All 3 @ .015
-Dave

BTC.015
How many do you have?

Full disclosure I don't like this device:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3040601.msg31435953#msg31435953

However, I do want to get one to take it apart to see what is involved in what I am sure is a future business of replacing touchscreens.
If you have never spilled something on a piece of electronics, dropped your phone, fell and broke something in your pocket, had you cat swat something off your desk, or anything similar like most people this product is for you.
For the rest of us. KISS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

I would also like one to keep as a collectable. But I really want to take one apart 1st. I figure that we will be seeing broken screens before summer.

-Dave

What do most of you do with old / dead coins and their blockchains that you have downloaded? Save the wallet.dat on a USB drive, keep the entire blockchain too just in case, or just delete it and move on?

I have a 2TB drive full of what are now and I can only assume are going to be in the future dead coin blockchanins. But, that voice in the back of my head says "you never know" you might have someone revive that coin and those 500,000 bongodrum coins might be worth BTC0.00000001 each one day.

I'm doing some cleanup of my storage PC and just can't make myself hit the delete button.
I am thinking of getting an 2TB external USB and putting it on a shelf but that means spending money for a drive, which seems silly.

What does everyone else do? Am I just a hoarder?

-Dave

In your signature replace the + with %2B
This may or may not work. It did for me and a few other people, it has not worked for some.
Can't hurt to try.
-Dave

It's funny, I was thinking the exact opposite. In m mind it's another think to go wrong that I can't fix. Touch screens are nice, but adding complexity to something that is not user serviceable that can control money is bad IMO.
-Dave

Can you put it in a warmer environment and let it warm up for an hour or two before turning it on?
Might be a bit too cold. From the bitmain website:

Operating Temperature: 0C to 40C.

Power supplies also don't like it that cold.
Also, at that temperature condensation can be an issue.

-Dave

And this is what happens when I am online before my 1st cup of coffee.
Someone told me about this fork, I looked at your site more then once and didn't see it.


Thanks,
Dave

Since I have a few Cryptolators, what issue? As far as I knew he just shut down, was there a key leak?
I just searched his postings and did not see any warnings.

Or do you mean that Cryptolator funded it before shipping?

Thanks,
Dave

Do you have any public github so we can follow what is going on?

This sounds interesting, BUT without seeing it, it's tough to know where you are in the project.
There have been a lot of forks, and some of them are good some are bad. But without the github after close to a month since the announcement it's kind of difficult to get behind it. As of now, I don't know if you having slow progress, no progress or are about to release it 12 seconds after I submit this post making me look like an idiot :-)

-Dave

fanatic26 is correct in most of the time the reboots are power related.
BUT I would say it's only 95% of the time.
SD cards go bad a lot too. I have several pieces of equipment run by RPi, not just miners. 1st thing to check is the power. 2nd thing to do is burn a new SD card.
That is if it's a "name" brand SD card, the cheap no name ones are truly bad.

But one random reboot here and there is not a big deal.

-Dave

Selling 235 SEM @ 22k SAT (BTC0.00022) total BTC0.0517
PM me or if you want we can do it in public here.


Sold

Thanks,
Dave

As the saying goes "There is a butt for every seat"

1) For the "pure profit motive" I can flip them on eBay
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=antminer%20v9&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684

2) As I said instead of carrying around an S9 (know fragile units) with 2 power supplies to demo to people who are interested I can take what I assume is an S7 with 1 power supply. If they want it (and yes they know they will loose money @ $500) it's not as big as an outlay.
2a) If they make $200 and decide to get out they can probably sell it for $200 quickly and not loose a real amount.

3) Sidehack with his USB sticks and pods and jstefanop with his moonlanders are selling a ton of stuff (every one they make) to lot of people, all knowing unless a miracle happens they are going to loose money on their purchase.

4) I do dabble in alt coins (as do a lot of people) if you want to mine something and not take an S9 or similar off line to play, then this makes it cost less if your try for the next big thing does not pan out.

5) Some people like different things. Dig at someone who I know is watching this thread (Hi Barry). Would you believe that some people buy $75,000 Alfa Romeos? It's the worst rated car by every reviewer. One magazine actually listed an achievement of one of their review cars as "Being the 1st Alfa in our test fleet not to have the check engine lite come on during the test"

6) Actually going back to the point before, you can run these easily on 1 x 1300 watt off the shelf power supply on 110V circuit. 

-Dave

I actually broke down and ordered a 5 pack.
With the knowledge that these units are never going to make a profit I figure they are good to demo to people who want to learn about mining.
It will let them know that this is the noise level you have to deal with if you want it in your home. This is the cost to run it etc.

Also, they will run off a single 1300w power supply on 110V so I can tote it around.

Might not be the best deal, but at that price to show them around and possibly sell one or two for to people who know the score might not be the worst.
Lets face it with shipping, import duties my cost is probably going to be a bit above $450. To show it to someone and let them have it for $475 to $500 with them knowing that it's never going to turn a profit is fine by me if they want to play around with it.

I really miss the S3 :-)

-Dave

Bringing back my comment from the other day. How much memory is this supposed to use?

I keep all my wallets on separate VPS instances. This one just crashed due to the memory use of the javaw.exe process.
There is nothing else on here. Clean install of Win 7 64bit, Java and the semux wallet.
Broke 2GB of memory use on javaw and boom.
After a reboot it's @ 226MB (have seen it as high as 235MB 255MB over the last few minutes)
I am going to spin up another instance and move my coins. As of now I don't know if its the wallet, my java install or something else, but I want to see how everyone else is doing.

Thanks,
Dave

I have the original in the original case.
I do not have the SD cards.
*Without the card it's really nothing but an RPi Model B1 in a clear case. There were no markings at all to let you know what it was other then a RPi*
It came with nothing no HDMI cable not even a 5v USB power nothing.
See images:













-Dave

I ordered a 5 pack. No shipping info or anything like that yet. I was going to sell them locally for cash but, if you want one when they come in let me know and we might be able to make a deal.

Fully open here. The price to you will be:
Cost of unit ($365[yes I bought at the high point]) + cost of shipping to me ($62.50) + customs cost (?? as of now) + cost of shipping to you (?? as of now) +very small profit.
So probably when all is said and done about $500.

If you want escrow that cost will be on you too.
Let me know and I'll PM you when I get the ship info from Bitmain. (Probably about 2 weeks)

-Dave

OK, I am missing something here.
It was working, sometime between when I posted yesterday morning and now it dropped back down to 18 / 19 Mkey a second.
System has not rebooted, it's running cool. (as cool as it can with that card) and it's not online so I know nothing updated.

Reboot and it's still under 20.
I have a GTX 1080 that is mining Zen at the moment and can still pull off over 60 Mkey at the same time.

Other then a complete wipe and re-install I am out of ideas.

Thanks,
Dave

Finally got into the other forum.
Requesting to join (and jumped the gun on changing the avatar & sig)

Bitcointalk username & UID: DaveF / 300014
Link to BitCloud Forum Profile: https://bitsend.info/forums/index.php?action=profile;area=summary;u=2756
Current number of Posts: 533 (Including this one)
BitCloud Address for payments: BSQNx5ARQf13C3LRyZwqodDt9WYBNeqCCJ
Signature/Avatar/Both: Both

Thanks,
Dave

Cool.
Have to get to desktop to register @ other forum. But once I do that I'll swap out the sig & avatar here.
Should be done by tomorrow evening / Tues AM.
Might want to mention to the people running the other forum that the site is useless on an android tablet.....
-Dave

Just to verify before I put my name in to join, do posts in the marketplace section count?
If yes think of all the time you will save paying bounties. Just split it between you an MJ and ship me stuff :-)

Thanks,
Dave