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I see allot of people on this board mentioning south Florida, so I decided to start this thread in the hopes to consolidate and possibly collaborate on anything happening in south Florida.
Please post your projects, jobs, meetups or anything else of interest to the community.
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Where is asicminer getting their TH's from? If they can deploy this much this fast why cant anybody else?
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@FloridaBear,
Anywhere near south florida?
Fort Lauderdale here Im up in Deerfield Beach myself! |
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Got an update on my board prices for fab in Jakarta and I wanted to share. Prices in IDR - FOB Jakarta Klondike 1 - Nano ASIC Miner Quantity 25 PCB 80,000 Components 100,000 Assembly 55,000 Per Board 250,000 Total Order 6,000,000 Klondike 16 – ASIC Miner Board Quantity 25 PCB 100,000 Components 650,000 Assembly 120,000 Per Board 850,000 Total Order 21,500,000 http://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/Did I do this right? http://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=6000000&From=IDR&To=USD6,000,000.00 IDR = 611.091 USD ~$600 for 25 USB for ~8 GH/s ~$2,189.74 for 25 16 boards for 133 GH/s What is the time to market on these? Lead time and does these prices include the chips? |
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There's quite a few CC vector images in Wikimedia, maybe one will be helpful for you?  Actually, I take back my original comment, don't use fivver.com. In fact don't go with CC either, spend some real money on a real designer and this thing will go much much further. There is a reason why some gold and silver coins always fetch a premium, this is what you should be aiming for. Don't go cheap, you will regret it! Also consider this, you are the second person ever to create a physical bitcoin, how do you want to be remembered? |
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My thoughts on the design: Having the Americas on the obverse might be too American-centric? (Although you would have the other countries on the back they are smaller.) The binary goes on the edge of the coins? And have it say something else? Maybe a different font that gives more of a feeling of "safety", "security", "trust"?
Would definitely be interested if you make it look good and be secure. Around B1.4 would be better because a Casascius coin is B1.6 retail now.
Ok, I'll change it from the americas to something else. Just hard to find other views of the earth with CC licensing in a format that can easily be changed to what I want. But it will be done! Mosty, I just want to be sure that it is easily recognizable as the earth, even when partially obscured by lettering, etc. Binary on the edge of the coin is an interesting idea, or maybe even something else on the coin edge. I was thinking of even just doing a basic rough edge like you would find on a US quarter. I didn't even change from the default font, not knowing what might look good. Any suggestions on a specific font I could try? This may sound cheap but have you tried fivver.com yet for ideas on design? Just $5.00 each. I know this may come off as sounding harsh but the design that I saw a few pages back is hideous, please reconsider it. |
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Thats fine. I own avalons and (possibly used to) own asic miner hardware. Its not a large portfolio, its not integral to my way of life, and if it was valued at 0 tomorrow I'd be annoyed but not devastated. I couldn't care less if this was Avalon suddenly saying 300000000000GH for $1, I have no allegiances to any company. Its too good to be true: - tiny process no one has even attempted to get close to. Smallest actual miner today is 90nm [ignoring bfl as no significant quantity and their problems]
- massive, massive hash rates predicted
- tiny power consumption predicted
- really cheap prices
- 3 month lead time
- excellent engineers, apparently really clever
All promised without any designs shown, a shitty drawing of a potential case that doesn't even make sense, no pictures of any actual ASIC hardware. Anyone can rock up an FPGA - that's not proof of anything [watch everyone concentrate on this sentence *sigh*].. .... and all the while they're a for profit company. They don't have great ideologies like Yifu, they're here to make money. And how do you make money with a miner you designed? You mine on it. You create a proof of concept, raise funds then deploy the shit out of it. You don't advertise it on a forum, collect preorder money then sell it drip by drip for rock bottom prices. All combined, too good to be true. If these were preordering at 3x the price then it would make more sense, but they know *something* we don't yet. I get what your saying and I can appreciate it, thank you for bringing the other side of the coin to light. Perhaps they see that Avalon is not shipping and they may be able to beat them to market en mass, bfl isn't shipping en mass either. At this point as far as I can tell, nobody is shipping any ASIC's in any kind of quantity to the general public. If somebody is, point it out to me and I will gladly pay them to ship me a unit that has an actual positive ROI and not some shitty little 333MH/s usb miner for 1.99 BTC each (are you kidding me here on this). People are paying $400+ for these things on ebay. My gut says that with the BS coming out of the Avalon camp (10 chips to test with on an $800,000 order, are you kidding me) to stay away. Maybe I am wrong here, Maybe I misread or misunderstood the issues with Avalon, if I am then kindly point them out, but it looks to me that Avalon are not shipping what they say they are. Is Batch 1, 2 and 3 out the door yet?? |
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@FloridaBear,
Anywhere near south florida?
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I love how people are now so invested in KNC miner that they abuse others for not sharing their blind beliefs. Are you really that invested that you're so scared that this might not be fluffly clouds and rainbows ready to give you money printing machines for almost nothing?
What do you think BFL appeared to be like on announcement? Identical.
No abuse dogie, I don't know you and would like some insight into your motivations. I literally want to know why you are saying the things that you are saying? Are you an unbiased observer here? Do you have any stake in any other ASIC miners? Did you go to BFL HQ when they opened up for pre-orders? And to answer your question: Am I scared? No I am not, I am however concerned about my investment, and like most investors/speculators here, I want to do as much due diligence that I can, hence the questioning of your motivations and your bashing of my decision to back KnC with my BTC. |
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I would be good with the orange ones, ping me when you get those in please.
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Ya blackarrow seems to be selling a superior product for 300$
Got a link please? |
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Looks cool, can you come down on the price at all?
Will this mine scrypt?
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404 page not found
Are you sure? Somebody has already contacted me there. ... Maybe you should copy the link to your browser. On my iPhone 5 it is redirecting to their mobile site, it is working on my laptop. |
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Last question, do you have an ebay account for reference?
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How do you, the author, pronounce minepeon?
In my head I am saying minniepeon as in miniture peon
Minnie Peon? -- mine sounds like "Minnie Mouse"
OR
Mine Peon? -- mine sounds like "mine not yours"
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The only problem with something like this for GPU mining is the added complication of supporting ATI drivers from the distro. Would you include the driver? Multiple versions?
Does anyone have further information on this? From memory you were not able to include the AMD binaries with a distribution but I just googled and I can't seem to find anything about it. Neil Can you include a script for us to do this ourselves? or instructions for how to create a script for us to do it ourselves? |
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I am interested in a round BTC one, got any orange ones?
Please post a pic with something next to it for size reference.
Are these suitable for the rear window of a car on the outside?
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Never mortgage the house. Aside from what I've read here no genuine successful entrepreneur would do that.
Just to be clear here with everybody especially newbies regarding the above is; I totally agree (never ever invest more than you are comfortable/capable of losing), I just wanted to have a very clear understanding of what your feelings are for investment purposes. All keep in mind that we are investing/speculating in an unregulated beyond bleeding edge technology, that may be worth nothing, due to the fact that we are attempting to undermine the worlds economy. Please understand and appreciate that last sentence |
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They said earlier that they would be keeping a close eye on hash/$ ratio during development. Does this mean that they might increase the hashing power of the machines closer to shipping if the difficulty increases too much or the price of btc drops significantly ?
Yes. they said that, if they have to do that in order to keep the products competetive, and profitable for us miners, they of course would. What's really, really crucial to bear in mind though is time. Marcus is a freakin' wizard, amd a perfectionist, but Sam is keen to reign him in w.r.t. time and not loose sight of that. The goal IS September. ANY delays and you will be given evidence of any issues with respect to third parties, this is the area for contention with BFL, why are they not giving this? They have more than one PCB fabricator on case of one letting them down. I went through multiple scenarios of weak links and impressively they had answers. Their 28nm chip is relatively uncomplicated in comparison to what they have done in the past, but it has to work first time and well. They may revise it in future, Marcus has an itch to do just that, but they have a promise of September to fulfill. There are multiple future tweaks on the cards, there may even be liquid cooling options for those not housing in data centres. Though you risk invalidating warranty with DIY OC'ing. From an entrepreneurial standpoint what was your impression of the team? Do you feel more confident now that you have met them, what did/does your gut tell you? Run for the hills or Mortgage the house? My gut is saying run for the hills. Think, if you're a small team of clever, top end designers, why would you sell what so ever! You could raise $50m in a few weeks and build the biggest farm ever seen. Why sell ONE unit, they'd make - if their claims are true - 5-20x more by mining than selling. Dude you really have it out for this company, what's the deal? |
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