I have some news...
Antminer R4 issues... I've been trying to keep it running the last few weeks, but it was clear one of the boards was on it's last leg. I noticed today that the power cables had been burned and the connectors on both boards are pretty much destroyed. It looks to be the result of some sort of failure on the bad board. While I could get the connectors replaced, it would likely result in the same thing occurring again. The R4 is also not capable of running using the supplied firmware with only 1 board. That leaves me with few options, which is a bit disappointing. The good thing is that this machine mined for a long time and has been less effective as of late, so it isn't a massive loss. Any loss stings though, so this sucks. On the plus side, my house didn't burn down and I'm sure I'll be able to replace the damaged PSU cables.
Siacoin update... I had sent the mined SC to HitBTC a while back and they have had some internal issues for the last 6+ months that hadn't allowed me to sell this SC. The end result is that we paid 0.1287 BTC for a Siacoin miner, sold it for 0.036 BTC, and mined
0.13217798 BTC when it was sold (would have been 3x more if HitBTC hadn't screwed us) resulting in a gain of 0.03947798 BTC for NastyMining. Better than a stick in the eye.
Antminer S9 ASICBOOST... Bitmain's ASICBOOST implementation firmware has been loaded onto our S9 to save some energy. Thanks to
braiins for forcing Bitmain's hand on this issue!
Monsoon Season... The Wind Turbine took a beating this summer as the weather was a bit extreme. It is still functioning, but could use a little TLC. I am debating just how much money is reasonable to spend on upkeep for the turbine, but I do like the project and think it is beneficial to continue.
Outside of all that, everything is pretty typical. The
NastyShop continues selling goods and NastyMining continues mining to raise funds for NastyFans. At last check NastyMining had around
$112,000 saved using the current exchange rate. No current plans to deploy this capital, but I would like to get some more miners going when prices have adjusted for the next generation of hardware.