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September 13, 2018, 11:50:23 PM |
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Maybe wiping out gpu mining profits, but adoption? I don't think so....
... basically asic builders got so fucking hungry they ate their legs and crippled the industry by doing it. So instead of a gpu kid happy to get a free gaming rig and a few bucks to buy more games you get a gaming kid that hates mining won't use crypto . ... I never thought of this issue in quite this way, but I have to say you make a compelling case here (good enough for 1 of my last 2 sMerits). I would add that the GPU shortage earlier this year also had the same unintended consequence of alienating many who would naturally be interested in crypto. One ray of sunshine: the bursting of the dotcom bubble didn't kill the internet.hoping that is true for us. |
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Marvell2
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September 13, 2018, 11:54:40 PM |
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Maybe wiping out gpu mining profits, but adoption? I don't think so....
... basically asic builders got so fucking hungry they ate their legs and crippled the industry by doing it. So instead of a gpu kid happy to get a free gaming rig and a few bucks to buy more games you get a gaming kid that hates mining won't use crypto . ... I never thought of this issue in quite this way, but I have to say you make a compelling case here (good enough for 1 of my last 2 sMerits). I would add that the GPU shortage earlier this year also had the same unintended consequence of alienating many who would naturally be interested in crypto. One ray of sunshine: the bursting of the dotcom bubble didn't kill the internet.hoping that is true for us. Unfortunately most people lost money all the early buyers aka early internet adopters got reket in the crash thats why its better to stick it out , those who had the testicular fortitude to hold ended up winning. most did not |
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September 14, 2018, 12:01:54 AM |
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Maybe wiping out gpu mining profits, but adoption? I don't think so....
... basically asic builders got so fucking hungry they ate their legs and crippled the industry by doing it. So instead of a gpu kid happy to get a free gaming rig and a few bucks to buy more games you get a gaming kid that hates mining won't use crypto . ... I never thought of this issue in quite this way, but I have to say you make a compelling case here (good enough for 1 of my last 2 sMerits). I would add that the GPU shortage earlier this year also had the same unintended consequence of alienating many who would naturally be interested in crypto. One ray of sunshine: the bursting of the dotcom bubble didn't kill the internet.hoping that is true for us. Unfortunately most people lost money all the early buyers aka early internet adopters got reket in the crash thats why its better to stick it out , those who had the testicular fortitude to hold ended up winning. most did not that is why you always selling during bull runs upward. I did well last year and Jan + Feb this year. The worst thing so far has been I can't get a second solar array setup. We looked at a piece of property today maybe buysolar will win it at auction. My wife found the listing maybe this will work out for us. |
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September 14, 2018, 12:02:04 AM |
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I have been mining for two years. Slow start with 6 AMD GPUs and Baikal mini miner.
I bought many GPUs in last 10 months.
I have 402 GPUs mixed AMD -- NVIDIA and some Baikal ASICs.
the profit ? i have earned the half of the investment. I need to earn around 50K USD to reach ROI.
That's crazy, in this market you're barely able to break even on electricity used. All the miners in china are just mining and selling with their cheap electricity, they have absolutely no interest in holding anything, they're just selling selling selling and pushing all the prices down. There is no financial intelligence, just make a dollar and buy raman noodles.. |
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September 14, 2018, 02:57:32 AM |
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Maybe wiping out gpu mining profits, but adoption? I don't think so. If/when crypto truly hits mainstream adaption, the users will have a cursory idea of how it works and probably won't even understand mining. Stability, usefulness, and ease of use is what will drive adoption. Right now buying crypto is extremely complicated, hard to spend, and there is not much to spend it on. Its going to have to be just as easy as venmo and debit cards. And sadly I think it will require a few centralized 3rd parties to process transactions (like visa, mc, ac) for it to really take off.
I think you will find that most developers are not money people. They are trying to create something for long term prospects while not really caring about short term prices. Monero is probably the only coin that I can say actively works on thwarting ASICs AND has a mature, stable, project. These other coins that are using resources on forking algos don't even have a fully developed product.
There are a lot of gpus out there rx550 rx560 rx570 rx580 rx460 rx470 rx480 vega 56 vega 64 gtx 1050 gtx 1050ti gtx 1060 gtx 1070 gtx 1070ti gtx 1080 gtx 1080ti everyone of the above if purchased sept 1 2017 made a profit to roi fully by feb 1 2018 every fucking one. now granted many people fucked up and blew or lost the profit but check the facts out I am correct. find the sept 1 2017 price for those cards and do the math. that = millions of cards and millions of adapters and asic builders killed that off. basically asic builders got so fucking hungry they ate their legs and crippled the industry by doing it. So instead of a gpu kid happy to get a free gaming rig and a few bucks to buy more games you get a gaming kid that hates mining won't use crypto . World wide x 3,000,000 maybe 5,000,000 turned off by the move. Me I am flexible I have all gear cpu gpu fpga asics. But I am a miner not a gaming kid. I have worked with pc's before apple existed and back as far as 1974. I can say they were mainframe back then not really pc's. I always saw this as a power game not a gear game. the reality is it see-saws from power king to gear king to power king and on an on. Dealing the blow to gpu hobby and small miners kills adaption big time. I mean what you say is true but only because the crypto market grew 6x in about 4 months. Anyone who was mining could make money. Pick your favorite altcoin and cut the hashrate in half, profits would still be dismal. I can assure you that bitcoin didn't go from $20k to $5k because of asic miners! Take Zcash for example. In January the reward was over $5000 per block. Now its a little over $1000. Tough to make money when that happens |
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September 14, 2018, 09:16:21 AM |
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Phil, what are you mining atm with your 1080tis?
Me I moved from RVN to BCI, let's see how this goes. I think I will hold for the moment. Latest mined Raven went all to exchange in BTC...
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September 14, 2018, 11:39:08 AM |
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Phil, what are you mining atm with your 1080tis?
Me I moved from RVN to BCI, let's see how this goes. I think I will hold for the moment. Latest mined Raven went all to exchange in BTC...
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September 14, 2018, 09:30:41 PM |
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I have been mining for two years. Slow start with 6 AMD GPUs and Baikal mini miner.
I bought many GPUs in last 10 months.
I have 402 GPUs mixed AMD -- NVIDIA and some Baikal ASICs.
the profit ? i have earned the half of the investment. I need to earn around 50K USD to reach ROI.
That's crazy, in this market you're barely able to break even on electricity used. All the miners in china are just mining and selling with their cheap electricity, they have absolutely no interest in holding anything, they're just selling selling selling and pushing all the prices down. There is no financial intelligence, just make a dollar and buy raman noodles.. I'm doing a lot better than breakeven - but the only low-cost electric rate areas in the US are pretty much ALL getting anti-crypto and implamenting new HIGHER rates for cryptocoin mining operations, sometimes a LOT higher than their actual cost to generate that electric. |
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Alot of money was invested into Bitcoin, Bitcoin businesses, blockchain technology, ICOs, startups,etc.
Sure some of those ICOs were scams and some were overpriced for a simple website and whitepaper but there are many out there that are legit.
Right now I think we are in a price discovery mode. Most of us here were around for a few years and we all knew that BTC at $20K or even $10K was not considered normal. Same with ETH, no way ETH was worth $1400 a coin.
I remember late 2015/early 2016 my 280X GPUs found like a block on average every week mining solo. This was when the block reward was 5 ETH. To me an average price for ETH was around $10, and when it hit $20, I've sold pretty much all of them. The fact that it hit $1400, is not only abnormal, its retarded.
Don't get me wrong, ETH might have a valuation of $1400 but not in the near future. For it to go from $10 to $1400 in a year is crazy. And for it to go from $400 to $1400 in like a month is also crazy.
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September 16, 2018, 12:50:16 AM |
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Alot of money was invested into Bitcoin, Bitcoin businesses, blockchain technology, ICOs, startups,etc.
Sure some of those ICOs were scams and some were overpriced for a simple website and whitepaper but there are many out there that are legit.
Right now I think we are in a price discovery mode. Most of us here were around for a few years and we all knew that BTC at $20K or even $10K was not considered normal. Same with ETH, no way ETH was worth $1400 a coin.
I remember late 2015/early 2016 my 280X GPUs found like a block on average every week mining solo. This was when the block reward was 5 ETH. To me an average price for ETH was around $10, and when it hit $20, I've sold pretty much all of them. The fact that it hit $1400, is not only abnormal, its retarded.
Don't get me wrong, ETH might have a valuation of $1400 but not in the near future. For it to go from $10 to $1400 in a year is crazy. And for it to go from $400 to $1400 in like a month is also crazy.
Lot of truth here. If you think of coins as a way to earn money and compare to " safe investing" say a USA bond you want a premium. So if a "safe" bond pays 3% mining needs to pay more. I learned a lot of info on solar in the state of NJ not only for mining but for solar farming as an investment. In NJ without mining I can make 5 to 7% on a proper solar farm setup. this is calculated selling power to the grid at 4 cents a kwatt. last winter we were earning 50 to 65 cents a kwatt mining we averaged 36 cents for about 13 months. So 36/4 = 9x the price of selling it to the grid. so in 13 months we earned more then 117 months of earnings if we were selling to the grid. that is not normal and is not going to last. we still earn 9 to 11 cents per kwatt vs 4 cents pretty good. |
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September 16, 2018, 12:31:07 PM |
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Alot of money was invested into Bitcoin, Bitcoin businesses, blockchain technology, ICOs, startups,etc.
Sure some of those ICOs were scams and some were overpriced for a simple website and whitepaper but there are many out there that are legit.
Right now I think we are in a price discovery mode. Most of us here were around for a few years and we all knew that BTC at $20K or even $10K was not considered normal. Same with ETH, no way ETH was worth $1400 a coin.
I remember late 2015/early 2016 my 280X GPUs found like a block on average every week mining solo. This was when the block reward was 5 ETH. To me an average price for ETH was around $10, and when it hit $20, I've sold pretty much all of them. The fact that it hit $1400, is not only abnormal, its retarded.
Don't get me wrong, ETH might have a valuation of $1400 but not in the near future. For it to go from $10 to $1400 in a year is crazy. And for it to go from $400 to $1400 in like a month is also crazy.
It is crazy, But you can guarantee it will happen again, just a question of when |
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September 16, 2018, 06:41:07 PM |
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Holy smokes! My bubble-sense was already bursting* but if I had seen that article I would have definitely cashed out of everything!  * - see what I did there? |
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September 16, 2018, 07:08:30 PM |
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I have I have some doubt about mining is it still people doing mining of cryptocurrency is it profitable
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September 17, 2018, 05:55:38 AM |
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Holy smokes! My bubble-sense was already bursting* but if I had seen that article I would have definitely cashed out of everything! * - see what I did there? It's basically what happened back in 2010 when the metal markets were going crazy. Gold almost hit $2000 and silver almost hit $50. There were reports that there will be a shortage of silver and China is buying literally in unlimited amounts. Heard this basically from a cab driver who put all his income into buying silver. What happened right after? It started crashing very fast and will be provably decades when we see $50 silver and $2000 gold again. |
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Holy smokes! My bubble-sense was already bursting* but if I had seen that article I would have definitely cashed out of everything! * - see what I did there? It's basically what happened back in 2010 when the metal markets were going crazy. Gold almost hit $2000 and silver almost hit $50. There were reports that there will be a shortage of silver and China is buying literally in unlimited amounts. Heard this basically from a cab driver who put all his income into buying silver. What happened right after? It started crashing very fast and will be provably decades when we see $50 silver and $2000 gold again. that is when times that people are generally happy with x2 and x3 price increase.....and suddenly crypto introduced x10 x100 and x1000 |
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September 18, 2018, 07:03:56 PM |
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Read an email today from Letine about a new Lyra2Rev2 ASICS miner.... ..... a 6.8GHs per box equivalent to about 100 x 1080tis ... rumored 8k-11k https://cryptomining-blog.com/tag/dayun-zig-z1-asic-miner/>> With depressed BTC price now.... this is really rubbing salt to the wound.... I have powered down my AMD farm ~ around 240 x RX470s. The NVIDIA farm is still up though. Looks like the only way to make money in mining today is .... .... get the newest miner, mine the shit out of the miner, and sell it back to the market.  |
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September 19, 2018, 12:10:56 AM |
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it's easy, all people can do it
wtf? is this post for |
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September 19, 2018, 12:30:02 AM |
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Read an email today from Letine about a new Lyra2Rev2 ASICS miner.... ..... a 6.8GHs per box equivalent to about 100 x 1080tis ... rumored 8k-11k https://cryptomining-blog.com/tag/dayun-zig-z1-asic-miner/>> With depressed BTC price now.... this is really rubbing salt to the wound.... I have powered down my AMD farm ~ around 240 x RX470s. The NVIDIA farm is still up though. Looks like the only way to make money in mining today is .... .... get the newest miner, mine the shit out of the miner, and sell it back to the market. I thought you got really cheap power out there in asia ? Those rx cards still make $$ mining monero at .13 cents power even |
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