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[georgem]

So I thought it might be cool to upload some pics of my mining operation.  Right now the GPU's are mining SPR and the scrypt asics are mining for BTC which gets converted to SPR  .  

I started in the home office with some R9 290's but got quickly kicked out into the garage due to heat and noise.
https://i.imgur.com/EiTfcAwl.jpg?1

Once I found the 750ti's I was able to swap out the R9 290's and sneak (4) into the home office computer again!  Shhh - she may not know!  
https://i.imgur.com/DJ3aAIll.jpg?1

How about others load some pics to show off their operation?

Nice setup. What's the power bill like?

It is not bad - between everything - I burn about 1700 watts a day.  I do have solar panels so it offsets the mining and my regular home use.  I average about $50/month in power bill.

Can we take a look at your solar panel setup? Your solar battery must be like 300 Kilos to deliever this consistent power, lol, right? Or do you only use solar energy on the fly without saving it for later?

I too have a few small solar panels on 4 of my window seats, all panels together average to about 100 Watt an hour on a sunny day.
I use them to power all my gadgets, 2 laptops, some tablets and mobile phones. And I use 2 x 20 Kilo (+ 1 x 30 Kilo) Batteries to save the solar energy for later use.
Lol, maybe I could power a USB miner with this.  



One of my small solar panels, right in front of my basil (you gotta be self reliant!)



Control of input (solar) and output (battery)



And the 30 kilo battery.

[pokeytex]

So I thought it might be cool to upload some pics of my mining operation.  Right now the GPU's are mining SPR and the scrypt asics are mining for BTC which gets converted to SPR  .  

I started in the home office with some R9 290's but got quickly kicked out into the garage due to heat and noise.
https://i.imgur.com/EiTfcAwl.jpg?1

Once I found the 750ti's I was able to swap out the R9 290's and sneak (4) into the home office computer again!  Shhh - she may not know!  
https://i.imgur.com/DJ3aAIll.jpg?1

How about others load some pics to show off their operation?

Nice setup. What's the power bill like?

It is not bad - between everything - I burn about 1700 watts a day.  I do have solar panels so it offsets the mining and my regular home use.  I average about $50/month in power bill.

Can we take a look at your solar panel setup? Your solar battery must be like 300 Kilos to deliever this consistent power, lol, right?

I too have some small solar panel on 4 of my window seats, the panels average to about 100 Watt an hour on a sunny day.
I use them to power all my gadgets, tablets and mobile phones. And I use 2 x 20 Kilo (+ 1 x 30 Kilo) Batteries to save the solar energy for later use.
Lol, maybe I could power a USB miner with this.  



One of my small solar panels, right in front of my basil (you gotta be self reliant!)



Control of input (solar) and output (battery)



And the 30 kilo battery.

Hehe - I will have to take a picture when it is nice outside. (snowing now).  I do not have solar battery back-up.  Was too damn expensive to put on (over $10k).  The system on my roof is a 10Kw system.  Which is enough to generate credits for me all day which get applied to my electric bill.  Without the solar panels I am sure I would be around $350 USD per month on average.

[pokeytex]

So I thought it might be cool to upload some pics of my mining operation.  Right now the GPU's are mining SPR and the scrypt asics are mining for BTC which gets converted to SPR  .  

I started in the home office with some R9 290's but got quickly kicked out into the garage due to heat and noise.
https://i.imgur.com/EiTfcAwl.jpg?1

Once I found the 750ti's I was able to swap out the R9 290's and sneak (4) into the home office computer again!  Shhh - she may not know!  
https://i.imgur.com/DJ3aAIll.jpg?1

How about others load some pics to show off their operation?

Nice setup. What's the power bill like?

It is not bad - between everything - I burn about 1700 watts a day.  I do have solar panels so it offsets the mining and my regular home use.  I average about $50/month in power bill.

Can we take a look at your solar panel setup? Your solar battery must be like 300 Kilos to deliever this consistent power, lol, right? Or do you only use solar energy on the fly without saving it for later?

I too have a few small solar panels on 4 of my window seats, all panels together average to about 100 Watt an hour on a sunny day.
I use them to power all my gadgets, 2 laptops, some tablets and mobile phones. And I use 2 x 20 Kilo (+ 1 x 30 Kilo) Batteries to save the solar energy for later use.
Lol, maybe I could power a USB miner with this.  



One of my small solar panels, right in front of my basil (you gotta be self reliant!)



Control of input (solar) and output (battery)



And the 30 kilo battery.

I didn't see the pictures on the first post but now I do.  That is a pretty cool setup.  Do you think you can run a miner from them?

[georgem]

The system on my roof is a 10Kw system. 

Niiiiiice! 

[georgem]

So I thought it might be cool to upload some pics of my mining operation.  Right now the GPU's are mining SPR and the scrypt asics are mining for BTC which gets converted to SPR  .  

I started in the home office with some R9 290's but got quickly kicked out into the garage due to heat and noise.
https://i.imgur.com/EiTfcAwl.jpg?1

Once I found the 750ti's I was able to swap out the R9 290's and sneak (4) into the home office computer again!  Shhh - she may not know!  
https://i.imgur.com/DJ3aAIll.jpg?1

How about others load some pics to show off their operation?

Nice setup. What's the power bill like?

It is not bad - between everything - I burn about 1700 watts a day.  I do have solar panels so it offsets the mining and my regular home use.  I average about $50/month in power bill.

Can we take a look at your solar panel setup? Your solar battery must be like 300 Kilos to deliever this consistent power, lol, right? Or do you only use solar energy on the fly without saving it for later?

I too have a few small solar panels on 4 of my window seats, all panels together average to about 100 Watt an hour on a sunny day.
I use them to power all my gadgets, 2 laptops, some tablets and mobile phones. And I use 2 x 20 Kilo (+ 1 x 30 Kilo) Batteries to save the solar energy for later use.
Lol, maybe I could power a USB miner with this.  



One of my small solar panels, right in front of my basil (you gotta be self reliant!)



Control of input (solar) and output (battery)



And the 30 kilo battery.

I didn't see the pictures on the first post but now I do.  That is a pretty cool setup.  Do you think you can run a miner from them?

Not reliably, no. Maybe on the sunniest days I could constantly run 1 GPU at 60 watt , but my system is oriented around backup and complete self sufficiency.

I even have a redundancy of 3 controllers + 3 batteries. I just want to have light, laptop, mobile and tablets running indepentently from whatever happens to my neighborhood. :-)
Also I don't have my own roof, it's just a rented apartment, so the landlord just allows me to use any south and west window seats for small solar activities.
If I owned my own house/roof I would go totally crazy with it, I tell you. :-)

[pokeytex]

So I thought it might be cool to upload some pics of my mining operation.  Right now the GPU's are mining SPR and the scrypt asics are mining for BTC which gets converted to SPR  .  

I started in the home office with some R9 290's but got quickly kicked out into the garage due to heat and noise.
https://i.imgur.com/EiTfcAwl.jpg?1

Once I found the 750ti's I was able to swap out the R9 290's and sneak (4) into the home office computer again!  Shhh - she may not know!  
https://i.imgur.com/DJ3aAIll.jpg?1

How about others load some pics to show off their operation?

Nice setup. What's the power bill like?

It is not bad - between everything - I burn about 1700 watts a day.  I do have solar panels so it offsets the mining and my regular home use.  I average about $50/month in power bill.

Can we take a look at your solar panel setup? Your solar battery must be like 300 Kilos to deliever this consistent power, lol, right? Or do you only use solar energy on the fly without saving it for later?

I too have a few small solar panels on 4 of my window seats, all panels together average to about 100 Watt an hour on a sunny day.
I use them to power all my gadgets, 2 laptops, some tablets and mobile phones. And I use 2 x 20 Kilo (+ 1 x 30 Kilo) Batteries to save the solar energy for later use.
Lol, maybe I could power a USB miner with this.  



One of my small solar panels, right in front of my basil (you gotta be self reliant!)



Control of input (solar) and output (battery)



And the 30 kilo battery.

I didn't see the pictures on the first post but now I do.  That is a pretty cool setup.  Do you think you can run a miner from them?

Not reliably, no. Maybe on the sunniest days I could constantly run 1 GPU at 60 watt , but my system is oriented around backup and complete self sufficiency.

I even have a redundancy of 3 controllers + 3 batteries. I just want to have light, laptop, mobile and tablets running indepentently from whatever happens to my neighborhood. :-)
Also I don't have my own roof, it's just a rented apartment, so the landlord just allows me to use any south and west window seats for small solar activities.
If I owned my own house/roof I would go totally crazy with it, I tell you. :-)

Well regardless of owning your own home or not you are doing a service to yourself to learn the solar way.  It is amazing to be able to produce your own power.  Eventually when the battery system comes down in cost and gets more efficient I will look into adding it.  As of right now I would basically need a section of my basement dedicated to the batteries.  LOL not ready to give that up yet.

[georgem]

Well regardless of owning your own home or not you are doing a service to yourself to learn the solar way.  It is amazing to be able to produce your own power.  Eventually when the battery system comes down in cost and gets more efficient I will look into adding it.  As of right now I would basically need a section of my basement dedicated to the batteries.  LOL not ready to give that up yet.

Exactly, what surprised me the most is, that even with this little space I use with my solar panels (in sum only about 1 square meter panel) and a lame panel efficiency of only about 16%, I still manage to put this energy to good use, I really feel the effect they have on what devices I use and how I think about energy. (I can constantly power small devices like tablets, mobile phone, a few led lamps and 2 laptops, and I have done so for the last 3 years. Total investment about 1300$, but I overdone the redundancy a little bit (buying controllers and batteries three times). It could be done cheaper. But redundancy is important to me.)

Now imagine if one day this square meter runs with an efficiency of 40%? Or maybe 50%? This would bring in 3 times more energy than is available just at my small 4 window seats... that's incredible. With your roof you could power 3 houses all running mining equipment.  

This is just the beginning. Cheap commercial Solarpanels just need to raise their efficiency from <20% to >40% while staying cheap and we will have a worldwide revolution.

[pokeytex]

Well regardless of owning your own home or not you are doing a service to yourself to learn the solar way.  It is amazing to be able to produce your own power.  Eventually when the battery system comes down in cost and gets more efficient I will look into adding it.  As of right now I would basically need a section of my basement dedicated to the batteries.  LOL not ready to give that up yet.

Exactly, what surprised me the most is, that even with this little space I use with my solar panels (in sum only about 1 square meter panel) and a lame panel efficiency of only about 16%, I still manage to put this energy to good use, I really feel the effect they have on what devices I use and how I think about energy. (I can constantly power small devices like tablets, mobile phone, a few led lamps and 2 laptops, and I have done so for the last 3 years)

Now imagine if one day this square meter runs with an efficiency of 40%? Or maybe 50%? This would bring in 3 times more energy than is available just at my small 4 window seats... that's incredible.

This is just the beginning. Cheap commercial Solarpanels just need to raise their efficiency from <20% to >40% while staying cheap and we will have a worldwide revolution.

The good news is since I purchased my system approx 3 years ago the efficiency levels in the panels have jumped significantly.  in addition the technology to convert the sun energy (DC current) into useable AC current requires large inverters.  (I have 2 in my basement).  My system faces southeast which optimal is south.  The problem is that with only (2) inverters if there is a shadow on one of the panels from say a cloud or a tree the entire chain of panels drops to the efficiency of that one.  The new technology has an inverter on each panel.  Man do I wish I waited three years! 

[georgem]

The good news is since I purchased my system approx 3 years ago the efficiency levels in the panels have jumped significantly.  in addition the technology to convert the sun energy (DC current) into useable AC current requires large inverters.  (I have 2 in my basement).  My system faces southeast which optimal is south.  The problem is that with only (2) inverters if there is a shadow on one of the panels from say a cloud or a tree the entire chain of panels drops to the efficiency of that one.  The new technology has an inverter on each panel.  Man do I wish I waited three years! 

Meh, in hindsight we regret everything, you don't have to think this way. Your decision sounds good enough for me.

I too have a (small 350 Watt) AC converter running that I use to now and then power a 24 inch monitor with one of the laptops, so I get to enjoy a movie or two nearly every evening with my girlfriend.
But ofcourse we also have a beamer we could just use, it's not like we are forced to live this way, but it's interesting how much you save by not constantly use the most wasteful devices but more and more the more efficient ones.

[zeca pagodinho]

So I thought it might be cool to upload some pics of my mining operation.  Right now the GPU's are mining SPR and the scrypt asics are mining for BTC which gets converted to SPR  .  

I started in the home office with some R9 290's but got quickly kicked out into the garage due to heat and noise.
https://i.imgur.com/EiTfcAwl.jpg?1

Once I found the 750ti's I was able to swap out the R9 290's and sneak (4) into the home office computer again!  Shhh - she may not know!  
https://i.imgur.com/DJ3aAIll.jpg?1

How about others load some pics to show off their operation?

Nice setup. What's the power bill like?

It is not bad - between everything - I burn about 1700 watts a day.  I do have solar panels so it offsets the mining and my regular home use.  I average about $50/month in power bill.

Can we take a look at your solar panel setup? Your solar battery must be like 300 Kilos to deliever this consistent power, lol, right? Or do you only use solar energy on the fly without saving it for later?

I too have a few small solar panels on 4 of my window seats, all panels together average to about 100 Watt an hour on a sunny day.
I use them to power all my gadgets, 2 laptops, some tablets and mobile phones. And I use 2 x 20 Kilo (+ 1 x 30 Kilo) Batteries to save the solar energy for later use.
Lol, maybe I could power a USB miner with this.  



One of my small solar panels, right in front of my basil (you gotta be self reliant!)



Control of input (solar) and output (battery)



And the 30 kilo battery.

I still want to set up a solar power system, enjoyed seeing your configuration. Still I'm just in the dream of having a solar project, but certainly when conditions improve will be installing and also distributing the idea, which to my knowledge is incredible.

[georgem]

I still want to set up a solar power system, its very good your setup configuration.  

Thanks.  I say go for it. Even with just <100 $ you can start.
You don't need a heavy 100 Ah Battery like me. Use a much smaller one and learn how it works.

Also, with 12 Volts DC there is not really any danger of you getting hurt.That's what I like most about compact solar energy.
(but be careful with AC and higher voltages, also those large batteries are not toys).

[georgem]

Spreadcoin price very stable with nice volume. 

[Jesse Livermore]

I updated the client again.
As was discovered by elbandi it was impossible to create multisig addresses, I fixed this. Also multisig transactions were considered non-standard by network and were not rebroadcasted and not added to block (although they would be accepted if included in block).
If you need multisig addresses then generate them with newer version and wait for more nodes to upgrade before starting using them.
This is not a hardfork.

Download from: http://spreadcoin.net/

Masternode testing to start soon?

[soundwallet]

I updated the client again.
As was discovered by elbandi it was impossible to create multisig addresses, I fixed this. Also multisig transactions were considered non-standard by network and were not rebroadcasted and not added to block (although they would be accepted if included in block).
If you need multisig addresses then generate them with newer version and wait for more nodes to upgrade before starting using them.
This is not a hardfork.

Download from: http://spreadcoin.net/

Masternode testing to start soon?

no,this minor update is about the multisig issue.

[Ziploc]

Can someone tell me if I can mine to one wallet in my home network ??

If yes how to get it setup ?

Thx

[georgem]

Can someone tell me if I can mine to one wallet in my home network ??

If yes how to get it setup ?

Thx

Yes. Please read the mining guide.

https://github.com/spreadcoin-project/SpreadCoin-Wiki/wiki/Mining-Guide

[georgem]

I find that SPR block size is less than 1/3 of DRK.

how do you read out the current block size of SPR or DRK?

[zeca pagodinho]

I still want to set up a solar power system, its very good your setup configuration.  

Thanks.  I say go for it. Even with just <100 $ you can start.
You don't need a heavy 100 Ah Battery like me. Use a much smaller one and learn how it works.

Also, with 12 Volts DC there is not really any danger of you getting hurt.That's what I like most about compact solar energy.
(but be careful with AC and higher voltages, also those large batteries are not toys).

Where I live I have plenty of sunshine to enjoy the benefits of solar energy, but the implementation of a solar system is not feasible for most, due to high costs. 

[georgem]

Where I live I have plenty of sunshine to enjoy the benefits of solar energy, but the implementation of a solar system is not feasible for most, due to high costs. 

I can imagine.... the irony!

[Ziploc]

Can someone tell me if I can mine to one wallet in my home network ??

If yes how to get it setup ?

Thx

Yes. Please read the mining guide.

https://github.com/spreadcoin-project/SpreadCoin-Wiki/wiki/Mining-Guide

Thx found what I was looking for...

I'm getting this message even if my hash rate shows mining :

No suitable long-poll found for http://

any clues ?