Hey, what about http://www.blakecoin.org/, has anyone tried it with their zTex? I only have 1.15x, does the bitstream work on those? |
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Does the zTex 1.15y bitstream work on zTex 1.15x?
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Where did you get those pretty heat sinks? Also, what is your hash rate?
The flower heatsinks are zalman northbridge sinks, but the zTex are now obsolete and only give 200MH at 40W/GH. The BE gives 330MH, RF 2.5GH and my two singles 110GH. |
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So when, where and how much?
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Exactly! I find all the ASIC equipment fascinating and enjoy trying to get my hands on as many different devices as possible.
I think some of those devices might become VERY valuable as collectibles. I bough one of the first BE USB at 2.6 BTC!!! and one of the first RF USB for 1.4 BTC!!!, because just like stamps with defects, collectors will look at the soldering of components to see the rarity and age of the item, funny how that resonates well with the 21 million rarity! My zTex x1.15 will be the crown jewels of the collection. Early and very rare:  Interesting to compare those purchase prices with the 600GH Monarch I bought for 3.6 BTC, I'm pretty convinced that including resale collectors value; the poorly soldered, completely non ROI, crap BE will beat the Monarch hands down; those components are placed by hand and I even got friedcat to send me an original "manually tooled" heatsink from hongkong:  Comparatively the singles will fade away in history (except maybe for the case looking cool but being completely unusable) but they heat the house and feed the monkeys:  |
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Thx, that's what I saw...
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I like that LTC was down to 0.001$, it became worthless for a small fraction of time. O_o
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So when will we see this hitting the streets?
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The only thing keeping fiat regimes alive is peoples trust.
That trust can disappear in a millisecond globally today.
When the 1% has positioned them selves for it, they will press that button, trust me; they don't have the choice.
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No they can't block bitcoin as a concept, you can just mail a private key on paper.
Nothing the governments do now matters, it's game over, they can't even afford the energy to wage war against each other.
It's not the rise of bitcoins, it's the fall of fiat regimes.
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Do you have bitfury chips on hand for January delivery?
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I thought I read punin was going to teach some new staff and update the store this week, did he delete this post?
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One thing is interesting about what you say, for every norwegian millionaire there are thousands of loosers giving their money to the norweigan millionaire. And everything under the sun is a pyramid scheme, think about it, you'll see.
Miners and speculators work hand in hand, the one is impossible without the other. Speculators buy miners product so miners can pay electricity bills and hardware.
Maybe we should try to not spit in the hand that feeds us, that goes for both speculators and hardware manufacturers.
One simple rule for companies is to never be in the middle of a supply chain, which is precisely what miners are, we are dependent on hardware on one hand and speculators on the other.
But the beauty of mining is risk management, it's the only way to participate with moderate risk, we got hedging on both ends.
I buy hardware with mined bitcoins every bubble / ASIC generation (funny they mostly coencide or maybe it's just preorder date span that covers it), just enough to stay in the game. Now I would need alot more hardware to heat my house, but it's too expensive. We can't go smaller with the chips we have, 0.5W/GH seems to be hard to beat, now it's horizontal scaling which means more power consumption, only at the end of that we might see the price of bitcoin stabilize.
Right now the price is high if you look at miners revenue, hell with these figures I can quit my day job.
Difficulty will go up and price, well, will go up too I hope. Every bubble the circulation of coins raises the expected value, I think that will never change unless something better comes along.
It's all about the global debt bubble and real energy prices (inflation and population adjusted) really, and looking at those bitcoin has a long way to go even in the face of the generation of coins requiring energy catch-22.
Bottom line, if you heat yourself with mining gear you can't loose.
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Ok, I don't want to pour gasoline on this, but woke up and 4 chips are dead on the RMA single I received.
So I have to RMA the RMA, that I also had to pay VAT for twice, so this story is going to be expensive!
All in all I will pay 75% on one machine in VAT because BFL declares the return parcel with the original price!
Facts are this industry is still maturing and chips/boards that Intel would have thrown away are getting sent to customers.
Luckily the Monarch only has two chips, so maybe attention to delivering working chips/boards will improve.
About the censorship on the BFL forums; please BFL, get another moderator!
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Love that bitcoin terminal client! Crusiin! LOL
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So now that BTC has halfed, are the H-Cards going to be cheaper? I'm glad I bought BFL during last bubble (2x60GH for 30BTC!) and this bubble (1x600GH for 3.6BTC), that's the advantage of preorders.
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It's like we live in this virtual country with huge inflation.
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200% inflation! It would be nice with some disclosure, who sets the prices, who is not delivering old H-Cards (btw would those still cost 250)?
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The mounting holes and space is completely non standard what I can gather.
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