New buildout with buysolar has entered stage 2.

[MoparMiningLLC]

that is on sky's end as he was into solar installs for more then 5 years before BTC was around.

I live less then 5 miles from him  and handle btc+ ltc gear and mining setup.

I promo for this as it works hand and hand

Solar + Crypto = winner in NJ

my job is talkng and blogging it and getting good gear at good prices.

bring those skills to FL - you can start on my spare lot

[philipma1957]

bring those skills to FL - you can start on my spare lot

Would be nice to be in some warm weather.

NJ stays too cold too long.

I got our 7th m10 took a bit to fire up but seems to be working now.

the build will move from 525th to 556th very soon.

I now have to think a bit as to what to do with the older gear.

19 s9's
4 sl7's
2 a721'
1 a921   they do about 280th at about 28000 watts

the  7 m10's  1 s15 1 innosilicon  do about 270 th at 18400 watts

so if I load up on m10s 13 x 2200 = 28600 with an up grade to  416

the plan was to add an m10 a week at a time

getting us to be at about 685th.

but I have heard the trump tax may end in march
I have also heard  the s17 may get launched by years end.

so I now need to think about m10 vs s15 vs s17 vs t17

much more complex set of decisions to guess.

[MoparMiningLLC]

yep - its hard to justify new gear atm with that tariff - at least for me it is. I would need to sell some existing machines first. I did like to see the little rise we got in todays btc price. makes my holdings just a bit more valuable

edit

i think bitmain heard me... they just gave me 14 new coupons worth over 250 and 7 for 160 --- the 65's I have had for a bit

[Biffa]

Yup, looks like they are going to try and clear out all the inventory ready for the new stuff later in the year. Sell out completely as quickly as they can and then generate market anticipation conditions for the new releases.

Strangely you can't apply any of those coupons to your cart, only the $65 ones.

[MoparMiningLLC]

Yup, looks like they are going to try and clear out all the inventory ready for the new stuff later in the year. Sell out completely as quickly as they can and then generate market anticipation conditions for the new releases.

Strangely you can't apply any of those coupons to your cart, only the $65 ones.

well that is because the new ones are not active until 2.26.19 so another week or so.  and yes they have a second generation 7nm chip which they claim is close to 30j/th -- i believe the most efficient ones you can current get are around the 50j/th mark, if I am not mistaken.

My guess is those 2nd gens will be expensive with long drawn out ROI's. So it may be time to scoop up the 1st gen 7nm machines now.

[minefarmbuy]

Yea, not active yet. From my personal account I can use $65 and $300, $395 coupons but not the others due to date.

[philipma1957]

I guess they read this

I was up really late last night opened my emails just now and  saw the notices.

So some s15's or t15's will be purchased very soon.

I don't have a t15.

so 710 -340 = 370 + 110 = 480

a no tax order since the base 710 is under the 799

480 for the t15 is really good price.

[MoparMiningLLC]

yea - I have way more coupons that I can possibly use. want to buy some coupons? lol I am willing to sell at 25% face value.

I also want to sell some of my s9's and go for the t15's. If by some miracle, I could get $300 for the miners w/psu I could buy 4 t15's for every 5 s9's I sell with no out of pocket on the purchase. that would put me at 92 th for 4 t15's vs the 70 th i am getting for 5 s9's and would save me about 350 watts per hour. A little less th (84 i think) if used in LPM mode but with almost 500 watts per hour less electric consumption.

[minefarmbuy]

Not sure what the efficiency setting looks like on the m10 but the t15 in LPM delivers over m10 in stock. 

[MoparMiningLLC]

Not sure what the efficiency setting looks like on the m10 but the t15 in LPM delivers over m10 in stock. 

yep now i just wish I could find someone to buy my s9's for $300 each lol

[minefarmbuy]

yep now i just wish I could find someone to buy my s9's for $300 each lol

Might need to wait for BTC to pump a little higher. I think average for used s9's is about $150/unit now. Maybe I'm mistaken though. Upstream might take them but I don't know of any projects their working on right now.

[philipma1957]

Pricing is always complex.

A lot depends on your power cap  and on power efficiency.

Until today  the m10 was the best unit in the USA

Now a t15 with a  340 coupon is a better deal .

but the 340 coupons are wait til the 26th

by the 26th maybe the m10 drops to 500

Also if the s15 at 1020-340 = 680 + 100 to ship is invoiced at 680 + 100 = 780 no tax

if it is invoiced at 1020-340 = 680 + 100 shipping = 780  plus tax of 27.6% on the 1020 price  that is a tax of 281  so 780 + 281 = 1061

so as of today  for a USA guy

the s15 is 1061 or 780 if you order one
the t15 is  470 if you order one

and it is not exactly correct since you can not order until feb 26th.

also the  order 1 per day to save the tax while true  can end up being wrong if they jam up in customs and  you feb 26 feb 27 feb 28 ordered hit the usa on march 1  usa can say you ordered 3 in 1 day we tax your ass.

So when I do order:
I will order 1 sent to my home
buysolar will order 1 sent to his home

we will then order again when they arrive at our homes
I will order 1 T15
buysolar will order 1 S15

if that s15 is written correctly to legally avoid the trump tax
we can order 1 S15 each for the next order.

a PITA  but we would legally avoid about 800-1000 in tax this way

[minefarmbuy]

I would throttle about 1 every third business day (Sunday-Friday in the US to match UTC +8) but only if units are readily available no pre-ordering. Might have my timezone off but hopefully people can figure that out. Essentially this process is the main portion of our work since last Aug/Sept at least more units are under de minimis now. Still be careful about expecting leniency with coupons for discounts.

[MoparMiningLLC]

oh i know $300 is a stretch but I can dream either way cannot use the coupons until the 26th so who knows what will happen to btc and/or the market by then.

[philipma1957]

oh i know $300 is a stretch but I can dream either way cannot use the coupons until the 26th so who knows what will happen to btc and/or the market by then.

my feeling is the market pumping to 4445 is meh.  they would be stupid to cancel the coupons.

[Steamtyme]

Hope you don't mind me bringing this over here.

What really hurts me is now I have to think for four people with 575 of my 617 th.
Vs two people with 120 th forces me to be very conservative   With the big chunk 575 th.

I'd say you've deployed a pretty good strategy overall. Good mix of gear, couple different coin streams, and I believe you use a few pools to balance variance. I'm going to assume all parties involved have been happy with your deployment to date or you wouldn't be growing so fast in this market. Do you have any one off gambles going anymore? If I remember you used to throw at Johnny's, and another that had the block finder rewards from time to time.

Just a heads up with those coupons are you sure you can go higher than 300$ for the T15, checking the "coupons" tab on the Bitmain product page for the T15 it says 300$ or less. I'm pretty torn on what to grab myself at least I have a few days to ponder it over, and here I thought I was done buying gear for a while.

[philipma1957]

Looks like the t15 will not use my 340.

[MoparMiningLLC]

in the past coupons have always worked as long as their value was 50% or less than the cost of the miner, right? so a $340 coupon should work on any miner over $680 in my opinion, but the site does say that but is it also possible that it has not been updated to allow for the $340 coupons as they are not active until the 26th?

[minefarmbuy]

Correct the 26th a handful of coupons go live. I believe the $340 is part of those.

[philipma1957]

Going up to ware house on tues.

we will be adding a m10 this should get us to 540th with 1 t15 on the way.
we may order some more t15's

plus this fan, a beast, 14900 cfm.  is to be installed for warm weather. damn that is some suction baby.

https://www.gamut.com/p/direct-drive-exhaust-fan-heavy-duty-1-speeds-shutter-230v-ac-ODI0Mjg1



scale for the fan above here it is with me and the still sealed box.

box is like 5 ft by 5 ft by 1.5 ft
I can not wait to make a video of it installed



the 1 board m10 is second in the row with other m10's

https://i.imgur.com/6VCJRci.jpg

535th

https://i.imgur.com/96Znzox.png

input is 229 volts we are pulling 65 kwatts

https://i.imgur.com/Xh9ofQH.jpg

philipma1957 (me) and buysolar (my partner)

are looking into 10-20 s15's to be added to this.

I sent this to kaboomracks store.