Regarding PSU and the popped caps on some of the earlier Saturns / Jupiters... I remember there being speculation about potential issues with Corsair PSUs, was this ever clarified (ie. it was the owners fault, it was the PSUs fault, production problem...) or is this still an unresolved mystery and there are some PSUs that I should stay away from?
There was approx 10 instances in total. I think around 8 I saw, believe it or not, a few of those continued to run fine when I tested them ~143 GH/s. That said a few were DOA. In any case due to the time in possession of these chips being approx equal to the time the majority of boards in the wild with you guys we can only confidently recommend the Coolermaster V850 as behaving faultlessly. The standard months into years of post fab refinement to test every manufacturers PSU is not possible, unless you guys are willing to wait, as such I can only strictly state the Coolermaster, and in honesty it is super quiet. I realise should someone require something beefier, than again the official stance would be these boards are modular use 2 x V850s.  Also the 'official' stance is that the upgrade modules are not appropriate for Jupiters, but Saturns, and Mercuries. Thanks for the info. I'm aware that those were freak incidents, but better safe than sorry  |
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Regarding PSU and the popped caps on some of the earlier Saturns / Jupiters... I remember there being speculation about potential issues with Corsair PSUs, was this ever clarified (ie. it was the owners fault, it was the PSUs fault, production problem...) or is this still an unresolved mystery and there are some PSUs that I should stay away from?
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I have a question regarding the share-handling fee, sorry in case I overlooked the answer:
What happens if Havelock shuts down and shareholders are forced to move their shares to direct shares (or whatever other solution might have popped up by then) - Will you then charge a handling fee or will this also be a free migration?
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Great photo, let's hope it's not true. If BFL don't suffer the same delays Cointerra and Hashfast have recently and actually start delivering late Nov early Dec i think they may stay in the game.
I honestly don't think that's gonna happen. |
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Regardless, what's the plan moving out of Bitfunder? Direkt Shares? Havelock?
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I thought, that's Bitmit?
*was |
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WIE habe ich ja ein paar Möglichkeiten genannt: Entweder Geldmenge bei steigender Nachfrage steigern, bei sinkender senken, oder eben "hoard-and-sell" zu verhindern versuchen. Eine 1:1 an einen anderen Asset (Fiat, Gold etc.) gebundene und gleichzeitig dezentrale Kryptowährung wäre in meinen Augen unmöglich, wie du ja auch sagtest, es wird immer Schwankungen geben.
Schau dir mal die Mastercoin und BitShares Whitepapers an. Beides Ansätze für einen dezentralen Exchange, ähnlich Colored Coins, verfolgen im Gegensatz zu Colored Coins jedoch auch das Ziel Crypto-Währungseinheiten an "Real"-Werte zu heften (Euros, Gold, Milch) - mit jeweils unterschiedlichen Lösungsvorschlägen. Genaueres findest du in den beiden Whitepapers, an beiden Projekten gibt es mehrere Kritikpunkte (sowohl bzgl. des Stabilisierungs-Algorithmus als auch allgemein) aber ich glaube sie beschreiben in etwa das was du meinst (und ein bisschen mehr). Das "Warum" wäre noch am einfachsten zu beantworten. Z.B. Lohn- und Gehaltzahlungen, Preise in BTC/$AltC im Supermarkt. Eigentlich alles, was eine richtige Währung ausmacht.
Kann doch niemand was dafür das der Euro und der Dollar so instabil gegenüber Bitcoin sind |
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I'd like to state that PIF also never touched ButtFondler, though it had more to do with its notorious bugs, security issues, abysmal customer service and fractional reserve passthroughs.
amazing company! |
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Thanks for all the good work so far, Pido!
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People who think they are late to catch the train make their own version of a digital currency.
Most of those altcoins are premined in the hope to get rich quick.
There are already hundreds of altcoins.
99.9% of all those coins will fail and abandon.
One of the few altcoin worth of spending your time is litecoin, the rest is waste of time.
... but this is a other Story! The Germans loved their DM! This are 80.000.000 People who wants it back! Now they can!  |
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TBH I'm looking forward to see how the other upcoming mining companies are going to fare. Despite their "unprofessionalism" the bitcoin mining industry seems to have finally grown up with KnCMiner and Bitfury delivering *almost* on time, so maybe we can finally leave the dark days of BFL and Avalon behind us. Not sure whether this will make Bitcoin mining more profitable though, just less of a gamble of whether you'll actually get your hardware, as sad as this sounds.
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I've never had any dealings with BFL or Avalon and I find it strange that people always compare KNC with the worst in the industry and do no try to compare them with the best they could be.
Not the worst in the industry. The only in the industry. If KnCMiner would have fully started shipping the November batch right now, I'd be grabbing my pitchfork as well. But 15 boxes seem like an honest mistake to me. Worst case that's 15 Jupiter's accounting for 8.25TH which at nowadays standard hardly make a difference. The guys receiving those orders are lucky bastards, but c'est la vie. When did you receive your order, if I make ask (or are you still waiting)? First day or second day delivery? |
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Am I expected to be profoundly grateful for only 2 weeks delay instead of 1 year?
No, just saying that KnCMiner has so far been more reliable than BFL, Avalon, and Hashfast - so basically everyone except for in-hand Asicminer devices which come with a premium. Bitfury/Metabank/100th is about en-par with KnCMiner, but underdelivered regarding hashrate including 100th being more than a month late with deploying and Metabank not being able to ship outside of russia. (nonetheless great engineering work from Bitfury's side, props to him!) Also although 2 weeks may seem like forever in the Bitcoin world, it's still not that bad from a real world perspective. |
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Awesome, just awesome...
Some people got their miners 2 weeks early, some other people got them 2 weeks late.
Professionalism at its best.
At least those 2 weeks were, you know, actual 2 weeks. |
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not sure why, but crumbs is actually one of my favourite trolls on this board <3
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What actions?
Appropriate actions. Hamid: "What's that?" Rambo: "It's blue light." Hamid: "What does it do?" Rambo: "It turns blue." |
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