You can sell ETH directly on Coinbase, no need to convert it.
In my case, it's Ethermine > auto to Coinbase ballpark once a week or so > sell or hang on to it a bit.

I did recently sell all of it to help pay for my new place though (should close just before end of the month).
Once I move I'll have POWER to work with again!

There might be some way to do that for free - but the "anyone can do it" offer expired after about a year, and is long gone.

Why not move to LINUX, which is legitimately free and tends to be a bit more efficient in the first place?

LOLMiner and others have added the ability to keep mining on 4GB cards, abet at reduced hashrate.
I'm sure the hashrate would be up more like 50% in that week, if enough cards were AVAILABLE.

I suspect SOME of the hashrate jump is from new ETH ASIC miners selling out fast, and part of it is from older ASICs turning profitable and getting turned back on - but availability of even 2 generation old GPUs has cratered which indicates a LOT of the hashrate jump is sale of new GPUs and folks with older CPUs turning them BACK on (if I had the power available where I'm at I'd be firing the old R9 290s back up here).

Phil, did you just delete one of your early threads?
I just got a BUNCH of "your post has been deleted by a self-moderated thread" emails this morning on some posts that looked mighty old.

I suspect I could match that if I pushed my RAM and CPU harder, they're only at 1000 / 0 right now but I don't remember why I settled for those figures.
Perhaps not as stable at higher settings on one or more card at higher temps, or ZEC (which is what I did the heavy testing on back when) wasn't.

The funny part is that the E3 wasn't much more efficient than a well-tuned GPU rig - and if you have GTX 1070ti cards it STILL isn't (gtx 1070 has lost efficiency, you either lose 10% hashrate running at 110- watts or you have to bump power up over 10% to get back to 30 - GTX 1070ti has not changed), while being less efficient than some newer-gen cards.


I am in the middle of rebuilding all of my rigs, for a few reasons.
1) I am taking posession of a new place tomorrow - in a county that does NOT have a "cryptocoin-specific" ripoff electric rate.
2) The county I am in now did NOT have an issue with Folding@Home (and by extension Curecoin), so I had swapped most of them over to Folding for the last year and change.
3) Folding income has collapsed, due to the massive influx of new folders due to COVID-19 OVERLOADING their ability to generate work units.

An interesting factoid showed up in the process.

My GTX 1070 cards (still have a bunch of them DESPITE ever Gigabyte Mini card DYING) now need at least 122 and more commonly 125-130 watts to achieve full hashrate (about 30 Mh) instead of the under-110 they used to use.
At 106 watts they're mostly around 27 Mh - not horrible, but a noticeable loss on efficiency.

My GTX 1070 ti cards are STILL happy pushing 31 Mh at 106 watts.
I am now wishing I'd bought MORE of those....

Given the huge surge in Folding@Home participants over the last couple weeks, it might have a SMALL effect.
But supply doesn't seem to be an issue yet - the growing widespread RECESSION looks likely to kill most demand for a while, as folks worry about "paying the rent" first.

I think I paid $399 NEW for my Sapphire reference model Vega 56 a couple years back.
$180 seems reasonable.

Not even close.
It got down to 6-7 range right after Bittrex delisted it for US users.

Finebox has not had FDLC deposits enabled for at least a month now.
I don't think there IS an active FDLC exchange any more except going through ripoff Counterparty.

Yeah, it's a necro. Deal with it.

Just did a widespread rebuild on most of my rigs, and got an interesting shock.

The rigs that I put GTX 1070 cards in running Claymore 15 on ETH now need 120+ and sometimes as high as 130 watts to achieve a full 30 MHash rate.

My GTX 1070ti rig STILL runs a full 31 Mhash on 106 watts.

I am now wishing I'd bought more of the 1070 ti back in the day.


I didn't bother retesting on ZEC given ASIC domination there.

 I gotta wonder how close your farm is to me.
 Wish I had the kind of money to set up that large of a farm.
 
9-)

Just saying that's why all the calculators are optimistic, not that my other machines aren't mining and submitting deadlines.

 IME the calculators seem to be 30-50% on the high side, even on the long-term - and a LOT more than that if you never find a block.

 BURST isn't decentralised storage, that's STORJ or MAID (and SIA? Not sure there).

 Storage isn't that hard to shrink, it's just EXPEN$IVE to do so right now.
 Intel showed off 60 TB (yes, SIXTY TERRABYTES no typo) in a 3.5" form factor last year - issue is that it was a SSD and probably WAY pricey.

 I don't think it will happen real soon, but SSD will probably replace magnetic HD storage eventually - it's already there in niche usage, just not quite price competative on a per-TB basis yet.



 My current estimate on ROI for a Seagate Archive 8TB (which is usually the lowest price per TB on new drives) is around 20 months, unless the price starts climbing faster than the network total TB does (price has been DROPPING like most altcoins the last 2-3 weeks, while network capasity keeps climbing).
 There are calculators, but they are ALL on the optimistic side as due to how BURST pools work, only *one* machine pointed at the same "address" gets counted for total capacity on that pool.
 There are times the pool thinks I only have a few hundred MEG of capasity, even though my total among all of my machines is probably 20 TB or close.

 Up side - BURST doesn't use a drive particularly hard, so they should have good longevity in BURST usage.
 Another up side - I have to buy a drive anyway when I'm building a new mining machine, and the cost of buying a 3TB HGST refurb isn't much more right now than buying the cheapest drive available, so the difference in price will pay off pretty quickly.

 Plot on a local hard drive, make sure the plot is optimised, then copy that plot to your NAS drive.
 Repeat as needed.

 Same concept is needed, but a lot MORE so, for those that do BURST mining via cloud storage.

 All of my BURST mining is done on local HDs on machines that are also GPU mining other stuff, though - for me it's more of a "well, I got all that empty space on the drive, might as well get SOMETHING out of it" thing.

No, Bittrex completely shut down trading for US customers ONLY for no apparent reason - which totally CRAZY since the coin itself is US based.

ETH has been talking "move to PoS" for years, nothing significant has happened.
I figure they'll take years to make an algorithm change as well, IF it ever happens.

Flash is FINALLY slowly dying, as new sites are largely going with HTML5 instead and some old sites are converting.

THANK GOODNESS.

DOGE hasn't been mineable for years by itself, since it went Merged Mining mode.
It gets swamped by all the merge mining out of LTC, and is IMPOSSIBLE to mine for a profit on it's own as a result.

Flash your BIOS on the cards with a BIOS from TheStilt, then you don't have to worry about voltage control AND you save more because those BIOS shut down some of the unneeded video circuitry.

It's not exactly run out of a basement - they went to the extent (and I've verified the applicable Indiana State and Federal records) to get registered as a 501(c) non-profit - which does take a LITTLE bit of work.
On the other hand, relying on that RIPOFF "Counterparty" for their standard distribution has ALWAYS been a very bad idea.