can you mine both scrypt and sha256 with these chips AT THE SAME TIME or do you have to pick an option either/or on the chip and go with that only?
While its not been super 100% explicitly stated recently, it appears so and its the same as their last chip. Yes based on the schematics the chips are designed to be two completely separate systems, each BTC and LTC core are chained independent of each other on their own serial bus with their own power. Curious to see how they handle this hardware wise....they could just slap two USB ports on them and call it a day, but that would be a nightmare for setup. To make this work efficiently each miner would have to have a controller, and simply plug in the ethernet port and just configure the BTC/scrypt pools. I never used their gridseed devices...how did the handle dual mode? |
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Have 16 down so far so need about another 24 or so picked up.
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lol you can do the same thing with a $35 raspberry pie...
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Current Interest (need 40 units for official open)
jstefanop - 6
philipma1957 - 1
bigD27 - 2
mavericklm - 2
herbpean - 1
wlefever - 1
root$ - 1
thedreamer - 1+
ecnad - 1
koenmtb1 - 2
fear58 -1
fullzer0 - 1
bigredbutton -2
hookthem - 1
tarzan - 1
Total 25/40
xircom - 30? ...total 55/40
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Im trying to set up a group buy for the Avalon 4.1 miner: https://ehash.com/product/avalon4-module-1t/For those that are not familiar its their latest product and is similar to an S5 in performance, and can run .55 W/GH under clocked @ 980 GH/s. Main selling point over the S5 is that its SUPER quiet and is perfect summer bedroom/home miner with full metal enclosure. Vids of how quiet here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7UTdo_4AaQProblem is of course the price...individual units they want to charge around $600 shipped to the States, which is crazy. I have contacted them for a bulk buy and currentlly have them at $440 per unit shipped to the states if I buy over 40 units. Pretty sure I can get them closer to 400 if I know this will go through, so I will be buying 6 units myself and would need 34 units picked up by other people. I figure we all do individual payments (in BTC) to trusted escrow account that will pay ehash directly once all money is received, but we can get a group consensus on how we want to handle the buy if we have enough buyers! So if interested post the number of units you would buy! (btw they have 80 in stock, probably more so if we get a lot of interested we can go over 40 and reduce price even more). |
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keep it for when the price goes back to 1k?  |
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Well I will probably start a group buy thread in the forms, and see how many interested people we have.
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Looks like 430 WITH shipping to US is best price I can get out of them. Wanted to get it to under 400 to make it worth it, considering you can get a single S5 shipped for 390...
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The whole point of a group buy would be to do a drop ship in the US and distribute from here, otherwise they will still charge .5 btc shipping per. Shipping in the US will cost around $10 a unit.
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They just quoted me $370 for 40 units, plus shipping. I will see how much shipping is and see how much better I can do, but would need a lot more interest if this would be serious to go through. I would take around 6 of them so would need people to grab the rest of the 34 units.
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You can buy them new direcly from ehash.com  I know, I don't want to pay their ridiculous shipping fee though....maybe we can get a group buy going? They have 80 in stock so if we buy like 20 they will probably give a discount and shipping will end up being like 10 bucks each. |
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anyone selling these in the US?
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why are you selling this out of curiosity?
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I have a few Zeus 30MH scrypt miners.
Let me know if your interested.
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Well at least these guys seem to be promoting the whole open source thing, and are mainly interested in selling chips. People are already working with their designs and could have an open sourced miner pretty quickly.
And what that change if chips will be priced like 50$? No one will make open sourced miners becuse it will not to be economical... if is the biggest 2 letter word in the English language. What if they had 1,000,000 chips made each one cost them 4 dollars. Or 4,000,000 for the lot They are clever and realize selling 600,000 at 12 dollars each = 7.2 million a nice 3.2 million profit - shipping and other expenses = Maybe 2 million profit and 400,000 free chips. My point is selling at 12 to 20 a chip is feasible. Base on my if just as much as selling for 50 a chip on your if. Lets say you can buy them at 15 chip...that would be pretty nice....24 chips = 2TH = 360 in chip costs. How much could the board cost for this? Lets say 2 boards at 12 chips each...20 bucks a board from china? Slap then inside your existing cases and fans and your looking at a little over 200 bucks per TH. Would drool if that would be achievable to do with these. |
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Here is how we stop it.
1. Open source ASIC chip.
2. Open source low cost miner design.
3. Low cost miners in every hand.
4. P2Pool with those miners.
well - for example all you have to do is buy Bitfury's chip design and open-source it. I have already done #2, and plenty of people did #3. #4 will happen by itself. Yup. And what happened? You broke even maybe? How many Bitfury chips can you buy today? Millions bought them and now we had decentralized mining right? 100's did that is great but that is not millions, not enough to do much more than keep some hobbyists happy. There are things you can change. There are things you can't change. I don't see how you break a monopoly that is coming at all. Expecting these companies to be like you vs3 in anyway is not the hope you should be waiting for. I don't see anyone going to put the time and the effort in to make an ASIC and then get miners in the hands of millions which is the only way you beat the big players. It is over unless that happens somehow. I submit that the end is now and the monopoly on mining is already here and won't be challenged. Well at least these guys seem to be promoting the whole open source thing, and are mainly interested in selling chips. People are already working with their designs and could have an open sourced miner pretty quickly. |
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lol your selling GPUs on the bitcoin forums and expect us to believe over half of those weren't used for mining?
HA
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