what the fuk is that lol. photoshop for sureee  Close. It's a still from the British horror movie Xtro (1982). Some people on the Internet apparently have trouble telling the difference between movies and reality. The actors are real, the set is real, the cameras are real, the props are real. What's not real in that picture? |
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Chip cost 0.575$ Gh/s and 0.49$ Gh/s for +4400PCS. You can get a full miner for well under $1 Gh/s. Think carefully about your next move people and do the calculations especially in time to get something made and delivered as well as efficiency the device you intend or have made for you at the wall. The numbers are tight at best. Volume is the only way you can get the costs down. There is limited stock obviously. Please be careful out there when taking chips in lieu of miners. At 50% compensation we're paying $1.58Gh/s at 1W/Gh/s. The S3 is $1Gh/s at 0.76W/Gh/s in-hand without 8 months of hair-pulling & nail-biting while you wait and watch your investment go down the crapper. |
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Update: 7th of July 2014
1. Batch 1 hasn't shipped.
2. Batch 2 hasn't shipped.
3. Refunds refused.
4. In the latest update shipping of Batch 1 & Batch 2 is stated to be complete by the end of the month.
5. Customers remain sceptical yet hopeful that Black Arrow will actually send something based on their woefully inadequate compensation of 50% more hardware.
While they owe us 550% compensation due to the difficulty increase any such promises to deliver that much would be an obvious lie. We'll see how shipping proceeds and how the title of this thread changes based on this. 50% compensation still deserves some sort of warning however, perhaps "WARNING: Black Arrow Shipped".
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My block eruptors would make a small fortune if OPEC adopted BTC. We'd look back at $1200 and laugh at the little bump and make jokes about everybody who panicked and sold out at $400. And the professor dude who predicted $10, I'd hate to be in his shoes.
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On a somewhat related topic I wonder how cost effective a small nuclear power source would be in powering ASICs.
If you are dead from radiation poisoning before the miner sends a share, not much. You're exaggerating the dangers here. Over the course of a year say 100kW for a modestly sized ASIC farm really costs a lot of money. I'm sure there's a power useage level where nuclear is a viable option. |
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On a somewhat related topic I wonder how cost effective a small nuclear power source would be in powering ASICs.
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Somebody has mentioned that ASICs emit dangerous levels of radiation. Can anybody confirm or deny this?
I hope he was talking about non-ionizing radiation.
EDIT:
Have they started adding WiFi to the chips?
I would certainly hope not considering ASICs are everywhere--computer processors, GPU cards, cell phones...most electronic devices have at least one. ASICs are just integrated circuit chips. Current Bitcoin miners can draw as much as 2500W. Perhaps with the extra power the normally insignificant amount of radiation they emit is boosted to got nukes levels. |
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He's got a human mask on, it must be Halloween!  and in color!  |
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They did offer 4Th/s in straight hash boards or 70 ASICs back in May. Both options were throwing good money and time after bad so-to-speak. It also included possibly critical technical information being withheld.
The good news I see here is that the wofully inadequate 50% compensation says they may actually intend to deliver something and not just straight up take the money.
Hash boards without a backplane? Hash board and heatsink only. No mention of drivers or data sheets. |
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How about some real photos? The phenomenon i've seen captured on film usually has a red or orange glow associated with it. Like this.  |
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Somebody has mentioned that ASICs emit dangerous levels of radiation. Can anybody confirm or deny this?
I hope he was talking about non-ionizing radiation.
EDIT:
Have they started adding WiFi to the chips?
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So now BA=HashFail2. They should have offered chips for their non-deliverable miners in the first 2-3 weeks when they found out that there is an X3 backplane problem. I am sure that the community would've assembled some miners much faster than BA.
Judging from the past experiences my advice would be to take the chips as fast as you can and have them assembled on boards. Getting a refund would take ages and it seems that getting miners is the same.
Good luck.
They did offer 4Th/s in straight hash boards or 70 ASICs back in May. Both options were throwing good money and time after bad so-to-speak. It also included possibly critical technical information being withheld. The good news I see here is that the wofully inadequate 50% compensation says they may actually intend to deliver something and not just straight up take the money. |
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For some reason I see a very faint light at the end of the tunnel.
That's the light from oncoming delay train. |
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Difficulty up 550% since February and customers are getting 50% compensation?
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May take.
1. Film not CCD as one might be lead to believe by the USB statement.
2. Double exposure.
3. The camera is stationary and the subject is in motion contrary to the OP statement.
4. Cropping is done with photoshop.
In summary I believe this is not a case of psychic phenomenon caught on film.
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I see the Marxist anti-innovation bandwagon is still rolling...
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Sorry to throw water on the fire here but Bitcoin is backed by SHA256 encryption.
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