if they have 1 EH and brought it here, my guess is ramp up would not be very long and hmm I bet we would find blocks a lot more often with that much hash.

i believe their point is that when it is making money, you are supposed to hold a portion of that money in reserves so that it covers the time when it is not making money at all or at a lower profit.

the guy I linked above is not being removed from eBay he has a rating in the 16k range - that means they have operated for years.

we were asking if he might have gotten a pro because it was hashing at 50th - which is the advertised speed of the pro version in normal mode - the non pro versions are either 53th or 56th if I recall correctly.

lol how so?

What sucks more is if it is defective, you will have to send it in and lose precious time mining.

i get that, but how does the listing even get made? do they not review it?

crazy...

miners are currently sold - payment is setting in escrow with @philipma1957 . Miners are ready to ship out, buyer has asked me to put a switch in the box which he is having sent to me and should arrive tomorrow or the next day. So, depending on arrival of switch, miners could ship Thursday or Friday at the latest.

I will ask for the thread to be closed once transaction is complete.

I am kind of curious as I see this more and more often - where the sellers are listing items with "30 day returns" and list prices but when you get to the description, it states they will only take direct payment - ie not thru eBay/PayPal - or will take crypto only.

how and why does eBay allow this? For example, taking direct payments and/or crypto cuts eBay out of their commission, right? Yet, these sellers have ratings in the 10's of thousands.

here is one such example.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bitmain-Antminer-S15-28TH-s-Bitcoin-BTC-ASIC-MINER-w-PSU-Read-Description/293070290137?hash=item443c59bcd9:g:X2AAAOSwIz5cyFkN

what do they do once you hit buy now and pay in crypto? cancel the sale? because eBay is expecting to receive payment - correct? and if you do pay via eBay vs their crypto method in the item description - what do they do? refund the payment? relist the item?

I would be tempted to buy based on their eBay rating and that if I go thru eBay and they do not deliver - I have recourse for a refund. This seller makes it sound like he will be ripped off if they go thru eBay - seller's are also protected, they can prove they shipped with a tracking.  And again by going outside of eBay, there is no recourse or safety for the buyer.

I can find listings like this for all types of items - heck one guy asked me to pay him more on PayPal on the side after I won an auction because he found that the item was selling for more on another ad on eBay. When I refused, he cancelled the sale and refunded me what I had already paid...

I do not see how eBay allows this.  Am I missing something?

i wonder if you got a miss labeled S17 pro, it runs at 50 TH for normal mode - does it have turbo mode option? If not, I would be in contact with Bitmain - 6 TH is a bit of a variance, too big to overlook in my opinion.

and if you did get a S17pro - I would be asking for some money back as its about 75 USD cheaper.

but if you dont have them because inventory changes - that means not any miner just specific ones at specific times.

thank you for the ebay link - seems the best way to see what you have - the usernames must be case sensitive

no - not any miner - I asked about 3 and 2 of them you do not have. So, yes it would be better if you could make a detailed list - had you done that originally, it would have all been one post but due to your vagueness you have created a plethora of posts where people are asking and you are not answering except for one or two questions here or there.


edit you said to check your ebay page - when searching ebay with your name - as you stated - there is zero results. Did I use the wrong name?

thank you.

going to answer any of the other questions?

my miners on PPS payout every other day almost consistently - and the fee is 2% so double the fee of Kano but no where near 4% but I do know what you mean about wallets being hacked... over a year ago I lost half a bitcoin when NiceHash was hacked... sure they paid it back, eventually.... but by then BTC had lost quite a bit of value so I still lost out. I no longer use nicehash lol

I will need to stay on PPS until reserves are built up enough to handle long spells of no payments - maybe if i stop buying equipment lol

it is not necessarily about management - some have budgets and will need to have steady income - if the time between blocks is too long, they may not have enough in reserves to carry themselves. It also depends on when they got into it mining as well - as to how much they have built up reserves.

I have my miners in 4 pools - 5 in each pool. I see where some months a PPS makes more, other months where it makes less. It all varies and in the longer I look at it, it all draws closer to the same amount, more or less. But I also need to pay the huge electric bill every month and that is where the PPS comes in handy - its more of a guaranteed income.

I got back into mining when BTC was over 15k so that profitable time has helped me carry thru this extremely low profit time period. I have put zero cash into mining out of my pocket except for my initial investment of 13k USD - this bought a building, had it wired, had vents/ac/de-humidification system, etc etc and bought the first 3 miners.  Since then, I have added 17 additional miners and I put in 36 solar panels (adding 3 more soon) as well. I am still holding some BTC.  My goal is to let the mining increase the mining and to not put any $ in out of my pocket. So far, so good.

In the end, we are all just wanting to turn a profit and make some $ right? The greatest thing about mining is the versatility and availability of many pools. If one was truly greater than all the others, there would be only one pool and everyone would be in it.

that being said, I wish I had put 5 miners on kano.is a lot sooner than I had - the pool had some really good months that I missed out on.

 

and it appears that the whale is gone after a little over 2 days. pool is back down to 30 ph --- but alas, we got no blocks during the whales time here

bitmains price has not changed since second batch - what do you mean weekly? and it has only gotten cheaper not more expensive.  At least that is based on the prices on the bitmain website. unless your guy buys them thru some other means.

so the price has changed on these? they are not $1940?

ahh, found it. and setting changed. feel free to pm now.