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Thank you! That's extremely useful. You might consider adding a "BTC per MH" section, or I could just get more practice at mental math and stop complaining.  |
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If you could ship them in an almost-assembled state and guarantee they get through USA customs, I'd buy at least one.
+1 +2. Passing US customs can be challenging, though. |
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Is not easy to do this lol.
I can easily make a board but what's impossible is coding it to work properly. I don't even know how bitcoin works. I think miner "decrypt" the string and returns it's value, but how do the miner "decrypt" these strings?
Thanks.
Miners SHA256 hash a string until the hash is lower than a target value. You can read a fairly accessible article on it here. |
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CAD design looks sexy, This guy in this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49971.0 claims to be getting 227 mh/s on one of these cheap LX150s, in his latest design he says he can clock it to 180 mhz which would net around 270 mh/s!! I'm really hoping either he releases his bitstream or the enterpoint engineers can come up with something similar or even better, considering this is just 1 person. 1080 mh/s per board will make me piss myself. Though I'm not willing to commit to the latter, I agree with the former. 1080 MH/s would give these boards ~1.5 MH/s per $, significantly better than BFL's ~1.25, and with lower power draw to boot! |
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Mini-rig order was confirmed last Friday...
Not sure how (if) this will get incorporated into YABMC (i.e., more shares offered or perhaps a separate offering).
Appreciate comments on additional shares? BITBOND and PUREMINING have both grown 2-3x their IPO volume...
Next dividend payment appears to be on track for next Wednesday afternoon UTC time. Real life my get in the way and slightly delay (4-6 hours) coupon payment. More to follow as we get closer to the diff change.
As always, appreciate the support!
Potentially interested, depending on release price. I think YABMC certainly has room to grow. |
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As someone who voted yes, i want to change my vote to no. Investing big, but not.going for efficient scale (51% attack) is stupid.
Erm, I don't think Diablo's original intent was ever to launch a 51% attack. |
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That looks promising in general, but the power of one SC to affect the final product seems excessive. (Only two must approve) Perhaps a less linear process with a more distributed system would work better. (Multiple SCs submit revisions or "no revision", they all vote on the preferred option) What system would you suggest for dealing with users with large amounts of rejected work? |
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Great to see you still want to go forward with your plans (and still dare to aim quite high )! Agreed. As someone who voted no, I certainly don't want you to give up, just scale back a little bit. |
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Would be nice to see a Mini-Rig competitor from you.
Steady! The initial board proof-of-concept designs aren't even finished yet. Forget about a mini rig alternative for now... Hope springs eternal. |
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Yes it is still enforced, but those last three wouldn't fall under that rule. That rule is primarily meant for hotlinking NSFW images. Text wouldn't generally be considered NSFW.
Alright, thanks for the clarification, that answers my question. |
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I personally didn't care about the first one since it said NSFW in the topic title.
As for the others, I don't see anything wrong with those.
I'm not asking for moderation, I'm asking for policy clarification. |
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Apologize if this has been addressed and I missed it, but is #5 still enforced? Seems a good amount of NSFW content goes entirely unmoderated. (Not stating that this is good or bad, just asking)
It is if I see it. Where are you finding this NSFW content at? is a rather poignant example. (Direct NSFW) Also things such as this, this, and this. (Indirect NSFW/Advertising NSFW Projects) |
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Apologize if this has been addressed and I missed it, but is #5 still enforced? Seems a good amount of NSFW content goes entirely unmoderated. (Not stating that this is good or bad, just asking)
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Right, even if they don't care about science, once people learn they can go and do something for an hour or two and get 10 dollars when they need it, they will return before going out to the movies or whatever. I agree that a substantial number of people would be willing to do low-paid, short-term "contract"-type work for a noble cause. There would also be a subset that is actually interested in the results and context of what they are doing and be willing to donate time for free to at least rate the submitted work after they have completed the task themselves or attained a certain level or something like that.
Initially there would be seed funding from somewhere (perhaps even a gov't grant), but the goal would be to have it become self-sustaining by gaining funding either through advertisements, donations, free lessons/lectures, or some other incentive.
I bet you could garner enough support in the form of donations/advertisements from the Bitcoin community to start it off. |
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Might be cool to mix education and 'menial' online labor. Like they teach you about brain structures and then you practice your knowledge by actually learning. Maybe use pay to sort out surpluses if needed. It would be cool to have something like coinworker, but more advanced, like maybe you need a some skill and/or to take a 5-60 minute lesson.
Absolutely. I love the concept, and I would be happy to volunteer some of my spare time for free to dedicate to a noble cause. Some extra education would be the icing on the cake.
This is a good idea. It would be like the practice questions at the end of the chapter, except they matter... and you get paid for doing it "right". And I suspect, even for low pay, it would be quite popular. People get very excited at the prospect of "free" money. |
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No seriously if you are looking for the long term stability of your baby you need to be thinking and acting in terms of legal guidance. Those judifications are far from an idle threat and were placed for your protection and performance.
What on Earth are you talking about? "Stability of your baby"? "Legal guidance"? "Protection and performance"? |
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Solar powered FPGA mining setup with an x6500.
Has anyone ever done a solar mining setup? |
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Interested in drugs doesn't mean they do buy drugs, don't forget. Sometimes the thought of possibly rebelling against the law (by having Bitcoins that couldn't be tracked and could be traded for drugs one day, personal stash of money that no one would ever know etc etc) will stir the interest in a teenager's heart. However telling that to a mature, older person who is law-abiding and doesn't want any brushes with the law would possibly make them forgo all contact with Bitcoin. Fair point, but I think that would be the exception rather than the rule. And the last thing we want to do is create more illegal drug-related PR for Bitcoin; it's had far too much already. And this +1! Tuxevant is a credit to the community!
+2, I concur absolutely. |
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+1. This message would be far more eye-catching and suitable for younger rebels(teenagers?), but certainly inappropriate for a teacher/government servant/law-abiding person.
And TBH we probably don't want people only interested in drugs joining anyway. |
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So I want to make sure I understand this topic correctly because I am about a week away from having enough money to get my first piece of mining equipment and I am so excited.
So from what I understand this company is offering a 4 chip FPGA mining board correct?
Also this product will be able to connect to my laptop usb port correct?
Last question is I am understanding this will be ready to use out of the box by simply plug and play. So basically I will open the box connect the usb cord to the FPGA board and the other end to the PC. Once that is done I just install the software and begin mining right?
Sorry for such newbie questions but from what I understand about the Butter Fly labs unit I can do just that. Plug in to the PC install software and mine.
I have some computer knowledge so I am not computer illiterate. I mean I know I could build a mining rig using GPU's but I just want to be ahead of the game and slowly start to acquire FPGA boards. Now I know it will take a while to break even and such but I want to get into mining for the hobby. I will constantly be saving so I can continue to buy new boards and such. I know that I can make more by trading coins but I really want to get into mining. I wish I new how to design a board because I can solder it together and make it work. Its just I have no knowledge of how to make a PCB board as well as not being able to make my own bit streams and mining programs. I am slowly reading all about it because I would like to design and build my own FPGA board and be able to use it. I know it is really far off considering my knowledge at this point but I will continue to learn. I only plan to try and tackle the idea once I know that I can guarantee that my board should work. Basically this is like 3-5 years away but hey I want to learn.
Like I said I would like to make mining bitcoins a hobby. I need a new hobby and I enjoy reading the forums. I mean I love the idea behind the e currency, I also like financial markets, and computer related things. So this is right up my ally. I learned all by myself how to reprogram DTV and Dish Network cards to receive free television. It only took about 2 years to learn how to write my own scripts and build my own smart-card reader/writer but I accomplished it. That was a hobby that I got into when I was like 13-15 years old. So like I said I know it will take time to understand everything but I am starting to learn.
So what is the easiest FPGA/BFL board card to use for a newbie? It may take a couple weeks longer to get the ZTEX 4 FPGA board but if it is easiest to use I will just save a little longer. Please let me know.
Also the price point on this product if ordered before the end of May is $640.00 American correct.
Newbie questions are never a problem when they're phrased well and politely as yours are. Yes, this is a 4-FPGA mining board. Yes, it will connect to your USB port. No, it is not plug and play. The version being sold right now is akin to a beta/testing version, for less than the general release. Unless you know a lot about FPGAs and have a decent understanding of the mining protocol and mining software, this would not be a good place to start. For new miners I would still recommend starting with a GPU due to ease of use, low entry cost, and ease of integration with current systems. If you are staunchly committed to an FPGA, the BFL unit is certainly the most plug-and-play, but ZTEX/Icarus would both be significantly easier to use than this. Right now, BFL has a est. ~2 month wait time, so keep that in mind when making your decision. Best of luck in your mining enterprises! |
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