Gotten a bunch of emails again this week, but the case hasn't changed.

I'mma guess...

Okay dang, I need to up my prices quite a bit then.

Okay, I'm confused. Why is Bitmain disgusted? I'd think they would be quite satisfied while sitting atop a giant pile of everyone else's money.

Who did you buy from? Those things carry a manufacturer warranty, so I'm surprised the seller didn't ask for it back.

Probably not, unless Sidehack lucks into another pallet of S7s on the cheap. But since he's busy trying to push out 600 2Pacs a week and catch up with orders before Christmas, plus starting Terminus pod manufacture, that's not too high a priority.

Is that one of them auto-switching pools that'll have you drop everything and restart your work frequently?

Logic - would everyone and their mothers be building giant GPU rigs for ethereum if cheap simple ASICs would do the trick?
Logic - are hard-wired circuits precognitively forward-compatible with algorithms that hadn't been created yet when they were designed?
Logic - is this simple question likely to have been asked (and answered) a thousand times already over the past couple years?

Okay that's great, but what proof have they given to anyone anyone actually trusts to not be a shill?

Glad you could tell what he was talking about. I'm still not sure.

Nope. The PCB fab's promised turnaround times are way underestimated these days - the 20-pack of prototypes took a full 4 weeks to be delivered, as manufacture certainly wasn't completed inside the 6-8 day estimate.

I'm also still waiting on final firmware from the PIC guy.

And I've got to set up a stouter CNC for drilling out these bigass heatsinks since the little guy with the little heatsinks won't be sufficient.

But materials are on order for about a hundred that I should be building before the end of the month and which should ship in time for Christmas. If they go over well I'll work on making more, which will mean further negotiations for a supply of more decent chips. But I'd like to make at least 500 of these.

Do you know that port 3333 is open? Have you noticed that most pools have a port 80 option, among others, to test out if you can't connect on port 3333?

I think it's safe to say the USB stick is not the cause of your network issues, so you might consider checking for this kind of problem in the cgminer thread. I'm sure they've been asked and answered a hundred times in the half-dozen years the software's been in use.

FPGAs were used in Bitcoin mining back around 2012 and early 2013. You might find some open-source projects if you search around. There's some active development for altcoins on other algorithms I would bet, but you won't find info on those in the Bitcoin hardware forum - gonna have to check Altcoins to learn much of use.

Try a different pool. If you were attempting connection requests with an invalid address to ckpool he probably banned your IP.

"Programmable" "Application-Specific Integrated Circuit" is a bit of a contradiction. Do you perhaps mean FPGA?

I would bet it doesn't exist. SPTech went bankrupt about two years ago.

Gonna guess it's an issue completely unrelated to these sticks. Might check the cgminer thread.

I host the miner that hit this block, and happened to be watching when it happened! Excitement by proxy.

Somehow, everything you said is wrong.

"on windows on ubuntu" makes no sense.

"the connection to the pool seems to work" is invalidated by the fact your error message is summarized as "you typed in the pool info wrong so it won't work".