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Bitcoin => Group buys => Topic started by: julz on September 25, 2013, 08:12:48 AM

Title: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: julz on September 25, 2013, 08:12:48 AM

I will be reselling BPMC's Blue Fury USB miners and expect to have a fairly small number of them on hand in the second week of October.

Code:

Product Description:

Rated speed 2.6Gh/s. +/- 10%
Powered by the USB port without any other power source.
Electricity consumption as low as 2.5 watts and 500mA

Prices:
0.88 BTC each
10+ 0.86BTC each

plus shipping & handling costs - express post signature required. Include your postcode & desired quantity for a quote.

Contact me here by PM - or email bitcoingear@swishbits.com.au for a payment address.

I will be taking preorders and allocating from the first batch based on who pays first.
If I receive payments after I've allocated all units - I'll give the option to have the BTC returned or stay in the queue for the next batch.
(I'll also try to update here quickly when the batch runs out)

Cheers,
Julian

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.7GH/s [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Beastlymac on September 25, 2013, 09:50:08 AM

I can verify Julz is an authorised reseller of ours.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.7GH/s [Australia/NZ]
Post by: psyberwolf on September 25, 2013, 11:27:21 PM

damn it, already in on another group buy
oh well

next time ill get via you!.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.7GH/s [Australia/NZ]
Post by: LogicalUnit on September 26, 2013, 01:42:49 AM

I'd like to buy three. Australian postcode 2600. :D

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.7GH/s [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Zeek_W on September 26, 2013, 03:54:25 AM

I'll grab at least one. I'll get payment sorted tomorrow.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.7GH/s [Australia/NZ]
Post by: kabopar on September 26, 2013, 07:47:40 AM

Julz,
I'm interested in one, please check your email

Cheers

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.7GH/s [Australia/NZ]
Post by: FrontLineFodder on September 26, 2013, 08:04:40 AM

Hi Julz,

I'm would like to get 10, shipped to Perth.

I sent you an email (25 Sep 2013 17:56:54 +0800), Just need the shipping cost + your address.

Thanks

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s [Australia/NZ]
Post by: julz on September 26, 2013, 01:25:01 PM

Hi All,

I think I've now responded to all by PM or email.
If you haven't received a payment address yet, let me know.

Shipping & handling (Australia) for up to about 5 units will be 0.1BTC (I expect 5 units to come in under 500g)

Shipping & handling for 10 units is 0.161BTC.

Cheers,
Julian

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s [Australia/NZ]
Post by: FrontLineFodder on September 26, 2013, 02:57:39 PM

Thank you Julz,

Payment for my order of 10 is in.

Now we wait :-)

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Zeek_W on September 27, 2013, 04:04:11 AM

Order paid and emailed verification. Cheers Julz.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s [Australia/NZ]
Post by: jetairteam on September 27, 2013, 09:42:54 AM

EDIT: Cancelled order for 4... will be busy *bummer* >:(

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Zeek_W on September 30, 2013, 10:16:57 PM

Bump for julz

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: casilan on October 01, 2013, 02:13:57 AM

Just sent an email regarding certain queries.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: sla73 on October 02, 2013, 11:05:16 AM

Hi Julz,

Sent an email for 5, delivery to Sydney..

Cheers sla73

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: FrontLineFodder on October 07, 2013, 03:33:10 PM

Hi Julz,

I know bitcointalk only just came back but do you have any updates ? ssinc is reporting delays in his group buy due to holidays in china.

thanks

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: sla73 on October 08, 2013, 08:57:22 AM

Hi Julz,
Any update on this thanks.

sla73 (aka bryn)

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: erk on October 08, 2013, 09:05:20 PM

Dates please?

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: julz on October 09, 2013, 12:54:07 AM

All I know regarding expected delivery is what has been posted in the main Blue Fury thread(s)
i.e https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=299295.msg3289769#msg3289769

Quote

Main run will be a little bit delayed because of China holidays causing pcb problems.

So it looks like 'a week' of delay :( Fingers crossed as always with mining gear it seems.

I am only handling a total of 80 units for this buy - so depending on what time of day they arrive, I expect to on-ship them the same day or next day.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Zeek_W on October 09, 2013, 01:49:21 AM

Yay!

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Stack on October 16, 2013, 01:49:25 AM

Ok.. so it's now 3rd week of October.. given the 2nd week of October deadline + 1 week delay.. We'd expect you to have units on the way to your door right now.. And if not that, an actual ETA date.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Zeek_W on October 16, 2013, 10:42:58 AM

Quote from: Stack on October 16, 2013, 01:49:25 AM

Ok.. so it's now 3rd week of October.. given the 2nd week of October deadline + 1 week delay.. We'd expect you to have units on the way to your door right now.. And if not that, an actual ETA date.

There was a delay in China due to a holiday. Anything from China went into chaos.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: soundasleep on October 22, 2013, 02:07:32 AM

I'm interested in buying 1-5 shipped to New Zealand. Are there any available, how much would shipping be & what's the current expected timeline?

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Stack on October 23, 2013, 03:19:49 AM

4th week of October. What's the latest excuse? link anyone?

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Beastlymac on October 23, 2013, 03:24:42 AM

Quote from: Stack on October 23, 2013, 03:19:49 AM

4th week of October. What's the latest excuse? link anyone?

Units are being produced right now. Shipping will start late this week.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Stack on October 23, 2013, 03:36:47 AM

Quote from: Beastlymac on October 23, 2013, 03:24:42 AM

Quote from: Stack on October 23, 2013, 03:19:49 AM

4th week of October. What's the latest excuse? link anyone?

Units are being produced right now. Shipping will start late this week.

Thank you

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Zeek_W on October 23, 2013, 12:38:13 PM

Oh boy - Nearly there!

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Beastlymac on October 24, 2013, 08:00:14 AM

Just so people know.

Quote from: Beastlymac on October 24, 2013, 07:38:53 AM

300 units will be shipped out Friday and the following 1500 shipped Tuesday next week.

Just a little photo of units on the production line.

https://i.imgur.com/r5zkPwc.jpg

We will announce the compensation after we have completed shipping all the units.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Zeek_W on October 24, 2013, 08:03:28 AM

The compensation package sounds interesting.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Zeek_W on October 29, 2013, 11:02:48 AM

julz did you get a shipment from beastly yet? Hoping you did seeing postage is quick from NZ to AUS

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: julz on October 30, 2013, 03:09:06 AM

I have a tracking number... hoping it's for the entire batch.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Zeek_W on October 30, 2013, 05:27:50 AM

Well thats something to be cheerful about!

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: kabopar on October 31, 2013, 06:54:35 AM

Quote from: julz on October 30, 2013, 03:09:06 AM

I have a tracking number... hoping it's for the entire batch.

Hi Julz
Any news on these?

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: julz on October 31, 2013, 07:18:51 AM

These have landed in Sydney, and I've paid the duties. Hopefully I'll have them tomorrow.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: julz on November 01, 2013, 03:03:29 AM

I have these in hand. Shipping now.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: kabopar on November 01, 2013, 09:38:04 AM

Julz, thanks for the direct delivery.
I managed to get it going, but the results are strange. Not sure if it is a faulty device or something else. Running the latest BFGMiner (3.4.0). The rest of the installation is per Beastlymac in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=299295.0. To avoid interactions with other things it is running entirely alone, on a separate Win7 64 PC as a single device on a powered hub. I am getting a very high H error rate (about 61% after about 40 minutes) and the hash rate is about 2.26GH/sec (on Slush's pool). I tried resetting the device, the miner software etc, but there is no improvement. I wonder if it is a faulty device or a configuration problem.

More exploration: Using the older bfgminer 3.2.0 with the original batch file seems to solve the high H rate. The hash rate remains however close to 2.26 GH/sec.

Cheers

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Beastlymac on November 01, 2013, 09:52:44 AM

Quote from: kabopar on November 01, 2013, 09:38:04 AM

I think it is something to do with the latest version of bfgminer. I would try either our version or the latest cgminer version. Alternatively if you can install a Ubuntu vm or just install Ubuntu and dual boot I would recommend that.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: kabopar on November 01, 2013, 10:57:34 AM

Quote from: Beastlymac on November 01, 2013, 09:52:44 AM

Quote from: kabopar on November 01, 2013, 09:38:04 AM

Thanks Beastlymac, I'll try these suggestions. As I already found, with the original modified bfgminer 3.2.0 that you recommend in your guide, the H error issue is gone, but the hash rate remains lower than expected at about 2.26 GH/sec.
(Life would be boring without some little puzzles like this one...:)

Cheers

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: kabopar on November 03, 2013, 09:46:40 AM

Here it is on Win7
https://i.imgur.com/FnoxrAX.png
and here on Ubuntu 13.10
https://i.imgur.com/OtZFnpv.jpg
In all tests got an average hash rate of about 2.26 GH/sec

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Stack on November 04, 2013, 01:52:14 AM

I have a package from julz, exciting!

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Zeek_W on November 05, 2013, 09:40:29 AM

Arrived, working FINALLY after a lot of screwing about. Not julz' fault.

A+ on the shipping.

EDIT: apparently beastly is sorting out the compensation stuff with you shortly.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Zeek_W on November 09, 2013, 03:56:10 AM

Compensation from Beastly can go into the address in my sig (same as the one in our emails from other orders)

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: kabopar on November 09, 2013, 04:10:45 AM

Quote from: Zeek_W on November 09, 2013, 03:56:10 AM

Compensation from Beastly can go into the address in my sig (same as the one in our emails from other orders)

The original compensation is for the delay in shipping. There should be some other compo due to performance being lower than specified (most people had 2.1-2.3 GH/Sec, compared to the specified 2.6+/-10%)
see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=299295.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=299295.0)

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Zeek_W on November 09, 2013, 04:40:51 AM

Definately

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: kabopar on November 12, 2013, 07:44:39 AM

Check the posts in the support thread for BF (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=319419.440 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=319419.440)), there is a simple 'pencil mod' that can increase the hash rate. I'm now running at abut 2.51 GH/sec (accepted shares by the pool) and others got higher.

Cheers

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Zeek_W on November 13, 2013, 12:40:38 PM

still waiting for my 0.05 that beastly said was processing

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Beastlymac on November 13, 2013, 12:43:44 PM

Quote from: Zeek_W on November 13, 2013, 12:40:38 PM

still waiting for my 0.05 that beastly said was processing

It was sent to julz a week ago.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Scorpia on November 13, 2013, 01:23:54 PM

any word on a price adjustment with the BTC movements?

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: julz on November 18, 2013, 12:13:12 AM

Hi all,
For those still awaiting payment - please check your emails and PMs where I've asked for payment addresses.

I'm not currently involved in any more buys - but I'll review at the end of the week.

Cheers,
Julian

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: psyberwolf on November 22, 2013, 12:50:52 PM

i wouldn't mind buying a few more if the option comes up.
obviously at a lower BTC rate due to the price rise
or i can pay in fiat if that suits too.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: erk on November 22, 2013, 07:52:18 PM

Quote from: julz on November 18, 2013, 12:13:12 AM

Some Nanofury NF1 thumbs would be nice. They are open source design using Bitfury chips, so expect several people to have batches made.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: kabopar on November 22, 2013, 08:58:14 PM

Quote from: erk on November 22, 2013, 07:52:18 PM

Quote from: julz on November 18, 2013, 12:13:12 AM

Some Nanofury NF1 thumbs would be nice. They are open source design using Bitfury chips, so expect several people to have batches made.

Title: Re: [BPMC] Blue Fury USB ~2.6GH/s 0.88BTC [Australia/NZ]
Post by: Tasweb on December 03, 2013, 05:51:25 AM

Quote from: julz on November 18, 2013, 12:13:12 AM

I'm not currently involved in any more buys - but I'll review at the end of the week.

Cheers,
Julian

Rumor has it that you have pulled the plug Julz. Can you confirm that you are no longer the Australian distributor and if so could you let us know if there are plans for a replacement or perhaps contact Friedcat and have him notify the other distributors (and update the ASICMiner thread) so that they can sell into Australia without fear of stepping on anyone's toes?

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