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Re: Bitcoin
Reply #135 on: June 24, 2017, 14:42:09 PM
Also anyone looking to spend BTC in the UK, this list has grown a lot!

http://www.wheretospendbitcoins.co.uk/region/online

microsoft accepts bitcoin

mining for a new xbox !

And a 4k monitor  :yarr:

4K monitors are nice but the text on them can be really small. Possibly better going for a good 4K large screen TV instead with HDMI 2.

Re: Bitcoin
Reply #136 on: June 24, 2017, 15:52:55 PM
Also anyone looking to spend BTC in the UK, this list has grown a lot!

http://www.wheretospendbitcoins.co.uk/region/online

microsoft accepts bitcoin

mining for a new xbox !

And a 4k monitor  :yarr:

4K monitors are nice but the text on them can be really small. Possibly better going for a good 4K large screen TV instead with HDMI 2.

Realistically, no one buys a 4k monitor and uses it at 1:1 scaling, personally on my main PC with 50" 4k TV I set Windows display scaling to 200%, that way it's like Full HD res, but everything is just smoother. So no small text ;)

On another PC with 4k monitor I set scaling to 150%, so I get more usable screenspace, but still text is not too small

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Re: Bitcoin
Reply #137 on: June 24, 2017, 19:30:45 PM
I use a 4k monitor at work 1:1 scaling for Webstorm. Would love to have a second one, its amazing how useful that resolution is if you have good eyes.

Tell a lie, I remember I increased the editor text size from 12 to 16, thats it though.

Re: Bitcoin
Reply #138 on: June 24, 2017, 23:47:05 PM
I sold 20 RX480s this week

Bought two GTX 1080Ti so far. Looking at getting a load of GTX 1070s or maybe a few more GTX 1080Ti


didn't realise you were so big into mining

why the swap to the 1080ti ?  just because sale costs on old cards so high ?

online calculators are saying payback on a 1080 is 100ish days... with doesn't sound bad... but a lot can change in 3 months ?

and what/where are you mining ?


I quit mining when I was hit by the erm... place I can't remember the name of shutting down, tempted to mine again just for hell of it / something to do etc.
Last Edit: June 26, 2017, 21:25:25 PM by knighty #187;

Re: Bitcoin
Reply #139 on: June 25, 2017, 09:30:08 AM
I sold 20 RX480s this week

Bought two GTX 1080Ti so far. Looking at getting a load of GTX 1070s or maybe a few more GTX 1080Ti


didn't realise you were so big into mining

why the swap to the 1080ti ?  just because sale costs on old cards so high ?

online calculators are saying payback on a 1080 is 100ish days... with doesn't sound bad... but a lot can change in 3 months ?

and what/where are you mining ?


I quit mining when I was hit by the erm... place I can't remember the name of shutting down, tempted to mine again just for hell of it / something to do etc.
rx480 / 470 & 580 / 470 are the best bang to buck card, but they are in such short demand, the used market is booming.
So where an Nvidia was a massive leap in price, it is not as bad now.

I got 2x 1070 that run at 31 & 2x RX 580 that run at 28
RX payback will take 85 days, the 1070s 105 days @ the current price of $305 per Eth.
But that is without dual mining - where the nvidia can prob be cut down by quite a few days

Thats not taking into account power usage - my 1070's are set to 65% power, where the RX have not been adjusted except for the bios mod memory timings. Also not taking into account difficulty which is constantly rising....
Last Edit: June 25, 2017, 18:05:45 PM by Eggtastico #187;

Re: Bitcoin
Reply #140 on: June 30, 2017, 08:34:33 AM
I sold 20 RX480s this week

Bought two GTX 1080Ti so far. Looking at getting a load of GTX 1070s or maybe a few more GTX 1080Ti


didn't realise you were so big into mining

why the swap to the 1080ti ?  just because sale costs on old cards so high ?

online calculators are saying payback on a 1080 is 100ish days... with doesn't sound bad... but a lot can change in 3 months ?

and what/where are you mining ?


I quit mining when I was hit by the erm... place I can't remember the name of shutting down, tempted to mine again just for hell of it / something to do etc.
rx480 / 470 & 580 / 470 are the best bang to buck card, but they are in such short demand, the used market is booming.
So where an Nvidia was a massive leap in price, it is not as bad now.

I got 2x 1070 that run at 31 & 2x RX 580 that run at 28
RX payback will take 85 days, the 1070s 105 days @ the current price of $305 per Eth.
But that is without dual mining - where the nvidia can prob be cut down by quite a few days

Thats not taking into account power usage - my 1070's are set to 65% power, where the RX have not been adjusted except for the bios mod memory timings. Also not taking into account difficulty which is constantly rising....

RX cards were the best bang for the buck until everyone went batsh*t crazy over them, buying them for £300+ on ebay, second hand. So yeah, I sold them all to take advantage of that.

I've decided for now not to buy as many replacement cards. It's the summer, it gets too hot in my house. So for now got six 1080tis and two 1070s. I'm running Nemosminer(https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1777336.0) on zpool(http://www.zpool.ca/) as it's more profitable mining many other things on nVidia cards than ETH. Not mining ETH at all anymore.

At first I wanted to buy more 1070s, but then prices of them started to shoot up too and there became a point where 1080ti had the same price/performance ratio. So it made no sense buying 1070s, even second hand. Brand new 1080tis are about the best bang for the buck at the moment, there's so little in it.

Between the 8 cards i'm currently making £40 a day roughly.
Last Edit: June 30, 2017, 08:38:38 AM by Walrusbonzo #187;

Re: Bitcoin
Reply #141 on: June 30, 2017, 13:27:55 PM
I mined a bit on miningpoolhub with their miner which swaps around what's it's mining depending on what's most profitable for you at the time and then had then auto convert all to bitcoins, did about 24hours, got 0.00363143 which is £7 according to google

(24hours might be off a bit, I did it off and on

their miner CPU mined too, which I think is worthless?  but I left it going anyway (ryzen 16 cores yay!)


only did it because I was bored tbh, but tempted to set a machine up mining next time I'm bored

nephew has just upgraded, so my old watercooled 7990 is spare now :-)

Re: Bitcoin
Reply #142 on: June 30, 2017, 14:12:49 PM
£7 is still cheaper than the running costs.
So its free money


Re: Bitcoin
Reply #143 on: July 01, 2017, 20:53:16 PM
free money... but not enough to get excited about, and it turns my spare room into an oven if I forget to leave the window open


I'm half tempted to wait for the next price crash/whatever so gpu prices drop and then set a big miner up at work just for the hell of it... idea being it'll never make any real money, but over a long term (years) might kick out some beer money

Re: Bitcoin
Reply #144 on: July 02, 2017, 12:31:17 PM
free money... but not enough to get excited about, and it turns my spare room into an oven if I forget to leave the window open


I'm half tempted to wait for the next price crash/whatever so gpu prices drop and then set a big miner up at work just for the hell of it... idea being it'll never make any real money, but over a long term (years) might kick out some beer money
your right about beer money.... I spend the money on beer making equipment & ingredients for my grainfather!

Re: Bitcoin
Reply #145 on: July 02, 2017, 15:57:37 PM
I wish it was beer money

can't drink since I feel on my head, one drink and I'm pissed... thought it was just because I didn't drink for so long after falling on my head but I tried a drink a night for a month+ and it made no difference


frankie and bennys a couple of weeks ago, had 1 pint with my meal, almost fell over getting out of my seat when we went to leave :-o

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Re: Bitcoin
Reply #146 on: July 02, 2017, 16:58:50 PM
free money... but not enough to get excited about, and it turns my spare room into an oven if I forget to leave the window open


I'm half tempted to wait for the next price crash/whatever so gpu prices drop and then set a big miner up at work just for the hell of it... idea being it'll never make any real money, but over a long term (years) might kick out some beer money
your right about beer money.... I spend the money on beer making equipment & ingredients for my grainfather!

Grainfather, separate thread required! Looks mint :cheers:

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Reply #147 on: July 03, 2017, 01:02:27 AM
Whats all this ICO stuff about? Seems like some silly amounts are being raised, sounds like a great way to take some money off a load of chumps :D

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Reply #148 on: July 03, 2017, 14:28:05 PM
Whats all this ICO stuff about? Seems like some silly amounts are being raised, sounds like a great way to take some money off a load of chumps :D

It is! Lots of questionable ICOs, wild west out there.

Re: Bitcoin
Reply #149 on: July 15, 2017, 18:15:44 PM
Noticed that bitcoin has taken a bit of  tumble over last couple of days. Down about 25% to 1500£.
 Worth an investment or is it likely to keep sliding?

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