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Possible issue with Fan speed @ 95-99%
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LukeTheMiner
on 19/06/2016, 09:06:11 UTC
I usually don't tinker with the settings with my miners- but i'm going to start keeping my s7's outside and i know the summer heat is going to raise their temperature. To attempt to offset this i'm adjusting my miners to run at 4,000 - 5,760 Rpm. (about 95-99%)

Aside from increased noise/electrical usage- what issues may occur from this change?
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Board Group buys
Re: (hacked) S7LN Group Buy
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LukeTheMiner
on 19/06/2016, 09:03:58 UTC
I'm interested in the possibility of acquiring one of these.
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Board Mining support
Re: Questions about outdoor bitcoin mining
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LukeTheMiner
on 19/06/2016, 08:08:34 UTC
I want to build an outside bitcoin mining box that will have a roof and vents for Antminer s7, but will condensation be a problem? what about in the winter will it be too cold for it? I live in Canada. In the summer would it be too hot? Rain won't be the issue I will come up with a pretty good box design. What if it shuts down for what ever reason will it be okay?

Hey, i'm in the Midwest united states south of lake Michigan and I actually had this idea a few days ago and I was putting it together today, I should be finished tomorrow and i'll post some pictures for you and get some feed back from the community.
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Re: Bitfury: "16nm... sales to public start shortly"
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LukeTheMiner
on 17/06/2016, 13:38:15 UTC

...think....

Am I going MAD, or did the word "think" escape your lips? You were not hired for your brains, you hippopotamic land mass!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6I5p4s-YDF0/SQ9cD8WvrVI/AAAAAAAACfU/MOvZnLJTHkg/s320/Vizzini.jpg

but, to stay on topic- it will be quite interesting to see if any real information comes out soon- or will they just slip by like a thief in the night?
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Board Goods
Re: Alpaca socks; The best place to buy
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LukeTheMiner
on 14/06/2016, 20:16:24 UTC
Has anyone bought the famous socks around here?
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Board Goods
Alpaca socks; The best place to buy
by
LukeTheMiner
on 13/06/2016, 04:00:57 UTC
I've been looking around the internet trying to find were I can buy alpaca socks with BTCBTC but I found it quite challenging actually... I found the 'original' company who started doing it years ago has gone 404 for the most part.

Where have you gotten your alpaca socks from? Do you like them?
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Board Pools
Re: Lifetime pool luck for antpool vs kano.is or why aren't you mining with kano.is
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LukeTheMiner
on 30/05/2016, 16:09:46 UTC
apparently i'm not looking hard enough because i cant seem to find the luck stats for slush any more- just articles.

can someone point me in the right direction?
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Board Pools
Re: Lifetime pool luck for antpool vs kano.is or why aren't you mining with kano.is
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LukeTheMiner
on 30/05/2016, 14:13:16 UTC
What about compared to Slush? I've heard they've had a good streak recently.
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Re: Bitfury: "16nm... sales to public start shortly"
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LukeTheMiner
on 11/05/2016, 12:02:49 UTC
Anyone notice that hashrate has started climbing fairly fast again, after almost a month of near-flat?

 Smells a bit of SOMEONE bringing some new gear online somewhere.....


Fwiw the guy from Mining Sweden was going on about a Bitmain S9 being ready for release very soon, can't find the post at the mo.

Does anyone have confirmation of this possibility?

i emailed Tommy at Mining Sweden and here's his response

"Hello,

No there is no spell error.
I can't tell you details about them, you will have to wait until Bitmain releases them officially but I know they are coming since a key person at Bitmain gave me that information Smiley  "

note that it's still imo speculation till BMT offically says otherwise, but i think it's pretty safe to say S9 has gone thru/currently in production

Well I am interested on what the spec's on this one could be... unless they have access to, or created their own 16nm technology it seems to me the s9 would be just a bigger size of the s7.

Or they could have increased power efficiency by using gold wires.

As for the intricacies of the mining technology, i'm fairly new; aside from the chips themselves- what is the greatest use of power in the miners?
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Re: Bitfury: "16nm... sales to public start shortly"
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LukeTheMiner
on 10/05/2016, 12:25:27 UTC
Anyone notice that hashrate has started climbing fairly fast again, after almost a month of near-flat?

 Smells a bit of SOMEONE bringing some new gear online somewhere.....


Fwiw the guy from Mining Sweden was going on about a Bitmain S9 being ready for release very soon, can't find the post at the mo.

Does anyone have confirmation of this possibility?
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Re: Bitfury: "16nm... sales to public start shortly"
by
LukeTheMiner
on 09/05/2016, 23:56:19 UTC
I've been using bitmain for awhile now, and I have to agree with the guys above- BitFury is just a strip tease.

I don't know how any self respecting company can be two months late and have no publicly given reason as to why.
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Board Mining support
Re: GekkoScience Compac USB [ missing zlib1.dll ]
by
LukeTheMiner
on 02/05/2016, 21:09:02 UTC
Hey, its working great- a strong 6.9 Gh/s for the moment! I really appriceate the walk through- i was getting burned out digging through all the pages. Hopefully this thread will help someone else out later.

Ps- Have you bothered with the 'tweaking' process?
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Re: GekkoScience Compac USB [ missing zlib1.dll ]
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LukeTheMiner
on 02/05/2016, 20:42:11 UTC
Thank you so much, I think i've got this working now. I'll post one more update when it's hashing away
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Re: GekkoScience Compac USB [ missing zlib1.dll ]
by
LukeTheMiner
on 02/05/2016, 20:19:01 UTC
Where did you download your cgminer from?

When I see a page that looks like the two below I dont know what i'm supposed to be downloading from them.

https://bitbucket.org/TheKano/cgminer-binaries/src

http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/
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Re: GekkoScience Compac USB [ missing zlib1.dll ]
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LukeTheMiner
on 02/05/2016, 20:12:46 UTC
Well there were 2 versions, I don't have windows xp so I downloaded the first one from this link..

http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/zadig/

I don't know what else i'm supposed to do.
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Board Mining support
Re: GekkoScience Compac USB [ missing zlib1.dll ]
by
LukeTheMiner
on 02/05/2016, 19:38:15 UTC
Yep, I have the Zadig installed, is the file located on the usb miner- because I've not plugged it in yet. I decided it would be best to get the software setup first before just sticking it in. 
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GekkoScience Compac USB [ missing zlib1.dll ]
by
LukeTheMiner
on 02/05/2016, 19:08:27 UTC
I've been mining with the S3 and S7 miners for awhile, and for fun I bought a GekkoScience Compac USB but i'm having some challenges getting the software set up.

When I go to install the "gekko cgminer" my computer says that the zlib1.dll is missing.

I've found that this file should have been included in the special Gekko cgminer but wasnt, where is a safe/trusted source to find this file?

For completeness, these are the post's I referenced.

---GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1173963.msg12359541#msg12359541

------related posts
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1173963.msg14553846#msg14553846
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1173963.msg14087417#msg14087417

---OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.9.2
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0


This appears to be the original cgminer, and i'm not sure if this file i'm looking for exists somewhere in this directory
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/


In addition, will i have to go through this process to set up the gekko miner?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1112039.0

Any help or clarification would be appreciated