When BTC is up, don't get irrationally exuberant and think the market is going to continue to go up forever. Have an exit strategy. When the market is up take some profit. You'll feel much better when the market is down if you took profit

Is anyone successfully mining Verge with a Titan. I have tried a few pools and variations of the configuration they recommend and I haven't been successful yet, with "all pools dead", no connection, Titan halts, etc

If you have been successful can you share your config.

In the Titan config, I've been trying the following:

Pool URL: <whatever the site recommends>
Account: <either a wallet address or worker name, depending on the pool>
Pwd: <with and without a specified difficulty>

I've tried hash-to-coins, aikapool, maybe a couple of others.

I've been successful with an Antminer L3+, just not with a Titan, so there's some Titan related peccadillo I'm missing

Thanks

To get out of the idle state, I manually set the Mhz rate on all dies to 300 MHz and Applied changes. After applying the changes the Energy Saver start button became active and I started/restarted the Energy Saver. Stage 1 was chugging along last night and Stage 2 was running when I checked this morning. It appears all is good. Thanks for the replies

I think what might have happened is that when I moved the miners for the first time in about 1.5 years the other day and blew out the huge amount of dust inside of them, I might have removed the insulating factor provided by the dust. The cubes have always run hot in the 3 years of flawless - no maintenance - operation  up to this point in time, but they seemed to be running hotter lately so that's why I ran the GenTarkin firmware which currently seems to be doing nothing/is idle and about which I'm unclear as to next steps. I might just end up restarting.

Based on past reading, your quite deep into these units. Do you have any how-to info about opening - and being able to reclose - the cubes and any info about the thermal paste application process? It looks like rivets to me that would have to be cut.

Thanks

I'm confused what state I'm at in the process. My Titan has been running flawlessly since 2014 getting app 350 Mh/s with the stock settings of 325 MHz and -.0366 V but has always run hot. I never saw any real benefit to running the GenTarkin firmware but after recently adding an L3+ to my home mining, I thought I try the GenTarkin firmware Energy Saver feature in an attempt to get some heat out of my environment. I started the Energy Saver and it immediately made some changes including turning off dies with temps over the 90 degree threshold (e.g.: Dies currently throttled due to DCDC over temp threshold) and reducing a few to 300 MHz

Based on a reading of the documentation, I was expecting nothing to happen immediately since it says:

When energy saver is turned on. Stage 1 of 3 begins: It will restart bfgminer, have an initial 1.5hr cooldown then the first voltage adjustments will be made. All enabled die voltages will be lowered a single “notch”.

I didn't experience a 1.5 hr cooldown before adjustments were made but experienced immediate adjustments.

Also, the Energy Saver immediately went into an "IDLE" state which I interpret as nothing happening based on Status – IDLE – when no tuning is in progress from the documentation

Is something taking place? If not, how do I leave the IDLE state and restart the Energy Saver process?

Thanks

Shouldn't the btcmeqc price be "based on auction" rather than $55 Per KW/Month? I bid more than $55 in the recent auction and I got diddly. I think the highest winning bid was $110/KW/Month and my mid-$60s bid didn't rate.

You aren't directly responding to me because a Titan and an L3+ don't qualify for your (new?) 10kw minimum. Since you're advertising can you give an update on the status of your legal situation with Bitmain http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/great-north-data-bitmain-technologies-lawsuit-1.4084925

Definitely turning out to more difficult that anticipated locating a legit colo company with space. Definitely a lot of flakes/amateurs in the colo space - and that's saying a lot considering this is the crypto coin world - running "companies" that don't respond to communications, have outdated/obsolete websites, receive customer equipment and don't get it online and don't respond to equipment owner inquiries, remain anonymous/obscure under the guise of security, etc

Looks like I'll have to re-purpose one of my coolers and make one of these when the L3+ comes in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbAjh5q1Tzw

I have a KNCMiner Titan and an Antminer L3+ on the way that I want to co-locate. I'd like to keep them in the US preferably in the Pacific NW but I'm not finding any available space. Anyone know of a reputable, established facility with space?

On a related note is Hashplex still in business? They are on the updated list in this thread but their website is highly unclear (to me at least). If they are, what's the process to reserving space on their website - or contacting them?

Thanks

Ah, I don't know where you are located but in the US, the IRS does know about bitcoin and they want their piece of the action. They consider it property for tax purposes. I don't think they think - or care - that they are being unfair

IRS Notice 2014-21 is a pertinent document

A late update.

Did the offline/cold system first.

1. Made a copy of the existing Electrum folder
2. Installed the newer version of Electrum
3. After install, verified password was recognized and seed was the same

4. Did the same thing on the online/watching-only system
5. Went through the transaction process and successfully sent a small transaction

6. Did the same process with Electrum-LTC

Is there a specific order that an upgrade from 1.9.8 to the Electrum latest version should be done in a cold storage implementation? Do I upgrade the offline system first or the online system? Or does it not matter?

I have the 1.98 wallet file backed up and I have the seed, so I'm assuming - based on what I've read - that I just install the new Electrum on each system.

Thanks

I copied the Electrum folder over to the new profile and the watching only wallet opened and the recent transactions showed up. Actually I tried with Electrum-LTC first since there was less value.

 

Thanks for the reply.

Normally I'd just try this, but in this case I'm quite paranoid since I just spent a long sweaty summer spending hours at my desk about five feet from a heat pumping miner and I don't want to lose the resultant btc.

I'd guess that I should I copy the whole Electrum folder from the old profile to the new profile or does Electrum just look for a default_wallet file? The Electrum folder in the old profile contains two folders, "certs" and "wallets" (with default_wallet), and two files, "blockchain headers" and "config".

For my understanding, if I was to "restore an existing wallet from its seed" (and I do have the seed saved in a few places) does that automatically create the watching-only wallet since there is no private key present?

I don't get the last part of your reply. If I was to restore a wallet from seed, why would I need to access a backup? I thought the seed was all that was needed in "restore the wallet from seed" scenario.

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Do you happen to have any knowledge of the procedure to update to a newer Electrum version in a watching wallet/cold storage configuration?

Thanks

On a Windows 7 system where I have Electrum 1.9.8 installed (watching-only wallet), the (domain) user whose profile Electrum 1.9.8 was installed as no longer exists but the <userprofile>\AppData\Roaming\Electrum folder of the user does still exist and default_wallet is in the wallets folder and everything else is apparently still intact.

When I open Electrum 1.9.8 as a different use on the machine where the watching wallet is installed, I receive a pop-up window that says "Electrum could not find an existing wallet" and "What do you want to do?" with the three choices (radio buttons) being:

- Create new wallet
- Restore an existing wallet from its seed
- Create a watching-only version of an existing wallet

What's the method for getting back to a functional watching wallet?

Can I just copy the Electrum folder to the same PATH of the new user and open Electrum on the watching computer and Electrum will find the wallet and any other necessary files?

Or should I do one of the three choices and which one?

Also, can Electrum be used with a PATH that doesn't involve storing anything in the installing user's profile?

One last question, can anybody point me to documentation on how to upgrade Electrum to a current version when using cold storage and a watching-only wallet setup?

Thanks