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newbie
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August 24, 2018, 08:16:34 AM
Difficulty is too high, price is too low. FPGA are coming. Don't think that it is good time to buy GPUs. But one can find realy good prices Smiley
copper member
Activity: 406
Merit: 57
August 24, 2018, 06:15:55 AM
I am not a professional miner, I just want to learn how to do it, to mine bitcoin. I was wondering when it was best to buy mining equipment. Perhaps now the bottom of bitcoin and the best time to buy equipment, is it?

yep you bet, this is one of the best time to buy a rig

its logical that price would be at its lowest in bear market as its also low on demands due to mining profitability

however, this threads are for GPU's

Bitcoin is for ASICs
Monero networkis quite big also , you never now there might come another pow coin which would clime up in marketcap and would be profitable to mine. And there is couple on the line gpu minable coins which are close to 1bilj marketcap which mainets havent been launched yet.

Yes Casper will be delayed, maybe till at least end 2019 , there is a lot second layer solutions built on Ethereum.
There is fork incoming before end of October, which also might reduce block reward from 3eth to 2 or even 1 eth..... So hold tight Cheesy




Right now would be great but once ether goes pos what do you mine?  When and if pos goes into effect all the ether hashing power is going to go to the other coins and make them all unprofitable.  I'd love to build more rigs but I can't convince myself their are going to be other coins worth mining.

Isn't Casper being delayed for two years, maybe a little less?  Sometime in 2020?
jr. member
Activity: 350
Merit: 4
August 23, 2018, 07:18:05 PM
It's still good time to buy GPUs because most coins will continue to be asic resistance,no matter what, some coins have custom algo and they are basic resistance to ,gpu mining will survive for a very long time
member
Activity: 644
Merit: 24
August 23, 2018, 06:08:05 PM
I am not a professional miner, I just want to learn how to do it, to mine bitcoin. I was wondering when it was best to buy mining equipment. Perhaps now the bottom of bitcoin and the best time to buy equipment, is it?

yep you bet, this is one of the best time to buy a rig

its logical that price would be at its lowest in bear market as its also low on demands due to mining profitability

however, this threads are for GPU's

Bitcoin is for ASICs
Monero networkis quite big also , you never now there might come another pow coin which would clime up in marketcap and would be profitable to mine. And there is couple on the line gpu minable coins which are close to 1bilj marketcap which mainets havent been launched yet.






Right now would be great but once ether goes pos what do you mine?  When and if pos goes into effect all the ether hashing power is going to go to the other coins and make them all unprofitable.  I'd love to build more rigs but I can't convince myself their are going to be other coins worth mining.

Isn't Casper being delayed for two years, maybe a little less?  Sometime in 2020?
newbie
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August 23, 2018, 07:21:37 AM
In France, you can find some SAPPHIRE NITRO RADEON RX 580 8G for 210 euros if you search well Wink
copper member
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Merit: 57
August 23, 2018, 07:13:34 AM
I am not a professional miner, I just want to learn how to do it, to mine bitcoin. I was wondering when it was best to buy mining equipment. Perhaps now the bottom of bitcoin and the best time to buy equipment, is it?

yep you bet, this is one of the best time to buy a rig

its logical that price would be at its lowest in bear market as its also low on demands due to mining profitability

however, this threads are for GPU's

Bitcoin is for ASICs
Monero networkis quite big also , you never now there might come another pow coin which would clime up in marketcap and would be profitable to mine. And there is couple on the line gpu minable coins which are close to 1bilj marketcap which mainets havent been launched yet.






Right now would be great but once ether goes pos what do you mine?  When and if pos goes into effect all the ether hashing power is going to go to the other coins and make them all unprofitable.  I'd love to build more rigs but I can't convince myself their are going to be other coins worth mining.
member
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August 22, 2018, 07:20:24 PM
No the market is still way too high, also with the upcoming release of the 11 series I think you are better off waiting.

I'd pass on the new cards at the current prices, to be honest.  If I were going to buy gpu's right now (which I'm not), I would try to find deals on 1080ti's or Vega's.
copper member
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August 22, 2018, 06:09:09 PM
No the market is still way too high, also with the upcoming release of the 11 series I think you are better off waiting.
member
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Merit: 24
August 22, 2018, 02:15:50 PM
I am not a professional miner, I just want to learn how to do it, to mine bitcoin. I was wondering when it was best to buy mining equipment. Perhaps now the bottom of bitcoin and the best time to buy equipment, is it?

yep you bet, this is one of the best time to buy a rig

its logical that price would be at its lowest in bear market as its also low on demands due to mining profitability

however, this threads are for GPU's

Bitcoin is for ASICs





Right now would be great but once ether goes pos what do you mine?  When and if pos goes into effect all the ether hashing power is going to go to the other coins and make them all unprofitable.  I'd love to build more rigs but I can't convince myself their are going to be other coins worth mining.
hero member
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August 22, 2018, 11:54:50 AM
I got my Asus RX 570's for £180 in April 2017.
Until now they're still selling for more than that in the UK. I think some retailers are sitting on stock and still live in lala-land (expecting to see them go at £300 still...). I think the prices will come down more in the next 3 months.
member
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August 22, 2018, 11:51:52 AM
in my country, in the biggest retalier , the cheapest RX 580 4GB costs 315$ more or less.

the real deals are in Ebay.
jr. member
Activity: 51
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August 22, 2018, 11:40:33 AM
only if rx 580 reach 100-150$
sr. member
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Healing Galing
August 22, 2018, 11:34:51 AM
Been mining for almost 1.5 years now. As time goes, so is my GPU count. Built 2 nvidia powered rigs, up and running smoothly. BTC prices are so unpredictable, and so are the altcoin prices which are almost a reflection of what BTC has become today. nvidia might launch new gpus anytime sooner or may be longer than expected. My doubt is that, once a new range of gpus are launched, the older gpus will be out of circulation, right? Well in that case older gpus will not be available then. And for the new gpus, the price will never look similar to the older ones. So, is it really the right time to buy gpus which is available for cheaper price [not so much] in my city? [provided BTC will not suffer much in the coming months] or should I choose not to buy now?

why dont you pick up the new NVIDIA RTX2070 or 2080? screw the older GPUs get on board with the NEW stuff before the prices double  http://www.alphr.com/technology/1009804/nvidia-geforce-gtx-2080-release-date
There's only a few difference between the Pascal series and the new turing series. The only thing that makes the "Turing" expensive, as stated by Huang is the Ray Tracing Technology which is 8x faster than 1080ti. But that is that the overall performance of the card. It can easily be noticed that the cuda core count and bandwidth speed is only a little bit higher than 1080ti. The only reasonable priced GPU will be in the range of 2060 that has no ray tracing technology.
member
Activity: 644
Merit: 24
August 22, 2018, 11:05:17 AM
Been mining for almost 1.5 years now. As time goes, so is my GPU count. Built 2 nvidia powered rigs, up and running smoothly. BTC prices are so unpredictable, and so are the altcoin prices which are almost a reflection of what BTC has become today. nvidia might launch new gpus anytime sooner or may be longer than expected. My doubt is that, once a new range of gpus are launched, the older gpus will be out of circulation, right? Well in that case older gpus will not be available then. And for the new gpus, the price will never look similar to the older ones. So, is it really the right time to buy gpus which is available for cheaper price [not so much] in my city? [provided BTC will not suffer much in the coming months] or should I choose not to buy now?

why dont you pick up the new NVIDIA RTX2070 or 2080? screw the older GPUs get on board with the NEW stuff before the prices double  http://www.alphr.com/technology/1009804/nvidia-geforce-gtx-2080-release-date

Currently too expensive for the performance.
full member
Activity: 462
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Parachute for sale. Used once. Small red stain.
August 22, 2018, 10:58:57 AM
Been mining for almost 1.5 years now. As time goes, so is my GPU count. Built 2 nvidia powered rigs, up and running smoothly. BTC prices are so unpredictable, and so are the altcoin prices which are almost a reflection of what BTC has become today. nvidia might launch new gpus anytime sooner or may be longer than expected. My doubt is that, once a new range of gpus are launched, the older gpus will be out of circulation, right? Well in that case older gpus will not be available then. And for the new gpus, the price will never look similar to the older ones. So, is it really the right time to buy gpus which is available for cheaper price [not so much] in my city? [provided BTC will not suffer much in the coming months] or should I choose not to buy now?

why dont you pick up the new NVIDIA RTX2070 or 2080? screw the older GPUs get on board with the NEW stuff before the prices double  http://www.alphr.com/technology/1009804/nvidia-geforce-gtx-2080-release-date
newbie
Activity: 48
Merit: 0
August 22, 2018, 10:31:55 AM
I picked up a two month old MSI 1070ti off Ebay for $295.  Before that the last one I bought was a 1060 for $350 so yeah seems like a good time to buy.  Who knows what tomorrow will bring. 

Woah that is really a win win situation for me. Rx 580 8gb brand in our area cost $245 now. I love the price that happening right now.
copper member
Activity: 406
Merit: 57
August 22, 2018, 05:45:04 AM
I am not a professional miner, I just want to learn how to do it, to mine bitcoin. I was wondering when it was best to buy mining equipment. Perhaps now the bottom of bitcoin and the best time to buy equipment, is it?
Yes buying mining equipment is the same as you buy currency for trading. Buy low sell high.
When not so profitable to mine , equipment will be much cheaper.
sr. member
Activity: 1008
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Grow with community
August 21, 2018, 09:38:11 AM
I am not a professional miner, I just want to learn how to do it, to mine bitcoin. I was wondering when it was best to buy mining equipment. Perhaps now the bottom of bitcoin and the best time to buy equipment, is it?

yep you bet, this is one of the best time to buy a rig

its logical that price would be at its lowest in bear market as its also low on demands due to mining profitability

however, this threads are for GPU's

Bitcoin is for ASICs



sr. member
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Merit: 251
EVOS
August 20, 2018, 06:51:45 AM
I am not a professional miner, I just want to learn how to do it, to mine bitcoin. I was wondering when it was best to buy mining equipment. Perhaps now the bottom of bitcoin and the best time to buy equipment, is it?
copper member
Activity: 406
Merit: 57
August 20, 2018, 04:55:18 AM
Prices is coming down indeed.
Im mining altcoins for its 3rd year now, and have made the most profit when it is unprofitable to mine in bear market. This means the difficulty doesnt increase as fast or is decreasing.
I do prefer mining then investing in coins.
Lets take an example why :
1.You have invested in 10 ether 1 year ago and bought the coin at 300 usd (total value 3000 usd) https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/historical-data/?start=20170820&end=20170820 and still haven't sold by today, so it means in 1 year you haven't gained anything.
2.you have bought a ethereum mining rig https://mineshop.eu/ethereum-miner/ethereum-miner-eth-gpu-mining-amd-rx470/ for the same amount of money you have invested in ethereum year ago by now you would have mined about 10eth , power cost for one year mining at 0.13c which is about average worldwide would use about 900usd in power costs.

If the results will be the same moving forward then there is no doubt to mine the currency is more profitable them buy it, if you have bought the coins you have no made any profit. But if you have mined coins you have made profit 10eth + you still own mining equipment which you can use for coin mining if you look well after mining rig. I have mining rigs which are mining for its 3rd year now and there is no issues with them. Also they still have resale value, or you can use them for other stuff like gaming/rendering....etc

But the of course there is a lot of risk and not always you would make more money mining, the secret is to choose right hardware.

watch out you will have traders try to tell you different for what ever reason but i do agree an why i keep mining with GPU .
after all we need miners with GPU CPU and ASIC to produce new coins that may come out or old coins or they can't trade unless it's a coin that can't be mind an those coins don't seem to last long , those coins are more scam like because no real hard work goes into making them.

Yes of course there is another way of making money, by the way traders can trade mined coins also, so double the profit is they are so good at it Smiley
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