Cryptocurrency Mining

GreGorGy said:
Which ones are good for mining?
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For the price / ROI factors probably not many. If I had enough money and not already bought a 1050 2GB on special I would consider the 1050 Ti 4GB (thus ETH capable) given the scarcity of AMD cards. Check out the nicehash profit calculator though, I have not really looked into the cards priced beyond my budget.
 
morkhans said:
Just make sure you understand the implications of the "no subletting" clause, which most contracts tend to include.
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Personally, I don’t believe cloud mining or hash buying is worth it anymore. Most 'cloud' mining ROI are calculated on +600 days, now, and by then many things may still complicate any possible ROI. I have withdrawn everything I had with other mining entities and rentals, and will rather invest it back into my own (or business) operation. Going by subletting, this will complicate your own 'business' model.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
Personally, I don’t believe cloud mining or hash buying is worth it anymore. Most 'cloud' mining ROI are calculated on +600 days, now, and by then many things may still complicate any possible ROI. I have withdrawn everything I had with other mining entities and rentals, and will rather invest it back into my own (or business) operation. Going by subletting, this will complicate your own 'business' model.
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Think I should rather just build another rig of my own!

I had look at the place, just worried about it only having 4 plug sockets. Hopefully it should be enough.

Good security, not sure of the internet speed, but it is included for free.
 
GreGorGy said:
Which ones are good for mining?
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The best that you can get, and on there its the 1080 TI, but its too expensive.

The best bang for buck would be to get the of the 1070 or if I had R7500, then instead of the 1070, I'd get 3 x 1050 TI's
 
Gtx Gaming said:
Think I should rather just build another rig of my own!

I had look at the place, just worried about it only having 4 plug sockets. Hopefully it should be enough.

Good security, not sure of the internet speed, but it is included for free.
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According to the cloud mining pundits on bitcointalk, the only viable online mining operation is Hash Nest which is Bitmain’s operation, the people behind the Antminer, and then they add that it is still a gamble…

I am going to test it out, but I am avoiding Genesis and Hash Flare, even Nice Hash and other rental sites.

Now to quote Bitmain on Hash Nest,

https://coinjournal.net/bitmain-looks-make-bitcoin-cloud-mining-profitable/

Each one of these new Bitcoin cloud mining contracts remains valid for 120 days, and customers will receive a tiny portion of their total payout on a daily basis. As an added bonus, Bitmain is returning its daily savings on deploying and maintaining their Bitcoin mining hardware directly to the customers. Speaking of customers, Bitmain expects new customers to achieve ROI within 90-120 days and, depending on the mining difficulty and total hashrate, they will earn 6-7% profit on their contract as well.

Last but not least, customers can reloan the rented hardware after their contract has ended, giving them additional chances to make more profit.
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^ why are you avoiding HashFlare and Genesis? I used buy hash rate from both every month, but haven't done so this month. Something inside me just doesn't want to do it anymore.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
How is your ROI looking?
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At Hashflare I don't even think I'll break even, I'm now just waiting until my contract is over so I can take my ether and voetsek. Genesis I'm not too unhappy about, but I'm not going to continuously buy more hash rate.

My aim is instead to increase my hashing power at home.
 
Hmmmmm, had a quick look at Hash Nest. I can see why they are still backed. You can order Antminers L3+, S9 or S7 on contract to be hosted by them mining in Antpool, or you can invest into PACMiC contracts as per a straight cloud mining contract. All which works out better than doing BTC/LTC mining on your own. Alt coin mining is still best doing in your own capacity.
 
As a heads-up to those interested in gtx 1050 mining, power consumption falls below 60 watt at times (overclocked & 100% load)

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I'm a complete dumbass when it comes to overclocking. That previous image was on Core Clock +194 and Memory Clock +300 but it becomes unstable when I try to do stuff on top of mining, like simply opening a browser. It however stays stable when just running nicehashminer without trying to do other stuff.

I just changed the Core Clock to +189 and Memory Clock to +450, still stable but hashrate now increased to 142 to 143 hashes per second. Power consumption now increased to 63.7 Watt and temperature seems stable at 61 degrees, but I want to check again in a couple of hours.

I'm using MSI Afterburner

Apart from that, Core Voltage not adjusted, Power Limit set to +112% which rolls over to Temp. Limit of 89 and fan speed set to Auto (I had it on something like 95% for a long time).

EDIT: Up to 146/147 h/s, Core +190 / Memory Clock +600
 
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etienne_marais said:
/snip.
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^ this is one of my 270x's stock standard

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You're now giving me second thoughts on that 1050 :D

Another heads up for those who aren't aware of this yet:
Don't run your miner headless, I moved my PC to a spare bedroom since, with the broken two blades, the thing is now working on the wife's nerves in the lounge.

Since I only have one monitor, I left the PC there and turned it on. I then RDP'd into the box while sitting in the lounge and struggled the greater part of saturday to find out why the damn thing was suddenly hashing at only aournd 20MH/s. I swear, I couldn't figure it out!

Only after I moved the monitor to that room, plugged it in, did I hear the fans spin up!

Thinking about it afterwards it actually makes sense: the GPU remains in low power mode since there's nowhere to output the video feed to. So remember that, boychays!

edit:I was wondering why you'd mask your PUBLIC address, but then I realised that @rpm has not only my name, but also cell number and address, so I though I'd rather mask mine too :p

edit 2: does your machine get too unstable if you let it do some work for you? On both my machines the CPU's are also working. The other PC uses a low power CPU (also an i5 4xxx, can't remember now) so at the time I took the screenshot it was mining at R4.02 per day
 
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YingYang said:
^ this is one of my 270x's stock standard

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You're now giving me second thoughts on that 1050 :D

Another heads up for those who aren't aware of this yet:
Don't run your miner headless, I moved my PC to a spare bedroom since, with the broken two blades, the thing is now working on the wife's nerves in the lounge.

Since I only have one monitor, I left the PC there and turned it on. I then RDP'd into the box while sitting in the lounge and struggled the greater part of saturday to find out why the damn thing was suddenly hashing at only aournd 20MH/s. I swear, I couldn't figure it out!

Only after I moved the monitor to that room, plugged it in, did I hear the fans spin up!

Thinking about it afterwards it actually makes sense: the GPU remains in low power mode since there's nowhere to output the video feed to. So remember that, boychays!

edit:I was wondering why you'd mask your PUBLIC address, but then I realised that @rpm has not only my name, but also cell number and address, so I though I'd rather mask mine too :p

edit 2: does your machine get too unstable if you let it do some work for you? On both my machines the CPU's are also working. The other PC uses a low power CPU (also an i5 4xxx, can't remember now) so at the time I took the screenshot it was mining at R4.02 per day
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I have been plugging out my monitor when away, the transformer gets hot even when screen is sleeping, so obviously using some power there. B.t.w., hit 150 h/s just now, fiddled around some more and lost the settings so back to 146/147 now. If you say second thoughts, do you mean for good or bad ?

EDIT: I see you are also on equihash/zcash but a different miner has spawned for you.
 
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After much faffing around this afternoon, and reading up on how to use Geth, I managed to delete the DB I have partially downloaded, and i am now downloading it again, and this time all going smoothly and according to plan.... apparently all the stopping and starting is not a good idea, it just causes issues.

If you sync gets screwed up along the way, use this

https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/1897/how-to-delete-or-reset-the-blockchain-in-geth-osx

and to monitor the number of peers and your blockchain sync progress, use this

https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/...er-of-peers-im-connected-to-when-using-g?rq=1
 
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