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I'm trying to reconnect my L3+ to ProHashing now that it's back up, but apparently they had to change their stratum IP address and it is not resolving.
Anyone know how to reset the DNS cache in an L3+?
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I think he means this, which is very handy...  Yes, that's exactly what I meant. It would be great to have that comparative profitability info in the new algorithm page. Thanks Tigggger. TTFN. NiceHash folks, can you tell me if this info going to be added to the new site or not? Just to be clear, I'm not in a hurry. But this is an important feature to me and I want to know if you plan to support it or not ongoing. |
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I think he means this, which is very handy... Yes, that's exactly what I meant. It would be great to have that comparative profitability info in the new algorithm page. Thanks Tigggger. TTFN. |
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I was just cleaning up some bookmarks and noticed that my old saved title of this thread was this: BITMAIN announces Antpool: Pushing forward DecentralizationIt's interesting that somewhere along the line they removed that "Decentralization" part from the thread title, just like they're trying to do in real life  |
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Looks nice, but it's missing a key piece of info that I find useful. Namely in the current stats page I can easily see the live profitability above or below the current algorithm rate in the "Currently Paying" column. For example, for the SHA256 algorithm you display the amount over (or under) the 100% luck rate for Bitcoin. The new stats page doesn't have this info, as far as I can tell. Can you bring this back? |
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I've done well with ProHashing as the primary and litecoinpool as the secondary. ProHashing lets you choose to be paid in any coin. I choose Bitcoin.
Be warned that ProHashing has some stability problems (for example the server, including mining, was down this evening due to a storm, so they say). But even with wiggly uptime they still consistently beat Litecoin profitability by a significant margin (even with the 8% bonus that litecoinpool offers).
I've seen an average of about $54 a day for a single L3+ for the last week. Of course it's been kind of an insane time for cryptos recently. Looks like we're in a correction now.
If you want rock solid stability, then go with litecoinpool. It's amazingly reliable.
Are you making $54 a day by just mining Litecoin or other altcoin? I'm waiting on 40+ units ... if I get anything close to what you are getting per unit then HAPPY DAYS!!! lol I'm pretty lazy, so I just let ProHashing decide what to mine Looks like you're building out a nice farm. Good luck! |
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Well it is all about temperatures. I went from 384M to 387M -- noticed no temperature increase and my hash rate increased by about 4Mh/s on average.
I have really cold AC on the unit -- Output temperatures are no hotter than 59 degrees C on "Temp(Chip)."
Didn't notice an increase in HW errors -- although Chain #3 (5 HW) and #4 (22 HW) have always shown some over a 24 hour period. Another person had similar findings in another post.
The unit is quite impressive and the fan can get pretty quiet if the airflow and temperature is right.
I "rent" it on Nicehash when the price is at a certain level -- otherwise it defaults to a select alt coin pool where I mine a variety of alt coins. lol
Nicehash is the best option if you want to get paid in btc... What pool are you using to mine the alt coins and what PSU are you using for L3+? I've done well with ProHashing as the primary and litecoinpool as the secondary. ProHashing lets you choose to be paid in any coin. I choose Bitcoin. Be warned that ProHashing has some stability problems (for example the server, including mining, was down this evening due to a storm, so they say). But even with wiggly uptime they still consistently beat Litecoin profitability by a significant margin (even with the 8% bonus that litecoinpool offers). I've seen an average of about $54 a day for a single L3+ for the last week. Of course it's been kind of an insane time for cryptos recently. Looks like we're in a correction now. If you want rock solid stability, then go with litecoinpool. It's amazingly reliable. |
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Thanks for fixing it and keeping the fun run going!
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Does the controller come with its own 5v power supply, or just a micro USB cable?
As I recall you have to supply the 5V wall wart w/micro USB cable to power it. Just search Amazon or whoever for Pi power supply. Of course, check Canaan's website for the controller info. It'll say of it comes with one. The RasPi from Canaan has a nice solid metal case so is a decent price. I've seen metal Pi cases go for around $20-30. Thanks for getting back to me. Their site only mentioned the USB cable. I asked about the wall wart on the outside chance that they supply it but didn't mention it on their site. Yes, it would be hard to beat their $65-ish price (including shipping) and get a metal case. Of course I could get a slight savings putting together my own RPi 3 with a cheap plastic case. Or for that matter I could retire one of my old stick mining rigs and take over its RPi (assuming that older RPis work; I'll do some searching to see what minimum RPi is required). |
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Does the controller come with its own 5v power supply, or just a micro USB cable?
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Interesting about the possibility of an 761. I was just exploring getting a 741 to replace my S9 that blew a hashboard. Now I'm wondering if I should wait for the 761.
If I remember right, we've seen cases before where a new version showed up in the Canaan git repository before the hardware was announced and shipped. Does anyone know what the time span was from the source commit to shipping the A7? Maybe that would give us a hint as to how far off the 761 might be.
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I use google docs for a variety of record keeping between mining, selling coins, and investments and this would be perfect to bring in the bitcoin price. Only problem is, my spreadsheet has slowed down so very much, that it takes forever to enter numbers anymore. Does anyone know if it is possible to allocate more resources or speed up my spreadsheets?
If all you need is the BTC rate, you don't need my script. Google has built-in support for Bitcoin currency conversion, like so: =GoogleFinance("CURRENCY:BTCUSD")Litecoin is a little more complicated because Google doesn't directly support it yet: =IMPORTXML("https://bitinfocharts.com/markets/gdax/ltc-usd-1m.html", "//*[@itemprop='price']")The script is useful for things like getting the total value received by wallets, obtaining the earnings per day for hash rate, and other related ROI computations. So it might be more than you need. Sorry, but I'm not familiar with the Google docs slowdown that you're seeing. If you do a search, it seems like other people have seen slow down problems, with a number of possible solutions (not clear if any of them are related to what you're seeing). There's also a troubleshooter here: https://support.google.com/docs/troubleshooter/2853025 |
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Well, one of my S9s threw a hashboard so I'm contributing to reducing the difficulty increase in my own small way |
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So a couple of weeks after ROI'ing, one of my S9's has lost a hash board. It was showing all x's this morning.
Restarting and rebooting hasn't resolved it. Now it just shows a partial view of the dead ASICs:
xxxxxxxx xxx
I guess I should consider myself lucky that I've only lost a single board, and that it got to ROI first.
Probably no point in repairing this unit. Maybe I'll sell it and get something else (like an eBit).
For now, I've returned the unit to standard clocking (it's not an autotune unit). I had underclocked it because the board that is now dead was showing an inordinate number of hardware errors. No point in babying the that board now.
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Updated to include info about the new GitHub project for the scripts...
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Looks nice. A question, how do you distinguish the ROI between two miners / workers at the same pool using a single payout address? With the same miner type & hash rate then it is pretty easy, but I would like to use this to calculate the ROI of various miners that are of different generations (S5, S7, S9 etc) if possible. Assuming that the miners are configured the with the same pools (and profitability switches, if you use them), then you should be able to estimate each miner's percentage of a payout based on its percentage of the total hash rate. Currently I haven't tried to automate the percentage of total hash computation. That would be different for each pool's API (assuming you could get and parse the hash rate data at all). I just estimate it based on how I see the miners performing. It gets a little harder when you've bought different miners at different times because older miners provided a larger percentage when the total hash rate was less. Usually I have a separate sheet to deal with computing the relative performance and contribution of the mining units to keep this straight. In the case of my L3+ I only bought a single unit, so its ROI spreadsheet is pretty simple. The only complexity is that sometimes it mines Litecoin directly (mostly litecoinpool.org) and sometimes it's on a multitool (usually ProHashing.com). Since I receive two different currencies, the ROI results can shift around a bit as the relative value between Litecoin and Bitcoin shifts. But the spreadsheet automatically accounts for that. |
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Does anyone have hard numbers on what they have mined so far for a May batch machine? I sold mine, but would like to know if that was a good choice or not?
I just got a payout from ProHashing, so I looked at my ROI spreadsheet this morning. Currently my single L3+ from the May 5th batch is 42% ROI in Bitcoin terms and 99.5% ROI in dollar terms. At the current difficulty (and not counting additional profitability from multi-pools), I'm about 80 days away from ROI in Bitcoin terms. That's the only number that's important to me. I always want my miners to produce more cryptocurrency than they cost. On a semi-related note, I use Google Sheets to keep track of my mining and other Bitcoin investments because it provides a mechanism to automate the spreadsheets via simple scripting. My spreadsheets gather the received Bitcoin coming in to my mining addresses and include that revenue in the ROI calculation. Also, Google supports BTC to USD rate conversion. I had to add LTC, because they don't support it yet. So when I check on ROI for my miners, pretty much all I have to do is open the spreadsheet in a browser and refresh it. Most of the time it works well. Every once in a while something gets "stuck" (probably some Google caching algorithm) and I have to make a meaningless edit in order to get it unstuck. I have a forum post on this subject somewhere, but the scripts I used then are pretty old. If any one is interested, I'll start a GitHub project and post my latest scripts and instructions. That is a great Idea. I would love to try it out... I get LTC payouts from Hashnest hopefully i can track those in my Google spreadsheets. as well. I made a quick and dirty github project here: https://github.com/edonkeycoin/gsbitcoinutilsLet me know if you have any problems with the script. |
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Does anyone have hard numbers on what they have mined so far for a May batch machine? I sold mine, but would like to know if that was a good choice or not?
I just got a payout from ProHashing, so I looked at my ROI spreadsheet this morning. Currently my single L3+ from the May 5th batch is 42% ROI in Bitcoin terms and 99.5% ROI in dollar terms. At the current difficulty (and not counting additional profitability from multi-pools), I'm about 80 days away from ROI in Bitcoin terms. That's the only number that's important to me. I always want my miners to produce more cryptocurrency than they cost. On a semi-related note, I use Google Sheets to keep track of my mining and other Bitcoin investments because it provides a mechanism to automate the spreadsheets via simple scripting. My spreadsheets gather the received Bitcoin coming in to my mining addresses and include that revenue in the ROI calculation. Also, Google supports BTC to USD rate conversion. I had to add LTC, because they don't support it yet. So when I check on ROI for my miners, pretty much all I have to do is open the spreadsheet in a browser and refresh it. Most of the time it works well. Every once in a while something gets "stuck" (probably some Google caching algorithm) and I have to make a meaningless edit in order to get it unstuck. I have a forum post on this subject somewhere, but the scripts I used then are pretty old. If any one is interested, I'll start a GitHub project and post my latest scripts and instructions. |
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I asked Jack (our youngest cat) for his guess:
+7.6 = eDonkey (Jack)
I'm taking a bit of a risk here because Jack has never successfully guessed the difficulty before. But he seemed pretty excited when I told him he'd get fishy treats if he wins.
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So the guessing starts in about 19 hours? That's 1:45 AM Pacific time tomorrow.
I'll be asleep (unless the cats wake us up).
Looks like our European friends will be the first to guess.
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