Since I've paid for two full K16 assemblies with steamboat I'd be interested as well, providing steamboat doesn't directly handle this.  Watching, jic.

As far as calculations go, this would be simple.  We'd just subtract the entire 11 some odd btc from Raging's spreadsheet line and re-calculate everyone's refund without the % from John K. 

I personally think this is wrong; I don't think it's up to us to "punish".  As far as the sample chips, I remember voicing my concern about Raging deciding what to do with chips that statistically didn't belong to him, but no one except me raised any objections.  I think Raging sent 8 to BKKCoins (or posted that he did), but Raging was indeed open about how he was trying to get an assembly line up and running, and was going to take 22 chips for himself, and everyone seemed cool with it at the time.

I'm not saying Raging was innocent in all this, but the sample chips were handled openly, and everyone was given an opportunity to speak up if they thought it was unfair.  Here's the conversation:




I was the only one who said ANYTHING about it except Bicknellski, who voted 8 chips go to BKKCoins (which is mentioned in the above quote).

I hate how Raging handled this, but as far as I'm concerned he told us he wanted all 22 dev chips to start his assembly biz and no one objected, so everything was public and we all knew what he was planning to do with them.

The heatsinks are worth about $1.  I'd buy some. 

I went looking for a "thatsthejoke.jpg" meme, and realized I'd never actually seen the meme.  Turns out it's from the Simpsons.  Learn something new every day huh.

Anyway,

thatsthejoke.jpg

I think with BTCT closing, Ukyo should make a public announcement as to the status of bitfunder with regards to regulatory compliance.  I know I'm a little anxious right now.

The same one I put out a while ago.  I just added some columns.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApT7WUJuJCwMdEhFX2UxbF9Nd0xydmhnUUJiZVBLVlE#gid=0

Can we call a ceasefire?  People know what they are getting into.  This thread is about the BF1 USB miner; not developer integrity or manufacturer integrity.  Kano has supported a lot of stuff, and Bicknellski has been supportive of the DIY community as far as I've seen.  I've participated in group buys with him and I've watched him refund K1's before he even received his refund.

Both of you guys are assets to bitcoin in one way or another.  Any way we can leave it at that?

I've gone through and added up all the swaps, and calculated a refund amount based on the swaps, located in Column N of the "Original Data" sheet.  This refund amount was calculated leaving John K's fee intact.  Any other payment for facilitating (Me, Noitev, redphlegm) has NOT been included in that total.  RagingAzn628's fee is NOT included in that total.

Please review and let me know if you find any mistakes.

Keep in mind that I did not do any calculations with regards to secondary purchases.  That is, if you sold your chips, that sale is private;  acquiring chips through bartering after the group buy is done should be viewed as a private transaction.  For instance, if you traded someone your car for their stake on chips, the group buy should only refund you what the chips cost to the original buyer and not the value of your car.  

That's not the issue.  The issue is that you went AWOL when shit hit the fan.  Your "facilitation" fee was not earned nor do I think it is deserved.  Do you disagree?  I make no judgment on your part; things happen.  But I don't feel that you earned your fee.  If you believe you have earned it, feel free to make your case.  I imagine you probably won't find a lot of support here as your absence caused a large amount of distress for many of us.

Edit: I believe are entitled to a refund just like everyone else.  But we paid a "fee" of 1% to you for organizing and facilitating this group buy, which you failed to do.  THAT is what I feel you are not entitled to.

Can do.  However, should raging get his original 1%?  He fucking bounced.  I vote he gets jack shit.  John K deserves his cut, but raging just kind of left us holding the bag here.

I think the spreadsheet that I've posted contains all the pertinent information.  I understand that bitcoin was the measurement, and not chips (although why that was is beyond me; it's a lot easier to split bitcoin than chips).  This is why my sheet contains rounded information as well, since we couldn't feasibly split chips.  I can fancy it up and add exact btc amounts as well, to make sure everything adds up.

Ok.  Here's my AMD driver package, if this helps:



I can mine btc on it just fine.

Is there a known working version of catalyst I can roll back to?

Alright, so I'm trying to figure this shit out.

Here's the parameters I'm using:

oclvanitygen -k -t 256 -d 0 -f c:\temp\pattern.txt -o c:\temp\match.txt -s c:\temp\random.txt

-k: keep searching
-t 256: 256 threads; seems to net me the most MKeys/Sec
-d 0: my GPU
-f c:\temp\pattern.txt: A list of 7 patterns I'd like
-o c:\temp\match.txt: output any matches here
-s c:\temp\random.txt: seed with text from random.org

I've been running for days; patterns are prefixes between 4-10 characters long and I've been unable to find anything.  Here's an output of it running now:



From what I've read 30Mkeys/Sec is pretty good, but how come I haven't found anything for like 4 or 5 days?  I've got 6 patterns that are 1XXXX and  one that is 1XXXXXXXX.  

One additional question, which letters/numbers are prohibited?  I heard somewhere 1's and l's and I's are not allowed?  

With no "acceptance" email or any kind of acknowledgement that my receipt was recorded, I can't remember what day I requested it.  Hence the lack of inclusion of my refund date in the post.  However, I can say it was before I posted on the 11th that I had requested one.  So probably Sep 10th, and I received a refund yesterday.

Just to make it a little more succinct.  Emphasis mine.

Refund received; batch 3 and batch 5 for 41 total chips.

Thanks Steamboat!

Looking forward to progress in the assembly arena.  Expecting that to pick up later though, I can understand getting refunds out would be difficult and time consuming.  Keep us posted.

I didn't realize assembly was directly connected to chips.  I thought assembly was going to be refunded the same way chips were.  I don't want a 25% refund on assembly if I can instead apply the whole thing to a Gen2 board.  That's my end game, or so I thought.

Hey vs3;

PM'd.  Let me know if you need anything additional.

Today makes a week since the last update.  *Twiddles thumbs* 

Awwwwww Yeeeea!