Made it like a foot pad and put it inside your shoe.

Normally people won't even touch it.

those that will not follow with the new chips that are more efficient are bound to drop the game, otherwise nothing will change, there will be more diff right, but this because there will be more efficiency too

those two parameters will remain constant

I just learned about Joystream... I downloaded it, but not quite sure how I can download stuff to joystream to start seeding my downloads?

We don't know what happened. Since engineers are involved, it must be something other that 4.6/4.86 issue.
I planned to order another unit, but now might wait despite having a coupon that will expire soon.
I could never figure out what 10-12 00:00:00 means (Shanghai?, UTC?).
If Shanghai, then it is already 1:29pm Oct 11 there now, so only ~10.5 hours left (until 10am eastern US).

Yeah, like  OP ^^^ said, i can also sell you a coupon if you want it.

That's another problem with the U3, what works for 1 person will not work for another, even if it's the same setup.

The more I play with the U3's, the more I'm thinking that the chips didn't pass a QC check of some kind to be put in the (at the time) "newest, greatest miner" the S3 and they came up with the ideal to put "seconds" (not up to par chips) in the U3's, kind of like cloths manufacturers selling shirts with one sleeve longer than the other to "bargain stores" to recoup some money, instead of eating the cost of the "not up to par" chips.

Heh, good luck ever getting this "compensation". It took me 6 months of fighting tooth and nail to get my promised batch 1 S4 PSU failure compensation. In the end, it wasn't even bitmain who compensated me, it was Yoshi who did paying me directly out of his own pocket. Really sad stuff. Bitmain totally reneged on their promise. I guarantee most of us won't see any comps, not that they're even worth fighting for.

I wish bitmain would just go back to be the honorable and reputable company they once were.   Hopefully (very unlikely, unfortunately) this is only a speed bump.

Hmm well thats interesting. I didn't expect lost miner time income compensation. Id complain about the 0.1$/kWh but then again at current difficulty and the efficiency of the S7, that won't amount in too much.

I'm guessing they stopped shipping because they had so many bad units.

They would not have a need to get caught up had they communicated with us prior to going on vacation.
It would shock me to see companies I do business with to go on vacation knowing they had a major issue and would not be shipping product on time. There are very few industries where this would resemble anything close to acceptable, and when you are talking about a box which literally makes currency it certainly is not acceptable.

If they had communicated there would not be as many posts or threads.
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So today I spent a bit more time with a multi-chip board, a PCB I had worked up a while back but never actually got around to testing. Only problem with it is the topology isn't quite right so I'm having to jumper a few things, but I want it working to test some node-level stuff I'll need to know before I can work up a pod miner. Right now I have two chips on there, but the second chip doesn't initialize reliably. I wasn't sure if that was hardware or software so I grabbed an old two-chip test board and fired it up (UART adapter to stock cgminer) and it lit up both chips from the get-go so it must be a hardware issue. I hope to work on it more tomorrow, get at least four chips to light up which should tell me pretty much everything I need to know for the 8-chip layout I have planned. Maybe when it's working I'll put up some pictures.

The fun thing about using cgminer is apparently U3 code shares out work differently than these chips require because, while I can get it to initialize two chips off the U3 driver, the second chip returns the same shares as the first so while I see two chips' hashrate I only see one chip's WU and multiple errors per second because cgminer labeles duplicates as errors.

The pod survey is still open over here, where I'm looking at community/customer interest in a BM1384-based pod miner. Like the Compac, this will basically be considered a dev step that becomes a full product; it'll include all of the controls we'd put on a larger board and give a bit more data on topology and efficiency without having to build a whole big board.

ITOP Corp provides used Sfards SF100 miners on its official store

Thank you very much for an update, it is very much appreciated. What about the difference between B1 and the others, will anything be done to accommodate the pricing differences?


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I've noticed recently that mining profits in Bitcoin have gone down.  They are still the same in USD, if not more, but slightly lower on a BTC basis.  I'm curious what people think will happen to mining profits over the next six months taking into account all of the fundamental developments affecting Bitcoin.  If someone is making 1 BTC a month today with their hash rate what do you think it will be in six months based on your projections?  I know there are a lot of variables and this is a tough question to answer but I'm still interested to see if anyone is willing to take a shot at it.  Thanks!

647 blocks left  so 4 or 5 days   there is time to drift up from -0.50 to +1.00  but I don't see us going past +1 or + 2  .  Todays small jump up was very likely the s-7 going online with hashnest.  they sold 1000 pieces of s-7 this is 4.8ph which is 1% which is the jump we did.

Coinbase is insured for insider job and outside hacking. So just telling someone their BTC is at high risk at Coinbase is inappropriate. It cannot be as secure as a proper solo offline setup. But the second you decide to trust a 3rd party, Coinbase is probably the best;

"Coinbase is insured against theft and hacking in an amount that exceeds the average value of bitcoin we hold in online storage at any given time.  The insurance covers losses due to breaches in physical or cyber security, accidental loss, and employee theft.  It doesn’t cover bitcoin lost or stolen as a result of an individual user’s negligence to maintain secure control over their login credentials."

No. There is still another way than mining. Like trying faucet or signature campaign here.

Beside that, i think it's still not profitable mining with HDD. I would rather choose to store my file on HDD rather than use it for mining.

LK Group just posted renders and stats on their upcoming gear. Feast your eyes! We might just be getting the competition I asked for! The more hardware on the market, the better the chances competition will start driving prices down.

I haven't seen them run better powering from pcie (no improvement in hash rate or any fewer zombies), they still zombie when they feel like it and for no reason at all.

Only real advantage I do see using pcie so far, it's less of a fire hazard from not using the cheap bricks.