Wrong, neither you nor the masked marvel have a clue where miners will be going, when and if their coins fork. Most FUD and disgruntled GPU suckers posting it.

Sometimes chasing that perfect fit for our mining hardware doesn't give us the best result long term.

What is more important is the ROI period of our investments, so that we are able to stay in the game.

Therefore, some form of strategy to select the best GPU or ASIC for the best algo must be a primary strategy.

I hope more miners, esp new comers begin to identify a good clear strategy before taking the plunge because mining vs trading vs investing are clearly 3 different options. A 10k investment on a 8 x 1080ti Rig for example deliver a different outcome, compared to taking that 10k and buy BTC at crypto exchange -- and sell when high, buy when low.

I bought three refurbished Corsai PSU 1200AXI, two died just after a year. The warranty was one year.

Why do you say this?

In most of the algorithms that I have tested the R9 Fury X gets 90% of the hashrate at 50% power as it does at 100% power. I'd rather take 90% performance at 170 watts then 340 watts for just 10% more.  Interestingly enough, it handles almost any game I've run at max settings (1080p) at 50% power too, so I just leave it at that power limit 24/7.

Right now I will do a 50% approach:
1K$ buy 2x1070ti
1K$ buy BTC/ETH/LTC/XMR...

 corsair.com has a  sale    MEMORIAL2018   is discount code on all refurbished goods.

So the 1500 watt titanium ax1500i  refurb  is 350 -20% =  280  pretty good price

the rm1000x refurb is 140 - 28 = 112 good price for a 1000 watt gold psu.

I go9t this item

Flash Voyager® GTX USB 3.0 256GB Flash Drive (Refurbished)
CMFVYGTX3-256GB/RF
In Stock
Extra 20% Off Certified Refurbished!



https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Flash-Voyager-256GB-CMFVYGTX3-256GB/dp/B00LJWSHT4/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

it is fast and pretty good price for a 256gb stick that is basically an ssd.

I mined with this on one of our gaming rigs (with R9 Fury X) and it got around 7 Mh/s on x16s at stock clocks and 50% power limit. I don't remember what it was on xevan, but I can check it for if you like.

Here I found something interesting randomly:

"Dr. Randy Huang, FPGA Architect, Intel Programmable Solutions Group, and one of the co-authors, states, “Deep learning is the most exciting field in AI because we have seen the greatest advancement and the most applications driven by deep learning. While AI and DNN research favors using GPUs, we found that there is a perfect fit between the application domain and Intel’s next generation FPGA architecture. We looked at upcoming FPGA technology advances, the rapid pace of innovation in DNN algorithms, and considered whether future high-performance FPGAs will outperform GPUs for next-generation DNNs. Our research found that FPGA performs very well in DNN research and can be applicable in research areas such as AI, big data or machine learning which requires analyzing large amounts of data. The tested Intel Stratix 10 FPGA outperforms the GPU when using pruned or compact data types versus full 32 bit floating point data (FP32). In addition to performance, FPGAs are powerful because they are adaptable and make it easy to implement changes by reusing an existing chip which lets a team go from an idea to prototype in six months—versus 18 months to build an ASIC.”"


That was from last year.  In fact, more than a year ago.  Bitmain is going after AI.  AI is deeplearning.  Self driving cars.  Recognition software.  Billions of dollars. 

Bitmain is going to eat NVIDIAs lunch.  I would invest in Bitmain if I still was in finance.

I want to have rig that I can connect oculus googles so I can attend the virtual reality dance parties at High Fidelity.

They have a DJ every Thursday and Friday night at https://highfidelity.com/places/Rust

Would I just be able to have 8gpu rig that I can bring to a party so then 8 people can plug in their Oculus?

Is 1 Nvidia 1070ti good enough for each person?

How much ram and big cpu do I need?

I’m thinking I can just run mining software on thumb drive so I can have windows with all the other software on the internal HD.

Any suggestions to repurpose my 1070ti octominer is greatly appreciated!

How are the electric price in the USA? Here in northern europe price is skyrocketing due to frozen lakes and that we have to import power due to closing nuclear reactors. Im curreltly on all time high costs of 0.5dollar/kWh. Its crazy, this cannot continue or im out of buissnies.

Same here, I'm looking for a new blake2b coin

SIA profitability is not bad, but I hope to find a better one

I don’t understand why with 15ghs you don’t just solo mine.  In my experience that always fairs better than putting trust in these pools. This system was all based on trust less yet we all still point our rigs at a pool. Silly us!  Things would start going our way if we just followed the simple rules set forth by btc long ago.  Instead we always think we know best and in the end we prolly will fuck up a good thing here too.  Anyway this pool is definitely got a scam rolling.  They have to be aware. And if they aren’t do you really want them as your pool OP!   Time to learn how to solo mine and then you have nothing to worry about.  Have confidence in yourself that you can figure it out.  Trust me the more effort you put in the more rewards you will see

BR

It would not require a hard fork to implement the changes iirc

VB changed his mind? I thought he opposed suggestions that Ethereum needs a hardfork to make the network ASIC resistant as Monero did. He said "..the threat of centralization is negligible...."