Why the three months to shipment?   Bitbaza.com states that an order for the DM11G "will be shipped to your address directly from China through DHL/UPS" and "should take one to two weeks for your order to reach you" 

Of course, I don't like to pay any more than I have to, but if I can have my miners in hand in 1-2 weeks versus the 3 months for a difference of $750, then paying the $7500 to bitbaza.com is far better to ROI if deliveries are as stated.

What is the current count of units sold?  \

Will this group buy happen, or at risk?

Why are you attempting to use Cryptsy when there are numerous alternatives with superior performance?  

I use coinedup, poloniex, and BTER, and have parted ways with Cryptsy completely.  

       Switch to anything other than Cryptsy and trade like it's intended to be.

I miss the days pre-fork when people would whine about difficulty being 13.   I mined SO much VTC when people left it because it was unfairly difficult.

It appears that our "whale" may indeed be BTER cold storage -

I found my own BTER deposit address in the addresses related to our "whale" transaction list  (The smaller whale account.)  (http://bitinfocharts.com/vertcoin/address/VbkwGJ4dkVCsCPY1BLJDr5GN1GnY3uHFWi)

CoinWarz now lists Vertcoin to their list of crypto currencies:  www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency/coins/vertcoin

Note that this is not the mining profitability chart, but a good step forward.

Just a thought on the ELI5 explanation of the merits of Vertcoin -


Vertcoin is designed to be only produced by off-the-shelf commonly available hardware, which ensures wide adoption and decentralization.  

Large scale operation of the Vertcoin network and minting using specialized hardware is impractical and cost prohibitive, by design.

A short term drop will just separate out those who aren't interested in the long-term benefits of holding until much wider adoption.

VTC extension requested.

I also have seen several long breaks in p2pool VTC payouts.   During these breaks my miners are showing consistent hashrate, and very low rejects (I am 17ms to the p2pool node) and the P2Pool graphs are still showing accepted shares. I am also seeing p2pool blocks being paid out, but my payout address is not among those being paid during these breaks.  Other miners that are continuously mining on the same P2Pool are being paid for these blocks, and others are not.  Do I need to cite examples?

Load balancing between the US and EU servers did the trick.  The graph page now shows very close to my client side hashrate.

Thank you!

I had another pool set up as failover from the US Middlecoin server, and have now added the EU server as first failover, before switching away to another pool if Middlecoin is down entirely...  Let's see if this changes anything.   My miners are still on the US server, and seeing the stratum disconnections.

Also - the Middlecoin graph page shows that I am only hashing at 4.09Mh/s, with .15Mh/s rejected.  Is it this far off from the CGminer stats for everyone else?

It does seem to make it too convenient for someone to edit the "reserved" post and then be able to make it into an "I told you so" post later. 

Which is why the ATI cards are scarce, and those to be found are much higher than their original MSRPs - they weren't originally priced to be printing presses. 

Wow this forum is having some issues in posting - let's try this again....

Any ASIC hardware for mining SHA-256 (Bitcoin) won't likely pay off at today's prices/difficulty, nor in the foreseeable future.  See this explanation, or there are several others out there - http://www.holynerdvana.com/2013/12/bitcoin-asic-roi.html


If I was to only throw $500 into mining (and not buy and holding coin) I would get an ATI GPU card and place it in a computer I already have.  You can use this as a starting reference of what cards to look for: https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison  Find some scrypt mining profitability calculators, and run the numbers on what cards you can afford.  un-shortened link to calculator: http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency/?sha256HashRate=0&sha256Power=0&sha256PowerCost=0.1000&scryptHashRate=600.00&scryptPower=400.00&scryptPowerCost=0.1000&sha256Check=false&scryptCheck=true (Coinwarz.com)  

Here's some really rough numbers:
Say you find a deal on an ATI card that can do 600 kh/s, and the card and whole computer consumes 400w.  

If you mine at Multipool or Middlecoin, etc that switches coin mined based on profitability at current exchange rate, then you may be able to get $7-$10/day, with power at $.10/kWh it would cost $.96/day.   Not a bad turn on investment for power consumption, but you won't pay for the card for 55-83 days, at current exchange rates.   If mining profitability goes up or down, this can change wildly.   I have in the past month seen time-to-payoff times vary from 20 days to 120 days, assuming then-current exchange rates and not holding for speculation of higher cashout rates.

YMMV, I hope this helps.

With most pools I point my miners at, I am able to get a normal average of 5.8 Mh/s in total.

When I am mining middlecoin, my instantaneous and average hashrate is reduced, across all miners, all cards, as I type this my total average hashrate on middlecoin is 5.4 Mh/s.

Is there anything that I can change in my setup, or is this completely in the hands of middlecoin?
I like mining on middlecoin, it reduces the labor involved in mining altcoins to trade for BTC, but if I'm losing 400kh/s on top of the pool fee I should probably switch to another pool.

Do you have a non-middlecoin pool set up to fail-over to should middlecoin be unavailable?  From your screenshots, I see a lot of getwork failures, and from my own experience with middlecoin, I know that middlecoin doesn't have exactly 100% uptime.