Construction update from GW:

Pangborn update: 18 April 2018 - Last week PUD approved the plans and equipment setup for mobile temporary substation. It is moving this week along with switch gear to our Pangborn site. During this week the concrete pads have been formed and curing for all the components. PUD has connected the 115KV main line to our private line. We are waiting for the drilling company to go deeper than 200 feet for grounding well to hit the water table. We have to meet the IEEE standard for the grounding grid. The soil testing will be done every 50 feet after 200 feet drilled till we get the needed resistance level up to PUD requirement. Also we are working on delivering the H-frame to get the power line transitioned to substation transformer to power up pods. More updates to comesoon. We will keep you all informed.

Giga-Watt said many times that listing was not the important thing they needed these days, and they better focused on accelerating building facilities.

check the below one. I used it when Bitmain just started producing A3 for comparison, and it was quote good, as i remember.

http://sialytics.com/

Maybe in a year or so 

In fact they also loose - they paid $1M to a big investor under a lawsuite, returning him his funds invested. Also they issued 10% more tokens at their expence to the holders of the last tokens batch.  But indeed, the biggest loosers are clients.

they have big delays with deployment, but you can ask them to send your miners to any address - to your home for example. They did not steal your miners,  and are not  real scammers, they just don't keep deployment promises 

The device looks fantastic, and I don't understand why there is no independent reviews on it yet.    I would be glad to purchase it, but i am also caucious.

I would suggest the producer to distribute a few devices for the testing purposes to independent people.   


Recent pictures i found on this device:

One could survive with D3 with only cheap electricity. Btw Bitmain is going to build huge mining farms in US, in a state with cheap electricity.   "Bitmain, Chinese cryptocurrency mining company, has been given a green light to set up a blockchain facility in Western Walla Walla County, a county in the U.S. state of Washington"  :

http://www.union-bulletin.com/news/business/scaled-back-blockchain-lease-ok-d/article_2730cdfe-3f49-11e8-b2f8-efafbae1a292.html

The dangerous Giga-watt rival appears in the Washington state 

Bitmain, Chinese cryptocurrency mining company, has been given a green light to set up a blockchain facility in Western Walla Walla County, a county in the U.S. state of Washington.

https://www.ccn.com/chinas-bitmain-gets-approval-for-us-bitcoin-mining-operation/

311 USD now    If you add $105 PSU, plus shipping cost, you woud end with above $600.  With current earnings of $20 per month one would need 3 years(!) to return the investment.   

I don't really see big drawbacks with this delisting. Sure, this is discouraging for those who was hoping to earn money on the token's price increase. But it turned out to be not a speculative coin, but just a pure utility one. 

Got email from PandaMiner claiming they outperform E3  
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Dear miners:

Now PandaMiner have made the price adjustment, the cost exceed the ASIC E3. According to the comparison:



One more point, we support delivery in 7 working days, while E3 requires 3 month. Miners can gain a lot of mining profits during 3 month.

Price: $2508 per unit(PSU and shipping cost included)
Model：PandaMiner B3 Pro
GPU: AMD RX 470*8 cards
Delivery: 7 working days
Limited amount: 1000 units

Bitmain Pushes Ethereum ASIC Release to July, Citing Disappointing Performance

Bitmain's new ASIC for Ethereum will only be released after July due to some initial problems with the chip's performance that the company hopes to address before shipping it to customers.

Industry sources also note that the chip is being manufactured using the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s 28-nanometer architecture.

This may explain why the Antminer E3 barely has a higher mining efficiency than a Radeon Rx 480 graphics card rig.  To help clarify what we mean, the Antminer E3 is advertised at 180 megahashes per second with an 800-watt nominal power consumption.   In contrast, a rig with six Radeon Rx 480 cards will produce 150 megahashes per second with a 900-watt nominal power consumption, and it’s hardly the most efficient GPU out there.

Tech investor Tim Draper predicts bitcoin will reach $250,000 by 2022

Venture capitalist Tim Draper predicts bitcoin will multiply by 30 times within four years.  He made the forecast Thursday evening at his "Draper Block(chain) party" in California.

"It sounds crazy," Brian Kelly, founder and CEO of BKCM, an investment firm focused in digital currencies, told CNBC. "But think about it this way: that's 4 years from now. That's a 3,000 percent return from here. But over the last two years bitcoin has had a 4,000 percent return. It would be a continuation of that trend."

Did you manage to find an alternative hosting facility? 

As to delays - it's really extremely difficult to pass all these inspection approvals, like described in recent building update below:

Pangborn Update:  10 April 2018 - As the weather gets nicer so does our progress on construction.  We have 2 more pods that are ready for racks and equipment to begin placement, while our deployment team has finished yet another pod. 
While the project is nearing completion we have been dealt one more set back.  The PUD has required a special control cabinet for their side of the operation.  The cabinet requested is very meticulously put together and it has to be made to the exact specifications that the PUD has requested.
While we are waiting on the last pieces to arrive for our substation we are doing everything that we can to get power faster.  We have contracted a solution to bring in a mobile substation to provide  temporary power until the permanent substation is completed and powered. To make way for the mobile substation and our permanent one we need to make an H-frame to get the main power line down to the ground and have a metering cabinet installed by PUD.  If this is a viable option and is approved by the PUD we will have power to Pangborn in 2-3 weeks, we are doing our best to bring it to life as soon as we can, considering PUD time lines and approvals.  When we started we could not foresee these estimated difficulties and standards that were going to be needed by the PUD.  While these standards are very detailed and time consuming to conform to there has been a moratorium for cryptocurrency mining in neighboring counties  and it is pushing the Douglas County PUD to get a fast spin on the project.
Giga-Watt continues to show resolve and push forward in all phases to get deployment completed and all equipment online.

Giga-watt token is listed on a few exchanges:

https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/giga-watt-token/trading_exchanges#panel

I am quite satisfied with EtherDelta, thought it is not too simple.

Another Washington County Puts Freeze on Bitcoin Mining

Officials in yet another county in the U.S. state of Washington have placed a moratorium on new crypto mining operations.

Announced Wednesday, Mason County's Public Utility District (PUD) commissioners decided to implement the freeze in order to consider the effect mining operations have on the local power grid, the group said in a statement.
The moratorium encompasses "computer or data processing loads related to virtual or cryptocurrency mining, bitcoin, blockchain or similar purposes." Applications that have already been approved are not subject to the freeze, officials stressed.

Washington's Chelan County passed a similar moratorium earlier this year, as did a city in the state of New York. In both of these areas, crypto miners like to take advantage of the cool natural climate and inexpensive electricity to fuel mining operations.

https://www.coindesk.com/another-washington-county-puts-freeze-bitcoin-mining/

Are your 10 S9s still not deployed?

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 - info from Giga-Watt about changing tariff for non-wtt holders :

New tariff plans for non wtt holders (Effective from 15 April 2018)

It has been a long journey of building out the infrastructure to support tens of thousands of miners and we are not done yet! Our expansion allows us to solidify our existing services and offer value service that remains unrivaled. If you have been following the news then you would agree, that securing cheap electric as a mining farm/company isn’t easy. This creates for higher demand for electricity in the mining world thus bringing further value to Giga-Watt facilities existing electrical service contracts. As we continue to expand so does our appreciation for our token holders. In order to share our success with our token holders, we are implementing new hosting tariffs with a 20% increase for Non-WTT miners, renting increase that passes on to WTT token holders. The breakdown of increases is as follows:

Up to 9 miners – 11.70 cents per Kw/h
10-49 miners – 10.80 cents per Kw/h
50-99 miners – 9.90 cents per Kw/h
100+ miners – 9 cents per Kw/h
We hope that this step shows our dedication to our token holders and further identifies the value of using tokens for the duration of hosting your miners with us. Thank you and we hope to always serve you better.

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% increase for Non-WTT miners, renting increase that passes on to WTT token holders  - very good!