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These guys are first one with working FPGA based miners, with cloud hosting added on. I have two hosted F1s, and it was pretty smooth experience. They were up and running in no time after payment. There was some issue with the first one to get it running, but was sorted out in few minutes via help on Discord. A very surprising customer experience for something running in that part of the work.

Quite a few available algos, and more coming. Though the cloud option could use few more configuration options to select pool/ports/coins.


AllMine/Mineority take note. This is the benchmark for FPGA, and cloud hosting.

Thx for clearing any doubts :-)

BTW: can I assign a static IP to this device ? THX

I bought one yesterday.  I was up and running in a couple of minutes.  The whole process from purchase to mining took maybe twenty minutes.  The set up of the unit is intuitive and easy.  Did not need to access any support.  One thing people should be aware of in the hosted environment there is a restriction on pools and coins.  The choice will be expanded over the coming months.   I have requested some additional pools be added, however, I am not the first.  It appears from their discord channel that they are concentrating on bitstream development.   For me, this is an easy way to get into FGPA mining.  I have tested most of the bitstreams to confirm hashrates and they are within +-5%  -- very pleased -- now just need to make the purchase price back.  :-)  ::)

Beside the need to download new bitstreams, is there any network connection needed to their servers after purchase for non-hosted? Will it basically run like a antminer?

runs just like an antminer

Yesterday（11.8.2018） we launched a new function, users who use Blackminer F1 can setup his own mining pool strategy.The users can specify pool port number so that they can mine some other coins using the same algorithm on the selected pool

Welcome you to join in our official Discord group: https://discord.gg/eUNRSgy (https://discord.gg/eUNRSgy)
And you can apply a trial miner for free on our website: hashaltcoin.com (http://hashaltcoin.com)

I too can confirm their miner really does exist! I just received it yesterday and works as described so far and will be releasing a full review video on my YouTube channel soon as will.

I too have seen plenty of scams over the years and I do have to say this is definitely not one of them. I am very impressed with their customer service and how fast they were able to ship it out.

I believe their negative trust should now be rightly removed.

agreed

I tried to send a pm to the person who put the neg trust, but never had a reply. I did that because , finally, i'm seeing a good project

We have released a New bitstream “algo1” to F1 users. blackminer team are working hard to develop more and more bitstreams for F1 users, and do the best to make users get well returns

I assume these are Chinese based?  Paying the hosting fee seems  better then paying the Trump tax.

Latest news from our official discord: https://discord.gg/eUNRSgy (https://discord.gg/eUNRSgy):

Our  Blackminer F1 users sent us feedback of the newly released algo: The daily profit is $25-$45 !!!!!

Congratulations !!

I asked suchmoon to remove the negative trust.

Thank you very much!!!!

great review!  Its good to see solid information in the sea of nonsense that the altcoin mining subforum has become :)

Yeah you got off on wrong foot by not sending a sample to someone.

You need understand  there have been more then 1000  scams with fake gear since 2010.

This site has more then a dozen good reviewers.

Myself

bittawm

vosk

All of us have reviewed gear.  Most of us ask for gear to be sent on you the new builder's dime.

If I take on a new piece from a new guy.  I review it.  and I buy it or I send  it back to anywhere the builder wants in the world.

It helps new people get started.
So when you refused to do that  most often  it means you are a scammer.

I understand we have different cultural issues. Language barriers.  But all in all we are looking to promote mining and coins for the benefit of all of us.

Suchmoon sent me a reply I think your negative will be looked into this weekend.

Good luck with this gear.

Everything looks good with this review! Additionally, HashAltcoin offers a demo for the F1 on their website if you’re interested; my test run went just fine with the linked ZP pool in the first post of this thread.

Where does this miner ship from? I live in the United States and I am aware that there’s a pretty hefty import fee for miners from China. I have a feeling this does ship from China given the site has language options in English and also Simplified Chinese, but it’d be great if someone could confirm this information.

i'm looking at my miner and I can't find algo1 to setup as a pool for my miner? 

solid mining project, love FPGAs
any discount for bulk purchase?

Well said Phil, you are a credit to this community.

minimal to no discounts unless you want to purchase a significant number.

You will know better joining discord

I saw different member in discord having the miner shipped in USA, every time they were told to contact Lili  on discord (@Blackminer_Lili#6723) to arrange shipping and details about custom

Yes, we have Amerian customers and we have shipped in USA. Hust contact us in Discord : https://discord.gg/eUNRSgy (https://discord.gg/eUNRSgy)
or email us： support@hashaltcoin.com

I can also confirm that the F1 FPGA miner is a solid deal.  I found the F1 on discord and contacted their support team and they answered all one thousand questions ;) lol.  I noticed that everyone I asked about the F1 said that it was great.  I purchased with 2500 bitcoin and thirty minutes later I was mining.  I can tell you with out a doubt that the F1 is a great buy.... I am new to bitcoin talk but have been a member of discord for a long time... if you have any questions my user name is mosera5988.  I have already made some crypto and should get my ROI back soon...Thank you Blackminer Team!!!

Thank you for choosing Blackminer F1 ! Thank you for your support!

Thank you for doing this.

Just received mine. Very quick delivery. I'm just hoping the new psu I'm jumping is the problem because at the moment the F1 is DOA :(.  Can't find a manual either.  Anyone have a link to the start up procedure. (support on discord is away)

 fix it :D
lol, paperclip jumper was plastic coated

CHC4OQ   use this code and you get a $100 dollar coupon that you can use towards more miners or use to pay the electricity for your miner that you have them host for you

How about the sound ?

like Bitmain S9 or Baikal X10 ?

Measuring with professional noise meter.. Front 1mt 69.9 Db , front 2 mt 61.7Db, near room door closed 43.8 Db...

should sound just like an s9 or close to it. it only has one fan on the front of it and its identical/same as the fans on the asic miners. the blackminer looks like an asic but it is not it just uses the same housing as an asic basically cause its a good build and it helps it run cool.  If you use my coupon code  CHC4OQ  < you will get a $100 dollar coupon that you can use towards electricity costs so you can have them host it for a month or two and then have them ship you it

Where can you see the profitability of the Blackminer F1?

http://digifuture.io/f1.php

Its a good machine, but in current market not so much better then GPUs. Specially considering the price. I would go so far as to say that with cheap power its even worse because you cannot speculative mine new coins.

at the moment  it may be better for a guy with 10 cent power

then a guy with 3 cent power.

Can you elaborate, I missed the point. Maybe I am just dumb lol.
However I still don't see the value in these miners. As said they are good machines, easiest to use FPGA, but in the current market FPGA are not as good as they were advertised. Buying mining equipment at this time is a gamble for sure, but with GPUs I can mine Grin, BEAM, Veil or any new coin that just came out and at least score a jackpot from speculative mining or join an early train with some profitable coin. For instance if ETH goes ProgPow I can mine it with GPU but not with FPGA. And you are also dependent on the algos they provide. The profitability would have to be way better for such limitations and thus the ROI shorter. 2 year ROI is just not going to cut it.

Okay at 3 cent power  you do not need the efficiency this offers you.
at 10 cent power it turns profit. 

To project past 3 months is a waste of time.
So to say it has a 2 year breakeven number is worthless math.

If you make a 6 dollar profit a day with it after 10 cent power it allows you to hold 2 dollars in coin every day and cash 4 dollars every day.
right now.    So you are paying it off and accumulating coins at the same time. 
If coins go up your held coins are worth more$$
If coins go up your machine is worth more$$
and you are paying it down 4 bucks a day.

You can't do this with a gpu and 10 cent power.

Now does this mean I will buy one no it does not.  I have other deals that work for me and do not involve FPGA machines.

Good explanation, thank you. I don't agree completely that you cannot do that with GPU, but I know what you mean.

Here's a coupon code to use when purchasing a F1 or F1+ miner.  This gets you $100 worth of hosting fees or use towards shipping or use to take $100 off your next miner.  Code is XNLR0A.  Code value is $50 when buying the F1 single miner. 

if you buy through me Ill give you more than $100 from the coupon code spammers

Literally never thought I would ever use a 'hosted' mining service but I have been exceptionally pleasantly surprised by Hashaltcoin.com so far so good, with very few outages, decent pool selection, fast service and with miners drawing little power even the $0.10/kw doesn't hurt that much. I have power at almost half this available but since the service is so damn good I haven't even had my miners shipped :)

Such a warm reply! Thank you!