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MiningRigRentals sounds intriguing. I'd be interested to know what results you get if you do try it.
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I did sign up to miningrigrentals, somebody rented it out for 6hours within half hour of me making it available, while it was not rented it worked as advertised and was still mining on Nicehash. Average payout on Nicehash for last day was 0.0078BTC/GH/day, the cheapest available on miningrigrentals was 0.008289 so I priced mine at 0.0082. Will see how it goes, another thing is that their fee is 3% while for Nicehash for external wallet and balance under 0.1BTC it is 4%.
Don't know what they are mining but it has already found 10 blocks in 20 minutes.
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Interesting.
When I trailed Prohashing (which automatically chooses the most profitable coin to mine) it displayed what was being mined, which was rarely Litecoin. Most of the time it was mining altcoins I'd never heard of.
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Mark ------------------------------------------------------ 2002 FE S8 Ebony Black Pearl ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ Cars Owned: The Tesla Era: 2020 Model S Performance Ludicrous+ (present) (Black, with all black premium interior and carbon fibre décor, 21" sonic carbon twin turbine wheels and FSD capability) The Audi Era: '97 A8 4.2 (Ming Blue) --> '96 A8 4.2 QS (Dark Green) --> '02 FE S8 (present) The Citroen Era: '84 BX 1.6 RS --> '89 BX 1.9 DTR Turbo --> '94 XM 2.0L Turbo --> '96 XM 2.0L Turbo Exclusive --> '00 Xantia Activa 2.0L Turbo The Banger Era: '76 1.2L Lada VAZ-2101 (Ruski Fiat 124) --> '80 1.7L Morris Ital HL, finished in Ermine White and Rust |
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After the first rental finished last night it has been mining on Nicehash, I guess my price was a bit too high. When I checked in the morning average for last 24hrs on Nicehash was 0.0075 and cheapest available to rent on miningrigrentals was 0.0081. I changed price on mine to 0.008 and it was rented out in couple of minutes, this time for 36hrs. They also have automatic pricing option but I have not tried that. For now it seems like it's slightly better than Nicehash 5-6% and then another 1% saved on payout fees. Need to test it for a bit longer to be sure but you set the price it's just a matter of monitoring price on Nicehash and other rigs available for rent.
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Currently 8less 2011 Q7 S Line 3.0TDI, 2016 Tesla Model S 90D 8 history: 2006 A8 Sport 4.2TDI quattro SOLD, 1997 S8, reached end of life with gearbox failure Last edited by ainarssems; 16th October 2017 at 06:11 AM. |
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Hi There,
Been curious about Bitcoin/Cryptocurency a few times and have always thought I should have got into this ages ago and then do nothing about it! Have a feeling that things are on the rise and will continue to rise. Who know's if Bitcoin will be THE currency though. Just looking at net trends, I recall when Altavista or AskJeves were the got to search engines but you'd be daft to use anything but google now, same with social media with Livejournal and Myspace with facebook dominating these days. However lots of people have gotten pretty wealthy from all of those over time and i'm guessing at some point some form of consolidation will take place and holding a few cryptocurencies could really pay off. I'm an ex-IT sys-admin who used to build and maintain various systems. I've been running a manufacturing business for probably 15yrs, but still a tech geek at heart and am a pretty fast learner when interested. Could become a hobby, could add to the business! Have read the whole of this thread yesterday and done some looking arround and the UK is a little lacking in sources of equpiment. Can't say i like bitmain pushing bitcoin purchases as buying bitcoin doesn't seem particularly easy atm and the price of them is sky high too (though plenty of growth potential still). Looking at Ebay there's a few things, though reading arround some of the lower purchases (few hundered) which can get you something that'll do a few TH/s (eg sp20 - 1.7Th/s) but some US forums are saying that they wouldn't even turn them on these days!!! I've got a bit of cash to play with (having already hedged bets with Nutmeg, Property partner, ratesetter, etc) but not quite enough to justify changing my 2005 4.2 sport D3 A8 for an S8 (a little quicker and B&O, but cars loose cash and mine is still nice)....Bank rates are pathetic and i've just locked my mortgage for 5yrs, so definately on the look out for something....But quite what and how???
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For a quick and easy PC-based wallet, try Electrum. There are better ways to secure larger amounts of BTC, but Electrum is a good one to get started. Have a play with Electrum and post one of your addresses. I'll send you a couple of quid's worth so that you can see how it works. One common misconception is that it is necessary to buy whole Bitcoins. I've heard people state that Bitcoin is too expensive for them to afford to buy now. The smallest Bitcoin division is called a Satoshi (often abbreviated to Sats). One Bitcoin is equal to 100 million Sats. You could (in theory) buy as little as 1 Sat, though in practice the present transaction fees would make such a small trade prohibitively expensive. You could though, for example, buy a relatively small amount like 0.05 BTC (= 50mBTC or 5 mil Sats), which is a little over £200 worth at today's price. Quote:
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Mark ------------------------------------------------------ 2002 FE S8 Ebony Black Pearl ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ Cars Owned: The Tesla Era: 2020 Model S Performance Ludicrous+ (present) (Black, with all black premium interior and carbon fibre décor, 21" sonic carbon twin turbine wheels and FSD capability) The Audi Era: '97 A8 4.2 (Ming Blue) --> '96 A8 4.2 QS (Dark Green) --> '02 FE S8 (present) The Citroen Era: '84 BX 1.6 RS --> '89 BX 1.9 DTR Turbo --> '94 XM 2.0L Turbo --> '96 XM 2.0L Turbo Exclusive --> '00 Xantia Activa 2.0L Turbo The Banger Era: '76 1.2L Lada VAZ-2101 (Ruski Fiat 124) --> '80 1.7L Morris Ital HL, finished in Ermine White and Rust Last edited by moltuae; 19th October 2017 at 11:57 AM. |
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I also added the app on my phone, but unsure if it's the same wallet as I added extra words in the app (option) and the phone one didn't seem to have that. However learning curve! Quote:
I also get that it's a decentralised currency, so I can't see how any buyouts could happen....Though it's still a little like shares in a company, in my head at least! I'm looking at hardware at the moment and getting something fair in the UK for bitcoin seems tricky and a high investment to start with (all my PC tech is somewhat old and i'm not a PC gamer). However Scrypt and Litecoin seems a much lower buy in. Those LS3+ look nice, but the whole from China, Waiting, buying in BTC, high price and CUSTOMS is a big initial step (Though there's one+psu on Ebay in the Netherlands for ~£2600). However there's some Litecoin Gridseed miner 5.2MH/S in France on ebay round the £175. It's about a 100th of the speed but also a 20th of the cost http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Litecoin-G...MAAOSwG2tZ585s It looks like a fair toe dabble? Lee
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And 1/5th of power consumption. It will generate about £6/month and cost £10/month in electricity to run. Or in other words if you wanted to achieve the same rate as L3+ using several Gridseeds you would need to spend £17k to buy them and spend more than £1k per month in electricity
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Currently 8less 2011 Q7 S Line 3.0TDI, 2016 Tesla Model S 90D 8 history: 2006 A8 Sport 4.2TDI quattro SOLD, 1997 S8, reached end of life with gearbox failure Last edited by ainarssems; 19th October 2017 at 03:24 PM. |
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OK....That sounds a bust. Shame as i'd happily buy and play with something like that to get me started!
Any suggestions, Ideally EU based?
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Current : 2005 A8 Sport 4.2 V8 D3 - LPG working! Previous : 1998 S8 PF 4.2 V8 D2 - Gearbox died ~120k 2002 S8 FL 4.2 40v V8 D2 Prins LPG - Engine valves met pistons ~230K Also : 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.0l (Post Apocalyptic makeover) 2003 Brabus Smart FourTwo (should sell) 2003 Mazda Rx8 2.3 (might sell) |
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In fact, cryptocurrencies are set to make traditional methods of sending international payments obsolete, which can have costly fees and take days/weeks. Cryptocurrency payments are borderless, virtually instant and the fees (if any) are usually comparatively small. Quote:
Actually it's quite common (on crypto forums at least) for Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrency) addresses to be posted publicly in users' signatures to receive random acts of kindness from users who found one of their posts/replies helpful. Just to repeat what I said in the PM (for the benefit of anyone else), it's perfectly safe to post your Bitcoin addresses publicly. Without the private keys, all that anyone can do with one of your addresses is either send you a payment or see what payments you've been sent (on that address only). For privacy reasons, you can use a different address for every payment you request. Quote:
One advantage of using a deterministic wallet is that you only need your seed to recover your wallet, which can of course be a disadvantage too if you don't keep your seed safe. As long as you use the exact same seed, you can use Electrum to access the same funds/addresses on many different devices. For mobile devices Electrum is a bit clunky though. It works but there are better mobile wallets such as Mycelium or Jaxx. For better security it's best to only store smaller amounts on mobile devices though (perhaps no more than you would keep in cash in a physical wallet) and store larger amounts elsewhere, preferably using a dedicated (and normally offline) computer or hardware wallet. Quote:
Mining can be fun and worthwhile but, depending on your situation, it can sometimes make more sense to simply invest in cryptocurrencies. For me, mining makes sense for a number of reasons: I can claim some of the equipment costs as business stock/expenses, I can make use of the heat generated and I (partly) have access to free electricity at my customer's premises (with their consent of course!).
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Mark ------------------------------------------------------ 2002 FE S8 Ebony Black Pearl ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ Cars Owned: The Tesla Era: 2020 Model S Performance Ludicrous+ (present) (Black, with all black premium interior and carbon fibre décor, 21" sonic carbon twin turbine wheels and FSD capability) The Audi Era: '97 A8 4.2 (Ming Blue) --> '96 A8 4.2 QS (Dark Green) --> '02 FE S8 (present) The Citroen Era: '84 BX 1.6 RS --> '89 BX 1.9 DTR Turbo --> '94 XM 2.0L Turbo --> '96 XM 2.0L Turbo Exclusive --> '00 Xantia Activa 2.0L Turbo The Banger Era: '76 1.2L Lada VAZ-2101 (Ruski Fiat 124) --> '80 1.7L Morris Ital HL, finished in Ermine White and Rust Last edited by moltuae; 19th October 2017 at 06:11 PM. |
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