The v3 I've got running your sticks randomly locks up from time to time... so not sure. It's intermittent... but I think my longest run was 4-5 days. Usually every 24 hours or so.

Interesting idea. My only initial thought is that the recycling places I've ever been to (3-4 over the years) are among the most low-tech businesses I've ever seen. Might be a bear just getting them into the tech required to be able to process payments.

Maybe the idea of going cashless though would be of interest to them, though.

Anyone got some ideas on what we could do to help move this coin along? Give it some utility? Host some more nodes? Rub its back?

Gotcha... thanks. Color me old school, but I setup a KVM switch at my little mini rig station.

I read this twice. I get what you're saying. I welcome you to the community as a manufacturer. As a well-respected businessperson myself, I get some of what you're saying. I suppose my only real critique is that this space is hyper-sensitive to getting screwed. So many horror stories about people getting outright jacked for their cash... I'd have thought a new entrant into the marketplace would want (at the bare minimum) to knock down some of THOSE fears right away. I get not wanting the world to beat down your doors, but I think that'd happen no matter what considering what you've developed and how rabid the demand is for it. Keeping people calm at night, not worrying about the money they've entrusted you with for months would seem like a baseline responsibility on your part.

But hey... everyone does this different. When they hit the market... I'm in.

Pardon my newbness for two secs... but by headless do you mean that you don't fully enclose them?

This just sparked an idea in my mind... the initial conversation about Halong having $30 Million in development funds is backed by zero data. Whomever those investors are, nobody knows. Maybe the investment never happened.

However... they started taking orders in November. They probably raised $10-$15M doing THAT, and gave themselves until April to figure it out. They're TRYING to make a miner, and have six months to pull it off using the pre-order money. Maybe seven months if they announce an unexpected problem, or "yield issue" with the wafers or some other such excuse. Maybe the pull it off, maybe they don't.

In the video, people swore they were looking at an S9. In the photos, people swear its an Innosilicon product. They used whatever was available to generate their buzz. Prototypes, they'll say. Keyword in SkyLakeMine's post above... "intention" -- they're scrambling to make it happen? Who knows.

The Sia community over on Reddit has basically split down the middle on whether or not to accept the A3, but because there's no major consensus NOT to... you'll be fine. The Sia dev team has come out and said that they're welcoming Bitmain to the ecosystem and will be "watching" them to make sure they're not a bad actor in the community. So until (or if ever) something bad happens, they won't be doing anything like that.

While it was a shock to them all that Bitmain has done this, the loose consensus is that it's a good thing in the longer-term.

Honestly, I'd never even heard of the coin until the A3 announcement...so if nothing else, Bitmain has brought a ton of attention and awareness.

They effectively killed that market before it shipped. Nobody is gonna want one of those, now. I'm not sure who wanted them before that... but now they don't want them for sure. Haha

I asked that a few pages back... seems kind of random. Someone else here suggested maybe its to f--k with the team behind Sia, who is also making miners? Seems petty to spend so much money on miners just to funk with a competitor... but with only ONE coin to mine on this machine, who knows? At least with D3's one could play an Altcoin game and mine a few other random things with it. This is literally a brick once profitability dies, and you don't even get to play with anything else. Just seems weird.

Oh well... they still make $10M selling them.

This is exciting news. Congrats! I’m anxious to play. Just bought a small KVM switch for my few Raspberry Pi toys in anticipation of this one joining my family of two already. Fun times.

No kidding! I was gonna say the same thing.

It’s been said they had $30 Million to develop the product, but no clue how accurate that may be nor if any was left to mfg or not. It’s all hazy until they shine some more light, frankly.

Hey here's a thought... why would Bitmain choose this particular coin or algo to make a new machine for? Seems like there's several other algo's that have multiple coins they could have gone after.

Odd.

LOL

They're already selling on eBay for $5-10k

What a cluster... this difficulty is gonna go through the roof and its the only coin you can apparently mine on this machine right now. And eBay is already off the charts.

Wow.

Hey... nice noobys. Sorry... had to.

It does seem counter-intuitive to that. I think any hardware manufacturer's first order of business is to sell a shit load of hardware, and this helped them probably raise up the cash needed to do this first mfg. run, I'm guessing. Maybe future runs won't require such a high MOQ.

Thanks!

Using the advice on this thread I upped the voltage on a few that were giving more HW errors than the rest and seemed to not only improve my overall hash rate, but also the stability. The two I've got left have darkened backs that look like someone "cooked" em by overclocking and/or not cooling them enough. They got pushed to their limits and likely aren't stable any longer. I got ALL of these on eBay from various sellers and who knows what abuse they took before they got sold off.

I'm wondering how many more I can push on this Eyeboot.

I'm down for 2-3 of these around $100-$110 when they're ready. Maybe 4 so I can gift one to a newbie and help spread interest in the cause.