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2.06 Sorry I'm early, need to buy another 14 minutes so I can make it through the shower...  |
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0.085B !
0.086B via Escrow Has anyone actually gotten a PM from the OP with info? If not, continuing to bid might be worthless... |
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Instead of building USB Miners why won't you build something like this.
Put the most chips you can on one board, since its lower power it probably won't start a fire like the Prisma. I can see it running at 5-6Th/s and using only 1000Watts.
Here is why. If you have a set of 3 or 6 usb sticks mining balanced on 3 or 4 pools you earn some btc with the standard pools and have a chance at a solo pool. If they can dial down to very low watt/gh it is possible to do a positive roi in a years time. and of course it gives you a shot at hitting the solo pool block. All this for very little out of pocket cash. why would someone buy 6 USB stickminers that do <10GH/ea and cost likely >$10? A 100GH board could probably be done for <$60, and make way less clutter of the USB ports small-scale mining is kinda pointless - economy of scale means if you spend $200 instead of $20, youll actually get >20x the hashrate and likely a better power efficiency. playing the 'solo lottery' with a USB miner is silly - its like going out and buying a dozen of those $1 scratch cards, instead of a 100-pack for $50 or a 500-pack for $200 Can't build a house without a foundation. Or money. My personal view of what they're doing is tackling something that is the first building blocks to a larger scale miner, and coming out with something that has been shown interest to be able to raise capital to continue working on something larger scale. I like the idea of a stickminer to start, and I'll probably purchase a handful. It'd take nothing at all to plug a couple of these into my laptop when I'm out at a starbucks, maybe it'll help pay for that cup of coffee and a scone... Gotta start somewhere, and when you're self funding, gotta make some sort of money otherwise you'll have wonderful ideas, but get nowhere. |
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I just don't think Spondoolies is likely to screw the pooch so badly they don't put out a killer B2B offering that would likely sink the consumer market. Bitmain may need to hire some more chip designers. Who knows.
The way I read the Spondoolies announcements, I don't think they're going to completely forget the consumer market. The way I read it was that they were concentrating first on the large market consumers, and then would eventually come down to the other levels - mid/small farms, prosumer, home/hobby miners - in turn. Doing that they would be able to make return on their new chip design investment first, and then come up with the designs for smaller form factors. The main question instead would be "when", not "if". If they wait too long to get to the smaller consumers, it would be the same as just ignoring them completely. Personally, I don't think they could ignore the smaller markets given the quickness they sold out. Even if at that point they're still only breaking even on those sales, it's still worth that much more in positive PR. But, back to the topic on hand... really cool PCB design mockups! |
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Have you considered swapping various parts from them to see how many complete units you can make?
Sure, I guess if you want to give some away I won't complain.
Yeah, I've considered that, probably get 2, maybe 3 good units out of the bad ones after transplant surgery. I still might attempt that, but I've deployed Spondoolies hardware to replace them so I'm not in an extreme rush. I'll send the fried one and one half working one over to start. I've got your details, I'll pm you. Wow I which we had more person like you in the community! Thanks man! That will help a lot this project.  Well, I'd be lyin' if I said there wasn't at least some selfish reasons for doing all this... can't continue to mine without decent miners, right?  |
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Have you considered swapping various parts from them to see how many complete units you can make?
Sure, I guess if you want to give some away I won't complain.
Yeah, I've considered that, probably get 2, maybe 3 good units out of the bad ones after transplant surgery. I still might attempt that, but I've deployed Spondoolies hardware to replace them so I'm not in an extreme rush. I'll send the fried one and one half working one over to start. I've got your details, I'll pm you. |
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As soon as I have some funds open up I might just buy an S5 and see what the problems are for starting at low voltages. The thing that comes to mind off the bat is the chained clock probably isn't getting through properly. I'd bet the regular comms are, since they're mostly open-drain digital IO sort of thing, but the clock I don't think actually pulls full low (at least not on the one I poked last week) so the level-shifted signal was not just shifted but also compressed. That one might not be hitting the input-low threshold or something.
Sidehack, do you have any interest in blown S5's? I've got about 6 of them that are in some sort of broken state - one started up but the fan didn't, so the "brain" of the unit is fine but the chips fried, and most of the others have at least one fried chain but still operate in some capacity. I can't really rely on them for anything so I'd be happy to toss one or more your way, no charge. |
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70 blocks left still near -2%
If we could get hot and rip a few quick ones my -1.11 % could win.
I do think we will be at -2.22%
I'd rather we stay exactly where we're at right now...  |
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no seat purchases for over a week now  if anyone wants to get a few seats at a small discount to market get in touch with an offer. especially if you would be a first time nastyfan Shoulda waited an hour before posting... I just bought 15 seats |
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I'll bid 0.075btc, as long as legit. Can you PM the link to me as well please. Thank you.
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I'll confirm (for what it's worth )that during testing things worked across nodes as expected. I had miners pointed to both nodes with the same registered address, and my hashrate and share count reflected as it should, even after failovers or manual switches between nodes. I've re-pointed all my miners now to the US node with the original EU node as failover, works well. |
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