... how many c1's you have? Don't need water cooling kit. Just blades and controller?  For a device less than a year old it's a shocker really! I have 2 of them. Or 1 that works great and now one that is my part's for if other needs it. |
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You can add wifi to any miner you want...just use a wifi router as a bridge...or for just $40 buy a rasberry pi with a USB wifi dongle.
I personally like going with the router myself. If you get one with right modes you can connect to wireless and have 4-5 or so ports on back. So is very nice. I still like ethernet though. I personally will not be doing my miners wifi. I see it as last resort. |
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So, Novak and I did some discussing yesterday on priorities.
We have 1200 chips from Bitmain, and between their out-of-stock statement and that they've not addressed the question I've asked three times regarding more chips, I have to assume 1200 chips is all we'll see.
Demand for Compacs seems to be pretty high. We were planning on making about 600 Compacs and 200 Amitas with 200 chips left over for dev on larger boards, but I think what we'll end up doing is make 1000 Compacs and zero Amitas, with 200 chips left over for dev on larger boards.
I've got one thing left to test and Amita hardware would be done; a few steps past that and a 4-chip pod board would be done. A few steps past that and 18- and 30-chip TypeZero boards would be done. I'll probably make prototypes of these things with some of the dev chips, but will not manufacture any batches for sale.
If Bitmain (or Avalon, or BitFury or whoever else with a decent chip) will work with us in the near future, it shouldn't be too difficult to adapt the completed designs to a new chip. So it looks like, for this round at least, we're stopping production with the Compac.
Unless someone wants to put up a quarter million dollars for a full batch of chips, but we probably wouldn't get 'em in hand until October anyway and by then Bitmain, Avalon, Spondoolies and SFARDS will be rolling on better tech.
PC, if you do something like that I'll build boards for you. The BE300 was what got us started on this project in the first place.
Prudent. 1) I believe you'll easily move 800-1000 stickminers globally. 2) I also believe that there is a substantial market for S1 replacements. 3) If it were me, I'd reserve a larger quantity (300-400) for multi-chip dev. As it's a skill set (multi-chip dev) that few others have. 4) Bitmain "promised" to release their new product line in July (I'll share the email if desired, think I already shared that with Novak in a PM), anyway, we're sneaking up on August . . . . 5) Since late May antpool's hash rate has gone from high 50's PH/a to 80+ Ph/s and last time I checked they're the second largest pool. 6) Our contacts in the 3M immersion cooling world have indicated to us that the Spondoolies work well immersed . . . How would they know that, unless it's been tried. 7) Getting a VC to put up 1/4 mill for outdated chips would be a very hard sell even with a brilliant board design.  Getting a VC to fund a competitive startup with an aggressive plan not so much. i.e. a company that designs hash chips, builds boards, and either hashes with those boards and/or sells some. 9) If the big 4 release new chips in Sept and whomever acquiesces to selling you chips, I'm betting you'll have a product in time for Christmas. Not pinging on you, just stuff takes time. GekkoScience et. al., I can think of no other I would rather have designing/implementing boards, you are always at the fore front of our minds in that regard.But designing/implementing a board without chip availability is a moot point, regardless of the targeted consumer community. It boils down to a simple supply chain management problem. A problem that I can imagine has multiple solutions. I think it's safe to say that the BE300 is a dead horse, and I for one am gonna' quit kicking it. Having said that, I think it's time to pickup the BE300 style torch and design a new chip. How that would happen, exactly, I'm clueless, but would jump on the supportt/participation bandwagon in a heartbeat. Just to be clear, I/We are not a Richie Rich and could not fund a 1/4 mill effort. But we do have contacts that would consider that sum to be "pocket change". Used to think the small hobbyist miner was a dying breed. I don't hold that opinion anymore. I believe, at the latest, when the next block reward reduction happens most if not all the small to medium sized miners will go the way of the dodo. That includes us. I think this time next year the panorama will be very polarized, the extremely large and the extremely small. So positioning to manufacture and sell to the small has merit. The good news is they do have some chips already bought. So hopefully they are very successful on selling those. I personally would like to see GekkoScience prosper, and be able to do another product or line of products. I do not know their profit margins but hopefully it allows for even more chips to be ordered next time. If they can order more each product and grow, it would be great to see this. Only thing weird is bitmain not even responding to them about chips. That scares me a little about that partnership. |
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yes, but paypal has many points in the Company Conditions to say no to pay mony back
You do have to be carefull... You can only claim your money back for 180 days (if i remember correctly). Since it's a pre-order, it might be their trick to keep you hanging for 180 days (with promises, lies, changes,...), untill they chargeback period from paypal is over... Or it might be a trick to get a free 180-day loan. Or it might be a fishing expedition for usernames/adresses/... Most likely they will hope some order in BTC, and that they win a few paypal from people waiting to long. But unknown company... and pre-order. They did not even do a rendering, or prototype. So we can safely say scam. |
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Hi
It should just run on 1 blade. Like 1 of mine does on 3 blades.
This is the reply from my ticket!
Hi,
unfortunately, USA center has none of the items you are looking for in stock.
Well! Got a lovely paper weight!
Yea I don't think running one makes much sense after thinking it through. All the blades work but only one fully works. I will leave it on to make sure it did have time for paste. But I think this will go in parts pile for my other C1 incase I need parts. Or I might sell not sure yet. |
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It would be nice if Bitmain could review their own threads and answer some above questions asked. You would probably get more sales that way.
Can you answer these questions above please.
Just for the record this isn't me you're waiting on, Bitmain replies will come from the BitmainWarranty account. There are a lot of threads though so they may not be checking all of them on an hourly basis. My information regarding the APW3 is also from release time so things may change. How about you or Bitmain comment on the S2 upgrade kit? That's up to Bitmain. I think the no comment speaks for itself. It has been asked many many times. There are a few pushing it up every few day's. I would not count on a upgrade kit. They are secretive on a lot but I think they would respond more recent if they had plans of even looking into S2 upgrade seriously. |
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So just a quick rant - I bought 6 antminer s4+ on release day. I bought 2 more a few weeks later. I am having an issue with one of them, so I did the usual thing and sent Bitmain an email. One board is not hashing - all x's and it crashes all the time... I just received an email from Bitmain saying - check all the connections...but if its a hash board they are only 30 day warranty!!! WTF??? When did that change? All the s4's I bought - yes A LOT! All had at least 90 day warranty. So I am writing to let everyone know of this NEW running change with no notification *(at least that I was aware of) So if you are on the fence if you should buy this one or another one. Make sure you know the warranty before! It's honestly a shame - as they took great care of me with the s4's and s5's previously! Rant over... AJ702  Might respond with their warranty info that is still up: https://bitmain.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202661989-Limited-90-Day-Warranty-Terms-No where does it mention hashing boards are 30 day's. I have never heard this before. If they changed it to 30 day's on hashing boards the 90 day's not near what it was guess PSU, and controller. But huge difference. |
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Well it's a bust. But at least I tried.
Is there anyway to SSH into the C1 and make it where just 1 of the blades will be used?
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Presuming right now that running into trouble with the law is only a American thing,please correct me if this is wrong.
So is there a list of the States that oppose bitcoin or have even run people into trouble and vice versa,those that are ok with it?
Also has anyone run into trouble with border security over bitcoin?
Thanks
No the problems with some states are with exchanges in most cases. Some states are so hard that exchanges choose not to operate in some states. As far as being owner of BTC no worries as far as us. And if you are worried encrypt your entire PC. |
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It would be nice if Bitmain could review their own threads and answer some above questions asked. You would probably get more sales that way.
Can you answer these questions above please.
I think they want you to go to their ticket system. I would like it to be on forum aswell. But I am just a little guy . Go put in a ticket for quickest help. |
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Places with cheaper electricity i have enough now, i'm developing 5 low power (36 KW) mines atm, but bigger and meaner is the way to go here... i mean, with electricity as cheap as 0.002 USD/KWh...
Ok I can admit when I'm wrong. I did math in my head and could must have done something wrong. If you can get electricity for even close to that ... yea that is a amazing deal. I still like the idea of bigger miners to have to buy less equipment such as networking, proper electricity parts, etc. Having it split is not a bad idea at all. But I would look at splitting into a few warehouses vs hundreds of shops. Security alone on hundreds of shops would be a nightmare. But after seeing that electricity price you do have some nice ideas. |
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Any answers to taxation questions are going to be varied and inconsistent. The regulations around virtual currencies are not clearly defined by any stretch of the imagination. @notlist3d, I'd disagree with this statement you made: What does successfully mine mean? I consider sucessfully mining once I sell for USD. I don't see it as successful when you just have BTC, as you don't know at time of sale if it's gain or loss.
If you're mining, the instant you acquired that coin it is a gain. There is no loss incurred by the action. You can certainly try to offset the gain by factoring in the cost of electricity to have mined the coin, but that implies you've set yourself up as a mining business, and are incurring expenses related to the operation of that business. Short answer: do what notlist3d stated and find yourself a CPA who is versed in virtual currency tax laws. And I could be wording it wrong. I am not a CPA I have had a surprising amount of accounting classes, but not way I decided to go. There is a not a loss but costs when you gain a coin. The equipment itself is a loss until paid for, and electricity is something you spend money on aswell. So I would say that it should come out of the gain. Yes at end you hopefully end up with capital gain and pay tax. But again CPA all the way. Mine is just my thoughts. |
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The difficulty still looks really good. Loving each week low difficulty change, I fear for this going away.
If we could only get back up to 300 again. Was nice to see it above 300, but the good news is did not fall back a ton. Could have been a lot worse.
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Still paying out. Made a withdrawal 07/15/2015
How much did you pay for this? And how much has been paid out? I'm just interested to see the numbers. |
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Will Bitmain fix an issue with fans slowing down when S5 loses an Internet access?
I really do think it is hit and miss on what one's do it. It is not all, but obviously enough to cause a lot of talk. Instead of waiting for fix I would get molex to fan connector and just not worry about it, if you have an effected unit. |
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Oh yeah, if any of y'all get a PM from a sidehack asking for money for sticks, and the pay address is not the 1BURGERAX address posted all over my threads, it's probably a fake sidehack so kick him in his tiny digital balls. I know at least one fake account exists (specifically this buttface) but who knows who else is out there, just waiting to steal your money. yeah I have a copycat https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=443374annoying to say the least. Trolls control a decent amount of this board. They seem to go after things to mess with someone or some product. What I have tried to do is just not get caught up in battles with trolls. I figure if it takes them more time to make a post then I spend on it I win. But a copycat is taking it to next level, and really annoying for sure. |
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I should be asleep instead of thinking about this stupid awesome miner.
That's why so many of us love you thread and your work. No matter what it is you seem to go for a challenge |
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Well I decided to do it tonight. It takes a while to do. First draining it is a pain.
Well I ended up doing a long but good way. Took the hashing boards out, then used a cleaning solution, then a purify solution. Then put a small amount of paste going for even on each chip.
Now I just sit and wait to see what happens. 2 boards worked right off. Other 2 I'm hoping after the thermal paste warms up will start working. Worth a shot.
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Great campaign! Still the best sig campaign around. Another successful week!
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this output could be used to change water into steam Water boils at 100*C, steam to power a turbine needs to be much, much hotter. If you have a miner running over 100*C then you've got serious problems! Nothing productive can be done with mildly warm air.
You could heat a large indoor swimming pool. A school could do a project with wind power, solar power and asics mining and heat the school pool. Most likely it works in places that have the right conditions. That would be the mine all workers want to work at if they have a swimming pool . Would be interesting to see a mine add extras for their workers. Most it seems do not do a ton or the employees it seems in big mines. With cost as a factor I don't seriously see them using it unless they make money off of it. |
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