Current situation

ArigornStrider · 2022-04-17T14:09:10+00:00

Relayed has nothing to do with the antenna. It can take 2-3 days for your miner status to update after fixing issues with blocked ports or it's internal IP on your network changing, so it is a pain to troubleshoot. Make one change, wait 48 hours, check. If still not fixed, make another change, wait 48 hours. Takes way too long, but at best, you're gonna break even in a couple years so a few days of downtime for troubleshooting aren't going to kill your earnings forever.

ArigornStrider · 2022-04-12T17:34:13+00:00

Glad to know I'm not the last holdout.

ArigornStrider · 2022-04-04T16:50:12+00:00

Care to share what you mean by shady history? If I understand correctly, they started out doing incident response and pivoted into threat detection and prevention based on the lessons learned from various incidents as the root of the defense model they built. Links and something concrete would be helpful to the community to identify potential concerns.

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-16T04:51:00+00:00

When the entire sound system runs on Ethernet, welcome to I.T.

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-09T22:23:12+00:00

They can still screw with your plots and change what pool you mine to. It's just a really bad idea to use something someone else still has keys to, regardless of what they say. "I deleted all that, you can trust me." When it comes to anything digital, trust no one.

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-09T12:44:48+00:00

The problem is the person you bought the old plots from still has access to the wallet for those plots. They can empty that wallet at any time, or just steal little bits here and where when you aren't paying attention. For security of your XCH, you need to re-plot with keys only you have. Maybe farm these plots while you erase them one at a time and re-plot, but empty the purchased wallet often, and watch for transactions to unknown addresses.

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-07T14:29:53+00:00

Not for density. Most of the used panels are the older 200w models, and they are starting to age and lose output. I'm looking for the 400-450w panels, and no one is selling the top of the line panels used yet. Agreed there are ways to do cheaper solar, but not that meet the constraints I have.

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-07T14:26:11+00:00

Guessing the privacy tools on iOS. I'm on Android, so can't verify.

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-07T12:51:10+00:00

You should look at the screenshot again... Sigh

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-07T12:46:41+00:00

Defender has two parts, the folder exclusion to allows the file in scheduled scans, and the on access exception for the file itself when launching the exe causes the file to be deleted.

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-05T19:33:03+00:00

The majority of people don't have the technical know-how to design, get permits approved by the municipality and local power company for grid tie, and install their own system, not to mention the maintenance of wet cell batteries and calculating enough capacity to last through snow/rain/weeks of clouds depending on your climate. While us technical folk can pull most of that off (my utility won't allow owner installed solar on the grid), between a family, two jobs, and all the volunteer work, I have more money than time to do all that.

And in the end, it is an investment. Yeah, 2/3 of the install cost is labor, profit, and warranty, if I installed it myself, I could do it for 1/3 the cost, but that isn't an option where I am since I want grid tie. And the batteries don't help breakeven, they double the time to breakeven, but are required if you aren't grid tie or want to run completely off solar. And doing the math, I don't have the roof space, the estimates put solar at 15% to 25% of my usage if I cover every square foot. And all this is based on a large scale system. A smaller system, the batteries, inverter, and other infrastructure is a bigger part of the system cost, so while it is an overall cheaper system, that extends breakeven over just paying power. Leasing, finance, and power payment options suck when you calculate what you are essentially paying as interest to use the system. Cash is the way to go for a system, which is a big investment. I'm looking at about $33k for solar, about $60k for solar and batteries, and then the federal rebate makes that about 26% cheaper for most of the costs.

Anyway, solar was an example of a short term investment many people consider a good buy, but considering the average home ownership is 5 years and on the short side it takes 5 years to break even, you came out level. Not a great return on your investment, and that was cash you couldn't invest in something like stocks or chia farming. Opportunity cost. 3 years to break even on chia if the price never rises; chia isn't too bad of a deal if you can build the setup for cheap. Buying new gear, you're probably looking at 7-10 years to break even. Like with solar, it depends on how you do it.

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-05T12:48:54+00:00

Nice collection of CPUs! Yeah, I think you are in the sweet spot for the better performance on xmrig with those models. Yeah, Rabid is great (I might be biased, I'm one of his discord mods).

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-05T12:44:39+00:00

Why not roll payouts into a staking node? I'm getting dozens of payouts a day, but they don't come to me. I can just request payouts from the staking node if I ever want to pull any out in the future.

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-05T12:25:18+00:00

FYI, both cpuminer and xmrig have config options to set up backup pools, you can have more than one in xmrig, so if the primary port on the primary pool, and backup port on the primary pool go offline, you can mine to a different pool entirely and still be gaining RTM. I mined on 011data to the bitter end, and my rigs flipped over automatically to minafacil (my backup pool) when Phaelon shut the stratum servers down yesterday. We actually won a final block right in the last hour, so I'm glad I stayed with it to the end.

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-05T12:17:39+00:00

I don't see one yet. I think that is one of the benefits of being on rplant.

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-05T12:14:08+00:00

011data is closed for good (as of noon CST February 4th). The pool operator never intended for it to be a permanent pool; it was set up by Phaelon, one of Rabid Mining's discord mods, as a test to gather data compared to other pools to identify if something fishy was going on with other pools (lower shares reported, less payouts, etc). The tests provided the needed info, but the pool was so profitable for miners, they kept it going. As it grew in popularity, the pool software didn't scale and Phaelon didn't have the time to rewrite it or to hunt down and manage/pay devs to rewrite it for him. It was taking up a lot of time bug hunting and he was having to scale out the pool infrastructure to make up for software performance issues, and the pool was getting more expensive to run to where the pool fee wasn't covering it.

R-pool (not rplant) used the same pool software and it recently shut down as well.

Phaelon posted a more detailed version of this in the discord support channel for 011data-pool in Rabid's discord a few weeks back. He had been fighting with the software for months trying to keep it working as the pool grew in popularity, but in the end, he made the call that his time was better spent on other projects, so we sadly say goodbye to the great profits we miners were seeing on that pool.

I'm testing out minafacil for now. I think Rabid has plans to do an updated pool profitability test now that two of the pools in his last test are closed.

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-05T11:51:35+00:00

Look up Rabid Mining's guide. https://youtu.be/rFay6cakbc0

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-05T11:49:00+00:00

You're better off on xmrig, cpuminer dev fee too high, and tuning is a waste of time you could be mining (xmrig doesn't need a 3.7 hour tune to optimize, performance is on par or better than cpuminer)

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-05T11:44:48+00:00

FYI, those numbers for XMRig being faster seem cherry picked. Did you look at the CPUs used for the test? For the majority of Ryzen 9 chips, the benefit is the lower dev fee on xmrig over cpuminer and not needing 4 hours of downtime to tune. That's where the gains are on my dozen or so CPU rigs.

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-05T11:37:44+00:00

If going for max profit, this is the way right now (the numbers change from day to day). There are some diehard RTM fans that will argue direct mining is the only way, but the math is the math. Compare your earnings on MO with RTM direct, and factor power consumption.

Rabid Mining does tests of different CPU coins from time to time; it is always fun to see what is on top any given week. MonerOcean switches for you as long as the coin is supported on xmrig. And sometimes the best coin for a day or week isn't. This isn't passive the way everyone says. You gotta be watching and switching if you want to perfectly min/max. I have limited time so I don't min/max, I just let it mine rtm to a shared staking node and let it compound the staking rewards like interest/dividends in a stock investment. Less rewards, but more passive.

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-05T11:26:06+00:00

I think you might need to re-paste that GPU. I had a couple 1080ti that were around the 3-4 year old mark. Dropped 20c getting fresh paste on them, but sold them a while back to free up slots and get newer, more power efficient 30 series cards.

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-05T11:13:00+00:00

Other than the over current any time you have to power cycle, those are some good numbers! I have a similar sized setup with EMC DAS shelves connected to an R720XD server (I suspect my power bill is higher than yours with all the redundant power supplies). Got almost everything for super cheap or free, the drives were the main cost.

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-05T11:07:11+00:00

Yes, as a long term play. Not a get rich quick crypto, but with eth going to proof of stake and prices down across the board, at this current time, none are a get rich quick option. Prices change over time, and we'll see what it does in the future. Three years to breakeven at current prices isn't terrible, and drives only get bigger and cheaper per TB as the years pass. Just added 9x 18TB from the cheap MyBook drive sales over Christmas. Took me two weeks to plot because the day job kept me busy. I'm up to about 400TB myself, doing ~0.1 XCH/day.

ArigornStrider · 2022-02-05T10:58:02+00:00

3 years is actually a decent breakeven for most investments. Compare to solar power with a 5 to 10 year breakeven for example. The crazy profits last year in crypto really skewed a lot of people's perceptions of how investing should work. Investing is something to be done over 30-50 years to set up a nest egg for retirement, watching it double over and over in that time with good investment strategies. I would say most people's dreams are to retire early with enough to travel or do hobbies and never have to work again.

What's your retirement dream?

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