Quote from: steelminer on June 29, 2018, 09:15:57 PM

Quote from: mfurman on June 29, 2018, 06:38:51 PM

I hope that it is not off topic but I am wondering if anyone else is thinking to get an Antminer Z9 mini from the second batch. I know that it is risky and chances to ROI might be very low but it costs now $850-250 (coupon) = $600 and the chances of Zcash forking this year are low. I like the miner: low power usage, low noise, small. In the worst case scenario, I will have $600 paper weight (or I will lose the prepayment). What do you think? I cannot imagine running S11 or anything else requiring > 1200 W with the noise level > 76 dB at home (I will actually need another upgrade to my fuse panel and I am risking the wrath of my wife Grin

). What do you think? I was contemplating getting FPGAs from Senseless or Mineority but it is a lot of money and unknowns. In my mind, GPU mining is dead (I am mining practically only Ether now)

FWIW ZEC foundation voted yesterday not to pursue asic resistance so ZEC will be asic minable for the near future. With all the asics pointed at it who knows if it will be worth the cost of electricity to mine it

I do understand but I do not see a better alternative for home mining. SHA256 miners are too much of power hungry beasts with low (and dropping) profitability. Ether mining may be not profitable at all soon, FPGAs look good now but it will change soon (and they are expensive now), GPU mining is becoming hectic and not really profitable. ASIC miners make sense but I doubt that I could get anything low power that is profitable, to buy by July 15 (coupons expire). What do you do, these days about mining challenges?