Topic: 8th Alt coin thread. Or what to do now that asics are all over the place. - page 82. (Read 81547 times)

@ yankees

yeah  16.7 + 1.3 for extra ac = 18 cents for home mining until  October 1st.

I now am down to:

   550 watts = cpu + 2x 1080tis  mines monero7 + bismuth
 1400 watts = 2 l3+ + some moonlander sticks   mines ltc solo and a gpu mining xevan

2000 watts = 50 kwatts a day = 9 dollars = 270 - 300 a month in home power at high rates

If I don't hit a ltc block I will earn about 200  at home and take a 100 dollar loss in June July August Sept

that  will be 400 lost  and my odds of the block  of ltc are not too good.
 
294,349 to 1  on each block are my odds.

about   4000 blocks are made in 7 days
about 40000 blocks are made in 70 days
about 80000 blocks are made in 140 days

so  294,349/80000 = 3.7 to 1 shot  but the loss of 400  I can live with.

I would be dead without the solar array and the deal at my friends office.

phil did the Jersey summer power rates kick in for your house?

If I recall you jump to 16.7 cents and have to add xtra for ac?

Yeah  I don't have many gpus anymore  I have a lot of asics.
Many asics are sitting idle.
This year  will be more about cheap power then anything else.

Asic builders made so many asics both coins and gear has become devalued.
But there are still some profits to be had.
Fpga's should be okay but if they are good  the asic builders will take them over. It is their way.

Still working on power more then anything.

If anyone  wants to buy  1080ti's I am going  to be selling this one


I got it in Jan 2018

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Graphics-Cards/Hydro-GFX-GTX-1080-Ti-Liquid-Cooled-Graphics-Card/p/CB-9060011-WW

Here is a moron ebay seller  that wants 999
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pre-Owned-Hydro-GFX-GTX-1080-Ti-Liquid-Cooled-Graphics-Card-in-Packaging/123039038092?

 I paid 815 for it.
 It lists for 869 now.

 I can let it go  for 715 shipped to usa for free. I have some flex in price
Has 1 mod a grill for the fan.


gpus  won't die they will shrink
and  they  will mine shit coins

I mine this coin
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bismuth/

It makes some money  and is too small  for an asic builder to bother.

Once it grows someone will fpga it or asic it.

My plan is to shrink my 14x 1080ti gpus down to under 10x of them

I sold off an omen  880-160se  yesterday  for 2k  my profit was about 200 on that sale.

Damn those numbers are great.. guess GPUs really will be dead soon!

1 x GPU BCU1525 = 15kh/s at 150watts

Amazing....

Pls share review soon

figure if fpgas are going to be a player in mining in the future (i do think they will; they are adaptable and they can compete with most of the 90nm etc "custom asics" that have secretly been deployed for various algos) i want to get my feet wet as soon as possible as to how to get them up and running, what they need for a support system, real world numbers etc.

i also will be getting an acorn for my onda gpu rig when that comes out.

ultimately it comes down to power efficiency. acorn can (hopefully) give me a decent boost to hashes per watt with my gpus, and fpga can give a huge (hopefully) increase to hash per watt on its algos.

basically i want to stay under 1500 watts for it all. so anything that helps get more hash in that power envelope is worth looking at for me.

I think these are beyond our technical capabilities at this point.  I'm more hopeful for the Acorn mini fpga GPU accelerator thingies (whatever the right name is).  They sound like they're more user friendly for someone with 0.5% experience with Linux, let alone actual software development.

good luck with it.

yeah if i make roi in a year i would be happy. i know its a $3.6k USD risk. if i lose on it oh well, i will mutter a few choice curse words and carry on.

i bought it obviously hoping it can make bank but also as something to learn on, fpgas may be a big part of future mining. or not. but either way it should be a fun toy to learn with.

That looks like about a 250 day ROI at current prices, barring future improvements to hashrate and additional algorithms being added.  Of course difficulty will rise once these are on the market.  Definitely plenty of things to consider right now.

yup, bought one. BCU1525 with 16 gigs ram.

we will see how it turns out.

Any of you buying this FPGA card?
https://fpga.land/products/vcu1525-withmods
Too risky for me.

@Oracle 1 pm me on discord Sterol#3140

the array that buysolar  owns and I mine on with him is mostly on the ground 400 of the 500 panels are ground based.

and  the array is grid tied.  So the grid transformer  takes in x and the array does 1.5x so a grimy panel does not  mean much.

We can also wipe  down  400 of the 500 with ease.

Now this project uses 7 or 8 panels  with a ground mount  so if you have the  gear in a spot  that gets grimy  it is easy to wipe down  to clean.

The idea behind this it to make a 1000-1500watt power source for a miner off grid  that will run  5 full hours a day.

POP (pay one price)  up front  for decades of power.

right now companies are giving away gear  or close to it.  s9i's  are under 700  with shipping  and $100 dollar coupon.

I have 12 L3+  and 2 s9I coming
We want to set up an L3+ test doghouse  and a s9i test doghouse  and see how it goes.

We are in a power price is king stage of the game.
If you had cheap power  you would not give a shit  that a piece of gear does not earn a lot.
Power is cheap enough that it profits.

In december 2017  we were in a gear is hard to get part of the game  power cost did not mean much of anything.

and l3+  was   5%  on power cost and 95% in your pocket   if you had 8 cent power

it now earns 2.20 a day  and costs 1.34 to run at 8 cent  that is 60% for power and 40% in your pocket

but if you have 8 cent power  it makes 86 cents a day

if you have 4 cent power it makes 2.20 - .67 = 1.53 a day


but all the 20 cent miners  power is 3.36  so it loses a buck a day
all the 15 cent miners power is 2.52  so it loses  32 cents a day

all the 13 cent miners power is 2.18 so it turns a 2 cent profit.

@phil

Who does the panel cleaning maintenance ? its an often overlooked part of having solar.

Hi Marvell2 didn't realize the link expired ready to go pls resend invite