Happy birthday !

Hey folks,

I'm a screenprinter by day, and I recently ran a group buy of friedcat "fan club" t-shirts, which you can see here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=230843.0

With the popularity of friedcat/AM growing by the day, I figured it'd be worthwhile to do another t-shirt run, but this time, with an added twist:

THE BEST USER-SUBMITTED DESIGN WILL BE CHOSEN.

Here's the rules of this contest:
1) Submit a .jpg or .png preview of your design in this thread, for people to view and comment on.
2) The most popular entry will be chosen on June 30 (my opinion matters here, as some designs don't print well).
3) Once the winning entry is chosen, I'll open a new Group Buy thread and start accepting payment.
4) If we reach 12 shirt orders by July 7, I'll print the shirts; if not, everyone gets their money back.
5) If we reach 24 shirt orders by July 7, the price drops by $5 per shirt, and everyone who already paid will get a partial refund.
6) Also, if we reach 12 shirt orders, the winner of the contest gets a free shirt, and will have one of their shirts sent to friedcat as well.
7) All final submissions must be in .ai, .svg, or other vector format. Psd, jpg, png, etc will not be accepted. Maximum of two colors, although single-color designs will be given preference.

Our old go-to shirt style is being phased out, so this shirt run will be printed on slightly more expensive Anvil organic cotton. Initial cost for the first 12 shirts will be somewhere between $15 and $20, depending on the artwork and the final cost of the blank shirts.

Don't think friedcat has 1.34M bitcoins laying around

My guess is around ~0.015 without HW sales.
Not record-breaking, but knowing what to come (announcement new Blades, new USB sticks, almost 200TH/s ready from fab I really don't care a lot )

Looking forward to the next weeks!

where is Birfountain registered in China?..where was the patent filed for these units?..thanks

Hi,

I'm interested to buy one.

How much to deliver it in Switzerland ?


Thanks in advance

The less red, the better.

Hey all, sorry if I was slow to notice the price drop. I should have posted earlier that I didn't want the 5 @ 1.9 but instead will check the group buy.

Thx,

J

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We have some updates:

This is the last week to enter into our Video Contest where we are giving away five ounces of silver, or the equivalent in bitcoins! http://www.amagimetals.com/blog/2013/06/03/amagi-metals-video-contest-what-do-americans-know-about-money/

Next weekend we will be at the Colorado Springs National Coin show and will be selling silver, and will be accepting bitcoins live at the show for precious metals! http://www.amagimetals.com/blog/2013/06/02/amagi-metals-colorado-springs-coin-show-june-28th-june-30th/

Come say hello, in person, to your favorite precious metals dealers!!

To date, Amagi Metals has done almost $2 million dollars in just bitcoin sales for the 2013 year. You guys rock!

Some awesome updates are coming to our website, including improved access and expansion to our Knowledge Center. We will be hiring some more staff in the next few months, so keep an eye out for job listings!

We will be listing Platinum products this week, so stay tuned!

New links added to initial post.  An article by Andrew Schiff and the "bitcoin" word reared its little head on Tues.

Hi

I was just checking at blockchain.info when the last block was found and I saw this:



look at blocks x57 to x59

That looks kinda fishy, doesn't it?

Thanks for an explanation!

Hi,

What is the computation power of those ones ?

Where can I buy the USB Erupter（ASICMINER）!
I live in Taiwan.
Maybe I can e-mail.
The website say can mail to buy the things, but I didn't see any e-mail address.

Customers in China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Please contact forum member rockxie(with e-mail address: rockxie@gmail.com), whose RRP is agreed by us.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=217104.msg2559360#msg2559360

NEWS FLASH!!! NEWS FLASH!!!

My K16 is hashing with 1 chip.

It's not giving a correct result nonce yet but I'm almost 99% sure that's due to errors in precalc code or maybe I'm shifting in word order backwards.

I soldered an ASIC on the board this morning and spent all day twiddling this and that, mostly getting the clock config right. Then bamm I saw something that looked like nonce bits coming out but they were stunted little bits trying desperately to reach high. But the twinkle was enough and I went through the Avalon reference design again to check and realized I'd not used the correct pull-up value for the result lines. Somehow I f'd up and spec'd 100k resistors instead of 470R. So I quickly removed them and soldered in some 1K that I had here. And the bits sprung forth to their full heights. I was totally excited and hopping around my work bench. Even my wife was in to see what the big commotion was about.

So... next step, test the UART receiver, and muck with the send data until the right nonce comes back.

BTW I'm running at half clock b/c no heat sink attached yet. The chip gets slightly warmish to the finger. With only one chip and half clock you have to set the scope trigger and hold the probes for a while until a nonce is found. I counted about 4-8 seconds but of course it depends on what point it is in it's cycle. One chip at half clock (128MHz) would be about 33 seconds for a full sweep.

New group buy price for the USB block erupters is about 1 btc (not advertising for them, just sayin).

So, at the new price, assuming starting current difficulty, you'll make 1 btc in 5-6 months, depending on difficulty increases all the way to 40 million ish...

After that, my crystal ball gets cloudy, grasshopper.

mint, eu1, us1, it's all the same at the moment.

Some miners are still on the old server though, probably because of misbehaving network equipment or software not respecting DNS TTL settings.

You need this- http://sourceforge.net/projects/libwdi/files/zadig/

Select your device and change the driver to WinUSB driver, only takes a minute and allows them to work flawlessly with cgminer 3.2.*