Some people seem to think the coupon is 10% off from next order, I interpreted it as a coupon worth 10% of your old order value so I don't really see why people are trying to calculating stuff. It's easy, take the 7,7% if you don't know if you are buying more S3s, if you plan on buying more S3s just take the coupons.
I was thinking the same thing.  |
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Ordered : 2014-06-30 22:04:41 Paid : 2014-06-30 22:10:30 Still not shipped  Hopefully tomorrow |
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From now on no one say ANYTHING about how much time it took to solve the last block, or how long the current block is taking! It seems that when we were not discussing the time between blocks, were were solving 2,3 sometimes 4 a day. I think all of this talk has angered the Bitcoin Gods!!  |
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Now if they made that S1 upgrade kit with the corrected hardware and allowed you to apply the 10% off coupon to the upgrade kit, things could get very interesting.......
What do you mean by "corrected" hardware? I have a bunch of S1's that I plan to replace with S3's, but if it is cheaper to upgrade my S1's I'd rather go that route. |
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If you're dead set on getting an S3 (batch 1 even), we have 6 remaining on Amazon - but they're more expensive than purchasing direct with bitcoin (whenever batch 4 opens). Based on the last couple of days, I don't expect them to last through tomorrow. Thanks, but I already have 2 coming from Batch 1 and 2 coming from Batch 2. Just was trying to get 2 more. I can wait for the next batch. Do you mean that batch 1 has already started to get shipped? My understanding is that Batch 1 ships today. I sure hope it does. |
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What kind of scam are you pimping? Minerscube 5? Never heard of it and certainly if it was legit, there'd be a lot of talk in the Hardware forum.
they must be a con, but they take paypal. so they do look interesting
I am also concerned that they are too good to be true, but Paypal certainly helps here. I guess we should watch this space. Not sure if I would throw that much money at a product/company with no real track record. If someone like Bitmain had a 5TH/825W box, I'd be all over it |
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If you're dead set on getting an S3 (batch 1 even), we have 6 remaining on Amazon - but they're more expensive than purchasing direct with bitcoin (whenever batch 4 opens). Based on the last couple of days, I don't expect them to last through tomorrow. Thanks, but I already have 2 coming from Batch 1 and 2 coming from Batch 2. Just was trying to get 2 more. I can wait for the next batch. |
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Are there no more S3 available for purchase?  Is the third batch already totally ordered?  I think Batch 3 is sold out. I tried to order 2 more from Batch 3 and I couldn't.   |
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So when is the first batch of S3's going to start shipping?
Based on what I have seen, Sunday or Monday.  |
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The s1 eats £50 of leccy a month, & only produces about £85 of Bitcoin a month.
These big blocks could kill s1 miners, as they reduce that £85.
It's something you'll need to allow for in how work is allocated across the Bitminter pool. Those of us with units with better GH to w ratios will last longer, but the s1's will feel it more and more.
Downclock them so you got a better ratio per GH ? Like 1 Kw per GH ? Search for pencil mod, you can run an S1 at 140 GH for 180 Watt if i can remember correctly. Yup, gonna run some trials now to see if I can improve performance. I'll post results. I only have the one s1, but if we can save our miners it's worth it. Ok, the lowest I could get it running at was 130 GH. That ate about 310w. The ratio always seems to be 0.42 GH/w. Where as the newer miners roll in at closer to 1 GH/w. So you can dial them back, but your profit will stay crap. Not the best of news. check this thread => https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=526060.0"With this voltage my 3 antminer s1 are hashing at 140 GH/s each for 500 watts (166 watts per ant)" I got my 3 down to 434 watts at the wall with a RM750 PS at 140 GH/s as well. IMO, the thing to remember is that once the miner has paid for itself, the only cost is electricity. Even if you only mine $1.01 BTC for every $1.00 of electricity, you are making a profit. A VERY SMALL profit, but still a profit. This is where you have to decide between 3 different options: 1) Buy more efficient miners; 2) Reduce voltage to a point where your cost/profit ration improves; or 3) Stop mining. I personally will be doing a combination of 1 & 2. I have a pair of S3's on order that will replace 2 of my S1's. Once the remaining S1's are no longer profitable running at 180 GH/s I'll drop their voltage to get a better rate. Hopefully, I'll be able to replace all 6 of my S1's with S3's. This will increase my overall hashing power at no additional electric cost. |
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Much as I appreciate averages balance stuff out I'm worried about these big blocks & the lack of return on them.
There are many pools. If we are too greedy for blocks we may well have nothing but crap work dumped on us ( big blocks, low pay ). And at that point our average will suffer.
If that happens your only choice will be to go to a new pool. & Bitminter will die.
No-one can afford to run at a loss after all. So I'd be careful about these big blocks. If someone is trying to pay feck-all for a ton of work you really do need to avoid them.
Err, I'm not sure I follow your point. Pools don't get to choose how long it takes to find a block nor which block they're working on. It's just dumb luck, and at least according to the weekly stats posted by organofcorti, Bitminter usually comes out as a very lucky pool. Now I hope that exposing that info doesn't jinx us!  Where do you go to get the blocks? If we can nab the nice one's first then we get a better return. The good Doctor does not get his pick of blocks. The blocks are handed out and it's just a matter of luck in how much work it takes the pool to solve. |
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Does anyone know if there is a firm shipping date for S3 Batch 1? |
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The s1 only draw 370 watts instead of 1500 for regular space heater, and the fans are more powerful so would throw more heat around a larger space too.
Just mount the S1's in the HVAC ducts and your whole house benefits from the heat |
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Out of interest I went back and looked at the block history on BitMinter ... and how things have changed ...
The oldest entry is the 3rd July 2011 and took 14 days 3hrs and 10 mins! (When Bitminter started). Difficulty was 1,379,192 and the pool speed registered at 0.0 Thps ... naturally DrHaribo made the block that day.
Three blocks were solved on 4th July 2012 (none on the third) and the pool speed was 0.2 Thps.
3rd July 2013 shows 6 blocks solved and the pool speed was 5.9 Thps and difficulty was 21,335,329.
3rd July 2014 ... 3 years on from the start... (only 12 months later than the last stats) - 'hello! and welcome to ASIC miners' - 1 block solved at a difficulty of 16,818,461,371.
As I write we are on a 1 Day 15 hour block ... and counting ... but there have been a few good days recently ... and the pool is running at 1367 Thps.
What will 3rd July 2015 show? We can't even speculate.
Don't you wish you could go back to 2012 with a couple of S1's? |
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Welcome to the roller-coaster ride of mining
It's more like the Tower of Terror at Disney World |
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112bit not a secured http site? Would love to purchase some of the those s3's from them...even though they are an authorized extension of bitmain for the US, but not a secured site??? Ok I skeered...has several hundred users purchase from them? Or just like 5 to 20 peeps?
I have seen them up on eBay already. You may want to check there. |
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Have they arrived? DO they work as advertised? What PSU did you use?
They said they would ship them starting July 10. I will use a Corsair RM 1000. Exactly what i use for my two S1. I should be overclocking them to 504 gh/s. (more if possible. depends on temperature and HW %). I wanted to buy an EVGA SuperNova G2 1300W but there is only 6 PCI-E, you need 8 for two S3 if you want to overclock them. Otherwise, 4 is enough. Have you found any overclocking info for the new S3's? |
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Have they arrived? DO they work as advertised? What PSU did you use?
They ship in a couple of weeks |
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another long block, bad week  We are now 1% of the network. When we solo mined we stopped when we became only 1% of the network because variance starts to rear its ugly head. We need all these spondoolies and ants that were delivered to point some here. On average, we will hit a block every 16 hours so do not start to stress until it is a couple days. It just sucks since the electric bill does not seem to share this variance in timing nor price. But everyone is having a tough time right now (maybe the adjustment was too high). but this happens in this pool, or if you mine in another you will find blocks faster? Or this happens in every pool maybe?. (i mean this week). i come from slush and i prefer better this one, but this week is a disaster with long blocks. Im not going to leave of course, but yeah........ sucks that just 1 block every 16 hours, and again already almost 20 hours and counting. anyways like rewards are based on shifts, you can just say i go to another pool and try luck there on these bad days here because of long blocks, because you will lose your reward, so its ok, i will just hope everything goes better some day xD Sometimes when it rains, it pours other times it sprinkles but there are always rainbows. Besides I was really thinking about forking some usd for that s3...but it seems like I won't get it till the end of next month. Has anyone purchase them yet? Yeah got two of the first batch ^_^ Me too. I almost ordered an S2, but then I saw the specs on the S3, so I ordered 2 from the 1st batch. |
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Sure would be nice to have made some btc, well at least 1 to get a couple of those s3's next month!
I just ordered a couple of S3's. Almost bought a S2, glad I waited. |
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