Do not expose your Miner to a public WAN IP.  If you aren't doing that, then your network (or one of the compuiuters on it) is compromised.

In fairness, you just described 95% of all projects on the Internet.

Everything is worth buying now if you think the price will go up by the time you want to sell.

Yup. That's exactly my experience at supernova during the same time.

I can't confirm that, but I can confirm that 370 xvg a day on supernova sounds low.  I don't think I've ever got that low in 24 hours. My Last 24 hours was 440 on supernova.

Everyone here tried to warn them. As is it now, you'd need a whole year to pay that off and you know there is no chance that you'll be making what you are making now by the time that year ends. The price was all Baikal cashing in after pumping the hardware's value by initially releasing low numbers. Anyone that paid $7,000 and didn't flip it immediately on ebay is in for a rough time. I paid $2500 for my x10. It paid for itself already, however, I would not even pay that again at this point.

Compounding the issue is that the price of ALQO has gone down quite a bit at the same time. I saw it peak over $3.00 a coin and it's now back to $0.70 which is lower than it was when I decided to start mining it with my older Baikal mini's instead of DGB. It's now starting to make sense to get those guys back to doing DGB too. So it's not just X10s making the switch.

I have no doubt that it's "mining". I have doubt that what is coming out is lbry hashes (my doubts are confirmed by your rejections).  The issue is likely that the software is saying 'give me algorithm 1' to the hash boards (thinking algorithm 1 is lbry), but your hashboards aren't b+ boards, so 'algorithm 1' on them is something different.  I'm not saying this is "proof", but I could certainly see how this situation would lead to what you are experiencing.

I don't think you've uncovered anything that anyone doesn't know.  While the controller board is the same (Orange Pi I believe?), from your report it also appears that the hash-boards themselves are different because the hash boards in your x10 do not have the capability to do lby... hence your rejections.

It will spike the cost on ebay because ebay buyers are stupid.  They will look at what the calculator is telling them today, and dream about the possibilities with stars in their eyes. They'll see that paypal credit ad (6 months no payments!) looking them right in the face and figure it's a sure thing. 

Of course it's going up to $20k on ebay.  No, not because it's worth it.  If people were paying what they were 'worth' now, no one would be shelling out $6500 for one.

I doubt at the prices they were trying to sell them at, but then again this is why _smart_ folks would never have bought them at that amount even before the recent market pullback.  There was no reason to think that those values would continue for long.  There was an unrealistic price run-up at the end of 2017. This is the correction.

For my money... I've already payed off my x10, so making $30 a day is pretty great. I'd be very upset if I had paid more then about $2500 for it though.

As it is now, $7000 per miner is about 4 times too expensive IMHO to make sense unless you plan on being able to mine with it at the same return (~$30) for more than 8 months. 

If you aren't into alt-coin speculation, and you think things are going to recover in less than 8 months, you'd probably do better (or as good) if you put that $7,000 in Bitcoin instead.

Yes.  The smart/lucky folks already have their machines.  This lot is largely for the dummies, and those trying to buy a spot on a boat that already left the dock.  At $7000, it's really not worth it to mine with.  The best profit move at that price would be if you could flip it on ebay to a bigger sucker.

looks like $62.13 to me...

Some exchanges probably halted transactions until they are sure things are cleared up (or they are updating their software to work with the hard fork that just happened).

I don't have any XVG on any exchanges, so I wouldn't have noticed if any of them are in maintenance mode at the time.

I just checked my stats there:

709 XVG in the past 24 hours.

Whattomine has been predicting way lower payout (~400 in a day) since about noon today, but that's not what I'm seeing in my hourly returns _at all_.

Disco!

I'm guessing it's from people speculating on some quark-based coin. I think I have an idea which one...

Can you share what you found (or give a hint)? I can poke around myself on a live system and report back.

It would not be possible to give you access to my system, sorry. However, I do think we can work together to solve this.

I got my X10 in the "first batch" from a reseller at $2500. I've been pretty happy with it, and I'm starting to see ROI.  That said, there is NO WAY I would buy another one at this stage of the game for as much money as they want now (unless I was going to immediately resell it to some sap), or even $2500 for that matter.  No way.  At what they are charging now, you are looking at a very tough time to see ROI once these new units come online.  As an example: DBG Skien and MG are already down well over 50% in terms of daily payout in a little over a month since I've had the unit (after the second batch came out).  While that is still plenty good for me (as my miner has all but paid for itself already), that's definitely not good for someone getting in to the game late (less than half the payout) at more than twice the initial cost.

If I had $50,000 to throw around, and thought that the price might stay inflated on ebay, I might consider buying a bunch to flip.  I would not intend to mine with them and expect to recoup that cost any time in the near future.

To be clear: I'm not complaining at all about the cost. It is what it is for a reason. It's just too high for it to make mathematical sense for me (or anyone, I would argue) to buy more for the purpose of mining.  I understand why the price is what it is, though.  If my units that I built were suddenly selling for $10,000 on the secondary market (ebay) at a good clip, I'd be pissing money away by not increasing my initial price.

If I had access to a system, and I wanted to have control of it, I would have put other measures in place to maintain access.  At the very least, I'd put a regular cron job (and/or start up script) that would restore my miner settings over yours.  That way, I'd probably still get a few coins after you thought you had everything fixed by changing the pw...

In short: If I were you, I'd side with starting from a fresh SD card image to be 100% sure.