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Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Is this a Mistake or what?
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on: December 07, 2012, 08:55:30 PM
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Also by retaining the same listing, the seller won't lose all the "watchers" who have the item saved in their Watch List, where relisting would.
I've done the same thing in my own listings, to keep something from selling out (and ending the listing) when stock levels are low.
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Butterfly Labs is going to give lifetime warranty
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on: December 07, 2012, 06:34:52 PM
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"Sorry Sir, lifetime warranty means the lifetime of the product, since your product is now technically dead, that means the warranty has expired"
"aaaand it`s gone! this line is for people with the money only please step aside!" |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: ASIC Certification Requirements?
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on: December 07, 2012, 05:37:35 AM
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There are limitations on the colors of switches and lamps, i.e. no red LEDs (which indicate danger).
Danger Will Robinson! The agency will attempt to set the unit on fire.
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [Announcement] Avalon ASIC Development Status [Batch #1]
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on: December 07, 2012, 03:22:08 AM
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Some background information on ASIC production process, before tape out, 3 day before uploading GDS, we fill out a MT form with TSMC detailing the ASIC specific information so they may understand what we are doing. The gallery is here http://imgur.com/a/YOLez   Wow, 1.3GB of GDS data. That's a lotta bits goin into them thar chips. I hope y'all had them verify a hash of it. Really their form ought to have a field for it. Nice news release. The next news I want to hear is that you have received the prototype chips, and that they are hashing as expected.  |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: ASIC Certification Requirements?
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on: December 05, 2012, 04:26:33 PM
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A quick Google search shows that FCC has considered requiring FCC regulations twice, and rejected the idea both times. So, if motherboards don't require FCC certification, then why do ASIC boards?
I have 3 motherboard boxes sitting beside me from Asus, Biostar, and Intel, and all of them have the FCC badge thing printed on them. The way I read the regs, anything with a processor driven by its own clock source needs to go through certification. |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: bad news for bASIC - not shipping til mid Jan at best
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on: December 05, 2012, 02:57:21 PM
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At least Tom's product HAS an ASIC chip.
This assumption is based on an ambiguous statement, and an assumption that the supposed "working prototype" is using the chip they're going to have in the actual device. When asked directly in concrete terms, the question is always ignored. I don't read all of the bASIC threads/news/updates/forums, so if I've missed something, please gently inform me. I'm guessing they don't actually have the final production chips in-hand. If they did, surely they would be telling everyone, no? I understand they had a working prototype based on 2 chips that hashed at 14Ghps each. Then at some point the prototype quit working. They imply that it died of overheating. Source: https://www.btcfpga.com/forum/index.php?topic=104.msg818#msg818 |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: bad news for bASIC - not shipping til mid Jan at best
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on: December 05, 2012, 01:23:02 AM
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This has already been discussed.
All 3 of the above-mentioned makers have publicly stated that they will not test the devices by mining on MainNet, and will instead use testnet-in-a-box or something similar.
The exception being a brief demonstration planned by Avalon to take place on some well-known pool, to show their product in action.
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Just what is a clock buffer anyway?
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on: December 01, 2012, 11:31:17 PM
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I wasn't around when BFL first started advertising their FPGA single, so I've got a question that I'm sure someone in here knows the answer to.
How long did it take for the first Singles to ever start arriving to customers after their initial release date was supposed to happen? 3 months? 6 months?
I think it was remarkably similar to the same timeline a year ago. They were supposed to ship October-ish in 2011, but actually shipped in March of 2012. Furthermore, backlog of orders was only recently caught up on now in November 2012: https://forums.butterflylabs.com/blogs/bfl_jody/41-fpga-orders-all-shipped.html |
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Just what is a clock buffer anyway?
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on: November 30, 2012, 12:58:50 AM
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It's utterly pointless to compare a standard-cell design to a full-custom design using transistor count. Even between full-custom designs it's normal to see a 4x variation in area based on the foresight of the architect and the skill of the layout designer. By the way, BFL doesn't use the phrase "full custom" to mean the same thing it means in the industry. By the way, BFL doesn't use the phrase "full custom" to mean the same thing it means in the industry. We don't? Please elaborate. (I'm serious, I'm not being snarky. If we/I am using it incorrectly, then I would like to use the proper term.) Standard-cell ASICs and synthesis-flow ASICs are not considered full-custom chips. The phrase "full y custom" is a BFL-ism that sounds a lot like "truthiness" In fact the third google hit for "fully custom asic" on the entire interweb is BFL which ought to be a hint that it is a contortion of the usual industry terminology... Emphasis mine. (Google "Fully Custom ASIC". 14k results, most of them not BFL. The ones that are BFL? Someone else wrote it. ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83985.0)) Eh? Are you trying to tell us that "Fully Custom ASIC" is the correct term? I think this calls for... http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=%22Full+Custom%22+ASIC&word2=%22Fully+Custom%22+ASIC |
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