There is another project called Telos, which seems much bigger. It is a fork of EOS and is doing a lot of development.

https://telosfoundation.io
https://t.me/HelloTelos
https://medium.com/@teloslogical

Thanks for this thread! I've been hodling NEO since the Antshares days. One of my favorite pick-me-ups on a low day is to claim 20-30 gas and go trade them for more NEO. I've been doing this weekly or so for quite a while and you really can grow your NEO stack. I love that you don't need to keep a staking wallet open like with other coins.

NEO has a few problems--it's way too centralized right now, for example--but I trust that they will work this out in time. It's a good project. As someone who creates smart contracts and tokens in various projects, I will say that you really don't want to underestimate the power of robust programming languages like C# over new kludgy ones like Solidity. The devil is in the details, they say, and it's so very true with smart contracts. The little gotchas really slow down development on Solidity projects versus C#, C++, or Java.

I expect that NEO will be the preeminent coin for smart contracts where identity is burned-in to the protocol. I expect that EOS or TRX will come to rule for identity-agnostic smart contract projects. As a developer, I strongly feel that Gen-2 projects like Ethereum will eventually fade in favor of the more robust programming of Gen-3 blockchains. But it will take time.

I'm getting "Alive" on all three pools and priority is given to pool 0. Also, I am receiving Getworks on all three pools. (Though pool 0 is the most by far.) This may be a local issue for your miner. However, my rejected share rate is generally in line with yours.

Just another data point in case it helps diagnose your issue. Good luck!

A couple of thoughts about the very moderate efficiency improvement. First, I wouldn't be surprised if they are just reducing the hashing board voltage by 1-2 volts. You can do this on the D3 with the Blissz firmware and it lowers the electrical usage without seeming to lower the hash rate. (sometimes undervolting even improves it a bit.) I also notice that they are quoting AC electrical usage as +10% now. If my memory isn't completely out of whack, I recall they used to quote it as +/- 5%. Anyone else remember this?

It seems very high, but also in line with the discard rate that I have been getting on my X3 units across various pools and coins. Some are better than others. I suspect that the miner is too fast for the pools and the difficulty needs to be set much higher. One thing that will help is to look for the highest difficulty port for each pool you're on. This will often be port 7777 or 8888.

You can store ERC-20 tokens on any Ethereum wallet. MyEtherWallet, MyCrypto (essentially a fork of MEW), Metamask are all good options. For security, it's best to use a hardware cold wallet like a Trezor or Ledger Nano to hold your keys. Because the keys never leave your HW wallet, these are impervious to the kinds of attacks that just hit MEW.

The upgrades in most of these miners is purely firmware and Bitmain's comfort at running higher freqs. Think about it, the ASIC chips are not changing--they're hard coded and they aren't about to re-spin the fab. Bitmain did do a slight form factor change on the D3, but that was inconsequential. From playing with the settings, it's easy to add 10-15% efficiency to a miner as long as it's properly cooled. Some even benefit (or at least perform equally) from undervolting.

Just one guy's advice, but I've increased my profits by playing with my Advanced page settings to get more out of the chips without adding discards or overheating.

Very odd that Antpool is the only pool for Bytom, BUT they report finding 0 blocks. Meanwhile there's a whale miner out there who's up $2M.

There's every reason to assume that Bytom IS Bitmain, like Tether is Bitfinex.

XRP is deeply embedded in the banking system since its use case is to replace the antiquated SWIFT banking system. In the most technical terms it is a cryptocurrency, in that it is a currency that is not issued by a government and is secured by cryptographic hashes. However, many in crypto don't consider it a true crypto because it is not decentralized and transactions can be charged-back by the centralized owner. There are a few other negatives as well for investors in that the company Ripple was funded by sales of XRP, and is doing very well, but many of it's products do not use the XRP token at all. Only their XRapid product needs it. One of 5 product lines for them, I think.  XRP is sort of the Uncle Tom of cryptos given its close relation to the existing banking system. But perhaps it's a bridge to bring the real world closer to crypto, who knows?

The final Blissz D3 system that's out there is so great. I have it on all of my D3s. (If only I'd stuck with S9s, but I had to "diversify"). The interface is so much more attractive. It offers the option of setting freq and volts on each board. And you can optimize fans for performance or sound. It really sucks that a couple of people scared him off from continuing his dev work. It was far more accessible than the bitmain FW.

Exactly. I feel like people who only HODL but never buy and sell in BTC or alts are sort of tourists & speculators. If you really believe in the power of crypto then use it to build a better, cooler world.

That said, I eagerly await the day when converting crypto to fiat seems quaint and archaic.

I sell bitcoin. I hate to do it, of course, but it's the economy of how my business works. We mostly get paid in BTC or other crypto. We also have a multi-petahash mining op. These support our blockchain software development. So most months I need to sell BTC to cover rent, salaries, insurance, taxes, electricity, etc. It's a great month when I can sell less BTC than I've made, but we're still early in development cycles for most of our tools.

I hate selling BTC but this allows us to pay for professional development without resorting to ICOs (which I think are often-not always-quite scammy). In the long run, I think this is a worthwhile tradeoff.

Yeah, I have a few of each coming in Batch 2. Wishful thinking? I hate to sell at the going rate among miners and I can't bring myself to knowingly weasel some noob on ebay, so I guess I'm left with overclocking and cheap KWHs.

People are selling batch 2 Obelisk miners for less than the new batch price (and you'll receive them sooner, too) on the Discord channel.

Did you check that the PSU works? In my experience, PSUs are fare more fallable than miners.

Also, any chance you are plugging into a switch that has Power of Ethernet? PoE often messes with the L3_IO board. It can take multiple reset cycles to bring them back online.

You don't need to have anyone else change your D3 to switch to another pool. Just point to a different pool on your configure miner tab of the miner's web interface. You could also point to NiceHash or a coin switching pool like zpool.ca which automatically chases the most profitable coin at the moment. You may need to learn a bit more about configuring ASICs, but don't be discouraged. It will make sense. Your D3 can only ever mine X11 coins, but it can easily be switched to mine any of them by just pointing them to the right stratum server. Also, the most profitable coin long term is often not the most profitable at any given moment. What matters is the price when you sell.

Good luck.

I suspect that we could run 2 B3s off of one APW3++ the same as with L3+s. (Or 1 B3 and 1 L3+). For a while they made a special version of the APW3++ with extra connectors specifically for setting up 2 L3+s on one, but they dropped that from production. However, it's only the connectors that are different so if you get a pack of cheap splitters it should work fine on a B3.

D3s are barely worth running. I think they're not worth returning as the shipping costs will be more than the miner will ever make. (IMO - you may see it differently, but do consider the math.) Fortunately, they only consume power relative to their hash power, so it's probably more economical to run them with fewer boards (you can just unplug the PSU connections) and consolidate into other cases as you lose more. Yes, this will void the warranty, but it's frankly worthless. Try to use it and you'll see.

I have an X3 and what I'm seeing is that NiceHash basically reports zero hashes when I point it there for several hours.

Other pools will report hashes but the Rejected Hashes outpace Accepted 10:1 even though there seems to be no problem with the machine. (And when I've pointed to the highest difficulty ports.) Either Bitmain created a horrible machine, or the pools just aren't able to take its hashrate.

I'm no stranger to mining at a loss temporarily -- those losses have generally turned into gains for me after holding long enough. But earning tiny amounts of barely worthwhile coins is not even worth the X3's low power consumption. Sad because this is probably the only modern Antminer that's actually appropriate for home use. If only it broke even. Frankly, it's not even good as a heater!

I will probably point it toward one of the Monero forks for a while before fully giving up on it. In truth, ASIC backed Monero should be every bit as secure as normal Monero and with the power of greater PoW behind it. But whether the market accepts that or not is another question.