I'm just now diving into the FPGAs, frankly mining in general after reading up on it for quiet some time this year...it appears the FPGAs are the most versatile and hottest commodity right now. No matter the price, which one do you guys see available to purchase and have in hand the quickest? A possible top 3 to 5 list would be great?

Thanks in advance!

Whitefire,

Will your algos be available for these Cairnsmore5 and Bridgelink units coming out soon? If so, do you have a procedure in place for us to apply for them once we have our cards? Thanks in advance.

Awesome!!! Thank you Johny for passing that along. That will be a great reference for many coins/miners historically! Very much appreciated! 

Ok thanks.

I guess I should just track with a spreadsheet manually by week/month

Being new with mining, I've been monitoring certain miners/coins since spring before deciding on investing into miners and the first one I came upon from the beginning was the Z9 mini and now some of these larger Equihash miners. I wanted to see if I could get a feel for if you can get a full 2-3 months of profit per day/month before difficulty/second batch kicks in and begins reducing, along with the market value of the coins, then know that it will in all likelyhood reduce 30-40% every 2 months from there.  So wasn't sure if that type of website was out there.

I imagine between the difficulty websites, calculators, and coinmarketcap could just track it that way manually.

But as you say, more than likely to volitale of an industry to collect enough data to call it a reasonable assessment of a miner/coin.

Is there a website out there showing recent historical data by day/week/month etc of each coin and hashrate mined? For example if I wanted to track ZCash mined by the Z9 mini from June thru current, showing the profitability, difficulty, Zcash value, etc or the S9 from last year through now, is there site out there that provides that calculation/data?

Mods, please feel free to move this to the correct forum if I've chosen the wrong one.

Thanks

Thank you everyone for your input and sharing some online shops to look into and stay away from. With bitshopusa allowing a credit card, I actually feel more safe with that method being in the states myself. Obviously spot the ones not looking legit (no reviews, spam emailers/pms, etc) then choose one if not bitmain and maybe just give one a try.

But again thanks on the input, I'll keep checking back in here to see if more people add to the list.

Hi All,

New to the industry and the board here, lots of information to read and take in! Please feel free to move this thread/question to an already created thread if  this is redundant.

Is there a list of vendors to purchase mining equipment from that are above board on their business and then a list to stay away from? I've spoke to a person at bitshopusa.com about S9's and L3's, seemed legit, but not sure until making a purchase. Also, browsed bitmain.today website that looks like rather discounted equipment there, so was a little sketchy on them.

If there is already a list please provide the link to that tread.

Thanks!

Hi All,

First post with Bitcoin forum, been reading all week, and started getting involved with crypto in December. I'm located in Kentucky (USA) and seeking to purchase 1 or 2 NEW Antminer R4s. Please let me know here with a reply or a PM if you have any available, or soon to have them available, price, and ship date.

Thanks
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