I'm struggling to complete my 2018 (yes, 2018!) tax return. I've filed my crypto income and Form 8949 since 2014. I used Libra Tax, which was simple and easy to use. Just pointed them to my Coinbase account and a couple of wallets where I keep the private key.
Well, Libra is defunct now. I've looked at some online options, like CryptoTrader.tax, Beartax, and a couple of others, but they are very focused on crypto traders. Not so much for miners getting (often) several pool payments in different wallets every day.

Sorting out thousands of transactions and converting them to the sites' proprietary format is taking forever. I wonder if anyone out there knows of a good site that can simplify this process.

Ideally (like Libra did) it should provide not only the cost-basis trading Form 8949, but also let you get a report on income by time-frame, like by year, YTD, by month and so on.

What have you found for a relatively easy way to get these reports for our good friend, the IRS?

Thanks.

Well that makes 3 of us... 

Two boards are hashing normally but one is showing only 7 xxx's and other is missing a few chips. I have similar error messages in the Kernel Log - mainly
 Dec 28 04:04:25 (none) local0.err cgminer[449]: Get [1]Temp Data Failed!

Hopefully someone will read this and provide some insight.

I think everyone who has had these problems with AsicSpace should get together.

I have 15 miners there. 1 S9 got 'toasty' and failed, per one of Robert's scarce text messages. I've tried to arrange to get it back so I can get it fixed or at least tinker with it myself, but no luck. It doesn't seem anyone is ever at the facility.

Four days ago all but one of my miners went strange. They mined intermittently, failing over to the last choice pool, with ridiculous rejection rates (As high as 80%). Now only 4 show up at all, with hash rates in the 200 GH range. Numerous texts have been ignored. Yesterday he texted me 'someone will be there Wednesday'. Well, it's Wednesday at 5 pm and there is no change. Here's BTC at $840 and the majority of my hashpower is out for the count. 70 TH/s is down to about 6 TH/s.

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Update: It turns out that a switch failed, and it took 5 days to get a new one due to winter storms delaying shipment.
Seems to be a strong argument that they should keep spares in stock...

Also it doesn't explain why the customer service is so crappy. If they just said on Day 1 that they had a bad switch and needed to send for a new one it would have been a lot better.
I shouldn't have to badger them to find out what's going on. A proactive message to those affected would help a lot in building confidence in this business. Honestly I don't think they care.

Where I am they are still profitable after halvening, but I need the space.

Please make me an offer for some or all.

thanks

Hey thanks for the link. I've been looking for a clamp ammeter that wouldn't break the bank.
I found GFI circuits suck for mining. I'm not enough of an expert to know why, but I experienced one smoking a lot and the other just tripping all the time. Sorta like some people I know  .

Hi. Keep us posted. I have a Monarch that started switching off the PSU -- I have no idea why.

By the way, leaking from the little impeller pumps on the head sinks is common. Both my Monarchs started doing that within 3 weeks of receiving them. On was really subtle and the miner overheated before I noticed it was leaking. There are multiple reasons for this the main one being that BFL used a super-cheap cooling solution. If the system gets even slightly too warm the pump body deforms and the skinny o-ring that seals it ceases to function. You can make it last longer by swapping with a larger-diameter o-ring, but that is a temporary solution. Also the pump controller, if you should remove it, is virtually impossible to re-seat due to the super-skinny wire that completes the circuit.

What I ended up doing on the one that leaked and didn't overheat, was to disassemble the impeller pumps cooling the chips. I threw out the impeller and replaced the skinny o-ring. I resealed the pumps, which are now just passive chambers for the water to flow through.

Then I got a cheap Syscooling pump (similar to the Antminer C1 contraption) and connected it between the two ex-pumps and the radiator. Voila! No leaks. Avg 3 deg C lower temps than the stock cooling solution.

The hose barbs are likely to be different diameters so plan for some way to reduce one end. However I found that jamming a cold 5/16" poly hose into a warm 3/8" poly hose creates a perfect seal. You can't pull it apart once the temps equalize. But I put clamps on just to be sure.

Hi. I don't see any reason you can't run something that has fresh airflow from outside but just leaving the miners without cover would be a bad idea. You don't want them to suck in  actual water. I'm in the Pacific Northwest and I've been running miners for 2 years in my 'garden shed'. I took out the wall on the exhaust side and put in screen. I leave the door slightly open and the space under the rake edge of the roof as well. It's in a sheltered placed so the wind can't blow in rain and snow.

If I were to build a minimal BTC-Hive^tm it would be: roof-line->1 ft -> screen -> 2 ft -> intake of rack or shelf with miners -> exhaust of miners -> 1 ft -> screen -> 1 ft -> roof line.

I.e. you could put about 24 miners in a 6 ft x 6 ft (2m x 2m) configuration.

But I would certainly make sure the roof of whatever miner-house you build extends past each wall by at least a foot. If it's in the wind, then 2 ft on the prevailing wind side at least.

Coinbase doesn't even let you do this. I chatted with them and it's not even possible since they mix the transaction before sending it out. Their recommendation was to 'transfer the funds to a wallet you control' first. AAAAaaaargh!

But with a lot of PMs, begging, links to the trx and screen shots, sidehack decided to trust me.

So if you're thinking about this and your spendable btc are in Coinbase, move them to a 'real' wallet

Shipping time from Bitmain in China is about as fast as anyone in the US. My new S9 shipped later Sunday and it's expected tomorrow. Occasionally it will get held up in customs for a couple of days, but I only had that problem when I bought 35 S5's all at once and the customs folks didn't know what they were.
When I buy 1 or 2 units it takes about 48 hours (West coast).

Nah, it's nothing like that. I have been visiting and maintaining the miners twice a month, otherwise monitoring thru VPN. My 'landlord' is a father-son operation, electronics engineer and network wiz. Really good people and we're good friends. Problem is the other party. I won't get into the details here but 'fraud' is a word being kicked around.
To stay viable I need the same deal, which will be hard to find, unless I buy my own real estate -- tough to do when your income is your bitcoin mine.

Short story: I rented space from a person and got a really good deal, as he has use for the waste heat for my miners, etc. We signed a rental contract and all has gone well until May 5th. This person is not the problem - in fact we had been talking expansion and partnering for some hardware development and possibly hosting offerings.

The problem is that he is now in a dispute with another party over the title to the land his workshop (and my bitcoin miners) sits on. The other party called up the local utility company and shut off our power. My miners have been down for 38 days now.

I may have found an alternate location but configuring it, moving, etc. will take more time and money. I'd like to get a court order (if possible) to turn the power back on and allow my miners to operate there until their feud is settled (or a year, whichever is longest). I don't know if that's even possible, but it needs to happen last month.

This mining op is my livelihood. If you can help (not necessarily pro bono but at a good rate) please PM me. I'm in the Pacific Northwest.

I have 2 x S7-F1s and 2 x S7-B18s running in the same location under the same conditions. Last week when it hit 90F here, the S7-F1's actually ran about 8-10C cooler.
The Batch 18's pushed 75 - 77C but the the Single Fan versions stayed under 70C. I actually like them better.

I have 32 Antminer S5's for sale. All are in good working order. If you buy:

1 or 2: $110 each
3 to 5: $105 each
6 to 10: $100 each
11+:  $95 each
All of them: $3000 or best reasonable offer

These prices are without a PSU. I have a couple of EVGA 1300W Supernova G2 PSUs available for an extra $120.  One will operate 2 S5's. And one EVGA 1000W for $80.
These miners have been regularly cleaned and maintained and all are running without issues.

I also have 5 Antminer S3+ asking $40 each. Plus one more with a bricked controller -- free with a purchase.

I am situated in the NW USA. I can ship anywhere. US orders at cost, overseas orders cost + $10 to cover paperwork.

If you're local, you can pick up or I can deliver.

Wow. 900.
I got customs hassles with just 35 S5's last year.

I can say my experience with Bitmain has been 99% good since my first S3+ purchases.

The 1% is a set of S7 boards I sent for repair that apparently were lost. I shipped EMS and tracking says 'delivered'. But Bitmain can't find them.

As for price, you can choose to mine or not, based on price. If you choose not to, and so do others, the price will drop. It's sad that only Bitmain seems to care about selling to smaller miners but I'm glad they do.

I have been using the Libra Tax site to manage my mining calculations for IRS tax purposes. You can link it to Coinbase or any other wallets you use.
 The “Tax Report" will fulfill your reporting requirements for IRS Form 8949 and Schedule D. http://www.libra.tech/

I've used them 2 years now.
That being said, I'm expecting a refund for 2015 year and it's still 'processing'. I'm half expecting an audit.

I'm in. Check your tip jar...

Thanks for this.

Thanks for this. I also bought 2 of these and they have been running about 11 days. They've been absolutely worry-free, even though it hit 82 deg F a few days ago. One is slightly under the advertised speed and one is slightly over, so I guess they average out.

How do you get stuff shipped from Bitmain Warranty as opposed to using the website and getting them from China?

No risk, no reward. There is always some investment, even if it's your time or effort (even posting on this forum  )
Referrals, IMO, just bring in dust.

Or maybe they'll have a couple of options, like a water-cooled system similar to the C1 (I loved that C1. So sad it's sitting on a shelf doing nothing. *sniff*). Or an immersion kit.

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