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Winners' List - Please check your bids to be sure. PM John if there's any errors, thanks!

Credits go to Randombob (for creating the Unofficial count and saving my sanity), Vjain (for starting the GoogleDoc spreadsheet), JaredR26 (for the estimated countdown), and all participants!

Thank you!

Name	Quantity	Price (฿)	Remaining	BTC Count	Post
lenny_	1	65	49	65	#796
lenny_	1	63	48	63	#796
Airwaves	1	55	47	55	#826
Ian787	1	53	46	53	#762
bclcjunkie	1	52.5	45	52.5	#831
WinVery.com	2	52.5	43	105	#833
candoo	1	52	42	52	#819
simtel12	1	52	41	52	#822
drlatino999	1	52	40	52	#829
phiz	1	51.5	39	51.5	#816
Fury!	1	51.5	38	51.5	#827
teek	10	51	28	510	#807
win07	1	51	27	51	#818
desired_username	4	51	23	204	#828
Noitev	1	50.5	22	50.5	#752
Omen1855	1	50.5	21	50.5	#773
ok	1	50.5	20	50.5	#798
kibblesnbits	1	50.5	19	50.5	#802
Tulkas	4	50.5	15	202	#803
michelet	3	50.5	12	151.5	#805
lightbox	5	50.5	7	252.5	#809
Gomeler	1	50.5	4	50.5	#824
BlockChains	2	50.5	2	101	#830
dogie	2	50.5	5	101	#838
Caesium	2	50	0	100	#735
	50		Total:	2578

Y U no tell who won ;-)

sure, having a heart attack. :)

Adrenaline, you can stop now :/

the highest bid was

1@65
1@63

Just wanted to say thanks, John, you were amazing :-)

.b

Let the poor man tally! :)

I hope that i won

Damn you pinwheel!  ;)

Ah well, at least this exercise has pushed me to getting my BTC funds in order.  Better prepared for next time.

when list who win

Got robbed by that option that notifes about replies, bet hey i'm new to the forum *shrugs*. Had fun no matter the outcome. Just a bit sad that it wasn't enough with less lol =)

@simtel12
Profile -> Look and Layout Preferences -> tick Don't warn on new replies made while posting.

Yeah i was mashing the post button  ;D

Seriously.  Needs moar preparation [from me]!

any bot to get the result?

Yes, John, is there any chance to turn off this annoying Warning - while you were reading 4 new replies have been posted. You may wish to review your post.? It totally screwed last seconds bids  :'( I think it would be good idea to turn off this feature by default for auction threads.

Looking forward to next Wednesday's dividends :)

I don't feel so bad missing out this auction now.  My max bid would of been 45.  I've been sad the past few days because I wouldn't have been able to convert fiat to BTC in time.  The last few mins was totally intense to watch.  And I totally agree, there need to be a better system for auctions.

Gratz to winners and all bidders, special thanks to those who keep auction running!  :)

Yeah he knocked me down and  out twice i think, but then i think also would jiz my pants over that freebie =) if i had the btc for it.

You can turn this off by yourself in settings.

+1, but I'm extremely happy on behalf of the buyers who I'm certain has made brilliant buys.

.b

Profile > look and layout preferences > [] Don't warn on new replies made while posting.

Well organised John. Anyone know are there any further 10GHz blade auctions planned? Wondering how confident bidders are on the difficulty continuing to be favourable long enough to have made a modest ROI on these.. Will ASICs being delivered raise the difficulty 10x or is it less than this?

Yes, I did now :) But isn't it good will to warn about it in OP at least?

For the $500,000(estimate) you guys just dropped, you could have developed your own ASICS. 

50 10 gh blades should change the diff at all considering they were used up to this point :P

At worst, I feel like the hardware value if received, could auction on something like ebay for more than the btc equiv here. I'm mining with it though

Not in a week.

.b

I suggest the next auction should take place in a dedicated IRC channel, where a bot keeps track of the bidders with the highest bid, and bidders post bids in a standard format, so the bot can easily recognize them. Like:

2@48,1@50,1@51

would bid on a total of 4 devices at an average price of 49.25 BTC per device.

In a separate IRC channel, the bot could keep posting the current book of the highest bidders, for example every 10 seconds (perhaps every 1 second when the end nears), and no one else is allowed to write in this channel.

wasn't it 50 auctioned or 100?

+1 also i think registering bidders is smarter so we dont get phony bids

The blades are _new_ blades, not used.

.b

I think John should unwind this from the end. His nightmare will end sooner this way.

John, wouldn't it be less work if you counted from last valid bidding post backwards? :)
I'm only guessing you're working your way through a lot of too low bids. But probably with good reason :)
Anyway thanks for the massive work.

PS: Please don't PM me asking for the list  - I'm tallying like crazy now.  :'(

Heh same thoughts

oh, coolio, well still its not that much hashpower, maybe a 2-4% increase

It was a bit like a hurricane towards the end but i'm ok with that it's a part o f the community fun =) I must give a shout out to the organizers they have done a great job! I'm happy to found this forum!

Prefer forum over irc but thats just me.

GOD HOW SILLY I WAS. *facepalm*

Thanks!

50 x 10 Gh/s = 500Gh/s

Network rate at the moment: 75,000 GH/s

So its a increase of 0.0066% of the total network hash rate.

Is there an easy way to see the total hashrate of the total network?  Thanks in advance!

I can imagine the stress of all those waiting eyes. Bidding is over, relax people. Take a drink and thanks again John.

Don't forget
- If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will have his slots filled first

yeah I just realized I misclaculated

If working from the end please take care about bid order - earlier bids of the same value beat later ones, right?

I got bagged with that on the first auction.  Second auction, I removed all safety measures from my torpedoes. 

If everyone bids 'honestly' or there are no bidding below the minimum, this would work.  Otherwise, John still have to parse through the whole thing.

yep

Yup, he'll need to do some backtracking and pop some items from his stack :)

I just use http://blockchain.info/stats (http://blockchain.info/stats) to get the current rate, its on that page in the middle area (it says 82,000 GH/s)

Or you can read this page to work it out without any third party websites https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty)

I hope you find those links informative :)

Poor John, I'm gonna give him a donation

Thanks bud!!  I've only been around bitcoin for 2 weeks, so I still have lots to learn.

I think John did it already. Check table3

awaiting official confirmation table 3 is accurate :)

(damn I was close..)

+1 Captain Tupolev. ;)

can someone link me to table3 please

one ping only!  ;D

Me too 1 in and 1 just too low. I would be very pleased with that one

No problems!

Bitcoin is a fascinating system to study, after this semester is over I want to delve into the Satoshi client code and try to fully understand how it all works. So much to learn!

that feeling when you have a 50.5 bid  8)

I havent seen lenny_ posts where did he come from?

Tally from my end:

lenny_ 1 65
lenny_ 1 63
Ian787 1 53
Ainwaves 1 55
WinVery 2 52.5
bclcjunkie 1 52.5
candoo 1 52
simtel 1 52
drlatino999 1 52
Fury! 1 51.5
phiz 1 51.5
teek 10 51
win07 1 51
desired_username 4 51
dogie 2 50.5
ok 1 50.5
lightbox 5 50.5
Noitev 1 50.5
Omen1855 1 50.5
kibblesnbits 1 50.5
Tulkas 4 50.5
michelet 3 50.5
Gomeler 1 50.5
BlockChains 2 50.5
Caesium 2 50
----- cut off
Caesium 2 50
DeaDTerra 1 50
Hiroaki 1 50
cimpex 1 50
Qbert 11 50
Jimmy2011 2 50
JHenderson 1 50

Were there any false bids last time?

A possilbe list is here

lenny      65   1   49
lenny      63   1   48
Airwaves   55   1   47
lan787   53   1   46
bclcjunkie   52.5   1   45
WinVery.com52.5   2   43
phiz      52.5   1   42
candoo   52   1   41
simtel12   52   1   40   
drlatino999   52   1   39
ok      52   1   38
Fury      51.5   1   37
desired_username 51   4   33
win07      51   1   32 
teek      51   10   22
Noitev       50.5    1   21
Omen      50.5   1   20
Fury      50.5   1   19
kibblesnbits   50.5   1   18
Tulkas   50.5   4   14
michelet   50.5   3   11
lightbox   50.5   5   6
dogie      50.5   2   4
Gomeler   50.5   1   3
BlockChains   50.5   2   1

Caesium      50       4       0
Hiroaki   50   1   -4
cimpex   50   1   -5
Qert      50   11   -16
DeaDterra   50   1   -17
Jimmy2011   50   2   -19

        http://allchains.info/

Ahh looking good I got one.

Could of bought 10Gh/s in GPUs for that much. (I know it uses way more power)

I was post #735 btw if it helps you any John :D

I'm honestly interested in this, I tried to work it out. Wouldn't you need about 20-24 GPU's tied to 4 or more motherboards with several PSU's? I worked out a 10GH/s rig at around $10,000.

Am I way off?

It is very simple. Place bid on top of existing one.

If you want absolutely no brainer Imagine this: whoever bids less is a winner, so lowest bids go on top.

Well then it's a damn good deal compared to GPUs, if they only cost the same as GPUs, but use way less power and arrive your doorstep, ready to use in less than a week.

What a crazy last 5 minutes. Definitely going to need to use some auction software for future auctions to keep John sane.


I'm replacing two shelves of GPUs with this board(if I won it). I'm tired of managing GPUs. Hoping the sale of the GPUs will offset the price from this purchase.

Or you could have bought yourself more than 100 Commodore 64's and hash with those.

Using HD 7950s @ 600 MH/s card @ $450 card(this includes all supporting hardware such as MB, PSU, risers, etc) and the blade @ 12GH/s(overclocked) you're looking at roughly $9,000 to get an equivalent setup in GPUs. I'm sure some of this is off a bit(probably stuff 6 cards into a board with a lower cost/card) but it is a rough estimate.

Keep in mind you can resell the GPUs when you are done..

that feeling when you bid 50 early

Thanks so much John, really well run auction. I'll send you a tip :)

huh there was a winners table there before I posted that, I'm seeing things :/

Winners' List - Please check your bids to be sure. PM John if there's any errors, thanks!

Credits go to Randombob (for creating the Unofficial count and saving my sanity), Vjain (for starting the GoogleDoc spreadsheet), JaredR26 (for the estimated countdown), and all participants!

Thank you!

Name	Quantity	Price (฿)	Remaining	BTC Count	Post
lenny_	1	65	49	65	#796
lenny_	1	63	48	63	#796
Airwaves	1	55	47	55	#826
Ian787	1	53	46	53	#762
bclcjunkie	1	52.5	45	52.5	#831
WinVery.com	2	52.5	43	105	#833
candoo	1	52	42	52	#819
simtel12	1	52	41	52	#822
drlatino999	1	52	40	52	#829
phiz	1	51.5	39	51.5	#816
Fury!	1	51.5	38	51.5	#827
teek	10	51	28	510	#807
win07	1	51	27	51	#818
desired_username	4	51	23	204	#828
Noitev	1	50.5	22	50.5	#752
Omen1855	1	50.5	21	50.5	#773
ok	1	50.5	20	50.5	#798
kibblesnbits	1	50.5	19	50.5	#802
Tulkas	4	50.5	15	202	#803
michelet	3	50.5	12	151.5	#805
lightbox	5	50.5	7	252.5	#809
Gomeler	1	50.5	4	50.5	#824
BlockChains	2	50.5	2	101	#830
dogie	2	50.5	5	101	#838
Caesium	2	50	0	100	#735
	50		Total:	2578

I have seen it too

DAMN

Well played Caesium ;)

Agreed, many kudos to John K for handling the undoubtedly hectic logistics.

I wonder what the GPU market will look like after everyone who buys ASICS dumps their GPUs.  Wonder if I can get some cheap for gaming. :)

We make up a tiny portion of the GPU market. You can get some cheap HD 7970s though on eBay if you are willing to take the risk of someone shipping a DOA card. I bought a number of HD 5970s on eBay for $50-100 less than what people wanted on forums and easily $200 less than what Newegg wanted.

Sweet, got one.

hooray! :D

There is error in formula at D23, and probably below. Please check it.

Great job with this John!

Yep it goes a bit weird but its still right - top 50 are selected

Yes, but it can be confusing for someone.

Got one! Happy happy.. Joy joy..

Thanks guys for everything - I'm too tired to reply my mountain of PM's right now, but I'll do that next morning. Good nights! (Drat its almost 5 :o)

If anyone still wants blades I am open to selling mine https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=191149.msg1979280#msg1979280

So sad I was really eager to have my first ASIC miner  >:( :'( :'(

,but you guys are payin crazy prices, i guess it is more a toy for most bidders, anyway like this we have more funds for our DIY project.

good luck everybody and congrats to ASICMINER (you're doing an awesome job, especially for ur shareholders)

I wish the guys behind the auction disqualifies WinVery.com and sells it to whoever is next in line. That would go to show not to bid if you don't want the items. I'm not even close to be next in line so this is not posted with an hidden agenda. I just unlike this method and wish the forum to be a cool place.

Do we know yet whether there's going to be another auction anytime soon? I just barely missed this one...

During the auction they mentioned that next one will be a loooong wait for. Hope they are bluffing =) Just a marketing attempt, it's fine by me , i forgive them if they put up another auction =) hehe Or just send me one *i wish*

By cool you obviously mean fascist. 

Doing so would be a breach of the auction rules, in my opinion, as they didn't state that reselling was not allowed. If they didn't want people to resell units, they should have specified this in the auction rules.

I would be next in line for those two units but I have to agree, it wasn't against any explicitly set rules, no matter what we may think of it.

You mean Toyota when they released the LFA? Stopped speculation on it, great idea for a $300k+ supercar.

You just may get your wish Caesium.