I am no psychologist but you do seem like you do not think you made the best decision when you chose to have your miners hosted for you. you are just hopping people will support your choice and say hey you made the best decision of your life.  ! i don't know exactly what are you hoping to read but I can tell you that there is nothing wrong with both methods. it all comes down to your way of doing things, skills , location and available time.

in most business, the greater the risk, the higher the rewards. you chose to take less risk by paying extra and getting less profit. nothing wrong with this.

myself on the other hand would only build my own, specially if the number was a big as yours 2000 S9's. as you mentioned you were able to start mining when there was a market for it. so assume you paid well over 1k per miner, you went above 2 million $ ! . I do not know about your whereabouts but where I live it would be very stupid to have 2000 Asics hosted. you looking at about  3 MW set up. nothing too complicated ! , i would have made much more profit building my own farm than having my 2000 Asics hosted at more expensive power rate.

but again as i mentioned it all depends, most Chinese farms buy their own power plant, typically building a whole complete infrastructure  from scratch in order to get dirt cheap power rate as appose of having the electric company supplying them with their own . this does not make them less smart than you are. it's just different for everyone.

you have  quite a good imagination , i did not zoom out or in of anything. i simply screenshot the charts as they were showing on my screen with no intention of making any illusion. the charts were simply to show you the last 3 candles on the daily chart regardless of how large or small they may look they are all on the same time-frame. these are charts based on real values, it's not what i THINK as you mentioned.


any how, you have a good explanation on why haven't those coins dumped. which is obvious ! nobody was "continuing to sell them" which has not been the case in most other dips. most of the time if not all, every time people sold bitcoin with that huge volume , people panic and sell more ALTs. it's this concept that most traders have, if btc that has almost 50% of the market cap is dipping then it will only be worse for ALTs. but this time it was different. and if you look at XRP chart of today it's up 5.5% the last 24 hrs. this makes xrp down by -2.7% on 7-days change.
xlm gained 2.77% the past 24hrs makes it down -5.32% based last 7 days change,
while bitcoin gained .16% the past 24hrs and down by -13.46%  on 7 days change  * all based on USD rate for 7 days change.




the image above is from CMC app , which represents the average of most exchange platforms.

if you can't trust the numbers shown there. open the charts and do the calcs yourself. you will get at least 99% the same figures. so really it's nothing of what I THINK , it's what the numbers show.


Again i am not shilling any of these coins, in fact i am quite upset about my thoughts. i am worried that people will keep selling their btc for ALTs ,specially those POS coins that i personally dislike.

one guy i knew sold all his btc for xrp thinking xrp has a better support by bankers and in terms of growth centralization will have better success. seems like he is not the only one thinking this. and this may be a new trend for many traders. I hope i am wrong tho.

anyway the next DIP will show how will investors react.



i wouldn't touch any of those coins. risky as hell. if you want to be in the stable mode then just keep fiat. just my 2 cents



indeed , 7 days interval is no were near accurate enough to come up with any conclusions. but this could be a kick-start of a new era. Shitcoins surpassing BTC, and if that train is about to move i want to be in it not just watching from the outside

This doesn't seem like a BIT OF A MOISTURE ISSUE.  as it looks in the image a child can swim in there.  you need to figure out where it comes from, seems like a roof leakage to me.

are you sure you have the S9 and not s9i or j?

if you are certain that you have S9 then what you should do is flush it with the newest version "the auto-freq" and then flush the LPM.

yes this has always been the case, but not with this recent dip. check the comment below, see how xlm could care less about btc dumping. if we see another dip for btc and xlm holds, then it would be a strong sigh that some alts will decouple from btc.

we need to be open minded to whatever the future may bring and not to always live in the past.

why are many of you buthurt? unless you are dumb enough then I do not see where and how did you conclude that i am trying to spread FOMO or HYPE over xlm and xrp? mining is one of the main sources of income for me. I so want nothing more than BTC and pow coins succeeding over these pos coins including xrp and xlm.

the only time i buy those coins is when i day trade them to get more BTC . so really relax not trying to shill xrp and xlm.

the main point here is simply asking why havn't we seen a huge drop on xlmbtc and xrpbtc ? usually when BTC dips alts dumps against it. but this last dip it was pretty different.

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look at the last 3 daily candles. BTC is dumping , xlm doesn't give a fuck ! .

this is a rare case. I have been trading the market for quite sometime and almost every time BTC goes down against USD , ALTS dumps even harder. this time it was different and it kinds rings an alarm !

if you look at ETH, LTC ,EOS,ADA,XMR,TRX,DASH etc, they all lose value against BTC therefore losing more $ value than btc. but these 2 coins have not. this is what I am trying to point out. talking particularly about this last dip, and not from ATH.


To sum up, I personally think that  investors might start to have more trust in ALTs than they did before,  i know no ALT will surpass BTC at least I will not live long enough to see that happen, but i highly think the next bull run will favor some ALTs more than BTC.


If you want to be BTC enthusiast that is your problem, I am in this to make more MONEY that's my first motive, second motive is the technology. I bet all of us are the same but most of us are just to shy to admit it saying we are in for the technology.

The true believers are there, we are still mining, hodling and trying to improve the adoption of crypto. even if you joined last month you are still an early adopter.
5 years from now people will regret not buying the dip, same shit happened every year from year 1 in crypto.

dude, get yourself 10 btc stored in a hardware wallet, come back in 5 years and you are a fucking millionaire. mark my words.

 So regardless of the reason of this last dip. I noticed 2 of the top 10 coins ( XRP and XLM) sort of survived the dip and performed well against BTC which usually is not the case comparing this dip to  previews dips . take 11th oct 2018 for example.

in USD rate in the last 7 days :

BTC dropped : 13.48%
XRP dropped : 6.7 %
XLM dropped : 9.2%

also XRP surpassed ETH "not for the first time" but this time i think it will last.


I think that these 2 coins will remain more stable than bitcoin for a long time.

seems like centralization or semi-centralization in crypto is going to take over one way or the other. I hope not but we shall see soon.

tell me what you guys think?

I have a few S9s running with free power and I have a diesel generator as a back up. those will never be turned off, there will be no end of mining you got my words 

This statement is 100% wrong. as the hashrate drops, difficulty drops along to maintain an average time of 10 mins per block. nothing will affect the fresh supply but the halving.

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Waiting for the z9 mini version, if ever !

If there is no problem , don't create one. i am using the S9 firmware on S9i and it's been working great. as long as it's hashing and showing on the pool then you are good.

have you tried the old  firmware "from may" on your Z9 mini? it might fix the problem. i think x3 and z9 mini won't overload an apw7 , we talking about 550-600 for the x and 300-350 for the z9. you are way too far. so i would guess it has to do with the firmware. give it a try

** i doubt you will find the may version on their website as it allows people to overclock non-batch1 which they don't want. but i am sure you can find it on the forum or else where.

since you have an expensive power rate. why not just play the loterry with something that is power friendly like those ASIC USB Bitcoin Miners. at least to lower your power bill, i know you might say the hashrate on those things is super low. but really in this game our chances are slim to nothing, so from a LOGICAL "not based on numbers" point of view, it really does not matter whether you hashing at 5th or 5mh. it is simply a plain a shot in the dark, wether your eyes are open or shut.

i do not understand why some replies implies that there is nothing much that can be done on the software layer. if what they say is true then how do you explain the effect of overt/covert asicboost? it is certainly far from being "double" the performance, but there are things on the software side that can improve hashing.

the best i got with my S9 so far is only 10 digits 
but again, you may never know what could happen.
Good luck to everyone