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Title: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: jamesg on April 28, 2012, 12:13:59 AM Hello fellow bitcoiners,
Off the back of the successful raffle of a 50Gh 1 week mining contract, I am proud to offer a new raffle to all of my fellow mining enthusiasts! Welcome to the Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single (http://www.butterflylabs.com/products/) raffle! You read that right. I am ready to raffle one of my BFL singles away. Each ticket is only .25 BTC each! Imagine, turning .25 BTC into a Butterfly Labs Bitforce single, a return of at least 480 times the cost of a single ticket. So you’re probably wondering, “how can I verify that gigavps has a single to raffle off?” My fifteen singles hashing away -> http://bit.ly/Ix3ktV Gigavps’ farm monitoring page (all the singles are on rig 100) -> http://bit.ly/IxUZns Rules of the contest:
Enjoy and good luck! Best regards, gigavps Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 7 days left! Post by: jamesg on April 28, 2012, 12:43:44 AM Q/A
Q: Will the BFL warranty of 6 months transfer? A: Whoever wins the single will have my full support in dealing with BFL should anything happen to the single. Q: Rev 1, Rev 2 or Rev 3 unit? A: It is up to the winner. I have no real preference. Q: When is the Mini-Rig raffle? A: Never. :) Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 7 days left! Post by: JWU42 on April 28, 2012, 12:56:31 AM OK -- time to start the questions...
1. Will the BFL warranty of 6 months transfer? 2. Rev 1, Rev 2 or Rev 3 unit? 3. When is the Mini-Rig raffle? ;D Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 7 days left! Post by: arij on April 28, 2012, 02:58:16 AM im in! i hope i win! :)
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 7 days left! Post by: jamesg on April 28, 2012, 09:09:55 AM OK -- time to start the questions... 1. Will the BFL warranty of 6 months transfer? 2. Rev 1, Rev 2 or Rev 3 unit? 3. When is the Mini-Rig raffle? ;D Thanks for the questions JWU42. I have updated the second post with a Q/A section. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78304.msg872032#msg872032 Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 7 days left! Post by: Otoh on April 28, 2012, 11:36:18 AM subbed & waiting until the 4th of May to decide re how many tickets to purchase
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 7 days left! Post by: kano on April 28, 2012, 11:54:09 AM Waiting to win ... :)
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 7 days left! Post by: ingrownpocket on April 28, 2012, 12:06:39 PM Watching.
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 7 days left! Post by: Turbor on April 28, 2012, 04:52:27 PM "There can be only one" 8)
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 7 days left! Post by: kakobrekla on April 28, 2012, 11:05:46 PM in the Gambling subforum. Somehow I read that 'Gigabling subforum'. :D Ticket bought. ;) Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: jamesg on April 29, 2012, 02:31:22 AM 6 days left before the lucky winner of the BFL bitforce single is chosen!
What are you going to do with your new single? Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: mem on April 29, 2012, 03:31:58 AM Why do all but 2 of your BFL's look like their powered down (but still displaying a mH) ?
Code: GPU Pool Temp Load Rate Accept/Invalid GPU Family Fan% (rpm) Core Memory Power Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: jamesg on April 29, 2012, 03:36:33 AM What do all but 2 of your BFL's look like their powered down (but still displaying a mH) ? The first two lines are 5870s. :) The other 15 are the singles. I have to use a special utility to get the stats for the singles so a lot of stats are missing for them. Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: mem on April 29, 2012, 03:53:53 AM What do all but 2 of your BFL's look like their powered down (but still displaying a mH) ? The first two lines are 5870s. :) The other 15 are the singles. I have to use a special utility to get the stats for the singles so a lot of stats are missing for them. Well that explains that :) Cheers Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: Timbo925 on April 29, 2012, 07:14:19 AM watching
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: nandika on April 29, 2012, 08:48:41 AM ticket bought:)
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: jamesg on April 29, 2012, 10:37:08 AM Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: jamesg on April 29, 2012, 11:19:15 AM 345 Tickets have been purchased so far. What are you going to do with your new BFL single?
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: kano on April 29, 2012, 11:54:51 AM 345 Tickets have been purchased so far. What are you going to do with your new BFL single? A minor issue - the block found after the raffle ends may have a timestamp before the end and a block found before the raffle ends may have a timestamp after the end ... (both are possible)Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: jamesg on April 29, 2012, 12:20:21 PM 345 Tickets have been purchased so far. What are you going to do with your new BFL single? A minor issue - the block found after the raffle ends may have a timestamp before the end and a block found before the raffle ends may have a timestamp after the end ... (both are possible)If it makes you feel better, we can do it this way: 1. Close the raffle buy buttons. 2. Compile the list of purchasers and tickets into hashes. 3. Post the list to pastebin.com 4. Declare the next block to have a time stamp after the pastebin.com post to be the block used to find the winner. How does this sound? Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: kano on April 29, 2012, 12:48:09 PM How about: if you want to be completely random, you could say e.g. the 3rd block to have a timestamp on or after the designated 5pm
i.e. look at the timestamp of each block in order and the 3rd one (in block order) that has a timestamp after 5pm (your time) VERY unlikely for that to happen before 5pm Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: wogaut on April 29, 2012, 02:37:59 PM 345 Tickets have been purchased so far. What are you going to do with your new BFL single? Yes, and some are mine. :D What am I going to do with it? Hmm, I guess I'll try to use it for Bitcoin mining ;D Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: Joshwaa on April 29, 2012, 05:27:16 PM Count me in! I got a couple.
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: jamesg on April 29, 2012, 06:55:10 PM This is going to be the last raffle for a long while. If you want a BFL bitforce single, now is the time to get your tickets.
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: grue on April 29, 2012, 07:06:37 PM is there a live site where we can see how many tickets have been sold?
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: jamesg on April 29, 2012, 07:07:52 PM is there a live site where we can see how many tickets have been sold? 411 tickets have now been sold. I'll try to update once a day or more if you need. Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: Otoh on April 29, 2012, 08:03:46 PM is there a live site where we can see how many tickets have been sold? 411 tickets have now been sold. I'll try to update once a day or more if you need. Congrats, that's good going in 1 day or so, say with an average 10% discount on ticket sales price then that's about 92 BTC or $454 atm pulled in so far & the forum now showing adverts for it too I see, you should cover the Single's plus ad's costs in no time at this rate Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: bitlotto on April 29, 2012, 09:12:08 PM This is going to be the last raffle for a long while. If you want a BFL bitforce single, now is the time to get your tickets. How come? Your raffles are doing well!Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: jamesg on April 29, 2012, 09:39:06 PM How come? Your raffles are doing well! The raffles are fun but I am getting ready to start a new project that will require most of my free time. Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: bitlotto on April 29, 2012, 09:41:58 PM How come? Your raffles are doing well! The raffles are fun but I am getting ready to start a new project that will require most of my free time. Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: jamesg on April 29, 2012, 09:42:47 PM Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: bitlotto on April 29, 2012, 09:46:26 PM Good luck my friend. I'd enter this draw but I don't mine.
Good luck everyone! Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 5 days left! Post by: Mushroomized on April 29, 2012, 11:44:30 PM I might buy one ticket, so then I can put my raspberry pi to use.
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 5 days left! Post by: DutchBrat on April 30, 2012, 12:35:53 AM Bought 5 tickets ;D
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 5 days left! Post by: JayCoin on April 30, 2012, 03:49:35 AM How is running a raffle like this not illegal?
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 5 days left! Post by: kano on April 30, 2012, 04:28:38 AM How is running a raffle like this not illegal? How is it illegal?Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 5 days left! Post by: JayCoin on April 30, 2012, 04:39:43 AM How is running a raffle like this not illegal? How is it illegal?Raffles can only be done by charitable/non-profit organizations. In Florida, in particular, you can not require payment to enter any raffle. Some organizations get around this by asking for a recommended donation, but no payment can officially be required. Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 5 days left! Post by: kano on April 30, 2012, 06:15:01 AM How is running a raffle like this not illegal? How is it illegal?Raffles can only be done by charitable/non-profit organizations. In Florida, in particular, you can not require payment to enter any raffle. Some organizations get around this by asking for a recommended donation, but no payment can officially be required. Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 5 days left! Post by: mem on April 30, 2012, 06:20:47 AM How is running a raffle like this not illegal? How is it illegal?Raffles can only be done by charitable/non-profit organizations. In Florida, in particular, you can not require payment to enter any raffle. Some organizations get around this by asking for a recommended donation, but no payment can officially be required. Location: Olrando, FL Oddly, Gigavps is from Florida the state in question ... I sincerely doubt that anyone cares at this point in time but best to proceed carefully gigavps. Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 5 days left! Post by: jamesg on April 30, 2012, 10:45:41 AM Raffles can only be done by charitable/non-profit organizations. In Florida, in particular, you can not require payment to enter any raffle. Some organizations get around this by asking for a recommended donation, but no payment can officially be required. Thanks for the heads up JayCoin. This is the last raffle. Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 5 days left! Post by: jamesg on April 30, 2012, 03:42:11 PM 540 tickets sold so far.
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 5 days left! Post by: rjk on April 30, 2012, 05:22:27 PM Raffles can only be done by charitable/non-profit organizations. In Florida, in particular, you can not require payment to enter any raffle. Some organizations get around this by asking for a recommended donation, but no payment can officially be required. I'll bet that if you look into it, you will probably find that the law applies to raffles where tickets are sold for "money", I.E. USD. I doubt the government will give 2 shits about what they view as a raffle that is denominated in "internet funny money".Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 5 days left! Post by: jamesg on April 30, 2012, 05:47:03 PM I'll bet that if you look into it, you will probably find that the law applies to raffles where tickets are sold for "money", I.E. USD. I doubt the government will give 2 shits about what they view as a raffle that is denominated in "internet funny money". Either way I am going to look into what it takes to comply with all local, state and federal regulations before continuing with another raffle. We will conclude this raffle with a winner. The winner will get a BFL single in days instead of 12 weeks, which is how long i waited. Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 5 days left! Post by: Joshwaa on April 30, 2012, 08:45:29 PM Thanks for the raffle GigaVPS!!!
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 5 days left! Post by: mem on May 01, 2012, 12:58:36 AM Raffles can only be done by charitable/non-profit organizations. In Florida, in particular, you can not require payment to enter any raffle. Some organizations get around this by asking for a recommended donation, but no payment can officially be required. I'll bet that if you look into it, you will probably find that the law applies to raffles where tickets are sold for "money", I.E. USD. I doubt the government will give 2 shits about what they view as a raffle that is denominated in "internet funny money".agreed, Gigavps your doing the right thing - better off being sure than sorry. Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 4 days left! Post by: Ilovebitcoins on May 01, 2012, 06:05:39 AM So how do I know my ticket numbers? Will they be posted so I can find them via my email address?
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 4 days left! Post by: jamesg on May 01, 2012, 10:28:07 AM So how do I know my ticket numbers? Will they be posted so I can find them via my email address? Hi Ilovebitcoins, Ticket numbers are based off of when your ticket was purchased in relation to the other orders. All tickets will be posted right after 5pm on Friday and before we decide what block will create the final hash. Best, gigavps Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 4 days left! Post by: jamesg on May 01, 2012, 10:48:41 AM 663 tickets have now been sold. What are you going to do with your BFL single?
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 4 days left! Post by: DutchBrat on May 01, 2012, 11:25:07 AM 663 tickets have now been sold. What are you going to do with your BFL single? Put flowers in it, will make for a whacky vase ! ;) Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 4 days left! Post by: Nachtwind on May 01, 2012, 03:58:32 PM 663 tickets have now been sold. What are you going to do with your BFL single? Build a better Arduino. What else would you do with a BFL? Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 4 days left! Post by: wogaut on May 01, 2012, 04:08:30 PM 663 tickets have now been sold. What are you going to do with your BFL single? Build a better Arduino. What else would you do with a BFL? All wrong, I'll use it for: Packet integrity verification MonteCarlo Calculation support Custom contracted functions There's also some 2 step SHA256 block hash functionality on it, and rumors has it that somebody used it for some sort of mining operation, but hey, nothing beats MonteCarlo simulations! ;D ;D ;D Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 4 days left! Post by: jarsumarsu on May 01, 2012, 05:19:01 PM Bought 2 tickets :)
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 4 days left! Post by: jamesg on May 01, 2012, 05:40:57 PM Bought 2 tickets :) Thanks jarsumarsu and good luck! Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 4 days left! Post by: SkRRJyTC on May 01, 2012, 09:28:56 PM Just bought 4 tickets.
Thanks to the very generous gigavps! Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 4 days left! Post by: jamesg on May 02, 2012, 01:43:50 AM Just bought 4 tickets. Thanks to the very generous gigavps! Thanks SkRRJyTC! We are more than half way through this thing. Who is going to win this mining monster? Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 3 days left! Post by: chicken patty on May 02, 2012, 02:38:03 AM Im so in!
Thanks for the fun raffle gigavps! :) Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 3 days left! Post by: Tittiez on May 02, 2012, 02:52:45 AM Bought two tickets, a poor fuck like me can hope can't he? :-\
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 3 days left! Post by: Ilovebitcoins on May 02, 2012, 03:20:26 AM Ya GigaVPS thank you for doing such a lottery. I think this is a great way to get newbies like myself mining. The network could be strengthened by running these all the time. I wish BFL would do raffles like this. I mean you have made the money to pay for a new BFL unit already so it's not like you lost money on the deal. I think you have made money as well as the last raffle but it is fun for people who cannot afford to spend tons of cash on mining equipment. I would love to become a miner but I cannot afford to drop 500-1000 on mining equipment. I like the FPGA models just for the fact all you need is a small weak ass PC to run it.
Anyways thanks for answering my question as well. Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 3 days left! Post by: bitmonster1070 on May 02, 2012, 04:05:17 AM I am in on this raffle too! I didn't win the 50gh, so maybe I will win this one. Thanks for these raffles....keep em coming!!! If you make out like a bandit on this raffle, I might have to go to walmart and pick up a bunch of those brown ceramic heaters and some red LED lights and have a BFL raffle of my own.
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 3 days left! Post by: jamesg on May 02, 2012, 10:56:05 AM 733 Tickets sold. Good luck to everyone who has purchased a ticket!
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 3 days left! Post by: pieppiep on May 02, 2012, 11:20:20 AM Rules of the contest: If you find the first sha256 collision ever, will you give both winners a single? :P
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 3 days left! Post by: jamesg on May 02, 2012, 11:36:36 AM If you find the first sha256 collision ever, will you give both winners a single? :P The two winner would need to split it in half. ;) Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 3 days left! Post by: tgmarks on May 02, 2012, 09:26:25 PM Alright, why not, I'm in.
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 3 days left! Post by: jamesg on May 03, 2012, 04:03:06 AM Alright, why not, I'm in. Thanks tgmarks and good luck! ~40 hours left and 858 tickets sold. Who's going to win this thing?? Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~40 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: MoTLD on May 03, 2012, 04:59:05 AM Bought a few myself. I've been trying to decide between a BFL single colo'd somewhere and a portable solar-powered ZTEX unit I can take with me. If I win this, I'll do both! :)
-Mo Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~40 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: bonks on May 03, 2012, 07:14:54 AM Just bought 4 tickets!
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~40 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: jamesg on May 03, 2012, 10:42:51 AM Just bought 4 tickets! Good luck bonks and thanks! 914 tickets sold so far. Are you ready for your mining farm to be 830Mh/s faster? Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~40 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: Tittiez on May 03, 2012, 10:58:33 AM Just bought 4 tickets! Good luck bonks and thanks! 914 tickets sold so far. Are you ready for your mining farm to be 830Mh/s faster? Looks like you've made at least a good $1000 off this giga. :) Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~40 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: jamesg on May 03, 2012, 11:03:48 AM Just bought 4 tickets! Good luck bonks and thanks! 914 tickets sold so far. Are you ready for your mining farm to be 830Mh/s faster? Looks like you've made at least a good $1000 off this giga. :) Total ticket sales is probably not the right metric to be discussing because their are costs involved including the purchase price of the single and having it shipped to me. There is also the cost of shipping the single to it's new home. That said, the raffle does have a positive ROI but that will be changed quite a bit depending on where the single is shipped to. Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~34 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: pieppiep on May 03, 2012, 11:07:19 AM Also, if you buy 20 40 or 60 you get a discount.
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~34 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: kano on May 03, 2012, 12:45:35 PM Yeah one of my 20 tickets are going to win and your gonna have to send it all the way to Aus :D
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~34 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: Joshwaa on May 03, 2012, 12:56:54 PM Hope I win Giga. There will be no shipping. I'm in FL too! I'll come pick that sucker up!
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~34 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: cncguru on May 03, 2012, 02:14:18 PM Just picked up another batch of 20
Maybe I can continue my lucky streak! At this point my odds are better than they were in the 50Gh/s raffle. And FYI I used the proceeds of that win to pick up 3 more 5970's and a nice Bitcoin polo shirt from CryptoAnarchy! Plus a few left over to enter this one! Good luck to all!! ;D ;D ;D Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~24 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: jamesg on May 03, 2012, 08:11:33 PM ~24 hours to go before one of my BFL singles has a new home.
1,044 tickets have been sold. Are you going to be the big winner? Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~24 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: rjk on May 03, 2012, 08:37:47 PM Once I win, I can finally put the Gambling section back on ignore.
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~24 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: molecular on May 03, 2012, 08:41:25 PM ~24 hours to go before one of my BFL singles has a new home. 1,044 tickets have been sold. Are you going to be the big winner? wow, so you made about BTC 250 in tickets. good price to sell a bfl single for, I must say. well, to be fair, it might've gone the other way, too. Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~24 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: jamesg on May 03, 2012, 08:49:03 PM wow, so you made about BTC 250 in tickets. good price to sell a bfl single for, I must say. well, to be fair, it might've gone the other way, too. You are forgetting discounted tickets which make up a substantial portion of total ticket sales. None the less, this raffle will be profitable. Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~24 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: Ilovebitcoins on May 04, 2012, 12:36:01 AM Thats kinda sketchy the guy said he bought 314 tickets and said now giga knows which block to choose. I am not saying anything wrong is going on at this point but I really did not like how he said it was gonna be private to a via PM. I trust and respect giga so hopefully this thing goes off without a hitch.
However I will be really skeptical if that person wins. What are other people's feelings? Also I don't know he is going to win because I already won. LOL! ;D Positive thinking plus my lucky smoke equals positive results. Not to mention my user name is Ilovebitcoins. I really figured that name would have been taken already. Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~24 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: rjk on May 04, 2012, 12:42:48 AM Thats kinda sketchy the guy said he bought 314 tickets and said now giga knows which block to choose. I am not saying anything wrong is going on at this point but I really did not like how he said it was gonna be private to a via PM. I trust and respect giga so hopefully this thing goes off without a hitch. The method of choosing the winner guarantees that the pick is random. It uses a block hash from the future, which cannot be computed ahead of time, since it is a random number. See the OP for details.However I will be really skeptical if that person wins. What are other people's feelings? Also I don't know he is going to win because I already won. LOL! ;D Positive thinking plus my lucky smoke equals positive results. Not to mention my user name is Ilovebitcoins. I really figured that name would have been taken already. Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~24 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: BinaryMage on May 04, 2012, 12:56:33 AM Thats kinda sketchy the guy said he bought 314 tickets and said now giga knows which block to choose. I am not saying anything wrong is going on at this point but I really did not like how he said it was gonna be private to a via PM. I trust and respect giga so hopefully this thing goes off without a hitch. However I will be really skeptical if that person wins. What are other people's feelings? Also I don't know he is going to win because I already won. LOL! ;D Positive thinking plus my lucky smoke equals positive results. Not to mention my user name is Ilovebitcoins. I really figured that name would have been taken already. reeses was just joking, don't take it too seriously. If he really was cheating in some way, he wouldn't have bought over 100 BTC worth of tickets. ;) Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~24 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: jamesg on May 04, 2012, 01:02:27 AM Thats kinda sketchy the guy said he bought 314 tickets and said now giga knows which block to choose. I am not saying anything wrong is going on at this point but I really did not like how he said it was gonna be private to a via PM. I trust and respect giga so hopefully this thing goes off without a hitch. However I will be really skeptical if that person wins. What are other people's feelings? Also I don't know he is going to win because I already won. LOL! ;D Positive thinking plus my lucky smoke equals positive results. Not to mention my user name is Ilovebitcoins. I really figured that name would have been taken already. reeses sense of humor is sometimes a little over the top. Per the rules of the raffle, only after a list of the tickets is posted will the block number be selected that will create the final hash for the ticket. Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~24 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: kingkatari on May 04, 2012, 01:09:01 AM Woot Just bought my one and only ticket i can afford to buy, god i hope i win with a MSI Radeon 4350 10.2 MH/sec card i gotta win this thing to even have a chance to make some bitcoins......................... GIGA buddy old pal dude i gotta win this.............( Prays to the powers that be that he wins )
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~24 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: danieldaniel on May 04, 2012, 01:14:18 AM Woot Just bought my one and only ticket i can afford to buy, god i hope i win with a MSI Radeon 4350 10.2 MH/sec card i gotta win this thing to even have a chance to make some bitcoins......................... GIGA buddy old pal dude i gotta win this.............( Prays to the powers that be that he wins ) *hopes*I know I'm not going to win, but: Hey! You never know! Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~18 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: kingkatari on May 04, 2012, 06:19:00 AM Wow I just happen to be looking at my PC clock and saw the transaction come in and wondered WTF where did they come from......................
LoL thanks tho Woot 8 more Tickets here i come Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~18 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: jamesg on May 04, 2012, 10:46:31 AM Good luck to everyone who has entered. With around 10 hours remaining 1,118 tickets have been sold.
5pm is just around the corner. If you haven't purchased a ticket yet, you better hurry up! Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~10 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: gamer4156 on May 04, 2012, 12:35:24 PM bought 4!
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~10 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: Chefnet on May 04, 2012, 01:18:51 PM I'm in too.
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~10 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: DutchBrat on May 04, 2012, 01:50:12 PM 8 more here !
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~10 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: Mushroomized on May 04, 2012, 04:15:19 PM I only bought one ticket, I'm playing on hard mode
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: Otoh on May 04, 2012, 04:31:46 PM ... Tickets have been purchased so far. What are you going to do with your new BFL single? Well obviously I'm going to raffle it away the moment that it arrives, you've sold 1,200 tickets so 300 BTC minus say 10% discount on average = 270 * $5.15 = $1,390 & that's plenty for 2 brand new Singles with shipping plus plenty more left over once this finishes, beats mining with it but even at these poor odds I'm going in now for a block of 60 tickets for myself & a friend - I must be crazy but I'm having a good week so WTH Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - 6 days left! Post by: wogaut on May 04, 2012, 04:37:12 PM ... Tickets have been purchased so far. What are you going to do with your new BFL single? Well obviously I'm going to raffle it away the moment that it arrives, ... No, don't! Auction it off on Bitmit.net! ;D Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~4 HOURS LEFT!!! Post by: jamesg on May 04, 2012, 04:42:32 PM Just about 4 hours left.
An astonishing 1,275 tickets :o have been sold so far. Good luck to everyone who has entered, we'll know a winner very soon! Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~4 HOURS LEFT!!! Post by: gigantic on May 04, 2012, 05:21:14 PM i'm in ::)
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~2 HOURS LEFT!!! Post by: Kuma on May 04, 2012, 07:25:10 PM Yeah, I also tried my luck ;D.
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~59 MINUTES LEFT!!! Post by: jamesg on May 04, 2012, 08:13:25 PM OK folks. Thing will happen in the order below just like the last raffle.
1. 5pm arrives 2. We shut down all purchase buttons 3. We publish the hashed emails with ticket numbers and ticket hashes 4. We declare the block hash that will become the third part of the final hash for each ticket 5. Block arrives 6. Publish the results with the block hash and final hash without determining a winner 7. Allow third parties to declare which final hash is the winner 8. Verify third party results This time I will put *IMPORTANT MESSAGE* on any message from me in this thread that pertains to figuring out something about winning this raffle. Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~30 MINUTES LEFT!!! Post by: kingkatari on May 04, 2012, 08:39:50 PM NOOOO i have like 4 btc on the way dont end yet i need them to get more tix
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~30 MINUTES LEFT!!! Post by: jamesg on May 04, 2012, 08:44:25 PM NOOOO i have like 4 btc on the way dont end yet i need them to get more tix You have 17 minutes left according to my watch. Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~30 MINUTES LEFT!!! Post by: Joshwaa on May 04, 2012, 08:46:55 PM Why would some one buy 100BTC in tickets. for 25BTC more they could just purchase one!
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~30 MINUTES LEFT!!! Post by: wogaut on May 04, 2012, 08:47:26 PM Why would some one buy 100BTC in tickets. for 25BTC more they could just purchase one! ...and wait for over 2 months.Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~30 MINUTES LEFT!!! Post by: jamesg on May 04, 2012, 08:56:21 PM 4 minutes to go...... :D
Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~30 MINUTES LEFT!!! Post by: nathanghart on May 04, 2012, 08:57:50 PM 4 minutes to go...... :D Snagged 4 just under the wire :o Title: Re: [RAFFLE] Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single ~$600 - ~18 HOURS LEFT!! Post by: nathanghart on May 04, 2012, 09:01:59 PM Good luck to everyone who has entered. With around 10 hours remaining 1,118 tickets have been sold. 5pm is just around the corner. If you haven't purchased a ticket yet, you better hurry up! I should have read back further...I don't like those odds. I would not have wasted 1 BTC. Here's to hoping I eat those words. Title: Re: [CLOSED] Wind a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: jamesg on May 04, 2012, 09:02:41 PM Ticket sales are now closed. I will post all tickets in a few minutes.
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Wind a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: wogaut on May 04, 2012, 09:03:50 PM Ticket sales are now closed. I will post all tickets in a few minutes. What does "Wind a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single" in the subject title stand for? ;D Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: jamesg on May 04, 2012, 09:16:47 PM *IMPORTANT MESSAGE*
1349 Tickets in total were sold. All entries for the raffle can be found here -> http://pastebin.com/wELXVfKR Use this service to figure out the hash of your email -> http://hash.online-convert.com/sha256-generator Once you have the hash, you can search the paste bin text for your tickets. There are three columns, ticket number, hashed email address and hashed ticket number. Block number 178639 will determine the final hashes for all tickets. Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: arij on May 04, 2012, 09:19:25 PM is that from the previous raffle?
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: jamesg on May 04, 2012, 09:20:04 PM is that from the previous raffle? Copy paste fail...... The post has been updated. Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: kingkatari on May 04, 2012, 09:20:30 PM That pastebin is for the 50gh 1 week mining contract
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: jamesg on May 04, 2012, 09:21:19 PM That pastebin is for the 50gh 1 week mining contract Yep. I'm not perfect. ;) The link has been fixed. Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: occulta on May 04, 2012, 09:28:51 PM so what is the winning ticket number? :S
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: Scott J on May 04, 2012, 09:29:25 PM .................................... ;D
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: jamesg on May 04, 2012, 09:30:04 PM so what is the winning ticket number? :S Still waiting on block 178639 to show up.... Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: kingkatari on May 04, 2012, 09:30:29 PM if he says
ticket number 1060 or ticket numbers 1106 - 1113 I am just gonna go Nucking Futs Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: Scott J on May 04, 2012, 09:36:00 PM 1341 FTW ;D
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: jamesg on May 04, 2012, 09:36:44 PM Still waiting on the block!!!!
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: kingkatari on May 04, 2012, 09:50:53 PM I am watching for the block my self
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: Tachikoma on May 04, 2012, 09:54:28 PM This most be the slowest block generated today -_-
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: danieldaniel on May 04, 2012, 09:54:56 PM *hopes*
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: Lord F(r)og on May 04, 2012, 09:55:43 PM whoop, there it is
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: jamesg on May 04, 2012, 09:56:08 PM Block 178639 came in and it's hash is 0000000000000a65c1e0ab26bc99e3d916507ebbd93149e1e22b3b7c9a49206b
Compiling the results now. Sit tight! Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: Tachikoma on May 04, 2012, 09:57:46 PM Some light (fitting) entertainment while we wait. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox-lfowevqA)
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: danieldaniel on May 04, 2012, 09:58:05 PM Block 178639 came in and it's hash is 0000000000000a65c1e0ab26bc99e3d916507ebbd93149e1e22b3b7c9a49206b Compiling the results now. Sit tight! OMG. /me hopes some more Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: Lord F(r)og on May 04, 2012, 09:59:33 PM Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: jamesg on May 04, 2012, 10:00:05 PM Here are the final hash results -> http://pastebin.com/RxYxGVzW
5 columns now (ticket number, email hash, ticket number hash, blockHash, final hash) The final hash was calculated by: sha(sha(email) + sha(ticketNumber) + hashOfBlockFound) Let's see who won! Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: danieldaniel on May 04, 2012, 10:01:50 PM Here are the final hash results -> http://pastebin.com/RxYxGVzW What is this I don't even.5 columns now (ticket number, email hash, ticket number hash, blockHash, final hash) The final hash was calculated by: sha(sha(email) + sha(ticketNumber) + hashOfBlockFound) Let's see who won! How do I check if I won? D: Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: Tachikoma on May 04, 2012, 10:03:09 PM No luck this time. Congrats to the winner \o/
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: danieldaniel on May 04, 2012, 10:03:43 PM No luck this time. Congrats to the winner \o/ How do you know?Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: wogaut on May 04, 2012, 10:05:22 PM holder ticket #966 may step forward to take a good look *hint*
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: danieldaniel on May 04, 2012, 10:07:17 PM holder ticket #966 may step forward to take a good look *hint* So theres no chance that it's 1061? ;)Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: wogaut on May 04, 2012, 10:08:38 PM holder ticket #966 may step forward to take a good look *hint* So theres no chance that it's 1061? ;)Nope. Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: wogaut on May 04, 2012, 10:09:50 PM holder ticket #966 may step forward to take a good look *hint* So, who are you? Just selecting the triumphal image to upload eh? ;D Email sha: 9a9bce85bdff95b52887924e9b632a10f12d0e5a9ca33a8ce852dfccc03c5e60 Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: jamesg on May 04, 2012, 10:11:14 PM holder ticket #966 may step forward to take a good look *hint* I can confirm that ticket #966 is the winner. ticket: 966 email hash: 9a9bce85bdff95b52887924e9b632a10f12d0e5a9ca33a8ce852dfccc03c5e60 ticket hash: 339d9d13edbaa267cb977f39e0a9da194e07c1dc9ec3a2567eec6f45776e3018 block hash: 0000000000000a65c1e0ab26bc99e3d916507ebbd93149e1e22b3b7c9a49206b final hash: 00125bedc937aeee5bd8936b4b76b93eb4fa34acfc0d7e478e03a430832e8dae Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: Lord F(r)og on May 04, 2012, 10:12:26 PM holder ticket #966 may step forward to take a good look *hint* then I'm off, farewell...and don't just take the coins this time! Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: Tachikoma on May 04, 2012, 10:13:25 PM Buying 60 tickets pays off.
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: kingkatari on May 04, 2012, 10:14:12 PM Crap i didnt win :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: jamesg on May 04, 2012, 10:15:27 PM *IMPORTANT MESSAGE*
The winner will need to contact me via PM. Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: GenTarkin on May 04, 2012, 10:15:34 PM grats #966 =)
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: kingkatari on May 04, 2012, 10:16:27 PM Do they have a timelimt to contact you by and if they fail to they forfit???? and it goes to the next winner
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: kliffen on May 04, 2012, 10:20:54 PM Congratulations 966!
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: kingkatari on May 04, 2012, 10:22:04 PM Gratz 966
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: Scott J on May 04, 2012, 10:35:59 PM I have ticket 1337, what do I win? You've already won.Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: BTCurious on May 04, 2012, 10:39:00 PM WOOOOOT :D
I won ^___^ I didn't see that coming O_o Buying 60 tickets pays off. Apparently it did, indeed :PIt's actually a good thing people in the IRC channel were talking about it, or I might've missed it :P I nearly didn't buy any since the expected return was about half of the cost :P http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/162/317/2vA1a.pnghttp://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/162/317/2vA1a.pnghttp://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/162/317/2vA1a.png (Email is Nuntius.Marii@gmail.com, btw, if you don't believe me. Beware the case sensitivity :)) Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: wogaut on May 04, 2012, 10:40:49 PM Congrats!
I thought it took you that long to find a suitable image for your 'winning theme' ;D Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: kingkatari on May 04, 2012, 10:46:15 PM whats your IRC channel name?
Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: mc_lovin on May 04, 2012, 11:03:02 PM nooooooes my 60 tickets didn't pay off :(
next time, gadget, next time!!!! https://i.imgur.com/O9gOL.jpg Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: BTCurious on May 04, 2012, 11:20:23 PM whats your IRC channel name? It's Mqrius.Congrats! Thanks :) Now that I'm getting a BFL Single:I thought it took you that long to find a suitable image for your 'winning theme' ;D http://static.fjcdn.com/comments/pinkie+dows+ALL+the+anti-pony+comments+_bb5e3801c2e6a388cbf6bd32e3f836c2.jpg Mine ALL the coins! Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: jamesg on May 05, 2012, 01:24:43 AM Thanks again to everyone for playing. I have an email out to BTCurious to verify he is the owner of the email address.
Once that is done, the single will be on it's way! Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: mc_lovin on May 05, 2012, 07:27:50 AM Thanks again to everyone for playing. I have an email out to BTCurious to verify he is the owner of the email address. What's next on the raffle block?Once that is done, the single will be on it's way! Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: jamesg on May 05, 2012, 11:06:58 AM Thanks again to everyone for playing. I have an email out to BTCurious to verify he is the owner of the email address. Once that is done, the single will be on it's way! BTCurious has verified his email which he even provided in a post above. I will be shipping his rev3 single out to him today. Thanks again everyone! Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: BTCurious on May 05, 2012, 11:13:33 AM Thanks again to everyone for playing. I have an email out to BTCurious to verify he is the owner of the email address. Once that is done, the single will be on it's way! BTCurious has verified his email which he even provided in a post above. I will be shipping his rev3 single out to him today. Thanks again everyone! Thank you :) Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: jamesg on May 05, 2012, 12:37:09 PM Here is the rev3 hash monster before being packed up and shipped off. :'(
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_cM-zL7GQ3U/T6UearXwiSI/AAAAAAAAA5E/kjMaD2WRECU/s720/IMG_0243.JPG Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: BTCurious on May 22, 2012, 04:02:57 PM And here it is having just arrived :D
https://i.imgur.com/7S9mKl.jpg (http://imgur.com/7S9mK) It's a revision 3, with the heatpipes and the extra cooling block :) https://i.imgur.com/LkFehl.jpg (http://imgur.com/LkFeh) Sadly, I can't test it yet: I don't have an adapter for the American plug. The power block itself can run on the voltage here, I just can't connect it. (Unless I would grab my soldering iron :D) Thanks, gigavps! It's awesome ;D Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: kano on May 22, 2012, 11:49:40 PM I'm sure you already thought of this, but just in case, I thought I might mention a few places to check ...
The power lead from the wall to the plugpack is not uncommon. e.g. Sony items that I have, with the same lead: PS3, PSP charger, PS2, PSOne, BD Player I've also got a few external USB HDD enclosures with the same lead (I used this for mine, I'm in Aus) (and I think even an old VCR I have, has that lead) Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: BTCurious on May 23, 2012, 05:07:29 AM I'm sure you already thought of this, but just in case, I thought I might mention a few places to check ... Yeah, I found a canon batterypack charger that had it, which I'm using at the moment. Most of the rest of yesterday was bughunting; it seems the thermal paste is not the greatest, and the trip might have had some influence: It's not stable anymore on stock firmware. It seems to run mostly without throttling up to the 816 MHash/sec firmware.The power lead from the wall to the plugpack is not uncommon. e.g. Sony items that I have, with the same lead: PS3, PSP charger, PS2, PSOne, BD Player I've also got a few external USB HDD enclosures with the same lead (I used this for mine, I'm in Aus) (and I think even an old VCR I have, has that lead) I'll put proper thermal paste on it when I have time, and see if that improves things. Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: kano on May 23, 2012, 05:52:57 AM I'm sure you already thought of this, but just in case, I thought I might mention a few places to check ... Yeah, I found a canon batterypack charger that had it, which I'm using at the moment. Most of the rest of yesterday was bughunting; it seems the thermal paste is not the greatest, and the trip might have had some influence: It's not stable anymore on stock firmware. It seems to run mostly without throttling up to the 816 MHash/sec firmware.The power lead from the wall to the plugpack is not uncommon. e.g. Sony items that I have, with the same lead: PS3, PSP charger, PS2, PSOne, BD Player I've also got a few external USB HDD enclosures with the same lead (I used this for mine, I'm in Aus) (and I think even an old VCR I have, has that lead) I'll put proper thermal paste on it when I have time, and see if that improves things. I also had a similar problem with it throttling when I first set it up. (most likely caused by the courier) In my case I ended up just letting it run overnight and by morning it was OK. (most likely it was the heat sink contact and the heat of running for 8 hours resolved it?) Though, local temperature was ~20C during the day that day, but a lot less that night (and my garage is cooler too since it is underground) and that cool night may also have had something to do with it. Anyway there is a thread about throttling issues that may be helpful: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78256.0 Title: Re: [CLOSED] Win a Butterfly Labs Bitforce Single Post by: BTCurious on May 23, 2012, 03:43:24 PM Thanks. I applied new thermal paste today (pics (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=60586.msg916922#msg916922)), which didn't really help. I then found that the highest-speed firmware actually /does/ work, whereas a lower one doesn't. Weird stuff. It's hashing at a good rate now though, I suppose I should screw everything back together properly :P
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