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if I had to bet on this one, I would probably bet on "no" , but really, as you said, "you can't have this conversation in a "bubble" so to speak ", there are many factors involved, one key factor would be the cost of…

That's pretty accurate, let me add one more missing point, in some cases, the miner doesn't even need 20%, in very cold places people have to generate heat from somewhere and direct it to the miner, sometimes they will…

Perfectly true, now let's stick to this example for a while, imagine the minimum force you can apply to the pedals will put the bicycle at a speed of 5km/h, but you want it to stay at an average of 2.5km/h, and thus you…

It is more like how a dynamo or an altenator works, far from perpetual motion concept, when you place a light on bicycle and a let the wheels induce enough power via the dynami, the lights will turn on, there is no free…

The fans will have to spin regardless, you can't run an S17 without 4 fans attached, the cfm phill gave about represents 100% fan speed, so he will be getting anywhere from 250 to 450 cfm (S17 will hardly run cool with…

Why on earth would you want to use Antpool? Please do NOT, it is a rip off. Regarding other pools, you are probably making a mistake somewhere, post a screenshot of the details you entered.

Whatever you do, don't expose your miners to the WAN, it's risky as is and would be even worse if you don't know what you are doing, the best basic setup is the one that danieleither described above, just a regular PC…

Your question is not clear, however, it's both share count and share difficulty that prove the work. I don't know what prove "luck" means to you, so I can't answer this part. Now, back to "work": how would a mining pool…

was 16 cents ever good for mining BTC since the inspection of ASIC miners? I mean aside from the mania phases we had in every cycle where price goes up 2-5x in a few months before difficulty does, anything above 10…

That would be the least of his concerns, for now, setting up 60 gears that need close to 200kw isn't something easy by any means, and just for the record, AwesomeMiner is NOT free, you either pay for with hashrate by…

Actually, this topic was in a different section, and most of the comments are from speculators who have probably never owned a mining gear, I remember we had a similar one here which I can't seem to find, that one was…

As far as the topic at hand is concerned, you don't need a data center to mine Bitcoin, many mining farms do exist in Africa, they face many issues but internet connection is not one of them. Power infrastructure is the…

alas, ping times are directly related to the distance, Johannesburg is in South Africa, it's the furthest point in Africa from Europe, half of Africa is closer to the EU than the east part of U.S, EU is closer to the…

It depends on the miner version, the most common would be the chips themselves, there is no exact reason as to why that happens, it just happens, and it happens more often on some gears than the others, it's also common…

Sometimes something may stick on the heatsinks of one or a few of the chips, you might solve this issue by dusting the miner off, another way around would be using a known and trusted custom firmware that gives you the…

3400-3130 = 270w difference, there must be something wrong here, it's pretty strange that you two got the same wattage on the S17 pro but quite a large difference in the T17e, I trust phill, I also know TeslaWatt has no…

it's about 20 degrees Celsius at the time of taking that screenshot. Yes there are, I use a split-room design to separate hot and cold air, the ventilation is not perfect but it's pretty good, you can refer to this…

With summer on the way, a lot of folks are gonna run into issues because of the heat. So I’m diving into the temp differences for some Bitmain gear. Here’s what I’m comparing: - S17pro in Low power mode - S17pro in…

That is good news then, you will be limited by the PSU's max limit which I believe is 3800W, so for your two M30s+ you should get anywhere between 110th to 115th without going past 3700W on each, so that be a total of…

Where does it fail when you set these numbers? Also, looking at the tank you posted it says 12kw cooling capacity, no mention of the 6kw, which means it can safely run two MicroBT even overclocked, unless I am missing…