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Last update in January.
I suspect that even THEY are about ready to give up the ghost on their scam.
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Start up a "Bitcoin Mining Museum" with it.
9-)
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Does anyone happen to have one of the new Titan Xp cards with the newest drivers? I read the new driver update massively increased performance in professional applications "Our latest driver — available today — delivers 3x more performance in applications like Maya to help you create and design faster than ever.".
I'm wondering if mining performance was increased also?
Helped with FP-related stuff, crypto is INTEGER. |
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I've NEVER needed more than 5 days to plot a Seagate Archive 8TB - and that's on my GAMING machine that I don't have available TO plot on a "all the time" basis, and running XPlotter on the CPU.
If it's taking you 15 days, you're doing something wrong.
1) Open the wallet, press "Plot", press plot with CPU. What can be wrong? 2) Good to hear that, but you are the only one, i think. 8Tb Seagate Archive drives can be plotted much faster with GPU and buffered plotting. But with CPU (or GPU direct) I've tested on several PC - the plotting speed is only about 5-6Mb/s. Any other drive is much faster. I've never gotten that AIO wallet to WORK. I've also never gotten GPU plotting to work at all. XPlotter, on the other hand, works well once I figured it out - not quite as fast as WPlotter BUT WPlotter doesn't plot optimised files. Are you perhaps plotting to a USB-connected drive? For direct plotting, that IS a ton slower - which is not the fault of the DRIVE. |
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As a member in the class of the FIRST Class Action Lawsuit against Paypal (there's a second one in discovery phase right now, over the SAME issues), I refuse to allow any of my money anywhere NEAR Paypal.
They are a serious rip off, and their BROKEN business model FORCES them to be a ripoff to make any money.
There's a REASON eBay spun them BACK off again at a loss after they bought out Paypal and had a chance to see the internals of the company.
Paypal has also been hit quite a few times over violations of various state laws regarding "wire transfer agents".
Difficulty of Litecoin HAS spiked - based on the DELIVERY of L3+ units, not on when they were sold.
A4 sales seems to be also contributing some, but I don't think Innosilicon has managed to sell as many of those.
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@Akarabzie -- 50-60MHs will be astounding.... but for what price?
the 52 or 56 core version will be 499$ us (mid-entry) the 64 core is 599$ (top end) from what i have red. 56 core $399, 64 core $499 and up depending on cooling solution - for the reference edition cards. The aftermarket folks will no doubt come up with their own solutions, and their own price points. The "70-100 Mhash on ETH" number seems to be originating from ONE source (the original is a user on UKOC IIRC) that's been widely requoted, but even THAT source says it's a rumor from one person and has NO confirmation. It seems unlikely that a driver change could DOUBLE the hashrate of the Vega, but stranger things have happened. |
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Someone knows a 'regular' PSU with all requirements (power and connections)?
Corsair maybe?
The unit draws 1200w I believe. It requires something like 6 or 9 6 pin connectors. Any modular PSU 1300 watt or preferably more would do. Corsaire is one of the best, and most expensive. Right now, PSU prices are inflated so you'll be paying a lot. Any decent platinum will do, the one Bitmain sells is generic and most people use those. Edit, 1200w wall draw at a platinum efficiency of 93%. If you use gold, bronze or worse you'll need a 1400w-1500w. EVGA is good, Enermax and Lepa are popular in Germany. If you're in the Us you'll find one easy, if not just order one from Bitmain. you won't find a decently priced one in the EU. EVGA G2 1300 does NOT have enough connectors stock - you'd have to dig up 1 or 2 additional "2 on one" cables for it, and it would be VERY MARGINAL on having enough power capacity.. The G2 1600 should work fine. |
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Not Genoil's project, though he seems to have forked HIS miner from ethminer WAY BACK WHEN. I don't think that project is supported any more. |
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You don't HAVE to plot all the drives on the same machine - you can plot on ANY machine as long as you don't duplicate nonce numbers.
I know that I can use any machine to plott but I have only one fast computer at home and this is my gaming machine  Tried it also with my notebook but 6 days for a PMR Drive is to much compared with 2 days on my PC. So you plot one on the notebook WHILE you are plotting 2 or 3 on the "gaming" PC. 8-P |
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Well, if you look on Bitmain site, NONE of their miners are available for purchase. Same with Innosilicon. Looks highly unprofessional to me. Fishy as well.
It's called "lack of available foundry capacity for small manufacturers" so they can't get enough chips to make as many miners as they would like to make. It's PART of the same reason why certain models of AMD and to a lesser degree NVidia GPUs have been in VERY SHORT SUPPLY for the last 3-4 months. Are you going to now claim that AMD and NVidia are "fishy"? This is NOT new news, this is an issue that has been ongoing for pretty much EVERYONE that makes gear on the 14/16nm node, except for the very few (Intel, Samsung, and some or all of the other RAM manufacturers) that happen to OWN their own foundries. This is also an issue that seems to be spreading - RAM pricing has started climbing of late, probably also due to a shortage of capacity at THOSE foundries and demand caused by the GPU shortage (and the amount of RAM needed to populate motherboards on mining rigs to a MUCH lesser degree) coupled with an "incident" at one of the RAM manufacturing foundries that caused a short-term loss of production.... |
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Total waste of money to buy the faster stuff JUST BECAUSE IT PLOTS FASTER. Total waste of money to spend day by day with plotting HDDs instead of mining and earn money with faster stuff! A few days of lost income at a COST difference that greatly exceeds the lost income is NOT worth it. Exception for if you get lucky on buying an external 8TB that turns out to NOT have an Archive - then it's no difference in the cost. I'm not stating that the Archive drives are ALWAYS the low cost option - sometimes something else in on sale for less - I'm just stating that AVOIDING them because they take longer to plot makes ZERO sense if the alternatives are more than a couple bucks higher in cost. Ok maybe I should think smaller...i have started burst mining with 7x 8TB HDDs and my workstation was busy with plotting them for more than 16 days/24h (one time I had a blue screen after 36h  ) Plotting the same TBs on SMR HDDs with my setup could be easy took more than 42 days! Thats to much time for me and my workstation CPU under 100% fire. You don't HAVE to plot all the drives on the same machine - you can plot on ANY machine as long as you don't duplicate nonce numbers. |
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Ok maybe I should think smaller...i have started burst mining with 7x 8TB HDDs and my workstation was busy with plotting them for more than 16 days/24h (one time I had a blue screen after 36h ) Plotting the same TBs on SMR HDDs with my setup could be easy took more than 42 days! Thats to much time for me and my workstation CPU under 100% fire. CPU Plotting 1 SMR drive takes about 15days. So 7 drives can be plotted simultaneously 1 per thread on 1 PC. So it will take 15days for just plotting as it is. With some effort (and availability of faster drives) you can plot them faster. I've NEVER needed more than 5 days to plot a Seagate Archive 8TB - and that's on my GAMING machine that I don't have available TO plot on a "all the time" basis, and running XPlotter on the CPU. If it's taking you 15 days, you're doing something wrong. |
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It would take a very HIGH humidity level to make rust an issue - and that would strictly be on the frame/case of the miner and even THEN it takes a long time and a VERY high humidity level to see rust in less than years.
For perspective - most places COMMONLY see 80%+ humidity many days a month, and sometimes 90-100 just before it rains.
I saw more "high humidity" days in many MONTHS when I was in Iowa than I've seen in a year in Central Washington - despite last winter being a "high snowfall" winter for the area.
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I am keen on used 1070s at below AMD pricing  The flood isn't due PROBABLY 'till ETH goes more POS than not - unless ETH has a major price collapse (down into DOUBLE digit range) before that point. I also don't see 1070 cards going for LESS than RX cards (except RX Vega) - it's the RX 470/480/570/580 that the "flood" is going to hammer the hardest as they are the most used in ETH. |
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Buying hashrate from Nicehash is the most likely reason
Worker name "NH" and highly variable hashrate. We have a winner! |
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From the pictures, I can't tell if this enclosure has support for more than one power supply. It probably wouldn't be too difficult to mod, but when they're designing this specifically for mining, it seems a bit odd.
For that price though, I'll stick with my cheap file crate "cases". This might be aimed more towards large-scale miners, although without modifications, this one might not achieve the extreme number of cards per rig that some are looking for. (This one looks like it'll allow for 9 dual-slot cards. 6 cards on risers towards the front, up to 3 in the back, directly on the motherboard. Selecting an appropriate board to fully utilize the expansion slots in the back could make things a bit more difficult.)
Now I'm wondering if one could fit 12 cards up front, with each card secured with one screw in a pre-existing hole, and another made by drilling. Of course, then we get back to the issue of adding another PSU to power all the cards, not to mention cooling all of them.
Let us know what you think once yours arrives!
It doesn't support dual power supplies as supplied. It's also badly named - a GPU rig is NOT a viable option for "Bitcoin" mining, though I suppose they used "Bitcoin" because folks recognize the name. I don't think you want to try to mount more than the designed 7 cards in it, you need space for COOLING of the cards. Up side - the middle fan mounts have lots of space for HIGH FLOW fans. They DO need to open up the front more though, those small holes ARE going to restrict airflow. |
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Try in the Altcoin Mining section, I'm 99% sure those are Scrypt mining boards.
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Wondering if BCC/BCH mining could produce more blocks and be more profitable than BTC mining.
Anyone doing or looked into?
Haven't looked into it because I don't support the coin. With appx 5% of the BTC hashrate moving to BCC, I think we may be looking at a diff decrease here on the ol BTC chain though  Not so far, though the Bitcoin hashrate has been flat for the last couple days. I suspect that to be more about Bitmain having finished shipping of their July S9 batch early enough in the month that they're all online now. The figures I've seen so far for Bitcoin Cash network hashrate puts it at less than ONE HALF of a percent of the network hashrate for Bitcoin - but the DIFFICULTY is still high due to the "gradual drop" thing the Bitcoin Cash folks implimented. |
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Does anybody have any rough figures what they guesstimate the ROI time will be for the first few batches of these machines?
How wild are the stated figures of 6-7k a month after a few batches etc?
The first batch will have good ROI for about a month then ill will drop pretty fast. Keep in ming Innosilicon is also releasing an even faster Dash miner with 38 GH.. those come online Oct 10-15. Also keep in mind that iBeLink sold a batch of their 10GH+ units a couple months back that are supposed to be shipping NOW. |
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Nicehash is a bit confusing and really the earning predictions don't make sense, for example just checked the earning potential now for 1 machine (L3+) and get the following results:
1 Day = 0.01098427 BTC = £22.56
1 Week = 0.09807394 BTC = £201.46
1 Month = 0.60026800 BTC = £1233.05
How does that make sense? assuming the 1 Day earnings are correct then calculations should be:
1 Day = 0.01098427 BTC = £22.56
1 Week = 0.07688989 BTC = £157.92
1 Month = 0.333189523 BTC = £684.32
(BTC value: 1 BTC = £2054.16)
Can anyone actually confirm earnings through Nicehash?
Profitability has DROPPED quite a bit over the last month due to new hashrate comming online, and the shifts in pricing between the various Scrypt coins and BTC and the price of BTC itself. My A2 farm was pulling in something like $40 a day on Nicehash a month ago, today I'd be lucky to see $25 in a day. |
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