I will donate as soon as me and my partner get around to making these tweaks...but as of now my partner is still setting up L3+'s in the box
and dealing with an electrican...with his stuff..if this keeps up ..the whole thing will be 'moot' anyway...my L3+'s that are up are making
53c a day after electric....just saying..others may be in despair and not really also be jumping on this mod...as we speak..for the same reasons as
me ....why bother improving the engines on the Titanic if the iceberg of difficulty is gonna sink the L3+ boat anyway...
IF we manage to get the LTC price say above $160 again, (where I'm making more than a $1 a day) you
may have some more motivated people...as to myself ..I watch this mess and basically am turning into a
'lump' of an unmotivated miner....ie (are the miners up ...good....goes back to bed pulls covers over his head)
I think your logic is a bit off
If anything lower prices/profits will motivate people more to reduce voltages and increase efficiency. If your scraping by and can reduce power by 10-20% thats pretty big...of course 10-20% power reduction did not matter when the L3's were making 1k per month last year
I probably was not clear...if the price of LTC say reaches a point, where you can't mine it with the elec costs for the majority of the 'consumer' small guys
1-20 Bitmain units say...then that leaves Bitmain......centralized mining....likely with new 'supposed' 1.5gh units they will mine for 5 months over the summer
and allow us 'crumbs' of pre-orders in the fall ...after driving up difficulty another 30% say...thus, the choice is see all your pow-scrypt current miners scrap'd
and watch bitmain play these games and have to 'start over' with their products on their timeline in say late fall...
so my point to the 'voltage' fix...sure...it helps a lot....say you get 15% reduction in power..sure...it helps...but just saying...looks a bit rigged...Bitmain...coupons expireiing (most) june 1st, I think it is, etc, etc
and may not really matter much in the next month if trends continue..the end result is pow scrypt pretty much centralized to bitmain data halls and the rest of
the stuff doorstops ..remember we are looking at 30% difficulty rise per month....we saw this game by KNC in 2014 using pre-order money to make BTC Neptunes for
their data halls first and then release to thenpublic...they were good for 5 months and made 25% of cost back at best.....not exactly the same thing...but the intent to
control pow-scrypt seems to ben the same...as KNC BTC tricks ..back in the day...
I will get this stuff up eventually, electrician issues on the place I'm hosting and they have to get 160 L3+'s up (bigger folk than me) thus probably be 2
weeks before a guy can get to these mods on my stuff
anyway, we will be the first to know I guess
I'll get the donation out as soon as 1) installed 2) and see what I'm making to give him appropriate $$$ he deserves... but a couple months more of sideways
in price with difficulty rises and especially if bitmain really does have supposed 1.5gh units for pow scrypt coming out this summer and same pre-orders for fall
that has me a bit concerned...hopefully I'm dead wrong in a big way...
later
brad
