If such a thing is indeed going on then please point me to the host...otherwise I'll have to presume(I know right?) that you're imagining things.
Okay man, move along. You don't want to be here and you're not contributing to this conversation. I'm sorry your buddy didn't do his homework before he bought his giants, but I assume he's a grown-ass man that can make his own decisions. |
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What are you talking about? I'm referring to bittawm
sigh. bittawm aint shit...and I doubt he's going to be able to negotiate even a penny off your cost. No need to be a dick about it, man. |
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I got in early, been trying all morning and it finally went through, they are restricting purchases to 1 unit per order due to demand. I got my order in at 10:33am local and no guarantee I will get one the chat says
They are restricting, according to email. Is the website redirecting to mobile automatically, or have I broken the internet again? |
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Are both Baikalminer.com and Baikalminers.com legit sites?
Yes, the latter is legit if you liked to be fucked badly and ripped of your hard earned crypto by some russian lowlifes. Hopefully everyone reads this completely and doesn't stop at "Yes, the latter is legit..." To recap, baikalminers.com, with the S, is a scam site. |
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Are both Baikalminer.com and Baikalminers.com legit sites?
NO, only baikalminer.com. The second site is a scam. |
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i think here we have just one problem: the price..
before DASH bubble, the mini was at 300$ with 150MHs...
now, with the new hardware, whe are at 799$ buwith just MHs doubled...
199$ more!!!
I hope they can dump price...
I paid for my original 150s at $500 USD, so this is a discount from those prices! That said, even at a higher price point I've paid these suckers off. I'm ordering. |
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Well with the previous baikal group buys here on bitcointalk..you'd think we could get another one going...just for the 'cheerleader/promotion' effect on their company.
Hell, even if limited to ONE miner....as a promo it would be worth doing on baikal's part you think?
I'm under the impression they are legitimately out of stock. There are none to sell. |
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I've not seen them before, be wary. |
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I am interested in overclocking the Baikal miner through the software on the Raspberry. If someone here has access to a 150 MH/S or Giant a-900 900 MH/S and the skill to recompile the software with higher FPGA frequency I'm willing to pay and share risk testing overclock.
PM me.
I would also be interested in this recompile. The customer sgminer version running on the OrangePi includes a freq/heat throttling flag, so controlling the frequencies should be possible. I have successfully underclocked the devices using these flags. hi!!! can i know from your experience... how this miners are noisy?? are like S9?? or they are quieter?  The 900 Mh/s device is very similar to the S9 in size and noise. It has a larger, loud fan with no fan control. The smaller, 150 Mh/s devices are very quiet. |
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we just want a bit of transparency and honesty, if they are mining just tell us
I dig it. Communication can always be better, but I guess my point is that they don't owe us any communication either. It would be awesome to be prepared, but don't forget that this is still the wild west! |
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I am interested in overclocking the Baikal miner through the software on the Raspberry. If someone here has access to a 150 MH/S or Giant a-900 900 MH/S and the skill to recompile the software with higher FPGA frequency I'm willing to pay and share risk testing overclock.
PM me.
I would also be interested in this recompile. The customer sgminer version running on the OrangePi includes a freq/heat throttling flag, so controlling the frequencies should be possible. I have successfully underclocked the devices using these flags. |
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seems plenty of people are suspicious of the behavior of baikal lately and we just want some answers.
What's to be suspicious about? Even if they are mining (and in their position I would do the same in a NY minute) they are doing so with the gear they designed and built. They don't owe us anything. If they decide to sell machines in two weeks and DASH is still on a tear, don't expect to be paying 500 bucks a unit the second time around either. This is a privately held company turning a profit--I'm not sure what people are yelling about. |
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I see that buyers sometimes run contracts that are not profitable. In fact, right now someone in mining X11 (Dash) at a fixed rate 0.03 BTC/GH/day. However, 1 GH can only mine about 0.29-0.3 Dash per day (i.e. 0.022 - 0.023 BTC per day). Mining ROI is -25% - it is more profitable just to buy Dashes.
And for SHA256 people pay a lot more that they can earn. 1 PH pays 0.5457 BTC per day (0.62 with tx fees) and people run fixed contracts at 0.66 which is very weird to me.
Or a sneaky way for someone to launder coins.... |
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Hmm
After a bit more thought, im leaning more towards Quadruple miners now...
Any one keen for Quad GB? =D
Or does it even matter in a gb if you order diff items...
I'll kick in on quantity for any configuration--these miners have been a breeze to work with, and I'm rolling up on ROI on the first batch I bought from them. |
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The boards on the giants have a USB compatible header on each. I've controlled multiple cards with one controller, no problem. It's not a generic USB cable however. You would have to make or purchase, but once you have the cable you can connect them to a USB hub and then to the controller.
What are the "multiple cards" you reffered to? Sounds like a much simpler system to set up. What would i google to find and buy those non-generic usb cables? The giant is made up of two blades, both running 450Mhs each. I said 'cards' but I should have said 'devices.' |
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Anyone ever get this error: 111 CONNECTION REFUSED ?
If so, how did you fix it?
Are you trying to access the sgminer API? You need to make sure the IP address of the device you are using to poll the API is allowed by the instance of sgminer. If you start sgminer with the --api-listen option, it will listen on a simple TCP/IP socket for single string API requests from the same machine running sgminer and reply with a string and then close the socket each time If you add the --api-network option, it will accept API requests from any network attached computer.
You can only access the comands that reply with data in this mode. By default, you cannot access any privileged command that affects the miner - you will receive an access denied status message see --api-allow below.
You can specify IP addresses/prefixes that are only allowed to access the API with the --api-allow option.
--api-allow W:192.168.0.1,10.0.0/24
The example above will allow 192.168.0.1 or any address matching 10.0.0.*, but nothing else. IP addresses are automatically padded with extra '.0's as needed Without a /prefix is the same as specifying /32 0/0 means all IP addresses. The W: on the front gives that address/subnet privileged access to commands that modify sgminer (thus all API commands). Without it those commands return an access denied status. See --api-groups below to define other groups like W:. Privileged access is checked in the order the IP addresses were supplied to --api-allow. The first match determines the privilege level. Using the --api-allow option overides the --api-network option if they are both specified. With --api-allow, 127.0.0.1 is not by default given access unless specified. |
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..... I had a bad orange pi on a 150 Mini, so I took out the bad orange and rather than buying another one I just connected it to anothe 150 Mini to make a single 300....
@usao or anyone Where did you get the cable to connect the two miners? thx, ATCkit I had Baikal send extra cables, but I believe you can build the 4-pin head to USB pretty easily. |
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In the end, it's your choice, as long as you don't go over the limits which Baikal spoke generally about earlier. I think that was that at most 6 Mini's on a single orange pi.
Again, I don't know how the 900's are configured, or if they use a orange pi or something else.
The giants use the same OrangePi, as well as the same image. |
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You can setup each controller as a single worker. The controller can have multiple of the 150MHs cubes or a single 900.
The quad, for example is 1 controller with 4 cubes compared to 4 single cubes each with its own controller.
There will be 1 ethernet port for each controller, so by combining cubes together with the white cable you can have multiples of 150MHs behind each controller.
I think the max number of cubes behind a single controller is 6.
Personally, I have combinations of 2, 3 and 4 cubes behind my controllers. In my case, I have a 24 port switch, so it dosent matter to me, but if are limited in ethernet ports you may want to run with more cubes under a controller to maximize hashrate per controller.
Switches are cheap though. Just bought a HP 48 port managed switch for work for $70.
As for PSU, any 12V PSU should work. I started off with small linear bricks, then switched to an Seasonic. Made my own PCIe-to-Barrel plugs, works great.
The miners are stand-alone rigs, dont need a PC to run them, just to configure via web page.
Thank you. That has cleared up alot of the parts that were "blurry" as to how it all worked, in my mind  Is there a maximum hash rate per controller?...hmm...what would be the optimum/maximum amout of Giants to run off of one controller do ya think? I don't have any giants, so I don't know how many you could put together under a single controller. I imagine that Baikal could answer that question. I think I heard earlier that 6 was the max for the Mini's to be put under a single orange pi. As for PSU, you can hook as many rigs to your PSU as it will handle for wattage... No limits there except total power available. The boards on the giants have a USB compatible header on each. I've controlled multiple cards with one controller, no problem. It's not a generic USB cable however. You would have to make or purchase, but once you have the cable you can connect them to a USB hub and then to the controller. |
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Baikal miner overclocking? Whats the verdict here? Seems reasonable that it could run 10% faster being that they run so cool (40-45C)
The clock speed seems to be locked at 300. The version of sgminer they are using has a baikal specific flag for heat throttling, but I've only been able to underclock the device by this method. I only played with it for a few days before moving on. I'm no EE--there maybe voltage requirements that may need to be tweaked as well. I only looked at the software. |
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