That’s what I’m waiting for!!!
those s9 to drop below 500$ so I can buy a couple of them

I sold off my 1070's.  Sold off my RX 480s.  I reduced my 1080 Ti's but keeping some, and keeping my Vega's for now.  I do think 1080 Ti's are not going to go to $0 any time soon but I do keep a watch on eBay.  If you've gotten your purchase price back out of them, not as big an issue.

Never had an ASIC miner until this year, and boy has that been a turn off.  I ordered one of the Senseless modded FPGAs.  Happy to share with the group how that goes once I get it.

In the meantime, I've got to dig out a small manual I put together on how to setup a *small* solar system.  I'll post it when I find it.  It's not that difficult to do on a small scale.  There are some good YouTube videos on how to make the connections, etc.  The tools needed are cheap:  Harbor Freight crimping tool, bulk connectors from ebay (China Post), inverters depending on what you want to do, or battery controllers.  Main advice is this: if you buy panels, get the largest wattage that are cheap.  Don't waste your money on 100w panels.  Start with a 200+w or 300w panel.  There are some crazy sales on those every now and then.  CargoLargo was dumping a bunch a few years ago, and that kind of opportunity is not uncommon.  And remember that DC only travels a short distance before significant losses; AC travels much further -- so place your inverters on or close to the panels, do the long runs with AC.

For 2018, here is what I like:  smaller honest pools like what Marvell2 has done.  I'd like to see others in the group follow.  Solar power where you can fit it in like Phil has been mentioning.  And I do think FPGAs are going to be the next wave, but that's just my educated guess.  YMMV.  Oh, and screw Bitmain.  I kept an open mind on them until I experienced up close and personal how they work.  How can a billion $ + company have such completely crappy service?  Wonders never cease.

Edit:  Please no more of these "kudos" to Vorrick or for that matter Zooko.  Tools, nothing more than tools...

I sold off my 1070's.  Sold off my RX 480s.  I reduced my 1080 Ti's but keeping some, and keeping my Vega's for now.  I do think 1080 Ti's are not going to go to $0 any time soon but I do keep a watch on eBay.  If you've gotten your purchase price back out of them, not as big an issue.

Never had an ASIC miner until this year, and boy has that been a turn off.  I ordered one of the Senseless modded FPGAs.  Happy to share with the group how that goes once I get it.

In the meantime, I've got to dig out a small manual I put together on how to setup a *small* solar system.  I'll post it when I find it.  It's not that difficult to do on a small scale.  There are some good YouTube videos on how to make the connections, etc.  The tools needed are cheap:  Harbor Freight crimping tool, bulk connectors from ebay (China Post), inverters depending on what you want to do, or battery controllers.  Main advice is this:  if you buy panels, get the largest wattage that are cheap.  Don't waste your money on 100w panels.  Start with a 200+w or 300w panel.  There are some crazy sales on those every now and then.  CargoLargo was dumping a bunch a few years ago, and that kind of opportunity is not uncommon.  And remember that DC only travels a short distance before significant losses; AC travels much further -- so place your inverters on or close to the panels, do the long runs with AC.

For 2018, here is what I like:  smaller honest pools like what Marvell2 has done.  I'd like to see others in the group follow.  Solar power where you can fit it in like Phil has been mentioning.  And I do think FPGAs are going to be the next wave, but that's just my educated guess.  YMMV.  Oh, and screw Bitmain.  I kept an open mind on them until I experienced up close and personal how they work.  How can a billion $ + company have such completely crappy service?  Wonders never cease.

Edit:  Please no more of these "kudos" to Vorrick or for that matter Zooko.  Tools, nothing more than tools...

I'm looking at converting a few rigs from USB/nvOC to SSD/Windows.

What's the cheapest way of achieving this? $40 120GB SSD? will it run on 60-64GB SSD?
Do I need a particular version of Windows to get 7-8 GPU (nvidia) working? or just Windows 10 patched up to date?

I'm looking at converting a few rigs from USB/nvOC to SSD/Windows.

What's the cheapest way of achieving this? $40 120GB SSD? will it run on 60-64GB SSD?
Do I need a particular version of Windows to get 7-8 GPU (nvidia) working? or just Windows 10 patched up to date?

Now I looked at it. It is paying about 2% interest  a month.

I simply fail to see how they can pay 2% a month. 18 million of 21 million coins have been mined.

This coin reminds me of ppc

I won’t get involved in pos/pow coins that pay interest.

I won’t get involved in pos coin that pay interest.

I fail to see how these coins can generate 2% a month.

I ask for no nasty attacks you did a nasty attack I deleted this.

This thread is not to say asics rule gpus suck and fpga's are tripping ..

All three have a place in the game. I don't want to discuss why the game fails without all three and even cpus are needed for the game to work.

If you choose to be all asic good it is your choice. If you choose to be inclusive also good that is your choice.
If you choose to insult gpu miners in this thread or insult asic miners or insult fpga miners or insult cpu miners with terms like butthurt or idiotic  I delete it.

back to the thread.  solar has some value in smaller ops off grid.

buysolar has spent months looking for a good inverter converter power source for a 1000 to 1600 watt setup.

My push is in this direction here is why.

Lets take sha-256 asics 

 I own t1
avalon 841
s9
s9i on the way.  all of them run about 92 to 110 watts per th

the new go B2 lists at 81 watts per th.

even if bitmain and avalon do 7nm  they will not go much better then 75 watts per 1 th.

so do some math if the solar setup I get built comes to 4 cent a kwatt over ten years

vs 10 cents a watt buying from a hosting service.

it is viable  to run a 110 watt per th miner
vs a 75 watt per th miner.

So the game goes back to low power cost = winner winner chicken dinner.

lol why ? you think it’s shortsighted, but give no explanation for your reasoning, leme guess becuase nothing you could come up with makes any sense.  There is zero benifit to letting asics canabalize a tokens network
It defeats the whole point of decentralization

Sorry if I offended you Phil.  I wasn't attacking anyone or any style of mining.  In fact, I don't own ASICs or FPGAs, only GPUs and CPUs.  Let me rephrase my point;  I think its shortsighted and misinformed to want a coin to hardfork simply because an Nvidia or AMD GPU is no longer the most cost effective way to mine.