ive been getting about 50/50 luck of images showing over the last few days. Theymos clearly doesnt put much effort into server upgrades for the site

i would be more inclined to pay for porn using a crypto then i would using a credit card

that said, coinorgy would make a good bitcoin exchange site lol

pretty much any antminer can get 190GH at 375MHz without issues. about 70% can handle 387.5MHz (195Gh), about 40% can handle 387.5MHz (199GH) and only about 10% can handle 400MHz (202GH)

of course, adding a second fan or other cooling assistance can help improve those ratios a little bit - my above statement is my experience with using antminers with a single stock fan and sitting normally on a flat surface

just a pencil mod on R3 (or was it R12?). 8 pencil mods per S1 unit.

but the reality is that underclocking/volting an s1 doesnt make monetary sense right now. In about 2 months it will make more sense if power is a limitation and as power costs begin to catch up to the profit of mining

^im inclined to agree. a percentage cut is an odd way to operate, espescially when after 2-3 months it will be a very small cut, and dissapearing with the miners starts to look like an easy way out.

thats semi-true. You could probably overclock linearly for about 10% before errors begin to arise and then you must increase the voltage slightly to continue clocking higher.

The power draw should be more, but its likely not much more

all these are true, particularly checking the screws. usually almost everyt screw can benefit from an extra 1/8th turn, and there is often -3 screws per unit that need 1/3 turn of more.

My last 5 miners that arrived together were like that. no thermal goo leaks thankfully (my prior order of three needed alcohol cleaning on ALL SIX BLADES), but most of the screws benefitted from a quick tension check and 1 screw actually managed to not be screwed in at all. I pulled the miner out of its mylar bag and watched the screw fall out and slip through the grated flooring to be lost somewhere below

^I tightened all the nearby screws and theres no issues with it - just 1 hole that is missing its screw

my last 2 buys (8*S1 and 1*S2 in the last 14 days) have not come with any coupons, and I am now out of 0.055 coupons. All i have left are shitty 0.02BTC coupons ($12 off - whoooooo!)

Its up to bitmain to give coupons - I do not expect any but it sure is nice when i get them. Generally the coupons have been given at times where a price jump or delay have been reason for some value loss to buyers.

The 0.055BTC coupons seemed to be given to everybody at once based on thier order history or something. I went to buy an antminer one day and they were suddenly in my account, despite not being there a few days earlier and not having bought any miners for almost a month prior

sounds about right. I know if trading started I would be interested to buy in a small risk at that price level, just in case ACTM actually succeeds

the short answer is NO - in order to mine other algorithms beside scrypt, cgminer or another program needs to actually initiate with that mining protocol. Clever mining simply gives/receives scrypt hashes that can be applied to whatever the coin is at the time.

The stratum proxy CANNOT direct cgminer to switch algorithms at this point in time. To do so would almost certainly require an advanced command to modify the configuration file from 'scrypt' to 'n-scrypt' followed by a quit/restart command. Cgminer does not allow that and it should never allow that IMO as it would create a massive backdoor for stratum/pool to modify files on your computer and issue program commands

If you thought being forced into some other pool was a terrible attack, imagine if your cgminer was fed instructions to modify its .conf file to overclock/overvolt your GPU way past limits and re-initiate.

of course, i understand that. however, it would not really be in bitmain's interests to start up another R&D plus production line for an S1.5 model.

you can do any of these right now:
Buy 3 antminers and undervolt     =   400GH / 500W / 2.7BTC
Buy 2 antminers and no overclock =   400GH / 800W / 1.8BTC
Buy an antminer S2 unit              =   1000GH / 1kW / 6.3BTC  (sold out, and will take about 10 days longer to receive a batch 2 even if you did order)
Buy 7 antminers and undervolt      =   960GH / 1.1kW / 6.5BTC

personally, the S2 makes sense if you want:
a) included PSU ($200 expense for nice ATX vs $50 if you were modding server gear)
b) fewer cords (1 ethernet and 1 power, verses 7 ethernets for a comparable hashrate of underclocked S1 units)
c) simpler control (1 IP address rather than 7)
d) better density (S1 units can be a bit tricky to stack and have wires going in all directions to the PSU)

I ordered a batch 2 unit, but in retrospect almost wish i went with multiple S1 units instead. REALLY hoping that the S2 can overclock past 1.15TH if given good airflow and an extra 300W

on that note: I would be willing to sell my Batch 2 pre-order at the right price - PM me if you want to offer AT LEAST 6.85BTC for it

10BTC, and someone needs to provide escrow for the payment

or download flappy bird elsewhere? Im sure its on piuratebay or someplace else.

hell, ive got flappy bird on my blackberry Z10 (android flavor)

looks fake. multiple reasons:
1) no hologram, the qr looks stamped in
2) silver PLATED = cheap

title sums it up - I am ordering a few dozen of these myself for use with a few server power supplies to make connecting to hardware like antminers much simpler.

Male 6-pin PCI head will have 16AWG wires (each wirepair is good for ~80W, so lots of safe power without melting like a cheap 18awg).

wires will be black and yellow, with 10mm stripped (and I beleive tinned) ends.

Rough Pricing:

1-10: $2 each
11-20: $1.75 each
21-30: $1.50 each
31-50: $1.25 each
50+: $1.00 each

Shipping within Canada will be roughly $5 for a small package and up to $10 for larger quanitites.
Shipping to the US will be roughly $8-20 depending on quantity
no shipping outside North America


If this is of interest, I have a small batch coming in a week or so, after which I might actually create a groupbuy to get a little bit further savings. PM me if you are seriously looking for >50 please

the dragon miner 1TH units are cheaper then the S2 - currently around $3250 shipping a few days sooner than the S2 that was $3799

however:
1) btc prices dipped slightly since the S2 went out of stock, so BTC/BTC prices are pretty similar
2) The dragon miner semingly cannot overclock. The S2 stands a very good chance for overclocking based on the bitmain track record (i will be moderately dissapointed if my S2 cannot achieve >1.15TH)

howver - hardware immediately in-hand is a huge benefit, and it sounds like you have some space and power for it. I would suggest buying 10 antminer S1 units and some server supplies to run them all

^go out and buy a few antminers to undervolt.  1TH+ is necessary if you are serious about equipment that will run for 6months+

The S1 was 4.75BTC at first. now its less than 1/5th of that. The S2 will cost 1BTC in only a few months

^is there a problem with that? Thats about 42BTC in a month considering difficulty adjustments

This. I have a half-filled september m-board, and i have been buying antminers for the last several months because bitfury boards were outrageously priced so the board goes un-filled

I was referring to the chips in the current prototype and upcoming 200GH. If they are not actm then its not looking good - may as well buy shares in a cloudhashing like ce.io or the 500TH mine since thats all you would be getting. The custom design and fabrication is the only way to make actm significant success.

also, your math is a bit off. Difficulty is going up about 55%/month, or in 5 months almost 10x what it is today