I am thinking of maybe switching to mining solo or setting up a private pool to point to for me and my friends. I was wondering if this is still feasible and at what hash-rate(s) one would need to make it more practical versus pool mining.

Say what would one need to find roughly a block (5 ETH) per day? The calculators show roughly 1GH (1000 MH/sec) but would like to hear from anyone who is actually doing it.

I think the opposite. Right now most of the so called miner's support consists of mining the coin and selling it right away to recoup costs and secure some ROI. It is this reality that is keeping the selling pressure on ETH and the price down.

After POS hits, mining costs will be a fraction of what they are now in terms of electrical costs, so the incentive to hold longer will become greater. Once miners are not dumping daily, the price will tend to rise assuming the same level of demand. Most of the miners you feel are part of the community will move on to mine another coin. So even if this part of the community gets smaller, it is not like miners are buying their own coins to begin with, so this should not cause anything but positive upward pressure on price.

Similar thing happened with Bitcoin, although in a different way since Bitcoin is still PoW, in that once the mining moved out of the basement's of people who mined and dumped and into larger more professionally run farms the price began to rise. These profession farms are managed and located in a way in which maximum efficiency is obtained at the lowest costs, so the pressure to sell at a slight profit is less.

I had seen that too and was wondering if it was the same Horus. I don't know why he is even allowed to post there much less carry on to everyone in the trollbox like nothing happened. I am already hesitant to do much trading on Poloniex ever since the ETC stunt, and with this it is looking more and more like they are associated with  many of the same behind-the-scenes people as Cryptsy was.

Those risers do look boss. Would be interested to hear how they work out. Assuming they are the real deal, if someone were to do a bulk order and would want to sell some off in the US, I would interested in acquiring a few dozen.

For now I ended up going with a narrow design that I found on ebay (seller in Texas) which has a 4-pin connector on the riser and this uses a small cable to connect to a regular molex feed. No version number on the board that I could find. I only ordered 6 to test with and installed them all before I could snap a picture. I have a second larger order coming in now that I know they work and will take a few pictures and post.

If I am interpreting the picture correctly, it looks like the cards are drawing ~3A each from the PCIe power connectors on the card from the 12V rail and another ~0.9A each from the 5V rail through the riser's Molex connectors. This seems a bit low for total card wattage power draw as these figures indicate only ~ 40 watts total draw per card.

Is it just me or does EthMan display 1 extra GPU under the "Total Working GPUs:" summary when displayed on the webpage?

You need to l earn to check your pool earnings more frequently. Not saying Nanopool is screwing you over, but mining does require due diligence on your part. The easiest way to check would be to switch to another pool for a day and compare earnings.

Yes, each coin that falls under a single algorithm would have pretty much the same hash-rate across all the coins using it. So for instance Ethereum (ETH), Ethereum Classic (ETC), Expanse (EXP) using Ethash would all use the same hash-rate figure. Where it gets tricky is they all have vastly different "Network" hashrates, so the actual amount of coins you will produce will vary. This is why the comparison sites like What-to-mine work so well.

If your goal is simply to acquire Bitcoin, your best bet is to work at a job your are good at and that pays well and use that income to buy Bitcoin every now and then.

A signature campaign is meant to give you a tiny amount of income for doing what you would be doing anyway for free, namely posting in a forum like this. The only reason it would become boring is if instead of posting because you want to and are reading replying to things that are of interest to you, you are focused on the income aspect of it.

As some have mentioned, trading is a good way to earn and is definitely not boring. This will especially be true when you first start out as you will most likely lose more than you will gain.

Yes, it looks to have stales submitted by default. I believe you can disable this behavior with the in command line or with in the config file.

Go to http://www.whattomine.com/coins

There you can enter in your GPU's hashrate on various algorithms (coins) as well as your card's power usage and your electricity rate to get a ballpark figure of where you would end up with different coins.

It is hard to tell exactly as a lot of what you say comes across as gibberish. From the little bit I have been able to pick out from your posts it sounds a lot like you are being asked to join in some type of pyramid scheme.

List of quotes from you that make me think this:

• "I'm not trying to pitch an opportunity. Well not yet I'm not"
• "opportunities in other crypto currencies"
• "This is launching in October and I've been given a position which is free for now, but to earn I will need to invest."
• "made millions from this by being in early and building a large team"
• "There are no links etc and it's invite only so far"
• "there are only 100 or so in and the master distributor made an absolute fortune"
• "resigned when the company changed their management team and it appears to be going downhill fast"

Most such schemes don't come out and call themselves a business, but they do lay on marketing terms and use hype words such as "opportunity". It is also an unpaid "position" where you have to invest to make money, which is another warning sign.

Further you indicate you need to join early and recruit a team, probably a team of people under you in the pyramid. Also the use of the term "master distributor" who made a fortune because he was at the top of the pyramid. You could maybe ask some of the lower level members of the "team" what they made, they probably lost a fortune.

Also there is more hype in that someone "made millions", and again a large team is mentioned, however there is no other information about this company and its by "invite only". Finally the sad ending of all such schemes "going downhill fast."

My advice, stay away and don't get involved. Even if you did manage to get in near the top, you would still be swindling those who get in under you, so in any scenario it sounds like a bad situation.

Why even screw around? If you can come up with a 13 character password, add another few characters and some more randomness to it.

I wouldn't go for anything less than 16 characters for anything online, and if it is for something of significance you should be looking closer at 24 character + lengths, with lots of randomness, mixed case, numbers, and special symbols.

Here is another good site to glean some information on passwords. https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm

However, as others have already pointed out, do not use any passwords you actually intend to use at this or any of these sites, instead simply create similar test passwords to what you are thinking of using.

Considering his budget, I suggested a feasible (not ideal) solution, and already it would put him $60 over. Plus he did call out AMD. Unfortunately there are not a lot of good options for such a low budget even with used and clearance priced parts.

Obviously I would also like to acquire as many Bitcoins as possible just like everyone else, my response was meant to be more lighthearted. People need to loosen up a bit around here and relax more, don't be so serious all the time.

This observation is in line with my own experiences thus far with the sgminer-gm's results. Pool side (Ethermine) shows a consistent (now for over 24 hours) +2 Mhash average (per rig) above what sgminer is reporting locally in the console. With the Claymore miner, I always had a higher locally reported hashrate than the pool ever showed. At the time I attributed this as normal because of the Dev fee and other general overhead losses such as stales, etc. I haven't tried running sgminer on other pools yet to confirm this, but plan to do so in the upcoming days.

The other observation I have noticed is that the peaks and valleys on the individual miner hashrate graphs at the Ethermine site are a lot smoother. Under the Claymore miner the current effective hashrate line would deviate quite a bit both on the high and low sides from the 24 hour average line. With sgminer this fluctuation (ripple) has flattened considerably.

Just curious if you tried the suggestion from Eliovp earlier on using "256*16384" to get the raw intensity setting. In this case it would be a value of: 4194304

I ask as on a couple of my rigs I was using a rawintenstiy similar to the one you have above and by bumping it up to 4194304 I gained another .5 Mhash/sec per card. It would be interesting to hear of others experiences on this as not all of my rigs respond the same.

Nice rig! Thanks for the information on the bad USB cables. It never occurred to me these might go bad, although now in hindsight it seems obvious. I will need to re-check my "bad" ones now with new cables.

I am also interested the HDMI dummy plugs you are using. Do you have a link or preferred vendor for those? Thanks!

Thanks for the feedback, this is the type of information I was hoping for. I will look into the VER 006, as only so far have seen up to VER 005 boards.

I have actually been looking at solar as well. While it is true if you look at it from a purely Mining aspect, it probably isn't justified, but considering you consume electricity outside of mining activities, it is an investment that will continue to pay off over time. As far as the panels being damaged in storms, that is what homeowners insurance is for.