wish it was posted a long time ago, but better late than never, will try it and let you know if i find any issues. thanks

that's unproven fact , the proven fact is that your country is the world's first oil scammer.

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The word sir in our 3rd world countries stands for respect , also not everybody from Nigeria or a 3rd world country is a liar or a scam. you are a 1st worlder i take it, yet you run "fake bounty signature" and have a trust page painted in red.

again this is going off-topic , just thought of doing a favor by getting you out of the miserable mindset of yours. 

but you got caught ?

Yup, some people keep building their accounts for years , trade with that account full time, and once they get tagged, nobody would want to trade with them. unlike you some people do make a living on the internet rather than wasting their time.

oh you got 3 of those, maybe you would do better in explaining the effects of "red marks" on one's profile, but wait, yours is a newbie, 0 effort spent on it, so i don't expect you to understand the point.

it's true, i only understood this after being put on DT, honestly it's good to know that your feedback are actually being "read" and not sitting in the dark, but it puts a lot of pressure on you, i started to think 10 times before tagging someone, simply because i feel that my feedback could be a life-changing for someone, i was more flexible then, the responsibility is not something one would enjoy most.

 as a non-native English speaker, allow me to tell you that these 3 words mean exactly the same thing ,and i imagine the same person/s when reading every word.

honestly i do agree that these ranks are some how confusing misleading, i once blindly trusted a legendary rank member when i first joined the forum, thinking there was only 10-20 of them around and they won't risk their reputation. he scammed me for 150$ , i thought he was stupid, but turned out that his account worth less than 150$ and i was stupid.


selling accounts is not against the rules.
selling merit is against the rules. ( at least based on the OP)


and as i explained above, trading these two have different objectives and consequences, therefore when the forum "allows" account sales and "disallow" merit sale i do not see any contradictions unlike what the OP thinks.  

and i want to marry Kim 

do not beg for merit, you will get yourself in trouble.

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10th merit was given out.

Merit count = 0

I hope the 10 guys who got merit will keep posting some good content, and those who did not, don't feel sad, just stick to quality posts, eventually you will get there, also note that my judgment is different from others, some might think it's worth merit, but honestly i just didn't think so.

sadly i will have to lock this topic , tho i wish i could keep it so that other members can merit those new posts if they think they worth meriting, but the mistake i made was not making a self-moderated thread, and some people clearly don't read local rules, therefore i have to lock this.

Good luck everyone.

I think some Mods decide these things based on many factors, the type of breakfast they had could be one of the reasons, i can't tell for sure, your topic is very similar to mine , mine has been there for a while,nobody bothered moving it. i don't know the reason why to be honest, and i doubt you will get a very straight-forward answer , the only thing that might happen is that they will move my topic to off-topics too , which if would make you feel any better, i will do it myself 

if Ranks and Merit matters in DT decisions, then they would tag every legendary who has less than 1000 earned merit ! people can also argue that those who got air-dropped merit got it without any considerable efforts. some of them have not manged to earn a single merit up to this point.

Account rank: are directly connected to trade/trust/scam , simply because high rank accounts are more trusted.
Merit : are not directly to related to trade/trust/scam , simply because many low rank members have more merit than high rank members but they are still untrusted simply due to their rank.

you know this when you visit the market place, most vouch copies are given to Legendary and Hero accounts ( regardless of their merit score), people there do not care about merit and i don't see a reason why they should to be honest, more merit does not mean more trust, neither higher rank , but for some reason the rank seem to give more trust.

well there is this > Avalon 741   , but you are right

well , Bitmain sadly dominate the mining industry, also more than 90% of topics in the mining support are antminer related, i can't come up with my own issues related to non-antminer miners, if you have an topics that you suggest adding post away, i'll add them, as i mentioned i could use some help, this is not a 1 man job.


thanks , added

vouch copy does not mean shit when trading gc , any scammer can give a legit 50$ gf , get the vouch and scam 10 members. even escrow is not really safe dealing with gc, he could still deliver the gc, and once he gets the funds he can charge back his cc and say it was stolen, this ofcourse if the gf was not already stolen.

long story short, trading gc is extermly risky and i'd simply say that 90% of gc sellers are scammers.

theymos is a human being, he needs money just like anybody else (unless he is satoshi ,) i suppose the forum is his full-time job, who would work for free? would you ?  also you are enjoying the forum for free, i suppose you have no idea how much it cost to keep this shit up and running, so if we as members don't pay for it , who will ? somebody has to fund the forum so why are you whining? go ahead make a similar forum ads-free and invite it us, we will leave theymos alone here.

I do not see any contradiction in the rules.

buying/selling an account is not a 'crime' in itself, it's more or less it's like selling a knife to somebody that you don't know, while it may be sold to a housewife who will use it to cut tomato, it could also be a 10 years old that could misuse it terribly.

The main reason why many members of the community think that accounts sales are scam related, is because most of those account buyers tend to misuse the reputation of that account to attempt scam, if this forum had no trading related stuff, then account sales would not be as discouraged as it is now.

selling merit however is a different story its like selling the gun to that 10 year old kid while you know it, merit is supposed to distinguish quality posters vs shit posters, by buying merit you obtain a good quality member status while being a shit-posters, which in the long run will make the merit system useless,therefore a shitposter might have a better "quality" status than a top notch member.


 

Due to the huge amount of redundant topics in the mining support board , also the “words” used in describing the issues can be very hard to search for, many members have topics with titles such as “help needed” and then they post an image showing their problem, these topics are almost impossible to be found, therefore I  wanted to make a sort of collection for most common issues in one thread.
I could also use some help, if you think that there are more topics that need to be added, please post away so that i can add them, also if you have any suggestions for better tittles to these topics feel free to suggest.

Before you post anything asking for help, please ensure that you have done the following:

1-   Reboot the miner ( many issues can be solved by simply rebooting the miner)
2-   Flush a different firmware
3-   Reset the miner, you have to try these 3 methods > https://support.bitmain.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003595387-How-to-reset-miner-to-factory-settings-
4-   Reboot your router/switch.
5-   Try a different PSU

Many issues can be solved by the 5 methods mentioned above.

also check these links before posting new questions (suggested by BitMaxz )

- Possible problems and solutions for S7, S9 (fixed frequency) & L3+
- S9 series Antminers low hash rate
- Test hash board one by one

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Below is a list of some of the most common issues, if you need to make a new post please make sure you include screenshots of the status page as well as the kernel log.

1-   Repairing antminer after a bad firware
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5032987.0

2-   Default username/password do not work after firmware update
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5098863.0

3-   Miner is powered on but not showing on the network
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5094311.0

4-   Miner hashing at lower than usual hashrate
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5098590.0

5-   Hashrate on pool is lower than my miner’s hashrate
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5100934.msg49421666#msg49421666

6-    I don’t know what version of S9 that if have (s9,s9i,s9j)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5089464.msg48921823#msg48921823

7-    Whisling sound from antminer S9
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2723898.msg48331509#msg48331509

8-     Antminer S9  one of the hash board is not showing
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5034849.msg46000519#msg46000519

9-    Avalon 741 working but not mining
 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2716446.0

10-  How to mount water blocks on hash board
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5054061.0

11-   How to bulk update antminers
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5061062.0

12-  Hashrate drops to 0 after running for sometime
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4497609.0

13-  Blinking light on PSU)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4794432.0

14- Antminer won't connect to pool
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1786584.0

15- "Can't find signature" issues when trying to update firmware
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5090664.msg48938476#msg48938476

16- How to connect your miner directly to a computer/Laptop
 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5122949.new#new



if you couldn't find your answer there, go ahead and start a new topic, try to provide all the information you can to make it easier for others to troubleshoot your problem , this is a perfect example of how to report an issue related to your miner > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5133468.0

this has always been a question in mind - are we somehow morally obligated to return merit to those who merit out posts? this might not be the case with merit sources, but the other members who have small number of sMerit to be sent, it is a good question, assuming i have a single sMerit, and i see 2 good posts (one by a member who gave me merit), i usually feel like i should return the "favor",even if their posts is slightly less deserving.

* i know this is not how we should spend our sMerit but we are human beings after all .

maybe we should just hide who merited who so that we don't feel like we backstabbing one another?

here is a good explanation on MACD > https://www.babypips.com/learn/forex/macd

also i would suggest you use Stoch RSI along side with MACD as the stoch rsi reacts faster to price movement, the cross usually happens on SR before it does on MACD,  also notice that these indicators are fairly inaccurate on small time frames, and it's always best to use these indicators as a confirmation based on a more solid signs ( Support and Resistance ).

one thing we know for sure is that market conditions are essential to any major improvements in the industry, as you mentioned sales of current 7nm miners are not that promising,  at this point 16nm miners (s9) are getting more of the over sales than the 7nm based miners. simply due to cost per TH.

also from a technical stand point , those 2.5 nm have a very long way to get  to mass production level, i think from now till end of 2020 we will only see minor to medium improvements on the 7nm.

first thing, move the topic to mining support.

second thing, there are a few common causes for your problem, you need to troubleshoot them 1 by 1

1- The pool suck! try another pool.
2- make sure you chose a pool server that is in a close location to yours, if you are in USA you don't want a server in east Europe.
3- your miner is over-clocked, many shares get rejected/stale.
4- your router drops some packets, check your router firewall, try a different router.

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you must understand that the pool has no way of seeing the hashrate on your miner, it makes the calculation based on the shares your miner submits, so whenever you see lower hashrate on the pool than on your miner, it simply means the shares are not getting delivered and accepted by the pool.

The question is , why do you need users to register to use your website? it is silly. notice that you are not providing the users with ability to post or upload things to your website, therefore you should not worry about registrations.

the service you are providing is something close to whattomine ,coinwarz or anything mining-calculation related, you do not expect us to login to use such a service.

i am not accusing you for anything here, but just a word of advice, if you want to generate some profit, put some ads on the webiste. and let everybody use it without the need of registration.


edit: my bad, yes you do allow people to provide data, but still really not a good enough reason for registration. people don't get to make money posting fake results, neither registration ensure the integrity of the information they provide. thus i still think it's unnecessary.

appreciate the efforts tho.