SFARDS SF100 ASICs Coming Soon, But Too Expensive

3 Aug
2015

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The SF100 Dual-Miner ASICs from SFARDS are expected to start arriving in mid-August 2015 to the most eager miners that have ordered some fromt he first batch of devices, or at least that is what the manufacturer is claiming on their website. The SF100 BTC and LTC Dual Miner has been listed briefly on the official SFARDS website with a price of 8000 RMB (about 1288 USD) last month and is since labeled as Out of Stock. This price however seems to be for larger quantities, some other websites have since listed single units of the SFARDS SF100 miners for pre-order and their prices are for example $1699 USD on AliExpress, ~$1700 USD on Asic Trade and $1999.99 USD on ZoomHash or with other words significantly higher than what was listed on the official website. Note that these prices are for the ASIC miner only and you need to add the shipping cost, extra import taxes and then you would also need at least good 1KW power supply for the miner, so the total price will easy go over $2000 USD. Even if these prices are higher because of the limited number of available units in the first batch they are way too expensive to consider them as a good investment with the current market conditions. Not to mention that we are yet to see if the miners will be able to perform as promised by the manufacturers in terms of performance for both mining SHA256 and Scrypt algorithms separately and at the same time. Another thing that may not be very much in favor of the late availability of the SF100 miners is the expected Litecoin Block Reward Halving from 50 to 25 coins by the end of August…

Updated Windows Binary of the ccMiner 1.5.57-git Fork by SP for Maxwell

1 Aug
2015

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Time for a new Windows binary release compiled from the latest Git source code of the ccMiner 1.5.57-git SP-MOD fork of the Nvidia GPU miner optimized for the latest Maxwell-based video cards by SP (source). The latest version includes numerous fixes and some small performance optimizations in different algorithms. The SP-MOD fork of ccMiner is designed for Nvidia Maxwell GPUs such as the already available GTX 750, 750 Ti as well as the newer GTX 960, GTX 970, GTX 980 and GTX 980 Ti and GTX Titan X. The Windows binary release we have made available here is with support for Compute 5.0 and Compute 5.2 GPUs or with other words only for Maxwell-based cards compiled with CUDA 6.5 and VS2013.

– To download the latest ccMiner for Maxwell version 1.5.57-git by SP for Windows OS…

New Cloud Mining Offers from Mining Sweden

1 Aug
2015

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The cloud mining service Mining Sweden is a relatively new entry in the world of Bitcoin cloud mining services, but it is a service that seemed promising when we started testing it back in May. A small mining operation that wanted to grow along with the users that support it by nit just selling hahsrate, but also a kind of shares that will bring dividends to users aside of the mining profits. The idea was apparently to use the extra cash from the sales of VIP shares for growing the mining farm by purchasing more mining hardware, a good idea if it is not the only option you get. The problem with the service however is that they have stopped offering regular mining hashrate only and are offering only more expensive hashrate that comes along with VIP shares. Now, paying for more expensive hashrate is not something many people are willing to do with just a promise of additional unknown extra profit from the VIP shares in a year. In our opinion this is actually preventing the service from growing faster than actually helping it, especially now after we’ve been using it for some time.

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We have purchased 150 GHS worth of hashrate with some VIP shares and so far we are happy with the results, note that the price of the hashrate also includes all maintenance fees for 1 year, so in theory with a good additional dividends coming from VIP shares when the mining contract is over it should result in a good profit. The problem is only that “it should” and nobody knows for sure what to expect as an extra profit from the VIP shares, precisely one of the reasons that is keeping us from investing in more hashrate. That of course does not stop the service operators to try and offer more attractive options for hashrate packs, but as we’ve said normal mining hashrate hasn’t been available for a while. The latest offerings include a package of 10 VIP shares with 100 GHS hashrate for $122.40 USD (you can get a 10% discount of the regular price wiht the promo code ms10), 50 VIP shares with 500 GHS hashrate for $745 USD or 100 VIP shares with 1000 GHS for $1090 USD (you can get a 20% discount of these prices with a promo code ms20). So if you are interested you might want to check out the new deals available and take advantage of the additional discounts via the promotional codes.

– For more information about the service and to start cloud mining Bitcoins with Mining Sweden…

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