8th Alt coin thread. Or what to do now that asics are all over the place.

[WillJ7]

I have a BFL 60 ASIC that didn't catch on fire - that's pretty rare because the other 4 units just like it all either blew caps, fried their boards or flat out burst into flames.

Maybe I can someday find Josh at throw it at his head.

But their PSUs work pretty well on 220V power.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0733JRFVL/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

$75 for the APW3++ right now on Amazon.  Order some decent 6 pin to 6+2 pin adapters and they become useful for GPU builds.  If you order on Amazon, at this price they will typically offer you 3 to 4 years of SquareTrade insurance type coverage for $2-3.  Crazy.

[vapourminer]

I have a BFL 60 ASIC that didn't catch on fire - that's pretty rare because the other 4 units just like it all either blew caps, fried their boards or flat out burst into flames.

Maybe I can someday find Josh at throw it at his head.

 you mean those "300 watt" power bricks they sold with the 60s? yeah deathtraps. and dont forget the later jalapeno power bricks that would fail and take out both the jally and the motherboard it was plugged into.

such quality engineering. and just think if it were not for the companies greed and joshes most excellent PR they might of become bitmain with billions of dollars and basically controlled most of the btc hashrate.

[leowonderful]

I have a BFL 60 ASIC that didn't catch on fire - that's pretty rare because the other 4 units just like it all either blew caps, fried their boards or flat out burst into flames.

Maybe I can someday find Josh at throw it at his head.

But their PSUs work pretty well on 220V power.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0733JRFVL/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

$75 for the APW3++ right now on Amazon.  Order some decent 6 pin to 6+2 pin adapters and they become useful for GPU builds.  If you order on Amazon, at this price they will typically offer you 3 to 4 years of SquareTrade insurance type coverage for $2-3.  Crazy.

Does SquareTrade actually honor the warranty for the PSUs if there was some sort of failure in the PSU during normal operation and the thing happened to break? I've never bought the warranty from SquareTrade anywhere before, but this seems like a great deal compared to getting used APW3s on eBay for a couple bucks less especially with Prime. I might just get one with the money I have left over in my Amazon account if so- 3 years of protection for a buck and a half seems great. Just worried they might not cover something like this.

[Frizz23]

soooooo, what are you mining lately guys?

[adaseb]

soooooo, what are you mining lately guys?

Was about to turn on some rigs and re-start mining ETH again yesterday, however looking at the prices today, might as well leave the rigs off.

With the issuance reduction coming in 3 weeks most likely will just keep rigs off longer unless we see +$400 ETH in the near future.

Not looking to pretty at the moment.

[QuintLeo]

Seems they added an Antminer S5 to a museum in Germany.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/a6eld2/bitmain_miner_shown_at_the_science_museum_in/

Wondering what the most rarest Antminer out there is? Can't be the S5.

The S1 being the first, I also don't think its the rarest, they seem to have made thousands of them.

I am thinking its most likely the Antminer S4, it was released at a bad time during a bear market and with its huge cost and old ASIC chip, it must of had the lowest amount of sales.

Probably the Antminer L1 - that never achieved production, though Bitmain seems to have built some prototypes.
Entirely likely ALL of those got trashed at some point, or rebuilt into prototypes for some other later unit.

[HagssFIN]

Seems they added an Antminer S5 to a museum in Germany.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/a6eld2/bitmain_miner_shown_at_the_science_museum_in/

Wondering what the most rarest Antminer out there is? Can't be the S5.

The S1 being the first, I also don't think its the rarest, they seem to have made thousands of them.

I am thinking its most likely the Antminer S4, it was released at a bad time during a bear market and with its huge cost and old ASIC chip, it must of had the lowest amount of sales.

Probably the Antminer L1 - that never achieved production, though Bitmain seems to have built some prototypes.
Entirely likely ALL of those got trashed at some point, or rebuilt into prototypes for some other later unit.

Antminer S2 upgrade kit is pretty rare too. There was a prototype / prototypes, but it never made it to the mass production.

[Deepcleen]

soooooo, what are you mining lately guys?

Was about to turn on some rigs and re-start mining ETH again yesterday, however looking at the prices today, might as well leave the rigs off.

With the issuance reduction coming in 3 weeks most likely will just keep rigs off longer unless we see +$400 ETH in the near future.

Not looking to pretty at the moment.

I only turn the rig  because the heating. It is similar to heat my house with electricity.

[philipma1957]

Mining BCI

12x. 1080ti’s
 4x.   Vega 56’s
1x.     Rx 580

2x   1050ti’s

I have close to 4600 coins.

[adaseb]

The Antminer L1 doesn't really count as a rare miner since it was never produced for the public, same with the S2 upgrade kit.

I actually remember people buying Antminer S2 on eBay because they wanted to upgrade it later, only to be disappointed and have to recycle them instead.

However anyone remember that water-cooled Antminer based on the S3 chips? It was called the Antminer C1. I am pretty sure this was produced in very low numbers. I actually loved that miner because it was very silent and you could actually change the chip voltages in the software unlike the hardware pencil resistor mods you had to do with the S3.

[soothaa]

Mining BCI

12x. 1080ti’s
 4x.   Vega 56’s
1x.     Rx 580

2x   1050ti’s

I have close to 4600 coins.

Did you switch over to ZCoin for the MTP fork? Pulled in a nice few during that low diff.

[Elder III]

The Zcoin fork is what's paying the power bill for this month with the 3 rigs we have left running.  Sadly the pool situation has been pretty bad, with a huge portion of the hashrate coming from private pools or solo miners.

[philipma1957]

Mining BCI

12x. 1080ti’s
 4x.   Vega 56’s
1x.     Rx 580

2x   1050ti’s

I have close to 4600 coins.

Did you switch over to ZCoin for the MTP fork? Pulled in a nice few during that low diff.

No I will simply mine BCI until I reach 10000 coins.

[leowonderful]

The Antminer L1 doesn't really count as a rare miner since it was never produced for the public, same with the S2 upgrade kit.

I actually remember people buying Antminer S2 on eBay because they wanted to upgrade it later, only to be disappointed and have to recycle them instead.

However anyone remember that water-cooled Antminer based on the S3 chips? It was called the Antminer C1. I am pretty sure this was produced in very low numbers. I actually loved that miner because it was very silent and you could actually change the chip voltages in the software unlike the hardware pencil resistor mods you had to do with the S3.

I remember that machine- I considered getting one a while back, and there's even still listings for them on eBay if anyone here is looking to acquire one of the machines today for a collection or something like that. Still hard to believe we had pretty quiet BTC miners as far back as the S5 and the S3/C1 machines back when Bitmain wasn't squeezing so many watts into such a small case. I still miss the design of the S3 and S5 cases too, though the newer metal ones also have their strong points.

[DrG]

I have a BFL 60 ASIC that didn't catch on fire - that's pretty rare because the other 4 units just like it all either blew caps, fried their boards or flat out burst into flames.

Maybe I can someday find Josh at throw it at his head.

 you mean those "300 watt" power bricks they sold with the 60s? yeah deathtraps. and dont forget the later jalapeno power bricks that would fail and take out both the jally and the motherboard it was plugged into.

such quality engineering. and just think if it were not for the companies greed and joshes most excellent PR they might of become bitmain with billions of dollars and basically controlled most of the btc hashrate.

Oh God.... those "psus" were the shittiest things ever. I tested 5 of the 60 GH/s units at home the first day I got them. 1 psu was DOA. 1 blew as I flipped it to the "on" state. 3rd one died about 2 hours in and left a burn mark on my carpet.

I was talking about the actual ASIC units. They were pure crap. 208 BTC down the drain for each one. My mistake for not going with Avalon.

BTW, what if Jihan Wu and Yifu Gao are related?  Oh wouldn't that be funny.

[adaseb]

I can't recall the name of this ASIC manufacture but I remember they had issues with stability on their miners and instead of doing a proper fix by warranty work, they made a video and showed people how to remove some capacitors which were causing the issues. However instead of properly de-soldering those capacitors they literally just ripped them off the board.

Almost as bad as those KnCMiner Neptunes which pulled about 300-400 Watts from a single PCIe connector.

[Tidsdilatation]

I live in Sweden, where we right now have the HIGHEST electricity price since 2008. I pay around 0.4dollars/kwh. There is no way mining will ever be profitable for me again unless we go on really long bull market 

[KaydenC]

I live in Sweden, where we right now have the HIGHEST electricity price since 2008. I pay around 0.4dollars/kwh. There is no way mining will ever be profitable for me again unless we go on really long bull market 

Residential electricity? Industrial electricity is pretty cheap I heard, around the hydro dams.

[fr4nkthetank]

Happy New Year to all, I wish for 2019 to not be the last year of GPU mining xD.  And of course don't forget to use that bitcoin once in a while, its always a bonus.  I'm thinking of getting a nice 6" dobsonian telescope so I can see bitcoin when it hits the moon

[dragonmike]

Happy New Year to all, I wish for 2019 to not be the last year of GPU mining xD.  And of course don't forget to use that bitcoin once in a while, its always a bonus.  I'm thinking of getting a nice 6" dobsonian telescope so I can see bitcoin when it hits the moon

That's the spirit!
Happy new year everyone, may bitcoin go back to the moon, and the alts follow very soon!