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Nobody pays extra for bitcoins that were mined by the sun.
I have a large solar array. If I was trying to ROI the array, in a commercial setting, I would have to sell the coins significantly over the market price.
Are they charging extra? If not, it's for sure a scam.
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Unless you are overclocking too much, mining will not damage your CPU. Some CPU mined coins are a little bit profitable, and if you have access to many computers that are otherwise idle, like a big network at a company where no one is using them at night, you can definitely make plenty of profit.
this point i disagree Surely cpu mining without gpu, can damage cpu because cpu is not in design for mining. of course many computers and have access in a company must profit because it has free hardware, free electricity, free internet. but which boss can allow his property to be used for the benefit of others? anyone doing hidden mining in cpu. he must become' the failed boss' GPU's are not designed for mining either, somehow the world keeps working. While generally CPU mining is pointless, it's not always. I have some 1U boxes that will do higher CPU hashrates on monero than 6+ 1070's, so it is possible. And it's not going to break a desktop CPU. CPU's are designed to do complex calculations. |
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I wouldn't feel obligated to do it just because you believe in blockchain.
I don't think a 50k investment justifies a move of your family or changing your day job, 50k is like 25 antminers if infrastructure is free, or say, 15-20 GPU rigs depending on the cards involved. Neither pays the bills for most people and returns an ROI to the investor at the same time.
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It sure has, Network diff keeps going up so coins/THs will go down no matter where you are, but we still get more here at kano no matter what people who don't fully understand PPLNS say...  Mine On!  I understand it, but it's still terrible marketing. The pool isn't going to grow. I switched and am on day 8 or 9 of 'slushpool' detox, and I understand ithe ramp, but the pool is never going to grow much bigger until it's moderated a bit. 16-24 days for full ramp? That is an eternity in crypto, and this pool has all the makings for a pool of ghost miners still trying to crack a block after a year or more at sea. Even a 1 week ramp would keep out most of the rifraf. Either way, I hope it works out, am leaving my hash here, and hoping we crack a block soon... But the future seems like the pool will stay the same size as everyone else grows. Not good. |
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Hi,
is there any chance to run a CPU miner on a centos7 on PPC(power pc) 6.4?
thank you
Daniel
You can run a monero/aeon miner on the power architecture. I have run one that gets around 4500 H/sec on the Power9 architecture. |
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I know for a fact that the 2pacs does not really play nice with USB3 ports. Is it going to be the same for the terminus pods?
I'm using a usb3 hub with no issues, I have 10 2pacs on it at 200mhz. really?? Lucky you. I remember something about Intel USB3.0 drivers or was it VIA drivers that doesnt really gel well with the 2pacs. i am going to try and find the forum post after work. I think that has more to do with Windows than the hardware. No problems with USB3.0 hubs, RPi, 2pacs here. |
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You need to configure your motherboard bios to boot from USB.
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I had a mouse crawl into my CNC mill and make a nest. I had an SSD in the machine that was not in a case - Said mouse deposited 'fluid' over the course of several weeks until the machine quit running.
The drive would show up with the ATA 'identify' command, but trying to read most sectors resulted in command errors, i.e. your computer can see there is a drive there, but I suspect that you will have trouble getting the data off.
I had to replace mine.
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I see day by day, ASICS of many coins are launching, individually or multiple. Chinese companies are trying to kill the GPU mining market once again cause they are greedy, just like they did to Bitcoin and Litecoin. GPU Mining died in 2013 and was resurrected in 2015 with the Cryptocoins Generation 2.0, although many of you miners just started mining on 2016 due to huge pumps on those 2.0 cryptocoins.
As Cryptocoins got more popular than in 2011 - 2013. The new generation of Cryptocoins 2015 and afterwards are endangered by ASICS once again, and 2018 looks to be the year of per the title "GPU mining will die in 2018!".
Keep in mind that there are possible ASICS for ethash already for Q1, and even if ETH goes POS, ETC and other ethash coins will be only ASICS and if that happens only Equihash coins will be minable for a time and I have a word that there is already an ASIC in development for Equihash already and will start delivering in Q4 2018. As GPU mining keep gets scarce, other popular coins will have pumps and so ASICS will be born for them.
I want to know your thoughts about it and I wonder the limits of --> "where, there is money to be made, there is greedy"
Keep in mind that this price crashing we are seeing is due also to the fear of ASICS for most GPU mining coins.
lol. Do you know how much it costs to put memory on an ASIC? I program new ASIC's for a living. I get beat up about fitting firmware into 64K. |
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I use a headless (no HDMI, ssh and serial console only) rpi3 with raspian to run 2nds 2PAC, and it runs for weeks on end without any care or feeding.
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If you don't like it, then either write your own, or recompile one that has open source and send the original author some coin.
'digital drug lord' lol.
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Thanks for the note.
I wonder what hardware was being used to mine scrypt coins back when they were in vogue...?
In other words, what gpu's were (are) considered to be efficient for scrypt mining...
Thanks!
The GPUs that were useful for mining scrypt coins can no longer compete... They are too slow compared to the ASIC's to mine anything and produce much. It's like you are digging a basement with a spoon, and an asic miner is a fleet of backhoes. They will do more in an hour than you can do in a year. |
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I'd take 4 at $125 too. Seems like a reasonable spot between the 2pac and a full blown asic miner.
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Man I get the feeling that the power company must not like Tesla if they make em jump thru hoops to install.  Its that most grid tie stuff at the homeowner level is a pain in the ass for them, and they want to make sure that some poor lineman isn't going to get lit up because somebody thinks their DIY BS is 'green'. Look at how many stupid idiots use double ended 'suicide cords' to power their house every hurricane.... Add in the obvious lack of any basic science education or reading/research (this forum is a good example "how do I mine bitcoin on my android") , and it's a recipe for a big time sink for them. Small little sources on the grid are difficult to manage. Green energy in most parts of the country requires other quick turn base loads (natural gas where I live) for when clouds/wind don't work.... It isn't cheap. (full disclosure - I have a 10KW grid tied, battery backed up system that was inspected by the electrical inspector and utility. It's expensive, and absolutely will never ROI, never.) Yeah, I mine with it, but it's not green... |
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I use one of these in a 19" rack with 6 EVGA 1070's and 1 evga 1060. 6 1070's are in the GPU bay, 1x 1060 is plugged into the motherboard.
5 80mm fans are installed in the fan crossbar inside the case.
3 120mm fans set in the front of the GPU bay blowing front to back.
2 80mm fans in the back of the case, pulling air front to back.
The 6 in the GPU bay temps vary, but tend to run 48-58.
The 1060 over the motherboard is downstream of the other GPU's, so it is in the hot air stream of the rest. It runs 70-72.
I like the compact, locked down setup, fits nicely in a rack without crazy stuff hanging all over the place like an open air setup.
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I found suprnova way below the calculator for monacoin.
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I have access to several modern Xilinx FPGA boards. They are no longer useful for their original purpose, but have PCIE, ethernet, USB and their own dedicated DRAMS and ARM processors.
I'm thinking about trying to develop a miner with one as a project to learn more logic design. What is a good altcoin algorithm for FPGA that is not already overwhelmed by ASICs? This would just be to see if I can figure out enough logic design to make it do something useful.
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These look great! I'll take 4 when they are ready.
If you need someone to do CNC drilling on heat sinks, I have a bridgeport 3 axis CNC and am an OK (non professional) machinist. I could probably bang a bunch out for you, and would work for pods, pm me.
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