Seriously, as said above, just do some searching.

Asic are probably the way to go indeed. Hookem up and your good to go, no wasting time setting up mining rigs.

Profit is profit yes. But It all comes down to your strategy:

1. Do you mine and hodl and wait for the price to pump to sell?
2. Do you mine and sell and cash out to ROI your hardware?

Fact is, no one knows if BTC will go to 100'000$, which would likely send ETH to the 5000-10000$ range. At 2$ a day, investing what 2000-3000$ in a full rig is just a bad investment decision. You're better of buying the crypto directly at this point lol. There's a ton of coins that yield stake returns of over 2$ a day for that price range.

2017-2018, there's was no ETH ice age. You could make over an ETH a day with like 3 rigs. I had months where Ethermine was showing me a monthly payout of 4 grand with 4-5 rigs. A 6 card rig would literally pay itself off in a month or two.

Honestly?

I think it will become irrelevant, yes. 2-3-10 years, who knows. GPUs are not really that efficient. They are just easy to get their hands on. Unless you have very, very low ct/kW rate, it already doesn't really make much sense anymore.

Then again, who knows. ETH's shift to POS will be interesting to say the least. You'll need a minimum of 32 ETH to stake afaik. I have no clue how much that will yield to.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-crypto-holders-only-have-a-few-days-to-reply-to-the-irs-6173-letter

Damn this must be a nightmare 

I think that's just myths. As long as your cooling is OK (fans can sometimes die on GPUs, never had the issue, but it can happen) your cards will not have any longevity issues. Most of my gear is comprised of RX470s that are past 2 years old now, they still run like a charm.

The same goes for when I was selling some of my gear, people would always ask "Has it been used for mining???".

They assumed that because you use a GPU for what it is essentially intended for (do calculations. I mean when you game, it's the same thing....) the GPU would be worn out and on its way out. Which is about the most retarded question you can ask.

The fact is most miners will actually turn things down a notch with voltages and usually tune the card's frequency in by often underclocking it in regards to the undervolt. What matters isn't having the highest hashrate, it's having a stable GPU that doesn't give you high numbers of stale or bad shares and that you can leave running for days on end without a problem.

So the conclusion is that if there was any scientific evidence on if overclocking had any effect on a GPUs longevity, you could make the point that a miner's card would be in better shape than that of a gamer who would usually try to overclock the card to get the max performance out of it.

Regarding temps, GPUs can handle 70°C and up no problem.

Also look on the pool side of things. How does your reported hashrate match your miner's hashrate. Any large discrepancy means you likely went too far with your over/under clock/volt.

Yeah I was looking at the Blackminer mini for 180$, but hashrates are not really impressive. Also the algos/bitstreams available on FPGAs are still quite limited to more obscure ones I find.

350$ seems like a very affordable target for most people, I hope you guys succeed!

I have been contemplating FPGAs for a while. They do seem like the logical successor of GPU rigs which, while available to everyone, are costly and not really energy efficient.

Maybe to early to tell, but what sort of price range would we be talking about?

Those are some epic drawing skills 

Because Windows reserves part of the card's memory for its own use most likely. Also linux drivers have come a long way.

It all comes down to what you are most comfortable with I guess.

Personally, I hate windows. It's a shit OS and updates are a giant pain in the ass, especially with Windows 10. Linux is much more flexible, but will require you to know your way around it. And when it breaks, it takes a long time to reinstall.

But...my rigs are on Window machines, mostly because it's what I always used for mining. Back in 2016/2017, Linux support for drivers really sucked so choices were limited.

I'm happy I'm not a US citizen/resident. We live in a world where the honest man is usually the one getting it up the poophole, while the rich and powerful have schemes upon schemes to hide money away and not pay taxes. There's a scandal coming up about every three months, everyone's shocked, yet nothing ever changes. The rich get richer.

I'm really looking forward to crypto taking over fiat money. It won't happen tomorrow, but it will, someday. Just like the internet has fundamentaly changed the way we interact with each other. Why do you think they pressure all the big centralized exchanges to force KYC on everyone and ban anonymity/privacy coins? Because they are scared to lose control over their own citizens. Fiat money, your bank account, your credit card, are all ties to centralized systems. Have you tried to live without a bank account? Pretty much impossible...I know in France for example, you can't withdraw more than 1500€ without having to justify why. It's your own money, but you can't do what you want with it. If you're getting a deposit of more than 1500€, the bank will call you because they blocked the deposit, requesting you justify where the funds come from. wtf seriously.

Oh well, I guess I'm becoming a paranoid hippie while I'm getting older :-p

That's why the ignore user function is usefull

I recall there being driver limits with AMD cards, never tested it myself though. I never put more than 8 in a rig myself. Those boards with 8 or more pci-e slots came out more or less when mining was getting unprofitable anyway. I saw no point in investing in further hardware.

Yep, if the API doesn't provide you with what your require, it's going to be a tough one to crack. I'm not sure that many pool offer a lot of information on the inner workings.

If you have simple access to the page that the information is displayed on, you could indeed try scraping. Just be careful with that, as usually websites that are not too shitty, will see this as a bad thing and might potentially ban your IP address.

I personally have no experience with google sheet dashboards, but with some PHP, once you have the URL and know where, in the html code, the information is displayed, it's quite simple to dig down to the element and extract the value.

This is how I do it on my solar inverted which has no API, just some dumb webpages with the information displayed in html tables.

Have you accessed the actual API? Seems like you need an account to get access to it. Once there you should have a number of requests you can make to pull data.

830TH, that's pretty neat! Are you able to turn a good profit then?

Man I remember the good times in 2016/2017, mining ETH at the time. Getting an ETH a day or more was easy peasy. Ethermine was showing me like 4000$ a months with just a few rigs. Life was good

Hey Philipma1957, how's the mining life treating you?

Been staying away from BTCT for a while, still mining on solar power only over here for the past 9 months now. Guess I made about 1500$ or so mining in that time, 100% profit.

I recall you were also trying to go that route if not mistaken?

Cheers

Mining on GPUs is already pretty much unprofitable. Mining on a cell phone is just pointless mate. These things can also run really hot really fast. Sure, you could place a fan in front of your cell phone(s) to cool them, but that's like 40W of electricity you will spend cooling those devices that will barely bring in a cent.

Here's a better idea: cell that cell phone or those cell phones you have and buy BTC or ETH with the cash you get. You'll thank me later.

@OP

At 53$ a card, that was clearly dirt cheap. I'm not sure I would have pulled the trigger, but you seem like you played the trading card well.

I always enjoy looking at other people's farms and rigs.

However if I'm honest, I do kinda see the end of GPU mining coming relatively soon, it no longer makes that much sense to me. Profits are small if not negative...especially with global warming, no one can ignore the fact that running huge farms is just bad for everyone at this point.

That said, I still mine to this day, most of my gear was purchased in 2016/2017. I personally still run about 40 of those sapphire cards (mix of 470/570s) at home in a dedicated room, but strictly on solar power. I developed my own script that monitors what my solar inverted is putting out and turns rigs on and off depending on how many kW I produce. It's been working super well for the past 9 months. I make about 4-5$ a day with 0 electricity costs related to mining.

Good luck with your operation.