If implemented, this intent could be easily defeated by an external BTC derivatives market which would undoubtedly form.

I can login put performance has been like shit lately. It is very difficult to complete a transaction. I hope kangasbros upgrades his servers to cope with the increased demand.

Can I still run 2 November Jupiters on a single 120V 15A circuit? I recently had an electrician install additional circuits in my basement and after all the mining equipment was intstalled I ended up with one spare 15A circuit, which was why I ordered 2 November Jupiters based on the 600W power consumption of the earlier version. My load center is now maxed out and I can't add any more circuits.

Just list the minning staff on eBay as box of funs and PayPal will be OK with that.

Regarding the apparent delivery to wrong destinations based on tracking numbers, keep in mind that USPS tracking numbers get recycled - sometimes too quickly. You may not be looking at the tracking information for your particular shipment.

Got my October kit yesterday and I'm happy to find out that it fits the Spotswood v2 case perfectly. The auto-IP configuration script worked flawlessly too.



With just fans and no heatsinks it only hashed  at 400-450 GH/s due to the H-cards frequently shutting down. With a single goxed-style copper heatsink behind the regulator the nonce rate went up to 525 GH/s. There is still plenty of shutting down of the H-cards going on, and I would probably need to add more heatsinks when I find the time.

IMHO these Oct H-cards come a little to hot from the factory for the average mining enthusiast. Fortunately you have the option of turning the voltage down.

The picture below shows it sitting on top of an August kit.

They just need to find a sleazeball like Don LaPre to show people "how I mined $50,000 a week from my one-bedroom apartment".

I don't know about that ... sticking on $400 worth of tiny heatsinks per rig was a pretty stressful and time consuming experience for me. I wish somebody would make custom heatsinks for these.

Aren't these new H-cards supposed to have trim pots that would allow you to reduce the voltage output of the regulator? The voltage preset at the factory may just be a little too high for your operating environment. This symptom was common with the August H-cards if you "over pencil mod" them. I have yet to receive my Oct kits, but if this were to happen to mine I would try reducing the voltage a little on those cards that were shutting down.

If you don't look too closely at the hardware, you'd think it was early 2011 all over again.

I hope they are not going by pay date, because I have an order #41x that remained unpaid for a long time while waiting for CC to start working again (which of course never happened).

If they were lost after you arrived in the US, it is possible the TSA might have randomly searched the luggage and taken the chips because they couldn't figure out what they were. Usually they leave a notice in the suitcase when they do this kind of thing, but not always.

That's like saying saving $2/week will never add up to anything so you might as well spend the money on the NY Lotto.

You want to be safe or accurate? One the one hand you do want to avoid making a foolish investment, but on the other hand you don't want to be too conservative in your calculations that you end up never buying a miner even when doing so could have made you a profit.

Why buy from eBay? They are available for 4 BTC now direct from the Avalon Store which includes DHL shipping from China. Buying from eBay would save you at most a couple of days.

Are these still in production?

Very. I've put copper heatsinks behind the regulators - not directly because that space is blocked by other components. The heastsinks do get burning hot.

Yeah, a lot of the ckolivas firmware options that worked so well on B1 and B2 Avalons don't seem to work on the new Avalon Mini I just got.

Kind of disappointing, because I didn't buy the Mini to "ROI". I wanted to run it quietly under-clocked with a low fan setting in the corner of my office and use it as a conversation piece. Even at 256 MHz the fan is a little too loud and it seems like you can no longer directly control the fan speed with cgminer (at least not down to the low levels that I want). In the end, I decided to just unplug it.

I am not sure if the version of the M-board matters. A month ago my RPi lost its GPIO functionality when I powered down a v1 M-board. I wonder if putting a decoupling capacitor between the GPIO power pin and ground would help?

The Tea Party has changed a lot since the early days. Initially it was just about fiscal responsibility. Now it stands for a whole bunch of right wing crap and has lost much of its original focus. I am embarrassed to admit to having supported it back then.