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Great service... hope I have a need for it someday... maybe someone wants to sell their new Avalon? hehehe.
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Runs 24 hrs straight no reboot or freezing for the most part this was an issue with the type of pool settings. See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140539.160 Re: Avalon ASIC users thread
February 05, 2013, 08:35:10
#159
More good news. Machine uptime and cgminer uptime are both now 24 hours. Pool was BTC Guild, and stratum seems to most commonly use a share difficulty of 32.00000.
Now going to play with p2pool some more, with higher difficulty rates.
It sounds like a theory of a memleak is certainly plausible, at least.
Re: Avalon ASIC users thread
February 06, 2013, 03:27:36
#170
Survived 18 hours so far on p2pool without a restart, either machine or cgminer.
Mining at difficulty 16.0, with stratum, to local p2pool/bitcoind.
Re: Avalon ASIC users thread
February 06, 2013, 04:42:07
#171
Miner "freeze" just past hour 20, mining p2pool: openwrt and cgminer status are accessible, but no work is being retrieved from / sent to p2pool.
Manually restarted.
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Ripple Me Softly: XRP rLcNVaMhhrkwMfMksyXoQX9FCEBMWEmgHe
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Freicoin? FRC for seeds possible?
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Only if Avalon sells more than 300 > 600 at a time... as there seems to be a large market for ASIC given the fact they "PRESELL" like hotcakes. Wonder what the total market would be?
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How many more to go? 300?
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I was one of those who ordered from basic...
What do I do now? Who to order from?
You have two choices. - Avalon delivered shit and will probably do so again
- BFL might deliver shit, but anything they deliver will have lower operating costs
Avalon delivered and some people have them why are they shit? The Avalon miners are not very noob-friendly. Serious, if you don't know exactly what you're doing, I would not recommend buying them. Also, they are huge, noisy, and use over 600W of power. BFL's SC Single is set to use 60W. Yep huge and make all of this NOISE !!! CaCHIN$...CaCHIN$ ...every hour your are disturbed by money going into your account ~$14 per hour ...more than my job @ McDOnalds ...lol +1 CHA CHING! |
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The no bullshit, no fine print terms of sale
We Accept Bitcoin Only – Bitcoin allow us to collect large sum of assets in a short period of time, and due their nature the bitcoins can also be move to where they are suppose to go in a similar time frame. We are aware this will introduce Import issues for certain EU and SA countries. Avalon ASIC hope re-sellers will take this opportunity to grow and take care of this problem.
No Refunds - The Avalon units are made on a built-to-order basis. This means when you place an order, your bitcoins are used to order parts to construct your Avalon Unit. Refunds therefore are impossible. Utilizing a short time frame, batch based, and built-to-order method allows to manage finances properly and reduce risk for all parties. e.g. Avalon ASIC, the re-sellers and the buyers.
Trade-Ins - Avalon will continue to honor our old customers providing trade-in programs of old generations units, FPGA, and in the future for first generation ASIC modules. The Trade-In Orders are not part of the 600 unit limitation existing in Batch #2.
The Potential Risks
- Avalon ASIC will not be responsible for if a bitcoin bug is introduced rendering it useless between the period of time a batch of Avlaon units are being built.
- Avalon ASIC will not be responsible for if a proper Integrated Circuit company enters the market and produce a full-custom ASIC chip. Please evaluate your mining projections properly when purchasing Avalon ASIC.
Please read this carefully, as with all things Bitcoin one should treat this as an investment and make the decision best for you based on the liquid-able funds available at the moment when a batch opens for order.
I agree to the terms above and understand the potential risks.
orders open on febuary, 2nd, 2013. 9:00 am EST Pretty clear I think... pretty risky... but I don't doubt the next 600 get snapped up fast. |
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 You must meet the following conditions:- 1. More than 300 posts 2. Been registered for more than 3 months 3. Provide your email , IP address & any other id requested 4. over 18 5. Active in forum 6. At least 2 or 3 feedback/trades on forum *These conditions don't apply to previous trustworthy customers. *Forum time / UTC followed IBB Testing my post count. Doh 50! Only drat. |
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is there a new projection when the diff will drop?
2 weeks I heard in an IRC chat post... Not certain. http://pastebin.com/h1Am5bKw18:24:19 PM] maaku: btw this hasn't come up, but I'm not worried about the hash rate at all
[18:24:43 PM] maaku: imho this is simply a combination of a lack of exchange and the skyrocketing btc price
[18:24:54 PM] jtimon: we could announce it like that, "the first amounts will depend on the proposals presented"
[18:25:38 PM] maaku: jtimon: yes, that's my thinking
[18:26:30 PM] jtimon: difficulty will lower "soon", judging from the last graph I saw, although I didn't counted the blocks, lazy me
[18:28:10 PM] jtimon: it went too fast at first, so it may even be good that it slows down
[18:28:26 PM] maaku: we have exactly 400 blocks to go to the next adjustment
[18:29:14 PM] r000n: ~2 weeks
[18:36:15 PM] maaku: but i wanted to get a GUI element first that warns if there is a significant mismatch between block height and reference height
[18:36:35 PM] maaku: which I'm working on now
[18:37:08 PM] maaku: i'm thinking just highlight the reference height in red if it differs from the block height by more than 6
[18:37:30 PM] maaku: and maybe a tooltip explaining why
[18:37:40 PM] jtimon: yes, now that people are warned, it's better time to put it easier to change refHeigh
[18:38:18 PM] jtimon: sounds good
[18:39:13 PM] jtimon: a wiki article would be cool too
[18:41:59 PM] jtimon: explaining why that's an attack and what the limitations of the attack are if you just look at the refHeight
[18:42:51 PM] maaku: ah okay, that's a good idea
[18:50:15 PM] maaku: ok, so tasks for me: 0.0.2 release and debugging freico.in page buildout, and incorporation paperwork
[18:50:46 PM] maaku: if someone wants to take a stab a the ref height wiki article, that'd be great - it'd take one thing off my pile of work |
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I'm saying the truth. Period.
Cough Cough. |
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There is no evidence whether BFL or Avalon are scams.
They both could be, they both could not be.
But, I don't agree with throwing one under the bus for that reason without solid evidence.
Why can't we wait a week to see if anyone receives an ASIC before making these types of threads?
Not everyone wanted to speculate... some seemed to agree that being patient was the right tactic. |
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There is no SCAM.
Ah, nice. You must have quite a bit more information at hand than hundreds of the rest of us. Care to explain? The consistency of BitSyncom posts warranted the THERE IS NO SCAM comment. Consistency of a post doesn't mean anything. I could be consistently helpful for a year and then suddenly become an asshole. That doesn't mean I was / will always be right on what I'm saying. I only felt the need to come back and defend myself (since I'm one of those who was a doubter) since the situation up to yesterday was doubtful at best and scammy at worst. A good business leader / marketer/ customer will walk away from this whole mess having learned that: 1.) As a business representative, you shouldn't tell the public one thing and then not live up to it; it breeds distrust. (I'm talking about the live demo) 2.) Doing a second round of orders (100% down) before anyone gets round one is probably a bad idea. We're still in the wildwest of BTC mining here and anything that smells like a scam has to scrutinized for others to know about. 3.) Business reps should not take things personally and get angry over accusations that their product isn't shipping / no one has it yet. The whole lack of tracking numbers / JGarzik not knowing where his package was lead to a lot of people getting concerned over (what has now turned out to be) nothing. Now I have already applauded BitSyncom and team Avalon on shipping their first unit and I look forward to them shipping more units from Batch 1 & 2. However that doesn't mean that my concerns as a customer wasn't warranted or justified; it just means I'm less worried now that there is more proof in the market that their products exist and work. Cavet Emptor ("Buyer Beware") is a motto has served buyers for centuries and will likely do so well into our future. You should consider the feelings of the other side and see that their actions might not have been malicious but actually that of worried current or potential customers. Could careless who is offended. The posts put forth a good argument that Avalon was capable and knowlegable and had a history in Bitcoin. Those who seemed to fan the flames of doubt based all their concerns on nothing more than speculation. Again too many of you people seem overly invested in BFL camp or the AVALON camp to really get any perspective. Again I posted yesterday that it is buyer beware... and that is a risk you can make if you know that losing 1500 USD is ok. It is laughable how many different theories were put out as to why Avalon hadn't shipped yet. Laughable. It was pure entertainment but you know what. BitSyncom wasn't laughing... he got pissed and that is understandable given the number of purely idiotic posts and accusations that were made. If you can't see that then you are part of the problem I guess. |
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There is no SCAM.
Ah, nice. You must have quite a bit more information at hand than hundreds of the rest of us. Care to explain? The consistency of BitSyncom posts warranted the THERE IS NO SCAM comment. Consistency, eh? Funny, coming from the guy who's account is a month old...  You do know it is a forum and one can read past posts right? What does having a one month old account have to do with making an assessment based on the characteristics of the posts being made? BitSyncom from the earliest posts was pretty matter of fact about what he was proposing and why even though they were behind other teams was willing to go forward basically because there needed to be others in the ASIC game. I don't get why people would immediately jump to wild speculation considering the measured way things progressed in the forum posts. Go through and just read it. Unfortunately a lot of what is posted on top of the Avalon threads is not worth the time to read. This thread though certainly made me stand up and notice that BitSyncom was at wits end and was dying for some vindication. Good he got some... let's hope there is more to come. Unlike many who seem to have vested interest in the outcome of this "scam" I do not. I think that gives me a different perspective than most who post here. Maybe being a NUB in this case is a good thing. Seems as if many people simply enjoy stirring the pot or are wildly over invested making claims and statements that have no basis if fact. Speculation is no matter how reasoned is still speculation. The guys from Avalon had experience had shipped other units in the past and have had a long history in Bitcoin. Why would I jump on board with the rest of the naysayers? Better to be pessimistic and as well informed as possible rather than speculating wildly with no evidence. They shipped... so just wait... that was the right response... considering the amount of information posted by BitSyncom and the track record of BitSyncom one could have easily waited patiently... seems to me there was anxiety produced without any evidence. |
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There is no SCAM.
Ah, nice. You must have quite a bit more information at hand than hundreds of the rest of us. Care to explain? The consistency of BitSyncom posts warranted the THERE IS NO SCAM comment. |
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Some vindication... let's continue to watch as more and more units come online over the next few weeks. That makes you feel better I bet Avalon... but you knew it would happen and if you
were able to read between the lines you could see that the building frustration and anxiety in the posts by BitSyncom was to me a dead give away this guys gives a shit about his product. You can't fake that sort of thing. He is invested and it comes through in his posts. Not a SCAM. Now let's see what BFL has to offer it's believers.
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