I wrote an email and Katja said tomorrow.
Are there so many orders from that date, so it takes 2 days to produce?

Still fast enough i guess. Looking forward to tomorrow.

Well, if you advertise a product you will not be able to deliver within advertised specs and in a timely fashion, you are committing consumer fraud.

You have to be pretty stupid to not realize that your house of cards (and lies) will at some point be falling down, probably burying you under it.

From the wood law firm website:
If you have paid Virtual Mining Corporation for equipment, yet failed to receive your order, or purchased shares in Active Mining Corporation, please contact our office using the form below.

http://www.woodlaw.com/current-investigations

Hashfast gets the bad karma - and the lawsuits - technically they sold assembled machines and not chips.

If anything i get the "good" karma as i am trying to "save" hashfast by buying their chips, although they probably are beyond saving.

At the moment they only own chips and dont have enough cashflow for assembly,
and apparenlty dont plan on building the machines anymore, instead giving everybody chips.

I dont know the exact power consumption, only the claimed one which at some clock speed seems to be 0.75W/GH (at board level)
Hashfast measurements suggest under 0,7W/GH at chip level at 600GH/s , accounting for dc/dc loss that would translate to 0,86W/GH at board level and around 1W/GH at the wall, if they don´t build their board with wood dc/dc (and hashfast measurements are accurate)

I am not actually going to buy anything from them. Just pointing out their price  

Edit: it seems like they arrive with a good probability of being DOA, so get your hot doorstops now!

How come most US mining companies are total desasters?

Thanks 

It was partly meant as praise but still, are you at 3rd March production today?

I think it doens´t necessarily have to do with country of origin.

I own a China A1 unit (under 2,5$/GH) and it has golden / yellow pcbs.

It can be by different assembly houses though.

Also, my China A1 achieves 1W/GH with only 4 modules (8 chips per module) so why doesn´t bitmine have better efficiency with 40 chips total? Does their board design really suck that much?

I saw China units with 0,88W/GH with 5 modules (40 chips) at 1TH. Isn´t that atleast 12% better than what bitmine is getting?

VMC is a subsidiary of AMC, so basically both are correct.

Power consumption is in the same ballpark, +/-20%.
If you clock at 600 you will roughtly have 0.9-1W/GH at the wall, and 1.75$ per GH.

It is the same chip as in the prospector, ie the hashfast chip which has been demonstrated to work with 750GH/s.
The board is adapted for higher power supply (better dc/dc).

I own more than one RPi and it would easily handle 5 of these boards, that is just nitpicking. Add 5$ per board for controlling if u want, but it will not change the atleast 1,75$/GH much.

I dont think they are actually shipping nonfunctioning boards, as they are factory tested, and also tested by hand before shipping.

While i dont like hashfast, everybody likes a good bang for your buck.

Yes, spill-over seems likely.

However, most 28nm Btc Asics should have taped out by now, and those who haven´t will probably get another fab.

20nm is still experimental, and therefore production will be a bit of a gamble and 2-3 months from tapeout to chip doesn´t seam realistic to me.

More like 4-6 months, with all the delays and hurdles.

No, its not luck. (So sorry, no high probability for getting a supermodel GF, hate to burst your bubble )

Sonny has been warned by his "supervised release" judge that his company smells like fraud and if more cases will be won against BFL he will go back to jail.

He will be under court supervision for the next two years.

He only narrowly escaped going back to prison earlier this year, as he had to appear before a judge.


BTW did you know BFL had atleast 16m$ in Paypal preorders alone?

When is my 3rd May sp10 order going to be ready    

Payed instantly via Bitpay.

I am getting giddy as all those ppl report getting tracking numbers XD

Also, does hosting typically take a day longer, as the units have to be installed first?

50 % seems excessive, however AMC are currently shipping (from stock!) 750 GH/s +/-20% boards for 850$.

Add 100$ for PSU and 100$ for cooling and you are at 1.4 to 1.75$ / GH.

That does seem a better deal at the moment :/

Power efficiency seems to be roughly similar, i dont know about warranty though.

Do the boards have CE markings for import into the EU?

AMC has in stock units with apparently fast shipping, 999 for up to 750GH/s (+/-20%)

Your best bet for cooling should be a Corsair i80 or above, as watercooling is superior in this high density environment.

Wood law firm is bringing a class action against BFL, they even have an online form you can fill out if you where harmed.

I think contacting them will be your best bet.

There are five types of corners: fast-fast, slow-slow, slow-fast, fast-slow and normal-normal.

It refers to the MOSFET and PMOS corner on a chip.

Basically, you want typical-typical corners, as this would be the optimal design.

However, all even corners will typically not damage the logic of the chip, i.e. fast-fast, slow-slow, typical-typical.
The chip might run faster, slower and/or less power efficient though, if it is not typical-typical.

The problem is, you dont really know which exact process will yield which corners, therefore there is a slight deviation the manufacturer of the chips makes, in order to find out the optimal structure.
(Basically trial and error)

Typically this is done at the very start of chip production and then evaluated, to later on only build optimal chips. Which circumstance has lead spondoolies to receive slow-slow chips in a later batch i dont know.
(Sometimes this can be caused by involuntary, small changes in the fabrication environmen of the chip)

Will the 5% be credited for every sp10 customer of the May batch?

Isn´t there a BA thread somewhere?

WA hosting plan was posted somewhere for 290$ per month, 6 month commitment, 100$ setup cost.

This will be only available come summer, until now spondoolies can only help people with large orders get to DCs in the US.

Is a Corsair 80i really enough for one of these? Is it enough for the 512GH/s board? Can anyone confirm this?

What chip temperatures are you typically getting with the 512GH/s boards?

Huh, mine is in that timeframe, but maybe hosting orders will take longer, as they have to be set up first.

Anyway, they seem to be going through their preorders fast, so soon it will take less than a week from ordering to production.

It isn´t down, in fact it has solved 4 / 6 of the last blocks.

The only thing down is the stats server, so realtime stats are currently misleading.