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November 19, 2015, 01:59:36 AM |
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What are the most popular miners actually used and the estimated share of bitcoin users using them?
It this info isn't readily available, I would be grateful for pointers on how to estimate or find this.
Thanks
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November 19, 2015, 02:02:33 AM |
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Mostly any miner from Bitmain or Spondoolies-Tech.
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November 19, 2015, 04:38:37 AM |
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Mostly any miner from Bitmain or Spondoolies-Tech.
I would not forget about Avalon as they had past miners and have the 6 shipping now. So they are current aswell. SP .... they are not really looking for home/hobby buyers currently. As far as "popular" it's in no way the newest or best efficiency but there are a heck of a lot of A1 chip miners out there. They come in all forms, shapes, and speeds. So I'm guessing A1 miners rank up there as so many companies were using them at one point. |
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November 19, 2015, 07:55:07 AM |
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antminers are the post popular one, and then you have avalon, it's not like there are many more out there, the market is very restricted
s3-s5-s7 are the good one now
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November 19, 2015, 07:56:48 AM |
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S3/S5/S7 ones are really good. A friend of mine has 2 S7 and a S5. They're doing great  |
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November 19, 2015, 07:58:38 AM |
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I'm running a compaq/sidehack stick at the moment... It's a niche market, but it seems that on the forum, it's rather popular with a lot of homeminers...
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November 19, 2015, 05:58:05 PM |
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Antminer S4, S5 & S7. Avalon 6 and SP35. Those are the best choice at the moment.
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November 19, 2015, 07:38:32 PM |
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This is the most popular as in amount made, not best or most efficient. If I understand OP right.
I'm thinking it might be A1 miners as so many used their chips for quite a while. If not possibly S3's seems like there is a ton of them. One that could surprise me is the asic miner usb stick not sure how many of those are out there but they pumped out a ton of those for a bit.
*Reread it is possible the share of active miners. If that I'm guessing S3 win's. If he mean actually used as currently and not past.
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November 19, 2015, 07:43:39 PM |
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What are the most popular miners actually used and the estimated share of bitcoin users using them?
It this info isn't readily available, I would be grateful for pointers on how to estimate or find this.
Thanks
The most popular miners are those which are most produced. Period. |
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HarryKPeters
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November 19, 2015, 08:15:14 PM |
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Mostly any miner from Bitmain or Spondoolies-Tech.
I like them too, since they are stable and reliable companies. The miner itself are priced competative (close to getting ROI or even getting ROI). |
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November 19, 2015, 11:05:21 PM |
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Mostly any miner from Bitmain or Spondoolies-Tech.
I like them too, since they are stable and reliable companies. The miner itself are priced competative (close to getting ROI or even getting ROI). OP is not asking which ones we like or which ones are best current. He asked "This is the most popular as in amount made,". This is a huge difference in question vs most answers in this thread. I'm not sure if we have the data to know what was most produced. I listed a few above I think it likely is, but that is pure speculation. They don't release numbers in most cases. |
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bob2000 (OP)
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November 20, 2015, 01:40:44 AM |
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Folks,
I should have been more specific with my question. I meant bitcoin mining software, like CGMiner, not hardware. My apologies for the lack of clarity.
And by popular I mean the following: out of all the people mining bitcoins in the world, what bitcoin mining software is most used (top 5 would be great). I understand CG Minger is pretty popular, but it seems pools have their own proprietary miners.
Cheers
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November 20, 2015, 01:59:58 AM |
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Folks,
I should have been more specific with my question. I meant bitcoin mining software, like CGMiner, not hardware. My apologies for the lack of clarity.
And by popular I mean the following: out of all the people mining bitcoins in the world, what bitcoin mining software is most used (top 5 would be great). I understand CG Minger is pretty popular, but it seems pools have their own proprietary miners.
Cheers
Btc mining software is pretty much cgminer, and bfgminer. That is really the two most used a lot have cgminer in background you might not even know your using it. For example many miners have a nice GUI frontend with cgminer running behind it. What miner are you looking at? Really asics is what it all comes down to in BTC mining now. |
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bob2000 (OP)
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November 20, 2015, 07:55:18 PM |
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Thanks notlist,
I'm actually working on a project to understand how mining software evolves over time, and specifically whether changes in price lead to specific types of changes in the mining software.
Well, cgminer and bgfminer narrows it down a lot, doesn't it. How do you know that these are the most popular ones?
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notlist3d
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November 20, 2015, 08:52:14 PM |
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Thanks notlist,
I'm actually working on a project to understand how mining software evolves over time, and specifically whether changes in price lead to specific types of changes in the mining software.
Well, cgminer and bgfminer narrows it down a lot, doesn't it. How do you know that these are the most popular ones?
The software does not narrow it down at all really. You need a asic to mine BTC really. Look at the hardware section of the forum and you will see a lot of different hardware. What is your electricity price? With that we can know if you stand a chance mining. |
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bob2000 (OP)
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November 21, 2015, 12:15:07 AM |
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I'm not investigating mining for myself. I'm investigating how mining software evolves for a data mining project. In order to understand that, I want to know which mining software is actually used by people worldwide to mine btc. I understand cgminer and bfgminer are popular, but how do you know that they are the most popular ones? Are there are any other ones that have traction as well?
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notlist3d
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November 21, 2015, 05:42:11 AM |
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I'm not investigating mining for myself. I'm investigating how mining software evolves for a data mining project. In order to understand that, I want to know which mining software is actually used by people worldwide to mine btc. I understand cgminer and bfgminer are popular, but how do you know that they are the most popular ones? Are there are any other ones that have traction as well?
The reason I know is they are the two that keep updating and are active. I suggest if you want exact anwsers look at asics and see how many have a backend of cgminer running. I think you will be suprised how many do. But no there is not a good number we can give you. You could investigate and find out X miners in past X timeframe use X software. But as far as number of machines running it don't think you will get that info. And just to understand are you talking about like big data stuff? Or are you talking about mining as in sha256? Just making sure were talking about same thing. |
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November 21, 2015, 06:11:18 PM |
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For sure antminers are the most popular miners. This is due bitmain has been long in the game and proven they are solid regarding delivery, support and more.
I think Spondoolies was the surprise of 2015, coming up as number 2 asic supplier.
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November 21, 2015, 07:09:10 PM |
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Back in the day i had a lot of Antminers. I chose for bitmain since everybody was postive of them. My choice was based on that fact.
Looking back it was a good choice, they delivered and even provided adequate support. Let's see how it will go in the future, but so far it is good.
If you take that into account, you will understand why their antminers are the most populair miners in years. Every batch has been sold out in no time..
A week ago i wanted to buy the S7 batch 7, and guess what.. sold out in 3 days.
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bitlancr
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November 21, 2015, 08:30:27 PM |
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Spondoolies Tech offers some very reliable and stable miners too. Though bitmain has the advantage of being the first Spondoolies Tech grew enormously. Seeing they focus on the 'rich' miners with their SP 50 http://www.spondoolies-tech.com/products/sp50Was a decision I don't understand. With the SP 35 they claim to help the small miners. Then a month later they totally ignore the small miners.. |
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