Hello.

Just got my antminer s7 batch 8 in the mail today. Got it running right now with a Lepa 1600w 80+ gold PSU.

So basically I'm just wondering if it would be a good idea to overclock the S7. Came set at 700M and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on what I could maybe OC to with my PSU.

Thanks.

Hello.

I'm fairly new to bitcoin mining and recently learned that in the near feature, the block reward will halve from 25 BTC to 12.5 BTC.

What exactly does this mean? Will this mean that miners will make less BTC since pools have less to split among the workers?

Hello.

I recently received an AntMiner S5 and I'm mining on Slush's pool. For some reason, it seems like whenever I'm rewarded for a found block on the pool, my hash rate drops to about 600. I believe it is that chain 2 stops working, however it still shows as active ('o') on the miner's status page. So I have to restart the miner pretty much everytime I get rewarded to get back up to 1.15 TH.

The reason I think it's chain 2 is because when I unplugged that board, it kept hashing at 600 GH after a block is found.
 
Has anyone else had this issue or have any ideas how to fix it? Thanks