Vegas are such piles, you cant really mix them with other cards. They need to be on their own special short bus.

You honestly should sell that garbage and get some more useful cards.

Why do you people think that ASICs are what cause centralization? This has to come from a place of complete ignorance.

NEWS FLASH: There are massive GPU farms out there, going to ASIC would just be a hardware swap, nothing would change.

I manage over 10,000 GPUs myself.

Why would anyone want to pay $5000 to build a 6 card GPU rig versus buying a $2500 ASIC?

Try using logic when posting instead of emotion.

Remember if you are in the US, you should really try to stay away from ICOs

This ban is a followup to sanctions placed on Venezuela before Trump came into power, so it is not Trump unilaterally making this change. Please do a little research.

You are just being paranoid. What happened was the altcoin market went crazy last year, so the companies started developing hardware for it.

Surprise surprise, it takes like a year to bring something from idea to production.

Sure a few of them might have held off announcements to get a competitive advantage, but its not like they were colluding.

Finally some hosting prices that make sense. None of this $100 per kilowatt crap most people are charging. Good on you guys!

One question...I only see pricing for bitmain units. What about, Avalons, Ebits, etc?

A 3 second google search would answer this for you quicker than you typed out this post.


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It is pure ignorance to blame everything on ASICs.


1. ASICS do not lead to any more centralization than anything else. Why do you think we have a GPU shortage? Massive farms running GPU rigs, including mine.

2. All of these companies started developing altcoin ASICs after the market cap for them went crazy. Its not like you just create these things overnight.

3. If a company spends millions designing a product, just because one sector of the target audience doesnt want them, does that mean the shelve the entire thing? Manufacturers have no way of knowing ahead of time how the market will react. They build a product, put it out, and what happens happens. They didnt design these specifically to screw gpu miners or whatever stupid crap you guys think. Its up to the buyer to decide if they think a unit will be profitable. It is not the miner manufacturers duty to explain the entire mining ecosystem to a customer. Hell Bitmain even puts a disclaimer on their site BEFORE YOU BUY THE MINER. If people ignore the warnings and the historic trends they deserve to lose their money. Bitmain knows the ASIC will change the market for the algo in question, which is why they price different batches lower and lower, since the early adopter profitability just isnt there.

4. Realize that this is an ever changing industry, other wise it will stagnate. The problem is you guys all got into this when the profits were way overblown and now you are crying because you cant make a thousand dollars a month off of a single rig. So based on your lack of understanding as far as how the industry functions as well as the basics of economics, you blame the manufacturers.

Can you do better on the power prices? I need 250kw or so

I ascended to the next level by getting a job in the industry. It opens so many doors, plus it means I have never had to run a miner at home.

I dunno what you consider sweet but a $20 router with a single hash chip in it that will never even reach ROI is not my cup of tea

I can help you by pointing you in the right direction. This is the BITCOIN support section of the forum, you need to post under ALTCOINS.

I doubt some random company noone has ever heard of is bringing a 7nm chip out of nowhere. Also they claim its parallel instead of a serial layout, which has been the dominant design for a while now.


I call BS

Bitmain has always priced their miners based on estimated ROI. Thats why last year an s9 could be had for $1130 and today they are double that.

the monero devs have publicly stated they will keep tweaking code to keep monero asic resistant

All your screenshot shows is that bmminer isnt running. Try putting antpool as the backup pool so it starts hashing and you can see if its reading the pool as dead or not.

There is no magic software fix for this, you have failed hardware components. You need to RMA the boards if you want them to work fully.

Yep, sometimes mining hardware is unreliable.

Bitmain has a specific way to fill out paperwork on warrantied devices so you dont have to pay full price to import them. It is listed on their site.

ETH is garbage to mine on nvidia hardware. You make double the profit versus eth when mining equihash