How many newbies are mining?

[Fireminer]

I am mining 2 weeks now, as a test. Using old Radeon card. For further tests making on the baisis of an old PC a 'holder' for a AMD R9 290. Needed a new PSU of 850 w (want to put two cards). Waiting for a extension (riser) cable for PCE-e... unforeseen problem - card does not fit an old PC!
Did not try undervolting or overclocking. An ASIC would be better. Who knows what ASIC to buy right now? - since calculators show that to start mining in a month is almost useless... even cannot break even.

[Chrilleee]

Running 2x280x in my regular computer since 3 weeks back. They run very hot, even with the loudly fans, so I'm thinking about building some dedicated rig for it with better cooling when I return home from vacation.

[versace]

i wanted to try mining about 2 years ago after bitcoin was put out and so i joined a bunch of mining pools

i think i made like .004 BTC after like 2 months so i gave up. i can't imagine it's gotten any easier to mine considering the way bitcoin is designed.

[foader]

Sorry took my screen shots but can't figure out how to upload them to the site the image button only does this. http://

[groggin]

Sorry took my screen shots but can't figure out how to upload them to the site the image button only does this.

 i havn't tried it here but usually it's bb code + hosted pic:

 

Code:

[img]url_of_your_pic[/img]

 

[foader]

yeah that's more then likely it but unfortunately I don't subscribe to any picture hosting websites

[groggin]

yeah that's more then likely it but unfortunately I don't subscribe to any picture hosting websites

  http://imgur.com/     is easy

[Coinonaer]

I was doing CPU mining with dogecoins . but was not worth the electriticty costs

[Limones]

I just ordered my first 290X to augment the 2x7970s and one 6950. AMD prices are only going up and nVidia is only going down. Scrypt based currencies are single-handedly making AMD love the market right now.

What rates are you guys getting with your cards, and on which coins?

[tarmYg]

Been mining for about a month now, just about to finish my first dedicated openair-rig with three 280x and my old 6870, handbuilt.
Keeping two 280x's busy with Worldcoins atm and playing around/learning with the rest. Gonna try solo mining for the first time tonight with Giftcoin.
Will probably expand the rig with another 280x within a week or two.

[Limones]

Been mining for about a month now, just about to finish my first dedicated openair-rig with three 280x and my old 6870, handbuilt.
Keeping two 280x's busy with Worldcoins atm and playing around/learning with the rest. Gonna try solo mining for the first time tonight with Giftcoin.
Will probably expand the rig with another 280x within a week or two.

What power supply are you using? I have a 1300W EVGA that I ended up picking for the 10 year warranty, and it seems like it could handle 3 290X cards right now.

[ariolis30]

anyone here mine efficiently from a mac?  i would like to have more advice about this because there is no other option for me on this. 

[scarymonkey]

I've been mining for about a month - as a hobby and learning experience rather than to make any actual money from it.

I've used Block Erupters and today got a couple of Antminer U1's. These have left me taking all day working out how to get the Antminers and BE's to mine on the same Ubuntu 13.10 32bit machine but I have finally managed it. Hopefully they will continue to work when the system is rebooted too!

As I said I am using it as a learning curve and don't really expect to make anything using them. I am learning loads about linux along the way - compiling builds etc.

[prolom]

Sorry took my screen shots but can't figure out how to upload them to the site the image button only does this.

Thanks foader, I figured it out last night. It's weird, the games (I tried both) do seem to affect cudaminer, although I didn't get a drastic increase. Which switches are you using to launch it? It was hard to make it run because it was crashing a lot. But then it went to a bit over 70 MH - before it was a bit over 60 (it's an old 550 Ti). Weird. 140 to 600 is kind of spectacular though. I've noticed the Sony game was installing some additional graphics components, maybe it makes a big difference for newer cards.

[cccminer]

I've got about 200 ghash and been browsing the forum for months.

Figured it was time to setup an account.

[rothnarge]

Been mining for about a month started with Litecoin and AMD6870, then added and old AMD4770. Then the pool I was in got too many Ghashers so it wasnt good for me and my low setup.
Yesterday got 1 Antminer U1 setup and now working in Bitcoin, probably get more when I can afford.
Now if I can only get the Antminer on my Raspberry PI.

[freegobycr]

Have been mining for a bit over a month. Mostly prime coin and protoshares on a few VPS's I own. It was fairly successful until the last couple of weeks when the difficulty went up and I was only making half the amount of coins as when I started. Just started setting up my GPU mining. Have a GTX 780 and old GTX 680, GTX 670 and GTX 580 not doing anything most of the time. Don't have much time to play games anymore.

[stelam]

Dont think spending money on mining is any good right at the moment.. There is number of opportunities like cex.io, and investment in mining companies.. 

[jettero]

Just wondering how many actual miners there are in the newbie community...

I've been mining for about a month

I started mining with a block eruptor a couple months ago.  I wondered if I'd make my money back that day or if it would take a few years.   I had no idea what the difficult was or anything else .... which is why I wanted to start doing it.  Can't figure it out by reading about it, the motivation just isn't there.

[woffel]

I have few miners