Crypto currency mining

[lackovicj]

Use geforce GTX 1080TI must be a TI and you get around £5 a day profit with nicehash software...
gtx 1070 gives me like £1.40 a day.

[ainarssems]

Not quite that much. I have 2x1080Ti and both together earn £3-6 per day as it changes a lot over time and it costs about £1.30 per day in electricity to run them.

[lackovicj]

Originally Posted by ainarssems

Not quite that much. I have 2x1080Ti and both together earn £3-6 per day as it changes a lot over time and it costs about £1.30 per day in electricity to run them.

I have tested the 1080ti profit while back in one of the pc we had here, single gpu was giving £4.6 but I admit the crypto difficulty is constantly changing and profit goes down. It would worth getting hands on some render-farm

[moltuae]

Originally Posted by ainarssems

Not quite that much. I have 2x1080Ti and both together earn £3-6 per day as it changes a lot over time and it costs about £1.30 per day in electricity to run them.

I get about the same. I have a 4-card 1080Ti rig that's doing about 3mBTC/day.


Incidently, our first L3+ arrived last Friday and has been mining continuously since Saturday. It seems to be averaging around 4.5mBTC to 5mBTC, pointed at NiceHash's servers. Not bad considering it only consumes 800W. When the other 2 arrive, I plan to point one of them at a Litecoin mining Pool to do a direct earnings comparison.

[Delboy]

Question for you all.

How much data is passed over internet to run a miner.

Was thinking if possible to run on boat I work on which has power on tap but internet is via sat.

[moltuae]

Not sure of the exact bandwidth requirements, and it'll probably depend to some extent on what's being mined, but it doesn't need much.

You can certainly mine over WiFi and a 4G LTE connection (I've tried it) but I'm not sure about satellite broadband. Latency might be an issue there, possibly resulting in lots of late/rejected 'shares'. 3G/4G would probably be more reliable if it's available (I'm assuming not, unless the boat is docked).

Having said that, it's easy enough to do a quick test. Just run NiceHash up on a PC equipped with a suitable graphics card and check the performance over the sat connection.

[richardracer]

Hello folks,

I have a spare, unused HP dl160 4 processor blade server, 4 Xeon chips, 32gb memory. Is this any good for bit coin mining, given it is only 3" high and would be difficult to put multiple graphics cards in? As you can probably tell, I am a new by at this bitcoin stuff!

Any feedback welcomed.

Richardracer

[moltuae]

Originally Posted by richardracer

Hello folks,

I have a spare, unused HP dl160 4 processor blade server, 4 Xeon chips, 32gb memory. Is this any good for bit coin mining, given it is only 3" high and would be difficult to put multiple graphics cards in? As you can probably tell, I am a new by at this bitcoin stuff!

Any feedback welcomed.

Richardracer

You can mine with some Xeon CPUs, but you'll probably just about cover your electricity costs.

I sometimes run NiceHash as part of a stress test on any new/used servers that I get on my bench before I configure them for the customer. About 6 months ago I had a Gen8 HP ProLiant DL380p in my workshop, with twin Xeon E5-2670 CPUs (2.60GHz, 32 virtual cores, 128GB RAM). If I recall correctly, it managed about 80p per day, probably only slightly more than it cost to run. Still, it would've cost me the same to run while stress testing it using other methods, so for me it was still worthwhile. It wouldn't be worthwhile running a server like that purely for mining though.

[ainarssems]

Originally Posted by Delboy

Question for you all.

How much data is passed over internet to run a miner.

Was thinking if possible to run on boat I work on which has power on tap but internet is via sat.

The internet usage is very little, I have not done any tests but I understand you need less than 5kB/s with less than 2GB/month usage but low latency plays part which could be a problem with satellite. Probably not a problem with high power miner which runs at high difficulty but if you just run a test with like a 1 GPU PC you might get your shares rejected if they are late. Obviuously cannot say for sure as I have not tested.

[ainarssems]

I have another L3+ arriving Monday or Tuesday . I bought it on e-bay and stuck to the budget I have set but I made a mistake where most of the ones I was looking at had PSU included but not this one. Luckily I have a spare PSU.