dude just ask for a refund... that's what I did.  I was order 65xx and I knew there was no fuckign way I was getting my order before november

I just got my refund today.  Right back to my paypal account.  I was order 65xx and there was no way in fuck I was getting my miner before november so fuck that noise.  They were VERY fast (I requested it sunday morning and they replied first thing monday morning swedish time). 

seti@home & folding@home both do this now.  Although they aren't paying people out.  I doubt they could afford to do that.  Tho if you could get an IBM type setup that allowed distributed computing with gpus/processes that might be worthwhile. 

I for one have a lot of horse power in my main rig doing practically nothing all day.  It's a big $ vs earlier hardware death issue tho :/

@console_cowboy I don't think that's necessarily the case - massive computer clustered are built for parallelization- sure, you get internet delay and basically have to do about 20% more work to verify that people aren't giving you bogus answers but when you go from a 200 core machine to a 200,000 everything just becomes moot. 

Actually an external heat exchange would be really good cuz then you could have a sealed system and not have to worry about the oil going rancid or getting stuff in it...

Ideally you could vacuum seal it in a container and just have the external radiator.

yea... check the voltages and tune them.  Maybe increase them to somewhere around 1.05-1.10.  Depending.  There is probably one set of voltages off and that's your chip.

I can't try this right now cuz I'm at work but have you tried having the startum proxy target a different pool?  I've been having the same issue targetting slush's pool (donno why I didn't think of this until now..).

I think you just run it with pythong mining_proxy.py -o stratum.otherpoolhost.com:3333 or whatever.

or just run the .exe on windows with -o

honestly I've been having the exact same issue where the blade will hit my proxy, maybe do a few bits of work and then hang.  Wiresharking it reveals that it just sits there and sends an ack,rst packet from every port to my stratum host. 

If you get around this I'd be really interested in finding out. 

Where did you buy your blade from?  I got mine off ebay...

We've added a lot more hasing power the last few days.  I think it went from low 50's to high 58Thash/s so you're doing less of the overall work lately than before.  Thus a lower percentage of the reward :/

honestly the drop out rate is really really bad.  I belive there's an algorithm in place to stop "pool hopping" that really really penalizes you for dropping in the middle and re-joining.  Basically my miners kept going down and you basically get murdered.

But then when you rejoin you tend to remake it close to what your estimates were in a decent amount of time (probably not with this ultra marathon session tho...)

more info here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1976.msg50002#msg50002

I know ;_;.  I was just trying to make idle chat to make myself feel better -_-;;

So we've almost done the whole block eh?

 

Hey guys,  I've been absolutely pulling my hair out with my blade.  I can get it to connect every now as if by effing magic but generally it hangs on the initial hit of my stratum proxy and then the blade sends an ack/reset tcp packet on every one of it's ports.... and then resets cuz it hasn't hashed in two minutes...

Has anyone else seen this issue?  Is it just a faulty ethernet plug?  Is there anything I can do?

 - the power is right.  The voltage is tuned.  It's worked for at least a day before.  I've gone through this whole thread but no one has really asked a question like mine... (maybe no one else wiresharked their stuff? I have the packet capture if anyone wants it..)

I've tried many different versions of the stratum proxy and on windows / osx.  No dice :/. 

short story - they aren't.

You can check out here - with the new difficulty bumps (no doubt contributed by the miners) they aren't really profitable unless you basically have free electricity.  And even then it will take a super super long time to make back your money.

http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/a/2e688f88e3

I got a whole bunch because I was curious.  A horrible investment but I also wanted to just try my hand at generating some bitcoins and they are SO LOW POWER over my GPU that I figured why not.

GPUs have the added benefit that they can also mine other currencies besides bitcoins... the asics ones can only generate BTC.

How difficult was the overclock? 

I've got little to no soldering experience (or real hardware electric circuit experience) but I'm generally good with my hands and am interesting in modding my usb erupters just to learn a bit more about how they work.  I've read the instructions a few times and it seems really doable.  Just an issue of purchasing all the equipment

Generally if you understand how computers work... and what exactly "32-bits" represents - aka 4billion possible combos.  You start to get a very VERY crystal clear picture of how hard compression is.

To be honest, most compression now adays is for very very specific types of data (mp4/mp3/jpg - and "lossy").  General multipurpose true (as in what you compress you get _exactly_ back when you de-compress) - compression - IE zip/rar/etc aren't very powerful on the grand scale of things.  They just remove "wasted" space.