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1  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Avalon ASIC users thread on: October 27, 2015, 12:47:38 PM
Not sure where the best place to post this but I am interested in purchasing multiples of TP-Link TL-WR703N devices if you are done with them.
Contact me if you have any, thanks.
2  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: I have 3KW of power that could be used 24/7 but... on: February 28, 2015, 09:01:57 PM
Darn, didn't realize your link would show me his posts as well. Not interested in the negativity so won't be looking at that again. It is too bad the moderators don't get rid of people like that. Even if he created account after account, he would eventually get bored and go away.

PS: I updated my forum profile. Maybe some will see this and block him sooner than later. Don't know, don't much care.

Sadly, that person is not very bright. He keeps talking about making more money selling my power over using it. Yet, I've said several times that I am looking for something interesting and worthwhile to devote my resources to, especially if it is something which is anti-monopoly. You would think that would be a positive thing but I know in life there are always the weird doubting types.

I am happy in my life, I have what I need so when I can, I look for things I can get involved in which will make me feel that I am doing some good. Sure, I'd love to cover my costs, mainly because that is the smart thing to do, so that I can continue justifying what ever I get involved in.

Not everything in life is specifically about making money.

3  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: I have 3KW of power that could be used 24/7 but... on: February 28, 2015, 08:14:20 PM
I find it pretty odd when someone starts all tough like that in forums. I've met up with a couple of those types and they are usually little wienies when you get face to face with them. If they aren't, then even better, then I can practice San Soo on them which is always such a treat since I don't get to use it as often as I'd like to.

I have him ignored so cannot see anything he is posting now. This thread will also be my last on this site. I don't need the nonsense of childish flame wars.

The bottom line is that I have read blogs and articles and all the reading in the world never really comes close to simply posting some questions and seeing what people who are already involved have to say. Yes, I was fishing. No, I am not looking for instant riches and I have the option to sell my power to the utility or to use it on my own. Selling the system is not an option, using it is, same with the hardware.

As mentioned, I could go into lots and lots of details but basically, I am looking for something interesting to get involved in. Maybe
Seriouscoin has suffered a serious loss and is frustrated watching others wanting to get involved, I don't know. What is obvious is that this person and perhaps others seem to dislike seeing people wanting to take part and those are the exact people that most should avoid. Who cares if someone doesn't know the industry terminology. I've used more technologies than I care to remember but it took time to learn every one of them.

Anyhow, doesn't matter, I will watch this thread because I am curious to see how many actually agree with this person but hope that way many more don't, and want to talk positives instead of garbage.

4  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: I have 3KW of power that could be used 24/7 but... on: February 28, 2015, 07:39:17 PM
I'd love to spend time making you look like the imbecile you obviously are but you've already done this by yourself so I guess I will leave these forums if it is filled with kiddies like you. Hope you call someone some of these names the next time you're in public, sounds like you deserve a good ass kicking.

Take care and good luck with your ventures.
5  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: I have 3KW of power that could be used 24/7 but... on: February 28, 2015, 07:29:09 PM
Here is another idea: If you're selling back your solar power, its not FREE isnt it?

I think your lack of business will make you another failure in btc mining venture.


I'm afraid you aren't making any sense and are making a lot of assumptions. I could spend all day going back and forth on this with you but I have nothing to prove to you so I won't bother.

I've explained my position, if you want to make things up when you don't know a single thing about me, then enjoy.
6  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: I have 3KW of power that could be used 24/7 but... on: February 28, 2015, 07:27:14 PM
in the industry alot longer than you. Your 'LOL' makes you looks like a dumb ass.

Your reply shows who the actual one is though. Why bother communicating with me if you are going to act like this?
7  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: I have 3KW of power that could be used 24/7 but... on: February 28, 2015, 07:25:11 PM
@philipma1957;

Thanks for explaining that. I thought it was directed at me but I get your point.
It certainly feels like some are trying to discourage new people from getting into this but I guess I understand that if the market is dying. Like many things which were forged by the internet community only to be taken over by big business, the market shares get smaller and smaller.

However, I don't agree that people should be talking others out of doing something that is positive. Instead, people should be talking about ways of being able to get back on that horse, finding ways where big business can't always simply take over because they can buy K-Mart sized data centers and take the opportunities away.

Have people talked about combining resources? I don't know enough about this to speak but sometimes it takes people taking a step back to see the bigger picture.

What about distributed mining, where no one big company can take it over because it is spread out across hundreds, thousands of member systems? There are so many ways of clustering efforts these days, maybe there are ways of changing the course and pushing big business out?

I for one would love to see more community efforts which prevent big business from being able to take things over. I've seen it too many times now and it is sickening.
8  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: I have 3KW of power that could be used 24/7 but... on: February 28, 2015, 05:09:01 PM
If there was a Like button Sidehack, I would Like your post.

It all makes perfect sense now.

Thanks.
9  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: I have 3KW of power that could be used 24/7 but... on: February 28, 2015, 05:05:45 PM

  what math is it you don't like?  1000 usd up front breaks even in 8 months.
  at that point in time since your power is free it earns money.  were you looking to make your 1000 usd back in 1 month or 2 months?
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I'm sure you'll say you weren't being a little antagonistic with me but it sure looks that way to me.

I'm not insulting anyone, I'm not looking for problems or little forum wars, I am simply asking questions and thankfully, receiving some answers.

I said very early on in my post that I am not looking for a get rich quick scheme but like anyone, if I will invest in something, I would like to better understand it.
 
10  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: I have 3KW of power that could be used 24/7 but... on: February 28, 2015, 02:48:50 PM
I'm surprised at the KW/h costs. I haven't seen anything so low in a long time. Before we put the solar in, our costs went two to three times higher because the more power we used, the higher the cost was. The solar put us back into the low cost usage.

I had posted something similar a while back. I sometimes get the sense that the serious players simply want to discourage new people from taking part but at the same time, the math that everyone shares makes a lot of sense too.

It is interesting to me that I cannot get involved in something as interesting as bitcoin is considering the resources that I have at hand. One of the main reasons I am interested in because I hate monopolies and from what I have read, bitcoin could be a way to change things a little, perhaps until those monopolies better understand how to take over at least.

I have watched this happen countless times in technology, where there is an amateur interest which turns into something viable, then it becomes quite large in the internet community, then the monopolies find a way of getting involved and ultimately often taking over and ending opportunities for the masses.

I am not sure where bitcoin is headed. I get that sense of people discouraging others so they won't bother getting involved but I am also given much information which keeps saying don't bother.

Why have things changed so quickly that bitcoin is already looking like a downhill opportunity for most and what is the future opportunity if someone is interested in things which could actually change the world.

 
11  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: I have 3KW of power that could be used 24/7 but... on: February 28, 2015, 12:14:21 PM
So you're saying you got free power? some how i doubt it. Because those Solar panel can be sold if not used. or you can always sell the power back to electrical company.  BTC mining is all about cost of energy. If you pay 5c/KWh or more, forget it.

LOL, bit skeptical aren't you? Why would I bother making stuff up then ask for thoughts?

The power IS being sold back to the power company and the system is much larger than I need these days (over 10KW) so I have a surplus of power that I am interested in using. It was installed to offset the cost of a server room, as I already explained but that server room is slowly being phased out. That means I also have a pretty good sized surplus of computing hardware and am interested in finding a use for it.

Selling the solar system isn't an option, it cost too much as it was a custom install (had to build a costly custom canopy) so tearing it apart would also be foolish and it would end up being sold at a loss. Therefore, I have hardware and power looking for a good use.

So, now that we are back on track...

Um, who in the world pays 5c/KWh? I have not heard of such low prices in many years.
12  Other / Archival / Re: On Bitmit: TP-LINK TL-WR703N on: February 27, 2015, 07:23:38 PM
I am not sure what you are offering, in quantities? One thing I am interested in are the 703 TP-Link devices which I've been using for projects unrelated to bitcoin mining. I am looking for quantities of these, so long as they can be converted back to OpenWrt or other router.

PM me if you have something.

Thanks.
13  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: I have 3KW of power that could be used 24/7 but... on: February 27, 2015, 07:08:07 PM
I'm too late? Isn't coin mining something that is actively going on as a hobby and industry? From what I have read, it only costs a few grand to get into this and there seem to be LOTS of small players in this so am not sure why someone would be too late.

I can throw 5KW (and more) 24/7 into this if there is a value in it. I am generating my own power with a 10KW solar install that was being used to offset the cost of running the server room. That is why I have power to throw into something interesting.

What I am wanting to learn from this post is which type of mining is still worth doing, how can I start on a small scale, so I can learn more about it, adding resources as it makes sense. I have the power right now, I have a large amount of hardware left over from another venture but it seems CPUs aren't worth much so am looking for input on what might be worth trying/doing.

Thanks.

PS: This is an interesting article.
http://coinbrief.net/bitcoin-mining-worth-it/
14  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: I have 3KW of power that could be used 24/7 but... on: February 27, 2015, 06:42:05 PM
I have been doing some research, that is why I decided to post. Reading tons of stuff doesn't ever come close to what responses from real people who are doing similar things Smiley.

Thanks for the input, it is appreciated.
15  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / I have 3KW of power that could be used 24/7 but... on: February 27, 2015, 06:09:13 PM
I am not sure if this is in the correct forum but here goes.

I asked a few months back, a question about generating coins. I mentioned that I had many dozens of relatively idle CPUs which could be doing other work. Those servers are always on, 24/7 as backup to another network so for the most part, they are sitting idle.

I was told that CPU based coins are not worth the time/effort at this point so I wanted to ask a similar question based on another resource.

I have some 3KW of power which I can use 24/7, again, mainly, that power is being used for a redundant network but soon, it will not be being used for anything so available for something else.

This 3KW of power, I look at as a resource so my question is, what kind of hardware might be worth building or buying in order to general coins which might have some value. I am not expecting to get rich from this but I would like to take part in what appears to be an interesting movement.

Thanks for your thoughts and input on this. I will answer questions if you have any as I was not sure what all to include for info.
16  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: I have LOTS of idle servers, should I mine? on: November 15, 2014, 04:33:58 PM
Well, I appreciate everyone's input and I guess the answer is to find something else to do with the hardware so thanks for your input.

Good luck to all.

17  Bitcoin / Mining support / Nothing here on: November 13, 2014, 07:56:24 PM
Thanks for looking.
18  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Avalon ASIC users thread on: November 13, 2014, 05:39:28 PM
Can the Avalon Openwrt version running on TL-WR703N be converted back to standard Openwrt?
I have bricked 6 devices so far trying.

I picked up a bunch of Avalon TL-WR703N and each one keeps getting bricked as I try to recover them back to a standard openwrt firmware so I can then upgrade using my own image builder build.

https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=254109#p254109

I tried today, the u-boot method but am getting nowhere.

Picked up the files mentioned in this post;
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=48169

Gave it a try but ended up with an error;

3840 -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       3932160 Jan  1 10:05 factory.bin
    64 -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         65536 Jan  1 10:06 uboot_for_tp-link_tl-wr703n.bin
     4 -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            66 Jan  1 10:06 uboot_for_tp-link_tl-wr703n.md5

# md5sum uboot_for_tp-link_tl-wr703n.bin
5799189400ee774c45bd0bfb79ef9ffd  uboot_for_tp-link_tl-wr703n.bin

# dd if=/dev/mtd0 of=uboot_orig.bin
256+0 records in
256+0 records out

# cp uboot_orig.bin uboot_new.bin

# dd if=uboot_for_tp-link_tl-wr703n.bin of=uboot_new.bin conv=notrunc
128+0 records in
128+0 records out

# mtd write uboot_orig.bin "u-boot"
Could not open mtd device: u-boot
Can't open device for writing!
19  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: Convert TL-WR703N back to standard openwrt? on: November 13, 2014, 04:23:13 PM
Gone
20  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: Convert TL-WR703N back to standard openwrt? on: November 13, 2014, 12:11:12 AM
How about this... does anyone know the steps needed to convert the device to a u-boot version so that I can then restore a standard openwrt image back on these devices.
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