My miner is built into a metro shelving unit. Its unpainted metal.....after reading about the wood now im concerned.
Well if it's a miner in a case you're probably OK. If the bare board/circuit is touching the metal yeah I would shut it off and put a board under it. Cutting boards for the kitchen do a great job for this. For metal shelving I used a dishdrainer rack. |
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Nice and neat, but I am worry about using wood. Is there much risk in it?
It's actually pretty safe. With normally humidity it won't ignite until well above 150C. I run a lot of boards right off the cardboard box they were shipped in! |
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Hello!
IMO every newbie to mining should start mining altcoins and study how it works and then mine BTC or any profitable coins but remember, more profit the coin is, more difficult to mine it
Kindly,
Muhammed Zakhir
When you refer to newbie, are you talking about yourself? When multicoin pools switch coins they pick the one that has a lower difficulty relative to it's price. I think you're a little confused  Depends on what type of multi pool you are talking about. usually they are mining the most profitable coins. I think you missed DrG's point. The coin that has the highest price relative to it's difficulty will be the most profitable. In that scenario that would be the coin with the lowest difficulty so to speak. Every multipool mines the most profitable coin. |
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It never stops, 28nm -> 20nm -> 14nm -> 10nm -> 1nm -> 0.1nm
Physics preclude the latter numbers  sub-12nm is already going to be a challenge. Like I said it will be a while. Switching from electricity to photons essentially. |
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I been looking at getting into mining as a hobby, yes hobby. I do not want to sink a ton of money in it. But I would like to make a couple of bitcents just in case it "goes to the moon" lmfao I was looking at a couple of products online I kinda like the antminer what do you guys think for a hobby miner? Is this ad legit its from amazon, is that a good price? I do not trust reviews due to what I have read about BFL  BFL is to be avoided like the plague that it is. Do you know you can buy coins instead of mining them? Coinbase is pretty easy to use. If you want to just get into mining as a hobby for curiosity then buy a R-Box - probably the best small device and relatively current. For best use of your money just buy coins directly. |
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I love the part where they say they're under no legal obligation.
They should be refunding the people who want a refund since they haven't shipped. FTC has laws that clearly spell this out, but in BFL's world laws are made to be broken.
Why would anybody want 600GH/s from them now for $4500. You can buy 3 S1s for $500 that do the same thing.
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How can I have all 12 of my computers (several different models) to all essentially pool into one and mine? Is there any step by step guide to setting this up? Or better yet, is there any way I can do it from my main pc and install a program via usb flashdrive or shared networks? Thanks Just curious, why do you have 12 computers at home. Are you trying to do something with office's computer? Well it wouldn't be the first time people came on here asking how to misuse other people's machines. Every now and then somebody asks how to run a cmd prompt miner and hide it so his brother/sister/dog won't accidentally close the miner. |
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I would buy a small miner like a R-Box and have an actual miner in your hand. Then you could enjoy the stats, noise and numbers without spending a lot. All cloud mining will be a money sink anyways. Might as well have the real deal.
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I expect anyone with a BFL miner will be turning it off in 2 days. Avalons are already long gone. KNC, Hashfast, Bitfury are still around for now... but maybe not for long.
If the older gen mines were being hosted or in some location that was space critical they might have been shut off earlier. I had my Avalon and BFLs returned last month since their minimal profit didn't warrant the hosting fees any longer. |
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This is why the earnings in the first month of mining are so important. If you have downtime or delay getting your miner up you will have lost significant profitability.
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Both AMD and nVidia have been having trouble with this next step. I remember the 6xxx series cards were supposed to be the same process as the 7xxx. nVidia is taking forever to release new Maxwell gear.
It will take some time to jump down
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Glad it's not just me! I've become an RMA/store exchange expert these days. Tip: even if the store says they only make returns for 30 days you can always play dumb and bring something in later hoping to get that clerk that just doesn't care (saved me the hassle on a motherboard & 2 video cards once).
p.s. it is too fun.
It is fun until you awake at 2:47AM to the smell of fried PSU with your smoke detector going off and the lights in the house are out. yeah good times  |
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Anyone know of any online cable management classes? That looks like a warehouse. I sure hope you have some electrical trip in there. One lightning strike and you lose a Ferrari's worth of miners! |
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When you say 12 computers....are you using the CPUs or GPUs on the computers to try and mine? They won't even generate 1 penny per month doing that.
Or do you have ASICs hooked up to 12 machines (which I doubt since nobody would spend that much $ and not know how to set them up)?
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If it's like the Monarch they showed at the conference 2 days ago it's not the one hashing at 600GH/s. They probably are using somebody else's miner's and allocating 600 or they made a non pcie card based design so they wouldn't have the space confine issues.
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Still not bad when school is playing the electricity. But ridiculous hps/kw  It wasn't the school paying for it. It's the American taxpayer. He should have his ass thrown in jail. |
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If you're running a small number of miners it may not be worth it to get a plat PSU as shown above - economically and environmentally it doesn't make sense.
If you're going to be running 20 of these things, then yes it makes sense to get one nice PSU instead of 20 "wall-warts".
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seriously? cpu mining? for BTC?  ? bro, u should just stop it, Planet earth will say "thank you" Agree, but they can use it to mine CPU coin instead and would be better off.. No CPU is profitable unless you have free electricity currently - check the numbers. Even with free electricity almost every CPU based coin like XPM has now been converted to a GPU coin, so just like BTC you won't earn any. |
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The programs started with good intentions but the fraud rates are going up. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Well we're up to 6GH/s now, if we get more speed would that help with our chances of getting better returns?
Hmm, Ill shoot for an answer to that IDK For 1. I think more speed = more rewards overall? Right? Also For 1. I also think more miners on pool = Less reward per share Right? Hmm hopefully Just the top one That's the general rule. But when you're mining coins that have a blocktime of 1 or 2 min the harder you can punch those coins out while the price is high the better it is I believe. Only Eleuthria would know since he knows the coding. |
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