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Wow surprised and happy. Was not expecting to see this, welcome back to the forum.
Do you know what price next batch will be and timeline? Also will it be a bigger batch for customers?
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According to my calculations I am making exactly as much now as I was making back in the GPU Litecoin mining days. Back when every R9 270X was making $5/per day/per card. Only this time with ASIC equipment.
I really wish I didn't sell all my coins earlier at $300.
I sold most at 300 six to be exact. then 1 at 356 and 1 at 369. The rest I am holding I wish I waited just a little longer, but WTF if they drop down to 280 I will look smart. If they go to 500 I still have a few left. I know what you mean I sold my S4's and put in a account to pay mining electricity. I thought I was playing it safe and thought the same what if it goes other way. I missed at least 1k dollars by not investing back into bitcoin and putting in a bank account in USD. I feel stupid for it now... but I'm a cautious investor. |
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Rising coin price coupled with falling temperatures in the northern hemisphere and winter electricity rates, and all this new hardware is going to make the next few months very fun to watch from a difficulty speculation perspective. Throw the halving in and wow, there's really no saying what things will look like in the near future.
I got a late guess in this round, but I'm glad I did because it's looking to be headed that direction.
Even in midwest temps have been falling quite a bit. I have not done it yet but I'm thinking I will be able to unplug my window fans that were helping air circulate from windows to mid room where miners were. Winter is a comming... which is always a good season for miners. Add higher prices per coin and were doing even better. coins are over 371 usd on coinbase baby!! You beat me to the post! Was just seeing that it dipped just a little but still in high 360! Hopefully cross back into 270 again.... man talk about a good day. It is a fun time to be a miner! I sold some at 369 Pretty amazing it went up and down a little while and is currently on coinbase at 367.. one heck of a day and nice place to stop at hopefully we keep this gain. Bitcoin Difficulty: 62,253,982,450 Estimated Next Difficulty: 65,869,068,079 (+5.81%) Adjust time: After 1243 Blocks, About 8.2 days Hashrate(?): 479,470,161 GH/s Bitwisdom is over 5 but I cant even be mad with increase in price |
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Favorite time of the week sig campaign and mining. Sig campaign is always a nice bonus.
And btc took a big jump up. So mining is even better then before. It's been a great day.
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I post the same amount with it without a signature. It is strictly bonus coins for doing something I already would be doing anyways. If you treat it as a job then you will post more stuff that does not help anyone. I am flat rate paid anyways.
I wanted to bump this up guys. Please keep this in mind - the bitcointalk forum is a place for useful and fun and informative discussion, not for spam. Just a slight bit off topic but I think that this post deserves the bump  Honestly this debate is starting to take away from thread. Bit-X is a great campaign, I have been part of it over 7 months. Always have been paid and treated fair. A war in thread is not going to help much. If you suspect someone of spam or they make comments about it being a job report it to Macro. Let him look through it an make the decision. This back an forth in thread will help no one. |
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someone here who is thinking about mineral oil cooling, like this:
(immersion)
or is this cheaper?
(fan)
Fan's are by far cheaper. That is why almost every miner is one with fan's. There are a few water cooled miners, but very few. Half have been modded to get water cooling. It's been a while since I've seen a mod even using immersion. |
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Thanks Irritant, AJRGale and Sloopy. I've ran zadiag as admin and started a cmd prompt as administrator and started the bat file from there without success. I've also tried 2 different USB ports on 2 different computers with the same result. I did read the remainder of the thread and didn't notice anyone with the same issue, Google didn't bring back much either so I was hoping it was something so obvious nobody previously needed to ask!  do you have a raspberry pi laying around you could try to test on linux there, also maybe try BFG but it shouldn't matter imo linux deals with usb a lot better methinks The driver is a pain on some windows install. Some it works perfect... others it's a battle. Try debian on USB drive if you have nothing else. But most likely you will want to order a RPI. It will save on electricity a lot to run a RPI vs a entire computer. |
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No do not use molex to PCIE.... it's asking for trouble. Molex is not going to be enough. Honestly get a better PSU. It will last multiple generation of miners. It's a good investment. |
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Lol 0.03$/kWh  Where do you live? If US Washington seems to be main spot with low electricity. Heard off a few others. But a lot of those .03 and such are in places like China. China the operations can really do good with being partners with a electricity company. |
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Rising coin price coupled with falling temperatures in the northern hemisphere and winter electricity rates, and all this new hardware is going to make the next few months very fun to watch from a difficulty speculation perspective. Throw the halving in and wow, there's really no saying what things will look like in the near future.
I got a late guess in this round, but I'm glad I did because it's looking to be headed that direction.
Even in midwest temps have been falling quite a bit. I have not done it yet but I'm thinking I will be able to unplug my window fans that were helping air circulate from windows to mid room where miners were. Winter is a comming... which is always a good season for miners. Add higher prices per coin and were doing even better. coins are over 371 usd on coinbase baby!! You beat me to the post! Was just seeing that it dipped just a little but still in high 360! Hopefully cross back into 270 again.... man talk about a good day. It is a fun time to be a miner! |
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i save more than 1BTC at online wallet (coinbase)
and save more than 1BTC at paper wallet
for me paper wallet is good place for long term wallet and online wallet is best place to save bitcoin for daily activity
how exactly it's safe (the coinbase online wallet) if we take in consideration that an online wallet can be hacked at any time ? even if it's not by you (means hacker inject you with a RAT or trojan) , the hack can happen from their side . They are insured on coinbase on their side. So if hack happened and they were cause they should get insurance to pay the people who lost money (this has never been tested I don't think on having to be used but they show it's in place). As far if you are targeted and it's from your side then coinbase is no insurance. It's a loss to you. So still paper wallet for long term storage is best. But for a spending wallet with just a little in it not bad overall. |
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you can earn small amounts of bitcoins by claiming the highest paying faucets regularly or by participating in signature campaigns that are on this forum i guess these are the best ways
The highest paid faucets you still are making cents per hours. The time just does not equal the amount of work. Signature campaigns are good if used right. I would be here posting no matter what so a little free coin for being here doing my normal posts is great. It's probley best "free" way out there. |
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Each one would work different. There is not one way they all work. There are some I would avoid.
First lending as it is really hard to get the money back if they default, I suggest staying clear of it. Second one that just jumped out to me was
Casino Investment. I would also avoid casinos in general as a investment. Just not enough regulation.
I'm sure there are more that are ones I don't agree with, but everyone has different factors they want. I would make sure before any of them to do your own research. I strongly push for new people to do research before investing.
Good opinions, but every investment can be safe if you risk little amounts. I would certainly not put all my savings in a mining contract or similar. It does lesson the risk of losing a lot but I see problems. A lot of scams start out paying out... so that first payment the small one you might ROI on. Then some will expand and it craps out from being a scam. A lot sadly have done this where first in got money and last in got taken for a ride. And loans I just don't like as getting money from a default seems pretty hard. Even BTCJam you would think would have a unit or something to help with it... but they just release the persons info to you and expect you to take whatever legal route there is. If a website actually took a role in helping get defaulted money back they could easily take over as best site to loans at. |
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Another way how to earn bitcoins is altcoin.
This is possible when new coins are in the exchange.
And most of the time there is a giveaway and you get and convert them into bitcoin.
Giveaway's are pretty nice I have not gotten into to many of them. But most if you can are worth while as it is not repeated over and over like a faucet. Only thing to be careful on is some are pump/dump. So miners mine really fast and dump the coins. In these cases they are worth more at the start on exchange then months later. For example burst: https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_burst |
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Rising coin price coupled with falling temperatures in the northern hemisphere and winter electricity rates, and all this new hardware is going to make the next few months very fun to watch from a difficulty speculation perspective. Throw the halving in and wow, there's really no saying what things will look like in the near future.
I got a late guess in this round, but I'm glad I did because it's looking to be headed that direction.
Even in midwest temps have been falling quite a bit. I have not done it yet but I'm thinking I will be able to unplug my window fans that were helping air circulate from windows to mid room where miners were. Winter is a comming... which is always a good season for miners. Add higher prices per coin and were doing even better. |
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gear has to show fast or don't bother.
hell with current price of coin at 360 usd s-3's are good gear again.
I am kinda kicking myself. I got rid of my S4's when it was at 230's. I just was not making much compared to sell price, and was afraid of newer miners pushing down price. So they would be much more profitable now then they were when I sold them. A ROI is a ROI.... but I hate knowing there was more I could have gotten. I'm not perfect i guess  . |
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I ran 24 hours without a zombie killing it on 1 U3. Switched to 3 and am like 13-14 hours into that test and it has not had a zombie that it could not fix. It is looking very very promising.
Yea, I saw that after posting to this thread and think that's really cool. My single remaining U3 does ok by itself, it zombies out every day or so, but not more often than that, which is pretty good from experiences I've had. I also run the U3 in its own cgminer instance which I've found to be more stable than when I have it lumped in with other usb miners. But heck, a few extra dollars to get a wifi hotspot that keeps my U3 going is money well spent. I just wish it had a better mining chip and maybe even a little fan so we could see like 15-20GH/s out of it rather than 5. Maybe that's the next hack someone will work on, a chip-swap...  CrazyGuy has gotten 4 day's so far with 3 compacs not stopping from zombie that can't be fixed which is pretty much unheard of: Thanks for providing your results! My 3 units are still running without human intervention for 4 days. The script is just checking for zombies, then restarting cgminer or rebooting the R1 if necessarry, so it shouldn't increase the zombie rate. I'm thinking the script is just more efficient at catching them than we are He does have a tab where it's freq can be adjusted very easily on R1 itself. I have not played with it much. But I'm sure if you added air flow like you mention you could go above what most do. He has also mentioned future ideas/plans: Additionally, you will receive future firmware updates when available. I have plans to add Compac support and integrate ckpool for solo mining against your own local bitcoin node.
For the price if it fixes U3's that's already worth the purchase in my mind. But a plan of compac support to is great in my book. I suggest if your wanting one to go over and support him, and bitmain is still out to. But you will not regreat it with his custom firmware. I get paid zero for this ad I just like the product that much. |
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is there going to be a batch 4?
they are most likely fixing to either introduce lite or drop the price to be competitive with others in December and especially by January. I would be hugely surprised if they keep both the premium and the model. Since they didn't use the model number ~ S6 ~ ... maybe that's what the 3.xTH/s "S7 lite" will be ..... With how cut throat the bitcoin hardware market is.... the absolute addiction to getting the best efficency, supply and demand ( no more S7's at 4.86TH/s )... I'd have to say that the 3.x TH/s S7 lite will be the same price as the S7 B3. WHY NOT? Only game in town, till someone else comes along and creates some competition.... then and only then will there be lower price models. bitmaintech can self mine at the high coin prices which are touching 360 usd. I see them waiting a while before batch 4 and I see them selling a 2 board unit at a price rise per gh . if the 4860gh batch 3 was 1620 usd that was 33 cents a gh. I can see a 3200gh batch 4 sell for 1200 usd which is 37.5 cents a gh If coins keep rising it would sell. Sell well. Only problem is if they jack up price with coins so high right now. I'm hoping they don't do to much of this. Assuming leak is true on new lower specced one will be interesting. I wonder if they went to 2 blades if so they should be able to sell for a decent amount less, guess it depends partially on how much more chips they put on hashing board assuming they do that. |
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Hi, Thanks for the information I'm using bitminter so far, maybe I'll change if I care to look for better options :p
Have you ever tried to join Sidehack pool or ckpool? It looks as if there is a waiting list to join these clubs. Also do the compacs have to be bought from Sidehack to have the permission to join its pool? Cheers, Jeff. To my knowlege it does not matter where you are buying the compac, just that you have one. (Which ultimately it should have first sell to sidehack or europe compacs). As some were sold to are not penalized by purchasing from resellers (a lot of other countries were resellers) But yes the club is capped at 30 at the minute to make it fun and not just have a ton. But check in at the club pool board to check more into it. It is had some good community help. Phil of course has done a lot of work on it, and crytoglance did a amazing job on tracking software. |
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If this firmware can be cracked I'd buy one. Until then I'm on the sidelines waiting to play.
Just don't like the idea of being forced to mine on antpool.
It is cracked already, and you can now set up to solo or pool mine with the same interface as all the other Bitmain S series Miners. If you buy your Miner from CrazyGuy you can even choose to have it shipped with the enhanced firmware. Rich I suggest getting one from CrazyGuy - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=612390.0 . Bitmain is out of stock and he he selling from stock. And he is quite talented at programming. He has the most advanced custom firmware I feel pretty safe saying currently. Nice find, thanks for sharing the link. I think this is the route I will go, support the local community and give back a little to the people who figure out how to crack and code this stuff. Plus, it saves me from having to re-read pages of thread and figure out how to do it (mess it up) on my own. Honestly it is worth it on supporting him to. I have no idea how long he spent programming, but it is quite a while. His latest version: CFW 0.94 has been uploaded for my customers.
The previous updates to cgminer-monitor were missing U3 zombies where the device was still showing as active through the API. I've reworked the function to compare "Last Valid Work" before and after a specific interval for all connected devices. This should catch and handle all zombies, and just in time for Halloween! The new monitor has kept my 3 U3s running without human intervention for the past 2 days.
I ran 24 hours without a zombie killing it on 1 U3. Switched to 3 and am like 13-14 hours into that test and it has not had a zombie that it could not fix. It is looking very very promising. |
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