Yeah, I live in Helsinki. I'll wait still a bit and see how this goes..  And thanks for the offer, I could see first if I can do it myself, and if not, I'm going to contact you then!:)

Do you live in Helsinki or close by? In Helsinki (or you can just order online) there's at least this shop for electronics that I know of: http://www.partco.biz/verkkokauppa/index.php?language=en .

As soon as someone finds a way to replace the pencil mod with resistor or something (and/or when wolfey2014 reveals the new, better mod), I think I'll try to mod one of my gridseeds as well (and then the rest if I don't brick that one..

That's what I actually ended up doing- I unplugged the fans and now i'm in process (as in the PSU in in my bag right now) of replacing the included loud PSUs (they're almost as loud as all the 10 units! And they make the room smell like something you're not supposed to be inhaling too much:) with a better, quiter and meant to be in a room you're living in -type.

I just had to come to make a small update; i've had all the miners running now for about 10+ hours (3,6MH/s, 850mhz) without any problems or crashing with raspian wheezy & cgminer. So yeah, although it took time to get the miners, I really think to include raspberry pi instead of the controller is a brilliant idea!

They do make a lot of noise I think- now if only there was a way to adjust the fans programmatically..

I agree- yesterday finally got my units that I ordered on 24.2 and can also say they're not a scam BUT the company seems to be run by only one guy, and he has too much to do. The (too) long delivery time (almost a month) is too much, and on top of that, there's no communication/support on this forum from the company after 25.2, even though user "HASHRA" visits here almost every day if you look at the profile. The other user, StevenJ, who also claimed to be working for hashra hasn't visited the forum since creating and "filling" his profile , there's no updates on facebook and twitter is in some kind of auto-spam-SEO-mode, so I don't know, there are lot of these small uncomfortable strange things going on here.. but speaking of SEO, they've managed that well, since their site is top result on the important keywords..

It would really help if someone from the company would be here to provide support, answer questions about delays etc. Seems every other company even with fake products does that, so I can't understand how they're not.. The phone number on their website doesn't work either, and to reach Simon you have to send multiple emails and wait. Although when he does answer, the communication is professional and he does answer the questions, so as long as you can just wait few days, everything is basically ok, but since we're talking about $2000+ devices here, I would expect faster responses and more transparency.

Also I wasn't first sure what to say about the Raspberry pi.. I mean, I did order the controller, but on the same time I was thinking of buying raspi anyway.. But now when they're running (and they do work, which is a relief), I am happy I got raspi in the box (and hashra promised to send me the wiibox and their own software anyway, so no problems there..)- so yeah, I guess this was a right choice from them. As a bonus, the Rasberry Pi is red, not green.

Also I have to give them credit for the new support page and instructions.

So all in all, even though I got the miners - because of the delays (I did lose a lot of mining time==money because of all this), poor communication (nothing here on bitcointalk, days delay by email, no phone), and the strange feeling about fake posters and "ghost" profiles (if you read this thread you'll understand what I mean), random waiting stuff etc uncertainty (when I order stuff, I shouldn't feel so great relief after I got what I actually ordered and paid for), I can't really recommend them at this point. But I do sincerely hope they'll improve, for all I know it could be just a rough start and some bad decisions for a very new company..

I send a private message to both users "StevenJ" and "HASHRA" asking them to reply to this thread, hopefully we'll get some updates from either of them soon..

also, there's this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=416672.40 where people are more or less on the same situation...

Yeah, but the sad thing is that that doesn't yet mean anything, I could have sent the number to them by myself, and it would show up there, since it just means they have the number, not the package.. So until it says "package picked up" with a time, there's really nothing to confirm yet about actual shipment..

ok I take back what I wrote previously.. I googled a bit more about "Shipment information received" in DHLs system, and this simply means the seller (hashra) has sent them the waybill number, which is the one we've got in the mail. This DOES NOT mean the package is actually shipping anywhere, it's likely not even picked up yet..

just a quick update, my tracking number is found on dhl system now, it just says "Shipment information received", but after all this waiting I'm really happy things are moving..

I just realized that the problem why this waiting has/is been so long is that it takes a week between any kind of update: hashra received my payment 28.2, status changed to Awaiting Shipment on 5.3, and today finally on 12.3 I can see that there's a package in DHLs system.. During this time I've seen group buys that have been cheaper than this, and of course many people who ordered from asiabtc (& others) on the same time have already got theirs (and running these on rasperry Pi's, which wasn't either possible on 24.2), and for some reason at this time the mining profits on many scypt coins are down (just as example on 24.2 clevermining.com had 0.01 BTC/day per MH/s, currently it's 0.00651) , Mt. Gox went bankcrupt and Satoshi Nakamoto was found, until we found out he's Dorian Nakamoto, and actually not found.. I guess I'm just saying that 3 weeks+ really is a _long_ time to wait miners, something I didn't worry about too much when ordering

Actually, status of my order also changed to "shipping" and I received the tracking code just after I had posted my last message here.. I was thinking it's a bit funny that the email went unanswered, but as soon as I post here, the product is all of a sudden shipping..


Can I ask if your tracking code is working already? Mine is not found yet from DHL:s site.. Propably it's not yet in the system or something, but I was just wondering...

Hmm.. I was told that estimated shipping date was on friday, but so far haven't heard anything. I also sent an email to ask about the tracking code today, but haven't heard back yet and the website still just says "awaiting shipment". Let's see how this goes, hopefully my units are shipping then today as well..

If this is of any help, I ordered on 24.2 and received a confirmation that they'll ship my order between 6.3-13.3 - I asked about the one week delay between payment and shipment, but didn't yet receive any reply.. But they do state this on their website as well (that delivery time is from 3 to 14 days after payment (http://hashra.com/shipping/)).. I was also told they'll contact me when closer to the shipping date, so far haven't heard anything, but there's still time..

thanks, and sorry to hear about the PSU! I just ordered mine (10pcs) from hashra, so let's see how this goes, I'll post here as soon as I get them and keep you updated how reliable they work.. I paid with bank transfer, so might have to wait for some time..

I've been following these gridseed asics since they were announced last month, and been a bit unsure where to order- I was going to go with asiabtc (especially after that firmware upgrade thing), but seems he has too much to do with the current orders so that and now these bugs made me change my mind (well and price in eur is a bit cheaper as well:)..

There's discussion (& screenshots) on LightningAsic -thread about their controller being able to be upgraded to hash at 500kh/s per unit in stead of the 300kh/s per unit. Can these be upgraded on similar way, or is it just the LightningAsics with custom firmware..?

I'm interested!

I'd like to reserve 10 of the 5-chip Gridseeds please.

There was doubt about the CE markings & shipping to Europe in the thread- I'm also based in Europe and was wondering if UPS/DHL would be safer delivery method then? seems it costs much more though compared to regular mail.. so would you think there is any possibility of getting those markings on these, or will there be CE markings on next batch?

And just one more question - is the software windows only, or are linux/os x supported as well?