Speaking of Bitfury - any word on what the specs of their new chip is? I'll have to dig around for pics/links but I remember some of their immersion cooled farms in Georgia running around 10-15MW back in the 28nm days. Even if their new chip is by today's standards using a 'large' 12 or 10nm node then expect performance increase for same power to be what we've seen from Bitmain and Canaan chips as their node size shrunk. If it's under 10nm that would be icing on the cake but given the price paid to use the lower nodes I doubt it is 7nm much less 5. Considering Bitfury's knack for immersion cooling and putting the chips in strings, I'd think that their private hash rate *should* be phenomenal. Their other 'sideline' is mining containers. Massive ones. |
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In addition to ^^ there is the matter of cooling. Ya can't exactly use ambient air pushed by fans as there is no air in space... Heatpipes and large exposed surface areas to act as radiators is how it's currently done but of course they add weight.
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I'd rather have safe water than cholera, dysentery, diphtheria, etc...
Drinking water that is contaminated will result in far worse things than 'unknown' side effects. Considering chlorine has been used for well over a century there are no 'unknown' side effects from it being in the water supplies.
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Bleach - more specifically, either chlorine gas or sodium hypochlorite is used in just about every municipal water system on the planet for over a century to kill bacteria and parasites in the water supply. Nothing sinister about it. The fact that it can affect taste of food and beverages is why it is often suggested you let water sit for a couple hours before using it for cooking. Same goes for watering sensitive household plants.
If your water has a very strong smell of bleach that suggests that the water supplier is either using too much or the water source is heavily contaminated with bacteria and they need to use more to kill it. Either way, if you have a problem with that then either get a good water filter or buy bottled water. Case closed.
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I paid $ 1800 per device for the new A3 miner from those.
The miner is supposed to do 60TH / s. Unless it is using very old 16nm chips (cheap) and pulling over something like 5kw because of the old tech, this screams SCAM. The cost is far too low for a 60TH miner. |
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A general discussion thread about El Salvador has kinda gone off the Topic rails and drifted squarely into this thread's intent so... And still nothing about TSMC cancelling of any BM orders although considering BM still has S19's in stock, I can certainly see BM reducing their order for new chips.
The second one is stating that: Industry watchers said Bitmain is reducing 20,000 unit orders of TSMC’s 5nm node process in the fourth quarter, totaling US$300 million in value. The quote is repeated through multiple newspapers, most of them focused on Asia and Taiwan 1 , 2 so something happened. Maybe I have phrased this wrong as it probably implied TSMC cutting ties with Bitmain while maybe simply Bitmain didn't ant that many chips but at least we trust the reports a 20k wafers order is gone. Also, totally possible that they have too many on stock and not enough orders, so it might have nothing to do with either price capacity or anything else but in the end, the result is fewer miners produced, putting a 300exa further and further away. Frankly I love the idea of BM cutting back on production. Just means that diff rise will remain at a reasonable rate at least through the rest of the year  Hmm, wonder if this order of miners from Canaan for HIVE has something to do with the recent rise in hash rate? They were due for delivery late August thru Sept. https://forkast.news/canaan-grows-crypto-rig-sales-as-chinese-miners-tool-up-abroad/ |
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All boils down to luck. They could just as well have pointed that double-digit hash at the pool for weeks/months w/o hitting a block. They still have something like 29PH pointed there and with earnings around 3.9BTC from that last block must be worth it.
For now at least...
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All of Sidehack's sticks & pods can be ran off of a single instance of cgminer. The latest 4.12 version done by Kano is needed for the Compaq-F's as the earlier versions done by vh does not have the driver for the F's.
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The only company that TSMC has canceled orders from is Huawei and that is due to Huawei being a (Chinese) state run company. EUV technology developed by American and European companies is required for the 7, 5, and lower nodes. Due to Huawei's involvement with the Chinese military they are being shut out from those nodes. The article you link states that it is TSMC's customers Apple and MediaTek cancelled/scaled back their orders - not the other way around.
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Thanks! I am new to this forum, how do I give merit? For one thing, you need to earn enough merit to be able to give it and you are just starting out. A good guide to earning merit is here in the Beginners & Help area of the Forum. Short summary: Do quality posts that give useful information and folks will give merit for it. |
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I use my LG Cosmos phone as <drumroll please> a phone. Despite it having a slide out real keyboard I don't really care 'cause I rarely text.
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re: miner size and 'Luck'... As Kano said, each block is found by just 1 miner. I must add that it does NOT have to be particularly big/fast one.
2 years ago my "Lucky" r4 running 8-9THs found the third block in its lifetime by returning a diff of 151.7009T which is far beyond what is needed for any ridiculously high diff we will see in the at least near future. Hopefully many years out... Just goes to show it can easily be done with even a small miner if the miner software is working right.
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Nice to see a workaround for the issue. As for using the code tag, just select the text you want to copy and hit control-insert or right click to copy it to the clipboard. Here, click on the code tag # on the toolbar to bring up the code formating. hit shift-insert to paste the code. eg, part of the source from an A10 page function HideOrShow(){
var nav=$('side-nav');
var ctrl = $("ctrl");
var main = document.getElementsByClassName("main")[0];
if(nav.style.display==""){
nav.style.display="none";
ctrl.innerHTML="⇒";Merit given for the workaround |
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Nope. There are lots of posts about tweaking the A7xx, A8xx, and A9xx but those tweaks are all about lowering their power consumption and noise so they can be used as quiet/reasonably quiet space heaters. I've never bothered to play with my A10's because they run just fine in either Normal or Performance modes.
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Just do a simple search using 'GPIO protocol' and you will find GPIO isn't really a 'protocol'. It is a rudimentary form of communication where you manually (in code) turn a pin on and off or read its state. Each port on the Tessel exposes three GPIO pins that can serve as a digital input or output and are marked as G1, G2, and G3. Think of it as a modern version of the LPT parallel port that used to be used for printers which is also pin addressable. Very good info about it is here: https://www.ics.com/blog/introduction-gpio-programming A key bit from that is By design it has no predefined purpose and can be used by the hardware or software developer to perform the functions they choose. Typical applications include controlling LEDs, reading switches and controlling various types of sensors. |
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