That did it! Ordering some Thai while it benches for nicehash. Then, onto power testing. Goal will probably be to maximize power use by cards, conditional on total power use <= M M tbd, will mostly be a function of observed refrigerator and monitor draw.
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hahahaha frig just got my first post-launch electrical bill APPARENTLY seattle city light has a tiered billing scheme, after a certain point they start charging nearly double the base rate for power (~$0.13/kWh vs $0.07) still way in the black, but . . . gurk
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in better news, transferred my first 0.1BTC to an exchange although somehow a single Satoshi was lost en route so my balance is 0.09999999BTC which is going to irritate me for the next month got 0.5XMR in a private wallet too feel like a rich man, still thousands to recoup tho
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what's the easiest way to sell used GPUs? AMZN, EBAY? Still have all the original packaging and plastic bits and such as I'm still turning a profit but it's 70 Fahrenheit in Seattle and @tradwiferobot wants to be able to use the oven without logging in and killing my workers
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Well, end of a fun era. I listed four of my GPUs on eBay and set another two up with some tweeps. If I hit the going eBay rate, even after they take their 10% cut I should be in the black on capital, so that's nice.
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Have bids on 3 cards already, from a Russian. I panicked for a second at the thought of paying to ship across the Pacific, but fortunately eBay restricts to domestic addresses by default. Hmm. If I'd been more thoughtful + had higher n, could've run some experiments . . .
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in other news, for the first time in months my apartment is REALLY CHILLY. Looks like a few weeks of sweaters indoors.pic.twitter.com/QmPrlX8dYP
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All right. Six cards sold, roughly for what I paid for them (or at a slight profit adjusting for the fact that I sold my old 1080 and kept one of the 1080Ti FTW). Still mining Monero with my E5 2687W-v4 chips, but I might cut back on that once it really warms up. Full circle!
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Overall, I think I made about $1500 net of electricity. Purely as a function of the hours I burned on this project, this was an economic loss given my marginal value of time. But factor in the value of learning, experimentation, heating, and entertainment, and I made a killing.
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Thanks for following along, everyone. I'll be sure to document the next slightly-unhinged project I start out on. (This wasn't my first--ask my pal
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what makes this nontrivial to automate?
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user time preference
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how much is this task worth
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like how much would I pay for someone else to do it? honestly probably negative something I enjoy the imagining jingling of my coins over my coffee
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same i mostly switched from speculation to mining while the market was up so i'm not dying or anything, did buy BCH a little early in the crash yesterday but enh it'll probably even out
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