I am just looking into mining digi SHA-256....

1.) So are you doing it,

If so what pool are you using and why?

2.) Are you holding coin or selling it,

If you selling it what exchange are you selling it on and have you had issues getting it back to USD?


Tks
Sam

Does any one know the pinout to connect a Avalon A7 miner directly to the I2C bus on the Pi?

Thanks

I have a s3 with a bad board, I would like to use it as a Lottery solo miner.

I am looking for a replacement board or another miner with one bad board and one good board I could use as a donor.

Please send me a PM with a price if you are looking to sell a board or a miner with a single working board.


Thanks

I just picked up a few extra Avalon miners but could not get a AUC3 to connect them to my PI. If any one is willing to part with a AUC3 please PM me.

Thanks

[My Total from Newegg]

In attempt to purchase some parts from Newegg this is what transpired.


My Total from Newegg               0.010960   BTC "192.96 USD"

Requested from Bitpay              0.011905   BTC "209.49 USD"

Payment to Newegg. @ 09:09    0.01266294 BTC "219.06 USD"  (This includes CoinBase Fees)

Payment status changed to pending @ 9:17

Payment Rejected @ 09:24 Transaction took more than 15 min and was rejected by Bitpay for underpayment as the price of BTC changed. Bitpay said my invoice was under paid by 0.000161 BTC "2.85 USD".

As the transaction was outside the 15 min time window I could not send extra coin and could only opt for a refund.

Refund from bitpay   0.010389   BTC "182.82 USD"

So in short I lost   0.00227394 BTC "36.24 USD" this loss was due to network fees incurred transferring the Bitcoin back and forth.


First: This is absolute malarkey! Every one says Bitcoin is made to be a currency not a investment. Well if you compare what it cost to send money using services such as Paypal, Credit Cards or ACH you will find a average some where in the range of 1.5% of the transaction plus up to .99 USD per transaction. 

No sane person is ever going to pay 15 USD in fees on a invoice of 200 USD that is like 7.5%. What is being told here is Bitcoin is absolutely a investment or only used to pay shady people who do not care if the invoice was 2 USD short and it took 18 min to clear the network because they are just going to stack the BTC as a investment any way.


Second: This is not the first time I had this issue with an exchange to exchange payment. When I purchased goods from MinerWarez once again I sent the exact amount requested at the checkout and it came up 0.00622 BTC "36.89 USD" underpaid luckily the timer had not run out and I was able to send the additional BTC to GoCoin.

If Bitcoin as a currency is going to move forward in the mainstream these issues need to be resolved quickly. The general public is not going to deal with waiting 20 min to find out they just got screwed out of money due to some stupid timer running out!


Third: So I research as to why it took more the 10 min to comment my transaction to the blockchain. It seams the transactions are processed not in the order that they were received but in the order of payment density. This means that if my payment with a transaction fee of 15 USD was at the top of the stack at 9:09 and another payment with a transaction fee of 100 USD was added at 9:18 but before the next block was compiled for solving then my transaction would be bumped in favor of the transaction with the 100 USD fee.

That is just highway robbery because now I must lose money because some one else decided to skip writing my transaction to the blockchain in a timely manner. I bet every one who is evolved in Bitcoin would have cow if net neutrality is reversed and ISPs start charging quadruple to people with traffic related to Bitcoin Mining. Transactions being committed to the blockchain is no different than your data packets riding the light, it should be first come first serve not highest bidder wins!


Forth: Who gets to choose the timer duration because that needs to be changed at the least, with the current number of transactions on the network that timer should be at least 30 min if not 1 hour just to be safe.


You know its bad enough that when you pay a invoice with BitCoin the vendor wants you to pay for their network and processing fees then you get slapped with the network choosing to process the transactions that make the miners the most money first. This is just as bad as central banking BS fees. We run a mine and I am not OK with the way this went down so I could just imagine how Joe End User would feel!! Had this been Blood, Sweat or Tears money I would ditch this method of payment!


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So I ordered two RX Vega 56 cards and a 1200 watt Rosewill PSU from newegg..

The cards and the PSU showed up yesterday, I slapped the PSU in a system that has a Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L R-1.4 mainboard in it. I upgraded it to Windows 10 x64 and placed a single RX Vega in the internal slot.

The system is bare bone CPU, RAM, HD, RX VEGA!

When I attempt to load the AMD software I get a blue screen. This happens with either of the two cards I have.

I have noticed that as soon as the first GPU TACH led goes high I get the BSOD.

I loaded Ubuntu Mate 16.04 along side of windows and can get the card to function fine as a GPU in linux.

I am not a big windows guy, I am a network engineer by trade and run linux on all my machines except for my two macs.  It is my understanding that these cards work better in windows though, so that is why I attempted to use windows 10.



Has any one had this issue with windows? If so how did you resolve it?

When my risers show up I will test the cards on a second system just to rule out possible hardware issues. I am just looking for some fore site into the problem..

Thanks

I am looking at picking up some equipment from minerwarez.com

Have any of you use them?