My Experience with @GoMining Miner Wars It has been interesting week. Miner Wars certainly engages the competitive side of me and also the worry, "Will I make solo?" In the end with the help of GoMinions app I was able to stay the course and come out ahead of solo by 20% in terms of btc earnings. The clan spent 688 gmt boosting and mining only 325 gmt. This is where the clan came out below solo by 25%. The chart at the very bottom and in very small print is the full story we ended up behind 216 gmt. Analysis Boosting strategy and discipline is key and can make the difference between making more than solo or not. Progressing to higher leagues will only exacerbate this issue because my 3330 th clan is the whale in dune, but will be small fry in horizon and up. In dune my clan had a natural 13% chance for a block. Once in horizon that will easily drop. Boosting is a necessity to win those blocks and the competition can be fierce in horizon. We spent 688 gmt in dune, to get our return in btc but was it worth that risk? No. Once in horizon i am expecting the boosting budget would need to increase probably twofold in order to get a reasonable 15 to 20% chance for a block. Unfortunately my warchest is not ready for it. Conclusion I will exit Miner Wars having gained valuable experience. Don't be lured by the prospect of winning blocks with high payouts without considering the costs of boosting. If you don't have an adequate tool to monitor your boosting expenditure you are gambling away your money. The auto spell bot and budget help immensely with controlling costs and strategy but there is a lack of a built in tool in the gm app to monitor the costs. Maybe my next experiment will be to join a large established clan in Oddessy and see how that goes. Before i do that i will need to rebuild a warchest to cover maintenance and boosting.

Verifying gold is difficult. Verifying bitcoin is mathematical, on chain, and decentralized to thousands of nodes worldwide. Miners calculate the math and nodes verify it and store it on the blockchain. Irrefutable and verified. That's why I mine bitcoin, doing my part to protect bitcoin and get paid for it.

What is the most annoying thing about crypto-mining? It's dealing with hardware issues, network issues, power outages, maintenance issues, hardware failures. I currently have one Avalon Nano3s that is not working and is out of warranty. What am I to do with it? I guess I could send it out for repair, but where, and how much would it cost? Is it worth the cost to repair or should I replace it? Do I try to fix it myself? I saw a Youtube video on a possible fix for it. If I rent my farm out on @miningrigrental I have to ensure uptime. My last renter had the difficulty set at 1 million. Well guess what, his hashrate will be in the toilet. I know it's not my problem until they complain about not getting the advertised hashrate (160 th). I did have to troubleshoot why the hashrate was so low and took time to figure that out. So what's a solution? I mine with @GoMining because I don't have to deal with any of that of headache. I just focus on strategy, securing my bitcoin, and how I want to invest or spend it. That's what bitcoin mining should really be, not getting up in the middle of the night to restart a miner.