We might take a look at something like that. The minions are interesting chips in a lot of ways. A lot of the basic design is done, so while it wouldn't be a dead simple port like Avalon Gen1 to Gen2, it would be a similar interface and setup to the BFL chips.
EPIC! I am in! Should we start a tally somewhere to get an idea of how much support there is for this? Bob, what do you think is a fair price per chip since you are THE first person in line? |
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Chili Minions! With 4 minion chips!
This is exactly what I was thinking! http://www.blackarrowsoftware.com/store/minion.htmlToo bad they shun group buys... Teal and Geek or a benefactor would have to plunk down solo up front and allow us to buy a whole miner from them in order to use Minions. But 460 - 500 GH/s on one card is sick... and if anyone can do it better... a Minion based Chili would be the ticket! I can help you guys out here if there is some interest. I have the first 500 Minion Chips already reserved for DiY, I am just waiting for final data sheet to be released before I open it up. Can you clarify that... i swooned a bit when you said this... So... you HAVE an order for 500 chips already and you are the FIRST chip buyer in line? Really really?!?! If the above is true, and you have it reserved for a DIY group... i have a couple bits i'd drop right now to reserve my chips. MrTeal and ChipGeek... do you have interest at all in making a phenomenal 28nm Minion miner? 4 chip or 8 chip? (OMG 8 chip 1 TH MrTeal Minion Miner making me all tingly...) |
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Scryptcoins... lol... I love em... so much... I mined and bought over 5K of one with a single Radeon 7950 over the least few months.
5250... cost me about $150 in electric costs in the last 5 months of mining various scrypt coins... I already paid the cards cost off in the couple of months before that trading and selling as best I could, including the electric.
Guess what... know what coin it was? Megacoins... know how much my maths say I averaged in cost buying and mining them? About 3K Satoshis each.
I sold all but 250 of them when it hit 65K Satoshis each... lets just round that down to 21X the cost. This was also when BTC was under $100... and I sold the BTC to USD upon trading... at over $1000... so lets just call that 10X cost.
5K X 0.00065 = 3.25 BTC
(3.25 BTC X ~$1000) -$150 = ~$3100
Not too bad... paid for the holidays and my upcoming trip to NY for Christmas. Wish I had held just a bit longer... MEC is now 0.0015+ BTC each. I got lucky and mined 100 more in the last couple days... my GPU made ~$170 in the last 36 hours.
Small comparison to share... right now on various scrypt coins... my Radeon 7950 is JUST as profitable as my 33GH/s Chili from MrTeal... most of the day today.... the GPU has been making more than the ASICs.
650 KH/s on the GPU on scrypt > 33GH/s ASIC on Sha256d.
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Here's another thought. Imagine someone set up a Litecoin2 and called it Copper. I'm pretty sure you would think that to be nonsense.
Someone already did. They called it feathercoin. And thats worthless. Litecoin has far the best devs and community after bitcoin. When time goes by, both currencys will have even greater variations. Its also a backup for bitcoin. If these devs do something terrible wrong, you can go with litecoin which is far more community based in my opinion. And its always the same: Example: You have samsung. Why apple, sony, motorola etc? People want to have options. And they think: dont put all eggs In one basket. Try Megacoin... LTC should keep a close eye out... MEC is coming for its spot. |
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Yeah, we were planning on selling them through this thread, but are going to hold off until we're closer to shipping. I'm thinking we might just do another auction similar to what we did this last time. It seemed to work pretty well and really cut down on the administration time.
Good call. Sell em all in one shot (maybe two lol). Any insight on the other questions above about future projects with 28nm chips? |
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@MrTeal,
I could have sworn I saw a post in this thread talking about pricing for batch 3 populated boards. Request an update on the latest of batch 3. I'm very proud of my 3 chilis so far even if one of my Twin Turbo fans is slightly unbalanced causing a rattle which drives me batty.
Request an update on batch 3 please. I'm interested in buying populated boards.
you aren't crazy... I saw it too... it said $750 fully populated (8 chips I assume) but it has been edited out of the original post now. |
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Chili Minions! With 4 minion chips!
This is exactly what I was thinking! http://www.blackarrowsoftware.com/store/minion.htmlToo bad they shun group buys... Teal and Geek or a benefactor would have to plunk down solo up front and allow us to buy a whole miner from them in order to use Minions. But 460 - 500 GH/s on one card is sick... and if anyone can do it better... a Minion based Chili would be the ticket! |
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Hi MrTeal and ChipGeek!
Two things... 1. Chili is running like a beast... no issues to date and already paid itself (thanks to BTC surge lol!) and I already paid myself out.
I am now looking into what I plan to do come February when the Chili is no longer as profitable, so I asked myself what has shown as the best option in that time frame, and what else does MrTeal and ChipGeek have up their sleeves? That leads me to a two part #2...
2. A. Do you have any new developments planned for next year? I would kill for a 28nm MrTeal miner!
B. If you aren't up for developing another miner with 28nm chips... what do you see as best performance for your $ options come February?
Do you see any particular miner being ahead of the rest come February? Anything specific you already have your eye on?
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Is there something wrong with SKC? Is it mining and difficulty keeping up properly? Is the wallet crashing or forking?
So... what you're saying is... most people are just bitching because A. there is no compiled, dedicated GPU miner... and B. no exchange has picked this up so people can dump and feel better about using their hashrates?
I've been mining SKC for weeks... I rarely even check my miner or wallet... only to make sure it is indeed mining... and I am happy with my results thus far with only a couple of i5s.
If all you have to bitch about is you can't GPU mine and you can't list your stash on an exchange, no wonder the dev is silent... THEY DON'T WANT YOU PUMPING AND DUMPING THIS COIN!!!!!
There is nothing to fix, hence the dev should be able to just sit back and watch their creation unfold... have some GD patience... jeez.
I'll be holding my SKC just like I held my MEC through thick and thin until I cashed half today at it's peak... bought all new pieces for a gaming rig from Amazon through Gyft purely from MEC profits... one day SKC will do the same.
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5 Solo blocks so far... and put the erupter on the pool to help/evaluate.
Looks like everything leveled out so happy mining!
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FYI just dropped 34GH/s on this... got my first block in 15 seconds.
Enjoy the rest of your QBTv3 night!
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there a number of v2 peers up 16:05:31

getpeerinfo
16:05:32

[
{
"addr" : "198.90.110.248:17427",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1385337890,
"lastrecv" : 1385337899,
"bytessent" : 7952,
"bytesrecv" : 30347,
"conntime" : 1385337853,
"version" : 70001,
"subver" : "/Cubits:0.9.0/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 233228,
"banscore" : 0,
"syncnode" : true
},
{
"addr" : "174.111.226.188:49580",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1385337931,
"lastrecv" : 1385337885,
"bytessent" : 2613162,
"bytesrecv" : 25246,
"conntime" : 1385337854,
"version" : 70001,
"subver" : "/Cubits:0.9.0/",
"inbound" : true,
"startingheight" : 232430,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "94.23.68.11:51035",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1385337897,
"lastrecv" : 1385337897,
"bytessent" : 9178,
"bytesrecv" : 2449,
"conntime" : 1385337854,
"version" : 70001,
"subver" : "/Cubits:0.9.0/",
"inbound" : true,
"startingheight" : 233228,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "76.103.216.200:55504",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1385337896,
"lastrecv" : 1385337897,
"bytessent" : 5521,
"bytesrecv" : 3246,
"conntime" : 1385337857,
"version" : 70001,
"subver" : "/Cubits:0.9.0/",
"inbound" : true,
"startingheight" : 233228,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "213.109.118.203:38210",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1385337897,
"lastrecv" : 1385337897,
"bytessent" : 8203,
"bytesrecv" : 4366,
"conntime" : 1385337860,
"version" : 70001,
"subver" : "/Cubits:0.9.0/",
"inbound" : true,
"startingheight" : 233228,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "72.179.164.248:55088",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1385337897,
"lastrecv" : 1385337897,
"bytessent" : 4699,
"bytesrecv" : 3377,
"conntime" : 1385337868,
"version" : 70001,
"subver" : "/Cubits:0.9.0/",
"inbound" : true,
"startingheight" : 233228,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "162.213.155.46:40692",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1385337897,
"lastrecv" : 1385337897,
"bytessent" : 3423,
"bytesrecv" : 5233,
"conntime" : 1385337869,
"version" : 70001,
"subver" : "/Cubits:0.9.0/",
"inbound" : true,
"startingheight" : 233228,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "142.68.128.190:60777",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1385337890,
"lastrecv" : 1385337897,
"bytessent" : 2453,
"bytesrecv" : 1338,
"conntime" : 1385337889,
"version" : 70001,
"subver" : "/Cubits:0.9.0/",
"inbound" : true,
"startingheight" : 233230,
"banscore" : 0
}
]
Yup i just got 3 more connections on the wallet with the correct total and it matches the above TYVM. Coins sending now. |
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PM sent.
There appears to be some issues though...
1. The same V2 wallet I have on two different PCs... have synced to two different chains... one showing all my coins... one showing only 75%... if you want ppl to send QBTv2... there needs to be a few dedicated nodes to keep that client up and some mining to confirm transactions.
2. I have a feeling someone already dropped an ASIC bomb on this... and the pools may have been left behind on a lower height while the rest of the soloers are on a higher block... I cant confirm yet... still looking...
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For those of you who are still with the Pennies, I present 0.9.7: https://andarazoroflove.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/PiggyBank-0.9.7-Qt.zipThis build aims to put stake issues to bed by disabling stake nearly completely. The next version (0.9.8, in December sometime) will cut off all clients below this wallet level as the network implements a final solution to stake issues. Please upgrade as you can and thanks for realizing this is still a work in progress. Will upgrading fix this: "true","2013-11-11T02:14:31","Received with","MaGNeT's Pennies Giveaway","PBdRuGoef6xHVH2Uou3mGarBc6Wem9a2N9","24698206","3c2d781ef5f8d3072fa9834440283c169ce65d823d6e90673cadfa927213fb96-001" "true","2013-11-11T02:14:31","Received with","MaGNeT's Pennies Giveaway","PBdRuGoef6xHVH2Uou3mGarBc6Wem9a2N9","24698206","3c2d781ef5f8d3072fa9834440283c169ce65d823d6e90673cadfa927213fb96-000" "false","2013-11-11T01:54:17","Sent to","","","0","9bf9e1aa5f12194de0e7a243104935931eea9ace49a638429a8016c02fa67e5c-000" "true","2013-11-02T06:17:27","Received with","MaGNeT's Pennies Giveaway","PBdRuGoef6xHVH2Uou3mGarBc6Wem9a2N9","5000000","6876014aa9950f9c1ac49ca0ea9a70d8b11f4317f3f656712baf64125af40c23-000" I know 5000000 isn't alot, and I am thankful for MaGNeT's giveaway, but I find it strange that it is robbing me of the pennies. When you get your "free" pennies... don't cry that you can't earn stake... it is your own fault. Make a second wallet addy, and break it up into smaller pieces the same day it arrives... not hard. |
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Updates are coming soon....Working as fast as we can. We just need to make sure everything is fixed this time before we release.  You should put some info out there... Is the chain going to roll back? If so, to where? Do you have an estimate on new release? People who are mining it now will be affected so if there is going to be a roll back... they need to know to stop mining it ASAP. |
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Is it just me, or are there a bunch of coins missing from this now???
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Posted this in the new forum under Mining>Pools thread.
New Megacoin pool went live today.
mec.crypto-expert.com
Stratum
PPS
1% Fee
VarDiff
Efficient, Live Updating Dashboard
I will be sending Ahmed some MEC to put up as bounty rewards for the block finders.
5 MEC REWARD BOUNTY TO BLOCK FINDERS FOR THE FIRST 20 BLOCKS THE POOL FINDS!!!!!!
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is there any compatibility for cgminer or bfgminer? I am currently trying to get my bitfury miner to work on the pool but no dice...
Read the coin ANN OP again... this is a new kind of algo not just Sha256... ASIC no worky... SSCLecXd1i9GHbZivtH6Hpt1ohphWrW2yf
help me mine
no gpu means 15 coins a day here
it all comes back in karma
SSCLecXd1i9GHbZivtH6Hpt1ohphWrW2yf
Join the pool using the linked CPUMiner... avg lowend I5 should net a few hundred coins per day... at 10-12 MH/s total from 5 different machines im averaging 1K per day. |
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