I found it to be a good documentary to watch.  It is interesting how he kinda lost on both sides.   That documentary left me wanting to know more though, guess that's to it's credit.

I would love to know if he got a fortune from early investment.  Or how he ended up after buying all that gear.  Would love to know if he still had thousands of BTC after.  It's been a while since I have seen it but I think they did not say his holdings after all of it.

So you left some customers gear behind though?   What type of compensation did those get who were left behind was it close to lost earnings? Or how was compensation done?

Just kinda a different side of story reading through the suit.  Was night time moving after or before being locked out?

The chance of Bitfury dealing with home/hobby miners is very unlikely.  I would guess there will be a next gen Bitmain or Avalon, even Innosilicon A3 hopefully some time.   But I think we will be limited not all company's mess with smaller sales.

I think Bitfury will still be using .05 gear even in 6 month's if they truly have it going with that and low electricity cost's no doubt.   I doubt they have to change much it is other company's that likely need to catch up to them at this point it looks like.

Even if someone spends 1 BTC it does not guarantee win since random, just raises the chances of them winning.  I think everyone that participates is doing it knowing money goes to dev of pods.  So if a few go wild i view that as a good thing.  The more dev money I think benefits people wanting pods.

So even with unlimited tickets I still think it's win/win.  And eventually we will be able to buy it once it comes out so there will be other way's to get eventually even if you don't win.   

Walked past and noticed mine were not hashing.  One needed a little adjustment but I'm back up. 

Almost forget to check these compacs are so reliable with my RPI.

Have 2 that are running steady here is a shot of them running for over a week:


One of my biggest suggestions I think for any new buyer is go with server PSU, adjustable voltage if possible.  That is really only big thing looking back I would tell a new buyer.

Thanks for update it's nice to hear we are getting near.  Thanks for your work.

Updated second post to show how easy TREZOR is to use with an android device with Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet.   It really does a good job of allowing mobility with still keeping your security which is important.

If your treating it like a job your doing it wrong.  Also if it is the reason your own the forum your doing it wrong.  I don't see signature campaigns being for those people, even though there are a few.

I think it works best for those who do their normal posting, and it's a bonus.   If you do it this way it prevents signature spam, and a lot of problems.

The reason is they have the space and can get a quick profit.   If they can make ROI and build even more by selling a miner, that is smart buisness.  Instead of months to get ROI they can do it in a day... that is a lot of saved time.  And they I think make a decent profit off sale and then they make profit on running them so creates a monthly income on a new source.

So this if anything allows them to get bigger in most cases.  And at end most own the gear... so that is the cherry on top for these sites.  Look at hashnest it is very popular.  I know I like to get the gear as I enjoy tinkering with it, but for all is not a possibility.  So sites like hashnest do serve a purpose.

The nano's have not had a lot of action in a while the compac's kinda took the steam as far as most people using them and getting the most attention at this point.   You might take a look at my old thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1022764

It's a good thread for nano's.   The driver I know is in the downloads I believe it's been a while since I used my nano.

I would love to see a negative.  I'm tired of 10+ level it really is not fun to see multiple weeks.  But not much I can do to change it just watch and speculate.

Price is 430's and seems to be staying in that area for a bit.  So better then the 400 area but still not a huge jump, I really want 450 this period.  I just want a new wall  set up higher but sometimes price does move slow.

Can you just show some of his gear? Picture or stats?  Its just that this does not happen often a engineer would need a ton of skills to build an asic.

What company chips is he using? Or are you saying he makes chips?   To what point is he making it?

That is not OP who talked about mining in a car.  That is a trunk of miner's most likely being moved to somewhere to mine.  But they are not running in trunk off car.

So neat picture but it is not a mining area in that car.

I hope not as it would be a bad article for general public.  Imagine general public who only know's bitcoin is money, don't know much about it at all.  If TV articles or web articles link Bitcoin to "bad" things it would be bad overall for bitcoin community.   

It is hard to push the positives of Bitcoin if a situation like OP mentioned happens.  So I hope it is not used for that.   

I have tested a few and the biggest thing hardware wallets have in my mind is keeping the key on them.  They sign the transaction on the device and not on the computer.  So even if a computer had a virus it's not going to give away a wallet file, or seed's, etc. 

So that is huge on if your going to use it keeping transaction signed on the hardware wallet.  And if your are not going to use it and holding for year's or something a proper paper wallet is not bad.  It is all based on what your doing on what is best for you.

It seems they have pretty good quality control on this batch.  So I think that is a good indication.  Hopefully it last's long term but the batch they lowered cost to make and this allows lower sells points.  And I think they are going to stick with this one for a bit (and I could be wrong).

The biggest thing is the freq already being so dang high, and efficiency they really did mean the +10 percent when they put it.  So I think we will have good working units for a long time. 

The big thing is mod's if someone finds a good one or not.  That is the question that I think is still up in the air.  But it wont be a issue till down the road when it's older technology.

Don't blame this on movies.  I watch movies and that is still a horrible idea even to say.

It not only is stupid and could hurt people... it's plain wrong.  Not to mention chances are if BTC mines are targets...  that is not good PR for BTC and it goes down.

I don't see this working unless you use something to push heat through and push it to the bottom of garage like duct work.  Heat rises so 6" at bottom is not really where the hot air is, it would be at the top.   

In my mining area I use a lot of CFM's to push heat away from the miners and at far end exhaust it through a professional gable fan, that does a lot more than standard gable fan.  I also have vent's helping in roof.  I let the heat rise and get rid of it.  But it's winter so I have been able to turn down fan's and save a little overhead as it is so darn cold right now for me. 

It's not that I don't like the idea... if it was possible then I would think great.  But even if all home/hobby miners made a pact... do you think the big operations would shutdown if price was not above X?  No they are not going to.  If we could control BTC price it ruins decentralization.   

People keep bumping a topic that at it's core does not make sense.  It is a free market on price of BTC.  There is no big boss, no company to go up to with demands like a union would.   It being impossible to achieve this is why I wish this thread would die or be locked.  But it keeps going on... and on.