I would love to find a client to host one of these units.  This has been in the works for years, good to see it as a reality.  Immersion cooling is a growing technology, and Bitcoin Mining is a near perfect test-case for the viability of the underlying technology.  It is a very efficient package overall and in the times of rising difficulty, efficiency is key. 

-Dalkore

I assume that this harks back to bitfury CEO past. He is from Latvia/former USSR growing up during 1990 USSR collapse.
Lots of bad people, lots of various scams and swindlers, so people's mistrust, perhaps.
He probably does not want to deal with tens/hundreds of thousands of small miners, hence the "go big" mentality.
Honestly, why not just put up the chip for sale directly on the internet, then institute a volume discount for large customers.
This way, anyone can build a miner and there is no need for some byzantine integrators communication pathway scheme.

At the risk of sounding repetitive, thanks phillipma1957 for yet another successful group buy.

I'm wondering if the new hash rate for the "version 2" Avalons has more to do with the firmware updates than the string design. Here is a screen cap of my "Version 1" Avalon with the latest version firmware (MM & Ras Pi B) at 12.2 volts.

http://imgur.com/QyHqL8q

Seems I'm achieving the same results as "version 2" with lower volts using Jabber's/Finksy 4k watt PSU

If that's not the case, if I'm pulling 3.9 THs from a version 1 that's rated at 3.5 THs, then I should pull 4.2-4.3 THs from a version 2 Avalon with 3.8-3.9 THs hashing average. Can't wait till these bad boys/girls arrive!

well, this is borderline price assuming maybe two more months wait.
Why? S7 is $789+shipping=~840 for 4.7Th, but I will go with $789 number because there are discounts for large purchases, which will negate shipping
16000Th (container)/4.7=3404 S7 equivalents
3404X789=$2685957
It would take Bitmain to simply lower S7 price to ~$605 to match the container price per Th (although without counting better efficiency).

Conclusion: Bitfury has to lower the container price to 1-1.2 mil to have a significant competitive advantage and deploy en masse vs Bitmain.

we are now open

-1.2 = philipma1957  first pick if it wins i will roll it back in
+6.9 = fr4nkthetank
 +8.0  = ACAB
 +8.1  = vapourminer
 +9.0  =  lolxxxx
 +9.1  = adaseb
 +9.6  = Psi
+10.0 =  Swordsoffreedom


+ 10.9 = indiemax

+11.0 = Lituation
+11.5 = Last of the V8s
+11.8 = wpt1wpt1
+11.9 = sebbysebbybinx
+12.0 = cakir
+12.1 = valkir
+13.1 = blindminer

+13.3 = edonkey
+14.1 = alfacro
+14.4 = vortexz
+14.5 = d57heinz
+15.0 = ingiltere
+15.3 = Tmdz

+16.0 = zebedee
+17.0 = ezeminer

+14.5 = d57heinz


http://data.bitcoinity.org/bitcoin/hashrate/6m?c=m&r=week&t=a

scrolling across that graph its quite obvious we havent even seen what bitfury can bring to the table.. Look at growth  

sept 11 2015 -    jan 17 2016  

antpool  68ph/s then  now 231 ph/s  quadrupled
f2pool    81ph/s then  now 199 ph/s  about 1.5x increase
bw.com  28ph/s ""     ""    62.7ph/s   2.25 x increase
btcchina 41ph/s ""     ""    116ph/s    2.8x increase

BITFURY  70 ph/s              135 ph/s  1.9x increase for someone that may have 300 peta  not looking like the numbers add up to me..

Its quite apparent this hash is mostly china hash coming online..Bitmain and some avalon most likely.. we haven't even seen the full effects of what bitfury will bring (if they dont bring to table like they say then maybe we will hit a slow period of rise till halving or at least i hope).. So id say double digit increases will be the norm?? rather than the exception for quite some time. Maybe not all thru to halving but many months yet.. if it wasnt for kano pool id be out of mining already running s3's and s4's.

So i wrote this yesterday and waited to post.. Looks like they have kept things running strong.. What i do like about what i see on http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-lin-2k.png is we havent surged on the 8 hour past that 1.3 peta mark.. So this could again be a bit of good network luck along with another 10 % of hash that still needs to be accounted for... I really am starting to think the on/off cycle was not to trigger bitcoind warning system about producing over 48 blocks within 4 hours*(since it was coming from china the next headline would most likely would have been that china was attacking the network!).. Imagine what it could have done had they just turned on 51% of the network all at once (280-300 block days??) Greedy china takes our jobs and our bitcoin.. lets hope they dont decide to come for debt repayment any time soon    I always did like the story of the world being in over 50 trillion in debt. but the question is to whom is it owed?  https://www.facebook.com/notes/positive-money-uk/if-all-the-nations-of-the-world-are-in-debt-who-are-they-in-debt-to/190689830985039/  About time we just go to a resource based economy and use the blockchain as a ledger of ownership going forward.(im hopeful that this is where this is ultimately heading) Just do away with money altogether.. Imagine how many bad actors in this world are only doing so in the quest for money/btc.  https://www.thevenusproject.com/resource-based-economy/

Best Regards
d57heinz

Thanks J4bberwock.  I'll have to be sure to get the right ones.  I didn't even think that would matter and especially since the breakout board still fit perfectly.  Oh well lesson learned!  Going to try to return these.

Having dealt numerous times with Phillipma1957 on and off the forum , I would not consider him a sell out or being paid by anyone for what he does.
If he does get paid directly, it is also not our business. He backs his info with facts in any thread he has. He is very helpful on pretty much anything I have ever asked him about in the past.

He is one of the very few people we should NOT be worried about being a sell-out on this SCAM-ridden and BS-filled forum...

On that note, I started on KANO.IS early last year and have been stuck on it (in a good way).
Always earning more than any other pool, even after some less than prosperous days of red blocks.

I only wish KANO would have an alt-coin pool.