I suggest trying a live usb of Debian - https://www.debian.org/. With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD. But I found windows to be a pain with drivers I used 7 and 8. Went to debian and no issues. Then I went to RPI and raspbian (which is built off debian) and still working great. With linux just no messing with the drivers and very very nice. Okay I loaded wheezy to an i5 4570t and the pc will only run the sticks. so how do I load software like cgminer. what link is good to load? I am running just regular 4.9.2 with Icarus. You can get a guide pretty close on here - http://blog.phrog.org/2013/07/06/simple-debian-cgminer-asicminer-block-erupter-usb-setup/Before it try in terminal - apt get upgrade That will upgrade a lot of things. Some commands might require sudo in front as root access. I even went overboard and ran cgminer as root. I also looked at guide in this thread and added the following to make sure I had all possible things needed. Again it's overboard if someone takes time they could clean it up for sure. sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libncurses5-dev libudev-dev Also used icarus cgminer running not the old cgminer it mentions on that guide something like: ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --au3-freq 150 okay so my run time on debian is about 2 minutes life time starting today. the guide reads 3) apt-get stuff. apt-get install autoconf gcc make git libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libtool libjansson-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev First things first, open terminal sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade (this will update the the system) it will ask do you want to continue y/n hit y and enter. After it updates, sudo reboot (to be sure updates are active). Then in terminal window again sudo apt-get install autoconf libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0 libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev libtool automake pkg-config libjansson-dev (you may get a message saying you need another package installed to install some of the above, if you do, just add it to the above) Again y/n hit y enter After it's done, wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/4.9/cgminer-4.9.0.tar.bz2tar xvzf cgminer-4.9.0.tar.bz2 cd cgminer-4.9.0 ./autogen.sh ./configure –enable-gekko --disable-libcurl (cgminer doesn't need it, but linux does to build) sudo make install (you don't have to do the install) While still in the cgminer-gekko dir, sudo cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/ (if it does not copy, sudo su enter then cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/ ) sudo usermod -G plugdev -a whoami (whoami= your user name you setup) sudo reboot After it restarts open terminal cd cgminer-gekko sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://whateverpool:XXXX -u poolusername.andworkerifyouwant --compac-freq XXX Not familiar with wheezy, but you might be able to copy/past the comands and then just fill,answer,hit enter when it asks. I'm just using 4.9.2 and running as icarus on all of the sticks. And sidehack I think is right there is not a compac in 4.9.0 if you were wanting to use compac. |
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I suggest trying a live usb of Debian - https://www.debian.org/. With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD. But I found windows to be a pain with drivers I used 7 and 8. Went to debian and no issues. Then I went to RPI and raspbian (which is built off debian) and still working great. With linux just no messing with the drivers and very very nice. Okay I loaded wheezy to an i5 4570t and the pc will only run the sticks. so how do I load software like cgminer. what link is good to load? I am running just regular 4.9.2 with Icarus. You can get a guide pretty close on here - http://blog.phrog.org/2013/07/06/simple-debian-cgminer-asicminer-block-erupter-usb-setup/Before it try in terminal - apt get upgrade That will upgrade a lot of things. Some commands might require sudo in front as root access. I even went overboard and ran cgminer as root. I also looked at guide in this thread and added the following to make sure I had all possible things needed. Again it's overboard if someone takes time they could clean it up for sure. sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libncurses5-dev libudev-dev Also used icarus cgminer running not the old cgminer it mentions on that guide something like: ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --au3-freq 150 okay so my run time on debian is about 2 minutes life time starting today. the guide reads 3) apt-get stuff. apt-get install autoconf gcc make git libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libtool libjansson-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev You might need to put in front of some of the commands: sudo That runs it as root in terminal. On the get install i did both the one from that old guide: apt-get install autoconf gcc make git libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libtool libjansson-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev And the one from like page two here: sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libncurses5-dev libudev-dev |
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I suggest trying a live usb of Debian - https://www.debian.org/. With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD. But I found windows to be a pain with drivers I used 7 and 8. Went to debian and no issues. Then I went to RPI and raspbian (which is built off debian) and still working great. With linux just no messing with the drivers and very very nice. Okay I loaded wheezy to an i5 4570t and the pc will only run the sticks. so how do I load software like cgminer. what link is good to load? I am running just regular 4.9.2 with Icarus. You can get a guide pretty close on here - http://blog.phrog.org/2013/07/06/simple-debian-cgminer-asicminer-block-erupter-usb-setup/Before it try in terminal - apt get upgrade That will upgrade a lot of things. Some commands might require sudo in front as root access. I even went overboard and ran cgminer as root. I also looked at guide in this thread and added the following to make sure I had all possible things needed. Again it's overboard if someone takes time they could clean it up for sure. sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libncurses5-dev libudev-dev Also used icarus cgminer running not the old cgminer it mentions on that guide something like: ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --au3-freq 150 |
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Hey,
New to mining here.
Where do you recommend I start?
from s7 if you want any real edge for your profit, it's profitable up to 0.15-25 cent but the roi will kill you but if you have something like 0.05 cent per hour, it can be worth it Can you show math of .25 being profitable? With difficulty I think .15 is hard to ROI, but .25 seems pretty much impossible. Including difficulty I just don't see how you are ROIing at such high electricity. well i was assuming that diff does not change, which is unrealistic yes, maybe 0.25 is overstimating but with 1.2kw x 0.20 x 24, you have $5.76 in consumption, daily, vs $10 in earning daily, i'm talking about the s7 I guess I never do ROI without some difficulty change. In a world without it yes the .2x would ROI. But I think in "real world" anything near the .2x ROI is just a dream. Only chance is if they get lucky mine a few weeks and somehow are able to sell miner for what they paid. They will not be able to stay in the race hundreds of days. i don't trust difficult change too much, i replyed to another member that was saying that the diff was increase much more than 3%, monthly supposedly, yet since january at least, the earning of the antminer s5 was 0.01 for the whole time until today which is still near 0.01(0.0097) all this difficult change to me seems smoke and nothing else, people should remember that if the diff is increasing, it is because there is more efficiency, but if there is more efficiency there is more reward, the ratio will remain the same How can you possibly not believe in difficulty change? It happens - https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficultyAs someone who mines with more then one S5 it does exist and effects earnings. And eventually makes miners unprofitable. If there was no difficulty change I could run an old miner forever, just does not happen and to good to be true. |
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OPEN UP YOUR EYES for the DELIVERY TRUCK, too  Ships Fast & FLY to your door via UPS  *This was actual one of the S5 deliveries in some town USA.Damages caused by the carrier is not covered under the warranty!!! Assholes. People like this need to be thrown around and shuckup . How about he comes to mine when am in throws shit, ill throw it right back at his face. UPS and DHL really do wind me up is people like this that cause us honest miners or buyers problems and claims have to be filed with the company that then taken months to have any action taken then again even if the miner was no broke Id be still making a full claim for it being not working. Hope the miner was not broke and was ok as with the protection they have seems strong enough to be rolled around like it had. DHL in my area sucks he does not throw items. But he will call at end of day and say something like "I'm at X buisness and will be here for 30 minutes if you drive here and get your package you can have it today, if not it will be tomorrow". I suspect he does this to the people at edge of his delivery as that is what I am. I can count on a call every time though. And of-course he marks it as if he delivered to your house so he gets paid mileage. He just sits in his truck. If it was not miners I would make it the next day but so far every time it's been a miner. |
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Hey,
New to mining here.
Where do you recommend I start?
from s7 if you want any real edge for your profit, it's profitable up to 0.15-25 cent but the roi will kill you but if you have something like 0.05 cent per hour, it can be worth it Can you show math of .25 being profitable? With difficulty I think .15 is hard to ROI, but .25 seems pretty much impossible. Including difficulty I just don't see how you are ROIing at such high electricity. well i was assuming that diff does not change, which is unrealistic yes, maybe 0.25 is overstimating but with 1.2kw x 0.20 x 24, you have $5.76 in consumption, daily, vs $10 in earning daily, i'm talking about the s7 I guess I never do ROI without some difficulty change. In a world without it yes the .2x would ROI. But I think in "real world" anything near the .2x ROI is just a dream. Only chance is if they get lucky mine a few weeks and somehow are able to sell miner for what they paid. They will not be able to stay in the race hundreds of days. |
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Hey,
New to mining here.
Where do you recommend I start?
from s7 if you want any real edge for your profit, it's profitable up to 0.15-25 cent but the roi will kill you but if you have something like 0.05 cent per hour, it can be worth it Can you show math of .25 being profitable? With difficulty I think .15 is hard to ROI, but .25 seems pretty much impossible. Including difficulty I just don't see how you are ROIing at such high electricity. |
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Yes scam people on the forum by offering a Bitcoin too money transfer service or learn to crack private keys  Is it possible to crack private keys ?? I think it is impossible or it might take ages to be cracked I saw a video on youtube that said it takes millions of year with the highest available computer now to do this You can not hack private keys. Period. The person you replied to was likely trolling. It's not impossible. It's just very unlikely. I would say it depends on what you mean by "hacking private keys". Chances of sitting there bruteforcing it we can say is none, just is not going to happen. But there is malware that targets wallet files on computers. So a bad person could "hack" it by stealing wallet files on a compromised computer this we have seen happen before. The first one on brute forcing a private key I feel safe saying we have not seen. |
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Please stop creating the same threads and in the wrong sections. You've created several threads all concerning the same thing but you seemingly don't even read the responses.
And no, you shouldn't join a signature campaign unless you can miraculously improve the quality of your posts as you either won't get paid for them or will get banned.
If you have managed to get a MOD to notice you without a signature campaign .... hilariousandco is doing you a favor suggesting not to join one yet. You have some learning to do. Use time at least till member of not full member to learn about the forum and if making a thread first search and look for one like it. There have been many already on this topic. You honestly are lucky to get a warning already and not a temp ban from what post above says. |
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Based on what I saw, I'd estimate Bitmain was replaceing S5's with S7s for 2 months at most, and possibly with S5+ for a month or two before that (and then likely sold those S5+ as "new" units once they got the S7 into production).
I don't believe for a microsecond that the S7 has been in production for 6+ months.
When you say what you saw what are you referring to? Did you get to see a plant? Just hashing online? What specifically? "Used" S5 sale. Hashrate fairly stable for the first part of that. ETC. If the S7 had been in production for 6+ months, there would have been a much longer and bigger hashrate bump due to Bitmain using them internally. I would say before they sold the used S5's they likely had the chip design ready for S7's and likely working prototypes. I thought you had a inside source or saw something we didn't the way you worded you saw something. It's really speculating not "seeing" i think that you are doing. Just as I am doing. |
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I suggest trying a live usb of Debian - https://www.debian.org/. With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD. So your suggestion is for me to run another OS? Hmm, that seems like quite a reach just to get a couple stick miners hashing. My XP machine is my main computer, I use it for a lot of stuff including my bitcoin node, not sure I want to go messing with additional operating systems... Be sure to run zadig as administrator. I plugged in 1 stick at a time and made sure zadig used the correct driver. Is you batch file specifying a frequency ...
cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --compac-freq 150
I understand how to use zadig, that is not an issue here. As shown in my post I am specifying a frequency. It honestly is not a lot of work to try it on live usb then you know if it works. Zadig just is a pain and seems not to be perfect. Debian no zadig to mess around with. I suggest at least trying it once see what it does. never ran debian but I went to the site looks easy enough. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-compat.en.htmlThe current Debian GNU/Linux release, 8, contains a complete, binary distribution for the following architectures: amd64: this covers systems based on AMD 64bit CPUs with AMD64 extension and all Intel CPUs with EM64T extension, and a common 64bit userspace. my question is simple. I have an intel i5 2500t intel i5 6600k intel i7 4790 intel i5 4570t I can use any of these. so how do I check for the EM64T extension to decide which one to use? Answer is here: http://www.intel.com/support/processors/xeon/sb/cs-012580.htmQ. Which processors support Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology? A. Since Q4 of 2006, Intel® EM64T has been supported in all mobile, desktop and server processors that are based on the Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture. So I am going to do a debian with the i5 2500T Please let us know how it turns out but I think you will really like the result if it was like me. I was messing with drivers and was pain. After I switched to debian was much easier I am running just regular 4.9.2 and as icarus instead of compac. Seems to work fine for me. |
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That looks really sexy mate! Well done!!!
I would agree very nice indeed. I love the clear look to it. The acrylic was a great choice with this. How many hours did you put into this project? |
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he can have a good profit actually even with that rate, but only with the s7 and maybe the s5+
the s7+ is currently producing around $10 per day while consuming only 4.5 with his rate(1200x24x0.15)
the problem is that ROI is very long, because of the initial investment for the new S7
The problem is I don't think at that he will be able to reach ROI by running it. He might get ROI from running it to a point then selling. But don't see .15 as that profitable. It would be more profitable to have it hosted somewhere for chances are around .10 and save compared to OP's home. |
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So is there any way/any website that tells the average price of casascius coins, and/or other coins? I really would like to invest and get a good quality coin to buy, but I have a feeling I need to do a lot more research in these physical coins before I go putting money down on getting one...
Anyways of knowing more about these coins or should I just frequent the Goods and Auctions sections frequently and see what prices they sell for?
This site is where the most sales action is and you can search all the old threads and get a feel for prices. I don't know of any dedicated price sites and if there are they'll take the info from here. The only other place they turn up regularly for sale is Ebay but prices can often be a lot higher. And it varies as if someone is trying to complete a set or had one they were wanting. Its worth as much as someone is willing to pay. If you watch some accounts there are some that deal a decent amount on coins. |
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It's the grading company's opinion of the condition of the coin. 70 is absolute perfection and then it goes down from there. MS69-70 coins are rare and attract a premium. I'm not totally sure how justified it is but it's important to some people. I often can't tell the difference between a photo of 66 vs a 68.
People will pay an amazing amount for highly rated coins. It's amazing how the difference of a few numbers on grade is HUGE in how much value it has. Currently there is a good market for coins. People really enjoy them, and I would like to see them get their own thread they are so popular. But in 5-10 years will they hold that value... hard to say. One of my favorite examples is ball cards people thought they were like gold for a long time. Then one day... they drop to hardly what they were once worth. I knew one person who invested most of his money in them as a hobby he did great... until they dropped. No one really knows just make sure you don't only invest in one thing is the moral of the story. |
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Hey,
New to mining here.
Where do you recommend I start?
"Mining here"? Do you have any hardware. Are you already mining but just now registering? What are you looking for? Help on what to buy? Software to run? OS to install? What is your budget? What is your electricity cost?If you give us a minimum to work with, either I or someone else will surely give you recommendations. My biggest questions for new miners is what is electricity cost and do you have an import/vat? If import/vat what is it? This can judge if you stand a chance. And there are other options such as usb miners like the compac you can use to learn if you cant ROI on other gear. |
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Any miner who isn't making a big return now starts to lose money at the next halving. Who's dropping out at that point?
Are the big players buying new hardware, or just getting the last revenue out of the old stuff?
I will always have at least a miner going for the love of it. How big I am able to go though no one will know till we are closer. At current price a lot of gear is going to be hard to run without really cheap electricity. But I have hope that something will happen to make it work for hobby miners. |
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Nothing to spectacular. Just a few starting me off in my new found hobby of lotto mining. In it: 3x Bitmain U3's 3x Gekko Science Compac's (each a different stage) 1x Avalon nano lottocoin = scrypt Lotto as in solo mining BTC. Not some crap alt coin. Right now the U3's pump out quit a bit. Are not the most efficient compared to the compacs. The compacs and RPI win on most efficient by far. |
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There's no way anyone would even know you changed your password, why the concern? People change passwords all the time, it's a common security practice.
False. https://bitcointalk.org/seclog.phpIn addition, admins have access to even more information on how it was done. I guess what I meant to write, or rather the intent of my statement, was that no one would care. Staking a address will pay off in the long run though. If he ever loses account it will speed up time on getting it back chances are. But you have a point likely OP will send money first on any trade with or without a password warning. But I think hes on the right route being over cautious good for down the road. |
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This is so amazing, and thanks for your link, man! Yeah this is amazing, a good mining farm but unfortunately they are selling all of these. They should have went for a location with cheaper electricity. Likely if they would have went were some of the Chinese mines are it's possible they would still possibly be profitable. I don't think selling all of those is going to be easy. Selling a ton of old gear just is not something most want. |
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