It also depends on what you consider liberal; the Libertarians I know are basically just anti-federalist Republicans...

Any current pool suggestions? Whattomine says I should be getting around 175-210/day, but aikapool seems to be only paying out around 50-55/day...

You are not kidding. I spent probably about 10-12 days in Holland in the couple years I lived in the EU. I can be sure I was there for maybe 3 of them.

That's great but we're talking about weed here.

"another ISP will pop up"

Hahahaha no. Even in most major cities it isn't profitable to start an ISP. So telecommunications companies have a virtual monopoly in most markets...

Right, but it IS common for your DSL and your Cable providers to both be gigantic telecommunications monopolies (thanks, Clinton) who would benefit from throttling bandwith to price gouge companies.

Can you tell me or link to the wallet you downloaded? There are a couple (i'm assuming all the same core build, just different releases/different links updated at different times) and, like I said, the two I tried never synced...

No rush. All my coins are at aikapool, which is down right now.

Not my experience on Mac. I've tried three different downloads (the Electrum and QT from the site and the QT one from the first post here) and none of them work. Both QT wallets failed to sync (one sat for almost 12 hours before I closed it) and the Electrum wallet just hangs when trying to create a new wallet with a window that only had a dialogue bubble with an exclamation point in it and an ok button. Left that open for five minutes and eventually it just crashed. Maybe they're not 10.13 ready?

This thread has gotten pretty funny.

If the cables aren't confirmed working yet, disconnect all but the active board, then swap that cable to one of the inactive boards and see if you still have a working board. If not, it's not the cable, it's the hashing boards and you should contact Bitmain for replacements (test both the "dead" ones to be sure). If so, swap the connection on the control board to a different socket. If not working, it's the control board and you should contact Bitmain or search secondary markets for a replacement board. If still working, it's probably the cable, swap the cable with one of the ones you removed and repeat the above steps, then do the same with the last one.

If everything works fine, before reinstalling the other two boards, test your psu vga connectors by swapping them out in a working hash board.

Also do all of this with the Bitmain firmware reinstalled. Testing hardware at stock settings is always recommended.

He didn't say it was easy, he said it was easier than that same rate of growth in an established, already decently valued commodity. And he chose his words poorly, what he likely meant was far more probable; it is the same level of difficulty, just far less common. It's got nothing to do with the math, it's the psychology of the market.

Net neutrality rules WERE keeping the government out of it. The free market only works where competition is possible; in most places in the US, you have a choice between MAYBE 2-3 huge corporate options. I live in Portland, and even here there are only a couple independent companies which aren't available in all parts of the city. And in many cases the big companies own the lines themselves.

Protecting direct access is actually in the free market's interest. Terminating Title II protections only serves to benefit large corporations in positions of virtual monopoly. It is oligarchic; net neutrality prevented censorship, and removal of those protections encourages it.

I kind of doubt it, because there will always be options outside of the big corporate ones (at least in most cities), and I'm not sure that there is a specific movement to squash crytpos; quite frankly, I'd be surprised if they are even on the radar of the current FCC chair, this to me reads more like an attempt to bilk users for more money to use streaming services, and limit access and speeds for small businesses (basically to allow for legal extortion from the ISPs).

If it did, however, you would likely see a temporary decrease in difficulty until all the machines using the US pools found new places to point, and possibly some decline in performance for machines in the US. I think it would probably be like the recent pause in Nicehash services, where mining the individual coins went up for a bit, and the daily profitable coins appear more profitable, because Nicehash's algorithms aren't set to immediately switch to them. In other words, slight changes, but I wouldn't expect, like, LTC to become profitable on GPUs or anything.

EDIT TO ADD: also, a simple majority vote in congress can stop it from going into effect, and I guarantee you that vote will come up (how it turns out, at this point, is anyone's guess).

Dash is a stable coin that has never actually been unprofitable with a D3 (unless your electricity is prohibitively expensive, like USD.35/kwh or higher), the profits are just super low at the moment. However Dash's value does continue to climb, so unless you are cashing out daily your profits/ROI/etc aren't quite so cut and dry as the numbers on whattomine or anything. In the past month, the value of DASH has doubled, and a steeper climb if you go further back than that.

I personally think 2018 is going to bring a lot of momentum to DASH--there are movements to create POS systems for medical marijuana sales in the US utilizing DASH to circumvent the current bank problem the industry experiencing, for one--so even though my ROI point is still months away mining primarily DASH, I'm sticking with it. But yes, if you are selling regularly, it is not a very profitable coin, but it is still profitable...


I use Spurnova for my D3. It's pretty good. Remember it is PPLNS, so don't freak out if your first day isn't as fruitful as you expect it to be...

Most of these things aren't mistakes, they are standard results of investing in anything volatile. My dad used to say (before he left this shitty world) that you should never look back from a sale; you made your profit, and whatever future profit is for the guy who bought from you. Which, in turn, is how you made your profit in the first place.

I used to think way overpaying for my L3+ from a third party seller, but considering that that reached ROI like 3 months ahead of schedule thanks to the recent rise in LTC value, I'd have to go with buying a D3.

You may want to consider a simple app/disc image approach to your Mac wallet, most users are pretty wary of installers that require root passwords these days.

Hardware faults, I believe. Not hardware failures, just times your submissions were rejected because of hardware miscalculation. Tends to go up with overclocking/volting.

(I may be wrong here but that's been my understanding)

Illegally stealing public utilities and housing it in a public swimming poo, then obvious money laundering, seems a bit risky, I don't think mining itself was the problem there...

Difficulty is going up, but so is coin value. Significantly. So while I am earning less on my L3+ in actual litecoin right now than I ever have, I am earning more in USD equivalent. It's all relative, unless it devalues significantly.

They will be more efficient on 220V, but do the math. I think it's something like 8-12% more efficient, so figure out how long you plan to run your L3+ (lifetime), the cost of your electricity, do the annual math on that, then subtract, say, 15% to be safe. Then do the math on what adding a 220V line and outlet will cost (if you're handy, then what the parts will cost; where I live, that worked out to around 1/3 the cost of hiring an electrician, your mileage [and homeowner's insurance or rental agreement] may vary), and figure out if it's ultimately worth it.

For example, my slightly overclocked L3+ on a 120v pulls around 850-900W (will retest that soon). So let's say for most expense, 900W. For me, actually, I can tap into the 60A 220 line running to my heater if I want (since my miners make my heater run rarely, and it runs well under the 10.5kW continuous safe rating, so my cost is basically an outlet box, outlet, and new cable for the PSU; I'd estimate that at maybe $100).

SO (and keep in mind that the voltage may be higher or lower than 220, but will be in that general neighborhood), roughly:

900*24*365/1000=7,884kWh

My electricity is .11/kWh, so:

$867.24/year, or $72.27/month

15% of that would be $130/year

So independent of coin value, if I plan to run my current L3+ for more than 10 months, it is potentially worth it for me to swap to the higher voltage (the bonus being I can actually test the exact difference by using one of my heater lines before I even do any work, all I need is an adapter to do so). HOWEVER, to do things with proper permitting to code by a licensed electrician would be significantly more expensive, and ultimately not worth it IMHO, unless I planned on building a farm large enough to require its own breaker box; then a series of 220 line would make sense, since the wiring was being done anyway. I do not currently plan to, so yeah. For my purposes, the small amount of difference is not worth doing it.

Now, if I plan to replace my L3+ with another ASIC miner in the future, which I may or may not do, the long term benefits may very well be worth it. But for now, I'm not planning to (especially since I use renewable energy and am having solar panels installed, so wasted electricity is becoming less of an issue for me, and I use the heat to heat my house anyway [my heater is also electric], so there's actually no loss of electricity in the winter).

Conclusion: if you will use the 220v line in the future, it is worth it. If it's only for the lifetime of this L3+, then the value is more about whether or not you want to be more efficient, not necessarily profit and loss based. My opinion only, and I'm neither an electrician or a math professor, so grain of salt and all that.