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Any more word about this Avalon 2 offer for existing users? I filled out the form a couple of days ago, but Barntech hasn't posted any more since then either here or on the drillbit forum.
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Hey guys. Ok so the Avalon 16 chip boards are gonna be coming in soon. At this stage we're looking good to have these ready to ship by end of February. This is not a promise, it is a projection. Things could get delayed. Fingers crossed that they don't. The 16 chip Avalon Gen2 board will achieve hashrates at a minimum of 20gh/s. They will probably go faster but this is the hashrate we are quoting for now. These boards will not work on existing miniplanes, in stead they will be chainable using sata cables. At this stage we are opening up 'expressions of interest' for the boards only to members of the previous group buy. Each such member is entitled to the number of boards previously ordered at a the discounted price of USD $230 per board. Once i have initial numbers, more boards may be released at somewhere around the $280 mark depending on how many get taken in this first round. There will also be 1.6gh/s thumbs available for $65. Please fill in the form beneath with the number of boards you are interested in (only up to the amount of boards previously ordered). This is not a contract but please only fill this in if you have a real intention of buying the boards. Once we get closer to shipping and verify the boards are all working as they should we'll open up payments. BTC payments only. Payments will be pinned to the USD price so BTC price will vary depending on the rate at the time of payment. http://formsmarts.com/form/1dq6For this round, there will only be the express postage option. Had too many troubles last time round with 'regular' post. The cost will be $60-$100 depending on number of boards and region. All production and manufacture is taking place here in Australia. Excited to get these boards out to you guys. Cheers Barntech Progress. |
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Havn't gotten payments from Minebig for a while. Issues?
The pool says it hasn't found a block in over 24hours, so it's definitely broken. Any other BCX pools that are more reliable? I am trying bcx.ispace.co.uk atm. |
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My NF1 crashes on cgminer 3.10, 3.11, usually when there is a stratum disconnect. Rock solid on bfgminer.
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Nice low HW rate too. What is the power consumption at 250GH/s ? |
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Ha nice attempt a posting a referral link to make free coins you leech. |
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I regret investing my measly 0.45 bitcoin in preordering a x-1, should have just used it to buy dogecoin while it still was 30 satoshi, could have sat on 2mil doge as we speak. Well, I`m pretty sure I can sell the x-1 for atleast twice what I paid for it even if it doesnt arrive before may. Cant imagine how shitty it must feel to be down 5000$ like some people in this thread.
Well, at the current BTC price there is no ASIC mining hardware you can order and expect ROI, you are better off keeping your BTC, the only people that are going to make ROI are the ones that ordered a while back and are shipping in the next few weeks. Prices would have to get down around $1-2per GH/s to try and make ROI in the next quarter of this year. The days df big margins on ASIC hardware are coming to an end, the shakeout will begin unless BTC magically doubles in value against the USD in the next month or two. |
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What about hobbyists that just want to buy a few chips to experiment with, how are they being catered for?
Where do you draw the line here? Aren't hobbyists part of the DIY scene, or what would be your classification of a hobbyist? I believe making chips available in lots of 50 is exactly aiming at hobbyists. Or are you saying there are people out there investing time to develop some mining boards and then produce only one of them? I won't expect that, i.e. if someone has a working board, he should have a vital interest to order at least 50 chips. Please let me know if I am not aware of common use-cases out there and I will consider. There are plenty of people that just make a miner for the heck of it, other people take their design and make more boards. Just see the Bitfury thread for a raft of examples. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=228677.0 |
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Update: Chips arrived and re-shipped Chip DistributionBitmine received the first lot of chips on Thursday. Orders that have been paid by then where shipped on Friday, the remaining ones will do after I receive the payment in full. With that, also the 2nd wave of samples have been sent / will be sent on Monday to Michael S.
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Good Luck with your designs. New Terms for free Sample ChipsIn the past few days I received around 30 requests for samples. While glad to hear about so many DIYers, given the fact that most of them were from folks just registered to the forum, I need to assume the service is misinterpreted as free chips giveaway. Generally, with the availability of the A1 in volumes, the distribution of free sample chips ended. For serious developers I will still left a supply option open, but to distinguish them from free-riders I have to adapt the terms as follows: 2 sample chips are shipped to developers at their effective costs of $250. That amount will be deducted from the payment of that developer's first order of 50+ chips - with that they effectively become free samples again. I'm sure you agree that this change is required to be able to provide best support to the serious developers. What about hobbyists that just want to buy a few chips to experiment with, how are they being catered for? |
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Seeing as how it hasn't taped out yet and they have no circuit boards, no case, no software, nothing. I seriously doubt it starts shipping in May. They basically have nothing. They should NOT produce this chip. They should just get with someone like AsicMiner and build boards with their chips. It'll be better/cheaper/faster. Going forward with this is a mistake. An expensive one.
You are probably wrong about most of those points except tape out. Thy already developed and tested using compatible FPGA. |
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Can someone tell me whats going on in here ?
Lots of people who ordered from BA got emails to say batch one isn't shipping until May and they haven't done tapeout yet. Hence a kind of panic. |
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WHY THE PRICE IS SO LOW?  Because nobody is actually doing things with the coin other than mining and dumping. I haven't seen one merchant take it on yet, unless it's in the German thread. You need merchants to create demand for a coin. Paying for ASIC hardware in BTC has helped raise the price of BTC. DEM needs the same kind of thing. |
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Now shipping Feb 8th onwards at 1.45BTC  Where did you read that? |
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Whatever happened to the Coincraft Desk 200GH/s model? That seems to be dropped from their web site.
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Yeah, but at 1499 Euros give me a break! The ASIC chips retail for around 560 Euros for 8 of them, so that's a crazy mark up.
I see boards on their site with far more components and way cheaper.
849Euros would be a more realistic price. Lest face it, the Coincraft Desk 200 sold for way less than 1499 Euros.
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Why is news from the Drillbit team so lacking on ether this thread of their forums? Barntech teased buy letting us know they had 2 reels of Avalon chips sitting there a month ago, then silence. Is it some kind of mind game they are playing with us? Did the team get hit by a bus?
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Stop pre-ordering! Break your addiction cycle.
True, if it wasn't for pre-order monies funding badly organized startups, the BTC difficulty would be a tiny fraction of what it is today. |
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I'm irritated. Did only Batch 2 customers get this E-Mail, is it may only for Batch 2?
So Batch 1 could ship a little earlier?
@bobsag3, is it possible to change my shipping address of a paid X-3 on the old shopping system?
They haven't done tape out! understand what this means. 3months before they have any packaged chips for either batch. I too would like to hear what minersource have to say about this, as that's where I placed my order. |
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So it's Feb in two days and now BA admit they haven't done tape out yet!
Definitely something fishy there.
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