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Greeting! I am looking to buy an ASICminer Block Eruptor blade [10-13 Gh/s] processed through escrow.

Please let me know if you have one to sell. I will cover the shipping costs via PayPal before you ship and I will cover the cost of the escrow.

Thank you for your time.

they cost 46-50btc directly from asic miner...if you buy 50 they are 46 btc a pop.

I would pay that range, but I was under the assumption that I needed to send the btc directly to ASICMiner and not via an escrow.

Thank you for the reply.

Also friedcat hasnt been reacting to orders for blades for about a week (see the official sale thread).

That's the other problem. I have no doubt of friedcat, but I think he is probably so busy with ASICMiner and the USB miners that he barely has time to check this forum or new orders for right now. He has done a ton for Bitcoin but probably doesn't get much sleep.  ::)

Where are you located? I have two BE blades that I might be selling soon.

Honestly, you don't need escrow with friedcat. He has done more than enough to prove his trustworthiness. Have you checked the the BE sales thread?

Thanks for the reply. I heard that he was swamped right now. I totally trust friedcat. Also I cannot use DHL shipping in my area..always gets 'lost' by them somehow and gets returned to sender.

Much appreciated.

Location?

we have blades coming in next week from WTCR.ca (http://wtcr.ca/).  51.99 BTC!

for 50 btc you can buy better hashrate..just dont be impatient and wait.

 Have no fear sending the BTC to the ASICMiner people directly. friedcat is solid.

 I'm awfully tempted to pull the trigger on buying a 10GH blade myself, but part of me wants to hold out for their next-gen product.

... additionally, how no idea how to power the AM blades :| I'm terrified of stripping electrical wiring :|

You should expect some tweaking with the cooling and power supply to get everything right. If you're not comfortable doing this, I'd recommend buying shares instead.

Xian where are you located? I set up the 300 page setup guide, I can probably help :D

Try here, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=204030.0

It's very simple to get going.  Just take an adapter you have lying around like a molex to SATA adapter, cut it in half, strip the cable back a couple millimeters, then insert the copper into the green terminal block.  2 minutes to make a little adapter then you can use any PC power supply.

Plus from i've read in the manual the blades are protected against shorts and reverse pole mounting.

Not that you wanna risk it  :D.

 Ok. Sounds easy enough. Emailed friedcat to order a single blade.

 So I just connect the molex adapter to a power supply, strip two of the wires and plug it into the blade, set up Slush's Stratum proxy to point at Bitminter, and I'm ready to go, in theory ?

More or less. You should probably use two molex adapters to spread the load - there are 4 screw terminals on the blade's power connectors, two for +12 V and two for ground.

Giant setup thread with guide here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=205369.0

 Thanks a bunch, gents. Just sent payment to friedcat for purchase of a blade !

keep us updated :)

Don't forget you need to jumpstart your PSU with a paper clip inserted into the 24pin connector. You need to make a bridge with the clip between the green cable and a black one.

As per friedcat. That is not going to happen before OCT.!! So its a long wait mate.!

Picked one up and it's been hashing away for about a week now. Posted photos of in in the Custom Hardware thread. Contemplated buying another one, but already have 18 populated K16's on order, so don't want to blow all my Bitcoins on this upgrade cycle ;)

If you do decide to buy, I have sellers lined up so pm me :)

this looks like a decent bang for buck.  how much to build one?