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Ghash.io LTC Mining Pool With a Lot of Variance in Hashrate

24, Mar 2014

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After the end of the week long CexIO promotion with up to double rewards for their new Ghash LTC mining pool most of the users have left their pool, but still they’ve had about 7-8 GHS worth of mining hashrate remaining. Probably people that are mining there just because of the 0% pool fee, something that can easily be compensated if mining in pools with automatic alt coin switching based on profitability. Interestingly enough today the hashrate in the LTC mining pool has jumped to over 20 GHS with no apparent reason. The only way for this to happen is if some of the other larger pools is forwarding their mining hashrate via a proxy to the CEX mining pool, or if somebody is using a kind of man in the middle attach to do so and forward some pool’s hashrate to mine for his own account. So you might want to keep a closer look at your miners and profitability today in the pool you are currently mining at just to be sure. At the same time the total network hashrate for the Litecoin is showing some significant drop, so the next difficulty adjustment will most likely bring down the difficulty. This could however be a direct result of some new alt cryptos that are attracting a lot of users to switch to them due to significantly higher profitability than directly mining for LTC or with the potential for such.

Update: It seems that after passing 30 GHS total LTC pool hashrate the Ghash.io mining pool is starting to have issues again, though it is possible that they might be getting DDoS attacks as well as apparently other mining pools do at the moment. This is creating problems not only for the LTC mining pool, but for the BTC mining pool there as well. So it might be a wise idea to move to another pool if you are mining there at the moment in order to avoid possible downtime. Of course you should have multiple backup pools available in order to be able to handle such problems without any downtime, but many people still seem to set just a single mining pool in their miners. And while at the moment Ghash.io is having trouble and you might just see a CloudFlare warning instead of the actual pool website, the other “main” website of the service CexIO seems to be running just fine. It is not very clear what is happening with the people that have purchased cloud mining hashrate for the moment, but since the pool is down it is possible that the mining hardware for the cloud mining service might not be able to operate as well, though in such cases the users are usually getting compensated for the downtime of the cloud mining hashrate by the service after the issue is resolved. And it seems the downtime was very brief and the service is starting to get back to normal…

Buy Bitoin ASIC Now, Buy Future Mining Contract or Start Cloud Mining Now

14, Mar 2014

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The fresh information from CEX.io about the addition of an option to buy future mining contracts for Bitcoin has made us thing and calculate how profitable are they if we compare them to what other options are already available to start mining immediately. We are going to do a comparison between the FHA contracts (purchasing cloud mining hashrate for the end of April) that you can already purchase to the currently being shipped Bitmain AntMiner S1 BTC ASICs and to a BTC cloud mining service that is already available and running by offering 5 year Bitcoin mining contracts, namely the PB Mining Bitcoin cloud mining service. We are going to compare how much it will cost you to purchase 1 Terahash (1 THS or 1000 GHS) worth of Bitcoin mining hashrate at each of these services.

1 THS of ASIC mining hardware currently shipping:
– 5x 180 GHS Bitmain AntMiner S1 overclocked to 200 GHs each
– This will cost you about 5 BTC for the moment for the miners
– You will need power supplies for about 2100W for them
– You will need to pay for 2.1 KW of power an hour for electricity
– Miners will be at your door in a week and you will start mining

1 THS of PB Mining cloud hashrate currently being sold:
– The current cloud mining hasrate price is 0.0083 BTC per 1 GHS
– You will need to pay 8.3 BTC at the moment for 1000 GHS
– The cloud hashrate will start mining for you in a few hours
– No extra cost for electricity or need to support hardware
– This is a long term mining contract for 5 years that you purchase

1 THS of CEX future cloud hashrate for end of April (FHA):
– The current contract price for FHA is about 0.00799999 BTC per 1 GHS
– You will need to pay 7.999 BTC for a purchase of 1000 GHS contract
– The cloud hashrate will start mining in about month and a half for you
– No extra cost for electricity or need to support hardware
– You can sell or trade the cloud mining hashrate contract at anytime

So it seems that all of the above options do have their own advantages, but there are disadvantages as well. It is up to you to decide what seems the most reasonable for you at this moment if any of the options is a viable alternative for you. Based on our experience, the AntMiners are very good product and the company making them is really fast and ships from stock (if ordering directly from them), not to mention the always up to date prices going down with the difficulty increase. The PiggyBack Mining cloud mining service so far is working great based on our few weeks of experience using it, they also update prices after difficulty increase. The use of CEX.io for cloud mining is not so good of long term investment in mining hashrate due to the higher prices driver by the users trading on exchange, but if you use the platform for trade and treat the cloud mining as just an extra profit while trading it is not a bad option.

CEX.io Adding LTC Mining to their Pool, LTC Cloud Mining Coming?

11, Mar 2014

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It seems that the CEX.io cloud mining service for Bitcoin has added support for Litecoin (LTC) mining in their pool Ghash.io and this could also be a sign that the service might also plan on introducing Litecoin cloud mining soon. The LTC mining pool is with a mining fee of 0% just like the fee for the Bitcoin mining pool.

Stratum Server: ltc.ghash.io:3333. Please use -scrypt -o stratum+tcp://ltc.ghash.io:3333 in your command line. You should name your workers username. (e.g. username.worker1). Workers are added automatically, you can use any/empty password.

For the moment there is no official information about the addition of LTC mining pool or any future plans for adding LTC cloud mining capabilities, but we suspect that this is something that might soon happen…

Update: More alternative crypto pools are appearing on Ghash.io, aside from LTC there is now DOGE, AUR and FTC. Though unlike with LTC there is nothing yet in the CEX account balance for other new crypto coins, so it is a bit unclear how you will be getting the coins if you start mining them now.

– For more information about the Ghash.io mining pool and to try the LTC mining functionality…


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