Store Updates:
This weekend (possibly as early as Friday night), you will be able to place orders for ASICMINER Blades.  Exact pricing is not yet finalized.  Inventory is not in stock, but will be ordered from ASICMINER Sunday evening (earliest date available) and shipped out within 24 hours of arriving.

USB Block Erupters will also be back in stock at ASICMINER Sunday evening.  Expecting the full shipping queue to be completely filled within 48 hours of new inventory arriving.



Pool Updates:
Some changes are being prepared for how the database references PPLNS data, condensing very old shifts to reduce the amount of data being stored and retrieved.  These should start going live tomorrow.  The process should be transparent, unless you happen to reload a page as the data is being condensed.  Additional warning will be posted as the changes are being pushed live to avoid confusion.

The notice should not require scripting at all.




Unrelated:  Server is currently having a brief maintenance update to improve performance of one of the slowest scripts.  The website is temporarily unavailable in order to speed up the execution of the script.

EU Stratum servers are currently acting up.  Working on getting them responding again.  US Stratum is currently running strong.

UPDATE: EU Stratum is back up and running.

Posting a reminder about coupons.  If you haven't logged in since Monday, please check if you have any unused coupons!  You'll see a green alert bubble near the top of every page (except the store itself) if you have coupons available.

If you do not use your coupons by Monday, August 12, your coupons will be distributed to the next orders in line.  If you haven't placed an order because you don't currently have the BTC available, placing your order will prevent your coupons from expiring even if it has not yet been paid.

Coupon orders are being filled *immediately*, and as of this post every single coupon unit that has been ordered has been packed/shipped.

I had one power supply go down out of 11 Anker 10-port hubs.  I've seen people report that it's very easy to get a replacement hub from Anker (good warranty).



Sounds like one of the internal hubs broke down on your unit.  10-port hubs tend to be 2x4 port and 1x2 port hubs inside.

It's what you'd expect though.  Most pools are staying roughly the same proportion of the overall network, even though they're all gaining massive amounts of speed.  We are seeing *some* bit of a squeeze happening, since all it takes for a smaller pool to gain extra share of the overall network is one user with an above average amount of equipment getting delivered.

At this time, I would not bet on orders that low receiving coupons.  There is a chance, if the rumor CanaryInTheMine started is true, which is that new coupons will be distributed to provide ALL previous orders with units.  But since I have NOT heard this from any source other than CanaryInTheMine, I would not base any decisions on that rumor.

Other pools have seen proportional increases.  You have to remember, most of the BIG ASIC equipment is going to old miners, not new ones.  People who already had skin in the game, and as such, were already mining at certain pools.

BTC Guild had the largest userbase, and as such, is receiving proportionally the largest number of this new equipment.  However, smaller pools have also seen huge gains in proportional to their speed a month ago.

Eligius, Slush, BitMinter, and Eclipse have all roughly doubled in speed this last month.  BTC Guild has roughly doubled.  The only pool that isn't growing quite as fast (in proportion to their previous speed) is 50BTC.  That could be explained by their pool having a larger percentage of miners in countries which are difficult to import high end ASIC equipment.

Doesn't it look, based on this link, that the block was actually mined by Eligius?

http://blockchain.info/block-index/404514

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Looks like users got lucky and the coins used for the payments aged enough to be caught even without fees.   Almost half the transactions in that block were Deepbit payouts, and not a single one paid a transaction fee.

Satoshi level rounding has always been a slight issue since BTC Guild actually stores the data way beyond the 8th decimal.  I'll take a look to see why you're getting different numbers on the two .


Over half of the coupon orders have already shipped.  I'm expecting ALL of them (at least the ones already ordered) to be shipped out by tomorrow.

Fixed a display error on coupon orders.  Queue position was showing shipped, while order status/tracking was showing 'Shipping Soon'.  It is now showing tracking if your coupon order has been prepared for shipment.

6 SPM is pretty low.  Generally pools target ~15-20 SPM, because there is a significant difference in 24-hour variance when you start going much lower than that.  In the long run, it doesn't matter, but most miners tend to be obsessed with 24-hour, 1-hour, and even smaller time frames on occasion.

Try swapping from HTTP to HTTPS maybe?  Not sure on other alternatives outside of a VPN.  It sounds like whichever server you're get sent to for Cloudflare is having trouble (or your IP range is tied to heavy malware activity).

Site has been working fine all morning here.  Sounds like a Cloudflare mirror issue which probably cleared up within a minute of your post.

One of the 3 US stratum servers had a brief outage (~7 minutes).  My alarm woke me up and I got it back up and running ASAP.

Based on server connections, it looks like the vast majority of users simply bounced to the next IP in the DNS round robin, so hopefully very few users saw any significant impact.

Namecoin merged mining is a (roughly) 3% increase.  Other merged mineable coins are (virtually) worthless at this time.

On Stratum with variable difficulty, you should need ~1kbps (0.125 KB/sec).  It doesn't matter how fast you are, which is why the new protocols were implemented.  1 GH/s, 1 TH/s, 1 PH/s, with proper server implementation it should all use the same bandwidth per connection.

All coupons were distributed.  The original plan was a sort of lottery/grab bag system with multiple batches, but I did find that ASICMINER explicitly wanted them distributed to the last 1.05 orders first, and work backwards from there.  As such, all available coupons have been distributed.

CanaryInTheMine has mentioned in one of his threads that he heard additional coupon units will be coming for other orders aside from the ~30% we've received.  I have not heard any official confirmation of this from ASICMINER.

The hash rate estimate takes 1 hour to become very accurate.  The estimates update every 2 minutes, and the first few updates are generally quite inaccurate, but it gets closer and closer each time.

As always, a pool is going to have variance over what is reported directly inside the miner.  My Avalon tends to hold ~81 GH/s internally, but on the pool it varies from 78 to 84 GH/s approximately. 

https://i.imgur.com/N269avZ.png  is a picture of my 72 hour charts.  You can see when evaluated on that time frame, the speed estimate is rock solid and almost identical to the internal reporting of the unit.

You're correct...this is fixed on new checkouts with coupons (shipping insurance wasn't looking at Coupon units).  If something happens during shipping on the coupon orders that were placed before the fix, I will take the hit since the insurance option was broken during checkout for them.