Would sure be awesome if there was embeddable javascript for websites who wanted to act like a source to host the blockchain for this game and make it so people could go to a website and start playing without having to download the blockchain or trust 3rd party code that isn't open source.

LIVE CHAT IS NOW COMPLETE
LOG AVAILABLE AT NASTYFANS.ORG


Signature Campaign:
As was voted by NastyFans, I have rolled out a signature campaign.  I envision increasing the payment eventually, but wanted to begin giving something back to fans who have already decided to advertise our signature.
NastyFans Signature Campaign

Order Update:
I've OK'd Butterfly Labs to ship out our first orders without a refund so they can ship the most hardware possible ASAP.  I then requested a refund on the remaining orders so that it all balances out with their ship/refund offer in the end, but we get more hardware sooner.

Updated Order Sheet:

I will post a link on this thread to the chat after I have signed in, usually about 30 minutes prior.  This is mainly to avoid me having to take additional steps to prove my identity on these monthly sessions.  If you have a link to this thread, you'll be able to find the live chat without any issues.


For those who may not be aware, there are some better Monarch photos and more statistics to be made public about the Monarchs in this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=759398.0

The key points are that Monarchs take 520watts to run and get between 620-660GH/s for a efficiency rating of about 0.8W/GH.

"Sir, we have Black Arrow on line 1.  They say they have a new product for you."

In consideration of the long holiday weekend here in the US, our Live Chat will be held @ 1:00pm PST on September 2nd.

Exciting developments this month:

• 5 Monarchs Arrived
• Signature Campaign Poll
• Butterfly Labs Compensation

I don't think so.  I'm sure lightfoot won't be able to fight the urge to buy a Monarch much longer...

Don't forget CoinTerra.  They shipped an underperforming power hog that is loud as hell and needs special cooling.  I'm getting 1/2 the rate I paid for at twice the power consumption and it needs it's own A/C line to stay running.  Total garbage.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=86854.msg8532931#msg8532931

520 watts at the wall.  660GH/s on a standard pool, 620GH/s on p2pool.  ~0.8W/GH.  Extremely quiet.  Can operate without throttling in 90+ degree ambient temperatures.

More info posted here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=759398.msg8576752#msg8576752

I have provided wattage and temperature readings to lightfoot.  I will let him discuss the technicals.

As far as operation, these things were plug and play.  They make less noise than the singles, and I was impressed with how quiet they are.  They do dump a ton of heat, but can also operate at extremely high temperatures.  I don't have a thermometer in my mining closet, but the wall was over 100 degrees and these are able to operate with only a house fan pointed at them, which is nice since in the same environment my CoinTerra rig is nearly worthless without a direct A/C line running to it.

Actual performance at the pool is a bit shy of what was expected.  I tested one on GHASH.IO for a quick comparison and saw 660GH/s vs 620GH/s on P2Pool.  With my kill-a-watt saying they use 520watts per Monarch, that gives a real efficiency rating of ~0.8W/GH.

On the plus side, it shows that they've filled their datacenter capacity to the point where they have to sell off their old mining equipment.  I got an email response stating that they are currently mining with X3s for "testing" purposes and that testing is taking longer than expected, which is why they aren't providing the 5 days of free hosting as promised.

So now that they're admitting they have the machines and are mining with them, it shouldn't be too long before they actually start shipping to direct customers who ordered in 2013 like myself.  This is better than nothing, maybe?  A refund of my 0% loan for a year would be the best option, but they've already made it clear from denying my refund requests for the last 6 months that they will not be parting with a penny and instead will continue lying and stealing from customers.  I strongly suggest avoiding them, minersource, and the "new company" that is selling their miners under a different name with a different form factor.  In any event, as suggested, these miners will be unprofitable very soon so they will probably step up their shipping with the next difficulty adjustment.  Factor in another difficultly adjustment for packing/shipping time and we should get these miners just in time to set them up to heat our houses for the remainder of the summer and only lose a few dollars per month operating them after cooling.  However, you'll be able to sit in a loud 90 degree room and play flappy birds on a tiny screen so it's $7,000 well spent.

NastyFans aren't taking any kind of a loss, it is all positive ROI for them.  There are no costs associated with NastyFans and hashrate is all a win for them, so taking a loss is actually impossible with our structure.  There are plenty of BFL threads to crap on if you see fit, but considering that Black Arrow hasn't shipped and CoinTerra shipped underperforming/overheating garbage, I don't see why I would single out BFL.  I'm excited that we've grown our hashrate by so much.  People who purchased a seat instead of a 1MH/s fixed bond when we started should also be extremely excited.  Those focusing on the drop from the peak value and the long wait time it will take the debt holders to be repaid have their eyes in the wrong place.

It looks like BFL has started disabling our cloudmining.     I guess the days remaining that was shown in the cloudmining dashboard was inaccurate and they are shutting off cloudmining upon shipping the units.

OP updated with the updating miner screenshot.  
(the forum caches images so you might need to click on it to see the actual live screenshot)

MINER SCREENSHOT:

My kill-a-watt died a while back when I tried to measure 20+ amps with it.  If anyone wants to spring for me to order a new kill-a-watt meter for myself, I would be more than happy to take measurements.  We are getting cloudmining for another ~280 days if my dashboard can be believed.

EDIT: Kill-a-watt meter and IR gun have been ordered for me by a generous fan.  Will have power/temp readings whenever Amazon gets me the goodies.



They are cool to the touch.

They are nearly silent...  Compared to the garbage that CoinTerra shipped, these things are gold.

Monarchs are up and running.  You can now view our overall hashrate (~5TH/s) by finding NastyMining on the NastyPool Miners List.

SOLD

Why continue to make new IPOs to raise funds instead of expanding your original offering and using your earnings to let current shareholders benefit from new products and services?  Typically when a user starts offering multiple IPOs it is the biggest red flag there is.

It looks like you're using Linux yes?  If so, here's a simple guide of how to get it working provided by user nonnakip:

I'll post some pictures at some point next week.  Thank you for the frames offer, but I believe they're shipping them with the "sleds" so I don't think a GPU frame is needed.  I did also buy some shelves for the mining closet, so hopefully everything works out.  In anticipation of the Monarchs, I have relocated the CoinTerra rig and lowered it's power setting so it can run without needing direct access to the air conditioning unit.