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281  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: [LIQUIDATION SALE] - MINING RIGS / ANTMINER S5 / S3 / PSU / GPU / CPU - HUGE! on: April 02, 2015, 11:19:31 PM
Will you ship to Canada via UPS? I will cover duties and taxes on my end.

Will you accept PayPal? My account is almost 20 years old, business, and verified.



Hi,

I have no problem shipping to Canada - as long as the pricing for it is covered in the price of the unit we agree on...

However I am at this time only taking payment in BTC.

Thanks and please PM if interested!

Strato
282  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: [LIQUIDATION SALE] - MINING RIGS / ANTMINER S5 / S3 / PSU / GPU / CPU - HUGE! on: April 02, 2015, 11:14:20 PM
What is weight of 1 unit?

The unit itself is 6.5 LBS - Call it 8 LBS with the box and packing material.

Strato
283  Economy / Services / Free Avatars courtesy Stratobitz :) on: April 02, 2015, 11:11:14 PM
Just some unused graphic designs I'd put together over time...

Thought I'd post them... Copyright Stratobitz 2015 - However feel free to use freely as Avatars Smiley

Cheers!

Strato
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284  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: [LIQUIDATION SALE] - MINING RIGS / ANTMINER S5 / S3 / PSU / GPU / CPU - HUGE! on: April 02, 2015, 10:39:56 PM
Since it's a liquidation, I assume it's lower than Bitmain's price.

If you are planning on buying an S5... make me an offer on how many, and include in your offer the shipping costs (I can tape up to 4 boxes together to reduce shipping costs) - and I ship from US Zip 20910 which is far cheaper than China.

Yes the price I'm sure I'll accept will be lower than what you would pay for one at Bitmain - which adds shipping costs to the miner price.

Please simply PM me - X Miners - Shipped to This Zip via "UPS 2ND DAY" - Price Offered.

I'll respond right away.

Thanks!

Strato
285  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: [LIQUIDATION SALE] - MINING RIGS / ANTMINER S5 / S3 / PSU / GPU / CPU - HUGE! on: April 02, 2015, 09:52:36 PM
Where do you ship from?

Sorry I just added this to the OP.  Shipping from  20910 - and I also updated/added return policy. Please see/refresh browser.

Please include in your offer shipping (as I will pay/cover). Also please specify what shipping speed you prefer. I can do USPS or UPS.

Thanks!

Strato
286  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: ANTMINER S5: 1155GH(+OverClock Potential), In Stock $0.319/GH & 0.51W/GH on: April 02, 2015, 09:47:24 PM
I'm personally liquidating all of my Antminer S5 Batch 3 Units. My lease is up - and it's simply too much work to move my business and all the rigs.

Here's the link if anyone is interested:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1010607.0

Cheers!

Strato
287  Economy / Computer hardware / [LIQUIDATION SALE] - MINING EQUIPMENT - ROUND 2 BEGINS! - UPDATED on: April 02, 2015, 09:45:26 PM
Hey Folks!

Well the time has come - my business lease is coming to an end; and I have decided to liquidate rather than move and reset up all the equipment (just too much to do already).

ROUND 2 - ANTMINER S3+ FARM - PENDING PAYMENTS/MINERS CLAIMED - WILL UPDATE IF UNITS REMAIN

LIKE NEW ANTMINER S3+ BATCH 7 & 8 UNITS
WITH OR WITHOUT EVGA 1300w PSUs

PERFECT WORKING ORDER - GUARANTEED/RETURNS ACCEPTED
+ FREE SHIPPING!




CURRENTLY ON HOLD FOR CUSTOMER PAYMENT

I am also offering these miners for sale as 3 Unit Packages - with PSU's - Link Below!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1027897.msg11116290#msg11116290
 


Miners work perfectly. Clean, no dust, low to no HW reporting. PSUs are clean, no overheating.


Each Miner Includes


//    (1) Bitmain Antminer S3+ Batch 7/8 Unit with original boxes.

//    FREE Shipping via Ground with Insurance to Continental USA

TERMS

PAYMENT

All payments are calculated in USD and can be made payable with BTC. Highly Trusted Forum Members may be able to purchase with deposit and final payment on deliver - or payment on delivery; depending on Trust/Level. Otherwise; payment will be due at time of confirmation of your order - and your order will ship within 1 business day after payment is received.

If a buyer is allowed to purchase units using a partial payment deposit (non-escrow) both the first and final payment are to be calculated in USD- and paid in BTC.

Due to the low price point - I am not offering escrow. Please see my Trust Feedback/Reviews. Many Happy Transactions!

RETURNS

All units have been running perfectly and will be tested prior to shipping.

If any units are found to be DOA or not in perfect working order; I will replace or refund the unit. Returns due to defective units will be covered at my expense (shipping). Returns will be accepted for up to 7 days after the buyer has received the units. Returns for non-defective units will not be accepted due to the shipping costs involved.


SHIPPING

Free Shipping to Continental USA buyers including Insurance and Required Signature Confirmation.

Questions? Feel free to post here in the thread or simply send me a PM!


Cheers!

Strato

288  Economy / Services / Re: [BIT-X.com] Twitter Campaign! on: April 02, 2015, 02:16:55 AM
I have a question that doesnt seem to be answered anywhere.

Is this an ongoing campaign... as in x amount per retweet/favorite - ongoing... or just a 1 time payment to do the items listed in the OP post?

It doesnt really specify.

Thanks!

Strato
289  Economy / Services / Re: [BIT-X.com] Twitter Campaign! on: April 02, 2015, 02:03:42 AM
Bit-X Address:     34J6gH6WjT1y8mD7VJ5x4tZpYt1DsQ6sFM

LINK - WITH PINNED TWEET + 3 RT/FAV:     https://twitter.com/BlTC0lN

Followers:  3559   (Audits at 88% Real) - 3164 Real

All organic followers.
290  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: BitLendingClub on: March 02, 2015, 05:19:21 PM
EU driving licences have no expiration date. It's always funny watching US police officers looking for it. Cheesy
Not sure about the license number, Austrian driving licenses have 8 digits for example. Maybe Irish licences have 6 digits only, I don't know.
Country of issue is clearly visible in the upper right corner on every EU driving license + district authority in the middle.

Also according to Wikipedia EU Drivers Licenses are either 10 or 15 years depending on the issuing country; and must be renewed for all classes. Class C and above require a medical exam pass before renewing.

Images confirm this as well.
291  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: BitLendingClub on: March 02, 2015, 05:15:55 PM
EU driving licences have no experation date. It's always funny watching US police officers looking for it. Cheesy
Not sure about the license number, Austrian driving licenses have 8 digits for example. Maybe Irish licences have 6 digits only, I don't know.
Country of issue is clearly visible in the upper right corner on every EU driving license + district authority in the middle.

Well I googled Ireland Driving License - EU - and a number of images came up - they all look like this. Appears to me there is an expiration date. 2022. Unless the 2022 is simply something else?

The images online also have 8 digit codes next to the expiration date. And an alpha numeric code as well which is longer. 6 digits... that only allows for 1 million licenses. Not possible.


292  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: BitLendingClub on: March 02, 2015, 11:35:56 AM
We did a total of 13 Loans on BitLendingClub. Only lending to users with 100-300+ positive feedback.

Thus far of the 13..... 7 have defaulted and not repaid.

Would not recommend.

Strato

Same results for me.  Terrible experience would not recommend at all.
EDIT: I just found your profile: https://bitlendingclub.com/user/investments/id/4479/superbit

I'm sorry for your experience. I see that 3 out of your 5 investments are in default. One being the top user on the site, Leon Stafford, who has been communicating and working to make payments. We're working to improve the site, but again, I would like to highlight that the overall default rate on the platform is 7.24%. BitLendingClub only collects its fees from repayments, so it's in our best interest to lower the default rate. We take defaults seriously on our platform.
Best Regards,
The BitLendingClub Team

This isn't my profile. I'll msg you my profile.

However, I posted my original complaint over 3 months ago- and it is only now being addressed.

When I first joined the site and made investments; I was under the impression that a certain minimum level of due diligence was being done in terms of the background checks and "required" documentation in order to post and take out a loan. I then received the attached document via email regarding one of my defaulted loans.

This document; to me says one thing: It is VERY easy to get approved to request a loan on this site.

The borrower on this document supplied a "Drivers License". No Expiration Date. No Date of Birth. No Country of Issue.  This "Lender" agreement / Loan Application is a joke.

I think any users considering investing or joining BitLendingClub should take a good look at this document and ask themselves if the site/owner is actually fulfilling their end of the agreement in terms of providing at least the minimum "promised" level of protection it advertises to it's lenders.

Lastly; the other loans which defaulted - I never received any such document nor has this information been posted on the site on my dashboard.  I assume this basically means the information was never collected nor recorded by the site administrators as promised.

Strato


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Hi Strato,
I usually try to search for posts related to BitLendingClub, but given all the work we're doing and the fact that we don't get notifications, I end up missing some of them.

The document you've received is from an older profile. In the early days we didn't require the user to enter all of the data at the time it was provided. We also can no longer just "hand over" the documents of the users, because it poses legal issues. However, now we require a lot more information to be entered and we're going through an overhaul of the system. Our initial assumption is that the lenders will perform a lot more of the due diligence on their own, as the tough questions, etc. As we've been building the system we've found out that lenders do very little due diligence, so we've had to progressively add more due diligence steps. It's a slow process, but we're making progress. Of course, I understand that you're probably not going to be investing into the platform anytime soon again, but I just wanted to address the issues at hand. We're certainly taking note of the problems and we're working to resolve them.
Best Regards,
Kiril Gantchev
Connect with us:
Twitter: @BitLendingClub
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bitlendingclub
Google+: https://plus.google.com/+BitLendingClub

While I appreciate your response. Perhaps you could explain better your business plan; as well as how your terms of service will work under a system where BLC act's as the agent; and the lender is expected to deal directly with the borrower - yet not be provided with any of the "fact checked" information they provide upon registration.

- You mentioned you can no longer simply hand over personal information like you have done in the past. I don't see how your user agreement couldn't cover this in terms of a release agreement with the borrowers. It's a TOS issue. Borrowers consent that in the event of default the information they submitted shall be provided in whole or in part to the lenders in order for the lenders to collect on the debt. It's as simple as that. If you arent going to hand it over, why even collect it?

- Either your site is going to back and guarantee and handle the collection of bad debts - covering the legal expenses to boot - or your site will be one where your borrows guarantee themselves and the lenders must handle all disputes and defaults. It's one or the other.

- Since you have stated that your standard operating procedure moving forward will not include providing contact and personal information about the borrowers in the event of default; I don't see how lenders will have any recourse whatsoever. Please explain what how BLC will in any way aid recourse options to lenders in the event one of their loans enters into a default situation.

- Under your new TOS how will disputes be settled?

- Your explanation is that you are "overhauling" because you've realized it's the lenders lack the ability or didn't do their own due diligence in terms of the burden to background check the borrowers - which is impossible based on the fact that no information is given prior to the loan other than profile links, doesn't add up. Your site clearly states that information is required from those who borrow; yet the document provided even under the old system shows major flaws in your system... as in the information isn't even there. The document I was provided; can you comment on the gaping holes it contains? I'd love to see a scan of the Driver's License. Blur out the information - but what was actually collected?

- Personally I'm not going to waste my time trying to track down someone halfway across the world to recoup a few bitcoins. But I think your explanation of "We're overhauling the system and are making progress" sounds like you really haven't done anything and don't have a clear plan of action moving forward. This poses a risk to anyone considering joining your site.

- As a hypothetical; (and I stress this as a hypothetical and in no way an accusation of wrongdoing by BitLendingClub) - But you have to admit:  There is no way for lenders to know if the profiles created as borrowers are not merely BitLendingClub acting as real people (you; yes you); this of course - hypothetically speaking - in a scheme to fraud investors out of their funds. I stress: this scenario is not an accusation by any means; but if you are not going to provide the information of the borrower to the lender; not back the loans at least with a trust fund which limits loss; then how are users to ever know what to believe?  How will this new system better provide accurate credit ratings on their users? What fail safes are you planning on implementing into the system in order to mitigate losses on the lenders end?  How will you; in this global virtual currency ecosystem - realistically confirm the information borrowers provide as their "documentation" are not merely fake profiles purchased here or on Reddit; with some photo shopped documents?

The Bitcoin community as a whole has been plagued by scams and fraud since inception.

I simply don't buy your response- or if that is your response; this site lacks any real form of protection and should not in any way be branded an "INVESTMENT" site. It should clearly state: Loan Money to Strangers. I think your Business Plan and PR Plan really need some work.  

Lastly; I am curious. You mention an overall default rate of 7%. Can you please break that down:  Number of Loans; Number of Loans Current; Paid; Past Due; Deafult - and then as a separate column provide the same stats for BTC/FIAT in Paid; Current; Past Due or in Default. I'm not sure what the 7% represents - number of loans; or amount of funds. Are you including past due figures? I have loans on my profile that are MONTHS past due and not marked as in default.

Strato
293  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: BitLendingClub on: March 02, 2015, 06:30:02 AM
We did a total of 13 Loans on BitLendingClub. Only lending to users with 100-300+ positive feedback.

Thus far of the 13..... 7 have defaulted and not repaid.

Would not recommend.

Strato

Same results for me.  Terrible experience would not recommend at all.
EDIT: I just found your profile: https://bitlendingclub.com/user/investments/id/4479/superbit

I'm sorry for your experience. I see that 3 out of your 5 investments are in default. One being the top user on the site, Leon Stafford, who has been communicating and working to make payments. We're working to improve the site, but again, I would like to highlight that the overall default rate on the platform is 7.24%. BitLendingClub only collects its fees from repayments, so it's in our best interest to lower the default rate. We take defaults seriously on our platform.
Best Regards,
The BitLendingClub Team

This isn't my profile. I'll msg you my profile.

However, I posted my original complaint over 3 months ago- and it is only now being addressed.

When I first joined the site and made investments; I was under the impression that a certain minimum level of due diligence was being done in terms of the background checks and "required" documentation in order to post and take out a loan. I then received the attached document via email regarding one of my defaulted loans.

This document; to me says one thing:  It is VERY easy to get approved to request a loan on this site.

The borrower on this document supplied a "Drivers License". No Expiration Date. No Date of Birth. No Country of Issue.  This "Lender" agreement / Loan Application is a joke.

I think any users considering investing or joining BitLendingClub should take a good look at this document and ask themselves if the site/owner is actually fulfilling their end of the agreement in terms of providing at least the minimum "promised" level of protection it advertises to it's lenders.

Lastly; the other loans which defaulted - I never received any such document nor has this information been posted on the site on my dashboard.  I assume this basically means the information was never collected nor recorded by the site administrators as promised.

Strato


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294  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why does it feel so complicated/frustrating to buy bitcoins for the first time? on: March 01, 2015, 10:41:01 PM
I still find the waiting time limits quite irritating on places like Coinbase. Limiting buyers of BTC to $1000 weekly is annoying if I need a quick supply of BTC to make a purchase and don't want to move holdings. And having to wait up to 4-5 days to get a larger order to clear drives me crazy.

I wish they'd figure out a way to allow for higher credit ratings for those customers who have purchased BTC in amounts > 5 figures on multiple occasions.

Strato
295  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [GUIDE] Strato's Antminer S5 Vertical Mounting Setup Guide - OC with Less Heat on: March 01, 2015, 10:26:03 PM
I know I've promised pictures; I'm actually headed in soon to our facility; I'll see if I can take a few shots of the configs. I'm behind on a bunch of things right now and just haven't gotten to it.

Cheers!

Strato
296  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [GUIDE] Strato's Antminer S5 Vertical Mounting Setup Guide - OC with Less Heat on: March 01, 2015, 10:16:53 PM
This is a simple outline / guide on how we are running our Antminer S5 Units in clusters of 6 with no overheating issues and a decent overclock.  

Our setup consists of (6) S5 Units per Cluster - all within the small space of a 30" small wire shelving unit.

Our Miners are set at frequency 393.75.

We are achieving 1300+ GHash per Miner; no "X"s; and with only a single Delta AFB1212SHE Replacement Fan.  

We are not using any sort of water cooling or push pull; just a single fan.  Temps are constant at 52-56 C in a 69-72 F Room.


We've been grouping 6 units together on a 24x30x14 Small Wire Shelving Unit which can be purchased at HomeDepot / Target for roughly $20.00.

The config illustrated here uses (3) EVGA 1300 G2 PSUs, with (2) S5 Units on each PSU. This particular setup will limit your overclocking ability due to the PSUs power limit. With this setup I would not recommend going over 362.50.  

However, this same setup can be used with a total of (4) 1000w PSUs running 393.75 - simply by running (3) S5 Units on (2) PSUs each X 2.  Simply Mount all 4 PSUs on the outside of the shelving unit - rather than the 3rd 1300w in the middle.  Please note that the Pink Circles and Lines note Zip Tie Points.



We'll be publishing our additional guide on maximizing your mining hashpower; and improving your mining power by up to 15% by simply running an additional script and light weight software package. That guide will be posted later this month!

Cheers!

Strato


Statos, could you elaborate on the wiring required to power two S5s on one EVGA 1300 G2? I see you have two red lines and two blue lines running to each S5. I assume the red are straight PCIe 6 pin cables and the blues that a red port and split them into two. What cable do you recommend?

Also, I thought I read somewhere that each S5 PCI-e connectors required +12V DC input / 15 amp, or 60 amp for each S5. That would be 120a to power two S5s, but the EVGA 1300 list a max output of 108.3a on the  +12v line. Is that right?

Thanks


The EVGA 1300 G2 comes provided with (6) Red 8 Pin to 6+2 Pin PCIe Cables.

Our units are configured so you use all 6 of the cables for (2) AntMiner S5 units by using this cable path per miner:

- Use (2) dedicated 8 Pin to 6 Pin PCIe cables - running one to each blade (left and right side) - total 2.

- Use (1) shared 8 pin to dual 6 pin PCIe cable - running one end to the left and one to the right.

This is working well for us; with the box fan configuration the cables do not even get a hint warm.

Unless I am mistaken; this provides the best power configuration as it allows a full load on 1 cable, and a shared load split between the two blades on the other.  My thought is running 1 blade on a single cable (split) puts the full load of that blade on a single cable (might overheat).

So as for my diagram; PLEASE NOTE it's a single blue line that splits - denoting a cable that is using both heads of the output end split across the blades; and the 2 reds are dedicated wires - one to each blade.

As for the amperage; I'm a little bit of a neophyte when it comes to power calculations. The PSU outputs 12v; and running (2) S5 units on (1) 1300 G2 PSU - at a frequency of 350 or 362.50 will not overload the PSU or a 20 AMP Breaker (15 is likely ok as well but all my breakers are 20AMPs). Going off memory... I believe my Kill-A-Watt showed roughly 1190 Watts off the Wall running 362.50.  (Again off memory).  They've been running for weeks just fine.

I did initially try to set the miners at 392.50 but the PSU would click off and take a while to reset. Factoring the ROI on simply not overclocking as high - I decided to go this route rather than add more PSUs which would never re-coup the costs.

We also run our own Proxy Servers; so these units work great. Literally I go weeks without really doing anything to them... except seeing the BTC add up in our wallets.

Hope that helps!

Strato
297  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [GUIDE] Strato's Antminer S5 Vertical Mounting Setup Guide - OC with Less Heat on: February 28, 2015, 01:12:19 AM
The box fan; which is only a $20 cost- is critical. It provides constant airflow over every part of the rig, cables; power supply units; the miner cases. It keeps all air moving upwards and away from the units.

Strato
298  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [GUIDE] Strato's Antminer S5 Vertical Mounting Setup Guide - OC with Less Heat on: February 27, 2015, 08:06:00 PM
I think you might be alright... the ones in the picture are Thermaltake SMART Series SP-750PCBUS 750W ATX 12V 2.3 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supplies.

Thanks again for sharing.  The  pictures make a vivid point to all of us to watch the heat.

My PCI cables almost, sometimes feel a hint warm.  Yeah, a good sign.  

Just by turning mine vertical, dropped a few degrees.  Thank you Strato!

My pleasure. Still going to try a vertical setup with my S3s. Just not enough hours in the day.

Our farm found a block two weeks ago on Slush's Pool. If I go any bigger I may jump over to Con's CK PrivateSolo Pool.

Strato
299  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] BETARIGS.COM - Cryptocurrency cloud mining - thousands of rigs available! on: February 20, 2015, 06:26:58 PM
Rigs rented on betarigs can now be used on nicehash and westhash!!!!

https://www.nicehash.com/?p=miners&a=1&addr=1DpRLUCg5nNVFA8wen6w8woeMzktXu8mhJ <- Finally got a rig to connect and hash there.


Enjoy!

Ahmed

Does Nicehash allow pointing their servers to Beta?  Odd feature.

Strato

Not sure on nicehash's end but on our end we allow rig's on our site to be pointed at nicehash. (There's actually been quite a number of requests for this. Both us and mux couldnt figure out why nicehash was the only site not allowing it).

Ahmed

They don't allow it because it opens the door to "mining arbitrage" where by people will buy hashpower at nicehash, point it towards a betarigs rig for rent, and mark up.

It will be interesting to see how it plays out price wise... likely it will create even prices across sites if the reverse (nicehash pointing to beta) becomes or is possible).

Strato

I wanted to try mining arbitrage long time ago by buying at NiceHash and selling at Betarigs, because prices at NiceHash are always lower than Betarigs, but the first obstacle was, that Betarigs gives you non stratum URL:

cgminer --scrypt -o http://eu.betarigs.com -u <betarigs_worker_identifier> -p x -o <your_usual_pool> -u <user> -p <pass> ...

NiceHash works only on stratum pools. I am sure when Betarigs fix this by providing stratum URL, mining arbitrage will be possible and we will earn lots of $$$.

Its honestly not worth the effort for the problems you can encounter - and will encounter. You can simply run your own stratum and use it as an inbetween, but the amount of money you will make will not be worth it long run considering all the problems you can, and will run into.

Strato
300  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] BETARIGS.COM - Cryptocurrency cloud mining - thousands of rigs available! on: February 19, 2015, 10:23:34 PM
And done. If rig hashrate hits less than 50% of its advertised speed an alert should be sent out to users

Ahmed

Wow awesome.  Nice thanks!

Strato
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