|
Interesting effect. I've been running two S3's in my living room and have two air conditioners running during the day. The S3's started out at 441GH/s at stock frequency. At night I shut down the AC and put a fan in the window to exhaust the heat while the front door is open to a screen door. So, at night the humidity goes up. After this the hashrate was lower and HW errors higher. They did not recover their 441GH/s later when the room was cooled with AC. I wonder if they used water soluble flux and if it was something less than completely free of impurities. This would explain the drop in hashrate and increase in HW errors after exposure to humidity.
|
|
|
|
I am having a problem with my antminer,
Its a part of a network of 5 antminers all hooked up to my router.
I follow the instructions every tiime and it has worked for the other 4
I basically have to change the ip to 192.168.0.1 for it to connect to my regular routers settings but after that i change the settings to dhcp and everything is good to go.
this 5th antminer is the same up until i change to dhcp. I see it hashing on the pool but i am no longer able to connect to it using the ip address through my router or on direct connection..
I am literally doing nothing differnt then the others. It seems like the new one has a a newer os version, that is the only difference.
Currently it is hashing but i am un able to connect without resetting the whole thing....
any advice???
If you have a linux machine on the network, try tcpdump and watch the addresses that are communicating. If you inadvertently punched in the wrong IP you should see it. Also you might try nmap <subnet IP but last three digits a single * wildcard (e.g. 192.168.1.*)> which will list all devices on the subnet and which ports are open. An S3 will show (Paragon Technologies) after the MAC Address on the last line of its scan. |
|
|
|
Without profit mining is dead. When mining dies, the network dies.
You are wrong. Mining will continue to run even if it will run on red. Just need to find someone to pay for electricity costs. Got comfortable with the AC keeping my living room cool and my Merc w/upgrade modules and various other smaller devices mining. Nice and cool 24/7. Then I got the electric bill for the later half of May and first half of June, that last May the hottest on record for the planet, the bill was 162% of my previous highest electric bill. |
|
|
|
Peeps....
I thought every miner knew....
You should only use SINGLE RAIL PSU'S
anything else you are wasting $ and taking huge risks imho
Multi-rail PSU's are SHIT,
I burnt out a couple last Generation before going to all Corsair single-rail
Even when the multi's "worked", they could not keep up with the rest
Even 5 year old-crappy used HP desktop PSU's were better. Just sayin'
Heck my Merc with upgrade module is still running strong on two el cheapo 12v LED 360watt supplies that cost, what, $25 each? Those and a wall wart for the BBB. |
|
|
|
|
And bankruptcy will complicate my income tax return. Holding those I have in my wallet as a hedge against inflation, doesn't allow me to apply that loss to mitigate tax as I ain't selling. And I believe I must declare the loss this year or I lose even that tax mitigation. Maybe I'll have to do a wash sale and purchase just to sort it out.
|
|
|
|
|
Not a great believer in the rightness of USA's legal system but I wonder if putting the matter in the hands of an attorney would benefit me.
|
|
|
|
|
So, I guess the coins are just gone and that all the follow up analysis of the blockchain can't ever result in recovery. Too bad. Did read that analysis that showed the insider buying and selling, with multiple addresses that would follow one another, total BTC taken in the amount of about what MtGox is missing. Sorry I don't have a link.
|
|
|
|
|
I would like to know a time frame for getting all or part of my 11.82627776 BTC from MtGox. Getting on in years and want to buy a cemetery plot up in NY rather than stay down here. That would go a long way to buying the plot and prepaying my shipping. Still waiting for mullet sporting bounty hunters/skip tracers to haul Karpeles to the US, apprehension to be seen on TV, so he can appear before court.
|
|
|
|
There are no economic reasons for sole individuals to mine in US anymore. Straight buying and holding for more than 12 mo or longer is the most beneficial. The rule clearly favors accumulation vs usage, hence the utility of bitcoin in transactions will be probably minimized, unless it is revised later on. Mining as a hobby for a couple of coins can still go on unimpeded. Not so true for those on Social Security retirement or disability. As a hobby one cannot deduct cost of equipment purchase or costs of running the gear but must report every btc mined as having created the asset and therefore as income. With retirement or disability, they will require payback of 50 cents on every dollar earned up to the social security payout. The social security description of what counts and what doesn't, doesn't seem to start at where one's income reaches a taxable level. |
|
|
|
Darn, I shouldn't have posted that when he answers the subpoena in NY, he'd better check into South Oaks Hospital and hopefully avoid remand to Nassau County jail because: http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2014/03/27/mtgox-ceo-karpeles-refuses-travel-to-u-s-for-questioning/There were a few shows on bounty hunters not long ago. Tough guys with a cameraman following them around as they took some felons into custody to turn over to the authorities. Could you picture them taking Karpeles with all the fanfare! Biker types with mullets and him in his nicely tailored suit. |
|
|
|
|
Darn, finished my taxes. I think I could have saved a good sum if the Neptune purchase in mid-December, refunded in cash in Feb. 2014, could have been deferred from 2013.
Elements in this like-kind deferral pub seem to apply:
a. Constructive Receipt Doctrine -- Unfunded Plans Cash basis taxpayers must include gains, profits, and income in gross income for the taxable year in which they are actually or constructively received. Under the constructive receipt doctrine, which is codified in § 451(a), income although not actually reduced to a taxpayer's possession is constructively received by him in the taxable year during which it is credited to his account, set apart for him, or otherwise made available so that he may draw upon it at any time, or so that he could have drawn upon it during the taxable year if notice of intention to withdraw had been given. However, income is not constructively received if the taxpayer's control of its receipt is subject to substantial limitations or restrictions. See § 1.451-2(a) of the regulations.
Actually this might have been argued in my favor. Tho the money was spent the sale fell through due to changing bitcoin mining conditions and I requested a refund. I don't think the ability to request a refund at any time constitutes "...so that he may draw upon it at any time...". I was on the phone with the IRS for advice. First a half hour for the first representative, then another 45 minute wait for an expert. The expert essentially said consult a professional, that she could not help me. And, it wasn't that she didn't seem sharp enough or knowledgeable enough as she seemed sharp and knowledgeable.
|
|
|
|
holy shit  I think it's CGI. |
|
|
|
Long sorry post follows: My cable co stopped my modem from allowing me to connect for a day or two and before that I was busy reconciling my 2013 bitcoins for taxes so fell behind but quickly skimmed the pages I missed.  Looks like I might be best off selling my Mercury with upgrade card (pseudo-Saturn). I receive Social Security disability benefits. If I had just bought bitcoins instead of mining I'd have been okay. As it is, the US IRS seems to be saying mining bitcoins creates the asset and taxes must be paid according to the value when sent to the miner, e.g. the blockchain dollar value of the payout. Since I took money out of my IRA to buy mining gear and pay bills my income had reached taxable levels in 2013. Now when I add in the value of the roughly 16 btc I mined in 2013 (I have some other small miners too), not only am I way over and need to pay taxes, but Social Security will turn around and want the disability payments paid back. That's the crux. So, a large part of what I mined will be hit by disability payback because I mined. And, as my mining is only a hobby and not a business I am not permitted to deduct expenses or cost of equipment. If I sell my pseudo-Saturn I can deduct its cost before 2014 taxes on the profit. I'd probably do best parting out the components. Thing is I don't trust selling mining gear on Paypal given that it's so easy for a buyer to claim faulty gear and get a charge back. We know that mining is not for the technically weak. I'd probably most comfortably meet a buyer at a mall in Atlanta and take cash. There's one more factor. I've grown emotionally attached to my mining gear and really don't want to sell. soy PS: Since I can't deduct cost of gear, I'm doubly happy I went with a single el cheapo 12v switching supply (designed for powering LED signs) for each module rather than a pricey computer switching supply supply. Won't have to sell the pseudo-Saturn as the taxes are lower than expected. Caveat - if social security uses line 22 rather than line 37 of the 1040 to assess if benefits need be returned, it could cost me more. |
|
|
|
Long sorry post follows: My cable co stopped my modem from allowing me to connect for a day or two and before that I was busy reconciling my 2013 bitcoins for taxes so fell behind but quickly skimmed the pages I missed. Looks like I might be best off selling my Mercury with upgrade card (pseudo-Saturn). I receive Social Security disability benefits. If I had just bought bitcoins instead of mining I'd have been okay. As it is, the US IRS seems to be saying mining bitcoins creates the asset and taxes must be paid according to the value when sent to the miner, e.g. the blockchain dollar value of the payout. Since I took money out of my IRA to buy mining gear and pay bills my income had reached taxable levels in 2013. Now when I add in the value of the roughly 16 btc I mined in 2013 (I have some other small miners too), not only am I way over and need to pay taxes, but Social Security will turn around and want the disability payments paid back. That's the crux. So, a large part of what I mined will be hit by disability payback because I mined. And, as my mining is only a hobby and not a business I am not permitted to deduct expenses or cost of equipment. If I sell my pseudo-Saturn I can deduct its cost before 2014 taxes on the profit. I'd probably do best parting out the components. Thing is I don't trust selling mining gear on Paypal given that it's so easy for a buyer to claim faulty gear and get a charge back. We know that mining is not for the technically weak. I'd probably most comfortably meet a buyer at a mall in Atlanta and take cash. There's one more factor. I've grown emotionally attached to my mining gear and really don't want to sell. soy PS: Since I can't deduct cost of gear, I'm doubly happy I went with a single el cheapo 12v switching supply (designed for powering LED signs) for each module rather than a pricey computer switching supply supply. |
|
|
|
|
Not actually in cold storage, I backed up an encrypted wallet before moving to a larger hard drive. The blockchain went south in the move so for the time being that bitcoin-qt isn't accessible.
Is there a way to extract the transaction data from the encrypted wallet backup aside from dropping it onto the blockchain.info wallet retrieval mechanism?
|
|
|
|
Selling : "Blockchain.info for dummies"  Kiddin:P No man - there is no way to see a value in dollars calculated from a price when transaction was send. EDITED: I was wrong As you can read below It would be too hard to implement into blockchain. Price is changing hour by hour.. EDITED: it was perhaps not easy, but they did it  If you need any help with Blockchain just ask us  someones will help you for sure (for free...) Yes, I see. I had looked at early bitcoin transactions and was only seeing the present price not the original. then somewhere between late July and early August, bitcoin value at time of transaction seems to have been implemented. Hovering over the sepcific segment of the transaction will get that. I'm not sure about the value in the green box following the transaction. I'll check either later or tomorrow. |
|
|
|
|
I'm having a problem understanding the blockchain.info page on a transaction.
I enter the transaction ID into the blockchain.info search box.
I know how many BTC were sent in the transaction. I know the approximate value of that send. I see blockchain info can give a more precise dollar value of the particular transaction.
The problem is that the transaction shows six sends from my address, each roughly the value of the single transaction. I don't understand.
----------------
Later.... Okay, I changed the readings from dollars to btc. The btc sent is correct. The value of the btc in the transaction can only be correct if calculated by today's current btc value rather than the btc value at the time of the transaction.
Wonder if there is a way to have the blockchain.info display the transaction with values at the time of the transaction.
I'd buy a blockchain.info for Dummies if one were offered.
|
|
|
|
|
I'm not sure I understand the complaints about mining farms undermining non-centralization. That was from the days of mining using Bitcoin-QT, with the CPU both maintaining a current record of the blockchain and mining.
The point was that there were copies of the entire blockchain on every computer using Bitcoin-QT or bitcoind. That was what needed to not be centralized.
Our miners do not maintain a blockchain with all the blocks. The pools do tho and some who solo mine might, don't know.
|
|
|
|
I've never heard of anything like this. While it sounds cool I'm not sure how much it would really help the reindexing process as the main limitation is the hard drive speed. An upgrade to SSD or RAID array is the way to go if you want to increase your reindex and sync speed.
Okay, thanks. I thought it may have been a function of recalculating the blocks something like checking finished work as compared to running hashes on blocks for a more elegant solution and having almost all not best. So, reindexing and syncing on a 3GHz machine compared to a 2GHz machine, both machines having identical drives the 3GHz won't finish appreciably faster than the 2GHz machine? How about compared to an 800MHz RPI and that identical drive mounted via USB? |
|
|
|
|
Had to migrate to a larger hard drive. Did this not too long ago with another machine. Seems prudent to have a backup. Last time I had to rebuild the blockchain from a concatenated file of blocks from the other machine. This time perhaps reindexing will suffice, time will tell.
I wonder if bitcoin-qt machinations while building or indexing the blockchain bear any resemblance to mining and if a way could be devised to dedicate a miner to rebuilding or reindexing then turning it over to the CPU so one could put the miner back to mining.
|
|
|
|
|
Show Posts
