I see. Maybe if u are free, can just test both dragonmint units and not just the one from yoshi. It seems some units may have varying performance, as seen from the guy with 5 units.

Is there an issue because it is off again? It just shows 12.4G in last 1 hour

please be sure to test the updated firmware as well. your miner should offer an update in the backend section.

I have been mining bitcoin only for a few years before I started to open to door the GPU (alt).

Litecoin is doing great there days. I almost bought a few L3 but I'm short in electricity at my hosting ... so i want to replace my S7 with other btc miners.

It would be nice buy with the 420$ coupon.

My opinion is yes, it should be a good idea to get an L3, they looks like way more reliable then the S9 which is the main reason i'm not going for any bitmain bitcoin miner anymore.

How loud are they if you compare them to the A741 for exemple ?

So it seems the efficiency is just barely on par with Bitmains 2 year old s9 tech. After all that bragging about it being the most efficient miner in the world, Halong is looking even more silly now.

Good numbers short term, not really. My S9 pulls 16-20Th for the first few mins. It just does not calculate properly at first. It will also take some time to stabilize the numbers.

http://ckpool.org/users/1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtje
Pool side number is zero for 1 to 5 mins.
2.96 T for 1 day. Wat happened? U turned it off?

http://ckpool.org/#/user  . I added your address 1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtje into that link.
Your last share was 8 hours ago.

Do you have any $200 coupons for sale ?

Only $220 or below coupons work for this batch of L3+.

Was thinking that myself.  I have a couple $420 coupons was thinking of getting some of those for next to nothing.

100 pages, time for the 8th thread?

There are plenty of ways to find out.

First dead hashboard that someone has, lets decap one of the ASICs.  There could be a name in there.  They have to be proud of their work somewhere...

The PCB is good enough for me.  If it was stolen or whatever they would likely have made a stink about it already...

Another good place to look would be when/where/who compiled the kernels between the products, similarities in config files, file system arrangement, etc.

Like I said, zero effort to make the boards look different.  They can't really care that much if people figure it out...

I can't remember who it was, but I've seen "Stolen from xxxx" on the perimeter.    Just for anyone who looked!

phil - awhile ago you were targeting ZEC to be $1k a coin.  Does that still look realistic for ZEC? Not sure your view on it re: your comment above.

Don't nail me please, but here a bit different view about asics.

I do not own neither purchased any of the cryptonite asics, just trying to see a bit bigger picture than asic is bad, gpu is good.


First of all, let bitmain aside for a moment as a lot of other asic producers are comming up, only to mention some: Baikal, Halong, Innosilicon, Pinidea and some others.

Second, for a given coin or algo asics are perfect in the meaning that they support that given algo/coin/network literally forever. I mean you can not switch with a S9 SHA256
Asic mashine just to Groestl because Groestlcoin is more profitable this week, just as an example.

I'am pretty sure many coins and projects forget exactly of that little nice feature an asic provides. And i would not wonder if a given coin that hardforks away from an Asic Algo
a sudden is left without hashpower at all for its network. Pretty sure we will see such scenarios soon.

The nature of GPU mining, nothing bad with it, is that they are just flexible and can swith within seconds to whatever algo they desire. Lets say tomorrow comes out a new algo,
with a new coin that gives double the profit of monero, eth or whatever you want and what you mind? I bet 90% are switching immediatly to gain maximum profit out of their
Rigs, not? I'am not a dev, but i could imagine that a dev that hardforked the coin for its miner community won't feel good if in such scenario he is finally left neither with gpu
hashs nor with asics.....

Here comes just in my mind, isn't it very centralized if a single dev anyway, without the community or referendum, chooses to switch or do whatever? Just as a side note.

What about possible 51% attacks? The lower the hasrate the higher the chance of a 51% attack. The more asics on an algo (decentralized!), the less chance of a 51% hashattack.

What about energy efficiency? An asic is by his whole design just more energy efficient as a gpu, cpu or whatever at this stage, fact.

Finally, i'am pretty sure there is a reason that major coins will not hardfork away from asic for exactly some of the reason described. Each hardfork is a risk for a coin, a bad fork
can as much as destroy everything built up so far. Each fork has for sure some new security risks and i bet every good developer or project knows that, at least these that got somewhere
allready and have to loose a lot. A fork is not that easy as it may sound, its just that, risky.

This said, i agree that asic should not belong to a single company or farm, no doubt here. In the name of decentralication i bet its even the intention why all asic producers even sell
their mashines as they must be well aware that keeping ALL of them would immediatly raise red flags on everybody that is for a decentralized crypto world.

I think an asic miner guy is just doing the same job as a gpu miner guy, just different approaches on different coins and algos, even it gets mixed by now a bit.

I just think throwing all hate to asics itself is not right, nor fair, nor good, neither for the crypto community, nor for anybody.

Please no offendings, no need for it just for a bit different view of things.

Cool, so you'll have two different Halong gear for review?

Exciting news.  

Probably get them before mine clear customs in Canada

Anyone know how long after getting a tracking number the miner arrived at their door? I'm just hoping its not going to be another week.