You can sell ETH directly on Coinbase, no need to convert it.
In my case, it's Ethermine > auto to Coinbase ballpark once a week or so > sell or hang on to it a bit.

I did recently sell all of it to help pay for my new place though (should close just before end of the month).
Once I move I'll have POWER to work with again!

There might be some way to do that for free - but the "anyone can do it" offer expired after about a year, and is long gone.

Why not move to LINUX, which is legitimately free and tends to be a bit more efficient in the first place?

LOLMiner and others have added the ability to keep mining on 4GB cards, abet at reduced hashrate.
I'm sure the hashrate would be up more like 50% in that week, if enough cards were AVAILABLE.

I suspect SOME of the hashrate jump is from new ETH ASIC miners selling out fast, and part of it is from older ASICs turning profitable and getting turned back on - but availability of even 2 generation old GPUs has cratered which indicates a LOT of the hashrate jump is sale of new GPUs and folks with older CPUs turning them BACK on (if I had the power available where I'm at I'd be firing the old R9 290s back up here).

Phil, did you just delete one of your early threads?
I just got a BUNCH of "your post has been deleted by a self-moderated thread" emails this morning on some posts that looked mighty old.

I suspect I could match that if I pushed my RAM and CPU harder, they're only at 1000 / 0 right now but I don't remember why I settled for those figures.
Perhaps not as stable at higher settings on one or more card at higher temps, or ZEC (which is what I did the heavy testing on back when) wasn't.

The funny part is that the E3 wasn't much more efficient than a well-tuned GPU rig - and if you have GTX 1070ti cards it STILL isn't (gtx 1070 has lost efficiency, you either lose 10% hashrate running at 110- watts or you have to bump power up over 10% to get back to 30 - GTX 1070ti has not changed), while being less efficient than some newer-gen cards.


I am in the middle of rebuilding all of my rigs, for a few reasons.
1) I am taking posession of a new place tomorrow - in a county that does NOT have a "cryptocoin-specific" ripoff electric rate.
2) The county I am in now did NOT have an issue with Folding@Home (and by extension Curecoin), so I had swapped most of them over to Folding for the last year and change.
3) Folding income has collapsed, due to the massive influx of new folders due to COVID-19 OVERLOADING their ability to generate work units.

An interesting factoid showed up in the process.

My GTX 1070 cards (still have a bunch of them DESPITE ever Gigabyte Mini card DYING) now need at least 122 and more commonly 125-130 watts to achieve full hashrate (about 30 Mh) instead of the under-110 they used to use.
At 106 watts they're mostly around 27 Mh - not horrible, but a noticeable loss on efficiency.

My GTX 1070 ti cards are STILL happy pushing 31 Mh at 106 watts.
I am now wishing I'd bought MORE of those....

Given the huge surge in Folding@Home participants over the last couple weeks, it might have a SMALL effect.
But supply doesn't seem to be an issue yet - the growing widespread RECESSION looks likely to kill most demand for a while, as folks worry about "paying the rent" first.

I think I paid $399 NEW for my Sapphire reference model Vega 56 a couple years back.
$180 seems reasonable.

Not even close.
It got down to 6-7 range right after Bittrex delisted it for US users.

Finebox has not had FDLC deposits enabled for at least a month now.
I don't think there IS an active FDLC exchange any more except going through ripoff Counterparty.

No, Bittrex completely shut down trading for US customers ONLY for no apparent reason - which totally CRAZY since the coin itself is US based.

ETH has been talking "move to PoS" for years, nothing significant has happened.
I figure they'll take years to make an algorithm change as well, IF it ever happens.

Flash is FINALLY slowly dying, as new sites are largely going with HTML5 instead and some old sites are converting.

THANK GOODNESS.

DOGE hasn't been mineable for years by itself, since it went Merged Mining mode.
It gets swamped by all the merge mining out of LTC, and is IMPOSSIBLE to mine for a profit on it's own as a result.

Flash your BIOS on the cards with a BIOS from TheStilt, then you don't have to worry about voltage control AND you save more because those BIOS shut down some of the unneeded video circuitry.

It's not exactly run out of a basement - they went to the extent (and I've verified the applicable Indiana State and Federal records) to get registered as a 501(c) non-profit - which does take a LITTLE bit of work.
On the other hand, relying on that RIPOFF "Counterparty" for their standard distribution has ALWAYS been a very bad idea.

Lotta batteries or grid-tie needed for that - but they're pretty close to the BIG wind farm area west of Mojave so there should be plenty of powerline infrastructure nearby.
Arizona would make more sense though - more sunlike more of the year round, 70% is less than what I see in Central Washington!

I might be misremembering but wasn't Bitcoin over $2000 and more like $2500 in that timeframe?

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Any of the Delta AFB series in the 140-200 CFM range are pretty quiet - and the AFB series don't have the high pitched whine of the FFB series.
Had a bunch of them in my Innosilicon A2s, kept them when I finally got around to scrapping out the A2s and they're now doing "push LOTS of air through the air filter assembly from the window" duty.

Aorus isn't cheap, they use good quality fans.

Cheap doesn't always mean low cost, sometimes it means they put cheap parts in something - like the Windforce models with sleeve bearing fans (might have saved them a buck or two per fan, NOT WORTH THE COST SAVINGS therefore "cheap").

They've had S9j models listed on their sales page every time I've looked for the last couple months - though sometimes out of stock.

I don't seem them going out of business anytime soon, though they had to retrench a TON when their $Billions of 7/10nm generation TSMC "risk dies" FAILED and they had no new miners to sell for many months, which seems to have been what led to their dump of most of their their BCH and BTC and other altcoins "stash" to fund operations through that rough period.

They seem to be back to operationally profitable at this point, selling lots of S15 S17 and new altcoin machines.

They were running in the 60-70% range, depending on the specific card. Perhaps 75% at most.
Not like the Gigabyte and MSI "micro" cards that had to be set higher even on ETH mining just to stay under 80C.

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They don't seem QUITE that bad - but I've replaced pretty close to every fan on my Windforce cards with "real" 92mm or occasionally a 92 and an 80 box fans, mostly NMB or Delta server leftovers.
Those fans not only eat a hair LESS power, they keep the cards easily 10 degrees C or perhaps a bit more COOLER - using 2 fans instead of "sometimes 2 fairly big ones, sometimes 3 smaller ones".
Down side - they ARE a lot bulkier, but that's easy to work around.