btcsnatcher.

  If you pay for the shipping, I have an few Antminer S1's laying around collecting dust.  I've been phasing them out of my network.  I'd be willing to donate an old unit for you to play around with.  You would need a power supply to fire it up, but otherwise the units work.  I've got them over clocked to 200Ghz, and they run just fine on a 750 watt corsair power supply.  You can get those pretty cheap used and not too pricy new.  Keep in mind.  Once year ago, I bought one unit off eBay, and ran 200ghz until i had the btc to add more or upgrade.  I'm running 3 Antminer S5's, 1 Antminer C1, and a hand full of Antminer S1's.  I upgrade as I go and now I'm running and average 4800Ghz and slowly climbing.

Got my new antminer c1 powered up and on the grid.  running nicely.

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P.S.  This coin is taking forever.  Thinking it's time to plan a heist, lol.

Woot! Woot!  I'm excited, my antiminer C1 is on the truck for delivery.  Now to figure out where my power supply is located.

good to know

I did get a nmc sound off a couple nights ago.

Wish my Nmc would exchange automatically into BTC.  Hey... Sell you my NMC.  :-)

Well... its official... Now I have to decide what PSU I should order while I wait for my C1 to ship....  Water... Electricity, eh, what could go wrong.  MUHAHAHAHA!

I think the entire shift thing simply confuses people.  I actually ignore the shift concept when I look at things.  I think if there was a way to eliminate shifts and get paid for your contribution per block, it would simplify things.

block 151 start
12:01am
1am 0 hashes
2am 0 hashes
3am 134 hashes
4am 5000 hashes
5am 576 hashes
6am 0 hashes
7am 0 hashes
8am 0 hashes
9am 0hashes
10am 0 hashes
10:33am block 151 found
10:33am block 152 starts
11am 0 hashes
12:01pm 0 hashes
ect ect ect

say the hunt for block 151 started at midnight and it was discovered at 10:33am hour.
Lets say a pool hopper jumped in during the 3am hour and left during the 5am hour.
His total contribution would be 5710 hashes for the time he spent here.
Even though his time here was short he still contributed some hash to the pool.
His share of pay would be equal to the percentage of his contribution.
Each block requires a different amount of hash to discover.
Say this block only took 11,000,000,000 hash to find.
His pay would be 5710/11,000,000,000*25btc=0.0000129772727273

Now say that block took 24 hours to find, and it took 37,000,000,000 hashes to discover.
The hoppers cut would go down because he only contributed 5710 hashes to that block.
His pay would now only be 5710/37,000,000,000*25btc= 0.0000038581081081

Since the blocks being found is simple chance of luck, time is irrelevant other then to see
How long its taking to find the next block, thusly making shifts pointless in my opinion.

STRONGENOUGH24:  I'm not a fan of the large hash renters myself.  They do make it look like your getting paid less, but that's only because with their rented power, they're contributing more, which in turn reduces your percentage of the contribution for that block.  However, because of their contribution, it helped find that block faster, which in turn will start us onto the next block sooner allowing us to find that one sooner.  So in the long run, even though your cut on an individual block is less, your getting more blocks faster, so in turn, things level out and your still making the same amount, just in smaller chunks.

I personally don't see the point behind having shifts at all.  We find a coin, we get paid.  I don't see any sort of delay.  The amount I get paid is based on the amount of hash I do over the length of the coin.  If someone jumped on and put 500,000 hash into the pool for a day, all it would mean to me is I'd get paid a little less because of the hash jump and as soon as person left, I'd be back to normal.  Inbound jumpers to me only means we'll get that BTC a little faster then when they were elsewhere.

More water in the pool for us. 

as for firmware upgrading, I've not dove into them very deep.  I just learned last night how to change the clocking speeds.  I lowered them all from freq 400 to freq 393.75.  They seem to be getting better speeds with cooler temps, so they're not being overworked in that aspect anymore.

wasn't sure what the HW stood for.  but ya. based on the formula that I found online, the lower that number the better.  that second pick is of the worse antminer I have apparently.  They've all been running for about 2 hours or so since I reset everything and fired em up.  that bottom pick is unit 5 in my line up and is about 5 times as high as the rest of them not counts the top pick which is unit 3 in my line up.

based on the following formula
Error% = HW/(HW+DiffA+DiffR)*100
that unit 5 is cranking out 3.069%
and Unit 2 is like .00000068

is there a way to fix this on unit 5?  Or do I just have to live with it?

this is one of them on the opposite of the spectrum.
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is this normal?  My HW is a 0 on my antminr s1.  My other are far higher.
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I've noticed that too.  His numbers have been dropping over the last couple weeks.  Last checked he was at 6th and dropping.

So my roommate comes to me one day talking about these little things he plugs into his usb ports and says, ya, they'll make me money mining bit coins.  I said to him really?  Tell me how.  It got my attention, so I bought a block erupted cube and started mining for myself.  Cranking out that 30Ghs like no tomorrow and bragging it up that I'm killing his speeds.  Started looking into other machines and reading about efficiencies and all that fun stuff... I'm about to donate my block erupted to my roommates cause.  I feel bad for him.  Only because I bought 2 ant miner s1's and no longer require the cube.  But mining is like crack.  watching those numbers is addicting.  I have 3 more s1's in route...  plan to use them long enough to start upgrading them to the S3's though.  Needed something a little emote powerful to get me there.  with my soon to be combined force.  I'll be pushing close to 1Ths.  So can't wait....  number.... numbers.... thank you bit minter for giving me another addiction.   



Oh look, there's a hole in my bag of marbles....  Oh dear, I think I may have lost them all....

SO!  I just picked up one of these Block Erupter cubes.  Got er all set up, and ran into a slight snag.  Can't seem to get it working with my mac. Aside from taking a hammer to may machines and buying new hardware, anyone have any advice on how to get this thing mining on bitminter?