Addicted to hardware?

[iglasses]

... but I know the wife-aggro would be immense ...

Bwahahaha ... I feel your pain 

Wives are the single biggest drag on the global hash speed.

[chadgroover]

... but I know the wife-aggro would be immense ...

Bwahahaha ... I feel your pain 

Wives are the single biggest drag on the global hash speed.

I hear you there buddy!
Try living with someone who won't leave the house unless every single plug socket is turned off at the wall (apart from the fridge of course, because that's perfectly safe!!!)

[frankenmint]

if you look at btcguild rankings, you'll see stats that attribute 80 TH to one single Usergroup.  Where's THAT guy? I used to think I was hot shit with my paultry 620 GH until I saw those rankings.  Still growing up to a TH soon.  I'm not out of btc yet either which is nice.  I've found it more addictive to lurk btc-e and cryptsy instead.  I absolutely love trading and viewing the swings and will occasionally check my hashrate based on both audible noise of the avalon, the solid lights of my BE array, and the occasional check of stats at the pool.  I didn't buy my hardware at once, it came gradually. 

KNC mercury
Bitfury Full kit
Block Erupters
Avalon 80 GH unit

Soon to add some Antminers.  Yes brothers, I too am a Haashaholic.  On the plus, you can get your GF/Wife to buy In...just explain it clearly....and cite the examples of the man who dropped 24 dollars in 2010 as well as the other guy who lost his HDD in UK...that helped me.  Also to those being misogynistic, you just got me in trouble you dicks!  Stock acting like the majority you MINORITIES!      GF quoted - "bring home something nice that was purchased from mining cryptocurrency (yes her words, she knows about altcoins too!)  She'll be more open to it because its a visual example"

[lightfoot]

Well, in the "utter orgasm of performance", I now have a Jalapeno that has gone from 5gh to 32gh. :-)



Just hit the 200gh club, I think at this point I'm going to stop doing things and let this stuff cycle down....

C

[Darthswan]

This is the worse addiction, to date.  I started with an upgraded cube and some eruptor cubes.  After I got an idea of the process, I convinced my wife to purchase our first Antminer 180.  I'm waiting for it in the mail.  I even got her to agree to another antminer, but we just had an unexpected expense pop up, so it's been put on hold.  We will see what happens next month. 

[J_Dubbs]

My final blade should arrive tomorrow, and thus my backplane will be maxed out. Scored it for .25btc on a group buy, bringing my avg cost down further. I'm all out of power outlets and now my only choice is to let it run a while. My total speed will be around 225-230gh/s.

Someone is selling a backplane with PSU and 10 blades for $2k on eBay. I'm not gonna buy it, and I know the blades are one foot out the door, but it's almost tempting... Like any good addict, "I'm not a quitter!!"- but I will be doing my best to make no changes for the next 2 months.

[J_Dubbs]

Well, in the "utter orgasm of performance", I now have a Jalapeno that has gone from 5gh to 32gh. :-)



Just hit the 200gh club, I think at this point I'm going to stop doing things and let this stuff cycle down....

C

That's sick!! Can you post more pics?

[palawan]

Forget the ROI...  well, maybe not completely.  Let's face it, mining satisfies the geek part of us that wants to tinker with technology and it also satisfies the speculative (gambling) part of us that's trying to earn income (in btc).

How much did I spend building building PC's with premium parts 20 years ago? (oops, just dated myself).  How much did I spend on fishing gear and fishing trips?  I have 2 friends from work that just did a custom-build on a PC for over a thousand $.  I have FOUR friends from work that bought this Mark 5D camera or something like that for over $2K!!   My camera is a point and shoot Samsung and the Nexus 4 so I can't understand that.  My brother and brother-in-law have spent thousands on golf.

So...  when people say we're stupid or dumb because we didn't calculate not getting our ROI...  Just say the truth!  This is a hobby.  and hobbies cost money.  If this hobby turns out to be profitable, well, we can turn around and say to them see!  I told you so!!!   

[J_Dubbs]

Forget the ROI...  well, maybe not completely.  Let's face it, mining satisfies the geek part of us that wants to tinker with technology and it also satisfies the speculative (gambling) part of us that's trying to earn income (in btc).

How much did I spend building building PC's with premium parts 20 years ago? (oops, just dated myself).  How much did I spend on fishing gear and fishing trips?  I have 2 friends from work that just did a custom-build on a PC for over a thousand $.  I have FOUR friends from work that bought this Mark 5D camera or something like that for over $2K!!   My camera is a point and shoot Samsung and the Nexus 4 so I can't understand that.  My brother and brother-in-law have spent thousands on golf.

So...  when people say we're stupid or dumb because we didn't calculate not getting our ROI...  Just say the truth!  This is a hobby.  and hobbies cost money.  If this hobby turns out to be profitable, well, we can turn around and say to them see!  I told you so!!!   

well said!

I still use my point and shoot camera from 2006 when I travel and my HTC Arrive for day-to-day stuff. Everyone assumes I have an SLR because of how my pictures come out, helps that know my way around all the manual settings and a bit about composition. My wife and her friends always say "You're phone takes the best pictures, wish mine did that!" lol, yeah "the phone" took a good picture, not the guy using it... Very good point though, I know so many people that dump big bucks on an SLR camera and they know dick about photography, kinda sad because the things I could do with a nice SLR someday...

[lightfoot]

Well, in the "utter orgasm of performance", I now have a Jalapeno that has gone from 5gh to 32gh. :-)



Just hit the 200gh club, I think at this point I'm going to stop doing things and let this stuff cycle down....

C

That's sick!! Can you post more pics?

It's also the coolest system I have running at 45c. That corsair is exceptionally good.

I have a write up with more pics over here.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=336782.0;topicseen

Well worth the read.

[ManeBjorn]

Yes they are.
Now if they thought of it like shoes we would have unlimited amounts of gear. LOL

... but I know the wife-aggro would be immense ...

Bwahahaha ... I feel your pain 

Wives are the single biggest drag on the global hash speed.

[r00tdude]

Oh boy. Self analysis is a bitch.

My name is RootDude and I, too am addicted to mining... Started out with a really cool purchase of a 30x BE setup (including all fans, hubs, etc. to get started)... GF saw all the action and wanted in once she saw the potential in BTC... and from there it became a full-blown clusterfuck of incoming and outgoing gear - trading up every time an opportunity presented itself. Racing home from work to meet the delivery guy and throwing the new rig on the USB hub and jumping back in the car to my real job. Sweating (literally) late deliveries in the face of rising difficulty... Can I get a hallelujah from those of you that have done this multiple times a week?

Once I tuned in to the rest of the world (pre-order anxiety and difficulty adjustments) I talked myself out of ASICs and straight BTC mining and am now awaiting my GPU gear to do alts and trading to satisfy my urges. I read 'Pics of your mining rig' posts before anything else in the forums getting ideas for how my next one should be set up... At least in the alt/GPU world, difficulties are relatively steady as opposed to BTC, and a new GPU can fend off a small dent in profitability. I curse Alpha-T and hope they are the frauds everyone thinks they are. I don't do pre-orders because it gives me hives and angina.

That is my testimony.

Oh, and money? Will my stuff ROI? Probably when I sell it after mining and trading a while. During all of my incoming and outgoing purchases I managed to 'bank' a couple of BTC which I'm hanging on to with sharp claws. I'd never spend BTC to mine BTC... seems counter intuitive to me. YMMV.

Peace,
RootDude

[r00tdude]

... but I know the wife-aggro would be immense ...

Bwahahaha ... I feel your pain 

Wives are the single biggest drag on the global hash speed.

So are girlfriends, until they are duly educated and indoctrinated. I had to laugh when I read this ^^^.

[Darthswan]

... but I know the wife-aggro would be immense ...

Bwahahaha ... I feel your pain 

Wives are the single biggest drag on the global hash speed.

So are girlfriends, until they are duly educated and indoctrinated. I had to laugh when I read this ^^^.

LMAOOOOOOO that's funny and true.

[lightfoot]

Oddly enough I am bored after getting jallies to 8 chips. So I found a new challenge:

Get a BFL Single/25 to 60gh. This will be interesting... I'm keeping a thread over here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=424604.msg4624265#msg4624265

What's the worst that can happen?

C

[activescott]

"My name is activescott and I'm a haashahollic"

Reading this thread pushed me over the edge and I bid on that antminer S1 on ebay. So let me know when the next meeting is

[lightfoot]

Heh. I'm not going to Amtminers, this addiction has to stop with BFL stuff.

Speaking of which I managed to add a good 20gh of performance to my single/25 here. Now up to 48gh; I might add one more chip ust to bring it to a nice even 50gh. Yep, addict. :-)

C

[ManeBjorn]

Very cool.
If I tied to add chips I would burn the whole house down. LOL

Heh. I'm not going to Amtminers, this addiction has to stop with BFL stuff.

Speaking of which I managed to add a good 20gh of performance to my single/25 here. Now up to 48gh; I might add one more chip ust to bring it to a nice even 50gh. Yep, addict. :-)

C

[activescott]

Heh. I'm not going to Amtminers, this addiction has to stop with BFL stuff.

Speaking of which I managed to add a good 20gh of performance to my single/25 here. Now up to 48gh; I might add one more chip ust to bring it to a nice even 50gh. Yep, addict. :-)

C

Cool, that sounds fun. How do you go about doing that?

[lightfoot]

Cool, that sounds fun. How do you go about doing that?

One step at a time to be honest. Started with a 5gh jally, then flashed it, then started thinking about more chips, then one thing led to another....

And here, as they say, we are. Basically it requires a will to try new things and wonder what the worst that can happen is.

C