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October 18, 2018, 05:07:44 PM
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I manage a few miners for some of my colleagues and they all told me and insisted that their miners to be turned off. Here where we are electricity is on the high side being roughly 0.11 cent/kwatt for businesses and a bit higher for personal use. We were barely getting to be even with Rx 570 and Rx 580 series so all 20 mining rigs are turned off for the moment.

What are you guys doing with yours ?

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October 18, 2018, 05:34:10 PM
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My rigs are still running.  But if its costing more to mine in electricity than you are getting in coins I understand shutting them off for a while.
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October 18, 2018, 05:34:37 PM
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I'm continuing to mine as my electrical rates hover at around $0.07/kWh, but I've also started shutting down less profitable miners and scrapping them for parts to sell while parts are still worth a bit of money. I don't operate any SHA256 asics anymore, as they're all just barely profitable and I've also sold them off while they've still got value. I just have a few rigs with newer 5XX, 4XX and 1060 GPUs now.
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October 18, 2018, 07:47:50 PM
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i turned them off like 3 months ago. I thank god everyday that i did that.

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October 18, 2018, 07:49:41 PM
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My rig is still on. I make a few bucks per month but I'm still lying to myself that the price will go at least x10 in the future Grin
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October 18, 2018, 08:41:36 PM
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Would be wise to make sure your rigs can last in next bull run. It's a marathon not a Sprint. If your mining and your equipment gives out from over use your gonna wish your hardware was still working. I'd run the rigs lightly or have it on standby till profitablity returns. 20 series not that great so keeping your 10 series is wise. 30 percent better efficiency than rx570
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October 19, 2018, 07:19:41 PM
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I have turned off my ASICs in the US but the ones in Mexico are still running. I keep mining Siacoin until the fork , lying to myself that the price will spike haha
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October 19, 2018, 07:53:58 PM
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I keep mining my electricity is $.049.  I replaced my AMD rigs with ASICs because I ran out of electricity, keep blowing the main breaker and the AMD cards were making the least after electrical cost.  10 series cards are ok mining 16r but not great. 

What I'd really like to do is run another line to my garage and keep everything running, I could run my rigs and ASICS for a long time and still be profitable at 4.9 cents a kilowatt hour.
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October 19, 2018, 08:02:22 PM
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All rigs running at full speed. In total its not that many Cards, only 11. Power cost is low and I didnt pay any fiat for them so I am mining highly and semihighly speculative coins (RESS, xsg, zel and a ton other). Hopefully one or two coins will fly within 1-5 years.
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October 19, 2018, 08:51:23 PM
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I'm doing the same, mining on all rigs. Market will rise someday and I don't want to be out of this. 

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October 19, 2018, 09:16:56 PM
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Still mining as well but seriously contemplating turning most of it off.  I have a variety but I only have 7 GPUs and they have been mining at a loss for a few months now.  I want to have something to sit on in case there is a turn around in the markets but I'm very close to calling it on the GPUs.  My S9's are also really marginal these days.  They still make a decent amount per day but they have to be really close to dropping below the breakeven point right now in terms of cost to run.  So I am contemplating turning those off as well.  Have a few other asic miners that are still worth running for the time being but none of those have broken even for the purchase price yet either.

But on the other hand I have been mining for a number of years and my obsolete pile of gear has BFL, asicminer, gridseed, innosilicon, and bitmain stuff in it.  So turning stuff off and piling it in the corner isn't an entirely new concept to me.  Not replacing it with the latest and greatest kind of is new though, and right now I have zero plans to buy anything out there.
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October 19, 2018, 09:49:07 PM
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still mining with 0.14ct/kwh (but all nvidia) - have a look at our testrig (link), it's still profitable after electricity. (the rig is paid off, so we don't care if it's just 30-60 usd/mon - because it's 30-60 usd/month for doing absolutely nothing for it - all is automated)

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October 19, 2018, 10:43:44 PM
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I have just a small hobby rig made up of my old gaming cards and my gaming PC and Im still managing to pull close to $1/day with just a 7850, R9 270X and an RX 580. the flip side I only pay $0.06USD/kWh on electricity. In the end I still make over $0.60 profit per day. On such low end cards with power requirements that dont match their hashrate, I can still manage to pull a profit.
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October 19, 2018, 11:28:55 PM
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Still mining as well but seriously contemplating turning most of it off.  I have a variety but I only have 7 GPUs and they have been mining at a loss for a few months now.  I want to have something to sit on in case there is a turn around in the markets but I'm very close to calling it on the GPUs.  My S9's are also really marginal these days.  They still make a decent amount per day but they have to be really close to dropping below the breakeven point right now in terms of cost to run.  So I am contemplating turning those off as well.  Have a few other asic miners that are still worth running for the time being but none of those have broken even for the purchase price yet either.

But on the other hand I have been mining for a number of years and my obsolete pile of gear has BFL, asicminer, gridseed, innosilicon, and bitmain stuff in it.  So turning stuff off and piling it in the corner isn't an entirely new concept to me.  Not replacing it with the latest and greatest kind of is new though, and right now I have zero plans to buy anything out there.

Yeah new m10 gear is about 2k once you add the trump tax to it.

So it does not pay to buy them.

I am still not sure if I will get a back bill for 500 usd on the one m10 I got either I beat the deadline by a day or I lost by a day.  So far no bill for it.

Right now my 1920x threadripper is doing well on xmr v8. See how long that lasts.

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October 19, 2018, 11:32:20 PM
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My exit strategy is to buy some cheap i5 4th gen or older enterprise PC's and put in a power supply and my used graphics cards and price them to break even + value of the card. I suspect its easier to sell a "gaming pc" than it is to sell a "graphics card". Everything began in early December 2017 with the full intent of these cards popping or frying from natural causes (aka no overclocking no bios mod). However Ive gamed on the R9 270X for 5 years then now Ive mined with it for almost a year straight, and the only symptom is one fan had some noise, I replaced it with an older but more reliable fan from another card that already had 1 blown fan and I had removed from the rig to sell "as is" for $20-$30. The older card (HD 6950) just couldn't justify its operation with a profit of $0.01 per day after electricity. So I purchased a cheap used HD 7850 with full knowledge that its hashrates arent much higher than the 6950 but its power usage is much less.

Overall I had some moments of shutting the rigs down, in the June dip for example, but I managed to find a coin to switch to every time that gave more profits and kept them in the game to this day. This setback is temporary.
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October 19, 2018, 11:58:41 PM
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Still mining as well but seriously contemplating turning most of it off.  I have a variety but I only have 7 GPUs and they have been mining at a loss for a few months now.  I want to have something to sit on in case there is a turn around in the markets but I'm very close to calling it on the GPUs.  My S9's are also really marginal these days.  They still make a decent amount per day but they have to be really close to dropping below the breakeven point right now in terms of cost to run.  So I am contemplating turning those off as well.  Have a few other asic miners that are still worth running for the time being but none of those have broken even for the purchase price yet either.

But on the other hand I have been mining for a number of years and my obsolete pile of gear has BFL, asicminer, gridseed, innosilicon, and bitmain stuff in it.  So turning stuff off and piling it in the corner isn't an entirely new concept to me.  Not replacing it with the latest and greatest kind of is new though, and right now I have zero plans to buy anything out there.

Yeah new m10 gear is about 2k once you add the trump tax to it.

So it does not pay to buy them.

I am still not sure if I will get a back bill for 500 usd on the one m10 I got either I beat the deadline by a day or I lost by a day.  So far no bill for it.

Right now my 1920x threadripper is doing well on xmr v8. See how long that lasts.

Wait, isn't XMR v8 the one that started yesterday?

EDIT: Ha!  Nevermind.  I was thinking that threadripper was an asic for a second there.  I had forgotten about the CPU.
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October 20, 2018, 02:27:12 AM
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Still mining as well but seriously contemplating turning most of it off.  I have a variety but I only have 7 GPUs and they have been mining at a loss for a few months now.  I want to have something to sit on in case there is a turn around in the markets but I'm very close to calling it on the GPUs.  My S9's are also really marginal these days.  They still make a decent amount per day but they have to be really close to dropping below the breakeven point right now in terms of cost to run.  So I am contemplating turning those off as well.  Have a few other asic miners that are still worth running for the time being but none of those have broken even for the purchase price yet either.

But on the other hand I have been mining for a number of years and my obsolete pile of gear has BFL, asicminer, gridseed, innosilicon, and bitmain stuff in it.  So turning stuff off and piling it in the corner isn't an entirely new concept to me.  Not replacing it with the latest and greatest kind of is new though, and right now I have zero plans to buy anything out there.

Yeah new m10 gear is about 2k once you add the trump tax to it.

So it does not pay to buy them.

I am still not sure if I will get a back bill for 500 usd on the one m10 I got either I beat the deadline by a day or I lost by a day.  So far no bill for it.

Right now my 1920x threadripper is doing well on xmr v8. See how long that lasts.

wanna take my 11.85th S9 (working fine, not running it for 3 mo or so) for $215 (in btc), shipped?
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October 20, 2018, 02:50:28 AM
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I manage a few miners for some of my colleagues and they all told me and insisted that their miners to be turned off. Here where we are electricity is on the high side being roughly 0.11 cent/kwatt for businesses and a bit higher for personal use. We were barely getting to be even with Rx 570 and Rx 580 series so all 20 mining rigs are turned off for the moment.

What are you guys doing with yours ?

I've shut off my miners over the years and waited.  I wound up selling my original batch of Butterfly Labs ASIC's when the difficulty got too high and I wasn't making as much.  I have 10 GPU's that are sitting idle now though, waiting for the market to bounce back up.
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October 20, 2018, 04:34:33 AM
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Still mining as well but seriously contemplating turning most of it off.  I have a variety but I only have 7 GPUs and they have been mining at a loss for a few months now.  I want to have something to sit on in case there is a turn around in the markets but I'm very close to calling it on the GPUs.  My S9's are also really marginal these days.  They still make a decent amount per day but they have to be really close to dropping below the breakeven point right now in terms of cost to run.  So I am contemplating turning those off as well.  Have a few other asic miners that are still worth running for the time being but none of those have broken even for the purchase price yet either.

But on the other hand I have been mining for a number of years and my obsolete pile of gear has BFL, asicminer, gridseed, innosilicon, and bitmain stuff in it.  So turning stuff off and piling it in the corner isn't an entirely new concept to me.  Not replacing it with the latest and greatest kind of is new though, and right now I have zero plans to buy anything out there.

Yeah new m10 gear is about 2k once you add the trump tax to it.

So it does not pay to buy them.

I am still not sure if I will get a back bill for 500 usd on the one m10 I got either I beat the deadline by a day or I lost by a day.  So far no bill for it.

Right now my 1920x threadripper is doing well on xmr v8. See how long that lasts.

Wait, isn't XMR v8 the one that started yesterday?

EDIT: Ha!  Nevermind.  I was thinking that threadripper was an asic for a second there.  I had forgotten about the CPU.


Cryptonight V8 is a finicky beast if you can handle the extra power requirements for a GPU it can give you similar hashrates to the older V7 but you have to configure your intensity right or the card might crash the driver without additional power limit (on Polaris cards.)

Edit: What I meant to add was that a threadripper CPU has so much L3 cache that it can actually provide hashrates similar to a Vega64 card. Im not sure what the TDP on those CPU's are but its looking like CPU's might be the new power efficient way to mine crypto.
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October 20, 2018, 08:56:32 AM
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I'm doing the same, mining on all rigs. Market will rise someday and I don't want to be out of this.  


Now mining does not bring the profits that can be compared with the wins of the previous years. The awards have become smaller. However, I believe that in future it will be again a very profitable business.
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