How can you use bitfunder without weExchange?

I went to sign up for WeExchange and it said this:


How can you expect anyone to trust a site when the owners of the site don't trust it?

I bought some items today/yesterday. 4x drives, 1x hotswap bay, case, psu, raid card. Amazingly, They were able to ship out 2x of the drives and the hot swap bay the same day! The case, psu, and 2x drives were on back order but said they should be able to ship them out by monday. All in all the cost was $136.19 less than the identical items on newegg!

Thanks guys!

Can you please answer my questions regarding shipping? The only shipping options I see are for USPS; do you not offer other shipping methods? Some users have said they received their package via fedex. How did that occur? Is fedex the "standard no fee" shipping option?

Thanks

Are there any other shipping methods available than USPS? Preferably DHL? I see others seeing they received their items via Fedex; was that option removed from the store?

Had video card fan die on a 10 year old computer and the video card caught on fire (smoke and all). Replaced the video card and it was back up and running like champ. Just some crappy system for remote use, not related to mining at all. But I can definitely see if the fan dies when someone is mining the GPU will be toast. I doubt it would start a real fire unless there was some kindling on top of the card. Just avoid putting kindling on your rigs and you should be fine

I don't have anything running at the moment. I just recently moved, I don't even have "my computer" at my new location yet.

Lol, I've never slept so well in my life as when I had my avalon running in my bedroom. Now, I'm back to not sleeping a wink

Due to lack of interest; we have decided to discontinue this offering. The handful of users who have placed orders will be happy to know that instead of refunding; we will be hand assembling and fulfilling your orders out of prototype chips. You can expect to receive your devices in August, a full 3 months ahead of schedule.

We are open to leasing our design if anyone is interested in printing usb3 miners from their own chips/reels. Please contact us via PM or E-mail ( info [at] bitcentury dot io ) to discuss arrangements.

The first devices are scheduled to be delivered in August 2012.

Yes, you can see them in action on our website at www.bitcentury.io

There are plenty of devices you can mine from with much lower power figures than a laptop.

I wish the chip prices were lower so we could be competitive

How do you figure 70Watts of power usage from a port that only supplies 4.5Watts???

Keep in mind that when we build these things, they have essentially the same number of "doodads" (i think is the correct technical term) as the larger boards. Micro controller, power distribution, transformers, capacitors, etc, most of which can handle many more chips than what we have on board already. I would expect that the H-Board cost is nearly identical to our cost (Specially since their chips are dirt cheap for these boards, less than 1$ each is my guess.). Even if we were to build H-Board equivalent ourselves, you're still looking at 320$ cost in chips alone for a product that is being sold at 550$. There's no way we can compete. What a few posters say they would be willing to pay for this in Nov is already well under our cost for production. All of this doesn't even include the percentage of chips which will be DOA, or the percentage of boards which will be DOA out of the assembly, boards withheld (not sold) for warranty replacement if anything goes awry, etc. Then if there's a major hick up anywhere in the chain we're at that point taking huge personal losses to get these things to you. Unfortunately, 325$ is really our minimum pricing at this time. What it all comes down to is, If you want cheaper boards, we need cheaper chips.

Unfortunately, Chips alone are 1/2 that pricing.

We really wanted to, but the thermals come heavily into play at that point. It would need an active cooling system (fan). We have some additional designs on the table which we're looking into and hope to offer moving forward.

Reserved

No idea, you'll need to ask whoever designed it. We're just an alpha tester and not directly related to any of the current distributors or suppliers of the H-Board.

We're still waiting on our heatsinks (had to get a custom sink since the SMA connectors poke out the bottom of the board a bit, couldn't just toss it ontop of any 'ole sink). Nigel also didn't have a FLIR camera at that location to be sure the chip didn't over heat while running without a heatsink. He was playing it safe. We should have more information soon.

The clock of the chip is determined by the clock setting and what the chip is capable of running at on a specific voltage. We have a break down of a previous test at the bottom of the following URL. All of those tests were conducted with no heat sink.

https://bitcentury.io/blog/initial-testing-of-bitfury-asic

My apologies, the link has been corrected. Please let me know if you still continue to have problems.