I use my Nano S quite a bit for Eth, Tokens, and Bitcoin and it works great. The X seems to make sense for wireless and more space for apps. However, with an S in hand, and usually using it at my desktop the wireless aspect isn't a big deal. The increased space makes sense, as I can only put like 3-5 apps on my S, but since it is pretty quick and easy to swap out apps when I need to (without changing keys or loosing any transaction info) it isn't that big of a deal. So I'm probably going to get an X at some point, but not right away since my S is working great.

Thanks for your suggestions but no dice. Even the woodpecker tapping didn’t work 😃Any other ideas?
I am using ethOS.

I purchased a new ONDA B250 D8P Ver 1.00 (the 12 slot board) and got it up and running easily. It ran with 6GPUs for just over two full days and then tonight it seems to have just died while it was working. It won't boot or post and never even wakes up the display now.
I reseated memory and pulled the battery and put it back. Also tried a new USB stick that boots in another board fine. No lights ever light on the ethernet port. No dice.

Any tips on troubleshooting this board?

Thank you all for the advice. I appreciate it.

Go to http://arris.force.com/consumers/ConsumerProductlist?c=SURFboard%20Cable%20Modems%20and%20Gateways# Choose your router and then download the manual. Search it for "VPN". If you find it in there great! If not, then the router probably doesn't support a VPN.

@Beerwizzard: Thank you for the response and information. Sorry I posted in the wrong section. I did make an effort to put this post in the right section and I've gone back and looked again and Discussion about doing business with Bitcoin. Best trading practices, delivery methods etc. still seems like the right place - but apparently not. Can you please direct me to the better section for these posts?

Thanks again.

I have posted some AvalonMiner 741s on craigslist and immediately started getting offers to that they would pay in full via PayPal in advance if I was willing to ship. The first one didn't raise my eyebrow. The second said they would also prefer PayPal and would add an extra $250 if I was willing to do so - which smells wrong.

I know about the PayPal reversible scam for selling BTC (and was burnt by it selling cloud mining contracts a few years back), but wasn't aware about a way to do this for physical goods transactions - but my sense is that they can get chargebacks via PayPal somehow even after I pull the cash out of my PayPal account. True? Can someone please confirm for me that the PayPal is safe or unsafe for these in-person physical goods transactions?


P.S. I asked both to switch to Coinbase and send payment via BTC or Ethereum address and one went silent and one is giving all the excuses of why they cannot use anything but PayPal.

First, you may not need to open any ports on your router. Nothing needs to be able to come from the internet to the controller. The controller just needs to be able to access to the internet. In fact, I would advise against opening up any ports to the controller. There is more setup information on the avalon controller at the following links:

• https://canaan.io/question/how-do-i-connect-an-avalonminer-721-and-avalonminer-controller-including-raspberry-pi-1-2-and-3/ - Skip to "Configuration Controller"
  
• https://canaan.io/question/are-there-instructions-for-how-to-setup-avalonminer-741/

I'll take one if I can choose a trusted escrow to use here on bitcointalk.

I don't switch coins that often. I watch them and if over 3-5 days a coin looks to be more profitable using my GPUs and I expect it to be sustainable and not just a fluke with current exchange rates or something, then I'll manually switch my pools around. Right now I'm mostly mining ZCash but watching Bitcoin Gold closely as it looks more profitable as of late. I may not be a cool miner though

Some things to keep in mind when estimating mining earnings:

• Luck: The key thing to keep in mind is that these are all estimates based on probability. Over longer period of time or with really large hash rate numbers the estimates tend to be closer to reality, but they're still estimates and won't be perfect.
• Exchange Rates:When you start estimating in dollars, you also have to account for the variability of the exchange rate which is even more volatile than difficulty. So best to estimate your expected earnings in the coin that you mine if possible (which is more difficult when you're profit switching).
• Exchange fees: Even converting from one coin to another (e.g. e.g. an altcoin to litecoin) will incur fees for the exchange.
• Mining pool fees and miner fees are a factor (e.g. https://www.nicehash.com/help/fees). Most of the miners themselves collect a fee by periodically using your hardware to mine for themselves which often equates to a 1-2% "fee".
• Reward System:How the mining pool actually rewards your contribution varies as well. See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104664.msg1146110#msg1146110 for more info. This is bitcoin specific post, but broadly applicable for the most part.
• Difficulty: A variable to account for in estimating is the future "difficulty" of the coin which cannot be predicated all that accurately (for more on difficulty see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty, which is bitcoin specific but generally applies to most coins). This usually isn't a major factor for estimating earnings a few days out, but is a major factor when estimating a weeks or months out.

Looks like you're earning about ~18% less than what the calculators estimated. So either the calculators are just wrong or some of these variables are eating into the estimates.

That's too much now. They're going for cheaper than that. I'm a buyer at $1.25 now.

I think the benefit here is that it would be easier for people to use. Choose it as a screensaver and it would automatically start and you don't have to worry about using custom afk logic in this app (or "away from mouse logic" if I recall from the code correctly). Anyway, nothing wrong with what you're doing just an idea for you to consider.

Minergate gives a bit more information about their so-called "unconfirmed" balance at https://minergate.com/faq/what-is-unconfirmed-balance - but not really anything useful. However, they're not a very popular pool and I suspect partially due to their lack of transparency on issues like this (as others have noticed) I tend to prefer other pools like dwarfpool or nanopool, albeit they're a bit harder to get set up.

Welcome mannumaster. I recently was thinking this would be a good idea. Glad to see someone acted on it! You might want to consider implementing it as a screensaver in windows. There are some examples at https://www.codeproject.com/articles/31376/making-a-c-screensaver and https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/Extending-the-Screen-Saver-Starter-Kit-with-Microsoft-Visual-C-Express on how to create screensavers (it is only a minor change).

Let me know if you want some help. I like encouraging projects like this.

See the following article for how to withdraw tokens via Cryptonomos: https://medium.com/cryptonomos/how-to-withdraw-tokens-via-cryptonomos-c4841f118e8c

Once you have your WTT tokens, if you're interested in selling, DM me a price and I may be interested if it is a good deal.

MrCando64, If you're selling at the right price I'm interested. DM me your asking price.

Try disabling the onboard graphics in the bios. I do that and just use SSH to access the box or if absolutely necessary plug a monitor into the GPU that is in the 16x pci-e slot close to the CPU. Hope that helps!

Well an i3 would probably be okay as you don't need a lot of CPU power, but you'll need a way to get your PCI-X GPU into your laptop along with a separate PSU for the GPU. IMHO, probably easier to hawk your laptop and get a cheapo pentium motherboard and use that.

I'm good for a 2-3.