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congrats to all that have made it this long. especially to those that can continue post halving. im really going to have to rethink this.. Been a great learning exp anyway:)
Yup for sure, congrats to those who keep it going. My gear has been shut off for a couple months due to summer heat, hopefully when it cools down later this year it will still be worth my time, effort, and $ to have a miner or two in the mix. Til then I'll just keep having fun with the R1 and gekko stick german fun runs. For me summer means a lot more of CFM's from fan's. During winter I am able to get away with much less, which is nice lower overhead. It has been pretty mild really for the most part where I am in the Midwest. I do expect having to change what miners are profitable for me, after it I'm guessing all need to be S9 to make sense but will run numbers after. I also dabble in Ether now for fun. Not sure if it will pay off as big as I would like but the chance to play with GPU's again was to hard to pass up. I expect them to be running for quiet a while. But price is really not doing bad 655 on coinbase. Will be an interesting week though to watch price. I just had one hell of a day.. So i bought 1 btc worth of eth back on the presale. I have been trying passwords since it got on exchanges. I think someone look out for me on this one cuz i would have lost out on thousands had i been able to sell early. Then i just let it go for a while ... even considered giving all i know to dave bitcoin to try to hack my password.. today while weeding my garden it dawned on me a variation of the password i hadnt tried.. low and behold that was it  .. And it couldnt have come at a better time.. get some shit paid off .. and now may even consider to buy an s9. just to keep a small foot in the game. I cant ever go as big as i had in past. turned out to burn me big time. Ahh what a day.. one hell of a way to spend the halving:). btw im only going to sell 1/4 now. but this makes me keep a much closer eye on eth now that i have a larger stake then just 420 mhs mining rig.. anyway sorry for the off topic. Think i may go have a drink. Best Regards d57heinz |
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July 08, 2016, 07:30:56 PM |
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congrats to all that have made it this long. especially to those that can continue post halving. im really going to have to rethink this.. Been a great learning exp anyway:)
Yup for sure, congrats to those who keep it going. My gear has been shut off for a couple months due to summer heat, hopefully when it cools down later this year it will still be worth my time, effort, and $ to have a miner or two in the mix. Til then I'll just keep having fun with the R1 and gekko stick german fun runs. For me summer means a lot more of CFM's from fan's. During winter I am able to get away with much less, which is nice lower overhead. It has been pretty mild really for the most part where I am in the Midwest. I do expect having to change what miners are profitable for me, after it I'm guessing all need to be S9 to make sense but will run numbers after. I also dabble in Ether now for fun. Not sure if it will pay off as big as I would like but the chance to play with GPU's again was to hard to pass up. I expect them to be running for quiet a while. But price is really not doing bad 655 on coinbase. Will be an interesting week though to watch price. I just had one hell of a day.. So i bought 1 btc worth of eth back on the presale. I have been trying passwords since it got on exchanges. I think someone look out for me on this one cuz i would have lost out on thousands had i been able to sell early. Then i just let it go for a while ... even considered giving all i know to dave bitcoin to try to hack my password.. today while weeding my garden it dawned on me a variation of the password i hadnt tried.. low and behold that was it .. And it couldnt have come at a better time.. get some shit paid off .. and now may even consider to buy an s9. just to keep a small foot in the game. I cant ever go as big as i had in past. turned out to burn me big time. Ahh what a day.. one hell of a way to spend the halving:). btw im only going to sell 1/4 now. but this makes me keep a much closer eye on eth now that i have a larger stake then just 420 mhs mining rig.. anyway sorry for the off topic. Think i may go have a drink. Best Regards d57heinz Have two drinks it was a good day for you. Just don't drive after the drinks |
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July 08, 2016, 07:49:45 PM |
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congrats to all that have made it this long. especially to those that can continue post halving. im really going to have to rethink this.. Been a great learning exp anyway:)
Yup for sure, congrats to those who keep it going. My gear has been shut off for a couple months due to summer heat, hopefully when it cools down later this year it will still be worth my time, effort, and $ to have a miner or two in the mix. Til then I'll just keep having fun with the R1 and gekko stick german fun runs. For me summer means a lot more of CFM's from fan's. During winter I am able to get away with much less, which is nice lower overhead. It has been pretty mild really for the most part where I am in the Midwest. I do expect having to change what miners are profitable for me, after it I'm guessing all need to be S9 to make sense but will run numbers after. I also dabble in Ether now for fun. Not sure if it will pay off as big as I would like but the chance to play with GPU's again was to hard to pass up. I expect them to be running for quiet a while. But price is really not doing bad 655 on coinbase. Will be an interesting week though to watch price. I just had one hell of a day.. So i bought 1 btc worth of eth back on the presale. I have been trying passwords since it got on exchanges. I think someone look out for me on this one cuz i would have lost out on thousands had i been able to sell early. Then i just let it go for a while ... even considered giving all i know to dave bitcoin to try to hack my password.. today while weeding my garden it dawned on me a variation of the password i hadnt tried.. low and behold that was it .. And it couldnt have come at a better time.. get some shit paid off .. and now may even consider to buy an s9. just to keep a small foot in the game. I cant ever go as big as i had in past. turned out to burn me big time. Ahh what a day.. one hell of a way to spend the halving:). btw im only going to sell 1/4 now. but this makes me keep a much closer eye on eth now that i have a larger stake then just 420 mhs mining rig.. anyway sorry for the off topic. Think i may go have a drink. Best Regards d57heinz Have two drinks it was a good day for you. Just don't drive after the drinks Yeah good thoughts  . i never drink so that would be wise... I always got the hangover effect after a few drinks(headache and sick as hell).. But i also never gave it a real chance to find a good beer i may like. My dad fancied it enough for him and I both.  figured it was best to stay away from it. Best Regards d57heinz |
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July 08, 2016, 08:09:43 PM |
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Yet a little more off topic. Since I don't know jack about eth:
"So i bought 1 btc worth of eth back on the presale"
Can you explain what this means? What is/was "the presale"? I assume this means that you gave somebody 1 BTC, and they gave you N "Ethers"? You then took those N "Ethers" and got back more than 1 BTC after some period of time?
Thanks for the education (If it's OK with Phil on his thread)!
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July 08, 2016, 08:23:33 PM |
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Yet a little more off topic. Since I don't know jack about eth:
"So i bought 1 btc worth of eth back on the presale"
Can you explain what this means? What is/was "the presale"? I assume this means that you gave somebody 1 BTC, and they gave you N "Ethers"? You then took those N "Ethers" and got back more than 1 BTC after some period of time?
Thanks for the education (If it's OK with Phil on his thread)!
I sadly did not buy in the pre-sale you can find some about it here - https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/07/22/launching-the-ether-sale/ . I would guess he's having an amazing day if he got into pre-sale account with 1 BTC. Price they say on blog "The price of ether is initially set to a discounted price of 2000 ETH per BTC, and will stay this way for 14 days before linearly declining to a final rate of 1337 ETH per BTC. The sale will last 42 days, concluding at 23:59 Zug time September 2." So he is having a great day to say the least if he invested 1 BTC. High risk and very very high reward. Either way big congratz d57heinz. |
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July 08, 2016, 08:25:25 PM |
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Yet a little more off topic. Since I don't know jack about eth:
"So i bought 1 btc worth of eth back on the presale"
Can you explain what this means? What is/was "the presale"? I assume this means that you gave somebody 1 BTC, and they gave you N "Ethers"? You then took those N "Ethers" and got back more than 1 BTC after some period of time?
Thanks for the education (If it's OK with Phil on his thread)!
It is okay. The coin was launched via a pre-sale a while back more then a year ago. I am thinking he did very well on his purchase. 2000 x $10.50 = 20K 1337 x 10.50 = 14k Either number is good. maybe a 300-700 usd investment. |
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July 08, 2016, 08:41:57 PM |
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Yet a little more off topic. Since I don't know jack about eth:
"So i bought 1 btc worth of eth back on the presale"
Can you explain what this means? What is/was "the presale"? I assume this means that you gave somebody 1 BTC, and they gave you N "Ethers"? You then took those N "Ethers" and got back more than 1 BTC after some period of time?
Thanks for the education (If it's OK with Phil on his thread)!
ahh went to answer but phil beat me too it.. Phil is exactly right. Ill have to hit up the irs with this one for sure.. Thats one heck of a gain:) Ive already got coinbase asking for more documentation then ive already given them.. which is ok.. Just a driver id verification. on a 3 btc sell i thought was odd.. but ehh thats ok with me. once i supplied the sale went thru as normal back when i mined with 80 ths they didnt ask too many questions when i was pulling out over 5k usd in btc to pay for electricity. but more regulation has come into play.. ahh those were the days. Honestly cant figure out why i miss it. but it is fun to tinker with all the equipment i ran. Got one heck of a pile of it in the garage. hell some of it didnt even run a year but illinois still wants that use tax  edit i was able to get in on the first days at 1 btc = 2k eth Best Regards d57heinz |
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July 08, 2016, 09:18:32 PM |
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Yet a little more off topic. Since I don't know jack about eth:
"So i bought 1 btc worth of eth back on the presale"
Can you explain what this means? What is/was "the presale"? I assume this means that you gave somebody 1 BTC, and they gave you N "Ethers"? You then took those N "Ethers" and got back more than 1 BTC after some period of time?
Thanks for the education (If it's OK with Phil on his thread)!
I sadly did not buy in the pre-sale you can find some about it here - https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/07/22/launching-the-ether-sale/ . I would guess he's having an amazing day if he got into pre-sale account with 1 BTC. Price they say on blog "The price of ether is initially set to a discounted price of 2000 ETH per BTC, and will stay this way for 14 days before linearly declining to a final rate of 1337 ETH per BTC. The sale will last 42 days, concluding at 23:59 Zug time September 2." So he is having a great day to say the least if he invested 1 BTC. High risk and very very high reward. Either way big congratz d57heinz. Thank you. light shines on me every now and again. I seem to have a huge variance factor in life.. many ups and downs. such as btc. heheh Thanks again best Regards d57heinz |
As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway. ~Nikola Tesla~
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what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?
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July 09, 2016, 01:32:25 AM |
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edit i was able to get in on the first days at 1 btc = 2k eth Best Regards d57heinz pretty sweet congrats! as for a drink just buy a bottle and smile at it. no need to drink it.. |
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July 09, 2016, 04:07:41 AM |
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edit i was able to get in on the first days at 1 btc = 2k eth Best Regards d57heinz Ain't it grand when you "find" something nice like that? This parallels my story with LTC. I mined BTC and LTC for a short while back in early 2012. I mined and slurped from faucets about 0.07BTC and some of it helped pay for a @sidehack modded S7-LN. The LTC, however totaled a bit over 7k coins. When I remembered that I had some, and then checked the price it was a bit over $4.00/LTC, and so I sold it in chunks all the way up to almost $6.00/LTC. Some of the proceeds paid some bills, some bought ETH, some bought BTC which then paid for the S7LN, and I still have some LTC. Some days you're the bug, some days you're windshield. Cheers, - zed |
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July 09, 2016, 05:04:18 AM |
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I expect that most folks on here look at bitcoinwisdom on a regular basis like I do. Just for grins, I would suggest that you click on the "Litecoin Difficulty" link at the top of the page. The resulting graph is just breathtaking (IMHO).
I absolutely don't want hijack this thread, so please don't worry about responding to this comment on my part.
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July 09, 2016, 08:36:56 AM |
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So Today is the Day about 8 Hours to go. Yesterday was pretty standard with 145 Blocks and for the last 24 Hrs Period to Date Run Rate has been in a band -1% to -2%. Sort of expect something dramatic to happen at block 420000 with a mass throwing of breakers, but it will probably pass quietly? Rich |
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July 09, 2016, 03:58:43 PM |
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+0.6 = fr4nkthetank
I deleted your pick as you are far too early bro block 1116 is due in more then a day https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficultyBitcoin Difficulty: 213,398,925,331 Estimated Next Difficulty: 216,512,092,584 (+1.46%) Adjust time: After 1352 Blocks, About 9.4 days >> 1116 is start for picksHashrate(?): 1,518,185,777 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 10.0 minutes 3 blocks: 29.9 minutes 6 blocks: 59.8 minutes Updated: 11:55 (4.9 minutes ago) but the ½ing is almost here!!!! |
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July 09, 2016, 05:21:12 PM |
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be interested to see how quick the mining calculators will update to 12.5 reward.
I think the only ones super excited about the halving are speculators. Us miners oth meh. keeping eye on the diff over the next few weeks and the price of the miners
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July 09, 2016, 06:04:23 PM |
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be interested to see how quick the mining calculators will update to 12.5 reward.
vnbitcoin adjusted ahead of time-it was 12.5 there even yesterday. |
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July 10, 2016, 03:29:00 AM |
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https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficultyBitcoin Difficulty: 213,398,925,331 Estimated Next Difficulty: 216,737,546,319 (+1.56%) Adjust time: After 1277 Blocks, About 8.8 days we will start at 1116 Hashrate(?): 1,514,418,011 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.9 minutes 3 blocks: 29.9 minutes 6 blocks: 59.7 minutes Updated: 23:25 (2.0 minutes ago)  just around 1-2%
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Now the money is free, and so the people will be
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July 10, 2016, 04:18:20 AM |
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oooo it seems i voted too soon, was all excited with the halving. sorry !!!
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July 10, 2016, 04:51:40 AM |
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oooo it seems i voted too soon, was all excited with the halving. sorry !!!
no worries stuff happens you can pick in about a day. |
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RichBC
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July 10, 2016, 07:09:14 AM |
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So the halving has been and gone without any great drama. Except........ that Yesterday was +4.86% with 151 Blocks and the Run Rate Today, could just be variance, is currently at a very frisky +20%. Period to Date Run Rate is now just into positive territory at +0.41%.
So if there was any powering down of old gear it has been more than compensated for by new gear being switched on.
Rich
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July 10, 2016, 07:39:30 AM |
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I think it will take weeks for the effects of the halving to actually observed or felt. I don't have a particular reason to think that folks would just "switch off" hardware when block 420,000 rolled around. Those folks would most likely have been selling their hardware, as I should have done. Anybody that recently bought hardware was planning on running it and is unlikely to change their mind quickly.
As always I think that difficulty changes will follow in the direction of BTC price. For most folks, BTC price is THE key driver in their decisions. Obviously electricity price is important, but that's a pretty stable and predictable value, whereas BTC price is not.
Interesting to follow the next couple of months.
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