Anybody have any BTC they'd like to sell for my $100 Dwolla?
MtGox does. |
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Ok, say GPU topped out at 25TH.
Best MH/J:
GPU = 3
FPGA = 25
ASIC = 170
So total energy for 25TH:
GPU = 8.3MJ = 29GWh
FPGA = 1MJ = 3.6GWh
ASIC = 140KJ = 504KWh
Average nuclear reactor 1GW?!
So hashrate at 29GWh for ASIC:
1.4 EH/s that's 57539 times GPU!
Was this right?
I didn't check your calculations, but the bottom line is that mining electrical costs will ALWAYS tend towards the point of revenue. If we're using 8.3MJ of electricity right now, we'll eventually be using 8.3MJ of electricity with ASICs, so long as the BTC price remains the same. If the BTC price moves, then revenue will move as well (and electric costs will catch up after some period of time). |
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When ASIC replaces GPU.
This is really something to celebrate!!!
Except we'll eventually be using the same amount of electricity anyway. |
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Not that I believe this is legitimate, but many business managers and technical engineering types actually don't have great spelling/grammar/etc (or don't care). Some of the emails I received from those sorts were worse than this even was. Just something to think about...
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Copy/pasta: UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT - "Tom" or "Dave" is no longer affiliated with this company in anyway. We are a specialized devision of a huge corporate electronics manufacturer in Canada and we want you to get to know us before we take even 1 order. Ordering has been suspended for now and we are sorting out the banking and tax issues with Tom. Hopefully he does the right thing and for his credit he has givin us zero indication that he does not have full intention of doing the right thing. Luckily for everyone Tom seems to be doing the best he can to refund every single customer in a timely fashion. Now I know we lost most of our customers and that is fine. We plan to show full video proof before we take 1 single order and unlike some competitors these shipments willl be coming from the USA and will include USPS tracking numbers (DHL for international customer) Now for the hard truth We have strong reason to believe that BFL has been stringing you along all this time beause it needed your money to cover their R&D / NRE costs, its quite likely they are even using Pre-sale orders to pay their employees saleries which i am not sure of US law but is illegal in Canada. BEWARE OF BFL. ITS ALL LIES. Their terms of service contract is basically setup so they can legally take your money and there is nothing you can do about it. Yes Finally! Avalon comes out with the first ASIC device but how many will we actually see in customers hands by months end. How about the end of Febuary, March? These numbers will be very low. The sheer unprofessionalism of the supossid leaders in this industry is down right appaling talking about Bitcoin in general it's mind boggling - how these companies like BFL and bASIC can just string their customers along for months and no one comes out with anything better. My company has been developing custom ASIC and FPGA based solutions for decades we work in the military and telecommunications sectors and can accomplish this task at ease. We currently have a full functioning and hashing prototype which we plan to bring to production next week. We understand time critical solutions and it is our specialty. Instead of a full Standard CELL ASIC whch takes AGES to complete low success rates and extremey high NRE we are using FPGA hard copies of what is probably the best FPGA Bitcoin mining core in history (no it is not open source sorry ). Our ASIC chips can mine at over 2 gh/s comfortably and at a very low clock, which will ensure excellent heat disapation as well as chip longetivity. The inexpensive nature of the manufacturer of these chips will allow us to build machines that will use a large number of cheap chips and still keep electrical rates down to a reasonable level. These will be fully enclosed devices, not as cleaver as as our friends at Avalon with their stand alone wifi devices but they will include 25 FPGA hard copy ASICS which will use a maximum of 200watts per device. They will however require a host computer. The best part of our device is the speed at which we can develop them. We have a fully functional PCB fab and electronics assembly as well as a fully functional SHIPPING DEPARTMENT in house and we have already begun this process. I know it's a bit late in the game to introduce a product such as this but we wanted our news to get out there in the main stream. Tom is out. We are in. the bASIC is officially DEAD. Get ready for a 50Gh/s ASIC Based device shipping from the US with tracking and no none sense. There will be no deadline back outs and no B.S. We purchased this company from Tom for many reasons but the main reason is his un revealed completed design that can easily be converted to support 25 hard copy ASICS. The hardest work for us is already completed , Believe it or not, this IS happening and like I said before you will see a youtube video of this device hashing along before we ever ask for one red cent from the community. We cannot give an exact date at this time but It would not surprise me in the slightest that our first device ships before BFL. Professionals have taken this over and professionalism which is long over due in this industry will make all the difference. Please watch our you tube channel (coming soon) for a video of the device hashing by next week at the latest. Once the video has been shot we have decided to ship the device to conman who in my opinion develops the best Bitcoin mining software available. Please check back for more updates. |
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You could earn a lot if you manage to make Pirate pay.
Not sure who that is. He stole ~ $1.2M of BTC from users through a ponzi scheme, and technically owes them something like $20M by now with the interest rates he advertised. The SEC is looking into the situation, last I heard. Oh, Trendon Shavers. Some user was offering a bunch of money for his info quite a while ago. I found everything on the guy but the user recanted on paying me. I got his ssn, address, assets, credit, everything! Figures. :\ Maybe someone else looking for it would pay for the same info. I don't need it myself (wasn't involved in that situation). |
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its was up with 14 players but told me bad login
Do you have a legitimate copy of the game? Or is it pirated? If you have a legitimate copy, try googling that error... I haven't come across it before, so I am not sure what the fix is for it. |
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25 BTC!
I can get 36 M/hash out of it too  25BTC seems a bit low. But if you are serious we can talk off list. I am serious, but this is all I can offer. I know it's a lowball compared to what it is worth, but wanted to throw it out there in case you were desperate to rid yourself of it.  How can you be poor with your minecraft server? I am proud to say that it was built ENTIRELY with donations from the players in the excellent community I have over there. I started with an Athlon 3000+ and 512MB of ram that I already had laying around in 2010, and we've been able to upgrade a couple times, ending up with an i7, 24GB of ram, 3 SSDs, and some professional-level networking hardware. I don't use any donation money for myself though - only for upkeep and upgrade of the server. |
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i tried to log in yesterday and it didnt let me
On to the forum? We were in migration at that time. Onto the game server? Not sure what to tell you... it may have been down for some reason. It's up right now though! |
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Is this game addicting? I don't want to get sucked into a trap (even if I get paid for it haha)
Well, first off, if you don't already own the game, and plan to buy it to make your money back, I'd have to advise against it! At 10 satoshis, you'd have to mine and place 10 million blocks to make one Bitcoin (which is admittedly quickly approaching the cost of the game in value). If you mined snow with the best tool, each snow would take 0.05 second to mine, so you'd theoretically make 200 satoshis per second. In reality, you'll be much slower - say, 5 snow pieces per second, so 50 satoshis per second. But, you'd have to maintain your shovel (which requires diamonds to mine at that speed), offload your inventory every so often, and find new places to mine as the resources run out. All of this takes a significant amount of extra time. Now you might be down to 20 satoshis a second. That's 500,000 seconds to make a Bitcoin! Or, 139 hours. And that's if you're solely focused on making Bitcoins, and nothing else. Bottom line: Don't quite your dayjob to buy the game and try to make money. This is mainly provided for three reasons: 1) To introduce people to Bitcoin who join the server from other sources. 2) To get people involved with Bitcoin who wouldn't otherwise use it. 3) To provide an additional faucet for those looking for free token amounts of Bitcoin to play with. Now, to more directly answer your question, yes, it can definitely be addicting. There is no better sandbox game. I had to step away from it in 2009 while I was still in college. I don't play too much anymore, just mainly deal with the administrative side of running the community and providing a place for people who do still play a lot. |
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Just migrated to a new, much faster webhost for the forum. It should be acting much more nicely now. |
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You could earn a lot if you manage to make Pirate pay.
Not sure who that is. He stole ~ $1.2M of BTC from users through a ponzi scheme, and technically owes them something like $20M by now with the interest rates he advertised. The SEC is looking into the situation, last I heard. |
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I was a pessimist, did not think that any one could deliver and for that i crown myself as a duchebag.
Don't worry your ignorance and inability to accept corrections already did that for you in your other thread. To avoid any revisioning of history you weren't a pessimist you flat out claims it was IMPOSSIBLE to produce this product. Not that Avalon was a scam but that it simply couldn't be done. Of course as pointed out even IF Avalon was a scam your reasoning was still idiotic. For existing FPGA design the best can be had is 23MHps/J. There is no reason to anticipate an improvement in FPGA power efficiency, yes, there can be marginal reduction of overhead and the FPGA can be scaled up, but it's efficiency will not increase all that much. Based on existing designs we can anticipate 25MH/J for FPGA. There is nothing special abut ASIC, most ASIC vendors just use a custom programmed FPGA; this is called FPGA to ASIC conversion. So at best ASIC will be 50MHps/J; and i am being VERY generous here. So much trolling to be undone, so little time... |
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Im glad for Avalon, I really am. It must be a hard thing not to take the BTC and run to the Gayman Islands like BFL, Bitcoinica, and the rest did. For providing false info onto the forum while being "staff member" you should be banned. You should NEVER be a moderator here or anywhere else. Regardless of whether Diablo was being sarcastic or not, I don't think anyone is going to believe him when he says that BFL ran off to the Gayman Islands. You're seriously saying Diablo should be banned for joking about BFL running with their money? They brought all of this community's criticism upon themselves. It's not slander at this point, even if they do deliver. Well... slan·der [slan-der] Show IPA
noun
1.
defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
2.
a malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report: a slander against his good name.
3.
Law. defamation by oral utterance rather than by writing, pictures, etc.
verb (used with object)
4.
to utter slander against; defame.
verb (used without object)
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to utter or circulate slander. I'd say definition #2 fits Diablo's statement fairly well. It is malicious, false (or at the very least, not proven true), and defamatory. He should not be a moderator. |
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Marc pushes SgtSpike to the side Micon: me too I have always been, and will always be, interested in betting up to 1000 BTC. Let me know.  |
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I seem to remember a MtGox historical data CSV download somewhere, but can't seem to find it now... looking for, say, the price at the close of every day, or something like that. I don't need every trade, just trying to figure out a price I can use for each day that's mostly accurate.
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Why,only 2 are out,so they won't make the diff go up at all or very very little.Be mad when 300 of these are mining  That's why he's mad. If there's one, then more will surely follow. |
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BTW. http://launch.avalon-asics.com/ was updated. They seem to indeed be offering a 4th board as an upgrade option, meaning the thing right now likely pulls way less than 400W. Or that the PSU is capable of handling 533W. I AM curious to see power figures though...! Why? I mean, if you (or anyone) gets any BFL stuff sometime before the earth stops cooling, it'll be to late. Why am I curious? I don't know, I just am. |
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BTW. http://launch.avalon-asics.com/ was updated. They seem to indeed be offering a 4th board as an upgrade option, meaning the thing right now likely pulls way less than 400W. Or that the PSU is capable of handling 533W. I AM curious to see power figures though...! |
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Im glad for Avalon, I really am. It must be a hard thing not to take the BTC and run to the Gayman Islands like BFL, Bitcoinica, and the rest did. For providing false info onto the forum while being "staff member" you should be banned. You should NEVER be a moderator here or anywhere else. Once you had made a strange sticky thread about one supposedly trolling another one. It seems you were strongly biased from the very beginning. Shame! Agreed 100%. |
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