I actually have a B350-BTC where I'm fairly certain I'm having the same riser issues as you.  Curious where you got your batch of V006 risers from, and where you ordered the working replacements.

I have a new set on the way of 006C's as well to try, but wouldn't mind stocking some known working spares to have on the way just in case.

Quick update on the above post: Looks like I may have a bad batch of risers, as they are exceedingly unreliable.  I've ordered another set, and will update this thread with results when they arrive.

I just got one of these TB350-BTC boards going last night (thanks deepinthemines!).  Unfortunately I'm having quite a lot of problems getting it to recognize any GPUs that use the standard V006 USB 3.0 risers.

I'm running ubuntu 14.04, and have 4x GTX 1060's, as well as 2x RX580 for testing - neither GPU types show up at all in lspci within linux.  As far as I can tell, the motherboard is not detecting anything in those slots at all.  I can't imagine all 6 risers/cables are bad, so I'm at a bit of an immediate loss.

I've not had much time to do much more debugging than cable swaps/reseating/single card testing/etc.  A straight unpowered ribbon-cable 1x -> 16x riser works fine, just can't get the USB risers to work whatsoever.

Figured I'd post here to start a discussion if others are seeing this at all - otherwise I'll report any progress (or lack thereof) here if others are interested.  Any suggestions appreciated!

I was also using this machine as a means to mess around with Ryzen as well in a server setting, so it wasn't meant to be the most cost effective.  One thing to note with this (and any AM4 board) is that there is no iGPU available on any current CPUs, so you will need to use the card in the 16x slot.  Not a big deal for most, but if you are planning on putting these in rackmount chassis and co-locating the lack of an external video connector may be problematic.  Also problematic when your risers don't work at all

You can do this too, just set your computer's clock to whatever date you like.

Try and test it

This is *all* datacenters care about.  Power is king.

That said, server PSUs generally are 80%+, and are also much better constructed in general

Subscriptions are a big one.  But I think in a surprising sense the industry is moving away from sites reliant on subscriptions (e.g. people forgetting about it) and you are starting to see stuff that is actually worth ponying up for (at least in comparison to older model sites).

The biggest factor though, from my limited experience would be the impulse purchase factor.  If buying a soda in line to check out at the big box store is impulse, then porn is hyper-impulse.  There is generally little to no planning going into "I'm going to go spend some time on a porn site right now", so you need to have as frictionless of a transaction as possible.

Bitcoin just doesn't reach the ease of use of credit cards yet.  I think it can, but right now if $random_40_year_old wanted some bitcoins NOW so he could check out some adult site he found, how does he get them easily and quickly?  The answer is you don't.

Once you *have* bitcoins, there are tons of services that will imo be game changing in the porn markets if btc ever becomes big enough.  Bitcoin allows truly viable microtransactions ($1-5) so paying an anonymous dollar to upgrade that video playing on pornhub to HD starts becoming an entirely new model people can exploit.  Right now other sites have kind of paid lip service to these things, but they all require pre-existing accounts, registration, fraud control, etc.

Basically it needs to be as easy as going to a site, entering your credit card or paypal info, and having bitcoins 10 minutes later you can spend.  Until then, or until massive bitcoin adoption, the mass adult market might be a tough one.  Certainly solvable problems, but regulation will be the gating factor imo.

Also if adoption or ease of use starts to become viable, you are going to see all the marginal shitbox (and some downright criminal fraud) sites love bitcoin because they won't have to worry about chargebacks.  If those types are allowed to go amuck and ruin the idea of paying for porn with bitcoin ("I paid .5btc and all I got was this shitty members area from 1998"), you might see a harder road to adoption until a big industry player starts using it with a successful implementation.

So yes, I think it could be revolutionary for adult site operators.  Zero chargeback risk, very low cost for transactions, but probably won't replace credit cards for the traditional subscription based services.  Webcam studios probably are already looking into it pretty hard, as it solves tons of issues there - it's simply a matter of how many of their customer based (whales especially) even know about it.  Then you can go the PPV model or anything else you can think up

For all those that state their "bank manager doesn't care" or "loves them" etc...  Watch out.

I've been peripherally involved with high-risk banking for quite some time now, and this is *always* the case.  A small time manager, VP level maybe, loves your business since it means great numbers and high margin for him.  He'll try to get more of it even.

Until his higher ups tell him to shut it down.  At that point, your bank manager who you thought was your best bud who had your back won't last an instant protecting you (he might push back once since he doesn't want to lose the numbers, but that will last a couple days at most).  Doesn't matter how he explains your business, how you've been a loyal customer on the up-and-up - you're gone either way and you have zero say in the matter.

And when they shut down accounts, they generally don't do it "nicely".  They'll make you fight for any dollars left in the account, and you'll be lucky to actually get any of it back.  Get a lawyer, and expect to be without those funds for up to a year.

So yes, if you run a bitcoin related business I highly suggest getting a completely unrelated account for those transactions at a completely unrelated bank in case the worst happens.

Remember - in the US when it comes to banking, you have almost zero rights.  The bank will be able to freeze assets at a whim, and you will need substantial legal services to retrieve any of those funds in some cases.  I've seen companies ruined over a bank deciding they no longer wanted to service a merchant account due to the high-risk (politically or financially), and freezing millions of dollars of assets long enough so the company could not make vendor payments.

Knew there would be some lurking fans

Those into "nerdcore" might enjoy this, and those who are not should as well

First rough attempt by a friend of mine, feedback appreciated!

http://soundcloud.com/ytcracker/ytcracker-bitcoin-baron-v1-ssl

Irrelevent.  If you're spending bitcoins for mining gear, the only thing that matters one iota is how many bitcoins you get back.  If you're betting on bitcoin rising in price to cover your investment, then simply buy bitcoins.  You'll have a better outcome should they go up in price.

Absolutely not.  The market ultimately sets the price of Bitcoin, miners simply supply it at the price the market will pay.  Should the market not pay enough to make mining profitable, then less people mine.  Eventually equilibrium should be established, but it is not miners calling the shots here.  If they are, we should all give up now as this bitcoin experiment is dead.  About the only thing miners collectively control is the network difficulty, which happens to follow price.  Higher price, more miners are viable, which means higher difficulty.  Lower price, marginal operations get shut down, and you have less difficulty.

Completely irrelevant if you're investing bitcoins in mining gear to get more bitcoins.  If you simply are betting on the price rising, buy bitcoins!  You'll get more, and have a better rate of return.

Ugh, looks like subscribe to thread doesn't actually notify me of anything

Anyways, great progress!

Has it been settled on Steamboat's heatsink design?  I only ask as I'd be one of those looking for a chassis solution (either will make my own, or piggyback off someone elses project) that I can rackmount, and knowing the dimensions beforehand lets me start building mockups.

I'm also looking for 6 extra chips (assuming none of mine are DOA) from anyone who happens to have a few extra.  I'll pay above the price paid + shipping, and I'm sure we can simply let rye know to swap 6 on his end when they arrive.

Do you plan on keeping this open?  Or will this be a one-time group buy?  Sorry if this was already answered.  I plan on picking up chips if available after they ship from auctions and the like, so I need to line up options to get them turned into miners if that scenario plays out.

K16 sounds fine to me.  Does anyone have 6 extra chips I can buy who would be getting their work done here?  I ordered back when the most complete design was based on 10 chip boards, so I'm not divisible by 16

The one thing wrong with this theory re: the map is that it would take an epic dumbass to try to hide a mining farm, while not buying a cheap VPS or dedicated server somewhere to run their public bitcoind node from.

I just can't see someone scamming at *that* level being so obvious, but I guess I've been surprised in the past.

If I were a troll with a lot of hash power, I'd have found someone located in their city to host a machine running bitcoind for me

Why would there be two lines?  Every day when the asic truck rolls up from the factory, wheel off your pallets of boards, send the number that people bought to packaging/shipping room, the rest go out to the datacenter floor.

(ASICMiner is currently expanding rapidly at the moment)

Pretty simple

Yeah, works fine for me.  I do use a /24 though, haven't tried any other length than that.

You have to request it be raised (with a max of $5k/day and $50k/30d iirc)

NP, the prices are pretty reasonable.  I'm definitely interested either way!  I'm toying with the idea of getting all my chips turned into K1's and reselling most of them, or keeping a bunch of K16 for personal use.

Any random atom-based netbook with a broken screen (you can use an external monitor on it since you don't care about mobility) is the cheapest thing you're going to find for "cheap little servers" for the house.

However, I run Linux on them - not sure how well windows runs with that low of horsepower.

Keep in mind that if you run bitcoind at all, you might need to spec something higher than the typical Atom netbook - bitcoind uses around 1-1.5GB of RAM these days, and I know my dedicated wallet machine can get sluggish due to that fact.

Interested in a bunch of K1's

Any possibility of a bulk discount for say qty 100+?

It's more important to have airflow against the chip side of the PCB, than the heatsink side I've found.

Heatsink I guess can radiate heat a lot better, the chips cannot.