You were asked a simple question, you either intentionally or unintentionally ignored it, people know and understand that the majority of mining related services are scam, it is only fair that people would question any new service and it's whitin your frame of responsibility to provide the required proof that shows otherwise, taking things into personal matters with other members isn't going to make your name appear any better.

it is because he sees "ck" in the coinbase tag so he assumes it's ckpool the one ownerd and maintain be ck but the tag is there because people use ckpool's software which is open-source and ready to deploy for most use cases.

The miner with run just fine without heatsinks, it will work for a few seconds then it will overheat and will give you a temp-error in the kernel log and goes to sleep or on some models it would just enter a reboot-loop, I think what you are describing is the chip itself is loose in respect to the PCB, and that my friend is most likely the reason.

@danieleither, I can tell you for a fact that in most cases, the bad boards will die during a power recycle, mainly caused by what's known as "thermal shock," the rapid change of temp will crack poor solder joints, the miner is more likely to break when it goes from hot to cold than staying hot, you already had at least one badly soldered chip, when you powered the miner off temp changed very rapidly from 70c or so to near room temp, what happened there is uneven shrinking of different components, the result is a mechanical stress on the chips to the PCB, so now there is a "short" in that hashboard and thus it's reading 0 asics whereby in reality it could be just 1 bad ship that needs resoldering, funny enough, this shit only happens on Antminers, it was very common on their 17 series in general and anything with a T is usually terribly made by Bitshit.

If you are still deep into mining and using Antshit, you may consider getting a fixture tool and some tools to start fixing your own hashboards, if you don't have shaky hands, I believe you are smart enough to figure it out.

it has indeed been modified and is being maintained by a fellow forum member https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=139997.

He runs two nodes, one in the U.S and another is in Russia (the node which found the block i referenced earlier. i am not sure which website you are trying to access but it's working fine for me except for the borken ssl cert.

That was probably a tiny little reason, i think it was compatible with most gears out there, what really killed it was PPS payment method, it nearly killed all non-pps pools, p2pool "died" a lot faster because on top of it not being PPS, it was not for the average joe.

However, p2ool lagecy still lives if you dig enough, if you look at this block https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000001822dc3db70b75d281687f8baa10d1818d0703f49fec0

There is a clear evidence that this is p2ool based block, look at the number of output addresses, and the coinbase tag, it refers to a p2ool node based in Russia.

The way p2pool functioned is very different from what OP is trying to achieve, although, a private P2pool instance would be a lot safer than the current centralized solo mining parties that use a centralised pool.

Using p2pool protocol, you can tell for sure the coordinator can't steal your coins if a block is found, but setting that up is costly and requires some IT skills, which is one of the main reasons why p2pool was deemed dead.

your only hope for now would be https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=181180

They took a similar risk, got away with it and won 1 whole btc for doing it, will they do it for $50? i don't know, but they are the only pool who had experienced this and thus they may be willing to do it again.

Buy BTC instead, you still have the chance to get 2,3x easily, with mining, you are more likely to lose money than to breakeven.

Your internet connection has nothing to do with your chance of finding a block, however, finding and actually winning a block are two different things, of you have high latency to other nodes (especially pools' nodes) it will increase your chance of orphan blocks, but to be on the safe side, you do not need a super fast Internet or anything like that, just a steady connection and better yet use a pool that knows how to propagate blocks in time.

with 480TH if he is lucky it would be <30 years, if unlucky it is very normal to double the time (27% chance of that happening)  roughly the same chance of finding a block in 10 years instead).

again, this does not take anything else into consideration, just a miner sitting in a vacuum.

OP's post refers to testnet3 (not even testnet4), which is even worse since it has a lot less value anyway. It seems like some pools are doing some testing on testnet3, and given that testnet4 is being hijacked by that same asshole who is abusing the rules of testnet4, they just didn't bother to compete with him and overthrow them.

Which makes you wonder -- do these guys even know how to code shit? If yes, what stops them from taking testnet4? They don't want to fight evil with evil?

Bitcoin isn't inherently correlated to stocks, but human psychology and investment flows make it look correlated. The liquidity pool and investor psychology are what causes this, and it's NOT the result of investors being "naive." -- It's the result of how the markets have always worked.

Bitcoin does not sit in a vacuum -- it's a part of the global economic system. It is very rational for BTC to follow major stock markets like those in the U.S., which is the largest economy. People invest in all kinds of things for one exact reason "wealth expansion". If they feel that their stock, commodity, coin, or whatever isn't going to be receiving money from other investments, they will take their money and put it elsewhere, where they expect the rest of the money will go.

Most people treat Bitcoin and crypto in general as a high-risk, high-reward investment. So when the general market sentiment is bad, the crypto market is the first to receive the hit, given that it has a relatively small market cap and is subject to huge drops.

Eventually, when people start treating BTC as a reserve currency or safe haven like gold, the correlation between it and other markets will start to invert -- when markets are risky, people would buy BTC, and the opposite is true. BTC has not grown this large because of its usability -- it is what it is now because people believe that it has the potential to grow their wealth, and it will continue to be treated as such for decades.

3 month is ridiculously a long time to get a miner or hashboard repared, But we know Bitmain did a lot worse than that at times, so maybe that is just the "norm" in these repair market.

I also understand that troubleshooting some issues might be difficult so some issues are fixed in a few months while others can take a lot longer.

In general, one should assume that when they send a miner for repair, it can easily takes months and they should be prepared for that.

I strongly disagree with your logic, you are saying  "don't worry about quality worry about when the miner breaks", this makes no sense to me, i rather buy gears that are unlikely to break than buy a gear that will break and then I have to repair it.

AwesomeMiner is your guy, it is free for a single miner, however, you are going to have to use thier distribution of vanish to have more flexibility in the trigger/action/rule.

You can automate everything you ever thought of, you just need to give yourself some time to get familiar with the software, they have a support topic here which you can use to get help on things you don't fully understand.

MicroBT builds the most robust mining gear. Bitmain is slightly above mediocre, and Canaan falls below that. The only area where Bitmain beats MicroBT is in efficiency and availabilit -- thanks to their massive production volume, you'll almost always find that the same generation of Antminer is slightly more efficient than a Whatsminer. Aside from that, MicroBT outperforms Bitmain in every other aspect, including customer service.

The thing about Antminers is that they're just too popular. Most people have a herd mentality- they don’t want to try "new" things. But the moment they get their hands on Whatsminers and start comparing reliability and build quality, they’re unlikely to go back to Antminers again.

In case you didn't know, it’s not uncommon to see a high DOA (dead on arrival) rate with brand-new Antminers. I know people who've reported up to 8% DOA on batches of 1,000+ S19 units. Compare that to 0–1% DOA for the same quantity of Whatsminer M30+ units. Want to know what’s even more surprising? Nearly 0% of Whatsminers fail within the first year, while Bitmain has almost double the DOA rate. To their credit, Bitmain has improved since the 17 serie -- when failure rates reached up to 40% within the first 6 months—but still, nothing comes close to Whatsminers in terms of durability.

Speaking from personal experience -- having owned, sold, and managed thousands of both brand --I can say without a shadow of a doubt that the numbers most people report are probably conservative. Antminers are actually worse. 😉 I've had hundreds of Whatsminers running for over two years with nearly zero failures at the hashboard level. Yes, the fans die too often (since only two are doing all the work), but trust me: I had an M21s running with just one fan in a terrible environment, and it didn't even reboot, it kept hashing like a champ. Meanwhile, I've had to collect heatsinks from S17s after blasting them with a $10 blower. 😅

That said, Whatsminers do have two notable drawbacks (and no, fan replacement isn't one of them since they're cheap, easy to swap, and don't fail much sooner than Antminer fans). The first issue is the PSU design. The C19 connector is overkill. Most miners don't have the infrastructure to supply 3–3.5kW on a single cord or socket. That was a poor design choice by the Whatsminer engineering team, and it's kept them out of a lot of markets.

The second issue is their slow boot time. While Antminers typically boot and tune in 1–5 minutes, older generations of Whatsminers can take up to 45 minutes. Thankfully, this has improved significantly in newer generations and firmware updates. They now boot in about 5–15 minutes, with a median around 10 minutes based on a sample of a few hundred units I last tested.

Other than that, if you want a machine that runs trouble-free for five times as long as your average Antminer, it's Whatsminer -- every single day of the year.

kW and KWh are two different concepts, you are going to need to ask your friend how much of both he would be able to spare, if the setup is off-grid with no backup batteries then it would be useless regadless of how much much KW there is, the aspect of running your miner for 3-5 hours a day is bad, even if the power is free, the ROI is going to be terrible for a gear that runs for 20% of the time or less.

So, without all this information, no advice is worth a thing.

Then you shouldn't be bothered by what Bitcoingirl.club said -- that falls under the very freedoms you just mentioned. Freedom should be borderless; otherwise, it becomes selective or even fake. The moment you say someone shouldn't say this or that, you're already chipping away at their freedom.

If someone wants to be mean, an asshole, hateful, or even outright evil -- that still falls within their frame of freedom. Freedom is not only for the kind or agreeable. It's either for everyone and everything, or it doesn't exist at all.



Oh, yeah, sorry -- let me re-login real quick. 😄

Just imagine the joy on Timelord2067’s face catching three alt accounts in one shot.

Anyway, jokes aside.  Vod, I think you're a good lad. I honestly believe that you and Bitcoingirl are just creating unnecessary drama. Neither of you offered any bribes or anything like that. You were both just bored and started unloading your own life’s misery onto each other -- which happens. It's okay.

We all have some miserable piece-of-shit parts of our lives. Maybe you both should just drop the feedback, cool off, and each find someone else to argue with for a change.

لقد انتظرت لاشهر لاتحصل على رد من صاحب الموضوع بخصوص الدعاية الكاذبة لحوض التعدين هدا, وحتى الان لايوجد اي رد بل يوجد حساب جديد يروج لهدا الحوض في التعليقات ويعطي معلومات مغلوطة وكاذبة, قمت ايضا بمرسالة دعم الموقع للحصول على معلومة بسيطة وهي اتبات بأن الحوض فعلا يمتلك 5 اكسا هاش وانه يجد بلوكز على البلوكتشين فكأنت اجباتهم انهم عبارة عن proxy pool وهدا ايضا غير منطقي نظرا بأنهم يدعون ان العمولة هي 1%, مما يعني ان الحوض الرئيسي يأخد منهم اقل من 1% وهدا بعيد كل البعد عن المنطق, يجب توخي الحذر في التعامل معهم.

There are some health-related issues that could arise from having a dozen electronics running 24/7 in the place where you sleep. Most of these problems happen when there's inadequate ventilation in the room, or due to volatile organic compounds emitted from dust burning off hot GPUs or melting plastic.

Depending on the size of your setup, I’d say it's generally safe to host a small rig in your room as long as you keep it dust-free and well-ventilated. Obviously, with a mining rig running in your room, dust can become a serious issue — it’s basically a dust collector, which can be risky if not handled properly. So again, the main points are keeping things dust-free and making sure there's good airflow.

ASICs are a different story. You get the same shit I mentioned above, plus noise pollution. That constant low-frequency hummmmmm from those small fans can really get into your head.