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2461  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Red Fury Help!!! on: January 19, 2014, 06:51:59 AM
Great work. I live on the east coast but if I have those kinds of issues I may just PM you. LOL



Heres a picture of me with some modified redfuries at the Vegas conference.



some more redfury mods.



as you can see some people used a lot of pencil.

which gave them 0hashrate. brought these 3 back up to about 2.2-2.7Ghs.



heres a picture of my good friend working on my first batch of redfury. we modified all the R15 and added UV Led lights because the manufacturer decided to put a single color LED instead of a Bi Color.

A lot of these companies are selling crap electronic components from the electronics counterfeiting capital of the world. Shenzhen.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-21/china-top-source-of-counterfeit-u-s-military-electronics.html

There are all kinds of shortages of good parts so they use crap counterfeits/alternatives/bad batches.

I hear bitfury chips are 1 off the reel is bad 4 are okay 1 is bad 4 are okay 1 is bad. cmon 1 out of 5 chips is broken so theres going to be a lot of duds.

looks like you probably didnt get a Case either for your bitcoin miner.

Its very shitty some manufacturers dont even supply a case for their miner they just charged for.

oh its too expensive to ship bla bla my ass. they want it to break and force you to buy more.

2462  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: RedFury dropping to 0.00 hashrate on: January 19, 2014, 06:13:55 AM
How are you cooling them?  They sound like they are overheating.
I use Arctic Breeze USB fans on all of my USB Miners.
My 5gh/s BiFury runs at 5.81 gh/s just due to cooling.
Also with that many you may need another dedicated hub so they can all get consistent power.
I use 2 of the Anker 7 port hubs fine but I have heard the 10 port needs a bit more power to supply a full load of Furies.

I purchased 10 redfury's and they finally arrived this morning after 2 months of waiting.. anyway 9 out of 10 work, the PC don't find 1, so that's going back but that's not why I'm here so i'll get to it.

I plugged the 9 in and I got zidag drivers plus CGminer then connected to the pool, for about 20mins everything was going fine, until I saw the hashrate dropping on one of them. I decided to restart CGminer only to find it was just showing 8 running, one had a solid red light.. ok , so I tried stopping again and checked the device manager, it was reporting all 9.. :/    next I unplugged it, put it back in and ran the CGminer again,,, everything was good again, nice 20gh + for about 20 mins .. like  Huh this time it was a different stick and not only one but 2 have stopped.. Cry ok try a 3rd time.. well, the 3rd time as you can imagine made me start pulling my hair out.. same thing again.. another 2 random sticks stopped after about 20 - 30 mins (not at the same time).
For some unknown reason I can't keep all 9 going for very long (although it did last for nearly 2 hours before dropping 1, but that was only once)
I have windows 7, Anker ubs3 9 port (which 5 redfurys are in and 4 of them are connected to the mainboard USB port) using zidag 6.1.7600.16385 and CGminer

I suspect either
1. I need better drivers or
2. the Anker is faulty or
3. my motherboard is USB2 and plugging the anker into this is causing the bus to overload and shutdown one of the miners

has anyone got any clues for me??.. any help will be much appreciated
2463  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Social Experiment on: January 19, 2014, 03:08:02 AM
It is funny I like social experiments.
This does seem like an MTurk type as well.  I know another poster said that as well.
I hope this will be something fun and interesting that is why I donated $1 to the cause.
Believe me as well, I do not have much BTC and even less cash.  If I was not so embarrassed I would actually ask for BTC donations for myself as I am disabled from an accident 1 1/2 yrs ago and really want to keep building in BTC.  I talked about what happened in another thread on here so I will not do so here.
So please do not be a scammer and hopefully this is enjoyable as every penny of my money means quite a bit to me.
Thanks

Ok i just sent a bit.
Now fess up the experiment.
Is it just to part people with their BTC?

Confirmed and thanks for joining!

I know the excitement and anticipation is unbearable. I do want to try and get a few more people on-board though, so I will wait a while longer to give others the chance to jump in.

As indicated previously, I think a nice number would be 10 participants. The experiment will go on now that the minimal requirement has been filled, but keep in mind that this is the minimum amount assuming no one else joins and not the optimal number that I think will make this work.


2464  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Social Experiment on: January 19, 2014, 02:24:09 AM
Ok i just sent a bit.
Now fess up the experiment.
Is it just to part people with their BTC?



Hello

I am looking for participants in a rather unique study I am undertaking, a social experiment if you will. I plan to keep track of this endeavor online, in this thread actually, and invite participants and others to follow along.

Due to the nature of this experiment, I need to keep the details secure for the time being, but will reveal more as the experiment progresses. For now, I need to solicit donations from the community. Don’t worry as what I require is fairly small.
 
I need to secure a total of $1.00 in present day value of bitcoin, which currently (17 January 2014) is trading at $790 on BTC-e and $885 on Mt. Gox, thus we will call it ~ $850.

Based upon this rough average, I need to ask for donations to equal 0.00117647 bitcoin. More is ok, but I would like to have multiple participants contribute toward the minimum donation, meaning each donation should be less than the required amount.

I have created a new dedicated wallet for this project and will use this same address throughout the project so that everyone can view the transactions on the block chain.

So anyone who is interested, please donate some BTC dust to: 1FxQJWfQm1g6eQjDj7KwCp4ovZ1o1QMhjk

Unfortunately, that is all I can reveal for now but rest assured more is to come.

Thank you for taking time to read this and for your consideration.

Best Regards,
Starman22





Donations so far: https://blockchain.info/address/1FxQJWfQm1g6eQjDj7KwCp4ovZ1o1QMhjk
2465  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Miner Purchase Suggestions Please on: January 18, 2014, 08:14:26 PM
Thanks I am humbled that you feel that way. 
I don't feel very awesome at all I just try to make it one day at a time.
Today is a bad day.  I can barely move and finally made it out of bed.  My leg won't work right due to muscles locking.  Leaves me exhausted and shaky when it ends.
I appreciate the help in keeping eyes open.
I have a couple offers so far too and hope to get more and make my decision on wednesday.
This is quite fun.  I am so pleasantly surprised how wonderful everyone has been here.  The PM's have been excellent as well as this thread.

Thank you everyone.  This really does feel like a community even if we are spread all over the world.   Smiley

Wow. You should bottle and sell some of your awesome.

Thank you for sharing. If I find some cheap hash I will let you know.

So, my favorite magic quote, "If you find yourself and a friend being chased by a king cheetah, you have but one chance: Trip your friend."
2466  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Miner Purchase Suggestions Please on: January 18, 2014, 08:09:10 PM
I'm doing that as well.
I have one rig doing LTC and Middlecoin.
That's fun too.   I worked on a script for my GPH card with help from nwools.  It was lots of fun now I have pushed a R7 250 to about 112 kh/s on LTC.

buy a graphics card and point it at hashco.ws or middlecoin
2467  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Miner Purchase Suggestions Please on: January 18, 2014, 07:39:06 AM
Quite true.  The only issue there is it's like day trading and I got caught up in that craze for over a year.  I came out ahead by about 20K but I was going nuts doing and keeping track and obsessing over it.  LOL

or learn how to read the ghs/btc candles "the bars" on cex and watch it closely you can profit
2468  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Miner Purchase Suggestions Please on: January 18, 2014, 07:25:58 AM
Those are good ideas.
I'm not sure I can come up with enough to make .59 BTC though.  I looked at his stuff and was hoping it would be in my range but not quite.  If I can sell the rest of my Magic the Gathering cards though I might be able to but so far no takers.  I do not have many of the valued cards and even though the ones I have are all mint they are from 1994 and 1995 there have been many cheaper revisions since then.
Still I've been going through my stuff I don't use anymore hopefully something will get me there.


add a few bucks to it or btc and buy a cube from CrazyGuy in group buys. I bought from him and happy with it. 0.59 btc for BE Cube ~32 GH/s low clock. or try cryptrade bot for cex.io
2469  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Miner Purchase Suggestions Please on: January 18, 2014, 07:20:23 AM
My age is the answer to the ultimate question this year.  LOL
I was out in the yard alone yes, I should have got a tractor but I was just in work mode and did not think and then I was toast.
My wife and family have been wonderful especially my wife.  She is always there for me just like lastnight when I was bent over backwards with locked muscles.
As for crying it happens alot when the frustration and pain beat me down. Especially when I want to do something simple like lift a 5 gallon water jug and I can't or I want to go for a walk with my wife on the trails through the woods I made over the years and cannot because I end up bedridden for the day.  It's a constant fight between pain and depression.
I've always been an athlete I played hockey since I was tiny and while I was a systems and network admin I was also a professional wrestler performing indy shows all over the east coast.  I retired from that about 8 years ago but kept in shape.
I used to be 6'3" 245lbs and in shape.  Now I cannot usually stand up straight and I am down to 215lbs because I can't be active anymore.  If I overdo it the spasms hit.  
It's kind of freeing to be able to talk about this in the open I usually don't and bottling it up is no good.  Most of our family did not know how bad it was until my wife and I decided it was time to tell them just after New Years when I had a bad fall and could not hide it anymore.

I have to say Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have given me something to do and it's awesome.  Just the things I have been able to do and trade and buy with this is awesome.  We have very little left over money so most of my gear has been purchased in trades or for bitcoins I mined. It's fun and the community is great.  Smiley
  

Sorry to take you off the hardware target.  That's brutal. I would probably spend all day crying if that happened to me.

So you were alone when it happened? How old are you? Feel free to not answer if you don't want to.

It's hard to find something positive I'm sure. Your wife is supportive? I think mine might leave me for dead if it were me.
2470  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Miner Purchase Suggestions Please on: January 18, 2014, 06:39:57 AM
I was thinking that may be a possibility too with another Jalapeno.  I really want to find something in the 10gh/s to 15gh/s range but blades require more hardware I don't have yet and they are on the upper end of my budget.  So I keep looking and searching for the right combo of stuff.

I live quite rural and our home is in the woods past the in-laws farm.

I was moving logs (yup trees) after a storm I shifted wrong and I ended up with two disks breaking so badly I could not move my right leg.  
The first surgery got the debris out and opened up space.  They had damaged my spinal cord and nerve roots. After the surgery and 6 months of brutal physical therapy I am able to use my leg most of the time now.  The spinal cord and nerve damage that is left is permanent.  The neuropathy is terrible. My back and leg both burn and sear while parts are numb and in pain too.  The worst  are the muscle spasms that happen from the spinal cord and nerve damage.  Muscles will lock and spasm and I can't walk or the ones in my back on the right side will hit and bend me in half backwards.  It's terrible.
I got a spinal cord stimulator to help with some of the pain but there is no help for the spasms.  The tests today were to see what the damage is doing to cause other issues.  It's freaky I've been injured before and this is nothing like it.  Before you heal and get on with things this is constant pain 24/7.  The lack of sleep is difficult and the loss of being able to do things and not fight pain 24/7 is extremely difficult to take.  



I don't have any good ideas. Maybe buy another jally and flash it too. I really don't like bfl though.

What happened with the logs? You mean the the wood type and not the info a program spits out right? You were carrying some?
2471  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: MultiMiner & MobileMiner: Your Coins. Your Pools. Your way. Win/Mac/Linux/Mobile on: January 18, 2014, 05:47:56 AM
Thanks!
Now I am going to feel a bit more positive about picking up some ants.

I'll go ahead and toss out an unofficial build of 2.4. This has all the fixes from 2.3.5 merged in, and includes:

  • Added support for AntMiner U1 and LittleFury
  • Click the Utility column to display Work Utility instead
  • Re-scan devices before auto-mining on startup commences
  • Show current hashrate (in addition to the previous average hashrate)
  • Display nicer device names when possible based on driver

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ll1805ms0haydv8/MultiMiner-2.4.0.zip
2472  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Miner Purchase Suggestions Please on: January 18, 2014, 02:56:13 AM
I'm aware of all of this.  I actually have a mining setup doing a measly 15 gh/s or so out of some mixed stuff.  I like the hands on aspect of it.

I also have a cex.io account too. Smiley

We also have free electricity as a bonus.  We have a methane electricity generation plant on the family farm here.  It just went online this summer.

One of the best things for me with this is I am recently disabled it gives me something to do.  I got hurt with some logs 1 1/2 yrs ago and just had my 2nd surgery two months ago and today in fact a freaking spinal myelogram today which was horrible and I had just thought I was getting a CT scan to see if the scar tissue or SCS implant were what has been causing problems.

This gives me something to have fun with.
I was a Systems Admin/Network Tech for the last 18yrs.  I cannot do that anymore but the tinkering here and there when I am able keep me from going nuts.

I was healthy, fit, happy and active and in a split second it all was gone.

Sorry for rambling on I just enjoy this.  I can mess with them from bed and learn the differing programs and such.
It's fascinating and fun.

I don't have any extra money usually but the bills are paid.  With this I was hoping to buy something more to play with and learn.
I also want to have lightfoot speed up my jalapeno.

With the bit of coin I made I have just got another redfury to play with it should be here soon too.

Hopefully I can get some ideas from you all.  Smiley


You can buy cloud mining power at cex.io

I don't suggest you to use this website in order to invest! You could buy just 1 GH/s just to understand how mining works and get the feeling of mining bitcoin on your own.

But honestly buying a miner you're going to run on your own is a bad idea. Besides all the fuss and the bad experience you can have with the companies that sell them; we're also just a week before the next difficulty reset which is going to be one of the biggest resets if not the biggest (30%). According to that, putting your money to a miner would be a bad investment right now or at any time since we're at a point that there's no getting back now.The difficulty will just keep going up. 

Here's my source for the info about the reset: http://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty
2473  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Hacking a BFL Jalapeno to 32GH and beyond....(???) on: January 18, 2014, 02:36:26 AM
Awesome!!!

A satisfied lightfoot client here! submitted for your approval :
exhibit A:Ezminer stats
exhibit B: 4 chip jalapeno 2 installed by lightfoot with heatsinks on 2 power FETs,1 gate driver(copper)



2 morrow will post bfgminer stats with rma power supply 13v 6a ,going to run my other 4.2gh jalapeno with this !....2nite Smiley
thank's lightfoot u da man Cool
2474  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Miner Purchase Suggestions Please on: January 18, 2014, 02:18:31 AM
I have $400 coming on Tuesday that I can spend on mining gear.
My question to you all is what will get me the most bang for my buck.  It's not enough for a 30gh/s unit and not quite enough to buy two of any lesser units.
I would love some suggestions and maybe links.

I have been going through this forum and ebay such just trying to find the right deal. 

Thanks everyone I look forward to seeing what you all suggest so I can stretch this a bit.
2475  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Newegg now offering "Miner's starter set" on: January 18, 2014, 01:54:25 AM
This would be great.
It would be a huge win for BTC.
2476  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: MultiMiner & MobileMiner: Your Coins. Your Pools. Your way. Win/Mac/Linux/Mobile on: January 17, 2014, 12:32:11 AM


MuM stopped working. I uninstall 2.3.4 and reinstalled and it still will not launch. I uninstalled and installed 2.3.3 and it won't run either. Any idea what might've happened?

That I'm not sure of.  Did you try only using the red to make sure it has enough power?
Also did the drivers install properly?  If so it should show up in your device manager or in your printers and devices folder.
Mr Wools would know way more than I do.  He is great helped me through issues too.

I put the Red Furys on a miner by themselves and run them with cgMiner 3.9.0.

MuM has been running Block Eruptors and BFL Singles with no problem until today. I made sure they had the right drivers using Zadig. I just put them back on cgMiner as I cannot afford down time. I don't know what I did.

I know MuM uses BFGminer for the backend.  It may be related to needing the right drivers for BFG as that usually uses FTDI driver pack.
2477  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: MultiMiner & MobileMiner: Your Coins. Your Pools. Your way. Win/Mac/Linux/Mobile on: January 17, 2014, 12:21:59 AM


MuM stopped working. I uninstall 2.3.4 and reinstalled and it still will not launch. I uninstalled and installed 2.3.3 and it won't run either. Any idea what might've happened?

That I'm not sure of.  Did you try only using the red to make sure it has enough power?
Also did the drivers install properly?  If so it should show up in your device manager or in your printers and devices folder.
Mr Wools would know way more than I do.  He is great helped me through issues too.
2478  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Hacking a BFL Jalapeno to 32GH and beyond....(???) on: January 17, 2014, 12:13:08 AM
Have you though of using a Peltier plate?
They are excellent at moving heat and keeping stuff cool.

Junkyard = Car Radiator = Cheap heat exchanger.

Plastic tubing with a reduction fitting all held together by clips and screw on clamps.
Yep. The other thought is to use the existing radiator and just mount it outside in the shade. I might need a larger pump to move the water longer distances, maybe.

Another thought would be to stick an AC unit in the water with it, then pull the heat off that way. Or something even weirder.

C
2479  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [ANN] Bi•Fury | 5+ GH/s USB Miner [IN STOCK!] {CHRISTMAS SALE !} on: January 17, 2014, 12:09:31 AM
Yes you can retry.
I had to do it to mine twice to get it to take for some reason.



hello ,


i want to upgrade the firmware from my 5ghs bi fury and do it like it is posted in the original pdf (i think i do all thinks like its showed up there)
first connectet the 2 pads,waiting 4 the green light is flashing off,erase the old firmware, put the new in (doesnt matter which firmware, ) and eject the device.
the plug off.
after that i plug in and nothing happens.cgminer doesnt accept the miners.(i do it on 2 :-/ of them  ).
i was confused and thought there are damaged, and if i try to erase the firmware again, no problem , i can put it in and the removal disk opens up again , and i can do it again.....but the miners dont start again .
would be nice if any one has some tips...i dont think that im so stupid that i destroy them...i flashed several hundreds  bios before and i know that it must be done very carefully.i dl them here
http://c-scape.nl/bi-fury/
its the 5ghs bifury stick.
it would benice if anyone can help:-/
thx and best regards


2480  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [ANN] Bi•Fury | 5+ GH/s USB Miner [IN STOCK!] {CHRISTMAS SALE !} on: January 17, 2014, 12:08:06 AM
Here is what I am getting with mine.  I might try lowering the Oscillating a bit to see if it reduces errors but this is un-overclocked.
Runs great and cool with and Artic Breeze fan on it.




Is that on windows?

This is on Win7 32bit.
It also operates the same on my Win7 64bit system.
I have not tested it on Win8 though.


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