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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Antminer D3 Blissz firmware (21/11 update available!)
by
blastar
on 23/11/2017, 12:58:46 UTC
Thanks for the update Blissz! I will check it later today...

For all those overclocking their D3s: The increase in profits with overclocking vs electricity usage is generally mutually exclusive! Unless you have free or extremely cheap electricity, you won't gain much with overclocking because you will use more electricity. Also, pushing the miner to its limits and let it run like this for a prolonged periods of time might cause it to fail completely! It is much better to reduce the hashing rate a little while reducing energy consumption a lot (and here is where Blissz's version shines!).

I you want to check what makes sense for you, use this site to calculate the most profitable X11 hashrate vs power usage for your location, taking into consideration your local electricity price:
https://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency

Select X11 only and de-select other algorithms. Here is an example for 16Gh hashing rate / 780 Wh. electricity usage / 0.10 cents per kWh electricity price:

https://i.imgur.com/K7Ll5sc.jpg


The result appears like this (Bitcoin is always there for compasrison):
https://i.imgur.com/C9DHx39.jpg