Ah my memory is completely off then. Interesting that it peaked pretty high. I'm curious to see how high Eth will go. The volume in the last 24H is pretty insane.
Litecoin actually peaked close to $50 when both it and Bitcoin went on their stratospheric run near the end of 2013.
I really wished I had started mining much earlier than I did.$10.35 USD now! Damn.
No I wish I didn't sell half my coins for 0,011 BTC each ;/
Good thing I didn't had many as I was an offtime miner
Interesting thing is that price went up a lot while difficulty is not much higher.
Running at 20 million hashes per second on my R9 380. This will pay for a Polaris.
My R9 380 Nitro runs like a dream in Windows 10 with 20MH/s and excellent desktop response, when playing games its falling to 15MH/s, GCN just rules in OpenCL computing and everything multitasking.
I switched to solo mining 3 days ago and got my first block today... mining with a 290x and a fury nano (combined ~300w).
I was against the idea of solo mining for a while because it's so hard to know if it is actually working before receiving a block reward. What I realized though, is that Ethereum pumps out a new block every 17 seconds, so with a 42Mh/sec hashrate, I have a 1 in 25,000 chance of striking every 17 seconds. Essentially, I should get 1 block every 4 days or so, which is pretty good for solo mining.
I find it somewhat fun because it's like playing a high-odds lottery, every 17 seconds. Using the pool mining, it was a bit more mundane because it was too predictable for my liking. Also to note, the extra second of processing time between your node, the upstream pool, and the Ethereum network is a big deal when block times are so short!
5 ethereum per block + ethereum from transaction fees. With the currently low # of transactions, it comes out to like 5.0001 per block. But hell, at the current price of $11.90, that's $60 every 4 days... wtf.How much ethereum do you receive from a block while solo mining?
5 ethereum per block + ethereum from transaction fees. With the currently low # of transactions, it comes out to like 5.0001 per block. But hell, at the current price of $11.90, that's $60 every 4 days... wtf.
Interesting. How does one mine solo? I'm pretty new to the whole topic of mining...
1. configure port forwarding of router for 30303 tcp/udp to my computer
a) i did this to insure all peers could reach my system easily
2. modify your windows settings to have time sync more frequently
a) [URL]http://www.windows10update.com/2015/08/windows-10-tutorials-155-change-the-time-synchronization-interval-in-windows-10/[/URL]
b) I set mine to 14400 (4 hours)
3. download geth
a) [URL]https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases[/URL]
4. copy geth.exe to c:\geth\geth.exe (or wherever you can find it)
5. open a terminal window and run geth
a) cd c:\geth
b) geth --rpc --maxpeers 50
6. make sure all blocks are synced before starting to mine
7. make sure eth account is created and you know the password
a) i did this in mist wallet - it talks to your running geth instance
8. open 2nd terminal and mine same as you did before (without the -F part)
a) ethminer -GOrdered 2 R9 380s with some of Ether proceeds. Seems like decent value, though they are relatively power-thirsty cards. I'm glad Newegg still takes Bitcoin through BitPay... would be nice to see more sites move over to accepting Ether directly - which will probably happen eventually - rather than having to convert on an exchange.
May order 2 more R9 380s and put them in an open mining rig, but I need 2 more powered risers for the motherboard and another power supply. Even if they don't pay for themselves I'll probably put them in midrange gaming rigs later and sell them to people I know.
Ordered 2 R9 380s with some of Ether proceeds. Seems like decent value, though they are relatively power-thirsty cards. I'm glad Newegg still takes Bitcoin through BitPay... would be nice to see more sites move over to accepting Ether directly - which will probably happen eventually - rather than having to convert on an exchange.
May order 2 more R9 380s and put them in an open mining rig, but I need 2 more powered risers for the motherboard and another power supply. Even if they don't pay for themselves I'll probably put them in midrange gaming rigs later and sell them to people I know.
If you don't mind which 380's did you end up buying?
Madpacket, have you looked into the custom cuda miner? There's a thread on it at the Ethereum forums. I don't have nvidia cards so I haven't tried it, but it might be worth looking into and I think there's a Windows client.
I think farm mining off of a bootable usb should be fine, although I wouldn't run the geth client that way.
These: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131673
They are $189.99 each (before MIR, which is $20).
They are coming in tomorrow. I'll post the hashrate I get after setting them up .
Wow that's pretty cheap. I'm guessing 20-22Gh? Best I can find is this Gigabyte model. It only has one 8 pin connector so maybe they're limited at overclocking but could have decent power efficiency? No idea, I just hope it has voltage control.
http://www.ncix.com/detail/gigabyte-radeon-rK9-380-windforce-ec-115829-1516.htm
That being said does anyone know for certain which 380's have voltage control?
No, but Gigabyte often doesn't.