Crypto currency mining

[ulfilias]

Originally Posted by MikkiJayne

Not even close in my case unfortunately. Mid-January my rig was doing 1.8mBTC a day with Cryptonight on Nicehash. By the time I added the 580s at the end of Jan it had dropped to 1.2 - the 580s brought it back to 1.8. By last weekend it had dropped below 0.6 I switched it to ETN for a bit but difficulty is so high on that its only making 100 a day now.

Ahhh....Nicehash. Yeah. Not particularly a fan, though I started off with it and it's useful for it's calculator. However you're renting power rather than mining for yourself. It's easier and you don't have to coin watch, work out wallets or pools, but you only get BTC

My general theory is that if nicehash can pay you for your mining, they are taking a cut and you should be able to do better on your own

[ainarssems]

SHA256 price on NiceHash has gone up more than 50%. I thought maybe it's now possible to sell LCC and still at decent price so that's pushing up demand and price. But no, YoBit still does not accept deposits for it. It's now listed on tradesatoshi.com as well but at 10% of price on Yobit and I cannot create address where to send it on tradesatoshi anyway. In fact I cannot create address for any currency there even BTC or LTC. I click 'Create Address' and nothing happens, same on Chrome and IE.

It looks like SHA256 price is being driven up by upcoming Bitcoin Private fork in less than 2 days time as people are trying to get more BTC to get more BTCP when it forks. Or possibly another new coin.

Looks like it's gone down again

[ainarssems]

Anybody else getting coupons from Bitmain? I have had $125 coupon for couple of months now and was unable to use it for A3 order but it let's me use it now for L3+ order. Last night they sent me another 3x $100 coupons and then 3 minutes later 1x $200. I guess miners are not shifting as well as they would like to so they are giving away coupons to encourage people buying.

[moltuae]

Same here; one for $200 and three for $100. I also seem to have an older one for $125, all with an expiry date in June. I had one for my original S9 too apparently (for $150) but I think it expired before I could use it.

I wonder if you can combine them? Might be worth ordering another miner (just to sell it) if you can.

[ainarssems]

No cannot combine them, looks like you can use 1 per miner. I only tried it for L3+, if I add 1 to order I can use 1 coupon, if I add 3 I can use 3 coupons. If I only buy PSU's or router coupons cannot be used. Don't now if you can use them for all miners, I was only trying it on L3+, but a while when I was buying A3 it did not let me use coupon for that. I think for now I will only order 1x L3+ using $200 coupon, still plenty of time till June to use others.

[MikkiJayne]

Since the RX580s won't play nice with the Vegas I decided to make them do something useful instead: an Ethereum-mining cat bedroom warmer that makes 4mBTC a day







This sits on the worktop in the utility room to keep the cats warm overnight

[1781cc]

Sorry to drag this back to the Monero mining question, I've been thinking that as I work away a lot I have free electricity and free internet when I am onsite. looking at the monero mining via their official wallet, I've set the laptop to 4 CPU threads and I am apparently mining at 42-65, what would I expect to achieve doing that? I am just wondering if its worth doing with this or something else as its sitting there and doesn't cost me anything.

I ask again because I have 3 machines I can do this with and no outlay costs on internet or electricity, so potentially thats mining between 120-180

[moltuae]

Originally Posted by MikkiJayne

Since the RX580s won't play nice with the Vegas I decided to make them do something useful instead: an Ethereum-mining cat bedroom warmer that makes 4mBTC a day

This sits on the worktop in the utility room to keep the cats warm overnight

haha. Neat.

What's holding the graphics cards in place, the PCIe riser PCBs?

And what happens when kitty curls up on top of said heater?