glad i kept most of my gear on raven, seeing a nice pump
I have a sneaking feeling raven hit a dollar by year end , that would change my life lol
I heard thier github repository has 15k commits and 400 developers, add in the fact they are
commited to fighting asics and have a great white paper I think its a great speculative asset atm
still holding 5200 of them
I have around 10k , wish i handnt sold so much , im mining a few 500 a day and holding hard now
Great news. I mined RVN pretty much exclusively last month and have a little over 100k sitting in my local wallet. I'll keep hodl'ing through the summer I think, to see where it goes.
I got all my rigs on ZEN now and plan to setup a secure node by the time the 20% reward kicks in and then possibly keep going and switch to a super node if I ever get to a 500 coin stake. IF RVN really blows up, maybe I'll consider selling it for ZEN to get my super node going sooner rather than later.
On the solar, I have a 35 kWh system, and generated 3,500 kWh last month as the sun finally decided to come out here in Virginia. As you can see from the below graph, having a month or two with lots of cloudy days make a huge impact:
And here's a power graph from yesterday:
I need to get out there to rinse the pollen off the panels as that does reduce the output quite a bit. I also have several micro inverters I need to replace. And the heat (it hit 90 yesterday), doesn't help. Solar panels like it nice and cool (but sunny).
But despite generating 3,500 kWh in April, my power bill is still trending in the wrong direction. The days of not having a power bill (prior to August of last year when I started mining) are long gone.
I'm at 128 panels, and plan to add another 24, which will max out my current 200A solar breaker panel. After that, I'll likely switch from micro inverters to larger 10KW inverters and run DC from the arrays back to where the inverters are located. This makes sense since additional arrays past the initial 152, are going to have to be located further away from my shop where all the miners live. High voltage DC power = much less power loss than 240VAC.
Making decent progress on the "mining room" I'm building inside my shop building. I got a 96" wide by 84" tall wide span ULINE shelving unit with 6 shelves. That guy is able to hold all my GPU rigs and ASICs with room to spare.
I'm feeding it via 4x 30A circuits that in turn feed HP 24A PDU's that have 12A PDU's connected to them. The 24A PDUs are a steal at around $25 and the 12A PDU's run about $30 for a pair. Fortunately the breaker panel is close by, so the #10 runs are pretty short:
I built the walls and ceiling and put some cardboard up temporarily to force the air through the rack. I hope to get some drywall up this afternoon. So cold air is pulled in from the outside, forced through the rack, and then extracted from the gable vent.
The side walls are 96" wide, just like the shelving unit. So once I run out of room on the shelf, I'll replace the walls with additional shelves except for an access hole for inside maintenance.
Crazydane,
I am going out on a limb and would say if you reversed the direction of that fan inside that enclosed area, you would have much better results with your rigs cooling... BlockOperations had a similar situation like yours in his early days of mining and when he moved into the 2nd warehouse, he changed the direction forcing the direct hot air out the buidling from a hot zone resulted in better stable temps during the hotter months of the year, the key he found was making sure the hot zone is air tight, you want all the vacuum of air coming through your gear and not pulling from leaks inside the room, so he sealed everything around his gear and even built plywood enclosures around his asics to force the air through them and not around the equipment.
Ouch! I built a few rigs out of GTX 1060 3GB cards specifically to mine zcash. Looks like Bitmain Z9 just might destroy Equihash GPU mining for good. I'm at bit of a loss which alternative to mine. My cards can't do Ethereum any more either since the turn of the year, because they don't have enough memory for DAG - Claymore just outright crashes on them nowadays. Any ideas? Should I just cut my losses and upgrade? 
