Been watching this thread and all...interesting ...to say the least....
Everyone who agrees with Doggie should go to the trust system and give him a positive imho
Everyone who agrees with Josh that he is somehow in the wrong should give doggie a negative rating imho
Those that disagree are free to set up their own version of this guide, as Bick as done. There's no real reason to get the trust system involved. |
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Its all about careful wording and upselling. "We can't deliver X product due to delays, but call in today for your free upgrade to Y product, its even better"! Throw in the other required language and you bought yourself another 3 months shipping time unfortunately. |
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The problem is that we are constantly buying domains and we can't edit previous posts so we need to make new ones.
Why not? I've never had issues editing posts, and I don't know of any subforum-specific rules, though I'm not very active there. I believe he was talking about the auction section, in which you can't edit or remove your posts there after posting them. The answer to that is to ban domains from the auctions subforum if its such an issue. Of the 30 domains on the front page I sampled, there was literally no activity in any of them. No bidders means you dont need to hold an auction in the first place. |
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I posted this before: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=782510.0. BB is right that although a subforum would in the short term move the problem elsewhere, it doesn't necessarily solve the problem which is a few domain 'sellers' [aka people registering every garbage domain for $2 and trying to sell them for $100] making 20 threads and bumping them repeatedly for weeks. It does need to be addressed though. |
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And what about mine? I'm already at character cap and it doesn't even fit on smaller resolutions. Having no sig at all would hamper what you're also trying to advocate.
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why so many power connectors?
Why not, its just a test board and there's plenty of board space. For the retail boards you just don't dont drop PCI-E connectors through and leave them as empty connections. I personally would have preferred the chips to be centralised and squashed together more so we could have used standardised PC heatsinks cooling all 4 chips. 350W can be done with one higher end air heatsink or basic 120mm watercooling. I think its time we moved away from these strange aluminium blocks with obscene fans to make up for the low surface areas. |
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I didn't disregard what you said, I agree that BFL should be a 5/10. Reread what I wrote, you have 10/10 for companies that have delivered a fraction of the hardware they should have with no indication that they ever will finish. Unless you're arguing that since it's time-weighted and though HF hasn't shipped anything in half a year they haven't actually tried to ship anything in that time, so they've shipped 100% of the product they planned on.
Right, okay. Yes, that's correct for HF. AMT have also shipped more than enough to trigger their requirement. Its just unfortunate timing for BFL, they'll be 10/10 soon TM. This criteron isn't really meant to be looked into too deeply and everyone should score points unless you've made promises and not delivered on them for a long time [BFL Monarch until recently, or VMC entirely]. The one which looks more deeply is 'delivered on time?'. |
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I've tried two different image files from what I've found on the forum but none of them worked.
Anyone willing to take out their sd card and make a image of it then upload for others?
Thank in advance!
The images are good, so you may be doing something wrong. What are you doing? Should be downloading and burning with an image writer. Downloading. Uncompressing. Burning to micro with image file software. Antminer will boot software and connect to network but doesn't hash. Do you get modules, can you get the network diagnostics to pass? |
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I've tried two different image files from what I've found on the forum but none of them worked.
Anyone willing to take out their sd card and make a image of it then upload for others?
Thank in advance!
The images are good, so you may be doing something wrong. What are you doing? Should be downloading and burning with an image writer. |
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Not sure why I'm even going to jump into the middle of this, but while no one would rate BFL at the top of the list having them below HashFast, Black Arrow and AMT seems rather silly. I'm not sure how Hashfast and AMT can have 10/10 for miners delivered while BFL has 5/10, or AMT having a higher Ethics score than anyone.
Look at the criteria, its time based. They've barely delivered any monarchs, once they delivery more they get 10/10 like everyone else [its quite a unsensitive criteria that one]. Yeah, but HF delivered part of their batch 1, and haven't delivered anything since with no indication they'll ever ship anything again. AMT has delivered some (often incomplete and broken) units and has admitted they have no intention of delivering on the promised miner protection plan units, which is actually a larger number than the original orders. I don't disagree with BFL getting a 5/10, it is them being lower than the other companies that seems off. If someone held a gun to my head and told me I had to either buy a Monarch, X-3, BabyJet or AMT miner, I'd probably be sending my money to the first one as it's likely the only one I'd ever see anything in return. ... You said 'yeah' and then disregarded what I said. I'm also not sure you've seen the last few pages where I said to Josh a few times that as soon as they deliver more Monarch based products they get their 10/10. At the time of the update, there was a press release saying "yeah we're delivering now" after 9 months of delays and that was it. There were very, very few of these units actually in customers hands. |
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Not sure why I'm even going to jump into the middle of this, but while no one would rate BFL at the top of the list having them below HashFast, Black Arrow and AMT seems rather silly. I'm not sure how Hashfast and AMT can have 10/10 for miners delivered while BFL has 5/10, or AMT having a higher Ethics score than anyone.
Look at the criteria, its time based. They've barely delivered any monarchs, once they delivery more they get 10/10 like everyone else [its quite a unsensitive criteria that one]. |
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@dogie have you ever heard of the ASIC company Hashra? They are supposedly based in the UK and offering almost too good to be true ASIC prices and are taking what look like pre-orders. Thoughts? can you add them to your guide.
Preorder firms don't get traffic by being added to the list, and yes likely its too good to be true. Or maybe not, but either ways there's not much reason to preorder when the market is offering so much in hand hardware. I'm not suggesting you should link to them, but if they aren't trust worthy (and I don't think they are) it would be good to be able to point people to a definitive source of that kind of information. I have no evidence for or against, but this list is only for shipping companies. VMC are on it because they were from an era where preorders were an accepted norm and so took millions in advance, and as far as we know tried but failed to deliver. |
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@dogie have you ever heard of the ASIC company Hashra? They are supposedly based in the UK and offering almost too good to be true ASIC prices and are taking what look like pre-orders. Thoughts? can you add them to your guide.
Preorder firms don't get traffic by being added to the list, and yes likely its too good to be true. Or maybe not, but either ways there's not much reason to preorder when the market is offering so much in hand hardware. |
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What is being auctioned? Why?Non intrusive ad space in my setup guides is being publicly auctioned. I work for the community full time and am not funded by the community or any company. Donations have not exceeded $100 in total this year and so I have to find a way to keep the guides sustainable and FREE for the average consumer. Selling ad space is one such trial.
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- Ads may not misrepresent, lie, be inappropriate, be (or link to) NSFW content. I reserve the right to reject ads for other reasons or remove ads even after they have been accepted.
- There are 5 ad slots for sale. One slot will be placed after sections 2, 4 and 6 in all the guides listed at the bottom of the post.
- I will randomise which ad is placed in which slot on each guide so each slot receives the same impressions.
- The ads last at least 10 days starting from when they are put up. Traffic is expected to be 20,000 impressions per slot over the period.
- This traffic is exceptionally targeted to the hardware subforum, and more specifically to those who have either bought or are looking to buy miners.
Auction Format- Auction will run for approximately 9 days, to end at midnight London time / 3PM PDT / 6PM EDT on Thursday 25th September.
- Post your bids in this thread. Prices must be stated in BTC per slot. You must state the max number of slots you want.
- The notation "2 @ 0.40" means 2 slots for BTC 0.40 each. Not 2 slots for 0.40 BTC total.
- If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will have his slots filled first.
- Bidding starts at BTC 0.40. All bid prices must be evenly divisible by BTC 0.04.
I reserve the right to reject bids, even days after the bid is made. In particular, bids from people with less than 15 activity points are likely to be rejected. I recommend not getting into a bidding war with someone who has less than 15 activity points, as their bids might not be accepted, but your latest bids will still stand. If you need to know right away whether someone's bids will be accepted, PM me. You must pay for your slots within 24 hours of receiving the payment address otherwise your slots may be sold to someone else. I will send you the payment information via forum PM from this account ("dogie", user ID 87869). You might receive false payment information from scammers pretending to be me. They might even have somewhat similar usernames. Be careful.
TaxesThere is only tax due to UK bidders, and there is no additional cost to anyone (apart from me). Just clarifying to making sure its a level playing field and collecting any legally required taxes. US and rest of world - bid as normal.VAT registered UK businesses - will be invoiced an additional 20% VAT on bid prices [which they can later reclaim at no cost] VAT registered EU businesses - bid as normal, please let me know your VAT number. Non VAT registered UK - bid as normal, I will pay 20% tax and take the hit. Non VAT registered EU - bid as normal
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- 5 slots being sold
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Round 8 has concluded
MariaQin : 2 @ 0.40
Bitcrane-Tech : 1 @ 0.40
topminingcontracts: 2 @ 0.40
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So what if it's just a descriptor? It proves, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that you are biased. If you were unbiased, you would not use a descriptor that is a company name to indicate the worst possible condition. That is the very definition of biased.
Yes, I am saying you gained traffic by artifically setting BFL low in order to placate the trolls. That is exactly right. I am glad you admit that if you set BFL higher, if you based your guide on facts and were honest, you'd be flooded by how BFL is too high. It wouldn't generate more traffic, it would send you to the dustbin and you know it. If you were not seen as jumping on the BFL hate train and actually using facts and evidence to support your conclusions, you'd be a pariah and nobody would use your guide, because all the trolls would say what an idiot Dogie is and what a worthless shill you are. I'm not saying your hate train fueled guide increased your traffic, I'm saying it prevented you from losing traffic and allowed you to gain marketshare directly at BFLs expense. This is indisputable and you even admit so much in this post. I seriously doubt anyone here would disagree with the fact that if BFL were rated higher, you'd have the trolls yowling at you about how you're a shill and your guide is worthless. Do you deny this?
Anyone, and I mean anyone who says anything positive about BFL on these forums is instantly labeled a shill. Go on, tell me that is false.
1) Beneficial to BFL? Hardly. How is it beneficial to BFL?
2) Tarnish your trust rating so people would be unwilling to listen to you? Absolutely, what is more appropriate than using the trust system to show you are untrustworthy and continually lie to your reader base?
3) I wasn't aware you were doing a business. You said yourself you didn't earn anything off of the guide, so what business would it affect? Or did you just slip up and commit yet another lie?
4) You said you wern't earning any income, so how could this be? Uh oh... yet another contradiction.
5) Not at all, are you just making stuff up now? I had no doubt you would continue to publish your false, biased information under the guise of "unbiased, factual information," I just wanted to make sure people knew that you were doing so.
The tier above was described as "significant issues or problems". If I was to add a descriptor to the tier in questions, you would complain far stronger as it would probably have to include something along the lines of "avoid this company" strength recommendation. As you were the only active company in that tier, it only made sense to name it the BFL tier and avoid a harsh descriptor. That gave the buyer the most opportunity to form their own opinion and do their own research. I did not admit anything. You're turning a double-ended, impossible hypothetical situation into a quote - AGAIN. Even when we go with your scenario, where are the BFL haters when I raise your score by 38% in one round? According to you I should be getting lynched and discredited by the shills by now [which by the way I'm not saying don't exist, there do seem to be very dedicated people against your cause]. The core community has other companies to satisfy their appetite and doesn't particularly care for BFL. And yes, I deny everything you're accusing me of. 1) You've said several times that I'm spreading lies about BFL, why would removing me not fit that motive? 2) Thanks for confirming this. 3 & 4) Setup guides have affiliate links to amazon in for PSUs etc and there is publicly auctioned advertising. I also traded 2nd hardware which is done solely on trust, that's how I live. I don't see any contradiction, and you know god damn that I work here for a living. This particular trustworthiness guide is something that I do for the community for pretty much free though. 5) Okay thats fair, I guess a lot of people have vendettas against you that they follow regardless of any particular logic or apparent motive. |
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No I did not. Josh expressed concerns about his livelihood, and I turned it around using his recently purchased home via bitcoins, assuming your livelihood is not as good as his.
All four of CoinWares sister companies have tens of millions of Monarchs on order, none of which worried one iota about this thread, ergo Josh's livelihood is not in danger of being disrupted.
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I'm now getting the same issue as the above user. Anyone notice that the hardware is x.x.x.x and no cgminer?
Any fixes?
The fix for most has been to reimage the SD card, and if that doesn't fix it, to replace the SD card. I used an entirely different SD Card and used the image from the post. Still didn't fix the issue  Hmm... Its been a while since I looked at the firmware versions. I think there might have been a custom one someone compiled that had some fixes in it - this might have been one of them. |
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