensus and can bring the network with it. That's what we were told again and again: 2x is an upgrade and will become the one true chain. ... Trying to create a SegWit2x fork at this point, when it's clear that it doesn't have consensus, is simply sowing discord and confusion. There are more bugs in the btc1 code. I can't in good conscience reveal what those are, since I have no intention of helping create a disruptive hard fork. In case it's not clear: no-one should run btc1 code. It is untested, unreviewed, buggy and can only serve to disrupt and confuse the Bitcoin network. |
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I wish Bitmain would hurry up and ship my November S9s - mining requires more patience than so many other hobbies.
Come on blocks!
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Thanks, that might be ideal but the secondhand market for "new" miners seems almost double the price of ordering from Bitmain directly — and I haven't been following these closely enough to be able to figure out which are old enough.
What about powering only some of the boards? Is that a feasible option or are there issues with that?
Or, are there any other suitable miners I've missed? I found the AvalonMiner 741 which might do, but it's out of stock and looks to be more equivalent to the S7 generation in efficiency.
Yes, you could run with only powering 1 or 2 of the three boards. That would work. As long as each board got its ~500w of power, you'd be good (plus the controller.) |
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How quick? None of the major mining hardware vendors are shipping machines that would arrive before the end of the year. Most won't arrive until well into Jan of next year.
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