you can change your fan, if i'm correct the s5 mount 120mm, you can some artif fan f12 or the one with the pwn and install that instead, i've done the same thing with those scrypt miners, and they working fine, and were very quite
or you can undervolt it, but it require a little of experience with electricity
yep, he can always undervolt it, but process seems a little bit complicated, i dont know if this is your case or not, but here you can find a guide about how to do it with an S1 -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=526060.0i hope it helps you  You can not Penmod a S5, however. My tip would be to set the fan down to 25%-40% depending on the ambient temp. At 25% they are pretty quiet imo. I would watch ambiant temp before doing this. They can get pretty warm on S5's. They do not have a full case and only 1 fan so you should have a cold ambient to turn down that much. S5's just run warm and are not quiet by design. For reference, at the moment they are taking in air from a outdoor stream pulled in by a box fan. The outdoor temp is 10c, i have put 2 S1 fan on it running at 2k RPM, which is insanely quiet compared to one stock fan at stock speed. The miner's temp is 50c~ With 1x Stock S5 fan, i get same temps at 2.8k RPM which is still much better than full speed and bearable if in an other, closed room. You would have a low outside temp to count on this. If it is still warm in OP or others area it is not near as good with 25 percent fan. But I admit it's getting cooler in many places at this time of year. I'm not sure if most can count of so low temps yet all day to run so low. |
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stick a piece of paper in your wall
This is actually not a horrible idea. I cannot remember the spy movie but they did this. What they did was had a vent or something that allowed a straight drop of item and used magnets. So say you stored your paper storage in the wall with a magnet on it. You use a string with another magnet on it and you can "fish" it out when needed. Only problem is fire etc that destroy it. Safe's do not have the fire issue assuming nice safe. Isolate it with good metal, then covering that with aluminum that the fire does not destroy etc. Since you have access to the wall that would not be problem even if someone will start destroying your house. Another place to hide the paper wallet i would consider blank pipes(10cm extension) in your water installation huh? Covering it with aluminium would not change anything, the heat will still be transferred to the paper and thus all that will be left is dust. You could print the key with metal or some such, but the best thing to do is definitively have several backups. I don't know how is it called in english but firefighters use them. It is against fire and it can protect the paper too from the fire. Having several backups is the best idea for everything not just for the paper wallet but also for sensitive files/data, another idea? There's flame retardant and you can stack them together in a hard enclosure, common in flame retardants safe. But they only give you time, meaning if you do not extinguish the fire quick enough, the content will still burn. Instead imagine a steel QR cube. It could be grabbed easily with magnets too! I mean the material that firefighters wears, it's something aluminum. So that can protect the paper wallet from the fire. But it is recommended to have more than 2-3 backups so this is not enough. Like i said, there is only fire retardants. Thinking you can Fireproof it by covering it is a fallacy. Everything has a melting point so you can't protect paper from fire indefinitively unless you put it 6 feets under. This is why safes have fire ratings. Higher quality safes last longer and hotter fires. It all depends on the safe. Here is a example of the label: |
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Joining a signature campaign with a member status like a member or a full member can earn you 1 BTC yearly if you work and post actively, using faucets is also possible but would require allot of effort to reach 1 BTC in a year.
you can even start the "year" being a newbie and before the end of the "year" you will eventually become a Sr Member and by that i think you already earned around 2-3btc+ That is the good thing about activity slowly going up is you really can do more then most think. Some get stuck on "Oh no I'm a newbie I cant do it". You really just have to wait. Later in the year you will get much better campaigns on sig campaigns. |
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I am in for either an auction and/or a raffle. I am also in to send in some boards. 8 - Garden blades 4 - Asicminer blades 4 - S1 blades I want some PODS  Garden and S1 I doubt have a ton of value behind them. Kinda like old A1's just not really worth it at this point for most. Which asicminer hashing blades are they? If prisma or whatever then yes likely worth something. |
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you can change your fan, if i'm correct the s5 mount 120mm, you can some artif fan f12 or the one with the pwn and install that instead, i've done the same thing with those scrypt miners, and they working fine, and were very quite
or you can undervolt it, but it require a little of experience with electricity
yep, he can always undervolt it, but process seems a little bit complicated, i dont know if this is your case or not, but here you can find a guide about how to do it with an S1 -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=526060.0i hope it helps you You can not Penmod a S5, however. My tip would be to set the fan down to 25%-40% depending on the ambient temp. At 25% they are pretty quiet imo. I would watch ambiant temp before doing this. They can get pretty warm on S5's. They do not have a full case and only 1 fan so you should have a cold ambient to turn down that much. S5's just run warm and are not quiet by design. |
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Did you try a different PSU? Coolermaster is rarely a brand you want on any electronics. Its quite possible that it could cause the miner to crash or damage hardware. Its also possible your controller just went dead.
OP do you have a link to PSU. But any 1000 watt should not have a issue. Might check with COOLERMASTER support as going from green to red does not sound good. Check the splicing honestly that was a pretty big mistake on a ATX. You should have got a switch. But they make some really good cases. But I have not ever used their PSU's. |
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Continued adventures of a new person. I had a network hiccup and my miner went offline. I'm trying to reconnect but I keep getting an error that says "Failure to resolve...solo.ckpool.org:3333". I know I'm using a correct web address because i'm copy/pasting from ck's website. Any ideas? Have I configured it wrong somehow?  Not sure exactly how Minera / Cgminer works but I could never get it working by adding the pool address manually. Are you able to create a config or run from terminal command? Either way you will need --compac-freq xxxx line in there somewhere. When I put in sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -u 1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.baktegonStick --compac-freq 200 it says "sudo ./cgminer: command not found" man i have no idea how I ever got this to work in the first place! Did you "cd cgminer-gekko" before putting the above in? Just noticed your using minera, so don't know if you need to change into cgminer-gekko or not?. Are you using the minera that was built for compacs? It's in the compac thread they did it where you should just need to put in pool in GUI and it detects compacs. It is as simple as putting image on sd card for RPI. I personally use raspbian as I like the linux feel. |
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Will be interesting on S7 if btc keeps rising if they raise price of current batches. They are getting cheaper in BTC with the decent raise in price.
If they would only throw some coupons on top of it might be a "good" deal.
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Anyone tested it as a U3 controller? I am really curious how they did with that.
I'm hoping for good things, but not sure what to expect.
My U3 is still running after 18 hrs. I'll update if it zombies out. That would be the best thing about this product is if they figured a way to get rid of zombie. If they did that I would be happy for that alone. That would show a lot more sales of U3 and routers if the U3 does not zombie out. |
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I've noticed recently that mining profits in Bitcoin have gone down. They are still the same in USD, if not more, but slightly lower on a BTC basis. I'm curious what people think will happen to mining profits over the next six months taking into account all of the fundamental developments affecting Bitcoin. If someone is making 1 BTC a month today with their hash rate what do you think it will be in six months based on your projections? I know there are a lot of variables and this is a tough question to answer but I'm still interested to see if anyone is willing to take a shot at it. Thanks!
It is not easy to predict 6 month's away. In mining time this is a LONG LONG time. We try to predict it weekly and even then there are surprises. With difficulty it will go down in 6 months. But how much no one can say for sure. If we knew there would not be speculation. Why would you think difficulty will go down? In my opinion the price won't be dropping under 200$ anymore, and with the halving coming up soon I predict a change in price a couple months before that. The price will at least double before the halving I believe and thus mining will either stabalize or increase as more people buy new mining equipment and try to ROI asap. Some will sell, like they do on a daily basis, most will hold, and some but not few will hold even if btc price doubles cause they know the sky is the limit.  That sounds wrong's after re-reading. It should be profit goes down in 6 months not difficulty. It's guaranteed in the next 6 months you will get less and less BTC for mining since difficulty. We don't know price so value is still hard to predict. Today is the perfect example of why 6 month is hard if not impossible to predict. We are at 264 right now. Who would have guessed the increase in 24 hours? Not many so we really can't guess 6 months with accuracy. Even with the best speculation. |
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Price keeps going up higher 264 is pretty amazing right now. I hope we keep rising as it's very nice to see.
I am surprised how fast it moved. Man is it good tough.
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Joining a signature campaign with a member status like a member or a full member can earn you 1 BTC yearly if you work and post actively, using faucets is also possible but would require allot of effort to reach 1 BTC in a year.
It actually is not going to be a ton of effort to do it in a year. Biggest thing is work on content of posts, and get to full member. Once you hit full member price per post goes up a good amount. After that join a campaign chances are if you spend a little time a day you will hit 1 BTC in a year. It all depends on your posting habits though. |
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the most secure online wallet for me is blockchain.info and offline wallet is paper wallet though its just my opinion
Most secure online is actually a hardware wallet. They store online with like Trezor but require the hardware wallet. But no doubt blockchain is one of the better one's for hot wallets. Just make sure to use hotwallets right for spending money. Keep most money in cold wallet's for safety. |
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Try Bitcoin Zebra faucet.. As of now you can win 3000 satoshi p/h 1450 average.
win satoshi so it is a hit or miss. I don't recommend faucets. The only ones making any bitcoin are the ones running the sites. Try capatcha solving or as so many suggested sig campaign. 3000 satoshi is not much if you reside in the G8 country, but for third world $0.01 is a lot. Of-course, faucets are not the way to go, but if one is in some impoverished country; free - sounds nice. Indeed man, that's kinda a big thing to us Even bitcoin faucets were a trend on newbie bitcoin people from third world countries like here on our country (PH). They really work on faucets just to claim few satoshis. There's even a lot of Facebook groups dedicated for faucet users locally and surprisingly some groups have thousands of members. I somehow pity them cuz they really put a lot effort on playing faucets in exchange of few BTC, but some of them claims it was fun playing on faucets so I guess its still worth it to them The reason is there is soeone good at pushing their referral link. There are a few of these but very few. If you get paid for many users using faucets... yes the referral person might make decent since not doing faucet theirself. I still say faucets in general are a waste of time. Pennies for hours of work is just not good. |
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repeating the price policy behind 4.1, might spell bankruptcy
They wont go bankrupt. They made money off of 4.1's. They actually did better the other's they were willing to hold till they got price they needed/wanted. Look at SP20 that kept dropping, and said they took a loss on some of last ones. They kept 4.1 pretty even on price and did not jump into the price war. So they were pretty smart as a business on that. |
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Anyone tested it as a U3 controller? I am really curious how they did with that.
I'm hoping for good things, but not sure what to expect.
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It's a shame neither the S5/S7 can be used in a home environment.
that's why i was asking for something that resemble a mini s7, half of its haspower to cut the power to 600 and still have a better efficienfy than the s5 most apartment have only 3k and at least 2 are there for the washing machine, actually it is 2500 of peak for that only I think you can keep wishing on that. But miners are only going to get more powerful and bigger I think as general rule. (Yes there will be some smaller ones like sidehacks pods, or U series of BM). But as a general rule you can see that BM's miners are getting larger and taking more power. I predict 220/240 becomes more needed for hobby miners. And "home" miners are kinda going to have a harder time finding gear. that's unfortunate, i'm hoping that in the future, some small very efficient miners will be released for us, that can't build a huge farm if you think about it this would contribute to decentralization and helping the network to grow I think you can hope and there will be some small miners. But compare that small miner to a SP50 (whenever it is released). That 100 GH, or 200, etc seems like a drop in the bucket. Gear will get more efficient but also bigger in terms of hash and most likely power usage. Look at S7 vs S5 design. I think "hobby miners" with areas for it will do fine with it. "Home Miners" with counting on putting it in a regular room will have harder and harder time. If you are asking for a smaller version of the s7 or s5. Why don't you go to hashnest.com where bitmain have placed thousands of s7s and s5s. You can purchase part s of the miners and pay a percentage in maintenance costs. Hashnest is also part of the bitmain family so they cannot run away with your money! People love to play with hardware. Including me I love the hardware that is part of my fun as a miner. I suspect you are right tough. As miners get bigger "home miners" who are wanting small will have to look more at other options then hosting at their house. "Hobby Miners" I think will be fine. I consider hobby miners one with a area for mining with proper electricity. |
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Awesome, people, we got to 0.1 BTC already!  Now hopefully the software will work out. I'm looking forward to shiny graphics, it will make things look official.  Were at .11 right now would be really nice if we hit the .30 for each person in it, but not sure that will happen. It is very positive to see how the club is able to work together to get the .1 . Shows we have a pretty good set of people in the group I think. |
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The price of 4.1 was crap! the price of a second hand one was even crappier!
Show me the avalon 6!
It was priced at a premium price no doubt. I don't expect 4.1 to jump down. It is a quiet miner with nice underclock and very very quiet. So if you compare to like S5 it will always be higher. I was so happy with 1, i got 2 more Avalon 4.1's. Avalon 6 no one can say what price will be yet. |
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Hi, i have an SFARD and i'm testing it, but i found some issues mining at ghash.io:
1.- If i use it only as Scrypt miner, it goes at 1,5 Gh/s with 99'xx% error or rejects (no good bussiness). Why? if i would use it only as an scrypt miner, what must i do to run fine?
2.- If i use it dual mode, scrypt miner goes at 46-50Mh/s, but with a lot of errors or rejects (maybe 20 or 30%). btc miner goes much better, "only" 0.30% errors or rejects. What i am doing wrong?
I'm using a PSU cooler master V1200 with 1200w at 12v
thanks!
My only thing I can think of is try a different pool and see if better on rejects. Sadly they did not ship many of these so no one really will be able to give you good answers. It was a very limited release. Then company got quiet. |
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