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I just want to say I spoke with CoinTerra on the phone this morning, and they made me a nice offer.
Even better, it sounds to me like they are trying to reach out to everyone with December orders. If that is true, I am very happy to have bought from them.
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Also, I am not unhappy, or anything like that, for those who are curious. I think they are doing a good job.
I will wait and let everyone know what Cointerra tells me.
If they do end up sending the Jan orders very quickly after the Dec orders and didn't do anything to reimburse the people with Dec orders I would be unhappy though.
Did they offer you anything in compensation? They said they couldn't do anything now to me even though I was also offering to purchase a new (and much larger) order with them. Maybe I didn't sound upset since I was at my workplace, haha. But I honestly do think they should bump up the hashrate or something for December orders at the very least since it's so delayed and they were over twice the price. Maybe I will need to make another call. They have not replied to my email yet. I will let everyone know when they do. |
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Also, I am not unhappy, or anything like that, for those who are curious. I think they are doing a good job.
I will wait and let everyone know what Cointerra tells me.
If they do end up sending the Jan orders very quickly after the Dec orders and didn't do anything to reimburse the people with Dec orders I would be unhappy though.
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So I spoke with Cointerra today and apparently I really am one of the few idiots who didn't switch batches since apparently the December batch is now very small compared to the January batch. Guess I should have switched batches along with everyone else since the early January orders will be shipping immediately after the December batch is done. Doh.
I am reaching out to them now, since I am also in the December batch. If this is true, I will clearly try to switch. |
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If all December customers changed their orders to January, Cointerra would not be late.
Yes, but then all the December customers that kept their orders would be upset that they basically paid 2.5x the price for the same thing? So if they ship them all basically the same time they should ship the December ones at least a few days earlier and maybe just ship two units per unit ordered or something. Or just convert everyone to January orders? Anyone have a citation for the offer to convert to January orders? (I assume it's burred in this thread someplace?) I think you just needed to email them and ask. I don't know if there was a formal offer. I am also an idiot who did not move my December order. |
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I just preordered one, mainly because the principals of this company seem the most legitimate to me.
I feel very comfortable that there will be profit to be made here, despite the claims by people of one trillion difficulty (or more) by the end of 2013.
Out of curiosity, what particular principle do you feel that cointerra embodies that makes them so legitimate? I have read a good bit of their marketing materials too, and do not see how their lofty ambitions actually match company practices. They have excellent PR, but what does this PR really mean? Has BitSynCom and BFL really lowered the ball for principles in bitcoin mining so low that the first person to spout rhetoric doesn't have to back it up with proof first? I seem to remember BitSynCom had quite a bit of good rhetoric, community support, and seeming good will until the Avalon chip deal went up in flames. I am not so quick to trust someone just due to pretty words. So far only a few small PCB makers seem to legitimately have principles. I'll put Cointerra in the same grouping when I see some action to back up the words. I hope we are not confusing 'principals' with 'principles' here. They have very different meanings. Well unless the first poster was talking about how much capital cointerra has to work with, I think they used the wrong word. Talking about values is "principle". I didn't want to go all grammer nazi though earlier... I said principal. |
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I just preordered one, mainly because the principals of this company seem the most legitimate to me.
I feel very comfortable that there will be profit to be made here, despite the claims by people of one trillion difficulty (or more) by the end of 2013.
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No one can accurately predict the future. The assumption that it ends with ASICs is based on several assumptions. #1 Silicon will always be dominant. I think that one day quantum computers will blow silicon away. There may be other tech we have yet to consider that lays between here and there or after there. Any or all of which would blow an asic away. There could also be algorithmic short cuts that could be implemented in current silicon. #2 The keysign algo is mathematically intractable. We've seen lately a lot of ingenious attacks against previously hardened crypto. My guess is that the algo we use for key signing will eventually fall. While we could always switch, the fact that the algo fell would undermine confidence in the currency and render it worthless. In fact if someone just took a large enough set of public keys and ran a brute force random attack against them on a large enough botnet, they could fairly easily show "control" of enough bitcoins to undermine the entire economy. There are ALOT of bitcoins tied to keys that have long since been lost, these haven't been moved at all in years. I know I had a hardrive with some 1,500 bitcoins years ago that died but back then they might have been worth a total of $1.50 I would guess that the next mining innovation beyond what we see now, will be bots built to do ummm let's calling it private key mining.  It's trivial to do. People have developed programs that just generate absolutely huge numbers of bitcoin addresses using your GPU. Why don't you build a powerful network and just run these for a few months, checking each created address to see if it has any bitcoins in it, and let me know how many bitcoins you steal. |
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So I may have missed this somewhere, but was mining capability every implemented into CGMiner?
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Dear FPGA Mining customers,
Unfortunately, demand for FPGA miners has been too low in recent months to justify continuing to produce new X6500s. For the foreseeable future, FPGA Mining will be suspending operations. It's sad to step away from such an exciting and interesting project, but the time has come.
Thank you all for your interest and support! We'll still be involved in the Bitcoin world and hopefully find a new project to participate in soon!
Best regards,
fizzisist, fpgaminer, TheSeven, li_gangyi
FPGA Mining LLC
It is a pleasure to use your miner. It has already more than paid for itself! |
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Yep Hopping doesn't have to mean your gain is someone else's loss.
How is that true? When you hop, the bitcoin pie does not end up getting bigger. But your piece does grow (hence why you hop), meaning that at least one person's piece has to shrink. Unlike this quote from me a few months ago, when you physically add mining capability (or lower your rejects - they are the exact same conceptually), the bitcoin hashing pie really does grow. People still get what they deserve based on what proportion of the network they are. When you hop, you grow your reward per share submitted, which MUST mean other people's rewards per share shrink, right? |
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Yep Hopping doesn't have to mean your gain is someone else's loss.
How is that true? When you hop, the bitcoin pie does not end up getting bigger. But your piece does grow (hence why you hop), meaning that at least one person's piece has to shrink. |
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Hey guys!
I got lazy and never posted it, but am still interested in selling some. I am out of town this weekend, but will try to get some stuff up on Sunday night or so.
Kyle
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I have not had the problem for a long time either.
It was a few weeks ago for me as well. USB connectivity could also be the culprit.
I will let you know ASAP if it ever happens again.
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I have had something like this happen as well. When it does the only way I can clear the screen is to unplug the USB cable to the miner. It just hangs indefinitely, even if I press ctrl+c, or even try to force quit cmd or python.
I suspect it might be a power fluctuation thing as well.
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I grabbed the latest from github and tried to preprocess the new bitstreams, but I couldn't because I get a divide by zero error where it tries to calculate the speed somewhere.
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I'd love for these to be mass produced and prices drop significantly for these X6500 FPGAs.If the price dropped by about 50% I would consider buying one of theses.Is overclocking possible with these (with proper cooling of course)?
Huh? If you have been reading at all you would see all of the talk about the different bitstreams. And the price will probably not drop 50% anytime soon, unless you are really cozy with the people who actually make the chips and can score us a sweet deal. |
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Version 0.2 is out!The main changes in this are: - Long-polling
- Progress line during bitstream pre-preprocessing
- And probably most importantly, fixed a bug in formatting data for share submission. Thanks to m0mchil for finding this! In my little bit of testing so far, this has reduced the number of rejects down to maybe 2%. I didn't want to wait to get this out, so please report the reject rates that you find in your own testing.
Download it from Github here. Thanks again, m0mchil!! m0mchil is the man. |
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243.94 MH/s | 0: 9305/772/0 7.7% | 1: 9282/836/0 8.3% | 4d2h45m
before the LP support i had around 10% stale, now i hab 8%, also V0.11 is stable for me
Okay, I was getting like 10 even after LP at ABCPool, and I am getting like 6% at BTCGuild now. |
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2011-12-29 08:57:05 | (FPGA0) Job data loaded
2011-12-29 08:57:07 | (FPGA1) Job data loaded
2011-12-29 08:57:09 | Long-poll: new block 00000ccbc11813e4
2011-12-29 08:57:12 | (FPGA0) Job data loaded
2011-12-29 08:57:12 | (FPGA1) Job data loaded
2011-12-29 08:57:19 | (FPGA0) Golden nonce found
2011-12-29 08:57:19 | (FPGA0) accepted e1b54ce8L
280.69 MH/s | 0: 8/0/0 0.0% | 1: 7/0/0 0.0% | 3m42s looks good at slush's pool I always get 'Long-poll: Value error!' followed shortly by a long poll connection string. It seems to be working though (no stales or anything). This is at ABCPool.co Actually, stales are actually pretty high still. What are other people getting for stale rates. I can try another pool for now! |
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