So,

the odious patent laws are the chosen weapon to be used to attack and take down democratic bitcoin and to be used by the filthy money crooks to retain their corrupt privileges by stealing ownership of something that was never theirs to take?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-10/chasing-bitcoin-jpm-preparing-unveil-its-own-electronic-currency

Can anyone help point me in the right direction please.

I bought 4 BFL SGL600G units and hooked them up - I've made a huge mistake, paid a massive price and stand to lose a fortune but that's my problem. Let's just say temporary insanity gripped me. At the end of the day it's only money right (I have to keep telling myself that)

I'm having to use the bitminter client since it's the only way I can get them to play. I have been using erupters on eligius without any issues as you might expect.

When I run BFGminer with these and no command line switches other than those needed to access the pool, it sees all four of them just fine, but after a few minutes running the Eligius server sets the difficulty to higher and higher values, 2,4,8,16,32, etc.

What's happening is that some of the workers (it looks like each unit has 10) update with the new difficulty and some don't.

So that after a while there will be work being accepted from workers at 256 without a problem but others being rejected from those stuck on 2 or 4 or whatever (with an "unknown-work" error)

Sorry if this is a pathetic explanation, I haven't a clue what is happening, can anyone help?

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Windows 7 Home 64 bit
BFGminer 3.8.0
FTDI drivers installed
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Hello folks,

First time I've asked tech questions here so please be gentle. Apologies if these are dumb and have been asked hundreds of times but hope you can help.

Is there any collective wisdom on what the best fans are to replace the stock fans in the BFL Single SC? These four units are very, very loud, I had to put them in the loft and stand them on a thick bubble wrap padded platform to quiet them.

I have two noctua NF-S12A FLX (DC12V - 1.44W - 0.12A) for one box and looking for some reassurance these won't just make it start smoking when fitted.

I also want to take the heat sink off and clean, then use some paste on there. Is that generally a good or bad idea? I'm quite comfortable around computer hardware but obviously don't want to go diving in if there is something I ought to be aware of beforehand.

As it stands the units are all working but i had some major problems with BFLminer and them not working properly after an hour or two. I've since been using the bitminter client and they seem a lot happier.

Is it normal to see the hash rate bouncing around from between 180 to 300 on four BFL single SC's ? It's stable around 210-240 a lot of the time but does bounce around (this in bitminter client)

If anyone can help or point me to a thread that will that'd be grand

thanks
J

edit: I also have them linked to this PC via a 12m USB repeater cable. That might have some effect too?