Respect !

Thank you for your efforts, very much appreciated.   

Waiting for the release (and the donation address)

You completely forgot about SSN (Simultaneous Switching Noise).

The Enterpoint's Cairnsmore is the best example. It was designed by a professional FPGA board designer, yet it failed to properly distribute clock from single Spartan 3 array controller to the four Spartan 6 mining chip. The guy who finally developed a working bitstreams had to do a lot of trial & error before he managed to squeeze the competitive output from that board. The competing 1.15y board from ZTEX did not exhibit those problems.

Even a simple, but regular and symmetric multichip design can produce hard to suppress resonances.

I applaud sidehack & friends for being careful. If they don't already have access to the appropriate analog models and software it is a very good decision to produce small and conservative design at first.

Edit: Being conservative is especially important with the attitude towards the interator designers exhibited by Bitfury and especially punin in the nearby thread. I presume that Bitfury doesn't even have proper IBIS models that would facilitate high-performance board design.

I would assume they are releasing the board info so engis and small companies can prep designs to incorporate their 16nm chip....

18.5 hours to reach consensus in the room.
Samson is hilarious. Start to read from 09:30 post:
https://twitter.com/Excellion/status/700855910269214720

Bitfury wants $1m upfront for a batch of their chips if that's what you are asking

Guys I'm super excited about this personally and want to help as much as I can!

I'll discuss internally if and how BitFury could contribute to this project. Our reference design PCB for 16nm is almost done and could be used as a starting point should BitFury's chip be selected.

Dude, stop being so naïve. Brownnosing to chip vendors is nowadays the only marketable skill for non-technical people. Bitcoinorama is now back posting, go reread his story. Maybe he finally got paid by KnC?

Shill is actually a highly honorable occupation centered around getting paid by the vendor.

But it's not enough! I want this to be a reality asap


Your updates on the process of suing these crooks welcome here 

BitfFury is deeply committed to a decentralized Bitcoin Blockchain ecosystem and we want to do all we can to ensure that as many hobbyists and engineers as possible have access to the technology we have developed with the support we've had from the Bitcoin community. Therefore we have decided to release our 28nm designs under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 License to give you the opportunity to get familiar with the style of our latest designs.[/size]

I do applaud Bitfury for making a presence on the forum, I hope it is because they are truly committed to us "little guys". 

http://www.coindesk.com/ftc-settles-charges-against-bitcoin-mining-firm-butterfly-labs/?utm_content=bufferb676e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer


Joke.

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Update/upgrade Antminer s5, boards with  BitFury chips

We would like to offer boards with  BitFury chips  16nm  to replace / upgrade Antminer S5

And with Bitfury and BW stuff all online by then you'll be looking at  > 2EH on the network haha.

Not quite sure why everyone is surprised that a Manufacturer does not deal with individual customers? It's the same with most everything else we buy from Cars to Televisions. I assume that Dealers & Retailers will emerge for us to buy from?


Rich

Is there a better, new thread now for regular problems with the current 0.93 version?

Anyway, here goes:
my bitcoind is fully synced, to 398597. Armory connects to bitcoind, says "online" and "connected", but stays at block 392645.
Restarting Armory didn't help, version 0.93.3.
A database-rescan took a while, and changed nothing neither.
Hints?

Ente

Oh, c'mon. It would be a waste of immersion bath to run old underclocked miners.

And what it means "paid for"? Presumably Bitfury used either its own or borrowed capital to populate their immersion cooled facility. Selling them would actually release working capital to spend it on manufacturing new generation miners.

Please correct me, if I'm wrong.

Let's assume they
1) produce a 28nm miner for $0.06/GH
2) operate it at 0.36 J/GH (conservativ guess)
3) while having electricity costs of $0.05/kWh (or less)

they should make $0.03/GH per month at the current difficulty, which means ROI in about 2 months.

There will be probably first miners based on Bitfury's 16nm ASIC in wild and their DC end of March, but I guess the real volume ramp up will happen in April.
So it should be enough time, to make some profit with the new 28nm hardware.

Just my take on it but: Because one has to start *somewhere* and get the ball rolling. The older chips were on-hand and they have working boards for them. As a bonus they get to test the DC at full load.

Newer more efficient chips/boards are in the pipeline but not on-hand so you either have a DC sitting there empty/partly used or ya plug in what you have right now and upgrade when the new designs get into full production.