Butterfly Labs (BF Labs Inc.), a market leader in microprocessor design
Lookout AMD and Intel, there's a new player in the house! |
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So, 'doing the rounds' as I tend to do monthly, I decided to get back in touch with Butterfly Labs in regards to possibly ordering 10 Singles.
To my HORROR (and dismay) I was quoted a 'fair' shipping estimate of 10 weeks from time of Payment receipt.
ARE THEY FUCKING SERIOUS ? STILL ?
http://www.butterflylabs.com/pre-order-form/Delivery: Units are shipped within four to six weeks from the date of purchase.
They just can't seems to get rid of the never-met 4-6 week promise. |
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Look at how long it took BFL to release products based on regular FPGAs. There's no way they'll release a "full custom ASIC" before the block reward halves. ASICs like that are a long way off. There's plenty of time for FPGA profits.
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That's a monster fan for a 10 watt chip!
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Don't worry, SolidCoin5 is ready for MicroCash's collapse.
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Mark your calendars folks... On May 10th, MicroCash will be introduced
Did I miss it?  Notice they didn't specify which year. |
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Going back 3 days, we've found 7 blocks, and one was an orphan. To start, 1/7 is way more than 10% orphan rate. Secondly we're at 7 out of at least 12, and that's near 50% of our expected fucking blocks. I've stuck with p2pool through some low times, but it seems like we've been spending much too long in the trough on this sine curve...
Stop looking at short-term averages. They're not valid. Looking at long-term averages, p2pool is running at roughly 90% expected payouts. For me, that 10% loss is acceptable due to all the other benefits that p2pool offers. |
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I think everything that didn't meet courier cutoff time today go keyed into Monday's courier pickup. Apologies to those who's unit didn't escape our cluches today.
The inital bitstream is just just an Icarus build just rebuilt to our pinout.
NET "osc_clk" LOC = "J1";
NET "RxD" LOC = "D1";
NET "TxD" LOC = "B1";
NET "extminer_txd<0>" LOC = "B21";
NET "extminer_rxd<0>" LOC = "B22";
NET "led[0]" LOC = "A17";
NET "led[1]" LOC = "B18";
NET "led[2]" LOC = "A18";
NET "led[3]" LOC = "A16";
NET "dip[0]" LOC = "A4";
NET "dip[1]" LOC = "D6";
NET "dip[2]" LOC = "C6";
NET "dip[3]" LOC = "C8";
The current controller build can supply 50MHz, 100MHz, 150MHz or 200Mhz depending on dip switch setting. Eventually will have something a little more advanced but that is it today. The in-built programmer features can update the controller as well as the main array. That gives us an on-going path to make improvements and for customers to apply them to their units.
The problem we keep having with Icarus builds is the intermittant working of the coms interface and that's assuming a build completes which often it doesn't. This is principally down to the way the coms is designed and can be improved and we might do that at some point depending on how our other approaches work out.
The open communication and honesty are sure a breath of fresh air compared to some other FPGA company. Keep up the good work. |
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Since I felt that bitcoin thefts decrease its value, I wanted to make thefts less profitable for the thieves, so I proposed using the taint to accomplish this.
Tainting won't make it less profitable for theives. Just like copy protection, the tainting will only make things difficult for the honest users. Thieves will just work around any tainting you propose. |
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My 6 Icarii in an Ikea Lack:  |
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2 Syke:
about bitcoin developers... Actually bitcoin has mechanism that makes revenues for early adopters
So today's Bitcoin developers were paid for all future development back in 2009? Satoshi must have been a time traveller to know who all was going to work on Bitcoin and pay them all when the chain was launched! |
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I can't understand the harsh criticism from people here on him / his concept.
Bitcoin core software = free software Bitcoin mining software = free software This bitstream = non-free software built on the backs of free software That's my problem with it. Without Bitcoin, this bitstream is worthless. But I don't hear eldentyrell splitting his manditory mining-tax with the upstream developers that made this all possible. How about it eldentyrell? How much of your mining-tax are you sending back upstream to benefit the Bitcoin/Mining developers? |
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p2pool seems to far too regularly get 12-24+ hr blocks. When difficulty increases, that's going to get even longer.
Slush: 5-19 blocks/day @ 1300GH/s P2pool: 2-5 blocks/day @ 200GH/s Who wins? Where you can get more BTC? My poor little 100-170MH/s makes 10x less in Slush than I take form p2pool. I get 0,02 -0,04 /block in p2pool and about 0.0002/block in slush... We just need pump hash rate a bit and block will come  Just not everyone gets PPLNS idea... You NEED mine 24/7 there! No jumping! BTW: preparing additional node on free cloudy VPS in europe, it is leeching bitcoin blocks now If it will keep pool software running I`ll post address. No fancy thighs like p2poolmining, just plain simple node. This is great deal for lazy/private miners: no registration, no need to run own bitcion client, just point miner using bitcoin address as user name and ready Try 50btc.com (or btcguild or abcpool). I've given up on p2pool. There is something seriously wrong with it (or I just got a really bad luck. Variance is a bitch, I guess) In 12 hours on p2pool, my 3.5Gh/s rig generated (to be paid when block is found) a whole 0.31 BTC. Yesterday I switched to 50btc.com, the earnings were 1.15 BTC in the same 12 hour period. Did you even read the message you quoted. Let me trim it down for you... You NEED mine 24/7 there! No jumping!
In 12 hours on p2pool See that? You jumped when you were specifically told not to jump. p2pool is not for jumpers. |
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I'm quite serious. I'm tired of people attacking BFL for no reason
No reason? BFL has provided a plethora of reasons. I'd be happy to provide a long list for you. BFL sending me a unit for inspection and testing would prove it exists and works and isn't vaporware.
It doesn't exist. It won't for many months. They've announced that they'll announce next month that they'll someday do ASICs. |
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Ok, I'll print block 0. Who's next?
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That has nothing to do with my issues with intersango. For Merchants using bit-pay, there is no conversion you have to do, its just like accepting paypal.
https://bit-pay.com/accountingHelp.html"The maximum payout per day is 1000.00 USD or 1000.00 EUR." That's not a very workable solution for most merchants. Does anyone know if bit-pay will increase that limit? |
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Are you kidding me??? This very app that you're promoting has a reputation for not being reliable!! I wonder why??? It is due to the massive size of the network block chain.
No, it comes from people not understanding that the blockchain needs to be up-to-date. That's simply a matter of educating the users. And don't try to change the subject. You claimed mobile clients for Bitcoin require a 1.3 GB blockchain download. They don't. |
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4 individual heat sinks so each one is perfectly mated to the chip, and one large fan. Very very nice. |
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Right, the "workaround" remote-control apps that have the "REAL" wallet on a host provider infrastructure wherein the security of your funds rests with the security of the host provider (how many of these horror films have we seen up to this point??? These disasters never seem to end do they??). Let's face it, BTC wasn't designed for mobility and MC addresses that directly.
notyep, the more you open your mouth the more you look like a fool. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach.wallet&hl=enAndroid Bitcoin Wallet, doesn't use a host provider, and doesn't store a 1.3 GB blockchain. |
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it's not correct, when you have some MC$ in your wallet, you will get daily interest...
the daily account fee is MC$ 0.005, that means MC$ 1.825 a year, when you have a very small account...
Someone ran the numbers, and I don't feel like looking them up again, so feel free to correct the actual numbers. Basically, in a month or so (assuming the chain isn't reset...again), anyone with less than a couple hundred dollars worth of MC$ will pay more in daily fees than they get in daily interest. In other words, all the poor people will have their funds transferred to the rich people. |
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