I had hoped that the Adapters had been removed from sale so that they could remove the shipping cost for the adapter. Unfortunately adding an Adapter still doubles the shipping cost, which is ridiculous....
Rich
It is pretty crazy to say the least on price of shipping on a few dollar adapter. Even shipping on R1 was pretty high considering. I hope for future batches they offer a slower cheaper option on shipment. Something that is not horribly long, but is a lot cheaper then their normal shipment methods. With a lotto machine you don't need it in the next few day's like with a miner you would want. |
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There is a spare room with a window, I'm moving in today so I'm gonna upload picture of the room soon. But I figured out that it's only wifi.
What miner are you using? I don't see that in thread. But your most likely bet of easy setup is a Ethernet to wifi adapter. They are not to expensive now days. Check local stores and you might even be able to pick one up (make sure to compare price to amazon, etc). Sometimes online just is a lot better price. With spare room that is nice as you should not have to hear it as much. Also with window I suggest being careful and not putting miner right up against window if you ever have rain or snow, etc. A little bit of water can kill your miner. |
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snip Cats are awesome. I mean, unless you pick a topic or ask a question, i can't really know what would be useful. I need something to work with. I like to learn so if someone ask something i don't know and i'm interested in the topic i'll usually research it and then i'll know the answer. Relevant to this topic, i can say that i based my comparison with the best prices i found which was Betarigs; https://www.betarigs.com/You can still get over 0.01/ths/day. Kano seemed competitive enough to not bother with the hassle of dealing with "Customers". Damn i hate customers. It's been a LONG time since I used betarigs there was another site back then during scrypt that normally paid better but cant remember it for the life of me. As long as you give the speed advertised chances are you will not have to deal with customers. Only problem is if they don't set it up proper on pool, then you have to contact them and warn in some cases. In my scrypt day's some set difficulty far to low or high and if not corrected it appeared rig was running bad. But with SHA it should be more easy with the nice stratum servers most pools have. |
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6.51 to 6.75 % The top one at present will be interesting to see if it rises more (tssk one round off now its moving  ) Bitcoin Difficulty: 60,813,224,039 Estimated Next Difficulty: 64,275,151,463 (+5.69%) Adjust time: After 1457 Blocks, About 9.7 days by the looks of it .. its bitfury!.. they are currently with 20 % of the blocks for the day. Makes sense since they have there 16nm under there belts. ugh. looks like my guess was a bit conservative  well if this keeps up maybe it wasnt variance after all.. May have to revive the 100 peta thread  Best Regards d57heinz I hope bitfury did not kick in more hash. Add the S7's to come this likely could hurt on difficulty changes. I have it's variance. Only good news is btc price has been really steady were talking 238-239 for a few weeks at this point? So we are seeing some stability on price. If we could only get some low difficulty changes now. |
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I have just noticed that two batches of the antminer s7 have been released at the same time with the sipping dates being the same.
I also noticed that the price of the s7 has decreased to 7.01 btc compared with the previous 9 btc. Is there a reason for this £300 decrease?
There's not a whole lot of speculation to do about something we already know. With people that already have a S7, we can tell that many units have issues running at 600hz. Some other do fine at 575hz and some other even have problem doing 550hz. So yes we're looking at something similar. So they just split the batch into their performance, i'm guessing they're keeping the sub 575hz, which that would be speculation. In short, If you want to know, read the S7 thread. One thing interesting is bitmain showed S7 batch 2 (slow ones) running at 1160 watts (a lower watts then the batch 3). But if you look at pcfli's selling of them with hosting he is reporting the slower one's are no better on electricity - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=934581.msg12603285#msg12603285So that would be interesting if power used is same between batch 2 and 3. There is something to speculate on  . If they will have it truly lower in batch 2 on watts used. |
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@Aurel57, according to the previous owner, he had it set to DHCP... Erm... Actually, when I asked him what the addresses of the miners were (because I had already been having trouble at that point), he said this...
"They're set to use DHCP. I configured my router to know their MAC address and used that to give them a static IP address. You'll need to fire one up and see what IP it got from whatever router/computer in your network is your DHCP server and then log into that IP address. Login is root/password."
Login should be root and password should also be root? Also I see you think you may have changed some of the settings? If you need I can take a screen shot of my S3 if you want to check them against yours? Sloppy had a good point that I also remember some had problems with the reset button not working. Just another reason I never changed the firmware or messed with my batch1. If it truly reset the credentials are user: root , password: root . The S3 also can be hard to hit the reset button I suggest using a paperclip to press it. Some were off were you need to point paperclip one way or other to hit the reset button. One thing you might ask owner if you have not reset it yet. Is what was IP address range. For example was it 192.168.1.X make sure it matches your router or that could cause not seeing it. Also if the credential is password seller changed it from root. But I would try root and root if you can get to it. |
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Bitmain are still in holiday. The buy button have been green for the last 3 days. They did run out of adapters at a point, and units after that. So we know someone is working during holiday a little. Someone told site to allow more orders. I suspect they are a decent amount of orders with it being pretty cheap compared to what we thought it would cost. Besides shipping that was higher then we would have guessed. |
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Howdy folks.
Got ONE batch one in today, mailed on Sept 30.
Clocked at 575mhz
It is at batch TWO clock speed. Oy!
Plugged in, came right up , not much noisier than an s5. Has a fuller small vacuum cleaner sound.
Blows some heat, but not so much, ambient temp low right now.
One board connector was a bit stubborn to attach to but finally went on.
All chips good. No loose heatsinks.
I'll be posting observations.
What day was your order (payment) confirmed? Also has anyone else from batch one got shipment during holiday? I assumed they would not have any shipping during it. But if this is true they may have shipped before holiday to meet before deadline of being late. Anyone still waiting with nothing shipped and no tracking? |
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You might have a reduction in errors with freq 362 0.0260% HW error is not bad righT? i mean 99.974% correct? No it is not a bad amount. What pool are you pointed to? Also what country are you mining from (guaging if there is a stratum server half way close to you). But I am on antpool currently and have had very very low hw error .0002 % - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1157426.120 . It is worth mentioning I do have fiber to the mining area with gigabit internet with very low pings (yes the gigabit is overkill but I use it too). |
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Well there shouldn't be that many miner breaking down and needing to be replaced, but if so then yes. They need to be able to fulfill their warranty anyways, and having miners offline on shelves waiting to be used as replacement for buyers isint really good because its wasted value.
So they should mine with them. People would get used part replacement but then you're sure they're working right.
From what i understand right now, Bitmain have you ship back your miner and they try to fix it, then ship it back, sometime they mess up and forget parts and do not fix it. Overall its a pretty abysmal quality of service.
The problem with this is people who have had bad luck on their returns stick out and get much more attention. As humans less people go on forums and say thanks for X RMA. But if problem very good chance it goes to board. I have had good experience's with bitmain. I was out of warranty period on S3 needed a controller that was not brick I paid them for it and they shipped it quickly to me. Now the C1 was syscooling but yes I had horrible experience there. And I'm not a suck up on bitmain. But i think they are getting a bad wrap. No doubt some of the stories we hear they deserve it. But the stories we don't hear and the machines that keep working they don't get the credit for those. I'm sure this is not what people want to hear or know. If anything they are getting more tightened on warranty. Look at S5+ they shipped with every unit and sent paper - https://bitmain.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/206312085-New-S5-Hong-Kong-China-Warranty- . Basically if you want to modify it and do not get permission you broke warranty. If you use 2 instead of 3 PCIe you break warranty. The list goes on. But I think they will get more tightened if current continues, and not go the way of more day's and better RMA. Well i hope so, but i can't see RMA/customer service being proper for returns when the only way to get it replaced if its broken is usually sending the part back if under warranty, which may cost as much as just buying a replacement part? Hence its not really a warranty if you need to pay for it? And yeah i guess i shouldn't place my opinion based on what i hear, but i think the aforementioned issue is objectively based. My S3 was out of warranty they did me a favor of selling me one. If it was in warranty I would have shipped back and got new one through RMA process. Sending back the part would have been cheaper then what I paid. I think it was like 35-40 dollars. So if in warranty you could have shipped controller in for less then that. |
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I will put pictures later tonite.
I have sp20 outside, but temps as said before are not so low yet. maybe 0c at night as lowest and around 15c daily.
Fan at 100% still only have the miner on 1650GH/s , asic temps are fine too 2x at 100c and rest 85c.
It is pulling around 1300W from the wall and 2 wires are hot , some plastic melted and burned a week ago, tought was running 2x pcie from 1x wire.
Now each pci-e have it own wire , tought 2x are still running hot but not to a melting point.
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I look forward to seeing the pictures! I have been curious what this project will turn into. On the wires are you saying at 0c they are still hot? In 0c the wires should not be hot. What PSU are you using? Also are you using a extension cord? |
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Hey guys.
I am currently living in a place where I will get free power for the next 4 years. With the price of miners at the moment should I buy a miner and start mining? If so will it be profitable?
If so what type of miner should I buy?
Thanks
According to me NO. I will suggest to not buy nothing and to leave away your dream to mining. It is an work that have doubt profit. With the price of hardware which needed to mine (which is to high) and with the difficulty which can be increased like it want your profit will be always in query. With "free" electricity you don't need the newest most efficient gear. For example S7 if free electricity... you dont really care about the efficiency to a point more the power. But used miner market there are some good miners going for decent rates. For example S3's depending on price and if OP has PSU's or needs to buy I think you would be suprised on ROI on used gear. New gear is for those with high electricity prices really. It allows them to mine. And it is still possible to ROI just takes certain variables to happen. |
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Well there shouldn't be that many miner breaking down and needing to be replaced, but if so then yes. They need to be able to fulfill their warranty anyways, and having miners offline on shelves waiting to be used as replacement for buyers isint really good because its wasted value.
So they should mine with them. People would get used part replacement but then you're sure they're working right.
From what i understand right now, Bitmain have you ship back your miner and they try to fix it, then ship it back, sometime they mess up and forget parts and do not fix it. Overall its a pretty abysmal quality of service.
The problem with this is people who have had bad luck on their returns stick out and get much more attention. As humans less people go on forums and say thanks for X RMA. But if problem very good chance it goes to board. I have had good experience's with bitmain. I was out of warranty period on S3 needed a controller that was not brick I paid them for it and they shipped it quickly to me. Now the C1 was syscooling but yes I had horrible experience there. And I'm not a suck up on bitmain. But i think they are getting a bad wrap. No doubt some of the stories we hear they deserve it. But the stories we don't hear and the machines that keep working they don't get the credit for those. I'm sure this is not what people want to hear or know. If anything they are getting more tightened on warranty. Look at S5+ they shipped with every unit and sent paper - https://bitmain.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/206312085-New-S5-Hong-Kong-China-Warranty- . Basically if you want to modify it and do not get permission you broke warranty. If you use 2 instead of 3 PCIe you break warranty. The list goes on. But I think they will get more tightened if current continues, and not go the way of more day's and better RMA. |
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I am searching for a good place to hide my paper wallet
i don't want any one to see it or try to scan the QR code
please don't give me silly places, I really want to hide it in secure place
Buy a locker in bank and put it in there.That is the safest place to keep it.If you keep it at home,there's a chance of you misplaced and you either have to keep changing its location or stand guard to keep it safe which is going to give you headache I'm thinking you mean security boxes within the bank. Yes they are very secure. If you need it they are a pain as it's not at your house. But if you have lots of coins then it's not a bad idea. Also I like to suggest making the paper you store it on not have bitcoin on it. Have private codes/QR and put like family photo link instead of bitcoin. Just a better chance if somehow at thief did get it the would not mess with family photos. Also encrypted usb within a security box at bank is even better. |
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I've restarted the solo pool with new code to add some stats that should make it easier to track workers now. See the solo thread for details. Good luck!
Thank you CK! It is awesome to see support for this club. I realize your time is valuable and appreciate the changes. Phil dentally picked the right solo pool to use . |
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The did skip SP40 so there are hopes of a hobby miner to come
are zero, they already announced they aren't planning to do ANY more "home miners". I know my chances are slim. As they likely will not build smaller unit's again. Just a lot more money in industrial size gear I understand that. My hope with SP40 is they make one that would be ok for "Hobby Miners" and still big data center. Think more the SP35 size so one built for racks. It would not work for home miners just those with a bigger what I call "hobby mining" area. But again I am not holding my breath. I realize like SP gear will stay big. |
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Well my issue isn't dealt and I still don't got my payment! Please send them to me ASAP or I will really start an accusation!!! Macro and bitcoinboy have been running this for a very long time. It looks like it started on November 29, 2014. I personally have been in it over 6 months. So quite a while for a signature campaign. Macro has always been fair i have no doubt that he will get a payment out. You will get your payment but give it a day or two even with them looking at bot (it chances are will be paid faster) but look through all the pages you will see if there was a problem in past it's always been fixed and person paid. I would stay a little calmer then "Please send them to me ASAP or I will really start an accusation!!!" if you want to be part of it long term threatening a accusation within 24 hours is wrong route. Also putting in your profile to make Bit-X look bad on website portion is not going to build a friendly relationship. Honest let them have a little time and they will fix it. It is a very good signature campaign. |
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I still am having good luck with my unit. It has been a week since I lost power for electric company upgrade. And unit has ran solid ever since then: Very low amount of hardware error's. And over a weeks worth of mining. The interesting thing is no longer does HW errors show a neg number which was impossible. So maybe it was just a glitch that once or it could have been from running 20+ days without issue. Guess we will see depending on what this hw error shows in a week or two. |
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I never got a form to fill out with my S5+ purchase. I could have been lucky or could have been the carrier but I never had to declare a value. But since US ... really does not matter to matter with no vat.
Can you link to some of these partingout? I just have not seen it. Seems crazy to split up a S5+ into selling modules. I don't think they were selling controllers by them self on S5+ from bitmain. It's just pretty limited on number out there that made it publicly.
Now if your talking about S5 parting yes there are many S5's. Some are old some have problems parting them out is much much more common.
You would be the buyer, not the sender. So its Bitmain that need to fill the paperwork. There's this guy with one 1/3 S5+ + S5 controller for sale right now; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1178317.0And i think Tupsu did some crazy weird things and tried to sell them as well. Is your apartment in US? What I was trying to say and might not be coming through clear is with being US there is no VAT so bitmain filling out paperwork on worth so far has not effected me. Only when PSU's were sent at lower weight then correct have I had to pay any extra. I give you that there is one out there seeing that. But i stick with my prediction there will not be many 1/3 of S5+'s at least until they are older by a good amount. And working set I think will stick together in most cases. |
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I think it sucks but I think you got a dud. I think it is more then just software with it being on it's 3rd blade. Just is a lot of bad to happen to one unit.
I still am running along with my S5+ happily with no issues. It runs and runs for weeks without touching it. I don't know if it helps but something with my mining area is a lot of CFM's of air going through my miners from big fans pushing that hot air away.
That is only thing I have done that not everyone would have. But mine has not had any issues besides hardware errors. Somehow they messed up the equation with HW errors and when I run for long periods with very little hw errors it shows a very very small negative which is impossible.
Well if i get a 1/3rd of a already working and used S5+, hopefully i won't run into the issues Tupsu did. I'm just guessing the odds of getting 1/3rd of a S5+ without a controller for a good price, comparable to just getting some S5's is a bit low. Especially since the deal is killed if the person is outside NA, most likely.
If someone selling parts of a S5+ wanted a quick sale and eat the shipping cost and declared it was worth very little, just parts, it would probably then be worth buying from the US. But there is an awful lots of Americans that don,t want to fill that little form for clearing customs.
I didn't have to sign any customs forms when I got my S5+ from bitmain. It could have varied by carrier. I did pay extra for PSU's the 3 were shipped at a weight less then actual from bitmain, so carrier charged me the difference. But that was all I had to do. And I would agree chances of getting 1/3 of one is pretty slim. It was a pretty limited sale to customers. I can't imagine someone splitting up the set of 3 when selling. Its usually the sender that fill the form depicting what the content is and its value, since its used at custom to decide how its handled and then calculate the tax. When its part its easy to say its just parts and they don't have value you can really look up. And i saw people selling 1/3rd of a S5 with a controller so it should be just as easy for them to sell without a controller. If they happen to not have one spare but i don't know. I think with the S7 a lot of people who bought the S5+ might be wondering if they did the right thing. At least for people that pay a significant price on their electricity. And i'm fine with only picking up S5's till i cap my appartment's capacity. But when hunting for good deals its best to be open to more than one type of miner. I never got a form to fill out with my S5+ purchase. I could have been lucky or could have been the carrier but I never had to declare a value. But since US ... really does not matter to matter with no vat. Can you link to some of these partingout? I just have not seen it. Seems crazy to split up a S5+ into selling modules. I don't think they were selling controllers by them self on S5+ from bitmain. It's just pretty limited on number out there that made it publicly. Now if your talking about S5 parting yes there are many S5's. Some are old some have problems parting them out is much much more common. |
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