Newbie Checking in...

[AnatomicFlack]

Making my first post to be able to get access to participate in the other forums.

I've been mining LTC for about a year not, but was just really able to start mining BTC when my BFL Single (30GH) showed up late last week. 

I'm also in the midst of putting together an ASICMiner 10 Blade unit on the backplane and was trying to reply to Spotswood's thread to let him know I would love to purchase one when they are ready. 

Sorry for the mostly nonesense post.  Hope this satisfies not being a spammer.

Hope to be able to participate soon!

Happy mining everyone.

-Nick

[Anixs]

Hi Nick, let's level up together.    Mind answering a fellow newbie's questions?

What is the 30GH unit earning you, what pool are you using, and where did you buy the Blade hardware from?

Thanks!!!

[AnatomicFlack]

The 30GH BFL is hooked up to a rPi running MinePeon.

It's singing along happily at a dead stable 27152 MH/s. 

I signed up for Slush's pool a long time ago and decided to stick with him.  I'm also using Give-Me-Coins (Give-Me-LTC, when I signed up) as my backup pool. 

The little research I've done into the different payment systems hasn't really given me the clear picture I was hoping for. 

The couple of things I find comforting about Slush's pool is that the group is so large coins are found, and subsequently, paid to my account very quickly.  Seems somewhere between 15 minutes and worst case around 8 hours, but the average seems to be around 2 hours.  The other pool, was only finding a coin every few days or so, so payouts will still occur, there the "hang time" between mining and realizing a payment is much larger.  And a lot of the reading I had done noted that most of the payment systems will all tend to average about the same amount of return as long as the network connection to their servers is stable and predicable. 

I began mining around 6pm on the 13th and I should have my first 0.10 BTC in about another hour or so.  So while still not blisteringly fast by any stretch of the imagination, it's better than I could even hope to do with my dual AMD 6990 setup. 

The 10 blade unit, I bought from new a seller on eBay yesterday and paid $2800 for it.  He has them resisted today at $2900.  Considering many other sellers had them listed just yesterday for near $4K, and the prices on everything else (just like BTC) are shooting through the roof as people are panicking to hop on the bandwagon. 

Not sure if this is ok to post or not, but here is the seller's listing I did pick up the blade setup from: http://www.ebay.com/itm/261333330898?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:VRI&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2661

The only thing that caused me pause before I bought it was seeing that Amazon still had the 10GH blades for sale at $228/ea until sometime this afternoon when it went up to $260: http://www.amazon.com/Asicminer-Block-Erupter-Blade-10ghash/dp/B00DF91K98/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1384805532&sr=8-3&keywords=asicminer

[Anixs]

Wow Nick, thanks very much for the info!  I've also been researching the blades, and that is the best price on eBay so far!  You are an extremely helpful "newbie"