You need tokens and to pay for the electricity plus maintenance. The tokens will cover the cost of "renting" space, but they do not cover the cost of electricity or the maintenance fee. That combined charge be paid for with your miner's earnings.

If memory serves me (i'm getting old, so who knows!) the PSUs were not what was burning, but rather it was crappy connectors/connections on the wires. Forcing a lot of current through a bad connection is a recipe for fire due to the heat generated.

Maybe you could also include the translated text as a separate menu option?

That really sounds like a power issue to me. Check your PSU(s) and all the cables. Make sure that there are no loose connections.

If you want to get started with Bitcoin mining, you will need an ASIC based miner. As others have said, CPU/GPU mining of Bitcoin will teach you nothing, except perhaps how to manage frustration, and most pools (at least the good ones I know) will not allow you to mine (they will block you).

Take a look around for GekkoScience Compac or GekkoScience 2pac. They are relatively inexpensive USB based miners that use a Bitmain BM1384 chip. They will not earn you huge amounts of money, but you will learn a little bit about ASIC mining. It's how I got started in ASIC mining.

Compac support thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1173963.0
2pac support thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1764803.0

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_6_12?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=gekkoscience+bitcoin+miner&sprefix=gekkoscience%2Caps%2C159&crid=ICRMIMUN5V8Z

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_13?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=gekkoscience+2pac&sprefix=gekkoscience+%2Caps%2C332&crid=1WZR4LV49328O&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Agekkoscience+2pac

If you can wait for a little while, sidehack (the designer of the Compac and 2pac) is working on another BM1384 based miner. sidehack also has other small ASIC miner projects in the works, but nothing is ready yet. For more info check out this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1845307.0

Take the time to read the thread so you are not asking questions that have already been asked and answered.

Good luck, and welcome to the insanity. 

To be honest, I think gekkorun.de has been borked* for a lot longer than that. Besides, with BTC at current levels (9706 USD/BTC), even the dust mined by the Compac has value.

* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/borked

edited to change capitalization.

Try visiting their support website and open a feature request for these things you'd like to see them do?

https://giga-watt.zendesk.com

Doing that might get a little more traction than ranting on a forum that the Giga-Watt team doesn't read on a regular basis (based on their lack of posts here). It's also their official support website so it should be visible to them.

So troll, why are you even here? Boredom? Please.

Go earn your 200% 300% profit. We won't miss you. I promise. Believe me!

ASIC is short for Application Specific Integrated Circuit

Just because a miner uses an ASIC doesn't mean it can mine any algorithm. Each ASIC is designed to do one thing very well, and nothing else.

The Compac only mines with SHA256 because the ASIC is built for SHA256. There are a number of cryptocurrencies that use SHA256, but Bitcoin is the most well known and most prevalent.

The ASIC used to make the D3 is designed for X11 and nothing else. X11 comprises eleven different algorithms, but unless the ASIC designer specifically made provisions to allow the use of one (or more) of the algorithms separately, you are stuck mining X11 coins. And even if the ASIC could work with just one algorithm (rather than all 11), I would not be surprised if it was incredibly inefficient on a power per hash basis.

Start here and scroll down: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1487782.0

The fourth picture looks like it may fit your request.  

edited to fix spelling

nah, nothing fishy, they just figured out how to use the search feature of the forum.

My investment thesis with GigaWatt and WTT is that it provides access to electricity that is far less expensive than where I am physically located and for a long time. My investment in GigaWatt and WTT is long term, and I am not looking for an almost immediate 100% ROI. Yeah, I know, that's really strange in the cryptocurrency world where it seems that everyone expects to achieve a 100% ROI on every investment in three months or less.

If and/or when that changes I will re-evaluate.

My investment in WTT tokens is currently at +58% https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/giga-watt-token/ and my return from token rental is 8.15% which annualizes to 38.63%. In the grand scheme of things, this is just fine by me.


Oh please. Don't even start with that crap. This is not the forum for US government bashing. Go grind that axe somewhere else.

I am a small-time miner. I have a couple of SHA256 miners, and they mine the more profitable of the two. That said, I convert the mining proceeds to BTC automagically. Scam or not, I'll ride the Bitcoin Cash horse until it is not profitable, and when I am done I will say thank you.

If someone is going to play in the cryptocurrency space, they owe it to themselves to be as informed as they can get about their investment. Like any other hyped market, there are people who rush in, only to find out later that they were deceived. Life sucks like that, but you can reduce your risk by not betting the farm, or next month's rent payment, on a high-risk endeavor. Live and learn, and if you want to tell the world, that's great. Just be prepared to back up the statements with proof the rest of us spuds can trust.

I think that there is space for both coins. Which one will have staying power? I don't know for sure, so in the meantime I'm hedging my bets and mining both. Profitability is king.

Spot on NFW. I have no complaints at all from my experience with sidehack's handiwork. The Compac is hashing/blinking away immediately to the left of my monitor, and the s7LN sidehack "adjusted" to make less noise is providing (less) heat a bit further to the left.

When sizing a power supply that is going to be running 24/7, you would be well served to use a power supply that is only supplying 80% of it's rated capacity. The only exception to that rule might be when you are using datacenter grade power supplies (think HP, Dell, IBM, Delta, etc.), and even then I'd be wary running those at more than 90% of rated capacity. If you are using consumer grade power supplies (think Corsair, EVGA, Rosewill, etc.) 80% is a good target level.

Also, the percent efficiency stated by power supply manufacturers is how good their unit is converting the input power to output power. If you have a 90% efficient power supply that means that if 100 Watts comes into the PSU, then ~90 Watts comes out. The conversion efficiency of any given power supply may vary with input voltage. Consult the data sheet for your power supply for more information.

Running any power supply at 100% or more of it's rated power is asking for trouble. And trouble in this case could be damaged equipment or in the worst case, fires from overworked/overloaded PSUs, connectors, and cables.

Please post pictures if you can. 

Why thank you. And let me thank you for caring. 

Not if you have thought through your whole network config. This means on the router you use to create your home network, and on the machine(s) you are creating to add to the node pool(s). Lock down each machine as much as possible, both inbound and outbound, using the built-in firewall tools and use your router to ONLY redirect certain ports to the machine that needs to receive traffic on those ports. You can further lock down the machine(s) by disabling root login, using public/private key pairs for non-root users logging in, locking user passwords on all usernames that don't actually login, unsetting the shells for users that don't actually login (do not need shell access), and making sure to restrict what root-level access is granted to non-root users with sudo.

If you keep your wallets on the same machine you use to mine, well, that's probably a bad idea. Keep just enough coin on the machine that is a network node to meet the requirements. Store all your other coin(s) in wallet(s) on another machine.

Start with a simple rig. Take out all but one card and make sure the rig boots and starts mining. Usually the card in the slot closest to the CPU is the "primary" video card, so make sure that's the one you start with.

There is probably a simple answer, that will probably seem obvious when you find it, but you will have to figure it out, and it will take time.

To give trolls like you someone to put down so you can feel better about yourself. Really, I'm truly surprised that you didn't know that. I mean it must be really hard living with yourself being so perfect and all, never making a mistake, never being scammed, never having to trust anyone. Sure is gonna suck for you when you move out of mommy's and daddy's basement and have to survive on your own, having to trust people you don't know. It's gotta be tough for a snowflake like you to get over never being quite sure if the tart taste in the tea you just ordered is actually lemon. 

In the business world, people trying to do new things are taking risks, and risk means that there is a chance of failure. But what it means even more is that if successful, it can be wildly successful and wildly profitable. Investors know this.

In that business world financing comes from multiple places. When the entrepreneur uses up all of their money they go to the three "F"s: Family, Friends, and Fools. Every investor in those three categories knows full well that their investment may disappear tomorrow, just like these crypto currencies we all so love. What they also do is go into these investments knowing what they are doing. If they have done their research and due diligence. They also do not risk their entire life savings. NEVER invest more than you can afford to lose on any investment. If you are betting the money you need to pay the bills this month on a high risk investment, or any investment for that matter, that's a problem, but not for me. That's your problem, and unless it directly affects me, well, I just can't be bothered.

I've invested what I can reasonably afford to lose in Giga-Watt. If it all goes to zero, well, that'll suck for me, but it won't be the end of the day for me, either. So far there have been delays, yes, but given the nature of the enterprise that Giga-Watt is setting up, they are not completely unexpected. I am earning a return now by renting my WTT tokens, and to date I have earned 5.26% on my investment (comprised of tokens and one miner that is yet to be installed). That would be 6.31%, but the price BTC has dropped significantly, which impacts the value of my earnings directly as token rental is paid in the coin the miner "using" the token mines. Token rental to BTC miners makes up the lion's share of my rental income. I am receiving hourly payouts in BTC, ETH, LTC, and DASH. There is the possibility to receive ZEC, but to date I have not been paid any ZEC.