I just noticed that for the last couple of days the hashrate per second does not update and also the workers take forever! to update as to them being online or not, and their hash rate.

I've been playing around switching graphics cards and would actually like to see that hash rate for each worker displayed. It does not really seem to update very often at all (on the order of HOURS !).

Thanks !

I guess that answers the outage this morning.

No biggy, these things happen.

I just talked to a local to me assembly guy, and his best price would have been $200 a board, just for assembly.

So, these prices are looking pretty good.

As for other factors, I'm still waiting on my 32 chips from Steamboat, but so is everybody else.

I'd be interested to see what he's doing for his assembly as well.

As for Terrahash...the jury is still out on that one...

It was me. I added 3 more video cards. 

Well, I needed new graphics cards anyway for gaming. 

I really don't care if the 3x7950's pay for themselves or not. It will be a killer crossfire rig anyway. 

So, if I mine some coins with them, that just means that I will be offsetting their price a little bit.

Amortize that over a period of a year, and it's not so bad.

They are called General Purpose Graphics Processing Units for a reason, to do more than one thing.

According to my simple calculations plugged into any bitcoin calculator, graphics cards will probably be good enough until the difficulty hits about 25 million, probably in about 5-6 months.

.1 BTC= decibit
.01 BTC = centibit
.001 BTC = miliBit
.0001 BTC = squaredcentibit (.01 * .01).

Simple

You gotta love this stuff.

The pre-sales have already started on undelivered batches of Avalon chips.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Avalon-Asic-Bitcoin-Mining-Chips-500-Pieces-/200923655775?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ec7fbae5f

All that for a few bucks and 58.50 shipping.

No, it's not me, and I'm not promoting it in any way,shape, or form.

Really, it is pathetic.

I will check in my neck of the woods. Guess if we got 64+ boards together it might be ok, but....it's still pretty pricey.

I was hoping to keep the unit cost under $150 for assembly....

Did you just give them the parts list off GitHub and they gave you a quote based on that?

I can't open Klondike's CAD files off GitHub.

I'd be interested in this as well.

Of course, there are a lot of things we still do NOT know, like when Steamboat's batches of chips are coming in (I have some on order with him), as well as what assembly prices and timetable will be.

More importantly, I'd like my chips to not be messed up in the assembly process, because they're a pain in the behind to get.

But, fundamentally, people working together to achieve common goals is a good thing, since we all want the stinkin' miners ASAP, heh.

Sent you 4.128 BTC for 48 chips out of order # 2.

E-mail incoming shortly. Cheers.

Awesome stuff.

Thank you.

BFL has been clearly beaten to market, and they are losing the PR battle as well.

Any company that takes your money for what is effectively an alpha first run product, with hardware bugs, is basically living on borrowed time.

It's a no brainer.

Just sent you the 2.88 BTC for 32 chips.

I have no idea what time it is anyway...new price or old price, I don't really care.

Please put me down for 32 chips.

I sent you a PM. Thanks.

That is pretty funny actually.

Just 2 questions:


1) What are your plans for PCB design and estimated costs to finished product?

2) Do you have a link or at least a preliminary pinout diagram of the chip?

Thankx.

I'm trying to learn more about this stuff.

Of course, you never know how much graphics card performance will go up, with each new generation.

Bitcoin prices will also fluctuate in value.

At current difficulty level, if the price goes down to 15 bucks, graphics cards will not be able to compete because of power used.

Not sure about the litecoin thing though.

Plugging in your numbers into bitcoinx calculator...

A 1 TH/s performance would yield 170,000  dollars in a month. Payback time is 9 days...

So, if it only cost $50k to make, that's 250% on a monthly basis. Power cost doesn't even figure into the calculation very much, even putting 2000 watts.

There is no way they would sell that. There would be no motivation to sell it.

I'm guessing power cost would be somewhat nontrivial, but I don't really have any basis for comparison.

I've been a happy user for a couple of weeks now.

Can't complain.

Any idea when you gentlemen at ABCPool will add ASIC support?

Get rid of all power management drivers, turn cool and quiet off.

You're going to be sucking power down like water anyway, so you don't need power management.

Let's look at a bit of history.

Bitcoin started out with no vendor support, nothing you could buy with them, and CPU mining.

Then came multi-core cpu support. The sky did not fall.

Then game GPU support. The sky did not fall.

Then came FPGA's, which are still quite viable. The sky did not fall. Bitcoin now has more acceptance and is higher in price than ever before, minus a few weird trading days a few weeks ago.

People are still mining with GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs and whatever else they can get their hands on.

In fact, I just set up my mother-in-law's 10 year old single core Pentium 4 to mine BTC, and its pulling at 11 Mh/s !!! Whoo !!

So, the sky will not fall, and life will go on. BTC's will continue to be generate. If it's not Avalon, or BFL, it will be somebody else coming up with something creative.

I'm optimistic. So, optimistic, in fact, that I just started mining last week, and ordered another case and another motherboard to re-use an old processor I had lying around. I'll probably pick up some Radeon's on e-bay in a week or so, and I might even *gasp*, order a couple of BFL Jalepenos just so I can piss money away. What the hell, it's only money. You can't take it with you.