Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[MrFisty]

Originally Posted by Cole

The antminer isn't a great idea. ASIC systems, depending on lead times (some places are 2-3 months) it could be outdated as hell by the time you receive it. I'm not sure if it's antminer specifically, but there's definitely more than a few vendors who have crazy long lead times.

Edit: So what I'm saying is that buying a shit ton of overpriced GPUs is the way to do it, providing you're getting enough horsepower to get a quick return on your money. Which, at this point, highly unlikely.

For example, my GTX 1070 can make about 5 dollars per day, after electricity costs are accounted for. At that rate, I'm looking at nearly 180 days to start making a profit, by that time though, crypto could have changed from proof of work to proof of stake

Second edit: That 5 dollars per day is also based on my card being run for 24 hours per day, rendering it useless for my intended purpose, which is gaming

Proof of work to proof of stake?

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Cole

The antminer isn't a great idea. ASIC systems, depending on lead times (some places are 2-3 months) it could be outdated as hell by the time you receive it. I'm not sure if it's antminer specifically, but there's definitely more than a few vendors who have crazy long lead times.

Edit: So what I'm saying is that buying a shit ton of overpriced GPUs is the way to do it, providing you're getting enough horsepower to get a quick return on your money. Which, at this point, highly unlikely.

For example, my GTX 1070 can make about 5 dollars per day, after electricity costs are accounted for. At that rate, I'm looking at nearly 180 days to start making a profit, by that time though, crypto could have changed from proof of work to proof of stake

Second edit: That 5 dollars per day is also based on my card being run for 24 hours per day, rendering it useless for my intended purpose, which is gaming

Well, what does that translate to at current market value? Because most of the smaller currencies are riding on the Bitcoin bubble I would imagine everything is down.

[x808drifter]

Originally Posted by spike021

Any particular brand/glove you'd recommend?

Iv'e been using these for about a year now.
There are definetly better ones but for me this set was a proof of concept.
After I wear these things through I'm gonna find a more robust set.
https://www.amazon.com/ELMA-Deerskin...ves+fingerless

[Cole]

Originally Posted by MrFisty

Proof of work to proof of stake?

Proof of work means your graphics card or ASIC machine is solving equations for the next bit of blockchain. Proof of stake means the next piece of blockchain comes from someone who has a set amount of currency that's been owned for a set amount of time.

Originally Posted by Spuds

Well, what does that translate to at current market value? Because most of the smaller currencies are riding on the Bitcoin bubble I would imagine everything is down.

I'm not sure. That was a few weeks ago when I tried it, and the return was incredibly not worth it for me to do.

[krayzie]

I can't wait till South Park does an episode on crypto.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by x808drifter

Iv'e been using these for about a year now.
There are definetly better ones but for me this set was a proof of concept.
After I wear these things through I'm gonna find a more robust set.
https://www.amazon.com/ELMA-Deerskin...ves+fingerless

That looks almost exactly like what I have.

[ichitaka05]

Thought bout buying this front bumper, but got a reply from Gialla... yeah... not happening. Not worth that much

[MrFisty]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Thought bout buying this front bumper, but got a reply from Gialla... yeah... not happening. Not worth that much

I wish my FRS was red.

[MrFisty]

Watching the 9th episode of this season's Grand Tour.

I really feel like the new driver works to reduce the sense of residual misogyny in the show.

She's also bad as fuck. Just watched her thrashing an EB100 in a lot of rain.

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by MrFisty

I wish my FRS was red.

Current model's 86 red is nice. I have Dark Grey Metallic, so I thought this front looks nice too.

[x808drifter]

Originally Posted by MrFisty

Watching the 9th episode of this season's Grand Tour.

I really feel like the new driver works to reduce the sense of residual misogyny in the show.

She's also bad as fuck. Just watched her thrashing an EB100 in a lot of rain.

They need to stop making her say "here we go/let's do this/ect" all the damn time.

IDK why but it feels super forced.

[Spuds]

I bet it's something where Top Gear has a trademark on "a silent race car driver" or something dumb like that.

Edit: somehow it missed the @x808drifter quote above...

[ScoobsMcGee]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Thought bout buying this front bumper, but got a reply from Gialla... yeah... not happening. Not worth that much

While it doesn't look bad, the front does look like it really wants to be a Ferrari FF.

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by ScoobsMcGee

While it doesn't look bad, the front does look like it really wants to be a Ferrari FF.

Yeah, when it first came out. There was a thread (somewhere) saying that, it's a copy of Ferrari. I noticed a lot of aero kit love to copy other brands like Lexus, Aston Martin, Ferrari, and so on