I find it interesting that there appears to be two groups of people reading/posting in this thread.

The first of which is miners (like myself) who are trying to find the most profitable use of their hardware given a number of different choices in coin switching pools, hardware rental/leasing, and hash power trading.

The second of which seems to be the providers of said services to promote their particular service, or at the very least ensure that their services are being accurately represented.

Wow. 100MH/s for 2k?

Yes but the value of BTC in USD is going up. So it's been roughly the same $/day per Mh/s, at least according to my numbers. Definitely not the heyday 0.01 BTC per Mh/s that middlecoin did back when it started, but then again you couldn't buy 30 Mh/s miners for $4000 back then either.

I've been looking into HW errors and I'm starting to think it's not a big deal. On a GPU I've always believed you should never see any HW errors and that if you do it's something you need to resolve (i.e. lower intensity). With ASICs (even the Gridseeds) I'm thinking it might just be something normal that we're not used to seeing.

Just MHO though.

Mine came with a USB cable and a network cable. Both had good lengths (i.e. longer than the usual 3 footers you'd usually get).

Good call. Canceled the order and upgraded to the 1250W model.

So I don't have a kill-a-watt, but the Falcon just melted my 850W 80Plus Gold Seasonic. I've ordered a 1050W replacement.

To be fair, the PSU was not new, and had been powering my GPU rig for a while (and running at pretty high % utilized too).

Well I gave up on the zenMiner, but I think the problem is my switch.

Anyway, on my linux system now, here is what I'm getting when I start cgminer:

Icarus Detect: Attempting to open /dev/ttyUSB0

I'm pretty sure ttyUSB0 is right, because that's what I get when I run dmesg | grep tty

Anyone else getting "Miner Activation Error" on Zenminer's site?

EDIT - I disconnected/reconnected the USB cable, that seemed to do the trick. I also clicked the register button a few times.

Has anyone checked their order on the website? Mine says "AWAITING FULFILLMENT" still (Week 1 Falcon).

Fury = Nick Fury, leader of shield
Falcon = The black guy in Captain America Winter Solider. His name is Sam Wilson in the comics, not sure if they kept it in the movies.
Black Widow = Romanoff's codename
War Machine = Silver version of the Iron Man suit that Rhodes pilots instead of Stark.

:GAWdrop:

There's only one x11 multipool that pays out in BTC right now, and their website sucks. I would really love a CM X11 Multipool...

Power Supply(ies): I purchased a Falcon, says 740W now, said 640 before IIRC.

Am I to understand that these use a standard ATX style power supply? If so, how are you supposed to hook it up? I see that there are two "8 PIN" hookups, and I do have several of those on my power supply, but ATX power supplies are generally turned on by the motherboard. Is there a motherboard connector on this thing that I'm not seeing in the pictures? Or am I supposed to do some sort of "wire hack" to turn this on? If that is the case, this seems like a really crappy setup. Are other miners requiring the same thing? The Gridseeds were powered with a cheap CCTV PSU (man I love those things, wish they could ROI).

Anyway, I hope I'm just missing something. What is everyone else doing? ATX power supply or something more exotic?

The draw on 2800W @ 120V is 23 Amps. Definitely more than the standard 15-20 amp breakers you find in houses now a days. You'd have to have your power supplies on two different circuits. You could also drop in a new 30 amp breaker if you had the room.

First, great work! I'll be sending another donation here in a bit.

Second, what useful information could be gained by measuring multiple rig rental places? The reason to compare different multipools is to compare the effectiveness of their coin switching methodology, availability/uptime, and the effectiveness of the pool manager at maintaining the pool.

I understand comparing one RigRental place as a baseline to compare all other multipools against. Other than that, is there a reason that Mh/s rates at "RigRentalA" are going to be that much different than "RigRentalB"? Wouldn't the market equalize that? You could also just look at the previous orders for other's rigs as well (but it wouldn't be as accurate).

(I'm not trying to tell anyone else what do or criticizing others decisions. It's a genuine question.)

I think you're looking at the X11 LeaseRig. The different "greens" are a little hard to distinguish on the graph to the left. If you look at the other graphs, you can tell that ScriptGuild is doing about as well as Clever/Waffle.

I downloaded/compiled the version of cgminer that was forked specifically for these, and it seems to be working now...


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VVVV That's the same one I'm using.

minerd --gc3355=/dev/ttyACM0 --url=stratum+tcp://sf.clevermining.com:3333 --user=1M698hKVYQ9h5zEntcUetp84t4Eq3xetfd --pass=x -P

minerd --version
cpuminer 2.3.2
libcurl/7.19.7 NSS/3.14.0.0 zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.4.2

Here is the output:

[2014-04-05 10:55:20] Stratum detected new block
[2014-04-05 10:55:21] dispatching new work to GC3355 LTC core
>>> LTC : 55aa1f2810000000
>>> LTC : 55aa1f2813000000
>>> LTC : 55aa1f00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080ff7f0000008463409 1806acf3e5281d91177f758a9495700f1a2c3dceb843fb9a136bff83c000000020e9b315c44677a c116d5a4c500f34310b00aa662091ae0ed61e65a5b34dfead558791233f2da3253a07ea14e15dac fe196091dcb0137a5cadf7a6f987d9f0c9b534035781b3e07d600000000ffffffff


(Similar data repeats every few seconds or so)

Anyone using Gridseed ASICs with CPUMiner on this pool? According to everything I'm reading about the Gridseed, the CPUMiner output shows it should be working, but nothing is showing up on the webpage and I've been mining for several hours now. I even created a new BTC address to track it seperately from my GPU stuff.

(Address is 1M698hKVYQ9h5zEntcUetp84t4Eq3xetfd)