Might be S3 endplates for the fans, but it's S7 or S9 hashboards in the boxes. But hey, at least they tried to build a real-world machine to scam around instead of relying on stolen renders like most scammers. Shows a bit of initiative.

There hasn't been an explanation why, but the last three (at least) threads on this miner were removed by mods. The most recent had about three days worth of discussion and disappeared yestereve.

If your goal is to mine regardless of profitability, or to make hot water via electricity at reduced cost, this miner is acceptable.

If your goal is to end up with more money (in whatever form) than you started with, this miner is not acceptable.

You're not accounting for that BTC and cash are directly interchangeable. One is the other. That's the whole point of currency. Trading 1BTC for a BTC-making machine that'll only make 0.5BTC is a net loss no matter what currency you started with, unless the heat it makes is worth more than 0.5BTC to you. And that's assuming the substantially increased mechanical complexity doesn't fail first.

I think what he's saying is, if you have 0.3BTC and $2k, you could buy another 0.3BTC with that $2k or buy a miner which, over the next two years, will mine you about 0.2BTC. End result being, if you want more BTC you're better off buying BTC than this miner. Especially if you're looking for a boom in BTC pricing, since with booms come higher diffs which means a lower reward. 0.6BTC now is better than 0.5BTC in two years because 0.6BTC now can *still be* 0.6BTC in two years, guaranteed, while that 0.5BTC is a speculative best-case.

If you're planning on electric radiant heat in floors or a pool, this miner might be a good investment. But if BTC is your primary goal, I can't envision a situation where this machine is worth buying.

Yeah that's nice. Hey question, how many chips are there per board?

Hey, that efficiency mode looks pretty good and shouldn't be a fire hazard.

This is only the last place for that info because some saboteur overzealous moderator quickly deleted at least two threads on this machine since Thursday.

A lot of miners were made with liquid cooling from the factory some years ago, especially when a lot of companies made large high-power CPU-type miners. And then they started realizing that exotic cooling solutions tended to be expensive and unreliable, and high-power CPU type miners tended to be expensive and unreliable, and so now we have the air-cooled matrix of <10W chips for everything. As long as you don't try and pack multiple kilowatts into a single small box, it tends to be inexpensive and reliable without the need for complexity. Liquid cooling is only really necessary when you insist on unsustainable power density.

Because "build a quiet low-power miner without exotic cooling solutions" is too hard?

Naw, playing the straight man has nothing to do with sexual preference. If someone tries to take it otherwise, that's an opportunity to educate someone on a historic staple of comedy.

Oh yeah, still haven't heard back from Inno about chips. Might buy me one of them miners though, you know, to mine with. Definitely not to take apart.

I still have stock of regulars, and they're going pretty cheap. Working on the next thing, still ironing out some reliability kinks before I'll have anything to sell. Don't want another R808 fiasco.

I have found over the years that if one takes profanity literally, the world is a much funnier place.

Funny you should ask, because I sold the last ones about seven hours ago.

Watch out the fan doesn't take off your john thomas.

Is there a "back up existing firmware" option, where someone with the original build can archive it?

Well like I said, I emailed with no response so then I messaged this forum account asking about bitcoin mining ASICs, as the press release stated they'd be made available to integrators. I was asked which chip I had interest in on the 8th, and have had no response since then. So, maybe an update? Some kind of communication?

Is this guy interested in selling chips?

Hey that's great. While you're here, would you mind responding to my ASIC request? I offered cash in hand for samples of the BTC mining chip but haven't heard back since the 8th. On the forum anyway; my email request was never responded to.

Yes, very closed. I made a few hundred, but something with the chips was causing an unacceptably high failure rate so I shut it down.

The first step is writing a driver for it.