Any tips or tricks for an S17 Pro that doesn't want to run off an SD?  It has the 2020 firmware, so it looks like the consensus is that I have to run via SD.  Originally thought it was the SD type, had tried a 16gb SDHC.  Just got 8gb SDHC and those aren't working either.  The machine isn't getting an IP and the red and green lights are solid, no matter how long I leave it plugged in.  Having a hard time finding non-HC SD cards, but hoping these 8gb cards will be ok.  Tried Braiins as well as a few others just to see if it was my methods but no difference there.

I assume you are talking about Eth mining.

Have you tried (or maybe post core clock setting) locked/absolute core clock settings?  This will generally reduce power use.  I can't compare directly but with a 3060LHR on rvn I saved somewhere around 15W just by going with the absolute core clock. 

Metroid you should look up the 'no true Scotsman' fallacy.  By saying anyone who disagrees with you is a scammer you are perpetuating this.  It's a loop with no way out.

I find you humorous and certainly a counterpoint to full time bull bull bull.  But at very least this cycle, I've seen you post the same for I'd say at least 6-9 months, it's as if you've called 90 of the last 3 bear markets.

A cynical side of me says you could well be someone using forum clout to discourage newbs from entering the space during a fragile time to hold hash rate and difficulty down.

It won't matter either way, I won't take action on any one person's writing on a forum. 

Yeah early on I was susceptible to farm tokens but I pretty quickly converged on a thesis of sticking with the gas token of a good growing chain and at most maybe one dex/amm token.  At that I favor the dex's that have their own yield available on their native tokens, like was mentioned above that eliminates impermanent loss and also I've found saves gas.  I won't even mention names, some were already mentioned but I'm not shilling bags here at all.  I'm in around 4 dexes and of those at least 2 are multi-chain and I am in them in more than one chain.

When a good new chain launches or better still offers strong liquidity mining programs, they will often experience quick capital appreciation and often you can get in between the announcement of the LM and the implementation and still get good gains.  I'll take the gains and roll half or more back into btc and/or eth.

Again, farming or speculating isn't for everyone.  I could probably do or have done as well at only mining and being more aggressive about buying and selling video cards or ASICs and looking for hosting or power deals.  But I've also gotten burned by buying and selling cards like on ebay, so actually not dealing with the individual while trading tokens appeals to me personally.

OP to clarify you are just trying to have a completely local testnet set up to learn or do dev work on your local network?  I'd assume the dag in this case will be zero or very small and you should be able to mine on nearly anything.

Seems like the actionable error here is:  method eth_getWork does not exist.  How hard have you searched for this?

Another question, have you restarted or something after starting the geth instance the one time?  It may not be running at start so you need to check to see if geth is still running prior to starting to mine.

This is ostensibly untrue.  Granted the way to get 1000x is to be in premine, VC or seed round.  But you can also get good capital appreciation and/or yield from even being moderately early in buying from an exchange.  I was nowhere near early rounds and have ALWAYS felt I was too late but did pretty well with Link, BNB/Cake, Matic and Avax.  You need to be able to be attentive to the ecosystem as a whole to see good things coming. 

I find it reasonable to mine and then stake the mined coin.  Then use a bit of the eth to speculate.  Again, ymmv.

I've been moderately surprised that few defi/staking users know mining, and few miners know defi.  But I've found this to be more or less true.

I've staked almost everything continuously since maybe my second month mining, which was during defi summer.  So I participated in sushiswap pretty early on when it was still just a piggyback on uniswap.

As said above, you have to know up front that defi is higher risk than straight up mining to a cold wallet.  The risks can be technical, custodial, financial and economic.  But on the other hand the payoff generally follows from the risk/reward curve.

I mitigate some of the risk by diversifying.  So different wallets, different chains, different platforms within the chains.  It then becomes more to keep track of and understand, but frankly defi is more of a consuming hobby for me than mining, so not only do I not mind the learning curve but I actually enjoy it.  When I no longer enjoy it, I'll find other pursuits.

I do only enter the more risky platforms/farms with much smaller size.  I was lucky on some, like entering BNB/Cake in I think Feb '20 which both went at least 6x.  Then I do take a lot off the table when I can play with only the 'house money' and sell mostly into BTC and Ether.  But then likewise, I do stake that BTC and Eth on solid platforms like Aave to get direct yield from those as well as borrow stables at low utilization levels and stake those.

I've been adjacent to hacks and exploits, but thus far I've more or less avoided direct exploit exposure.  I can indeed call that mostly luck, but as I said I don't go into any one thing with much size.  I've also gotten a good amount of free tokens from using platforms via airdrops, those have turned out to be pretty good money as of themselves and imo paid me back some for the gas and risk used and taken.

ymmv, do research and don't risk what you'd mind losing. 

Given the edge the 6600xt looks to have in raven hashing I’d bias toward that maybe 60/40. But even so I’d consider getting a mix of both if you are building a rig or farm.

Also take a look at even a 3060 v2 LHR, I’ve had one for a while and it hashes great on rvn 21.5 mh at 113 watts.

The extra you are seeing has been a quick spike in gas prices, so mining rewards have gone up as well.  Because of both the volatility today and also continued NFT minting, there has been a lot of network demand which drives up tip and average transaction cost.  Enjoy it while it's here!

Separate from people above having trouble connecting via Polygon. 

There were a few stories such as the one linked below regarding Coinbase being likely to integrate Polygon network transactions natively on their main retail platform.  Many assumed this would happen when they added Polygon support to the Coinbase Wallet app.  Things could change or this may not get implemented like I assume, but it should mean that eventually moving from Polygon wrapped coins all the way to fiat via Coinbase may get easier and cheaper.

https://blocktelegraph.io/polygon-first-scaling-solution-for-coinbase/

It seems just a bit strange that your Ether that you say is showing on your metamask wallet set to Polygon network isn't showing in wallet.matic.network.  I double checked, any Ether sent from ethermine via their 'L2' option is shown in wallet.matic.network as Ether (PoS-WETH).

As you learned via the response from Guarda support, polygon wrapped Ether isn't just an ERC20 token, it's Ether that lives on the Polygon network, separate and distinct from Ethereum mainnet.

If you want to send Polygon wrapped Ether to any ERC20 wallet, you'll need to bridge that Ether over to the Ethereum mainnet.  There are a few ways to do this, I'd suggest familiarizing yourself with them by just doing a general google or youtube search for something like 'bridge to polygon.'  The way I use because I've found it easiest is actually linked right from the wallet.matic.network page, click on 'Move funds from Ethereum to Polygon' which will take you to the Polygon bridge.  You can move in either direction by clicking on the double arrow 'switch' icon.  If you view videos they will probably give an idea of the total cost to bridge, but I've said above it's been something like $40-50 for me in the past, this will be dependent on gas prices at the time you bridge.

You should read this thread carefully and then take time to research via google or youtube.  If you understand the concepts the questions will answer themselves.

There was a full, used but in good shape with good hardware rig local to me right around this total hash and within 5% or so of price.  I was very tempted and was indeed going to make a lowball offer probably around $1600usd but just never got around to it.  These should be cards at or much greater than 6gb memory and it should be a price for a full rig, motherboard, psu and everything.  But seems like an ok price.  ymmv, not investment advice or anything.  Shouldn't be shitty cards with bad fans or anything, everything should be nearly 100%.

Looking at all these numbers for RVN in this thread, unless one doesn't care about power efficiency, makes me think you can get more out of a 3080ti.  I'm getting ~0.19mh/watt RVN from a lowly 3060 (non ti) LHR=21.8mh/115watt software.  For me many combinations netted .15-.17mh/watt, few gave current efficiency. 

Phil fwiw. My method was to set pl pretty high, like 135-140. Then mess with both clocks while recording hash per watt. A combo of clocks rose to the top above which no extra hash was produced but more power was burned up to the pl. Setting back to the best settings ended up drawing around 118 watts max in software, so I just set pl to 120, basically a couple ticks above where it consumes anyway. It waivers mostly 113-115 watts sometimes touches 118 max.

Yes I have 1300 core and 2000 mem, also on rvn. I’m in Hive with that card but I think if you put in large numbers for core it’ll switch to absolute core. I kept a running spreadsheet and iterated maybe 25 times to find the most efficient combo. I went from 130 pl to now it runs at around 115 watts, I brought pl down to 120 but it stays lower all the time.

Phil have you tried absolute core clock instead of the offset?  It brought power use on my 3060 down around 10-15%.

If you set to 60gwei your tx may have been processed in the last hour or few hours. That should be like $5-6 or so if you are paying the full fee.

I bridged from Polygon to Ethereum mainnet around 7-10 days ago, don’t remember the gas price but it was probably in the double digits. Don’t remember exactly but I think total price was around $40usd, maybe a bit less.

If you aren’t rushing to swap into fiat imo it kind of doesn’t matter but I’d either stay on polygon or set payout limit high and gas price low on mainnet. In the last few months gas has been 8 gwei and 2100 gwei, so one way or the other your tx will hit eventually.

Or if you care just find a pool that pays the gas.

Looking at basic numbers on whattomine it would take 200-225 RTX3070 to generate $32k usd a month.  This is at least 30kw, 30-40 6-card rigs, a lot of heat and infrastructure.  Good if the kids are getting their hands dirty a bit in running the operation at least a little, but this is parent's or a funded group's pet project.

Thanks, I'm happy with it.  I checked and pool side it's also showing 21.9mh average and I'm working on like 18 days constant uptime with zero invalid shares at the pool.  It's on HiveOS, trex miner and I've got 1300 locked core, 2000 mem, 120 PL and 75% fan.  Like I say I've been seeing consistent 113 watts in software.  I spent a reasonable few hours trying different settings and this is what I found was most efficient on hash per watt.

RVN is pretty much the only speculative coin I've been mining and will hodl, the rest by and large I'll focus on coins I can swap either on a dex or on a major exchange, I've got one I deal with and I'm sort of geofence limited.  IOW for me if X coin or octo is close to ether I'll always choose ether.  Unless something changes quite a bit either in difficulty or price I'm ok spec mining RVN with this one card, I'd be flexible to add a couple more but not so much more than that.  For reference I sometimes mine ETC on the small memory cards as well, I've got some that are heat sensitive and ETC is an easy coin to mine with them and then I do ok swing trading the ETC against eth or btc depending on strength.

I'll have to try again with nbminer with the LHR.  I was somewhat early with miniz on the unlock and with a lot of optimization work on RVN it's nearly neck and neck RVN vs Eth.  I'm getting nearly 22mh at 113 watts with RVN.  I'm more or less spec mining on RVN for now, seeing how many I can put away until the halving.  I'm flexible though.