Not quite sure what the proper forum for reselling your coupons would be, but that's definitely not something I want clogging the pool thread.  The pool thread is mostly for mining, and big updates to the store (Price changes, inventory shortages/arrivals).

Your best bet for trying to resell coupons would probably be IRC, or creating a larger thread in the custom hardware forum where multiple people can organize them in one thread/group of threads.

Has anyone seen this coming the other way (selling on exchange, redeeming into fiat through Dwolla)?

Sounds like the share was accepted.  I have no idea what an 'untracked stratum share' is though.  Nothing has changed on pool code since merged mining was added back months ago.  What hardware are you using?  Is there a stratum proxy involved?  Which version of cgminer?


UPDATE: Apparently it means you got back a response with an RPC ID your software doesn't remember sending.  Can't say why that would happen, but would definitely point to a local issue (the server code for RPC id responses hasn't changed in over 8 months).  However, it isn't really an "issue".  Your shares were accepted.

As of this morning, the pool has been updated to default new workers to a difficulty of 2.  Manually changing workers to Diff=1 is still an option, and previously created workers are unchanged.

This is being done for a few reasons, but mostly to help new users.  The majority of new accounts these days are running at minimum 1 GH/s, and normally quite a bit more.  As a result, they were having their difficulty increased shortly after connecting already, so this just eliminates the need for that vardiff adjustment step.

Aside from the troll, it hasn't taken up that much space on the thread.  It's also easier to keep it all in one place.  However, I don't anticipate the shop requiring many more news updates.  The price can only drop so many times.



I really thought I was going to be able to maintain that 24 hour turnaround, but there were 3 *huge* orders after I put out the coupons.  I didn't think that many would use them, but I also didn't factor in that I gave out over 8,000 coupons.  Aside from the 3 huge orders, there would still be a decent inventory on hand, and I already had a new order with friedcat being made.  Hopefully it's only temporary.


It's a mixture of both.  I personally want more users on PPLNS because I'd rather take 3% with minimal/no risk than 7.5% and have months where I lose money and other months where I hit a jackpot.  It also eliminates a significant number of database inserts/updates by simply piggybacking the reward system on the already existing PPLNS tables.

Don't forget that the initial deployments were put into production assuming there would already be competing products on the market, which meant ASICMINER heavily over-shot the target percentage of the network.  ASICMINER was planned to come out *after* BFL and Avalon deployment, and ended up beating both to the punch (the only other ASICs that existed at the time were the units given to jgarzik and Bitcoin Foundation).

Update on USPS First Class International tracking:

Per the USPS website, the following countries are eligible for the "E-DELCON" (Electronic Delivery Confirmation) International Service:

Australia
Germany
Belgium
Great Britain
Brazil
Israel
Canada
Netherlands
Croatia
New Zealand
Denmark
Spain
France
Switzerland


This fits with what I've been seeing, since recent packages to these countries print out with a "POST EXPRESS" emblem in the upper center of the label. If you're in any of the above countries and considering an order, this should help in your decision on whether you want to pay the extra cost of Priority Mail International.

As has been the case all week, new orders have been getting packed every couple hours so that by the time the pickup happens, as many packages will go out as possible.

Some good news for international customers:  Many countries (Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, and others) have started rolling out a deal with USPS which should give you tracking on first class mail all the way to its destination.  I don't know full details on if this includes expedited customs clearance, or if it's guaranteed to track all the way to delivery, but a lot of recent packages are starting to show status up until Delivery instead of stopping once it hits foreign customs.  These new tracking numbers start with 'LZ' instead of 'LJ'. 'CJ' orders for priority are still supposed to include tracking from start to finish.

Added a Cancel Order link to unpaid orders, so you can remove them from your order status without sending me an email.

Either ASICMINER is screwing me, or others will happily sell at a $1 or less profit per unit.  Then again, I noticed Canary increased his price to 0.33 and shipping is not included.  You have to print and email your own shipping label for a small flat rate box ($5.15 or more).

Grats, continue paying that elsewhere.  I've said in the past, I have no intention of dropping my prices to what group buys offer because it is not worth my time.  I'm not going to order thousands of extra units of inventory at a profit margin of 3% (at 0.31 assuming shipping is extra), especially when another price drop by ASICMINER would suddenly eat all the profit I made and then some due to leftover inventory that was purchased pre-pricedrop.

New coupons are now distributed to every order (from 0.60 to 1.05 orders) on a 1:1 basis.  These are not ASICMINER's 0.15 coupons as stated many times previously.  They will not expire unless the price on new units drops under 0.40.  The only orders that did not receive this batch of coupons are the orders made using the 0.15 coupons.





BTC Guild did not sell any at 2 BTC.  So that argument is invalid.  Additionally, they were given out PER ASICMINER'S INSTRUCTIONS.  If you want to bitch, bitch at the one reseller who didn't follow them, or bitch at ASICMINER.

That is one reseller with terrible english, and their entire post references the 30% promo.  Only 30% of their total sales received coupons, just not the LAST 30% (which is SPECIFICALLY what ASICMINER told all US resellers to do when distributing coupons).

My personal (not official ASICMINER) coupon program should go live in the next hour.  All users who had placed an order at 0.60 or higher will get one for each unit they ordered.  Rather than the green notice users got before, there will simply be a red 'Coupons' bubble above the ASIC Store link if you have any unused coupons.

WRONG.  Every other reseller has issued them to approximately 30% of their customers, EXACTLY the same as what BTC Guild has done.

Just FYI, to equal out over the course of years, you would need a decent amount of speed (50 GH/s+ right now) that continues to grow proportional to overall network speed.  Otherwise, you're looking at a time frame of decades/centuries or more :p.  Right now, 50 GH/s on average won't even find a block per month, meaning you'll on average see 2-3 difficulty changes between solves.  A bad luck round is normally 3-5x expected time frame, which at 50 GH/s [and upgrading each difficulty increase] would be 5-9 months.  Extremely bad luck rounds (which do happen) are up to 10x difficulty (and very rarely, even worse).

It would likely take you years to recover from that bad round, assuming you continue to increase your hash rate proportional to the network difficulty the entire time.  The flip side is, you could end up _way_ ahead with some good luck rounds early on.

Yes.  When BTC Guild was getting way too close to 51% during the first half of 2013, some users did start to leave in order to spread out the hash rate.  However, the pool was still growing larger as a percentage of the whole network due to new users joining faster than other users leaving out of principle.  There were *many* posts requesting people to voluntarily leave, and the pool didn't lose any overall share of the network until fees were increased on the PPS payment system.

kosmokramer and I have discussed fulfillment of the coupon orders, and at this time the plan is that I will likely be helping him by packing & shipping the smaller orders.  If you have any problems with kosmokramer releasing your shipping information to me to complete orders, please contact him to request that the order is not forwarded to me for fulfillment.

Once I receive the units from kosmokramer, you can expect all of the orders to ship out the next business day.

I will definitely keep everybody updated when the new blades are ready to roll out.

I've just made the initial price drop for Block Erupters on the BTC Guild store.  As stated before, I am not going to work myself to death to be competitive with group buy pricing deals.  Instead, I'm going to keep the store operating on a 24-hour or less turnaround [barring a completely unexpected surge of orders].

Tonight I'm working on adding in a special coupon program for anybody who ordered units at 0.60 or higher.  These will not be the same as ASICMINER's coupon program (0.15/unit), which I still have no word about regarding when we will be able to get more of those (if ever).  The BTC Guild coupons will be made available tomorrow when the next shipment of units arrives.


For those considering ordering:  Units are currently shipping in 1 business day, and depending on the timing, may even ship out the same day you order them.  The current goal is to maintain this 1-day or less turnaround time until the units are removed from the store entirely.