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I might have a problem, submitted tickets to ShapeShift and Poloniex. Hoping someone here might have some insight.
I moved LTC from Coinbase to ShapeShift for a Monero conversion. The Monero destination address was my Poloniex Monero deposit address.
ShapeShift's screen said transaction complete, Monero's blockchain looks confirmed (although it doesn't tell me much), and Poloniex is showing no new deposit. Anyone know which service has dropped the ball? It's been a little over an hour, not sure if I'm jumping the gun but wanted to ask.
This is my first rodeo with ShapeShift...
EDIT/UPDATE: Woke up and my Monero is deposited. I'm relieved but not sure I will ever use this workflow again.
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Here I am in my new apartment, moved into a bigger & safer unit because I ended up having to fight and chase out a burglar from my old place at 4am one night- craziest thing that I've ever dealt with, thought I was dead, went mental on him best I could.
Anyways, now in the new place, higher up with more room, and my wife insists I use a spare bedroom for the mining gear. Great? Right? Well, not really. She seems less flexible than before about my mining arrangement, and she is nagging about the electric bill each month. Having my five Antminers and ten blades running in a confined space seems to amplify the heat, and the A/C here can't overpower it, major heat wave so cracking a window is just not gonna happen. So for whatever reason when mining equipment is turned on it seems to make our adjacent bedroom hot, and basically my wife is killing my hobby because I just can't listen to it (her tone about it= Ugh) anymore. I'm kinda pissed, very pissed, and yeah I came here to vent, really wish I could do something but don't see myself being able to run this stuff in a small urban apartment. Sucks because in our smaller apartment it was almost less of a heat issue, bit was still hot but the miners had more room to breath, and I was able to hook up a portable A/C without blowing a fuse. Now in a bigger place and mining is not allowed in the living room, apparently. Such bullshit the way this all went down, looks like I'll be selling some gear. And freaking BTC moving sideways for the past 6 months doesn't help either, at least with volatility I can sell her the idea of excitement, lately this is looking more like a savings account than speculative investing.
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I noticed the Multiminer thread is well over 100 pages so I'd like to ask a specific question here.
I bought the MultiMiner app a few months back but never had time to configure it, thus wasted purchase. Rainy day today and I've started to explore, UX on this thing seems pretty bad.
I have 5 Antminer S1's, a MinePeon rig running negligible GH/s, and a rack of blades pushing 100gh/s hooked up to a laptop running a proxy. I was naively hoping that somehow Multiminer would let me just point to IP addresses and add my equipment, but I don't see any such options. I don't even know where to start. Installed MultiMiner, declined the startup assist because I already have BFG miner, then it downloaded a copy anyways, and now I cannot get a way to pull up the startup assistance, even after uninstall/reinstall of MultiMiner.
As a user this feels broken, after some searching I'm coming to the conclusion that it's a product build for an engineer. Can anyone lend some guidance in regards to setting this up? Seems like the time it takes might not be worth the effort, which is why I let the apps go unused for several months already. I click "advanced miner settings" and it might as well be in Japanese right about now, what a pain in the ass this is turning out to be.
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I sold a BfL Jalapeņo on EBay last week. Of all the equipment I ever mined with the BFL Jally was the most reliable, never had any issues with it of any kind. I got a message from the buyer asking if it's normal for the unit to restart or stop working after 6 hours. I'm completely lost why all of the sudden this would happen to the most reliable unit I have ever used.
Thinking it must either be a pool or software issue, or maybe something got knocked around in shipping(?). I have found a product review where someone complained about the BFL Jally locking up every 4-6 hours but in my 5 months of use it never happened once. I asked the buyer to try Slushs pool and use bfgminer with a .bat file, trying to eliminate causes. Any suggestions on what is happening here?
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Haven't seen a poll like this and I'm curious...
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I've got stuff listed on EBay and Craigslist, listing here to give people a shot at a slightly reduced rate to offset the seller fees.
3x cubes, $225 for each or buy all 3 for $600.
BFL Jally 7+gh/s $135
9x USB erupters $90 for all
10x blades, $90 each. Or discounted to $80 each if you buy all 10, and will also throw in free backplane, 1000w HP PSU, fans, and mounting crate.
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I've been a long-time buyer on Ebay but never have done much selling. A few years back I sold a financial calculator and basically lost money on shipping, or nearly ended up giving it away when all was said and done. Anyways, I just got a break in my schedule and listed a bunch of mining gear, huge pain in the ass!! Anyways, now I guess I just wait and see... I did my best to price competitively as I'd like to sell everything off within 7 days. I'm tempted to post my whole blade rig on Craigslist, but I might run into trouble if I sell some on Ebay then I won't have a complete rig anymore. The ultimate shitty situation will be if I only sell 3-4 blades instead of the whole bunch, guess I'll need to feel out demand and adjust pricing along the way.
Roughly how many days do you wait before making price adjustments? I'm thinking if nothing sells in 3 days then I'm priced too high, but I'm new to eBay selling so I don't have any history/experience to reference.
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Wifey came home tonight and texted, said our apartment is almost 90 degrees (f) and smells like plastic. I'm out on my 16 hour day right now... We got a freakish warm day, 60 outside in Feb is not normal. Problem is, our apartment building has a chiller system, and we don't have control over it. In the spring every year we have 5 weeks where half the days are warm but they still don't change the heat over to air conditioning. If they do it too early all the old folks bitch about it. It got so bad last year that I had to buy a portable AC unit, just to make it through those few weeks of discomfort, and I wasn't even mining then! So now it's gonna start getting warm out, what the hell am I gonna do?
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I remember seeing paper wallet options on Coinbase, now I can't find it... Did they get rid of this feature?
Edit: looks like they "temporarily disabled" the paper wallet feature so that they can improve it. They say updates should be done in 2 weeks...
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Wondering what the general consensus is here, are cubes and blades considered obsolete due to their power consumption?
Over got around 225ghs, running mainly cubes and blades, but I liked these products because they allowed me the freedom to "grow into" this hobby. Seems like the newer stuff you buy the whole rig and it's a bigger investment up front, as it should be. I liked how ASICminer always seemed to position their stuff as a "system"- blades tied into the backplane, and cubes have locking notches and rather good price point compared to similar offerings from BfL. I get the impression they are less desirable now though, is this mainly because of power consumption? Crazy how fast this hardware race moves... I'm still a bit surprised to see people coming into mining and dropping over $1k on a miner before learning the ropes...
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Just curious, how many people have a cube with an "X" on a chip, and does this affect resale value on these? Not planning to sell, but if I do I assume I would need to disclose that to the buyer as a defect, right?
It's weird, I have a single "X" on one row, but I don't remember seeing it the other day. My hash rate seems healthy, and efficiency looks good. If hash and efficiency are good does a bad chip matter? Trying to find out what it all means...
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I've got this little guy on my desk:  But across the room on the same network I have cubes and blades. Most of the cubes/blades are pointing at proxy running on desktop PC, and I've got a cube (via crossover cable) and BFL Jally running on an old laptop, kinda can't push the WiFi on the laptop much more than that I don't think. Anyways, is it possible for me to run a proxy on MinePeon (BFGminer) and point a cube at it while still running the erupters? or will that overload the little WiFi in the Raspberry pi? I'm trying to weigh my options to deal with some potential network traffic clutter... Thanks! |
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Decided to open up Easyminer after not using it for a while, the BTC chart isn't showing anything though. Anyone know a solution or is it just broken?
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So I have found myself at an interesting crossroads... I have built up my rig a bit, most recently through using group buys and spending BTC. I started out in early November with a BFL Jalapeņo 7.5gh/s ($260 via eBay, back in November this seemed unheard of). After that I was enamored with how cool a Raspberry Pi with erupters looked, so I got myself 9 erupters at $11 each; it's got an LCD ticker display and is more of a desk ornament and conversation piece than anything. As time went I got into blades, eventually working my way up to 10, with an average cost of $300 each. Lowest was $220 and highest was $415, also bought some with BTC. My most foolish purchase was a cube at $1,100 right when they came out, but the unit has been a good performer so I recently got another one on a group buy .75 BTC, it's arriving any day. Now I've got almost another .75 ready to dump on one more cube, .5 of which was bought when BTC dipped to $500, and then I really just want to let these things mine uninterrupted for a few months. Getting cubes on the group buy helps to lower my average cost on the one I rushed into when they first came out. But, there's a problem...
I am seeing the blade demand dry up rather quickly, as expected. With the amount of network traffic and space they occupy I'm beginning to wonder if the hidden costs of running blades is more apparent with more self-contained units available. I could probably eBay my blades and count on breaking even or turning a small profit, but the frenzy seems to be over, that is unless BTC breaks $1,000 again sometime soon. Selling the blades would leave me with enough cash to buy BTC and get an Antminer 180gh/s, but I'd also have downtime due to sales and shipping, along with the pain in the ass factor of tearing apart my backplane that I spent a few weeks building up.
I guess what I am wondering, how many others here struggle with the constant pressure to reinvest BTC? And how often do you consider dumping equipment to purchase something newer? This is almost like a personal question, with no right or wrong answer. I'm just surprised that the psychological pull mining has is more than I expected. Initially I got into mining because I didn't want to be saddled with the psychological baggage of a cost basis, certainly if I bought BTC on the exchange at $250 I probably would have closed my position around $500. With mining I never felt anxiety during price appreciation, and even the 30+% pullback on China news didn't affect me, just kept mining and having fun. What has been tricky is this addictive feeling, almost impulsiveness to spend my BTC on more equipment, partially because it's fun, and partially because the group buys have better deals than retail.
Fwiw, my total gh/s right now is around 150 when everything is hot and my cube is oc'd. New cube arrives and then one more shortly after, that will push me up to around ~210gh/s, assuming my router doesn't choke on all the traffic. I just keep thinking about this idea to dump a bunch of equipment and hop on an Antminer, but on the other hand I'm really thinking I owe it to myself to just let this equipment mine for at least a few months without any downtime. I tend not to get hung up on profit just yet because much of that really lies in the underlying value of the output, Bitcoin, and on that I am still bullish. I have recently considered switching to other coins as a hedge, but there's an added layer of risk in trying to leverage other coins versus just mining BTC directly. This still is, and always was, just a hobby for me; I'm happily employed and am not looking to dump all my earnings from my day job into mining, but I am an Econ nerd and love this stuff (but not much of a gadget guy and don't enjoy hardware tinkering much). It's just funny how when I started I was so excited about one .05btc weekly payout, and now like an addict I'm aiming for 1 or 2 per day, continually spending what I mine to acquire more equipment. The cold hard fact is after my next cubes I'm out of electrical plugs on my rack, so it seems like a reasonable stopping point for that alone, if nothing more.
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Does this look high or am I okay right now?  |
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I've been struggling hard tonight, not good at all. Here's how the nightmare started: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=389849.msg4196607#msg4196607Now I'm in a spot where someone helped me setup BFGminer as a proxy. They had to leave chat early but I managed to dig up an old BAT file from the last time I tried this in November and surprisingly it worked. All my blades were picked up and hashing at good speed. Feeling confident, I decided to modify things exactly how I wanted them, passwords and usernames, etc. Now I've got "XYZ idle for more than 60 seconds, declaring SICK!". For the life of me, for every shit I'm worth, I cannot fucking figure this out and it's driving me batshit crazy!!! Please, I beg, someone drop the knowledge on me!!! I've been struggling for hours, very worn down with this right now. |
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Okay, this is a major pain in the ass, hopefully someone here knows what the deal is.
My original setup was using an old laptop, connected to a switch, with a bridged Wifi connection to my router. My cube would go through the switch to a proxy running on the laptop. All my blades were pointing at my workstation running another proxy, which is hard-wired to the router, but said blades were still getting work through the old laptop on the bridged Wifi. Pointing all the gear at a single proxy on the laptop was blocking them from hashing full speed, and splitting the proxy assignments between the laptop and the workstation seemed to solve everything just fine; that is, until I worked my way up to 10 blades... That's when I noticed slow warm-ups and many blades not reaching full 10gh/s.
So my solution was to buy a TP-Link AV500 starter kit. Basically, running a wire from the router to the switch is not an option, so I need to make something work like this or the laptop as a workaround.
I hooked up the TP-Link to the router on one end, switch on the other. Also removed my cube from the switch and plugged in directly to my laptop, right away the cube is getting up to full speed faster being hooked up straight to the laptop and talking to the internet through the bridged Wifi on it.
Onto the TP-Link, right when I hooked it up it was blazing fast!! Amazing how much better, everything cranked. Now I get this great performance for about 5 minutes then all of the sudden proxy freezes, reports "clean_jobs=false" and everything shits the bed for a while. Sits there for a bit like that, and then eventually the proxy starts cranking again, until the next screeching halt.
So basically, I got this TP-Link thing, it works briefly, but now my proxy is shutting down the work or the blades are rejecting something; all I know is it's not stable and I'm losing good mining time. I can draw diagrams, take photos, anything unclear here just let me know. Please, please, please let me know if you have a potential insight, any help would be greatly appreciated.
When I first got my blades I had similar issues when connecting directly to my router, and bridging the Wifi on the laptop fixed all those problems so I left well-enough alone. Seeing that I removed the laptop from the equation now, and I've essentially got the blades connected directly (through TP-Link) to the router, once again I'm seeing this lack of stability "clean_jobs=false" error. Could it be my DNS needs to be changed now? Something else?
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I had a delivery was supposed to arrive 12/23 and tracking hasn't been updated since 12/19. I opened a case number with USPS, package is insured. Anyone else ever deal with this? Could it be just a holiday delay?
Pissed because I'm losing mining time and have some BTC tied up in the damn package...
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