The point is that right now its a sellers market when it comes to miners.
Mining is very profitable right now with the low difficulty and high BTC price, so nobody is selling.
Hence if you really want a miner, you will have to pay a premium
Low difficulty, high price? Are you smoking something? Price is in the toilet right now (although going up a little) and low or high difficulty is subjective right now. I wasn't "low" since early 2014. Any new unit (S7 for example) cannot break even at current price. Of course you can gamble and front your electricity costs and invest, knowing BTC will go up... But right now, you cannot mine for profit fast or cheaply enough to break even, so I don't know what you're getting at. I think he means low difficulty jumps. It has been much lower then a lot of us thought it would be on difficulty changes. For those who are profitable at 230..... 270 is great for us. So many miners are having a good time. But I agree it is sellers market. I want to repeat I have noting against QuintLeo, after looking at some posts I'm afraid it might take that since posts don't have a tone to them like a talking conversation does. I just found his should buy price, to be lower then actual market price. And I realize that is my opinion. |
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MacEntyre didn't raise any stink about me selling a stick to TheRealSteve over in Europe to complete his collection. I'm not gonna fight anyone anywhere in the world that wants one of MacEntyre's sticks.
Great news! Thank you sidehack it is for personal collection and will not be resold by me. Just want to complete my collection. And I appreciate MacEntyre on you being open as-well. Will be great to get 1 for my collection. |
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Any suggestions or offers on minerlink.com?
I don't think it ever worked... It never worked on any of my S5's, they announced it and then just sort of gave up on it for whatever reason. In other news, I see that the S7 Batch 3 done, no more to buy, although there still are some Batch 2's, if anyone wants those. I have a couple S7's in B3, and none of them have shipped (to my knowledge), but they updated my invoice for whatever reason today. I have not got it ever to work either. I have not looked into it in past month or so though. But it always seemed to be a upcoming thing. Looking there is just one download on site: https://www.minerlink.com/download.htm it's to detect IP's of miners. So I'm guessing it is still down. |
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I have four U3's and two of them will beep fairly regularly. I usually just unplug the USB cable, wait about 30 seconds and reinsert the cable. They begin hashing away once the USB reconnects and CGMiner resets for the hotplug event.
It makes me wonder if there are different batches or something. I've used window's, linux, and R1. Never once a single beep. Does the beep indicate something? If they beep on zombie I would think that is awesome. |
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No B2/B3 miners will ever get shipped out until then.
But...but...wolfen said.....  Honestly he needs to take a step back and before posting so much in this one thread. I honestly hope this happens. Or people will have to maybe ignore button. It turn's a good hardware thread into a questioning, and almost mis-information campaign. |
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You can get zombies. I had it running about a day and got 1 zombie out of 3 U3's.
Still a nice cheap controller though. The thing with is it turns your U3's into a "bitmain" feel on setting vs command line I was using. I log into IP like a bigger miner instead of using team viewer.
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Sadly, i do not see how to measure amperage to figure out what the maximum clock i should set it to with a y-splitter on an USB3.0 hub. I only have a multi meter.
Get a usb tester: http://www.amazon.com/DROK-Multimeter-Capacity-Charging-Alignment/dp/B00J3JSEG6I just ordered 4 sets of Y cables so I can really start playing with my sticks. Highest freq. I can get on hub right now is 262.5 without exceeding the amp rating for each port. Yeah i know about those, but i don't want to pay 20$(I'm in Canada) to test around with my 20$ toy. I through i could check the amp with the first and 4th pin, but that didn't work out. And i don't know enough about circuits to guess how to do it without frying stuff. I would suggest taking a look at ebay then. If money and not timeline is the big concern you can get very low priced ones (Here is one example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-Charger-Doctor-Voltage-Current-Meter-Mobile-Battery-Tester-Power-Detector-NE-/131214096046?hash=item1e8cf836ae:g:MtUAAOSwmrlUvcj9 ) But you can get it cheap just takes a while to get from China. I'm not sure on Canada shipping but I imagine it still will be a few bucks total for one if your willing to wait. Ah, thanks. I thought those only read Voltage. I got one for 3$ free shipping. 1 month ETA so i'll just wait until i do it before doing crazy clock on this thing.  Not a problem that is part of what I love about this compac group is the sharing of info. I got Y cables off ebay thanks to phil for cheap that I waited on, and worked awesome. |
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I think it's actually on topic. Different addresses for each received transaction is a huge thing. Is Bread the one that does dynamic fees, too?
No, I don't believe it takes out any fees at all... just takes out the $.07 or so in miners fees. But changing the public address isn't really that big of a deal in terms of keeping your transactions untraceable, IMO... all of the previous transactions before can be linked by following where each transaction goes too. But for example when using a wallet that mixes coins automatically when sending coins out, now that would help out a lot in keeping everything untraceable... I would input the "M" word here now, but I'm going to keep things on topic. Assuming it get's part out of a known address it seems it is not untraceable. Even a few cents from known account mixed with many other address's would seem like it shows its you. So I'm not sure I'm sold on untraceable. Unless you are not linked to any of the address's sending out. |
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invest in gambling site bankroll and you will be happy with your profits Until you lose money. Doing this is not a guaranteed win. You are taking a pretty big risk, with multiple factors (someone cleans out bankroll, someone hacks site, owner closes down, etc.). im talking about investing in trusted gambling sites like moneypot or like that Ah, I see, like people that gave MtGox their money. Makes sense. who gave money to who? guy won and that's gambling but overall house always win (Means you always profit) I don't have the time to school you on the history of Bitcoin/cryptos, past events, current events, and future events that are already unfolding. You should really look into it sometime though -- your outlook is naive, at best. My favorite thing to ask on this is if being the house is so profitable why would they want to outsource bankroll? As that is where they make money. If done properly the casino win's long term... and should be able to keep it up on bankroll unless a whale or something did a stupid bet. Which does not really happen to often I doubt. I don't like they don't have regulations on most of these sites. They are hosted to doge regulations. So trusting one to be bank roll for them is just as risky as betting I think. |
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There are intermediate sale sites like cryptothrift etc... where the site holds the funds until the buyer confirm receipt of the item, also localbitcoins escrow works the same way too in the general concept.
Receipts help prove it but I have seen scam thread's with receipts on trading BTC for cards. So it is not fool proof. Credit card scammers sadly effect everything from bitcoin trading on like local bitcoin forum, even to items on ebay with paypal. So one set of criminal really is pretty wide reaching on what they effect. Which is sad but I don't see card scammers stopping any time soon. |
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Well home miners have no worries but giant warehouse owners I think have to pay tax as income taxes but can also write off business expenses and losses which in such a tight area for ROI could come in handy.
I think I would agree normally it would be a "hobby" for most home miners. But if you reach a certain number I'm sure it goes into a taxable item (as far as US). Best anwser is if you are doing a ton and feel you hit this taxable area. Get a true CPA, not one of those things that pop up around tax time to help with easy returns. But a true CPA could give you a anwser on what it is in your area. But they will charge you for their time. |
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I would not pay more than $300 all-up for a SP20 at this time, and would be hesitant at more than $250.
Even that would depend on my geting moved VERY soon to a very cheap electric-rate location (which isn't happening as soon as I hoped).
I wish you would use actual pricing instead of " I would not pay more than". Look at ebay lots of sales but it is going to be mid to high 300's to 400 as a general idea. Miner's do not sell for what we wish they would sale. They have a cetain value. If you did the " I would not pay more than" at your prices you would have no miners. To be fair, Ebay prices tend to be fairly much higher than face to face and our marketplace's prices. I found SP20's for 300$, so i would not pay more than that, especially since we can get S5's for 250$ now. Its a hard pick between S5's and SP20's around this price. I went with S5's for efficiency and $/GH. That is why I like ebay on selling my old miners. I normally hit it up as it has a lot more customers bidding then on the forum it seems. Although if it's a part unit I have had better luck on this forum. So it really depends on what it is. Each place has it's higher selling items, and lower selling items. |
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Will your amazon listing or any others possibly ship to US? I am interested in getting one to complete my set once you start shipping.
Just wondering what my options are as far as possibly getting one of these.
You can wait for the Amazon.uk listing or alternatively I'll send you an individual offer via PM incl. shipping (preferably UPS). Hope sidehack won't kill me if I ship one to US...  I can assure you it's just 1 for completing collection. Personal use and I will not sell it. So should be no issues. I have the black prototype, gold reviewer, green production, I need this to complete my personal collection . |
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I've had multiple V1 U3s (solid dome) and still have 1 that I play with. I have never heard them beep, I didn't even know they had that capability.
I wonder what it takes to get a beep as I have used mine on multiple machine lots of different testing. And I to have not got a single sound out of them. I mean I would love if the zombie caused a beep. But I have seen nothing cause one on mine either. |
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Sadly, i do not see how to measure amperage to figure out what the maximum clock i should set it to with a y-splitter on an USB3.0 hub. I only have a multi meter.
Get a usb tester: http://www.amazon.com/DROK-Multimeter-Capacity-Charging-Alignment/dp/B00J3JSEG6I just ordered 4 sets of Y cables so I can really start playing with my sticks. Highest freq. I can get on hub right now is 262.5 without exceeding the amp rating for each port. Yeah i know about those, but i don't want to pay 20$(I'm in Canada) to test around with my 20$ toy. I through i could check the amp with the first and 4th pin, but that didn't work out. And i don't know enough about circuits to guess how to do it without frying stuff. I would suggest taking a look at ebay then. If money and not timeline is the big concern you can get very low priced ones (Here is one example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-Charger-Doctor-Voltage-Current-Meter-Mobile-Battery-Tester-Power-Detector-NE-/131214096046?hash=item1e8cf836ae:g:MtUAAOSwmrlUvcj9 ) But you can get it cheap just takes a while to get from China. I'm not sure on Canada shipping but I imagine it still will be a few bucks total for one if your willing to wait. |
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I have a lot of blades of all of the ones you need, how bout I send in enough blades (mixed variety) for say 10 pods - I will then donate 5 Pods to be auctioned off to raise barbecue money for SideHack and Novak and only take delivery of 5 Pods. Essentially I am offering to pay twice as much for the Pods. Not because I am loaded but because I have a bunch of blades that are doing absolutely nothing for me.  It's stuff like this that is really neat to see. A maker who cares about his customers. And customers who care about the makers. Wish all miners had this cooperation between miners and makers. Seems like a team atmosphere in these threads which is a nice breath of fresh air compared to some miner threads. |
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There is something odd with u3, if i unplug psu, it continues beeping, untill i reconnect usb.
I also experience this quite often, not everyday though. I really wonder where that beeping or squeaking noise comes from. It seems like something is trying to pull the current much more than what the USB port can give. Before I disassemble or do something bad on one of my Antminer U3' trying to figure this out, which will very likely just become another electronic junk, did anybody investigate this mystery? I never had the beeping, although I power them off/on twice a day for 15mn. I have the model with the wire cage, not the dome. I wonder the same thing is the beeping a V1 or something? I have a few V2's with wire cage and never had a single beep out of them. I recently have switched over to using a R1 as a controller so far so good. I really like it and is working good. |
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what is the diameter of the S7 fan ? i want use a duct adaptor for 2x 200mm fan (high flow, high pressure, low noise).   the square fan does not fit into a 6 inch duct. the square fan does fit into a 7 inch duct. read my thread on how I fit the square fan into a six inch duct. wait for link https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1188217.msg12500685#msg12500685Didn't we all go through the Sesame Street triangle peg / square hole .... round peg / square hole ..... square peg / round hole ( although one of my daughters friends just might like that ) ..... it all comes down to the size of your hammer... Only thing is these miners were not built as child proof . You pull out your hammer and make that square fit in a 6 in circle... I have a feeling the fan breaks. And that would ruin warranty as not you cannot even replace fan without bitmain's allowing it. Which may seem crazy but you cannot do a lot now without voiding warranty. |
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I have connected up a fan and have been pushing up the frequency Today.  Have now got up to 225MHz giving 12.375GH/s using a setting of "2:225:0882" This as high as you can go with the Core voltage at it's standard setting of 0.61V. Actually this is better than I expected as the data sheet calls for about 0.67V. At this point I am seeing a few too many HW errors and at 250MHz there are a lot of errors. I will fit a pot Tomorrow, adjust the voltage up a little and push on up. This is BTW with an external 5V PSU as I suspect the built in one would have run out of steam by now? Rich Wow that is pretty impressive about 2.5X the normal speed. What are temps you are getting running this. I'm guessing it got a little toasty wen running that speed . Thanks for sharing your push on OC though! |
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I would not pay more than $300 all-up for a SP20 at this time, and would be hesitant at more than $250.
Even that would depend on my geting moved VERY soon to a very cheap electric-rate location (which isn't happening as soon as I hoped).
I wish you would use actual pricing instead of " I would not pay more than". Look at ebay lots of sales but it is going to be mid to high 300's to 400 as a general idea. Miner's do not sell for what we wish they would sale. They have a cetain value. If you did the " I would not pay more than" at your prices you would have no miners. |
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