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Canary, I understand I can receive a free backplane if I order 10 blades, but is there any way I can purchase a backplane with my order of 1 blade?
10/01/2013: today is my bday and to celebrate: every order of 7 blades gets a free backplane. blades are 3.0 btc USB miners are .105 btc -edit: prices are good for today only. blades are likely to go back up. Due to Chinese Holidays, there are no more shipments for a solid week+ whatever inventory resellers have is what will be sold for a while. I hope to run out  Happy Birthday! Hope it's been a good one. |
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I'm running BFGMiner 3.2.0 against the Eligius pool. I have just reached enough hashing power where I think I could benefit from raising the difficulty of work units handed out by the pool. I have gone and told Eligius to hand out a minimum difficulty of 2.0 work units. I have run for a while and the work units continue to be difficulty of 1.0. So I decided to try the '--request-diff 2.0' argument. However, the pool is still handing out difficulty 1.0 work units.
Since BFGMiner is the recommended for Eligius I'm surprised that neither methods are working.
Is this a bug in BFGMiner?
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Will open up Miner #2 if the interest continues  Down to 3 shares in Miner #1 - 40 shares in Miner #2 Have you already ordered miner #2 or are you waiting until it's funded? Has HashFast sold all their preallocated miners at this point? I'm asking since they are delivering in purchase order. The later its purchased the longer it will be until it can mine. |
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Can somebody please provide the calculations on this investment
showing ROI after Increased difficulty and October/Early November delivery?
I've been pondering the same thing. The question you have to ask yourself is what do you think the average rate of difficulty increase you expect to see? To me it seems that we are entering explosive difficulty growth. The next difficulty increase to hit looks to be about 30%. If that is sustained you are looking at 50-60% growth per month. While not perfect I found a good calculator I like to use. It would be nice if it did more than monthly difficulty increases but it's close enough for rough numbers. You can find it here: btcinvest calculatorI plugged some numbers in and assuming 50% difficulty growth per month you would get about a 66% return on your .15 btc invested over one year. ROI would be achieved after nine weeks of hashing assuming it starts on November 1. So you are looking at ROI, with these assumptions, by January 1. You can find the calculator with the parameters I used here: btcinvest assumptions. The two major factors here are of course delivery time and difficulty. I'm very tempted to jump in on this. I'll probably make a decision early next week but wouldn't be able to get funds for many days. Wow. I didn't realize that the current 30 day average was 75%. It looked to me it was more in the 60% range. Anything north of 65% quickly becomes a money pit. Thanks for showing me that. What changes this is BTC price. IMO fair value is over 125USD per share and quickly becoming justified to hit the 200+ range. Another way to look at it is get in get out with long term holding. I want to get back my capital as quickly as possible and then get as many bitcoins as possible from that investment. Lather, rinse, repeat. That of course doesn't work if you can't get it back out. But I think we are now well off topic. This is the last I have to say on the matter. |
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Can somebody please provide the calculations on this investment
showing ROI after Increased difficulty and October/Early November delivery?
I've been pondering the same thing. The question you have to ask yourself is what do you think the average rate of difficulty increase you expect to see? To me it seems that we are entering explosive difficulty growth. The next difficulty increase to hit looks to be about 30%. If that is sustained you are looking at 50-60% growth per month. While not perfect I found a good calculator I like to use. It would be nice if it did more than monthly difficulty increases but it's close enough for rough numbers. You can find it here: btcinvest calculatorI plugged some numbers in and assuming 50% difficulty growth per month you would get about a 66% return on your .15 btc invested over one year. ROI would be achieved after nine weeks of hashing assuming it starts on November 1. So you are looking at ROI, with these assumptions, by January 1. You can find the calculator with the parameters I used here: btcinvest assumptions. The two major factors here are of course delivery time and difficulty. I'm very tempted to jump in on this. I'll probably make a decision early next week but wouldn't be able to get funds for many days. Wow. I didn't realize that the current 30 day average was 75%. It looked to me it was more in the 60% range. Anything north of 65% quickly becomes a money pit. Thanks for showing me that. |
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Can somebody please provide the calculations on this investment
showing ROI after Increased difficulty and October/Early November delivery?
I've been pondering the same thing. The question you have to ask yourself is what do you think the average rate of difficulty increase you expect to see? To me it seems that we are entering explosive difficulty growth. The next difficulty increase to hit looks to be about 30%. If that is sustained you are looking at 50-60% growth per month. While not perfect I found a good calculator I like to use. It would be nice if it did more than monthly difficulty increases but it's close enough for rough numbers. You can find it here: btcinvest calculatorI plugged some numbers in and assuming 50% difficulty growth per month you would get about a 66% return on your .15 btc invested over one year. ROI would be achieved after nine weeks of hashing assuming it starts on November 1. So you are looking at ROI, with these assumptions, by January 1. You can find the calculator with the parameters I used here: btcinvest assumptions. The two major factors here are of course delivery time and difficulty. I'm very tempted to jump in on this. I'll probably make a decision early next week but wouldn't be able to get funds for many days. |
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are Eligius Pool store orders getting an email?
yes, Eligius will be done via email only, tied to their respective orders. not on forums.Have these been sent out? If they have I haven't gotten it yet. |
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agreed, and the dlinks work with raspberry pi's, the ankers don't. Source: I have both. The d-link hub ha the best price/performance because it supports 6 usb miners and a usb fan You might be a bit careful supporting 6 miners and a USB fan. First the hub only ships with a 5V 3A output power supply. 6 USB miners and a fan would be well over 3A. Also, the user manual states: "It is recommended that the total power consumption of the connected USB devices should not exceed 2.4 A, or 12 W." Just something to think about. |
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regarding .10 promo: I will follow the expected coupon distribution, per manufacturer's parameters. Once it is available, those eligible will be notified with redeeming instructions. The date of August 5th has been discussed on forums as the date of the expected announcement by friedcat. To the best of my knowledge, it will be available to a certain percentage of the most recent buyers at .99 price levels. I no longer answer PMs with questions about this since all I can do is point you to this statement and the ASICMiner Rumor thread and an announcements made by BTCGuild on their pool's News section. We're all waiting on friedcat Canary, I know you have nothing to do with the manufacturer's parameters but I simply find the thought that those who helped get this product off the ground at 1.99 BTC would be left out of the promotion sad. It would be nice if those were included as well. Some, like me, bought early with the few coins we had available. Didn't complain when the price came down and bought a few more only to see it drop again. It would be nice to see the reward go first towards the early 1.99 BTC purchasers and go down from there. Canary, if you can please pass along this sentiment and suggestion along if possible it would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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I reserve the right to modify this before the unit is purchased in case btc fluctuates and we are short to pay BFL (deficiency would be spread equally among participants)
If it fluctuates to such a degree that one decides not to provide additional funds what will happen at that point? Since you are willing to take more BTC when the exchange rate goes lower are you willing to pay back additional amounts when the exchange rate goes higher? |
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Received and hashing away! Thanks!
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drofdelm, 1, 1.2518, tx id - d3ef9a9b1216a3a2f076a1eaee81a889d269fe1e2a10def940c74afaeb2bc6df
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The h/w errors are kinda high. What is your longer run average of "hw/(accepted+ rejected)"?
Been running for about 10 hrs now, got: A: 2792 R: 0 HW: 26 So about 1% HW errors. I have a USB fan pointed at the device. It is warm to touch, but bearable. Using a infrared thermometer, it reads about 92F at the hottest spot. Ambient temp is about 75F. that's pretty good on temp! I finally got a USB fan to point at them and while cooler it's only lowered the error rate about 1% to around 2.5-3%. Disappointed the fan didn't do more. Oh well. |
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Tell my little miners to work faster so they can have a new brother or sister.  Unfortunately, it's going to be awhile given the recent difficulty increase.  |
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Did anyone receive an extra miner by any chance?
Negative. |
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Love my 10 miners (using Dynex hub)! Hashing away per screenshot below along side my Diamond 7970...
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Once I got everything working I'm pretty happy. Wish I could get a few more. Oh well. I don't know why mine seem to be hashing faster than everyone else's. I've been out of the mining business for some time so I'm not sure what is normal. I'm not using any special arguments on the command line. Maybe that's why?  arguments that you are using? what speed does pool report? slush's has something like this, "Average hashrate in last 10 rounds: XXXX Mhash/s" As stated in the original message, "I'm not using any special arguments on the command line." In other words I was just using the -S command. The pool reported similar numbers. I have since added the "--icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100" arguments and it is now showing the approximate 333Mh/s. I was averaging about 4% error. Now I am averaging about 3.5% error. I'm not using any type of active cooling. |
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Love my 10 miners (using Dynex hub)! Hashing away per screenshot below along side my Diamond 7970...
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Once I got everything working I'm pretty happy. Wish I could get a few more. Oh well. I don't know why mine seem to be hashing faster than everyone else's. I've been out of the mining business for some time so I'm not sure what is normal. I'm not using any special arguments on the command line. Maybe that's why? |
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I just got a package. I shook the box and thought... umm... is there anything in there?
There is—Christmas has arrived!
must have been packed very well then! Indeed they were! Now I'm having a heck of a time getting cgminer to use them. Running Debian linux. They show up in lsusb. I have put the udev rules in place. Added myself to the plugged group. I only get: "Icarus detect (2:7) failed to initialize (incorrect device?)" Compiled from tip of master. Thoughts anyone? Looks like cgminer 3.2 isn't up to snuff talking to the USB devices directly. Checked out 3.1.1 and managed to get it working talking to them over a serial device. |
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I just got a package. I shook the box and thought... umm... is there anything in there?
There is—Christmas has arrived!
must have been packed very well then! Indeed they were! Now I'm having a heck of a time getting cgminer to use them. Running Debian linux. They show up in lsusb. I have put the udev rules in place. Added myself to the plugged group. I only get: "Icarus detect (2:7) failed to initialize (incorrect device?)" Compiled from tip of master. Thoughts anyone? |
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I just got a package. I shook the box and thought... umm... is there anything in there?
There is—Christmas has arrived!
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