I''m curious if you don't mind telling how big are you going with these miners?

I would agree on changing DNS to something else and googles 8.8.8.8 that was mentioned above does work well.

What I suggest if you had that much problems last time upload a picture to us.  If you upload a picture showing settings you will put without saving it we can look at it and hopefully save you a headache.

Not that I'm aware of.  Small hobby miners do seem to use the heat to their advantage.

But the big boys of mining seem to be more worried about getting the heat out then reusing it.   I think it might be hard to reuse at levels they are doing.   Some are massive amounts of CFM.

So what you used it on might have a ton of wind from all that CFM pushing exhaust out.

In US we should not need a group buy.  If there was a discount for quantity then yes we would have one opened up.

But I consider us lucky to be able to deal direct with GekkoScience.  I hope they keep rights to use and don't use a distributor as far as us.

Other countries if they can save on shipping or customs I'm all for group buy's.  It's nice of Sidehack to allow them to keep costs down for other countries.  Shows he cares about customers.

You would need to try it off and possibly run without fan's  for a few seconds and try to spot the leak.  You can use papertowls or something to try to find the leak.

Once finding it you have lots of options as far as plugging it where it wont leak again.   But needless to say this is why I am not a an of Syscooling just seemed for the money spent they provided very cheap products.   

You will also notice Syscooling not even checking the board now.  I think their business is pretty much dead, which is a good thing really or miners.

Even if he does know a lot about partners he no doubt signed a NDA.  So he will not be passing on information such as partners.

I could be wrong.  But I just don't see Dogie breaking his NDA, and I'm guessing he signed one with Bitmain I do not know for a fact.

I may have went overboard on not being needed.  But I am going to be redoing thermal paste on a C1.  I got some remover and purifier.

It is a little extra time and a tad more money but figure I might as well do it right.  Also was pretty cheap on amazon.

Some look for the worst case scenario.  If a pool would do a 51 percent attack it would cause BTC to plumit in price, and chances are everyone leaving their pool.

So with destroying their pools future they basically kill their business.  That's why I feel so confident that 51 percent attack will not happen.

Also I don't see a pool getting 51 percent of hash again, with Ghash when it happened the community worked together to fix it.  Big miners went to other pool to help, even industrial miners moved.   The community will work together to stop it from even being possible, we have seen this in past.

Also most home PC are not built to be pushed like GPU farms do.  Most GPU farms used open air machines.   

Basically it was a riser allowing you to spread your cards apart and put in air made a heck of a difference on cooling.   I turned all mine into open air during my GPU day's and used extra fans to help with heat.

Sadly they don't compare to today's asics, do ROI math but most running a PC will be at a loss when trying to mine.

I feel sorry but as everyone said do not sell bitcoins for reversible transactions.  There are just to many scammers, it's sad but true.

And on IP I would not get your hopes up.  There is a good chance they used a VPN/Proxy/TOR or other means to hide identity.  So even if you get ip (which I doubt the site will share with customer)  it still is going to be hard to find them/him/she chances are. 

It sounds like OP is using an exchange to buy BTC. I could be wrong but I'm thinking that is what he means.

What exchange did you buy from? And when did you do it?

Part of what I love about your project is you are honest.  You tell us the facts and do not hide information.   For example what you did with the chips was quite amazing getting that efficiency out of the chip.   It kinda made us all wonder why did bitmain not do that.   Even when you shared the price on chips I loved how you did not hide it on price.   I was honestly surprised you could tell some of what you did with the signed NDA.   I was happy you did share so much, it made me believe in the product and testing really made me believe in it.

This is something there is not the greatest documentation of on the board.  There is some but I highly suggest putting in a ticket, they might even help via remote to your pc.

Anyways put in a ticket over here or bitmain and ask for help: https://bitmain.zendesk.com/hc/en-us

That's why I suggested he might consult with a lawyer.  Depending on police some will treat it as the value it had, and others will think digital nothing of value lost.

With lawyer he has decent chance of getting any video (assuming the police got any).  And he should do it soon as most security system's record X many day's (normally in weeks, if not months depending on company).

With video he can use local news/facebook, etc with a reward.  And might just catch him.  Then it would be a court case... but still would find him.

I'm not thinking OP going quiet is a good thing.

Special thanks to Bitcoin Boy!   Great support for this campaign. 

He went above and beyond with his coding guru skills for a request I had with stat website.  Great guy!

There is no guarantee with a legit cloud mining company to make ROI.  Mining is mining there is never profit of ROI.  With right conditions you make ROI.

This summer has been low diffficulty with btc rising.  So been a really good summer for miners all around.

There are only 2 cloud mining I trust.  And... to understand cloud mining I suggest clicking your own signature .  Bit-x sells cloudming services, so you can read about it there.   

I suggest trying to use anotpool and compare your results.   I've had other things to do and have not been able to do 24 hour on f2, and antpool to compare.

But antpool does PPS (same payment system as F2) at 2.5 percent - https://www.antpool.com/support.htm .  They have done a horrible job advertising this feature but you can change it to PPS from settings.   

You can also use the default PPLNS for 0 percent feels (involves luck).    I know many do not like this as it is up and down.

But you literally can flip a switch on site to go from PPS to PPLNS.  That is a pretty neat feature in my book.   

Are you sure your doing the math right?  3 USD a month for even 1 S3 seems to be off on math, especially if you bought "some".

What is your electricity rate?

It is a good idea to get one.  Most will do a free quote if you tell them what you are thinking.  Have them come out and give a quote.

Some are good others are not.  Bitcoin equipment can scare some electrician's away.  I was deciding if I would do wiring for my summer area or if I would get electrician (Check your local laws/regulations some require it).   

But I called a electrician after he saw it he wanted nothing to do with it.  I wanted just to get a single 240 with plug less then 10 foot away.  Yes there was power for it, and spots to put it in at.  So parts would be one 240 breaker, one wire, one plug and not much more.   After seeing mining equipment he said he would send quote in mail.   

In mail I got a quote for over 1000 dollars for a single 240 line.  I got a good laugh needless to say he was not used.

But with that amount of power at least get a electrician to look at it.   And get a few quotes.

I would still get a CPA.  I just see some parts can be interpreted different, and these were just a few that jumped out in first minute or so.

For example

A–8: Yes, when a taxpayer successfully “mines” virtual currency, the fair market value of the virtual currency as of the date of receipt is includible in gross income. See Publication 525, Taxable and Nontaxable Income, for more information on taxable income.

What does successfully mine mean?  I consider sucessfully mining once I sell for USD.  I don't see it as successful when you just have BTC, as you don't know at time of sale if it's gain or loss.

Or other question

Q–6: Does a taxpayer have gain or loss upon an exchange of virtual currency for other property?

A–6: Yes. If the fair market value of property received in exchange for virtual currency exceeds the taxpayer’s adjusted basis of the virtual currency, the taxpayer has taxable gain. The taxpayer has a loss if the fair market value of the property received is less than the adjusted basis of the virtual currency. See Publication 544, Sales and Other Dispositions of Assets, for information about the tax treatment of sales and exchanges, such as whether a loss is deductible.

Notice it say's if you receive at exchange.  You do not receive the fair value until you sell.


Also go on and see in it the mention of "The character of the gain or loss generally depends on whether the virtual currency is a capital asset in the hands of the taxpayer".   If a capital asset as I consider it, I think you need to read up on capital asset taxes.

And I'm not putting you down or trying to be mean.  I'm just saying on something so new and if your dealing with a lot of money see a CPA.  Do not consult the internet for big tax questions.