I can assure you, once the firmware is in production mode, y’all are going to really like it... for more than one reason.

A few orders will go out in March. A majority in April.

NotFuzzyWarm, I'm not sure I understand the basis of your claim. Why do you feel the need to say shit like that? You can't claim it's a scam without proof. Maybe it's different in your country, but in mine it's "innocent until proven guilty". You have no proof that Halong is a scam. You have unsatisfactory answers to your questions. That's about all.

This post is in the "Mining Speculation" sub-forum. If you'd like to start a new thread called "Confirmed Scam", go ahead, but no one is going to listen to you and you'll just embarrass yourself further. I understand some of you "professional, unbiased reviewers" in this forum feel entitled and worthy of receiving a free unit to test for yourselves, but honestly, real mining equipment manufacturers don't need reviews. The equipment will sell and the results will be shown. 

So, go ahead and cry wolf, NotFuzzyWarm. You're only digging yourself a deeper hole and will become less trusted in the community with assumptions.

I will refrain from name calling and cursing. But, you dudes will be really embarrassed with all your naysaying.

There is far more at play here than is currently understood. Obviously there has not much of anything revealed at this point, and I respect the honest skepticism that some have expressed. If I were better at public relations, I would never have jumped on here and started making promises.

The only thing I can say right now is... if you really are uncomfortable sending $ to what appears to be scam, then just wait a few weeks.

Now this is a rough estimate, but Bitmain has around 70% of the mining equipment industry market share right now. They also own various mining pools out there (whether obvious or unknown).  A change needs to occur and this Halong project is that change.

IF that guy posted positive stuff on bitcointalk be cautious anyway...on the original litecointalk I bought (or tried to, was a scam hacked acccount) a titan cube from the account of the original 4 founders/super mods with all powers on that site...it was hacked...and when found out I think the hacker having all sysop powers ...flushed the site

And I have six gpus coming from amazon and Evga.

Are there other ones running? If yes, it can´t be the drivers.
Tried to run them with 100 MHz? That helps sometimes to reinitialize them.
Where do you get the message? Is it inside the running cgminer?

If they're hot, it could be the voltage is cranked up too high and the hub ports crap out when the chips try to initialize.

Here's to hoping they're legit, because... Fuck shitmain.

I get "failed usb_init" for 2 devices. Reinstalled drivers, unplugged - same message. The ones that give me this message are hot. Are they dead?


Edit: running cgminer.exe -n shows me all devices. What now?

I really hope its not a scam, but there have been so many. I guess it comes down to two old adages:

"Fortune favours the brave" and "A fool and his gold are easily parted."

I don't see the need for such secrecy however, if its there and it works, why publish all the information relevant, about the company, the developers, the engineers, the process, the fab, the layout, the chips etc etc.

Also interesting reddit thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7eqw71/rip_bitmain/

I for one would NEVER trust anything read in a crypto blog.
If someone does a detailed hands-on review of it with pictures, etc -- maybe.
Fact is most crypto 'news' sites are simply pay-for-placement PR sites and have nothing to do with real reviews or facts.

It's as CG says here, it is only for bragging rights, but if you wish to know what a good best share is then the following explanation will help you understand better.

After 100 shares, on average your best share should be 100.
After 1,000,000 shares, on average your best share should be 1,000,000.
After 1,200,000,000,000 shares, on average your best share should be that too, meaning you should have found one block with it. That's why on average it takes current diff number of shares to find one block.

If your best share is less than the total number of shares you've contributed, then your luck is a little low, and vice versa. It has absolutely zero bearing on your chance of finding an ultra lucky best share in the very next share, but it's interesting to watch nonetheless.

"shares": 13775261,
 "bestshare": 90928535.07083905,
 "bestever": 90928535,

Since when is a month or so "abandoned long ago"?

Why do people ASSUME that "continuous improvement in mining a specific algorithm" is POSSIBLE?

Thank you. I ended up downloading through Mega by disabling Chrome's infected website check.

I do have another question however. I put my wallet address as the login as the username using Zcash flypool's server in the miner.cfg file. I turned the miner on this morning and when I returned from work, I checked the web GUI for flypool and noticed I earned no Zcash even though it was mining for 8-9 hours. Can anyone help me get set up with this? Thanks!

You are fine
If can afford to feed your node more RAM, you are better off. dbcache goes in bitcoin.conf indeed.

Edit:
Ah, I see what you did wrong. You have to manually pick the C++ signer for it to work atm. Ugh, this is coming back to bite me in the ass, isn't it?