I was pretty much unlucky with the Avalon 841's, I never liked them, they were never stable and kept failing all the time, but to be fair, I have to make clear that I bought those gears used, so it's very likely the previous owner/s have abused them pretty much, however, I bought hundreds of Antminer S9s which were also used (probably for the same duration) and they performed better.

Well if you divide 5000/5 you get 1000, but that's not the case, without digging too deep into my status I am pretty sure that in some years I might have gotten 2000 merit, and in other years no more than 500, there are many factors related to how fast you can earn merit, there are certain sections where you are more likely to gain merit than others, however, chasing merit is a terrible thing to do, I post in the sections where I think my knowledge is most valuable and I think everyone should do the same, I never stopped posting in the mining section despite the fact that the only merit source there has left the forum (I am now the only merit source for that section). I know if I had posted the same number of posts elsewhere I would probably get more merit, but honestly, I don't really care because mining-related subjects are my favorite.

Also, don't get disappointed for not receiving merit for posts you made good efforts for, those posts can earn merit a few months or years after posting them, many members give up and think they will never get merit just because nobody merited their posts 2 hours after they have posted it -- it doesn't work like that, your valuable contribution will eventually earn you merit in the long term, which is why I said in the OP that you need to be consistent and patient.

Ok but there is a huge difference between consumption and actual supply, of course in places where it's cold most of the time and the main source for heating is gas, the need for power is pretty limited which is pretty much the case for the majority of Russia,  but that doesn't mean the high-voltage grid is limited to that, there could be a power station able to deliver 5000MW but only 1000MW of that is used, the available 4000MW can be somehow easily deployed for mining operations.

The thing about mining is that it cares less about the location, usually, the issue with electricity is transmission rather than generation, to transfer that 4000MW to the nearest city it's going to be a very expensive job, but it's easier to bring your mining containers next to the source of power in the middle of nowhere.

Now this begs the question, is Russia limited to power generation or just transmission?

It's him indeed, I contacted him on telegram after Bitcoin_Arena mentioned the ban in the mining section, I know for sure I am talking to the right Scott, the chat history of nearly 6 years old is still there, so there is no way I spoke to the wrong person, and I know Scott (the one I talked to on telegram) is the one who posted this topic and the one who ones the offordscott account, so all good.

Supply of electricity is the most challenging part for large mining operations, the rest of the infrastructure is only a matter of money, say you have a 10MW transformer plugged into the grid ready to deliver power, you can just buy a few plug-and-play containers and get those 10MW up and running in no time, in fact, even the transformer itself can be deployed pretty easily, it gets harder if you need to bring in those overhead power lines of 400KV or 200KV  to the location.

Is it 3.5 cents per kilowatt hour or is it 9.3 cents? I am not sure what all-in energy cost means, if the tax is going to increase the cost from 0.6 cents to 3.5 cents where does the remaining 5.8 cents come from?

Anyway, 3.5 cents is way below average = great for mining, 9.3 cents is above average and terrible for mining.

السلام عليكم.

هل يوجد احد من الاخوة الاعضاء (او احد اصدقائكم) يكون لديه خبرة جيدة في البرمجة باستخدام لغة فيجويل بيسك ويكون متفرغ للعمل على مشروع (تقريبا 3 اشهر)؟ لاي شخص مهتم الرجاء مراسلتي عبر الخاص برسالة قصيرة تلخص فها خبرتك واعمالك, وسوف اقوم باتواصل معك, يمكن ايضا الكتابة هنا.

في حال التفاهم ستكون طريقة الدفع بتكوين فقط.

شكرا

Actually, I have direct contact with MicroBt officials, But I still have access to all miner models including Antminer, it's just the MOQ for those is usually on the high end which is why I don't advertise those.

OP, if you are interested in Whatsminers (M30, M50) I can sell you the gears with DDP shipping to Florida -- meaning you get the miner at your address and don't have to handle any tax or papers, probably cheaper than buying them anywhere else.

If you want other models and your MOQ is 10 or above, I can also arrange for that.


Avalons used to be great gears, the new models not so, there is a good reason they sell cheaper than Antminer and Whatsminer, while I don't have any personal with the latest Avalons, the reviews on telegram are pretty terrible, I hope Avalon get their shit back together and go back to making tanks like they used to do.

I have known Scott for years and I can without a doubt vouch for him, he might be unaware of the forum rules but I know for sure he wouldn't post links to malware or anything else that would get him banned, I suppose many other forum members who are active in the mining section would also vouch for him. I hope he gets his account back

You are right, I just checked and he is indeed banned on the forum, I contact him on telegram to see if he has any idea about this, I have a feeling he was not aware about the ban at all, but let's see if he wants to come back, we can help him with the ban-appeal process, I don't want to jump to any speculation but I think his appeal will have a high chance of acceptance.

How did you know he was banned? He never mentioned anything to me so I am not aware, is it possible that he copied something from his own website and was a victim to one of the "bots" that screen the forum for plagiarism? I also doubt he would copy-paste something for the sake of posting, I'll see whats up with him and if he wants to come back and is willing to go through the process of appealing.

It is not a waste of shares, shares are still created either ways, low diff shares can solve blocks for those coins but not for BTC, it is not like you know beforehand the share is going to have x diff, you are going to create it and only then know for sure.

You can read more here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5432383.msg61520701#msg61520701

@Notfuzzywarm, most large pools support merged mining, the rewards are too small to be considered, in the above link I posted my earnings on Viabtc pool.

This is all that matters in my point of view, hashrate geographical centralization is the worst type of centralization we can have, most people complain about pools centralization which is pretty much harmless to a certain degree, but having all the hashrate in the same territory, subject to same laws of the same government is pretty risky, so any hashrate rising anywhere except for the U.S as of now is good, be it Russia, Japan, Pakistan or some aliens on the moon, we shouldn't care less.

Price update today 16-4-2023

M50 29w      112th 15.5$/th
M50 28w      120th 16.3$/th
M50S 28w    128th 21.5$/th
M30s++       104th 13.4$/th (MOQ is 15 PCS for this model)

You are more likely to be correct than wrong, in fact, as it stands right now, I doubt home miners make have any significant share of the total hashrate, I'd give them 5% if I were to be very generous, the harder things become, the lower that percentage will be regardless of the overall hashrate drop, larger cooperate miners have many advantages over the small miner.

The above changes only when a serious ban on large U.S cooperates miners happen, sometime that would wipe out nearly 50% of the total hashrate, home miners all over the world will find it easier to make a profit, however, I don't see such thing happening in the near future.

I was about to report the topic to the mods to get it deleted so I can post the same thing in the "dedicated topic", I assumed there was some sort of general consensus that such topics shouldn't exist at all, thank you both for clearing the confusion.

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Thanks, everybody for the nice words, appreciation is important, and I appreciate all the efforts made by the fine community member to keep this place shining with knowledge and productive discussion.   

You can almost achieve that by using the correct firmware and settings on an old S9, so this is pretty doable on S11 and the above models, but anyway, nobody should expect ASIC miner manufacturers to do what's best for them, they will do what's best for themselves, and frankly speaking, I don't see how making a dozen small miners helps with mining decentralization, let's run some random numbers.

Let's say they make a small S19 pro version that does 30th and 1000w, it will need to be more expensive in terms of $/th in the first place but let's ingore that, now let's assume 1 million home miner buys that.

30th*1,000,000 = 30EH, that's not even 10% of the total hashrate, and honestly thinking that 1 million of them will be sold is daydreaming, so there is almost nothing to gain and so much to lose.

I also bet he can't run faster than Usain Bolt but that doesn't help Coinplay in any shape or form, I don't understand anything about gambling but I read the whole thread, and both agreed to use a 3rd party "judge" and that 3rd party thought Coinplay is full of shit which automatically makes OP "innocent" in this exact incident, he could be a scammer, a serial killer or anything else, he could have abused or exploited something in Coinplay but that doesn't matter, they failed to provide the evidence to support their decision, they could not defend themselves not sure why are you doing that on their behalf.
 

This means it's unlikely to be EEPROM error, so it seems like you got a bad PSU or a control board, but before confirming that, you should try to flash custom firmware like this one just to confirm this isn't a compatibility issue, keep in mind that you might need to use an sd card to install the firmware if you are using the latest versions that lock the miner, post your result after testing.

I can escrow the transaction, I have an account on Bitmain ready to receive the coupons, I am an established member in this forum, and I am an admin in the bitmain coupon group on telegram https://t.me/bitmaincoupons

I will need to read the terms of the deal, and the following must be provided.

- The BTC address of the seller and the agreed amount
- The Bitmain account email address for the receiving party

The process goes this way

1- Escrow fees sent to my address.
2- The seller sends the coupons to me, ones received, I will inform the buyer to send the funds to the seller.
2- When funds arrive (by checking on-chain data) I will transfer the coupons to the buyers account.

I bought and sold thousands of Bitmain coupons in the past, things can go wrong, and it's a sort of a hassle escrowing that, so fees will be set based on the transacted amount.

If you agree with my terms, reach out via a PM.