Dewain Robinson’s Crypto Mining Rig and Azure Cognitive Services – HGG344

Dewain Robinson / @Dewain76 joins Jim Collison / @jcollison and Mike Wieger / @WiegerTech for show #344 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network

Dewain Robinson / @Dewain76 joins Jim Collison / @jcollison and Mike Wieger / @WiegerTech for show #344 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network

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Tags: Podcast, Home Gadget Geeks, Mining Rig, Motherboard, GPU, Crypto, Custom Build, ASRock, BTC, ETH

Miner Rig Update

• 12 – Dedicated GPUs now
  • 11 – GTX 1060
    • EVGA 3GB GTX 1060 –http://amzn.to/2EhvWx2
    • EVGA 3GB GTX 1060 SC – http://amzn.to/2H3B0m7
    • Gigabyte 3GB GTX 1060 G1 Gaming – http://amzn.to/2Bku7MU
  • 1 – 1070 GTX
    • MSI 8GB Gaming X GTX 1070 – http://amzn.to/2C9hiSm
• How many machines
  • 3 machines
    • 1 – VR Machine
    • 2 – Open Air Custom Rigs –http://amzn.to/2EfmhH8
  • Motherboards
    • ASRock H110 Pro BTC+ – http://amzn.to/2Ehw2Vq
    • Gigabyte H110-D3A – http://amzn.to/2skz1Xt
  • CPUs
    • Not used for mining
    • Celeron –  http://amzn.to/2EdvAr7
    • i3-7100 –http://amzn.to/2Eyn3hC
  • Memory
    • 8 GB RAM in each – http://amzn.to/2C9L75c
  • Power Supply
    • EVGA Supernova 750 P2 –http://amzn.to/2C95YFN
• Hardware Costs out of control now… Not buying more right now
• Stability issues on 9 card rig
  • Riser cards touching on ASRock H110 Pro BTC+ (Recommend 6 cards Max)
• Dual Power Supply
  • Have to trick the power supply to come on…
  • Keep in mind how many pins you need on video cards
    • 6
    • 8
    • 8+6

Private Tunnel – http://www.privatetunnel.com

• VPN to get past ISP issues with getting to Pools
• $35 a year for 3 concurrent machines
• Great for out of country streaming of TV

NiceHash – http://nicehash.com

• Hacked
• Loss of Mined BitCoin
• Repayment Plan – Just paid out 10%

What did I do during the Nicehash hack?

• Minergate
  • No where near as profitable
  • Mined with my cell phones
  • Great Android App / no iPhone
  • End up with lots of coins… Forced Etherium only in the end

BitConnect Lending

• $1495 in lending platform
• Cease and Desist from state of TX
• 2 weeks later Cease and Desist from US
• Shutdown Lending and crashed coin

Did I go back to Nicehash?

• Yes

Am I still using Nicehash?

• Yes and No

Awesome Miner / Mining Pool Hub / NiceHash

• Multi-Currency
• Multi-Pool
• Mining Pool Hub
  • Auto-Covert to Etherium
  • Auto-Transfer to Coinbase
• NiceHash
  • Pays in BitCoin
  • Free Transfer Instantly to Coinbase

What do I make off of the rigs?

• At High it was $1400 a month
• At Low it has been $400 a month

Cost of 9 card Rig?

• Bought before the prices went up
• ~2,000

Other stuff I am working on…

Connected Vehicle

Cognitive Services – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/

• Vision
  • Emotion Detection
  • Face Detection
  • Computer Vision
• Speech
  • Translator Speech
  • Bing Speech
  • Speaker Recognition
  • Custom Speech
• Language
  • Language Understanding (LUIS)
  • Bing Spell Check
  • Text Analytics
• Knowledge – https://jfkfiles2.azurewebsites.net/
  • QNA Maker
  • Knowledge Exploration
• Search
  • Bing powered
  • News
  • Web
  • Video
  • Image

Bots

• Bot Framework
  • Create really smart bots leveraging cognitive services

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