Follow the money, bitcoin is ideal for that... these people are not scientists.

Ok, I thought this was going to be govt. interviewing hackers but this is retarded... govt. interviewing govt.

This is going to be interesting, my bet is they don't understand it and won't ever, so if the interviewed have any clue the hearing will just crush them. Their debt addicted FIAT brains will weep low interest rate. Who is being interviewed?

any news?

The three elements; bitcoin, fire and water. Heating the house is complex noise-wise, going to try and rotate the aluminium heatsinks 90 degrees soon so I can remove the sideways fan.

I'm gonna keep my 1GH FPGA at deepbit even though they are running at a loss, can you add a block found email notification?

I used BTC, but I used mined BTC so "no problem". I bought FPGA, so I'm still ROI all-in-all, even after ordering BFL. Now I'm just trying to cool these silently so they can heat my house, going noctua today, fingers crossed!

Edit: Noctua 92mm on top blowing down and usb fan pushing sideways (only required because aluminium heatsinks are directional), 79 degrees, 57GH. And silent enough to not go insane while sitting next to it.



Damn BFL for replacing the heatpipes with aluminium heatsinks though (and not even replying on queries about buying heatpipes), could have made it completely silent with those!

I'm going to start project "turn heatsinks 90 degrees". Need to make new screwholes...

Does anyone know which mount the heatsinks use? New singles get shipped with aluminium heatsinks instead of heatpipes which are harder to cool silently. Boy, do I regret ordering these!

With the new singles with aluminium heatsinks you can't do this it seems.

Was the "new" H-Cards the new stuff you were talking about, or are you releasing some all new hardware?

Is there a way to get notified, I missed the Nov 5 release.

I think it would be great to have USB hardware, so we can choose how we setup our network/H-Cards. Raspberry is not known for stable WiFi. And the M-Boards are just not... how can I put this, flexible!

Why does the difficulty drop now? It could be some ROI realization, but it must have some relation to price no?

Ok, seems the BFL products don't like power cycling. At least if it's mining you will break engines just by pulling the power.

Got some kind of official confirmation from support: "Some times, the number of engines can change after initialization. Power cycling a unit usually shows this, but it doesn't vary greatly from cycle to cycle."

This is like a car manufacturer building a serial design flaw; BFL should pull all of it's miners and deliver working products.

Just one big 20cm fan for each 2x BFL naked front to front. Waiting for my 2nd.

Basically the first thing you need to do is throw away everything except the baseplate, PCB and heatpipes/sinks.

The case, fans and PSU are COMPLETE GARBAGE!

Temp: 64C
Engines: Only 201/256, see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=320687!
Noise: You can sleep next to it if you are ok with electronics that whine. Air noise = same as ambient.

DEVICE: BitFORCE SC
FIRMWARE: 1.2.9
IAR Executed: NO
CHIP PARALLELIZATION: YES @ 16
QUEUE DEPTH:40
PROCESSOR 1: 14 engines @ 234 MHz -- MAP: EFF7
PROCESSOR 2: 14 engines @ 237 MHz -- MAP: 7FBF
PROCESSOR 3: 16 engines @ 247 MHz -- MAP: FFFF
PROCESSOR 4: 10 engines @ 229 MHz -- MAP: 4DF5
PROCESSOR 5: 16 engines @ 237 MHz -- MAP: FFFF
PROCESSOR 6: 15 engines @ 234 MHz -- MAP: FFDF
PROCESSOR 7: 14 engines @ 241 MHz -- MAP: AFFF
PROCESSOR 8: 10 engines @ 238 MHz -- MAP: 67E6
PROCESSOR 9: 15 engines @ 231 MHz -- MAP: FFFE
PROCESSOR 10: 13 engines @ 248 MHz -- MAP: EFF6
PROCESSOR 11: 15 engines @ 231 MHz -- MAP: FFFE
PROCESSOR 12: 15 engines @ 228 MHz -- MAP: FFFE
PROCESSOR 13: 15 engines @ 238 MHz -- MAP: FFFE
PROCESSOR 14: 14 engines @ 231 MHz -- MAP: FFF6
PROCESSOR 15: 5 engines @ 238 MHz -- MAP: 0332
THEORETICAL MAX: 47460 MH/s
ENGINES: 201
FREQUENCY: 291 MHz
CRITICAL TEMPERATURE: 0
TOTAL THERMAL CYCLES: 0
XLINK MODE: MASTER
XLINK PRESENT: NO
OK

We all receive "60" GH... lets see what we really got?

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To dump these just stop your miner and:

Windows:

Download putty.

Then run it and switch the radio button from SSH to serial.

Enter the COM port that your miner is on and 115200 as Speed.

Press Open, then type ZCX and press enter.

Linux: (Untested)

echo ZCX > /dev/ttyUSB0 && cat /dev/ttyUSB0

Where /dev/ttyUSB0 should be changed to whatever you got I guess?

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Copy the output (remove tabs if garbled) and post here.

Please place your miners somewhere where the heat comes to good use.

Make a deal with a friend that doesn't have "free" heating!

There is no such thing as a free lunch, at some point you will have to pay for your "fjarrvarme" (steam that comes through a pipe from a factory or garbage burning / gas plant)

Without that short the PSU stops after 1-2 seconds.

I think it is about security = engineers don't want you to "short use" the PSU.

Do you know if I should short the 12Vs too; to avoid the house burning down?

Also how much current is going through these cables, will I need them to be thick?

Hi, heard you was the goto guy for this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=298826.msg3382245#msg3382245

Ok, that would mean ~10MB/day... how come my single eruptor is generating 70MB? I use winblows 7 for this test, but an idle OS can't consume 60MB per day for no reason with nothing special running right?! Guess I'll have to try raspberry then...