I received my starter kit today that was ordered July 8th. The shipment left Washington yesterday at 5:57 pm and arrived today at 1:53 pm. The address was incorrectly labelled on the package but I lucked out on a great driver who called dispatch to contact me and sort it out. I sent him on his way with an assortment of Gatorade and chocolate as thanks.
For Canadians looking for details on import duty: Megabigpower listed the value of the starter kit as 750 USD in the category of Motherboard. This category qualifies for Canadian taxes at a 100% rate. FedEx used an unfriendly conversion to place the value of the hardware at 771.93 CDN which taxed at 13% HST for a 100.34 charge. Of course FedEx also added in their own 11.30 ROD fee. The canadian dollar amount I paid for the starter kit was 1411.51 based on my CC assigned exchange rate at the time of purchase. With taxes the total paid stands at 1523.15 CDN.
In the box was the 2.0 version of the M-Board and one H-Card. After firing up the miner it took me a good 20 minutes to sort out some networking issues. I'm hashing at about 24 Gh/s without tuning and what looks to be one dead/marginal chip. Took a bit longer than expected but megabigpower has followed through on their promise and for that I must convey my thanks and respect.
What networking issues? My rpi is not anywhere on 192.168.1.xxx? Did it come configured on a different subnet? |
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It is all fine. But you have to ask yourself, what is there for the miners? Why would someone want to join your 100GH pool?
If I wanted 0% pool, I'd go to EMC, DGM. They also have 5% PPS.
Miners have options:
btcguild
50btc
bitminter
eclipsemc
eligius
All are ASIC ready and have non-PPS payouts, some do merged mining.
So why would someone want to mine at your pool? If you offer 1-3% PPS, maybe you'll get some traction.
Otherwise, it will be hard to convince people to join.
I think times of "If you build it, they will come" are pretty much over.
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thats what u get when u are dumb
Be nice. Show some compassion. BTW, I was scammed by Avalon/Yifu gang, and it was not because I'm dumb. In April, Yifu was considered "Jesus walking on water" by pretty much everyone here. Nobody thought he would scam anyone. Well, he did scam me and many others, much smarter people than you and I combined. |
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Your title says: "CGMINOR Monitoring" LOL
I'd not call it cgminor...
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Congratulations bro, but NOW your unit is almost worthless. Yay for Avalon fail!  They still fetch 2-3K, but their price is dropping fast (like all h/w). |
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Thanks mate. @Dave / JaredR26 : Any update on the shipment of outstanding AUG orders.? Last I heard is that Dave will ship out the remaining August orders this Friday: 9/20. My biggest concern is that bitcoin difficulty has gone from 65,750,060 to now 112,628,549 Hopefully they won't forget me  Any news? I still have an "August" order #149. No updates? |
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8 hours 20 minutes in the current round. WTF...
373M shares. This is really bad luck.
What's up with block 258562? BTC81 in transaction fees?
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Been back and forth testing CGminer and BFGminer. Since I got my BFL Asics I've notice the CGminer builds take about 90-95% cpu usage on my Rpi and BFGminer gets same performance at ~20% CPU usage. The verdict is in BFGminer is much more efficient for my Rpi.
i`ve been back and forth too, trying to get my BE working with CG but they just won`t (maybe due to my inexperience compiling via mingw or something) BFGminer just works straight away so I`m sticking. I too was a fan of cgminer for a long time. But today, bfgminer seems to perform better. I have two mini rigs, same Windows 7 x64 OS on both rigs, one rig is running bfgminer 3.1.4 the other cgminer 3.4.3. I run them for 10+ hours against EMC. Both rigs show 480GH (+-2) at the miner. At the pool, cgminer is consistently showing 30 GH less. When I switch miners, i.e. run cgminer on the machine that run bfgminer and run bfgminer on the machine that was running cgminer, I get the same results at the pool. cgminer worker is always 30GH slower (+- 5GH). The only variable is the miner software. Unless bad luck consistently follows cgminer worker, there is no other explanation. Either way, cgminer is losing BTC0.13 a day in my case. Looks like Luke has finally beaten the cgminer team in terms of performance. For slower GPUs, FPGAs and entry level ASICs this difference might not be noticeable. But it is easy to see when running mini rigs. So yes, bfgminer should be used with ASICs. Leave cgminer to GPUs and FPGAs. IMHO, of course. (Spare me the religious discussions of using direct USB vs COM) |
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I'm waiting refunds for an amount of over 2300 BTC. I'm putting every day updates on the ticket and post new refund forms, but still nothing.
Yifu, this way of acting is unacceptable, I "could" understand you had issues with the chip delivery but I can't accept that it takes so long to keep your word and send out the promised refunds.
I wasn't thinking about joining a lawsuit but if Bitsyncom keeps on ignoring my refund requests I'll reconsider my strategy.
He is a 24 year old boy who thinks can talk himself out of anything. Guess what? IRS and IC3 might differ. |
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How flooding the market with $100 ASICs suppose to save the mining community?
It will accomplish the opposite. You'll need $25K minimum to invest in h/w to make BTC1+/day. Same as today.
People with deep pockets will just hoard the chips and small guys will be left out there with few 500GH/s chips that
will make BTC1/year. All will change is the arithmetic. The proportions of ROI/profit/diff will stay more less the same.
I think the rest of this mining ASIC cycle will not be done by mining community at large, but a small group companies who
already got enough money from their gen1 products to go completely solo with their next gen chips. Think Avalon/ASICMiner and Bitfury.
They might still "offer" border line ROI products, just like bitfury and ASICMiner is doing today.
Let the free market work its magic. Interfering with it is wrong.
Sure it is painful to watch ghash.io reap 1000s of coins a day, but it does not really matter who mines those coins.
If you don't like the current ASIC offerings, just vote them out with your wallet. KNC, HF, CT will be mining with your pre-order money, just like BFL and Avalon did.
Your effort will only speed up the process.
Bitcoin is an example of ruthless (or real) capitalism (not the gov sponsored capitalism we have today). Let it be, it does not need fixing.
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OK, I am always watching for new prototypes, just a couple of hours ago, CryptX burnins partner opened on their online store to offer the Bitbar fury prototype for first week of October delivery, It is so cool right ? wait till you see the price....
Again an overpriced Product which is totally disappointing, Burnin stated that the prototype will cost around 470€ - less than 5BTC at today exchange price, but again companies want to take advantage and suck the blood out of miners, they expect us to take all the losses, and they are so comfortable to make an exaggerated profits over all of us.
that been said , I am starting to think that the medium and small miners will start getting out of the mining game very soon, which will lead big companies ( manufacturers) to opening their own mining operation, the same like ASICMINER, we will see few big companies like that controlling the network with their hash power(not good) this is exactly what we call a centralization of the network hash power, which can be a threat not only for end users but to everyone, this will even drive to a competition between them, which will lead to even more instability of Bitcoin price.
I am just thinking out loud, I do not know what will happen till the end of the year, but I am sure it will get more interesting, most of calculator I was using is showing a negative income for most existing or to exist prototypes, and Investing in a pre-order now is like investing in the Unknown.
thinking about the pricing of first Batch avalon and first BFL products, when 60 Gh/s was offered for around 1300$, makes me question all offers from these new manufacturers.....
I really want to hear what do you think ? what kind of scenarios we are expecting ?
You are absolutely right. Look what happened to bitfury. Retail miners are just a side show, sold minuscule hashing power to retail. ghash.io, mbp etc. are mining big time, and will only sell to retail at overpriced levels or late enough to provide 50% ROI if that. Same will happen with all others that will come along. I suspect in 6 months to a year, the ASIC war will be over. One or two most energy efficient designs will be used to control 90% of the network. And retail will be controlling 10%, the other 90% will be in the hands of few big companies. Look at the rate ghash.io is making money. They mine two, three blocks every hour or so. Say 50 blocks/day, that is BTC1250/day or 160K/day, you think they will not have the resources to design another 14nm chip to take over the 50% of hashing power. Easy. |
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The bitfury design is obviously really good - I don't think anyone is denying that. And KnC's chips aren't nearly as efficient as the HashFast/Cointerra chips.
What chips are you talking about? I far as I know they don't exist. I think you talk about specs posted on their sites. They have no chips. |
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Avalon has refunded me, but I think these bunch of fuckers do need some lesson. They shoud be punished for what they havr done. please do make your lawyer bring Yifu to court, and I will pay for your lawyer 2000 usd for bring justice to thi
is liar. PM me about the detail.
+1M I have evidence he fucked me up for my trade-ins. Whatever it takes, make this motherfucker pay. |
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Dear All, The day to announce officially our new ASIC has arrived. It has been a while since we have joined our forces with VeriSilicon to make this happen. As Black Arrow promised to all the customers who trusted and worked with us from the beginning, everyone who has purchased Black Arrow’s Lancelot mining devices and wishes to exchange them against Black Arrow Prospero miners will receive $300 credit for each Lancelot exchanged. Lancelot machines credit can be used against up to 30% of the amount on pre-orders or against up to 50% of the amount on orders. This credit has no cash value. For more details read this thread or visit our webpage www.blackarrowsoftware.com"There once was a man from Nantucket..." I hope you'll do better than YooFuk aka YeahFoo aka Yifu Icarus Trade-ins where did I hear that before? |
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I don't get it. Why you even discussing KNC?
Bitfury sells ASIC chips, KNC sells squat.
Compare them when they actually have a chip to compare.
As it stands now, it is like comparing Bitfury with Dragon ASIC (remember that one?).
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Luke,
I was wondering if you could add JSONP commands to your APIs.
JSONP extension of your APIs would allow to access bfgminer directly from any static (local to browser) page.
AJAX calls can be made from the browser directly to API port. No cross-domain issues.
I got this idea while extending my akbash interface to support JSONP (in next version) to monitor multiple instances of bfgminer on different computers/sites.
If bfgminer would return JSONP, one static/AJAX page can aggregate/format output from multiple bfgminer instances from remote sites.
Such page can be loaded in the browser via "file://". No need to run web servers, or third party apps.
I think it will be a nice extension to the API.
af_newbie
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We will be ready as soon as BFL starts shipping chips which should be soon..
-JJ
JJ, I have June 22 chips order with BFL. Expecting to get them around end of September. Do you think you'll have a working 16 chip prototype board by then? Thanks, af_newbie |
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Yes power consumption is better which is probably not a consideration for most miners ...
Power consumption is one of the most important criteria. Most miners run their rigs at homes and apartments. Today, the electrical wiring in your home or apartment pretty much limits what you can run. You simply cannot run 2TH of avalons or blades in your basement at 10W/GH or 8W/GH respectively. Guess what? You can run 4 full bitfury kits on one 15A@110V circuit. So yes, if you compare few h-cards to few blades than yes, blades are probably the way to go. Get 2 full planes, they will probably trip your circuit breaker if you run them on the same circuit. |
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Morblias - please please please, update once you're setup is completely put together. I know that a bunch of folks (including me) would love to see the 'final' configuration with the boards in place. Thanks in advance. Sorry for leaving you hanging  Just got my replacement M-board today since my first was DOA (RPi wasn't powering from it). Here are some pics of it set up and hashing. Only have the first 2 fans on, can't wait to fill up the rest of the M-board in October so I can kick on the other fans!  http://imgur.com/a/cJalGThanks Dave and team BitFury! Glad your medication came just in the nick of time... |
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