Did you clean the dust off your rigs?

A time comes when you got to do what you got to do.

Christmas, New year holidays, time for your loved ones: family, friends and rigs.

Cleaning the dust off your rigs has several benefits:

1. Increases GPU / ASIC / CPU lifespan.
2. Increases the fans lifespan.
3. Lowers the fan speed.
4. Lowers the noise.
5. Lowers the power draw (lower fan speed=lower electric bill).
6. Lowers the chance for component failure or short circuit.
7. When all works fine, you have more time to spent around human beings.

Tools needed:
An air compressor. Second best is leaf blower, third is a can of compressed air. You can also use hard brush or anything usefull to remove the dust, wet micro fiber towel, vacuum cleaner can help too.

General steps:

1. Power off the rig and disconnect it from power.
2. Take it out at an open space outside.
3. Blow the dust out of the heatsink fins.

*If using a compressor:

Drain the air compressor of moisture - you may have to pressurize it for extra draining power. Moisture gets into the tank when you are filling it with warmer air, that typically has more moisture in it. When the air cools down, the moisture pools at the bottom of the tank - there should be a drain there if you spent enough money on your air compressor. (recommendation by skyroket from Reddit)

If not available, use a can of compressed air. If you want to go full cheap, get a brush, scrape the dust off and then blow it away or collect with vacuum cleaner. Be careful with air compressors. If they are set to too high PSI, they can force tha fans to spin too fast and break them. Either adjsut the PSI to a safe amount or apply compressed air from bigger distance first, so you can find the best distance for your fan. Hold the fans with your hand to avoid spinning them too fast. If you have moist climate, the dust usually forms a black, sticky substance. You can use slightly moist cloth (I recommend a microfiber towel) to clean the sticky dust.

Try not to blow the dust further into the heatsink fins. Blow it OUT. (recommendation by skyroket from Reddit)

Happy holidays and may the dust stay away from you!

JSE coin - the web banner killer

As I was browsing the thousands and thousands of crypto coins, searching for promising ones, I stumbled upon JSE coin. What intrigued me was that it is not just a ticker name, asking for money or trust. Instead, it is fully functional web mining coin.

Java script runs on any browser

So far nothing that unusual, I said to myself. The guys just put more effort into integrating the mining inside a website so it can be accessible from any computer. I started reading further and learning more about it.

The miner can be integrated inside ANY website. The goal is for the users to be able to pay for the given website's content by using their CPU calculating power.  "Well, a great idea!" - I told myself.
But isn't it going to make the web browsing experience slow and sluggish? I was very skeptical in the beginning, but then decided to try it out. I went to JSEcoin's website, registered and started web-mining:

CPU usage while reading or typing on your PC

Once I started browsing and doing something on my computer, the miner automatically decreased hashrate to minimum, so I did not feel any problem. My computer was completely usable. Then once I started typing this post, the hashing was resumed, making sure the processor was fully utilized.

Then I started reading even more about it and found it's real purpose - JSE coin mining can replace web advertising and banners! Some websites'c content does not match most advertisements, others are refused to run adds due to some Adsense restrictions. So site owners can benefit from integrating the web miner instead:

JSE coin for site owners

 I visited several such websites and as a visitor I was asked if I would allow the JSE coin miner to run while I'm browsing the website. Which is really, really neat! This will also encourage the website owners to create better and more valuable content. So it's a win-win for all!

Then I went skeptcial again. How is it possible that this coin is still not that famous and popular?
I checked and it turned out that it is indeed a very young coin, created in August 2017. But at the same time it has already created value before asking people for investments. While other coins start with announcement, aim for hype, spam using thousands of websites and people with nothing but a promise and big words, JSEcoin team was working, building and creating value.

Future.
They now want to go big. So they need funds for listing to some of the big exchanges.
Since JSE coin has zero pre-mine, the only option to continue it's development was ICO.
It started a few days ago and will continue.

At the time of writing this, the price was somewhere around $ 0.006 per JSE coin. So there will be enough time for everyone to participate, invest, get to know the project, the JSE Team and change the web advertising using blockchain technology.

Is it worth investing?
From my own experience, if you join an already developed coin, which hit the exchanges long time ago, then there can be slight to no profit. If you want a big profit, you have to invest heavily. On the contrary, JSE is still:
a) a little known coin
b) has no premine
c) decentralized (in future, once many websites start using it)
d) can be mined by anyone anywhere
e) CPU only (prevents from GPU farms to take over and allows every guy on earth who owns a computer to mine).
f) can be paid in ETH at a pretty low price now, at the ICO phase.
g) unlike some coins, JSEcoin has real purpose
h) JSE company is based in in Cambridge, United Kingdom and is a UK registered company:

All of the above convinced me to invest in JSE coin and later add it to my websites. It may not kill web banners completely, but it sure is going to disturb the current web advertising and bring a positive change using blockchain technology.

 Many small websites are struggling because they have low visitor count, which means even lower PPC rate. With JSEcoin this problem will be solved. Every website visitor can contribute willingly to any website. At the same time he/she will not be flooded with web adds and will have much better experience, while receiving high-quality content.