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6741  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: how to complete one btc fast? on: September 10, 2015, 07:23:59 AM
You can join those signature campaign to have some bitcoins.

it's not fast anymore, you need two months right now for 1 btc, well at least it is not fast as it was in the good old day

1 btc in two months with a senior at least, anything less is worthless

You can join magicaldice signature campaign and earn up to 0.15 BTC per week.

You will complete 1 btc in 2 months. Grin

better than bit-x, i could be interested

Signatures have slowed down.  Just so many hat do it pay is less.   I can understand  it.

Even if sig paid slightly better then Bit-x  I don't think I could leave it.  They just have treated me very well during it.  It is interesting if some go up in  pay.
6742  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Question about starting new type of btc gambling game on: September 10, 2015, 05:48:51 AM
I think if your project is promising and it shows results, then you can automatically find investors.

I would invest in any project that I find out to have a good profit and make sure that it is not just a scam.

Problem is you cant really show it will for sure make a gambling site is profitable before it's built.  Could not have enough people who use it.   So many variables. 

Also being new I think will add to it being hard to find an investor.  I know he will not want' to but I think he would have to do a  loan, just not an investor item I dont' think.
6743  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: ANTMINER C1 Discussion and Support Thread on: September 10, 2015, 05:41:26 AM
Found a few more parts in my hardware stash.
2x Never used syscooling pumps
1x replacement reservoir topper for syscooling pump
1x Unused wiring harness (the PCIE one - Newest model syscooling made)

And still there
1x used syscooling radiator
1x tubing and locking metals

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1169446.new#new   

Feel free to toss offers.  Buyer pays shipping.  Yes you can buy one or all of remaining parts.

Found a few more parts now have:


1x used syscooling radiator
1x tubing and locking metals
1x unused wiring harness
2x never used syscooling pumps (have not even been plugged in by me)
1x extra reservoir for syscooling pump.

If you do  get the system cooling pump I suggest getting other as backup.
6744  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: Bitmain to make a U4..??? on: September 10, 2015, 05:35:44 AM
I hope they do.  And also take that minimum order you had to do.

I don't see them stopping making the U models.  Then again I though all odd miners of theirs would have two blades.  So they might surprise me.
6745  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: GekkoScience BM1384 Project Development Discussion on: September 10, 2015, 05:27:44 AM
While doing your own usage measurement is a great idea, there is still some mystery into how the actual bill from the Power Company is derived from that (e.g. fixed costs, taxes, fees, etc).

this is true, my power company wont even tell you how much they charge you if you ask them on the phone. the bill has NO price per KWH.. just a value you used, and how much you owe at the bottom.





in US?
this is messed up.
I have everything marked on my bill: cost of electricity, cost of transmission, final cost per kwh, taxes, fees, they even give me neat graphs week by week and a comparison with the last year.

same man i get the some thing . if he does live in the US i don't even know how that state is even able to do that and has no fed law suit against them. im  glad i can see just what my bitcoin miner are using or i can make a nice guess etc but i don't trust smart meter either because this  month i got my bill for five days there is no record but i got charged the usually amount which bros me because some place down the road that might come back to me some how, i just know it .

but my miner will get running I'll  keep watching the bill etc and pay it but have that in the back of my mind .

Has to be out of US I would think.   I know mine is split down showing how much I used, and also shows fees they charged.

I got my true power cost by using all he info they send.   If you are in us show up at electrical office and ask to talk to someone about bill.  If you say you have question on your bill I would think they would show info to prove it's not wrong, and hopefully show you the rate.
6746  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: Constant Dropping of one Board Antminer S5! (ALL of THEM) on: September 10, 2015, 05:21:29 AM
I have 2 and one of them does this every so often.  It requires a power cycle to make it start working with both boards again.  It only happens maybe twice a month or so, so not a huge deal but certainly annoying.  I absolutely do check hashrate on my miners every morning and then several times throughout the day.  I wish there was a way to make it correct remotely without a power cycle but I have not been able to.

I see, this is not the issue i have. At least, the board only drop for a few minutes at most, then get re-picked up. I hope my issue won't devolve in your issue :S.

I mine in Kano and i use MMMonitor.

It all depend on the miner.  The S5's really do have a personality.  Some are much better then others.  Mine did it a few times for a few day's, then stopped and it's bee great for months.

I did do the wire check and do the firmware install.  So i'm guessing my firmware update was what really did it.  But in no way do these fix evey S5 with dropping a blade.


What firmware are you using? I am using the latest from Bitmain. "SD-S5-20150715-fan_ctrl.tar.gz". I have the few minutes dropping for always the top board problem and i have not tried other firmware.

It appears to be "SD-S5-20150107.tar.gz".  I also had some heat happening during it.  I ended up making up new mining area with a lot of CFM.

It is a batch 1 for what it's worth.  It also has not had the problem where network drop kills it.  So i could just be lucky and and it's a pretty good unit.  When I did have the problem for a few day's I had to manually turn off PSU and turn on PSU.
6747  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: Constant Dropping of one Board Antminer S5! (ALL of THEM) on: September 10, 2015, 05:01:31 AM
I have 2 and one of them does this every so often.  It requires a power cycle to make it start working with both boards again.  It only happens maybe twice a month or so, so not a huge deal but certainly annoying.  I absolutely do check hashrate on my miners every morning and then several times throughout the day.  I wish there was a way to make it correct remotely without a power cycle but I have not been able to.

I see, this is not the issue i have. At least, the board only drop for a few minutes at most, then get re-picked up. I hope my issue won't devolve in your issue :S.

I mine in Kano and i use MMMonitor.

It all depend on the miner.  The S5's really do have a personality.  Some are much better then others.  Mine did it a few times for a few day's, then stopped and it's bee great for months.

I did do the wire check and do the firmware install.  So i'm guessing my firmware update was what really did it.  But in no way do these fix evey S5 with dropping a blade.

Also which one is MMMonitor?  I could not find it by name.
6748  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [ANN] Sfards: SF100-the first 28nm Dual-Mode Miner gets into mass production on: September 10, 2015, 04:53:06 AM
If you have hardware sitting around you're mistake was hanging on to it for too long, you should sell off your hardware after using if for six to eight months or a year at max, then use the process to buy new shit

I dont have any of my sp30s, sp20s from last year

Agree 100%.  The moment I saw BITMAIN's thread on the new chip on the S7, I logged in to eBay and put up 44 of my rigs up for auction.  I had them all listed by the time we BITMAIN's thread had started it's 2nd page.  I re-invested that into 9 x S7's. 

I'm not sure what SFard's will do now with the price of their SF100 now that the S7 is out.  They might stop manufacturing the SF100 all together.  I just don't see them selling too many more of these.

It all depends on your electricity.  But i suggest doing ROI monthly to see if it's time for selling.

i sold all my S4's, C1's , and dragon 1.5.   Man was the dragon 1.5 heavy almost 50 pounds.
6749  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: Should Bitmain make a Q7? on: September 09, 2015, 10:34:25 PM
Just a matter of time before there is an S7+ I'm sure - they already have the infrastructure in place.
 I wonder if they'll offer "S7 -> S7+" upgrade "kits"?


I think they will sell additions, not exactly an upgrade kit. Basically you would just need to plug a S7+ on a S7's controller board. At the very least, it look like everything is set it place for that.

I think it will be a upgrade kit.  The controller is set up for 3 units already it looks like.  So would be easy to throw a pack of two miners without controllers and call it a + upgrade or something like that.

I think they will do it down the road though, not at launch.
6750  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [ANN] Sfards: SF100-the first 28nm Dual-Mode Miner gets into mass production on: September 09, 2015, 10:32:35 PM
SFARDS did e-mail me back saying they would have a batch 2 order but no time was given so I wouldn't expect if for a while i noticed LTC difficulty was dropping now its on its way back up so i suspect someone is turning on the lights on some new gear

They have either a big customer or are mining on their own I think.  I am not sure which but it's odd for a product to come out and need only 5 units to select resellers.

I wonder if eventually they will sell them though.  They got the end of ltc having so maybe who ever owns them they will sell and they call it batch 2.  I just hope price goes down with ltc having.
I have seen the price at around 1500 on aliexpress now, they may realize they aren't going to sell or make what they wanted to off them.

Part of reason of dropping though is LTC having.  These people ran them befoe having.  Now if they can see for more then the 1200 they paid talk about a nice profit.

They get a profit on selling gear.  And basically get free LTC from mining before having.

Yup thats waht i did , bough 7 units around 1100 , mined with them for a month and 4 of em on ebay for 1300-1400

I'll keep 3 I think for speculating on pools

Where did you get the units from?   It seemed pretty rare to end up in users hands.
6751  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: 10k$ to invest with free electricty on: September 09, 2015, 04:25:51 PM
*grabs popcorn*

Perhaps you might consider growing pot instead?

LED's are quite efficient now a days, would be a waste, unless he has unlimited space!

OT: Used S5's? You can make them into S5+'s can't you? (Same controller?)

Most likely they will not sell you an S5+ controller for projects like this.   But if they did and you got it to work the S5+ uses 9 blades.

But they are different controller S5+ has many more ports.    So many they put a PCIe to power the thing.  The S5 is a lot littler and much less plugs.
6752  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Good websites to Invest My Bitcoins? on: September 09, 2015, 04:15:07 PM
I want to try to invest in a gambling site. I had three options. Just-dice, Bitdice or Moneypot? which one is better in your opinion?

There are more than just that 3, check the first post, and choose from those too.

I havent tried out those, but maybe later I will.  I am more interested now in Bitplutos's anonymous binary option platform, it seems pretty cool.

yeah I know there are many options above, I just wanted to take away from the site I have ever played.
binary so good but i cant play it Cheesy
gambling site is not investing guys,
if you know how the gambling site is based on luck, if you're not lucky, then you will lose your bitcoin deposit.

Its not gambling, you invest in the house. They give you a % share of what the house earns.

You can gamble too, but these are casinos specifically for investment purposes.

Its like a long term bond.
so you must buy a some shares to get dividens?
and when you bored you can gamble it?

Exactly.



MLM is heavily all rely on recruiting, new blood. Just avoid it.

Which even the most legit ones its hard to make money, cause most people see it as a negative view etc with the pyramid scheme comments.

Looks more like a ponzi scheme to me, all these cloud mining sites are smelling badly like ponzi schemes. With a few excaptions of course.

The part I still don't understand is why if a gambling site is profitable would they want to share the winnings?  I would think they would want to cover their own bankroll.   Just on real casinos they cover their own action..... seems like online would follow that.

Can you say why they would share this profit if they are sure they are going to make a profit?   I don't get it.
6753  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Question about starting new type of btc gambling game on: September 09, 2015, 04:11:39 PM
as for investing i think either you have to come up with the money yourself (from your own pocket) or find someone who knows you to invest in your idea.

as for coding you can easily find people who are capable of coding and designing a website everywhere. do a google search or you can start a new topic in services section looking for hire.

p.s. this topic might belong in gambling section.


OP will need to cover him self.   I think your right on move maybe long term loans or services looking for someone to do this.   It is hard to get investors trust you with something like this.   Unless idea is just so massively new, but with gambling most are not that new.

Also you would have hot wallets on your site so you would be responsible for other's peoples coins.  That is a big deal, and possible huge risk.   Then mention you are kinda dogging laws to do a gambling site... it is going to be hard.
6754  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How to explain Bitcoin to your Granparents [InfoGraphic] on: September 09, 2015, 04:08:14 PM
I wish it was this easy to show anyone bitcoin or other digital currency.  But there are some that will just not adapt it, just is to far away from their "normal".

I know my grandparents will not be switching from fiat.   I could do nothing to change this they just like fiat money.   I had one who would not even get a credit card till a few years ago.   Just believed in carrying cash and paying cash.  It's a different generation with some people.
6755  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: What is a signature campaign? on: September 09, 2015, 04:05:00 PM
Well there is signature space beneath your post, so whatever you post, that thing is gonna stick like a ad under your post, if people find your post interesting they might also find the Signature interesting. And thats what the site owners pay you for, make quality posts so that readers are interested in your post and signature alike, and the site who conducts the signature profits when people use it. 
Common sense if you ask me.
but often someone who follows the signature campaign to be reduced quality of his post, it is because he has another purpose, namely Bitcoin in getting the results of the pay, but despite that this forum will be quiet without signature campign

Even without a signature campaign the forum will not be quiet.   Many including me like talking here, and do it for fun.   I just enjoy bitcoin' and enjoy the forum.

The signature campaign is just a nice added bonus.   It works out great for sig campaign and person wearing sig if done right.
6756  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread on: September 09, 2015, 04:00:14 PM
I don't have my sticks yet, but I'm configuring the software to get ready. I'm using Minera on a Raspberry Pi, but ran into some problems this morning. If anyone else is using Minera on a Pi, hopefully this info will be helpful.

The version of bfgminer that comes with Minera is too old to use with the sticks. It has to be at least v5.3.0. Unfortunately my attempts to build the latest bfgminer have not succeeded. When using the Minera script (i.e. "build_miner.sh bfgminer"), I ended up with a very old version of bfgminer being built. And when I manually built bfgminer from the git trunk, I ended up with 5.2.0, which is also too old.

I've posted on the minera and bfgminer threads, but decided to move on and try Novak's cgminer-gekko.

Novak's instructions on this thread (the usual configure, make, sudo make install pattern), work fine. You should ssh in as the minera user (password "minera" if you didn't change it) then follow Novak's instructions to build and install.

Once built, you have to make the binary "visible" to minera by copying it to the "custom" minera folder (you also have to use a different name than "cgminer"):

Code:
cp cgminer /var/www/minera/minera-bin/custom/cgminer-gekko

Once copied, enable this binary as a custom miner by going to Settings -> Custom miners in the minera web GUI. There should be an entry for "cgminer-gekko" which you just have to turn on. If there is no "cgminer-gekko" entry, refresh the page so that minera will take a fresh look a the "custom" folder.

Once the new cgminer-gekko is configured as a custom miner, you can select it from the popup list under Local Miner Settings. Then you can specify your frequency under Manual options (e.g. --compac-freq 150). You would also set up the usual options using the web GUI, like your pools.

When you start up your miner, you can see the log in the Minera GUI, if logging was enabled. You can use the log to troubleshoot as needed. I typically disable the log after things are working just to reduce wear and tear on the SD card. If you want to get super fancy, you can install ramlog to put the log files in on a ram disk. I have a tutorial for that on the forum, but I have to admit that I don't bother setting this up any more.

Once I've resolved the bfgminer version issues, I might set it up as an alternative local miner. But first I'll probably try the above "cgminer-gekko" configuration (once my sticks arrive).

Hope this helps...

To make this very easy what could happen is one person does it.  Then make an image of the SD card anyone can download.

If a image was provided and could be put to card it would be more "dummie" proof for lack of better term. 
6757  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [ANN] Sfards: SF100-the first 28nm Dual-Mode Miner gets into mass production on: September 09, 2015, 03:57:25 PM
SFARDS did e-mail me back saying they would have a batch 2 order but no time was given so I wouldn't expect if for a while i noticed LTC difficulty was dropping now its on its way back up so i suspect someone is turning on the lights on some new gear

They have either a big customer or are mining on their own I think.  I am not sure which but it's odd for a product to come out and need only 5 units to select resellers.

I wonder if eventually they will sell them though.  They got the end of ltc having so maybe who ever owns them they will sell and they call it batch 2.  I just hope price goes down with ltc having.
I have seen the price at around 1500 on aliexpress now, they may realize they aren't going to sell or make what they wanted to off them.

Part of reason of dropping though is LTC having.  These people ran them befoe having.  Now if they can see for more then the 1200 they paid talk about a nice profit.

They get a profit on selling gear.  And basically get free LTC from mining before having.
6758  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: ASIC MINING - Newest hardware and the future on: September 09, 2015, 03:55:10 PM
I think more profitable trading than mining. I am sorry  if i am wrong  Grin

Your answer is generic. Low experienced traders tend to lose money instead of making them, moreover we have many types of trading, like many types of mining. Homemade rigs are long gone, it's almost impossible to make ROI with Bitcoin volatility and increasing difficulty.
My advice: if you are a "home miner", try something else. If you are determined to open a new farm, do your maths carefully, you could waste a lot of money.

I agree, but:

It's not all about the BTCBTCBTCTongue

If you can utilize the heat, home mining isn't that bad!
Beats a http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/8123-lyf16L._SL1500_.jpg anyday!  Wink

Part of it is about what you enjoy.  For example mining is a passion for me.  I truly enjoy it.  So I will keep on doing it.

I can see why not everyone does it.  But for many it works.
6759  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Interview with the CEO of bitmain on: September 09, 2015, 12:28:21 PM
I don't understand why bitmain is not make scrypt miner.  Huh

Because it turns out no one actually wants scypt miners.



I disagree, to many want them and A2s still sell well and the L1's  bitmain prerecorded sold out with in hours or days i forget which, so its there .



Most of the time , i agree with you , more want them then you think . some are in fact bitcoin miners, they like doing both.


They are not going to do it.  They looked into it once with the L1, took pre-orders and the whole thing.   But they decided it was best not to make machine.

I don't see after the L1 going to crap them trying it again.  But i could be wrong.
6760  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: Diff thread sept 4th. to sept 17th Picks are open. on: September 09, 2015, 12:25:33 PM
Morning Bitwisdom slightly going down:

Bitcoin Difficulty:    56,957,648,455
Estimated Next Difficulty:    59,440,675,780 (+4.36%)
Adjust time:    After 1267 Blocks, About 8.6 days
Hashrate(?):    407,547,570 GH/s

Price around 238
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