okay once upon a time I ran a difficulty thread.

others run it now.

the reality is that :

bitmain is god
cannon
innosilicon
microbit are demi gods.

the four companies basically are acting like opec and controlling the supply of gear.

many say there is a chip shortage and that has slowed gear.

but the

s11
s15
s17
s17pro
s17+
s17e
s19
t15
t17
t17+
t17e

are all dependent on very specific psu’s
only supplied by bitmain
since they can’t get chips to build and sell gear ⚙️
they simply refuse to supply replacement parts and all of us that have any of the gear i just mentioned dead in the water due to lack of replacement psu.

cannon all oem bespoke psus took me 150 days to get a psu that was 50th lost for 5 months
bitmain 300th off line dead psus.
microbit 100 th off line dead psus

so 450th offline and 1100th online.

since this is the btc only section I will not mention what I did with gpus I purchased since I could not get asic psus

oh I did buy some replacement psus which have all been used.

so why do the companies not sell the psus. simple they all cloud mine and they fix their own gear.

this is their edge since they can not sell gear due to lack of chips.

this will not end until dec-feb maybe later.

I bought 4 s9s in dec 2018 and the guy said please take these 3 l3+ off my hands (free)

Needless to say the l3+ have simply been amazing.

My little nvme m.2 case was stupid hot 80c

 So I know long burn to it is a no go.

the open case cloner will get strong fan hitting it and not over heat.

the cloner case arrived from amazon and was used not new with multiple marks on it and did not work.

garbage:


https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08LPDTZGQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

a s17pro does 53th which is 53 x .23 = 12.19

it burns 2000 watts  or 50 k-watts a day that is 5 bucks at 10 cent power

so 12.19-5 = 7.19 profit


so everyone at 10cent power that is allowed to mine an s19 or any newer gear is mining it.

what is happening is the following

an s9 earns 13 x .23 = 3 a day it burns  35 kwatts or 3.50 at 10 cents so it is turned off

and the second part is more important

Bitmain is not providing psu's for

s15
s17
S17+
s17e
t15
t17
t17+
t17e
s19
t19

https://shop.bitmain.com/product/parts

and the psu's die making the gear turn off

leaving bitmain hashing along with its cloud gear.

I have a few questions.

Is this a tiny balance say 0.00000010 and has it sat for 2 or 3 years with zero activity?

Or have you actively mined withdrawn and now haver balance like 0.001 or more?

I can see a long time unused account with dust getting closed.

0.0000001 is about $0.0037 under 1 us cent if it sat for years yeah I could see them closing it.

well assuming we do not take off and rally like mad we are now at 37800

I am still stacking my btc.
I also have a descending buy ladder down   31031,30030,...,21021
and a weekly dca for btc


but I am selling all eth as it comes in
and I am selling all doge as it comes in
and I am selling all ltc as it comes in

I am holding some ltc  but I am not stacking it.

my monthly income has dropped over 50%

Still okay due to the sales of doge,ltc,eth

So stacking btc
and hodl ltc is okay to do

We have a lot of spare power cheap and we hope we may get some gpus at msrp soon.

as a 3060ti at 399 would be worth buying

the reading for storage is

374:filled
457:total

gives 83 : left

so 81/5.8 = 14.3 months..  edit math typo. 83/5.8 = 14.3 months
and 81/6.4= 12.9 months  edit math typo. 83/6.4 = 12.9 months 
which is too short.



The ltc/doge model  done by same builder was long lasting I had one for more than 3 years and sold it. It still works

this should be a 3-5 year life model with out insane speed modes. maybe 6-7 years

and will need a new ssd in 12.9-14.3 months.

waiting on parts to clone the drive.

they are due on Thursday

this ssd
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089DNM8LR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?

this cloner
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08LPDTZGQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?


I will give away 2 cloned  1tb ssd's assuming  I can clone easy peasy















please ignore for now
rules
First you enter the give away

and show proof of purchase if and only if you win.

1 to the euro shipper
1 to the usa shipper

I am back and thinking about running the block shot.

Well i would do the section or both or none.

Whatever theymos wants.

he has his own agenda he predates me 2011 april
and by 2011 may he was disingenuously dissing btc.

all he has ever done.

I was not offered the job.

Maybe I would have taken it.

I would not mind modding

the alt coin mining section or the btc coin mining section.

Do not know what it pays or if it pays but it would be okay by me to do either one.

I do not need a bump as I have been lazy in giving merits out.

I just gave 30 to the 3 above me which means they now have 15 to give away.

wrong ratios

395 against 500

you have 105 left over

so 105/6.4 = 16.4 months or 1 year and 4 months.

or 105/5.8= 18.1 months of 1 year and 6 months

Either way too short and my guess of 2 year is also too short in the sense that nodes support network and need to run for decades not months.

Frankly I complained about this to the builder in a post here or on the other thread.



I would say the 500gb choice was wrong and I did say it.

In fact I will be this  cloning the crucial 500gb to a crucial 1tb this week.

I will be making a YouTube video and linking the effort of cloning the drive in my review thread.

Sometimes things are done stupid cheap ('Pennywise pound foolish')

I have found that the drive is too small and that the feet are too short.
My YouTube video shows the larger feet I added.

this is the wrong section it belongs in alt coins

No worries gave you a merit for being polite.


Continue to post and your status will go to jr member

2 years

chart buddy is relentless.

and we look to be flat at 32k

It is getting late in NJ,USA

may crash in a bit.

downward ladder set  down to 21021

and dca set for Wednesday

At op free power = good.

gpu prices = bad


what will you be paying for those gpus's

6 x 700 = 4200 too much

6 x 400 = 2400 may work out.



I can not find a cheap 5700

used for 850 and no warranty


https://www.ebay.com/itm/353527825310?hash=item524fe6839e%3Ag%3AAbQAAOSwfxRgv-xf&LH_BIN=1

I got one in jan from amazon new with a warranty  for 399


I picked a random ebay seller I do not know who he is

but 850 a card = you lose
400  a card = you may do okay

oh buddy here you come again.

would prefer to see you more often if we go back over 50k

I have a descending buy ladder

30030
29029
28028
27027
26026
25025
24024
23023
22022
21021


and a weekly dca buy.