I purchased a 3D printed part off eBay, a few weeks later the seller came out with an improved version and sold it for btc to previous customers at a reduced price.  You'll find btc only deals like that all the time.

These are exactly the reasons I just bought an Avalon 6 and not an S7, despite the S7 being just slightly more efficient.  I told myself I would never buy new asic gear, I started with a $20 S1, then graduated to a $100 S3+, both before I even really knew who Bitmain was.  I recently picked up an S5 for <$180, another good deal for the hardware, but buying used I didn't feel like I was directly supporting Bitmain.  I will run the S5 for a while still, I may bring the S3+ back but yea, it is tough to completely separate from Bitmain since they are so pervasive.  Once I saw how Avalon supports cgminer I made up my mind that they would get my money if/when I decided to buy a new, current generation miner, and they did.


It's unfortunate that the bottom line has to drive business decisions many times.  Even though the Avalon 6 is not as cost efficient as the S7 if it were my business I would do everything I could to put my money with Avalon; sometimes making the "right" decision is better than making the cheaper decision if your business model can support it.


You are a paying customer, you have a service with them, you are entitled to use that service as long as you pay for it.  You should have brought a lawyer, not an electrician.  They don't get to tell you what you can or can't do on your property, nor can they limit you to an arbitrary average value of those residents around you.  They are stupid to drive away a well paying customer.

I think in the time I was running a U3 off the R1 with crazyguy patch I had to manually restart it a couple times, still.  But the thing was I wasn't having to restart it every day or multiple times per day.  I think there are still issues with the U3 that not even crazyguy's magic patch can take care off, but I would not recommend anyone use a U3 without it.

That's a good find, does it change the order the panels appear in the application, also, or just on the overview panel?  I have always wanted the panels to be draggable so you could arrange them.

Yup, got in with password admin, thanks.

My S5 appears to hash 10-20GH faster with the 4.9.0 real cgminer fork install, both in the gui and pool side.  The error rate also dropped from 0.04% to 0.03%, which is probably what results in the increased hash rate, so I would say that is a significant improvement.  I run the S5 at 400 freq.

I did not have time last night to get my A6 up and running again, so I was not able to point it here today for the promo (plus it's too hot in my house right now to leave it running all day).  The S5 is still hashing away (it vents all its hot air outside), though, although it did fail over this morning.

Maybe it's an issue with the fan, did you plug it into the other plug?  I have a Delta pull fan on my S5 and it is controlled pwm via the second plug just fine.

I'm not going to be able to run the A6 tonight, I got home late.  Plus, the way our weather works around here is we don't really have spring, it just switches from summer to winter back and forth a few times a few weeks at a time, and then it's summer.  Last week was cool, 60s F during the day, but this week we are approaching 90*F.  As I type this it is 78 F in my house still, a little too warm to exhaust the A6 inside.  So I will try again soon, but yea, it was probably getting too hot.

Yea, that's what I meant, that I could withdraw it all without a fee.  I think I understand it the same as you, tx > 1btc doesn't pay a fee.  Only reason I would withdraw would be to get it all, so now I can.

No, I would not know how to do that.

I do not want to use the NH fork, I like it straight from the source.  I don't mind having to install it after reboots, I won't be rebooting it very often.

Was yours the one that was disassembled into components and hashing in pieces, so to speak?  Pictures around here somewhere...

Well, here's a new Chinese pool I just stumbled upon and its already sporting 30+PH: http://www.1hash.com/

Pools like this is why diff is going up again.  I'm not sure who is behind 1hash, but I bet there are a couple other pools out there of decent size that not many of us in the west have heard of yet.

I guess because I'm a bit of a purist with things and I don't really care for alt coins like I do bitcoin.  Like you alluded to in cons, any time spent on the nmc side of things is time you could have spent on the btc side.  Part of me also also wonders, would the pool perform better if it weren't merge-mining?  I know you say (will all good reason and support I'm sure) that it does not affect btc mining at all, but in the back of my mind there is always that question.  I did uncheck "Merged mining stale flush" earlier at your suggestion.

Well yea, but the compacs can go from like 6GH to 25GH, so you can get 400% the hash with minimal effort, and easily you can get 200-300% increase out of them by just changing freq in the command line.  The R1 is lucky to get a 40-50% bump, so I never really bothered with it.

@ gt_addict: I get it about tinkering, though, it's why I like mining because I sure as hell don't make any money at it.  Try starting around page 13 or so, you'll find posts like this:

Oh, and here's an updated pict (before the A6 arrived) of my S5 with the 3D printed parts on (intake fan duct, top and bottom heat sink covers, I did not use the exhaust fan duct) and I added a pull fan.  I also got some clear acrylic side covers because they are neat.  At 400 freq and 60% fan setting it runs about 50-53*C.

Did you check that you were accepted on the spread sheet?  If no you were never part of the campaign.

If you were, did you leave before the posts were counted?  If you did you may have forfeit your earnings for removing sig too early.

That got it, thanks!  Is it the same on the S1/S3?  I can't remember from when I ssh to them last.



I'll be curious to see if/how this affects performance.  After the reboot the api is reporting 100GH/s less than before, but I know bitmain's fork was suspect as to the numbers it would report...  I'll let it run for a while and see where it stabilizes.

**Edit - hash crept its way back up and stabilized at 1.29TH, just like with 4.8.0, but the error rate is lower than with the older bitmain fork, so hurray for improvements!

Go through this thread and a few people overclocked the R1, I recall seeing tables of different settings and the resulting hash and temperature, but really what's the difference between 5GH and 8GH?  Effectively zero difference, I didn't see any reason to try and oc it.

You need to adjust voltage and frequency together with the U3.  Play around with different combos, almost every U3 responds differently (my best setting was 237.5freq 785volt).

My two week evaluation period is coming to an end (I know, it's a short period to evaluate over, but...) and my total accumulated payout here is about equal to what it would have been with my dust miners still at kano.is.  I like that I can receive a payout here at anytime (with a fee) or keep letting my dust accrue to 0.01btc and then get a payout, so my usb miners will stay here for the time being, thanks.

Does Bitminter run its own pool software?  If not, what software does it use?

My only complaint is that I'm not really a fan of merged mining, but with only 70GH of my hash here it's not a real concern for me at this point.  I would be interested to hear (unbiased) why this pool merge-mines and what the pros/cons of it are.

Yes, as evidenced by the payouts that just went out.

Apply once, check the spreadsheet to see if you're accepted.

Even if your posts were good (they're not) you should be denied for spamming the thread.