Here we go, my unit arrived in Italy yesterday, I won't be able to try it until tomorrow evening, though... :/ It is really a beatiful piece of hardware and I will hook it up to a HP thin client t5570 http://www8.hp.com/it/it/products/thin-clients/product-detail.html?oid=4306189 on which I've installed ubuntu server 64bit and which draws just 8W when idle  We use them at work, so I had several second hand units available, otherwise they're pricey. spiccioli |
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Yes, I`m talking about time, not luck.
110% is about 90% luck
200% is 50% luck
Ah ok, I was reading it as 110% luck spiccioli |
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Sad thing that we are about 120% from few last blocks... and always 110%... Really unlucky  I put calc on my skydrive: http://sdrv.ms/LliHGuIt is OpenOffice So you're saying that http://p2pool.info/luck/ is wrong, aren't you? spiccioli |
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You don't think some bitcoin ASIC vendor wouldn't love to sell 100,000 units to someone at $1,000 a piece? That's $100 million, which is nothing to a large financial entity. Hell, Bank of america could do that on their own and not blink, or VISA or even f'in paypal probably.
Or they could simply spend their own $1 mil to develop and probably produce 1 million units for $50 million.
I think that the point is that for NSA or any other three letters agency building an ASIC is a rounding error in their budget, so having one ready changes very little for someone with deep pockets. On the other hand, a little device, like a single, quietly hashing a few GH/s on 50W and not too pricey could be bought by each one of us, just like every one here bought an ATI card last year. spiccioli |
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Well,
there is at least one thing we're not considering right now: BFL could start selling ASICs which are underclocked so that while being better than the average FPGA they don't give out the maximum available hashing power.
Doing so they can, next year, sell their ASIC/2 board, with higher clock and same price just like GPU vendors do all the time.
I mean what makes you think that the first board will be 100x when a 10-20x underclocked or otherwise "crippled" board can be sold as well?
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Update
Ok today saw the first bitstream in operation working correctly in all FPGA positions. We found a magic combination of coms stability and tool settings to allow a Icarus style bitstream to build. Now don't to excited as to achieve the coms stability we made the serial interface and hash core all run on a common clock of 50MHz so that's way off on the performance. However we are migrating this now to 100Mhz operation as the next stage and crossed fingers that will work. After that we will improve the coms modules and fix the problem properly so we can go faster again.
We needed a small tweek for stability on the in-built programmer but that tweek has worked and we are now checking that is ok on a large sample of boards.If that sample test proves positive we will move to full shipping release tomorrow.
Yohan, goood news! Are you using a miner to test them or are you feeding them by hand, so to speak? spiccioli |
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Plus I get to see Mined coins in my wallet instead of Received coins. For some reason they just seem shinier to me.  ..the most anonymous coins you can get, too! Ente with p2pool you get mined coins as in solo mining (it is solo mining with reward splitting). spiccioli. |
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got 4 samples today....  show some pics or it didn't happen  spiccioli |
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So my best guess is that first batch of this "wondies" will be 5GH/s@10W per chip. Propably at 10k volume. That means 50TH extra hash power. 50 units sold per day. 200 days....
Given that we're now at 11TH/s it's a five fold increase in difficulty which, compound with block reward halving at year end, becomes a ten fold increase. If BTC reaches 50 USD then all will be ok, otherwise... spiccioli |
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personally, i think the " bloodbath" "should" started around last year. a 1.05G/20W/499$ device "should" kill all of us, as you listed. but we stand here before you now, truthfully unafraid.  I think what ngzhang is saying is "seeing is believing". One cannot dispute the fact that a 1.05G/20W/$499 device was (pre)announced, and in the end turned out to be a 0.832G/80W/$599 device. Quite a different beast. In some markets, specific Spartan offerings remain competitive with that. I think ASICs will destroy bitcoin as we know it, let's try to explain... if 100/200 units equal 10 TH/s which is current network hashing power and if they are delivered before year end at year end every GPU and a good number of FPGAs will be out of business or near to be out of business. Now at year end block reward halves, so ROI edit: time of every one, ASICs included, doubles (I don't see BTC value doubling because of block reward halving). If ASIC producers keep selling their units every unit more makes ROI of every other unit even longer to the point they have to lower unit price to be able to sell them but doing so they make first ASIC buyers ROI even longer... I think ASICs arrived too soon, bitcoin market is not big enough for them. ASICs would be ok on a growing market which lives on transaction fees, where every year transactions double and so difficulty can double as well to the point where you _need_ an ASIC to be able to hash and get some reward. Right now ASICs are the tragedy of the commons unfolding... spiccioli |
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Well if it's much less, then break even point is literally 2~3~4 months. Unless these units drastically increase the difficulty, thus increasing break even time.
if half of the available options being discussed in this forum by BFL and others reach the market, difficulty will skyrocket making break even time difficult to achieve and, at the same time, wiping all other kinds of mining rigs. spiccioli |
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 This is how the first 100 complete units will look. After then it 10mm lower. yohan, they look really nice and if they hash as much as they're nice we're ok! spiccioli. |
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It's also worth pointing out that the silicon under the heat spreader is much smaller than the heat spreader itself. The heat sink covers the full area of the heat generating silicon's footprint, so there's no real value in trying to cover the end of the heat spreader which has no heat producing component underneath. Here's an example (not our chip)  So chips are not sanded, it's the heat spreader what we see when someone removes the heatsink... spiccioli. |
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A veterinarian uses this kind of oil to try to clear a colic (colon blockage) in a horse. I saw a vet do that. Thus, in other words, you could use it as a laxative, if you wanted. Inspector,
This oil also meets USDA requirements for H-1 lubricants for incidental food contactI don't think it would be a good idea to take a glass of it spiccioli. |
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Glasswalker, do you mind sharing some link? thanks. spiccioli |
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D&T,
very clear, thank you.
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That's where your customized secure code comes in. You can refuse withdrawals over a certain limit, or program in some sort of two-factor authentication for withdrawals, or even just a simple password needs to be input before a set of withdrawals is processed.
If you keep the wallet file on the web server though, all it takes is a compromise of the web server and the criminal can copy the private keys and do what he wants.
SgtSpike, ah OK, yes, now it is clear. Thanks. spiccioli |
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DeathAndTaxes,
there's one thing I don't grasp...
What stops someone having access to the web fronting compromised machine from sending a command through the serial port to the hardened PC requesting an 18K withdrawal?
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At the moment we are still developing our ideas on this board but the Issue 1.1 design will freeze on Friday and head into manufacture then.
Yohan
Yohan, are there remaining issues you'd like to share before freezing them next friday? spiccioli. |
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