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I've got the hardware part of this pretty much built, just getting the chassis put together.

>>10507034

sell it on ebay and try to at least recoup something.

I tried mining, and built a rig of 6 1080ti's. I know the feeling OP.

The concept of consensus algorithm as I understand it is that you're providing idle computing power to the network and being compensated based on metered use.

>>10507154
It hurts. I feel like I'm giving up if I sell it but mining shitcoins and hoping they skyrocket is such a dumb game.

>>10507131
That's a weird looking gpu

>>10507034
Muh all the transactions you're helping to validate at a loss.Tyfys anon

join the dark side

OP the fans make great veggie cutters. You can also try powering it on, moonwalking in socks on a rug and then fingerbanging the GPU board for better performance.

crack some hashes

>>10507185
They're just raspberry pi's, lol. It's primarily for proof of bandwidth.

>>10507203
Oh. That makes sense. Same thing works on my girlfriend.

>>10507211
I know those words, but not in that order

My Skyminer differs a bit from the official one since it uses a PoE switch to power the pi's. Not really because I thought it was a great idea, just that I had some PoE switches leftover from freelance IT work.

>>10507034
What's this new one you're building and how's the ROI, anon?

>>10507211
cute cat

hahaha get fucked guy thats what you get for pumping GPU prices

>>10507291
It's a four node Skywire. The testnet rewards for July should put me at ~30%, which I'm pretty happy with.

Looking forward to figure out how many coinhours this thing can pull at max capacity in mainnet.

DIY 8 node skyminer? I like it, too lazy to build one myself tho. Maybe when I'm done wageslaving.

>>10507355
Is getting whitelisted gonna be a problem do you think?

>>10507305
Thanks anon, some asshole abandoned her as a kitten out in the middle of nowhere.

>>10507332
I paid like 15% over MSRP. I keep wondering if BTC pumps to $20k+ again I can break even on selling it.

>>10507370
Maybe, I haven't read too much in to it, but it seems maybe more popular than they anticipated, they've got a backlog.

Saw someone posting about an automated whitelist though, so hopefully it's not too long.

I remember when ground effects were a thing.

>>10507154
Why didn't it work out?

And final build shot with better lighting.

Next steps are buying a surge protector with battery backup, then building a wifi antenna so that this thing can operate fully off the grid.

>>10507170
>consensus algorithm mining
dude, PoW is a consensus algo, and so is PoS.

>>10507563
Shit. It's been a while since I skimmed the whitepaper.

I'm not sure what to call it then, Proof of Metered Bandwidth/RAM/CPU?

Okay, got all four nodes ssh'd into and fired up.

Alright, looks like the miner is happy and online. Let's check my primary node's public key and see if it's seen by the discovery address.

That's the good stuff.

Other methods I've looked at are Proof of Capacity, like sectioning off portions of hard drives which is kind of interesting but I haven't set up an account or dedicated hard drives to it.

Looking good OP, which guide did you use for all this?

>>10507777
what. a. waste.

OP, how much did this cost to set up?
also where the hell are the plans for this?

I'm legit fired up right now.

>>10507802
why?

I think it's burstcoin that's proof of capacity. I'm not sure how it's better than Amazon Glacier beyond being cheaper and probably less reliable.

>>10507777
This guy's guide is pretty great, but I'd recommend getting something besides Raspberry Pi's, they're a bit underpowered.

https://github.com/BigOokie/SkiPi

Orange Pi Primes are where it's at but they're hard to get sometimes.

>>10507808
Mine is around $300 with the Makerbeam XL frame and everything, you could probably get it down to $200 if you skimp.

Here's a parts list for the official miner:
https://skywug.net/forum/Thread-Skywire-Miner-Components-List

Lurk some on Skywug, you can find guides and help to build whatever you want. There's dudes out there with 32 node Skyminers.

>>10507836
Legit, orange pi > raspberry. I use orange pi 3 to handle 232 data onto a UDP multicast, much better than raspberry

>>10507808
Be aware if you get one; default language is chink

>>10508158
I'm torn between ordering those and being ready for more things or waiting for second generation miners to go on sale. Supposedly they're looking at using custom manufactured hardware, multiple nodes on one board.

So, why exactly can't you use a desktop PC to mine this? Even consumer grade octacore CPUs should have way higher performance than Pi's.

>>10508284
Mostly because PCs do other things or they crash or get rebooted for software updates or render videos or something intensive.

Dedicated single board computers have about the same upload/download speed as a desktop (bandwidth is the primary function of Skywire) and are much lower power use.

burst is a btch to set up.

>>10508315
i have a monster pc thats on 24/7, tell me why i cant set up a couple of VMs and fire up those nodes. Why the fuck do i need Pi's ?

>>10508390
Hmm, that doesn't bode well. But I have like five hard drives collecting dust.

>>10508449
I mean, there's nothing stopping you if you want to go to the trouble of doing such.

Chances are you're going to bottleneck on that single ethernet port on your motherboard while my piece of shit 4x is going to be able to push/pull more internet traffic.

try burst if you have a lot of time to tinker only. Also, you will need at least one coin first before you mine and the faucets are always empty... I think you can buy on hitbtc. cool idea but a real pita... storj I hear doesn't pay much, so not worth it.

>>10508538
Cool, thanks anon. I might look in to some of the other distributed storage projects out there.