Visited Jeff's blog earlier this morning, to see a poem he linked to, a nice one.
Noticed a link to other post, and it's a lovely article - about operating a crypto mining at home, with off the shelf components. Which paid for itself nicely, despite what we hear about server farms being unbeatable (which is true for Bit Coin, BTC)
His setup was specifically for mining Ether, and by nature that process benefit systems using Graphics cards for the processing.
Very cool project! Glad it worked out, the hardware is exquisite. He explains it well too. 🎅
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@design_RG You should see the second version of this I built. 4x Vega frontier edition water cooled cards :)
@freemo Oh, so you built another one? Wow!
Are you still operating it, as a miner?
Here in Canada many companies were setting up in small towns in Quebec, where they get very low electricity prices since the province has lots of hydro plants.
Ether mining seems fun, if there's still a chance to make some money above the hydro costs and rig amortization.
@design_RG Even for the first one being a miner is just what it did on its idle time when i didnt have any real data for it to crunch.
@freemo That is neat!
And since it's a research tool and business gear, no trouble self justifying the expense. Plus, tax writedown over time.
By sheer chance, I had seen an ad yesterday for someone selling their rigs in the regional online classifieds.
Not as neat as the examples above, pics attached. Asking price is CAD$1300, about 1K USD.
Don't know how well this setup would compare to Jeff's, but the listing is here atm - will disappear soon if sold.
https://www.kijiji.ca/v-desktop-computers/st-catharines/eth-crypto-gpu-mining-rigs-rx580-8gb-gtx-1070-and-1080/1472730688