Never compare your prices to those listed on eBay as it's consistently overvalued. You're not going to find buyers at BTC1.13 because for BTC1.11 (at the time of writing) a person can purchase a 180GH/s AntMiner S1 from BitMain and have it in hand within a few days.

If you can find buyers for your hardware on eBay, then go for it. Otherwise cannachris is right; ~BTC0.70 is a fair deal for both rigs.

While I appreciate your opinion, I'm actually looking for answers from someone who has a deeper understanding of how advertisements are chosen (e.g. moderators).


Technically only partially true. Their assistance promoting the malware may constitute aiding and abetting in known criminal activity.

I'm all for viewing banner advertisements to support the forum, but the moment I saw a known Ponzi scheme was being advertised was the moment I disabled ads. Regardless of the common libertarian and caveat emptor ideals on this forum, it's still concerning that anything can be advertised so long as Theymos is paid. At the very least, it's bad PR for the forums.

So with this on the table, I've got a question:
If a person were to create a piece of malware that does a drive-by install by clicking on a link, would they be able to advertise that link so long as they put in the disclaimer "Clicking on this link gives you malware"? If not, why not?

So far so good on my end, though I'm not holding my breath just yet. I applied the update around 2 hours ago, and it appears that things are running a bit faster. On the original firmware, I ran at around 1.2TH/s (power step '5' since that was the only one that allowed for stability) and the stats always showed one core was dead.

After the update, it seems I'm doing alright at 1.32TH/s (same power step). The stats no longer show the core volts (which is what I used to determine a problematic core to begin with), but now I see...

...the problematic core, Asic1Core1, is showing a value that's not '0000000000000...', so I figured that's a good sign.

I'll give it another day or two. If all looks well, I'll probably try bumping up the power a little and see how it holds up.

I'm sort of in the same boat, though luckily I had a spare 1U shelf hanging around when I moved my unit into my rack space. I'll be heading back there in the next week or so, and bringing a couple rail kits with me, but my guess is it'll be too late by then!

Let us know how it goes if you do end up ordering those rails.

A concerted effort into forking the network because some people feel the past has been too "unjust" for their liking would be detrimental to the value of both the 'new' Bitcoin and the 'old'.

We qualify for the 15% discount, but it comes down to whether or not we'll want to use it since that means purchasing more gear from CoinTerra. Based on what I've experienced so far, placing another purchase doesn't seem likely (unless they get their act together).

As for their new GSX card, the problem is I have no idea how the card would be set up (aside from building a PC solely for mining), where it would be set up, or any additional costs associated with running it. Not to mention it won't be shipping for another 5 months (making it nearly obsolete by that time).

What I would appreciate, however, is a TerraMiner II if they A) start selling them again and B) can figure out how to get it into a 2U space ...at half the price and speed, it should come with half the problems

Typically just one confirmation in my experience, unless it's been changed. How long has it been since you sent your coins?

Barring any other catastrophes and negative media attention, I think you're right. My guess is we'll stabilize at some point between $500-$650 for a number of months (sort of like mid-2013). Either way, after all that's happened so far, I don't think we'll be seeing any prices much lower than $500 or so (depending on resistance of course). *crosses fingers*

You may want to take a look here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=75883.0

As others have noted, it's probably better to have a PSU already picked out / ordered prior to ordering from BitMain. Your miner will more than likely arrive sooner than your PSU if you ordered today.


This happened to me as well (outside of a group buy). A couple days after I ordered I got a random UPS notification that they would be delivering that afternoon! Though I'm on the East coast, I'm still impressed with BitMain's overall speed.

Exactly. We receive a full list of all unit holders twice daily (midnight and noon), which contains all holder email addresses and the number of units held each. In the event that something happens to Havelock, I'd have to get in touch with each user for an updated Bitcoin address for payouts. It may not be the most efficient method, but it's certainly better than nothing.

The price is high enough where just about all miners are just profitable in fiat, even if their margins are rapidly slimming. An 800TH/s fluctuation on a single pool can be attributed to a number of factors, including typical mining speed variability, pool switching or load balancing.


If enough miners stop mining, yes, but difficulty readjustment only happens every 2016 blocks. All but one miner could stop mining right now and the difficulty would stay the same until that single miner was able to finish out the rest of the round (which would take a loonnngg time).

Encouraging, maybe, but also *quite* lucky. The unit is hashing at ~1.3TH/s, which hopefully will change with the new firmware coming out soon.

Pooled at BitMinter, but did end up finding a block (fairly recently actually). It's been running for about 5 days, accepted shares submitted so far are bit over 48M (since last reboot, Saturday morning).

AntMiners are a flat BTC1.45 (so far)...which equates to ~$4.50 per GH/s a current prices (roughly). Runs at about 360W, size is 5.3" x 6.1" x 11.8" (135mm x 155mm x 300mm). You could probably fit 3 in a 4U space.

This ^^

I've set my preferences to ignore the altcoin boards and it made all the difference in finding threads worthy of a response.

As for:

I'd say that generalization applies to any online discussion board where you're able to maintain an anonymous persona. Even so, it seems quite a bit worse now than I've seen in the past, though that's probably because Bitcoin has gained some popularity over the years.

I had this exact scenario this morning. Woke up to CTA0 offline, but CTA1 still going strong. I ssh'd into the unit and rebooted it, which seemws to bring everything back online (for now).


Same problem, and same core for me. CoinTerra support noted their releasing new firmware soon that should help with this, but we'll see. It's bad enough I paid for 2TH/s but am only seeing 1.2.

Same here. One of the cores in the chips seemed to be dead, which (seemingly) resulted in crazy hashing swings. Swapping between power step 4-8 didn't do much of anything...still stuck around 1.2-1.3TH/s. I got in touch with CoinTerra support and they noted some of the issues I'm seeing should be resolved with the new firmware that's coming out soon.

We'll see how that goes...

Was literally in the middle of asking just that!

I'm interested in a bit of the silver. Feel free to send me a PM, Usagi.