Thanks for the reply. With the initial setup I am looking it would be around 21TH on average. From there i will work my way up to the 84TH, slowly but surely. I was also looking for a good mining pool but it seems as though the slush pool is a pretty good place to start. I am still trying to fully understand the different payout systems though them seem kind of complicated. What in your opinion is the best mining pool?
Cheers
What is your setup like on electricity? You will need some 220/240 lines are best (less running cables then 110/120). Are you set up for a lot of electricity? On pool i suggest reading some and picking your own. There is a entire thread. Read about the different types of pay. |
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Why not just have a mining box with a small extra fan blowing -20 in and another blowing inside ambient box air out?
If possible have their speed controlled so that the box temperature is at a more suitable temperature.
So just stick your miner/s into the box and regulate the temperature of the box by controlling the amount of air coming in and out of that box.
Of course be careful that your box temperature does not fluctuate up and down much. Fast temperature changes to electrical devices is death.
The idea is something like this. But the fans of the machines are to strong to keep it sealed. So exhaust will be completly open and intake aswell whit a fan pulling cold air inside from the bottom. Fans form machines will be pushing out.
My IT techer even told me that why not put the machines inside Oil cooling and cool down the oil whit the winter cold.Might even be a clever solution, oil will protect from outside and will be more seleaded swell. None of these machines you have mentioned were meant for immersion cooling. Be careful as it sounds like your teacher is giving advice he is not familiar with. You might have to find special fans to handle this. I don't think most of the fan's will last. I think get brittle and break. But that is a guess no one has tried what your doing that I know of. |
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notlist3d thank you and could you please tell me what bricked means
It means the controller is at a point where you can do nothing with it. It is "bricked" or not going to work. They can be revived though. Ask bitmain for help with a usb to serial fix on it. You will need a special cable to do it. |
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If anyone is good at programming it seems like we could do a google document. Have something that scrapes the data off of those pages and lists it in google doc. Long term we could also look at it easily. Anyone i group a google doc guru?  |
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I noticed that s5 working with some of the ATX power supply after a period of 25-30 days is slowing down. Restart and return to the original hashrate for next 25 days.
I did not notice such a big slowdown in the ATX gold 750W power supply but probably you use a smaller power supply , which are not designed to operate 24/7. This is all at a temperature lower than 20 degrees Celsius.
Can confirm that slowdown happens on: Dell 750w PSUs and IBM Bladecenter 2880w PSUs, so it is more of a hardware issue. Some S5's are better then others it seems to be a personality almost on the miners. My regular S5 went a long time without doing it (Weeks if not a month) and did it twice in past week, seems to be in their nature. I think I have a RM1000 powering just that S5 so it's not a power issue. |
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Hy guys, any news from the ESTONIAN leader of BTC  *Uranus is in the stage of licensing. I wonder if they have given up. The S7 I believe beat's the efficiency of the product that they never showed even working prototype on. You can get 2 S7's for cheaper and get them next batch once they have more. I keep thinking the company will give up after never releasing Zeus miner. But maybe they just leave it up hoping for someone to buy one without reading anything. Suppose one sale would keep the site up for years. |
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One possible scenario I can imagine: Just put some old dragon hashboards to one big enclosure,and you can easily have 4.2 TH miner. It sucks 4kW from wall but if buyer doesn't know that,who cares.
It would be kinda a jumble of wires with this. And the weight of all those heatsinks would make it a hard sale on shipping. I had the 1.5TH dragon that thing was the most heavy miner I have shipped yet it was around 45 or so pounds I believe. In the 1.5 they put bigger heatsinks and it showed when I went to ship it to a buyer. I think long ago there was a 3d printed custom one I had forgot about. They took a few block erupters and put it in a case with RPI and made it seem like a special custom miner. So I guess it has been done before, just not many times. They charged a pretty penny back in the day for that one. |
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Virosa, /etc/init.d/cgminer.sh
Thank you! Look like the guide to install smit's worked tho. So i get a nice 2800-2600 RPM now. And i manually installed cgminer 4.9.0. So i'm messing with voltage now, look like even though its not the PSU that came with the machine (That one died according to the original owner), the replacement he got is the same crap. It look pretty unstable, it doesn't even seem to do 0710 at 206.5 without eventually a drop in hash after 20-30 minutes and a few chip drops. snip Which version is it on power? There are the ones that use the pols and the pcie ones. If pcie it's pretty easy to change out (other requires cutting and more time to do) But it's a little bit more power then you need but if on 220/240 I would look at the bitmain server PSU's - https://www.bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=000201505040743496917U7kGsCm0694 . They are a little pricey but I have been impressed with them. |
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There isn't much point of this, it has to be smaller miners inside otherwise you lose all forms of modularity. Any downtime costs you $100 an hour rather than just a module going offline etc, and then the purchase price is inflated because its a container ($2-3k) and inbuilt infrastructure.
When the alternative is 10 SP50s or 200S5s, I can't see anyone buying a container.
I can't remember the name but there was a company that sold containers like this just without miners. They took containers and put electrical and cooling. They thought they would have customers but seems that company died. Have not seem anything from them. I have a feeling you are right and this container project just like other one will not take off. You mean the company that was selling dedicated server cooling cabinets? I remember such a company advertising here, might have been this one but I'm not sure. Here's a picture from their website Theirs was air cooled but I don't remember the company name. I wish I could remember. They built one to show off and filled it up with some SP gear I think. And that was as far as their company went i think. I cannot remember name but price was rediclous. They charged like 10k or something for empty container and I think like 30-40k for wired container. It was a high profit project to say the least and I don't think they ever sold one. |
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Bitmain is paying money for the services for Dogie.However Dogie has been acting like a third party and this was giving confidence to me.Now Doggie is saying Spondoolies should have one topic while there is no rules or restrictions on the subject as much as I know.
Is it because of thim employer-employee status with Bitmain? I hope not.He is one of the most reliable and well known members of this forum.
I could be wrong but I don't think Dogie works for bitmain anymore. He has a known issue with SP, yes we all saw that. But I don't think bitmain is still paying him ( I could be wrong). |
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As the title says, is buying a 2Gh/s ASIC USB Miner a good deal?
With 2/GH you are going to make .12 cents a month at the current difficulty, maybe, before you take into account the cost of electricity and equipment. I doubt it is a good deal. I would not pay more than .50 cent for it. A decent amount of people collect usb miners. You are never going to get it for .50 cents. Even the block erupters bring a decent amount considering they are so old just as collectibles. Not sure which one the 2GH/s was but I'm guessing min of 20 something for it. Stick miners are not ROI machines. |
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Bitwisdom still does not seem everyone has gotten their S7's
Bitcoin Difficulty: 59,335,351,234
Estimated Next Difficulty: 58,800,027,102 (-0.90%)
Adjust time: After 985 Blocks, About 7.0 days
Hashrate(?): 445,562,864 GH/s
I keep expecting to see it and a big jump. But has not happened yet.
Beside, i doubt that the first batch included thousands and thousands of S7s. By that i mean 1000 S7 is still only 5PH/s, so its not even 1% raise. It might have been only hashnest that received 1k unit and there were a few more thousands units sold and shipped but that sound a bit of a feat in 10 days, so i'm guessing it would not be something like 5% raise just from Batch 1 S7. Did someone work out how many S7 orders they took by following the blocktrail? Around 600 but I stopped checking. So it may be up to 1000. The big thing I wonder is how many they will have internally. It seems like with their own mines and hashnest it would be quite a few. Some day I would expect they upgrade S2's to something. But I think they are still profitable at the low prices chances are that they pay. |
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Hey all, I'm new to the forum and the mining community, I have been thinking of starting a small scale mining set up for some time now and would appreciate any advice from you senior vets. Electricity rates in my country are at .03 cents per Kw and I was thinking of investing in 3 antminer s5+ batch 1's. Cooling is one of my concerns but I have some systems in place to help mitigate that issue, solar A/C's ect. My goal is to get up to 84 TH with investments in due course and possibly go partially or full solar. Does this make any sense? Or should I just wait for a better opportunity. I look forward to your feedback
Cheers!
You chances are will not be able to do 84th in solar, that is a TON of solar equipment. If you have .03 cent electricity I would not even mess with solar. But yes you can mine at that level. My advice is stat small and work up. A goal of 84 TH is just ... a lot. So go a little smaller to start. |
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You are still here?!?! Please.. just sh*t up. This service is well known scam!
Yes. I'm still here. When I'll go, I'll take u with me.  Since you posted again I would still like to know what is your data center like? What machines are you using? Can you tell us some of the hardware facts of what your service uses?
First tell me those things about the scam u r promoting in your sig. Then go to the cloud mining forum and ask all your questions. You are making false accusations. The fact you did not anwser the question and passed it up shows something. I tell everyone to do their own research. They should on any investment. This has been a good signature campaign but I am not a owner or linked to Bit-x. If they sell hundreds of contracts or none I make the same. But they have answered they have bitfury machines behind them. Their main business is being a exchange though, selling ghz is small part of them. But this is getting OT if you want to know more about Bit-x ask in their thread as official people can explain better than I. |
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I use blockchain as it was the simplest wallet for me to use back when I started
It's not a bad wallet for a hot wallet if you need to spend some money. But I still recommend you store most in cold wallets. Paper wallet/offline wallet is better security wise. Just a lot less risk. I'm using blockchain also. Is there an offline wallet that is safe ? Trezor is the standard for bitcoin hardware wallets. Hardware wallets are a better security then most sites, or live wallets. But I still say cold wallets are king. They don't cost much. But if done right have the best security of any wallet. But have to be done right. |
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Mine did not take a terribly long time it was during GPU days. So it was almost guaranteed 3 month ROI was amazing time for mining.
I just kept building machines slowly and adding more GPU's. After the GPUs then moved into Asics.
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This is funny but some water splashed to one of my antminer s4s  all of the chains burned: (removed images) is it safe to run after this burned spot? thanks, I have to ask what did bitmain say to your ticket or email about it being safe? I really want to hear response to it. I think they will nicely say no on running, but wanted to hear. Oh sorry, I forgot to reply. Yes they said that is not safe to run. But it's running for almost a week and no problem. i put it in a safe palace and pointed to solo.ckpool ! When you say running what does the status screen look like? If you are able to please post status sowing blades and chips. I just had not seen one like this before. I think you didn't see this line on my first post : "but one them still working(hashing)." I just ran one blade with a little burn spot:   Others are completely useless. I saw that one is working. Just looking at damage - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=796839.msg12392384#msg12392384 I would not run it. It seems dangerous as we don't know full damage. I guess I am just safe as I don't want to have electrical fire or other bad things that could happen. That machine is really really bad. And I was thinking Bitmain also said don't run it. |
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I tried the more complex reset and that didn't work and i tried the just 1 push reset and that didn't work ether. And pinhead666 i use to be able to connect to my miners but any way how would i change my computers ip and default gateway
You might contact bitmain and put in a ticket. But it is possible on S3 you bricked it when doing something if it was still configuring. Either that or you put on a network setting that is not working with your network. Might ask bitmain for the instructions for serial to usb restore. It is the kinda ohhh no its messed up fix. |
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Well after extensive research I could not figure out how to get the U3 to work at full speed on the Mac.
I ended up getting a Intel Compute Stick thing (I think it's what it's called!) and yeah, say goodbye to EVER getting ROI for this little U3 toy! Eh - I'm just running it for fun so who cares.
What I cannot wrap my brain around is why anyone would select Windows as their preferred software for anything Bitcoin. The risks of virus' or hacks are just not rational.
I might suggest giving a look at an RPI. You can get a lot for your money on this. Linux is not that bad after you get the hang of it. That stick just seems kinda high compared to an RPI. If you do it with the stick please document it as I don't think we have seen it. |
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Bitwisdom still does not seem everyone has gotten their S7's
Bitcoin Difficulty: 59,335,351,234
Estimated Next Difficulty: 58,800,027,102 (-0.90%)
Adjust time: After 985 Blocks, About 7.0 days
Hashrate(?): 445,562,864 GH/s
I keep expecting to see it and a big jump. But has not happened yet.
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