Quote from: shellbunner on April 29, 2014, 05:52:15 PM

Quote from: JaggedMiner on April 29, 2014, 05:46:18 PM

Quote from: edric on April 29, 2014, 04:42:27 PM

Quote from: comppi on April 29, 2014, 04:30:04 PM

I also want to buy more octo, but there really isnt any volume anywhere. Guess I aldo have to rent a rig to increase my stash.

Once I get things settled, get moved and all and get those cards shellbunner is sending me all setup, I'm going to see about renting some rigs too. I'd really like to increase my holdings, but at the same time I need to be making some income. Trying to figure out some kind of balance between the two is going to be tough. I've crunched some preliminary numbers on renting mining rigs, which if I directly invest (daily) what I can mine on 1.8MH the returns aren't going to be much. So I'm thinking when payday comes, just investing a good chunk of that as well into some mining rigs and see what that gets me. I'll have to run some more numbers but I really don't have any experiences to refer to. Can anyone tell me what a good daily target percentage is (ROI) when renting hashpower? Not looking to get rich quick but don't want to waste anything.

I've used betarigs a few times and they provide a great service. The price goes up and down with demand which usually corresponds to new coin releases or trading pumps so keep an eye on the prices and rent in a dip. In my experience its quite hard to ROI or make daily income with rented hashing power unless you happen to catch the difficulty and net hashrate low right before a price hike in whatever you are mining.

Most times I've mined Octo with rented hashpower I've usually ended up with a bit less than I could have bought for the same price.

Same here. I could buy more Octo than I could mine. Just not enough Octo for sale right now. I need my daily Octo fix somehow!!!!! Grin

Anyone figure out I have an addictive personality?! Cheesy

Oh and Edric, there are a few more goodies in that box. I hope you enjoy and can profit from it somehow.

Awesome man, thanks! I'm usually pretty clever so I'm sure I can find a use for anything in there. I've been known to resurrect dead motherboards from time to time so maybe I can work my magic. I know what you're talking about with the addictive personality, I'm the same way, with a side order of OCD, I think. I'm hoping that soon I can get myself into a position to actually save up coins instead of constantly having to sell and trade, not a day goes by that I don't think about the fact that I sold off thousands of BTC at 50 cents to a dollar, lol. Shellbunner, do you have any advice for renting mining rigs? Sometimes I'm bad about not looking before I jump and these days I gotta be careful.

I'm still not sure why the new wallet throwing those errors took the pool to a negative balance, even switching around MPOS's getbalance methods it's still in the negative (just a little). I'm thinking that some of the coins that's "locked for users" isn't supposed to be. At least since I switched it back to the old wallet, it's not complaining on every payout run and freezing the crons. I was messing with the new wallet on another server and even trying to move a small amount that's not "locked" will make it throw an error. I wish I could give better details and do more to help. Until the balance evens itself out, everything should be fine as long as everyone doesn't withdraw all their balances at once. When I get those cards and can do some mining, first priority is to fix the pool's balance, after that I may set up a private test pool to try and figure out what's up with the wallet and MPOS misbehaving together. It's uncommon, but some coins act a little funny with MPOS in regards to locked funds and getbalance methods (with unconfirmed/immature balances). I'm just wondering if the pool's balance would even itself out if we had no unconfirmed blocks or transactions in the pool's wallet, it's possible that all MPOS's getbalance methods aren't properly accounting for unconfirmed blocks. IDK.

Thank god, the move is going down tomorrow, after all. I'm told that the internet will be switched tomorrow as well and that there shouldn't be any delays or problems.

I always hate moving my computer, though, and I'm paranoid that one day I'm going to turn it off and it's not going to turn back on. Any time the power gets cut off or it gets unplugged, I have to pull out all the cards and reinsert them in order, or it won't boot. Pretty sure it's the old video card causing that, though, which I'll be rid of soon enough! My mom had an old bubble type iMac that was fine one day, unplugged it and moved it to a new place, and it never ran again (and good riddance). It was a dreadfully slow contraption since the advent of OS X ("classic" OS ran like a dream, I miss that), and bugs would crawl inside of it and die, and were damn near impossible to get out without an engineering degree. I tried to talk her out of buying it and letting me build her something better. She uses linux now, I am proud.