Those are batch 1 miners, the ones that should have been shipped by the end of the month. So you're basically paying to get toward the top of the list. Most likely miners that got freed up by giving refunds. |
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Or is this just one big troll?  |
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So has anyone who ordered from batch 1 received their Gridseed miners yet? According to his post for the Antminer S2, he had batch 1 in stock back on March 7th.
I have already ordered 500 Antminer U2 miners from Bitmain Tech. They informed me that these probably will ship ahead of schedule, which is March 17th. All my orders from Bitmain always come within a day or two tops, so I should start shipping by the 19th or 20th of March 2014! Any questions feel free to ask, I have some Gridseed Miners (5-Chip) for sale as well, I just haven't started a thread yet but I will get on it. Gridseed Miners are in stock already.
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My only issue with merged mining is it assumes the merged coin is second best. I think it would be prudent to make sure another coin is merged with BEN, not having BEN merged with another coin.
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Sorry CryptoGuy I didn't mean to sound harsh.
Have you ever played the game "Fallout"? Well, what we need, are PIPBOYS. Seriously, have you seen the commericial where some wack-future is presented to us, where we actually SWIPE a plastic card on a swiper that plugs into our tablet? Like, wut?
But then, tablets themselves, are 100% not designed at all with security in mind. That is because, security people are boring in meetings, sad to say. And people like me, when we see the security guy not talking in the meeting, we know the meeting is another corporate fellatio session for whomever is the manager de jour of that meeting. And, after the meeting, guys like me go up to the security guy, who is paid 3x what we are paid, and ask him why did you not say anything? And he will say "I did and they didn't listen. [shrug]"
So, in terms of what we REALLY need, I'd say we need Pipboys first of all. So, Raspberry Pi is of course the leading PipBoy platform, and yes, your excellent point about efficiency does matter there, indeed, because I want my PipBoy to be a wallet/transaction device, as well as a dosemeter. Does the Raspberry Pi have a rads detector yet? If not, let's build that first.
But yes, in terms of multiple reasons, you are right, efficiency does matter. But, adoption of the tech, has to be based on rock-solid security like think payphones type. Early cash registers were a hundreds-pounds vault with a giant lever and such. Nowadays, the newest NCR terminal, is some OS underneath like all the rest. Indeed, not one single bit of crypto has gone into 300+ years of cash register research. Until now.
Benjamin F. himself is with us, I can feel his common sense coming close to this thread as we ponder the costs of the future.
No worries. I'm thinking about it from the perspective of the business owner. If someone made a pitch to me and said I'd have to run this 400W cube that puts out all this heat, and oh yeah, you'll need this power supply hooked up to it too...  I wouldn't bother. Now if it was a sleek little machine that takes up a few inches of counter space and also accepts tips? That would be much more appealing than two boxes you have to hide in a closet or under the counter. Edit: And it doesn't just have to be tips. If someone were to make a POS machine out of it where it can multi-functional and accept transactions, track purchases and support tips and whatnot, then you've got yourself something. I just don't see a business burning that much electricity for something that doesn't technically help their business. After all, transactions will still be validated by the rest of the network. |
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What you need to do is think outside the box. You need to put a miner at every merchant's register. Cubes are 350 USD or so, there needs to be a way to get at least 30ghs or so onto the network at every node. The solution is getting merchants to mine without their even thinking about it.
You need to think of new ideas and ignore the fools who can only think of coinraping to git more BTC.
You need a coin with better people at its core than BTC, but in the end, most people in finance --and most rich people, are exploitation-oriented. So the critic above is like a merchant buying a side of beef. He sees all coins as the same: profit vectors.
Well, the original pieces of eight, was actually based on the spanish real coin, which, due to debauching the coins, the American silver piece had more merit, in a sea of trashcoins. But yes, miners often do see the trashcoins as just a springboard to "BTC per day" which is not surprising.
Anyway, the solution is to leave all the smart people behind and court merchants, and the 99% of humans who do not mine. Let me know if you people want ideas, I'll join your conference call.
Good idea but a more efficient miner is needed. 400W is a lot of power and extra heat for them to deal with. A few Antminer U1's running off a Pi inside a small box would be more ideal as it would only be a few watts and more affordable. And you could incorporate something like this into it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-rRlNWiIEI |
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I've been busy and haven't checked in a couple days so I wasn't sure. I won't worry about it for now but I should probably lower my payout threshold so it doesn't take so long between payouts. Edit: The site is up now but the minimum payout is only able to be set to 100.  |
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Does anyone know what happened with ben.pitythepool.com? They're still accepting my shares but the website is down.
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I can confirm the rewards. But only 250? |
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exactly how many exchanges do we need?? LOL All of them. I'm sure there are others like myself that only deal with a few exchanges we trust. If a coin isn't on them, we don't trade them. I've been burned too many times to trust every random exchange that pops up. |
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What is a Benjamin?The United States one hundred-dollar bill ($100) is a denomination of United States currency featuring statesman, inventor, and diplomat Benjamin Franklin on the obverse of the bill. On the reverse of the banknote is an image of Independence Hall. The $100 bill is the largest denomination that has been printed since 1969, when the denominations of $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 were retired
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing says the average life of a $100 bill in circulation is 90 months (7.5 years) before it is replaced due to wear and tear. The bills are also commonly referred to as "Benjamins", in reference to the use of Benjamin Franklin's portrait on the denomination, or "C-Notes", based on the Roman numeral for 100. The bill is one of two denominations printed today that does not feature a President of the United States; the other is the $10 bill, featuring Alexander Hamilton. The time on the clock of Independence Hall on the reverse, according to the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, shows approximately 4:10 on the older contemporary notes and 10:30 on the series 2009A notes in 2013
On April 24, 2013, the Federal Reserve announced the new $100 bill would enter circulation on October 8, 2013. The new bill will cost 12.6 cents to produce and have a blue ribbon woven into the center of the currency with "100" and Liberty Bells, alternating, that appear when the bill is tilted
According to the Federal Reserve, more than two thirds of all $100 notes circulate outside of the United States, making it the most popular banknote
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 Coin Specs
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10 Minute blocks
100 Coins per block
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Halves at 64,000 blocks
No Premine and 0 Instamine
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Benjamin himself will also provide an official mining pool within 48 hours of launch, as well as an ABE based Block Explorer for easy transaction tracking, both coming up at the same time. The reason we are launching with no pool is to prevent forks an get the block chain spread across multiple nodes rather than everyone putting their hashes into one place and screwing over solo miners. If anyone else wants to set up a pool before that, we have no problems with that at all and will include your link in this post
Live support is available to answer any questions you may have about Benjamins, or just virtual currencies in general. Not only will we provide these services to you, but we will also work with you to help get you the exposure you desire in the crypto currency community. Accept virtual currencies and take advantage of the newest technology available. We will provide the same service that CoinPayments provides, but specifically coded for Benjamins designed to coordinate with both the coin and website that will be launched in the next 48 hours with the pool, explorer, paper wallets, and other very useful services provided by the Benjamins development team
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Coin Specs
SHA Based
10 Minute blocks
100 Coins per block
Max BENs: 12,800,000
Halves at 64,000 blocks
No Premine and 0 Instamine
Binaries and Source provided
Windows QT - http://www.BenjaminsBaby.com/BEN/Benjamins-WindowsQT.rar
Windows Daemon - http://www.BenjaminsBaby.com/BEN/Benjamins-WindowsDaemon.rar
Linux QT - http://www.BenjaminsBaby.com/BEN/Benjamins-LinuxQT.rar
Linux Daemon - http://www.BenjaminsBaby.com/BEN/Benjamins-LinuxDaemon.rar
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+1 Sleeper coin of the year contender right here. |
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And someone just bought up everything all the way to 4400 satoshis on Cryptsy  36k BEN |
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My favorite mining rig bit the dust this morning... Unplanned trip to get a new Mobo & Power Supply!  Get an Asus. I burned out my PS and the MB still runs like a champ.  |
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I have another update that I was informed of: The minion has passed the DRC checks. Mask manufacturing has begun. (This was as of last night) For us laymen, does that mean they are on, ahead, or behind schedule? Sounds like they're at least on schedule. From wiki: Design Rule Checking or Check(s) (DRC) is the area of Electronic Design Automation that determines whether the physical layout of a particular chip layout satisfies a series of recommended parameters called Design Rules. Design rule checking is a major step during Physical verification signoff on the design, which also involves LVS (Layout versus schematic) Check, XOR Checks, ERC (Electrical Rule Check) and Antenna Checks. For advanced processes some fabs also insist upon the use of more restricted rules to improve yield. |
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So PG, what are you going to bitch about when they do finally ship the units?
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Exchanges
BTC-E, Mt Gox (Both coming soon)
Trollcoin is Gox's only hope, IMO. |
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This coin is for joke, right?
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Carbon fiber dogecoins still on ShibeMart, and now on DigeList as well! Just made a new batch, plenty of them up for grabs Also due to the high demand of interest, now offering with matt finish as well. Free WorldWide shipping on all of them. DogeCoin to the moon! Click the pictures to be redirected to DogeList   I just received mine the other day, I can confirm he's legit. Thanks again! |
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My suggestion to the dev team is to just show up. You don't have to hold our hands or give updates on every technical detail of your project, you just need to be visible. The community likes to know that the lights are on and somebody's home, you know?
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When I read all posts here, I can only agree. To make a conclusion. The dev team is communicating very poor. The community is guessing what is going on. Are the devs active and not communicating or did they already stop their activities. A big community can achieve a lot when managed the right way. This community needs a leader who explains what the dev-team is working on and what the dev-team likes the communtiy to work on. We have/had a big community that could have done a lot. Now it looks like a whole bunch of talented people are just out of work.
Even if the dev-team has big plans and is working on big projects, I still think they made a mistake by not contracting a guy, that would do the communication with the community. A person that would inform the community about all ongoing projects and also a guy who would get the community excited to help wherever they were needed.
+1 +2 +2.5 +sqrt(9.001) +Pi |
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