So not this guy?

Looks like he's wanting at least $70 apiece for the S3s, and probably $40-50 for a PSU that'd run both of them. That'd get you about 880GH for a little over $200 shipped within the US. He's got 4x S3 and two PSUs here.

Whose was the second order that disappeared?

2x 120 sockets if they're on different circuits, which for most people means different rooms.

A home miner who rents, and is not allowed to make substantial changes to the landlord's property.

Is it just me, or do both of those look photoshopped?

So when I talk to minersource and my hosting customers and they all claim to not have received any boards from you, they're actually mistaken and they did get their orders but somehow all misplaced them and/or forgot and/or decided not to mine with them even though they were already paid up on hosting and PSUs and outfitting hardware?

I think instead of actually answering the question, he was just repeating the expected specs for Spondoolies' next machine.

I'm not waiting directly on any hardware I purchased from you. I did a deal with minersource for a couple boards which have yet to appear, but that's a different matter.

I do have some hosting customers, one of whom paid in advance to reserve 8KW of space, that are collectively expecting about a hundred of your Hex4M boards. I don't know how many of them were purchased through the Minersource-facilitated group buy and how many were direct orders. We've had cases full of TPLinks and air coolers waiting in the shop since August with zero boards to put them on.

You might also remember that we talked to you around October/November about doing the refit work on the boards which y'all claimed had been mis-manufactured or some such. We were willing to do the work for free at least for our hosting customers, and possibly for all the MSGB boards bound for US customers, just to get them out the door quicker. You sent us some basic information, a few pictures of the required fixes, and then stopped responding entirely.

Have any of the Minersource-GB boards been shipped yet? The ones that have't are only a little over six months past due.

I think most people would be comfortable with relatively quiet <1KW miners. The S1 made a freakin' killing last year with home customers.

There's probably a decent market in <100W quiet desk miners as well. A good efficient board design, if it was modular enough, could meet both needs by making a small 1-3 board case and a large 10-20 board case with internal hubs or backplane.

Just throwing this out there but, the ignore button will prevent you from reading his opinion in each and every thread here. Is it possible you actually do want to read what he's saying, every single time, so you can complain and refute?

In any case, I find the rivalry between marto and Bick quite hilarious. I wouldn't buy from either of them but it's fun to watch them beat each other up. Marto's been taking the (relatively silent) higher ground lately though I think, which doesn't really say much for his confidence in defense.

And we're still six months waiting on those Hex4M boards, which were paid for up-front and somehow evaporated while Technobit redirected their resources toward developing three or four new products instead.

I'll check with the guy and let you know what pops out.

Your website would be a lot better if it gave any actually useful info. Quantified info, I mean; there's a lot of encouraging words and pictures on there but zero numbers.

Gotta learn somewhere. I spent a week CPU mining in May 2013 before buying some GPUs, working them for a month before buying USB BE and on up. Nothing wrong with learning as long as you don't smoke the hardware. Which I've also done.

I've got a hosting customer looking to unload 4x S3 and 2x PSU. I don't know what kind of bundle price he'd be looking for but it might be in that neighborhood.

I'm told they're shooting for a similar package and power levels, initial gen3 boards using a similar design topology as the gen2 boards. I do not, however, know anything about the process size or expected power efficiency.

I thought they were still around tapeout?

I've been mining with between 1 and 6TH for most of the last year and have yet to witness a share greater than 4.6B
Meanwhile, one of my hosting customers' Prismas pulled a 31G share and the following week one of his Dragons found a block (the day after he sold it and pointed it to someone else's pool). I know a guy that found a block on a USB BE which had been running on his workbench for about half an hour when the diff was already over 100M.

Luck is very blind, but low probabilities are low probabilities and every single hash is an independent event so the odds do not accumulate over time.

If it makes anyone feel better, the guy's name actually is Chris Powell, from Texas. I've done business with him a couple times over the last year.

Mine altcoins only if you have no scruples. There are very few winners in altcoins, and a whole lot of losers. The only real reason there are any winners at all is because they timed it just right to fleece the losers and walk away clean. Basically a microcosm version of stock market behavior in the late 1920's. So if you are okay with screwing people over for immediate profits and potentially harming the reputation of a worthwhile concept, rather than taking your time to support the actual core system of bitcoin, go for it.

And yes, I am well aware that discussing ethics in a speculation forum for unregulated currency is like discussing cultural sensetivity at a Klan rally. I don't really care. Screw pump-and-dump.