The term "Abused" may not be the right term. Most people are simply referring to the massive drop in hash rate caused by the switch to V7.
Logic dictates that the V6 ASICs dropped off the network.

https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/04/09/moneros-hashrate-plunges-80-asics-hardfork

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/monero-hashrate.html

Pretty easy to see.

Hey guys, thought I’d give my thoughts.
Ever since updating to Geth 1.18.14/15 on all of my nodes, the E3 miners on my pool dropped as much as 15% in hashrate. This seems to be associated with the miner update interval, which is now set at 3s by default, and does not respond well to update interval variables above 10s.

This means block templates are sent to the miner at an alarmingly fast rate.
Symptoms include high load averages (2+), and hashrate variation between 18-22MH.
More than a few miners have lost chains.
Pretty shitty.

Reminds me of early 2015.
You want my bad advice?
Stick it out.
Accumulate coin.

Okay, that LTC Pod (Moonlander Cube?) looks way too cool.
What are you up to...  

You have my attention.
And my BTC.  

I do hope the Apollo has the same satisfying blinkenlights!
Have loved everything about the Moonlander 2 light show I’ve assembled.

0.8% rejects on port 6666
Solid 54Ksol.

Yes, but we've been here for a while now, right?

https://www.coinwarz.com/difficulty-charts/ethereum-difficulty-chart

Attributing this 11% increase over 90 days to E3s shipping this week would be a stretch.

Not at all? 

https://etherscan.io/chart/difficulty

Mine is doing the same.
The ASIC status keeps going from "CC" to "BB".

Interestingly, I've got it "Alive" on a local solo pool, as well as Antpool.
The miner appears to append a random string if you try to use a to delineate a worker in the username.
This breaks a lot of stratum implementations.

Received my B1 Shipping notice yesterday. Should be delivered Tuesday.

RE: 1080TIs

Can confirm 310-313MH@1109 Wall Watts.

4 x MSI 1080TI Founders  
2 x ASUS 1080TI Turbo



Back in early 2017, bought as many Founders cards as possible. The per-slot deployment cost was only marginally higher given we could push 42MH per card at the time. ETH Enlargement gave us P104+ performance on the consumer cards.

If 580s weren’t down to $180-$200, the 104-100s would still be a good deal at $600.
Arguably still are, if you want a flexible hash board for shitcoins.

Right now, its still possible to put an 8-card 580 rig that easily pushes 235MH@+/-1200 Wall Watts.
All-in cost should be about $2000, not counting the likely 30-50% resale value you’ll find on consumer gaming cards.



A few months ago there were some rumors floating that Bitmain were having trouble sourcing DDR, as the risk lots they purchased in Taiwan didn’t yield well. With B3 still advertising for July, I’m doubting this.
Agree with most though, this should not juke the difficulty too high.

Now if this F3 nonsense is real. Perhaps the 72GB requirement will keep them off net for a while?
https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/88igmr/antminer_f3_confirmed_waiting_for_official/

Note: 3GB cards will be dropping off the network in a few DAGs. I’ll be curious to see how many large deployment we’re betting on switching their 3GB P100s to ZCash after the DAG grew.

You have my sympathy, but sometimes when I read about these issues, I can’t help but think how far we’ve actually come.
Ask me about my MTGOX account. 

BytomOfficial DMed me on Twitter saying that they have no intentions of freezing the ERC20 tokens, and are working with US Approved exchanges to get the swap in place. Right now, BitPie mobile seems our only option, and that swap doesn’t occur until 6/15. And then weekly after that.
Holding my breath.

Heads up, Gate.io DOES NOT support US customers.
US customers utilizing the platform are at risk of losing their funds.



BitPie is the only one that appears to do so.
They will be performing their first swap next month.

They seem to be getting around the regulatory issue but only allowing access to the BitPie “Bank” and “Wallet” services, but blocking the exchange by GeoIP. Since it’s their first swap, I’ve only loaded 50BTM into the bank to see how smoothly the process goes.

That's a complicated question. PM Me?

We have a few products for the medical and security industries that use Cafe and Tensor pre-trained CNNs. (Convolutional Neural Networks)
The SOPHON Cards outperform NVIDIA GPUs by an exponential factor on certain workloads.

Think OpenCV using GoogleNet, AlexNet, GenderNet, AgeNet, in an automated threat detection application. Or using pixel differentiation to locate tumors and cancerous growths in X-Rays, MRIs, and CTs. They also have a few unique blocks that enable other types of hardware acceleration.
Sophon cards really reduce the amount of guided training necessary and subsequently lowers the time to completion for our pipeline.

Regarding mining, we were able to produce a solver based on Tensority, but never fully developed that into a miner.
Really never seemed like there was a compelling reason to do so.

Can you post some more detailed photos?
Interested in your rig.
Thx,
9600

I’m in the same situation as you using 1.02 with an account created using 1.0 on the MainNet.
My TX status has been in “paying”, for the full balance since I’ve started mining, and my wallet does not appear on the explorer. Wallet starts with bm1 just like all of the wallets associated with transactions on the explorer. The only thing I can hope, is that the “address” won’t appear on the blockchain, and thus the explorer, until a transaction has actually been created.

I got what I think is my BTM account PubKey from the “accounts” tab, after pressing “View detail” and scrolling down to “Addresses”. I used the address corresponding to the label “0”.

I think we all did the same.
If this doesn’t end up being the actual process to create a valid address, and all of this BTM ends up being sent into oblivion, that would be the end of Bytom. As I’m sure hundreds of users have done exactly the same as us.

I think its more likely that Bitmain just hasn’t sent a single MainNet payment yet.

You know, I know you’re right. There’s very likely some overtaxed component on the DCDC chain that needs the airflow regardless of how cool the chips are.

I will probably end up frying these guys.

But from a PCB/Chip temp perspective, I am 100% confident that there’s enough static pressure with two of these quiet fans. I’ve been running a decent QTY of Sophon SC-1 cards since February of this year, and have had no problems running the chips up to 80C while pushing a constant data stream through the API.

From the tear downs posted on other threads, we know these miners are indeed powered by the exact same BM1680 as the SC1s. So Im just working from that frame of reference.

An SC1 running a full and sustained workload will pull about 85W on the 12V rail of our servers.
A B3 is 12 BM1680 chips. We know they’re not clocking in at 1020W, so the TPU ASICs are likely not running full clip.

They’re likely low corner ASICs with too many dead cores to run in a Sophon product.
There’s also no external DDR in this configuration. So there’s a few watts shaved off there.

Given that bitmain usually has a habit of running about 80-135W per PCIe connector, it sure looks like they were expecting it push about 600-750W. The heat sink is a beefy structure. They also used thermal pads between the hashboards (making contact with both). This is a first for Bitmain if I’m not mistaken.

All signs point to a device that either didn’t reach its potential after development, or one that has a LOT of headroom to grow as a more functions and op codes are added to the BYTOM (or other Tensority) blockchains.

If the power consumption goes up when that happens, and I haven’t fried my miners by then, I’ll swap the stock fans back in.
Maybe it won’t be 114F in my garage when that happens.  

Stock fans are 1.8A@12V. Everything in those miners is 12V. So about 20-25W per fan.

Switched to Corsair SP120 LEDs@.25A (12V  ) and just a hair over 2000RPM.

363 watts right now. Was at 338 before the update.
Keep in mind I’ve completed a fan swap. Those stock fans pull about 1.6-1.8A each.
The consumer grade fans only pull .25A. So I’m cutting a bit off the wall there.

Something to think about. From a regulatory standpoint, Bitmain can only really increase power consumption +-10% before running into compliance issues. Especially without warning consumers about an increase outside of the known envelope. The “changelog” for these updates were vague at best.