They are offline from Hashnest and I don't think anyone is rushing to get them all back online. Sure they will sell them as used to someone interested with cheap power (aka someone in China), but how much life are left on them by the time you purchase and get it set up assuming were talking a large farm?
Also note I never said they were obsolete but they are def on their last leg per say.
I'm pretty sure S2,s are still profitable in China, and for Bitmain. So i'm not particularly sure Bitmain offlined them. I mean its possible but its not because they stopped payouts at hashnest based on return/cost rules (based on the amount they charge customers, not their real cost) Because i'm pretty sure they pay much less than than 8 cents per kWh. Or maybe they were offlined because they needed space or for some other reason but regardless, S2's are still profitable here with Hydro so i would assume China have even better rates. This sadly i'm not sure this will contribute to a difficulty drop just yet. Would be nice though, since the BTC price isint keeping up. They have no doubt found the cheapest electricity. Pulling them from hashnest is not the same as them stopping mining internally with them. It would not surprise me if they pay 1/2 or less then that 8 cents. But yea don't count on them going offline. Just like A1's they are running somewhere I believe on most. |
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I had one for a couple days and ordered 2 more, I should have waited (and you should have, too).  Soon the zombies will come. Well I did have a zombie after about 2.5 day's or so. Once I get the computer it's on just running only U3's I think I might be able to write a batch file to just restart it every X often (and I hope that will fix it). |
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I think Bitcoin Core is the best & safest method of storing your bitcoins. Paper wallets are a good method too.
If you have bitcoin core on a computer you actively use for internet that is not the best condition for a wallet. Hot vs cold wallets cold win every time. If done right cold wallets always win. Yes a piece of paper can make a great wallet, but you have to make sure you do it right and secure. |
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Yes i earned bitcoin from freebitco.in today
i hope i can earn much bitcoin every week
try joining on signature campaign bro, you can earn more than you earn on faucets there. eventhough you're newbie, you can still join on some campign like 777coin, they do accept newbies for their sig campaign I agree on faucets you are getting cents for hours of work. Unless you live in a very very bad economy it's not worth it. You use more electricity then you make in most cases from faucets I think I'm safe to say. Signature around member level start to pay pretty good. Just use them and don't abuse them. I suggest not doing newbie ones and work on post content. As your content is more important then the little a newbie one brings in. Look into joining on around member as there is a decent pay jump there. |
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stay avoid cloud mining... do you think cloud companies would sell you their services for lets say 50$ a month if they can earn 60$ a month mining with those same equipment? of course they would not.
There are a few legit ones, yes very few. But you buy contract upfront. So the cloud mining company has a profit today, and on fees. So it makes it where they can reinvest a lot quicker. So there are valid reasons for doing it. But again do your research. Sadly many are ponzi scams. |
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It does look like its working but, you might need to wait 20 minutes or so for the pool to reflect the hashing speed. You also need to wait until SHARES are ACCEPTED. Not new blocks.
What miner are you using? I see opencl.... you are not using a GPU are you to mint BTC? The opencl part I could be wrong but auto makes me think its being used. |
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Hello guys,
I have bought an antfarmer Asic s5, second hand. I have connected to source and to my router. Everything looks fine but i cannot find its ip, its seems that my router does not recognize him. I have tried with ipscan24 and same results. The aferent led from the router work fine, same as the leds on the miner. Also i have restared the router and the farmer few times with no favorable results. Also i have changed the router ip from .168.100.x to .168.1.x. I dont know what to do... Do you have any suggestion? It might me a incompatibility problem? Should i try with a different router? I have a router HUAWEI HG8245H...
The seller tells me that it shouldnt be any problem and if we dont fix this one he will replace it. I am not sure what to think... What is the most common issue on Asic S5?
tnx
Well you could ask seller what it's old IP was. That is easiest one. If not you will need to scan and find the IP, or a reset. So a few way's to find it. Is your first S5 have a static or dhcp IP? |
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I have had great luck with them so far. Have been using with my S5+. Finally gave me a reason to use my 240.
But you will have no problem with this working with S7. Main thing is that you don't try to use 110/120 as it's not enough to power up PSU.
Since OP's problem is resolve i'll hijack this thread. Is the psu that loud? I know compared to the S5+ its probably negligible but i could be interested in using it for S5's and i can run them nearly silent during winter. The PSU i have doesn't control fan with its temp but with its current load. Which make it still loud as fuck even if its very cool, while under load. Very annoying and is the sole reason i'm buying only ATX PSU atm. Is the Bitmain's PSU the same? My mining area is very loud. So hard for me to give an accurate read on it. I have not had those cold winter day's yet either. The best is cybtc that I have seen on sound testing and he said "68dBa". You can google that to get some comparisons. |
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Phil, where did you get those USB bridge thingies?
I'm talking about that board that has two male plugs that power a single female plug in the top middle.
I assume that one side is power only?
Those things are hella fancy. But all my my USB hubs are verticals so i could not use those one exactly. I will probably have to run them in a single socket or find some y connectors for the USB sticks that fit. Or not and try to figure out the freq/volt at which i can run the stick without burning a socket. Those are very fancy. Phil has also showed use these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1Ft-USB-2-0-A-Female-to-2-x-male-Y-Splitter-Extension-Extender-Lead-Cable-Power/221661361513 (I think that was auction could be wrong). I'm waiting for those to show up someday to try to OC on the cheap. How well did the cheaper splitters work on OCing that much? |
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If we get it under 5 I will consider it a little win since not rediclous amount. But I am still worried of weeks to come. I just wonder how many S7's have been pumped out. Also with it going to be on hashnest in October if those machines have been made already and plugged in mining for Bitmain, of if we can expect a big batch just for hashnest to come. Well the only good thing is we know the S2's are offline, and I expect a good bit of those to stay turned off. No doubt the S7's that are pumped out will keep increasing the hashrate, but we are def getting to the point of no return for the older generation machines that are stretching their last bit of life. I would not say we know that. With cheap electricity in some places I don't see them just piling up S2's and letting them die. Likely they would try to find a buyer and sell as used. A1/S2 stuff I think a lot remains online. It's hard to say when we will lose all of this gear. |
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I have had great luck with them so far. Have been using with my S5+. Finally gave me a reason to use my 240.
But you will have no problem with this working with S7. Main thing is that you don't try to use 110/120 as it's not enough to power up PSU.
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you actually gain coins, if someone mine with your profile, because every earning will go to your account
and with a low threshold, you don't even need a password for your whole account...
I like the no passwords I set up miners I sell on ebay so normally I can see a minute or two on my pool which shows buyer got it working right. I don't always do this but it is nice to see. As far as no password I would always have a account password with dual factor where possible. Just practice good security is a good thing. But as far as worker passwords does not matter at all. Only way you do not need a single password is when you mine directly to BTC address and BTC address is your username. |
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So flat edge flush with bottom would be what voltage about?
It would depend which way you turned it. Did you turn right or left and how much? Could be .8 or .55 depending on that or between. Not sure what you mean but no, it's always the same voltage. About 0.68V. -- novak Sorry about that I must be not understanding. With variable voltage screw how is it always the same? Or do you mean same voltage at certain spots on it? Thanks for time on my questions, I do appreciate it. |
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If you have very cheap electricity, home mining is fairly profitable. If you have high electricity cost (around 0.1/kWh). It's going to be hard, with the S7 being so expensive.
The very sad part for home miners is that 10 cent electric is NOT "high", it's actually a bit lower than average - at least in the USA. It's not high from one American's perspective, but it's pretty high from a global perspective. Basically the biggest competitor is China, so that has to be the standard. Its hard to say exactly how much they pay because its heavily subsidized but it's probably a few cents, 3 or so cents per kWh or something like that. At this point i'm just scrapping/guessing from multiple unclear reports. But that would make the 0.1/kWh of "American's not high", actually "Very High" from a global BTC mining perspective. This seem like a pretty fair educatedish guess when you consider also here you can get electricity at 0.02-0.05/kWh. We can only guess on the mega mining data centers. It for sure is a lot less then 10 cents. But they put in a ton of money in most cases to follow the cheap electricity. I hope at some point a company opens up hosting in a place where under 5 cents is normal. One that is built for hobby miners to send equipment to. But I think that will be looked into more after having. |
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If we get it under 5 I will consider it a little win since not rediclous amount. But I am still worried of weeks to come. I just wonder how many S7's have been pumped out. Also with it going to be on hashnest in October if those machines have been made already and plugged in mining for Bitmain, of if we can expect a big batch just for hashnest to come. |
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Personally, I count 3.5 months. I agree it doesn't seem that BitFury is in any hurry to actually sell a "Mining Lightbulb". Maybe they came to their senses?  Perhaps they have realised that by releasing the Lightbulb they would also be opening up to scrutiny their ASIC which so far they have been very careful to hide any info on from the general publc. Rich It would be surprising for them to make a public product. But they claimed they would be doing it, and I think each of these would be high profit margin items (ie price jacked up). I still say I would buy one even at a high rate to have a mining lightbulb. So I hope they release it. |
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I think they are only selling big order to large private farms right now they have the technology edge for the moment and they are exploiting it
Their chips are having huge yield issues, I doubt they have sold any apart from the couple they made from their sample chips. The whole "batch 1 sold out" is a marketing gimmick. Where did you get this information? This could explain a lot if true, but they have not indicated this. We have seen what 20 maybe or so go to resellers. I still think decent chance of a big buyer bought first batch. |
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What problems do you have with it?
Read this thread from the beginning, I pick up in there somewhere around the middle I think. It always starts out roses. I've had pretty good luck with one so far. I have had it running for two day's. I have ordered more it might change once I add more. Don't know if it makes a difference but I do specify the device when I run it. This is partially since 3 different small miners on a windows box. Some will be moving to raspberry pi in a day hopefully. |
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Oh, oh. I tried to build with icarus and gekko support (following my own recipe above) and I got a compile error: make[2]: Entering directory '/var/www/minera/minera-bin/src/cgminer-gekko'
CC cgminer-cgminer.o
cgminer.c:237:7: error: redefinition of ‘opt_anu_freq’
cgminer.c:229:7: note: previous definition of ‘opt_anu_freq’ was here
cgminer.c:240:7: error: redefinition of ‘opt_rock_freq’
cgminer.c:232:7: note: previous definition of ‘opt_rock_freq’ was here
Makefile:782: recipe for target 'cgminer-cgminer.o' failed
make[2]: *** [cgminer-cgminer.o] Error 1
Novak, could this be a copy/paste issue where a variable got reused without being renamed? Turns out there were a couple of duplicate lines of code. I removed them and it compiles now. Here's what the relevant section of cgminer.c code looks like without the duplicate lines: #ifdef USE_ICARUS
char *opt_icarus_options = NULL;
char *opt_icarus_timing = NULL;
float opt_anu_freq = 250;
float opt_au3_freq = 225;
int opt_au3_volt = 775;
float opt_rock_freq = 270;
#endif
#ifdef USE_GEKKO
char *opt_gekko_options = NULL;
char *opt_gekko_timing = NULL;
float opt_compac_freq = 125;
#endif
bool opt_worktime;
If this is Minera do you mind uploading a image if you got it to work with both icarus and gekko? Currently i'm using icarus, but eventually once I get production one it would be great to plug in and it uses compac. |
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Trying CGMiner now. Getting a "Failed to initiate device" error. It recognizes the devices.
Using ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://peercoin.ecoining.com:3336/ -u blackbird.2 -p 12345 --compac-freq 150
I would like to help, but I have not seen that error specifically. Can I get a little more info about your setup? What OS, How are you powering, did you rebuild cgminer,etc? Maybe get a little more cgminer output? I posted a question for you on another thread do you know if I can run older U2's in the same instance of cgminer or can I only stick to the compacs id like to fill the rest of the hub with my older U2's and ahve only 1 pi 2 running them all I don't know if they will detect correctly, as the icarus driver specifically can detect anything with approximately the correct chips. You can try, you'd need top build with --enable-icarus and --enable-gekko. Novak can you provide a diagram showing the voltage adjustment position in relation to voltage I use the flat surface as a guide and with it directly flush with USB port I have been able to get to 250 mhz or so no HW errors I dont have a volt meter handy to test what voltage that brings me up to
Here you go:  -- novak So flat edge flush with bottom would be what voltage about? It would depend which way you turned it. Did you turn right or left and how much? Could be .8 or .55 depending on that or between. |
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