No Bitmain is trying to maintain a monopoly on gouging fees on Bitcoin. That is why they are trying to block any SegWit on Litecoin. Thus they will preannounce far in advance right now to try to make miners afraid to act.

Jilian Wu and BU are a diversionary tactic. What they really want is small blocks forever on Bitcoin and no scaling competition for Bitcoin.

Bitcoin can't move higher until this scaling shit is resolved. Jilian Wu is blocking the progress of our entire ecosystem. Please kick his ass by activating SegWit.

We are now 113 pages into this thread. I want to officially declare that Litecoin is not dead.

I happen to be looking. I've come across a couple a "smells like scams".

What would be the best move?

To buy script miners

Or

Use the money to buy ltc ?

Searing they didn't sell out they stopped selling them.. to mine them and they will show up on ebay with 50% premium from same chinese hardware sellers.

Last week I finally got contact with Baikal via a Chinese chat. They are now on some Chinese holiday until April 5th. Anyway, they officially are sold out of A900's but will dispatch group orders of 35, possibly 30. A bit too rich for me but by the next day they said the batch was already taken anyway. They are bound to respond to an order of that size (or larger). If someone here is able to start a group-buy that's probably a way to go forward, I'm down for 5 of the units. PM me if you are able to administer a group-buy.

I have talk with bikalminer on skype, they told me that the miner was available but when I try to but from http://www.baikalminer.com/ but I get out of stock message.

Is the bikalminer account on skype fake ?

Please let me know

thx

remember not so long ago bitcointalk was filled with altcoins shills who wanted to replace bitcoin? 
now where are they?

i tell you where, getting dumped hard and prices fall like a stone.
Dash: gone down -60%
ETH: gone down -40%

the dump is real now, everyone else who didn't beieve it is now getting crushed under the whales of these coins who pumped them and now are existing.

and all the while, bitcoin has been getting stronger and stronger. and now bitcoin is back on track as we have all expected it to.

stop listening to the lies told by altcoin pumpers and stick to bitcoin.

I shut it down and swapped data cables and at first it seemed to be doing like it supposed to but after it ran for a few minutes it started acting up again until it is unresponsive.

So as it heats up it dies.


Edit:

More errors for asic 3:
i2c_smbus_read_word_data failed: addr 0x21
i2c_smbus_read_word_data failed: addr 0x21
i2c_smbus_read_word_data failed: addr 0x21
FPGA I2C error: read data 0xFFFFFFFF (expected 0x3C) from reg 113:3


Edit2:

Im suspecting its the #3 port on the controller board with the FPGA error, so I just swapped the #3 asic and data cable to the #4 header on the controller board and letting it run.

Edit3: Its been running fine on the other header so yep its the controller board.  

Need to take it out and see if I can repair it by adding a header to one of the empty spots on the controller board.

Edit4: So it looks like three boards are good to go and one has a bad asic chip or a couple of bad dc/dc converters, not going to worry about that, and a bad port on the controller board and in pretty sure I can fix that.

lol i can't see how 0.25 is feasible when no other coins ever went that high, litecoin will not be the first, litecoin is all hype for nothing, just a pump and dump, the creator of litecoin also admit that his coin is a shitcoin, without any real usage, why a shitcoin should go to 0.25? segwit will only be good for another pump and dump pretty much like the last halving

That's why these light up blue, not green. My comments and such are on the main status page.

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I really hope that bitcoin does not fork. A hardfork is just not needed at this time (and it is very risky). Its better to implement Segwit with Lightning first. If later it becomes necessary, a hardfork (BU) can always be implemented.

Then we need a middle ground. Perhaps sandwich purchases are the sweet spot so our descendants can check what we ate. Everything above or below that needs to be in the dark.

Interested in buying A4 Dominators or Antminer L3

Let me know how many you have and the price you want

This is exactly why I posted my saga on the L3's here.  My L3's ran fine for a while also.  But just like the S9/R4/T9's they almost always seem to start off working just fine.  Then the problems start.  So that is why I hoped to share this wisdom with people here about the L3's and to be aware that the same issues that Bitmain has with their other miners are here on the L3 also.  They just don't make a reliable miner.  

However warning people isn't enough because everyone thinks that "accidents" and "problems" happen to other people.  So we continue to buy this junk thinking it won't happen to us.  The cost of shipping unless you get lucky to have someone help you like "@Deep In The Mines" to let you print a shipping label with him will cost you a fortune even if the board repair cost is reasonable.

Next problem is that when you ship back to them it goes to a Hong Kong address.  From there once they get it they told me it can take 5-10 days for it to be shipped to China and processed through customs.  Then the repair can take place.  No estimate on that time required.  Or the shipment time to get it back.  So at this point I think I am probably being very conservative when I say it will likely be at LEAST 1 month before this is all done and the board is back.  Sadly I have 1 hash board out for repair and one controller/io board out for repair.   Just waiting for the next board to bite the dust while I am waiting on the stuff I have already shipped to get shuffled around, fixed, and sent back.

So I know I am probably wasting time sharing this experience with people, but hopefully it will help a few people who will take heed.  Until these miners are sold in other markets and you have someone like "BitmainWarranty" doing repairs locally the time to get a board repaired is very long and the cost is high.  Even with local repair the cost is still high.  So take it for what it is worth.  
 
I won't be in a hurry to buy more L3's and certainly NOT the L3+.  

Great news, keep us updated mate.