Rest of the miners showed up today (well, yesterday now....) and we put up another 100Th/s with another 40Th/s to go tomorrow.

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Slow hardware=less heat

Powerful hardware=more heat

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I can login to bitfunder just fine. I just asked several others who could as well.
US users are blocked from trading on BitFunder and BitFunder will continue to try it's best to make sure US users can not trade on BitFunder.
WeExchange verification requests are still being looked at if and when there is time not being spent towards other important problems such as getting users their bitcoins.
This is a very serious problem that needs to be addressed and resolved fully as soon as possible.

Thank you for your understanding in this.

That is correct. the average difficulty for September was 104,550,780 while this months average difficulty is going to be over 216,654,943 which is OVER a 100% increase.

Seems that money printing devices have seen somewhere around $100m in investment come in the form of 100% pre-orders and that investment has made the difficulty jump 30% more or less each diff period.

These are the risks along with manufacturer delay and BTC price.

I'm getting •This is not a valid Bitcoin address. Please install Bitcoin client or register some web wallet to get one. message. I didn't change anything and double checked the address as well. Also tried changing the address but it won't take it either.

anyone else having issues today?

09/25/2012    9252    N    0    2    0    0    -    burger

Upgrades have been disabled until more equipment arrives. I will email Gigaminers when it is open again.

Best,
James

TERAMINING upgrades are 0.25BTC for 135mh/s, chips that produce twice this hashrate are selling for 1/5th of this price. I know they aren't assembled and ready to start hashing, but this price is too much. After all the reasons for doing things by the law, this is one thing that isn't law and giga can redeem himself with by giving something back to the investors who have put so much in

To answer everyone's questions.
I would not take all the profit if we end up getting back more then 100% (I highly doubt it).
I would take the 5% originally agreed to.
I am not looking to hold ASICMINER for a longer period of time, I am looking to sell them once I think the time is right.
What are you guys attitude towards selling the shares?
Would you like to see a sale, if so how many of the shares and at what price?
As for the GIGAMINING claim, I have talked to James and I am looking to submit the claim sometime next week.
//DeaDTerra

I am using Windows XP SP3.

H:\Bitcoin>dir
 Volume in drive Q is BITCOIN
 Volume Serial Number is XXXX-XXXX

 Directory of Q:\Bitcoin

2013-02-21  09:31 AM    <DIR>          .
2013-02-21  09:31 AM    <DIR>          ..
2012-09-18  10:19 AM                 0 .lock
2012-09-18  13:57 PM         3,850,240 addr.dat
2012-09-27  12:05 PM           131,072 backup.dat
2012-09-18  13:25 PM     2,097,384,811 blk0001.dat
2013-01-04  10:34 AM     2,097,346,788 blk0002.dat
2013-02-20  22:13 PM     1,561,011,203 blk0003.dat
2013-02-20  22:18 PM     1,809,104,896 blkindex.dat
2013-02-20  22:28 PM    <DIR>          blocks
2013-02-21  09:22 AM    <DIR>          chainstate
2013-02-20  22:18 PM    <DIR>          database
2012-09-24  08:41 AM                 0 db.log
2013-02-21  08:31 AM           564,356 debug.log
2013-02-21  09:31 AM           956,384 peers.dat
2013-02-21  09:18 AM           172,032 wallet.dat

What can I safely delete? I highlighted in bold and color what I think can be deleted. Can someone confirm this?

Win64 version!

I have processed all payments,
If you haven't received yours please send me a message and I will investigate further.
//DeaDTerra

Is there a way I can find out what Bitcoin address I used to register the claim?

Hi bixcoin,

If you feel that Quentin is ignoring you, then please email me directly and I will contact him today to make sure he gets you an answer.

james at gigamining dot com

I have not refused to pay anyone who has taken the time to follow the claims process. Payments are again being made on Monday's to those who have done so. I have/am fulfilling my obligations while making sure Gigamining is around to continue to do so.

Best,
James

Update

All confirmations including GLBSE-only ones (who haven't claimed to us) have been sent. For shareholders who haven't received any, please check your spam folder, and report to us if you still couldn't find them.

Considering the yield rate (including chips themselves, assembling, and other uncertainties) and the overclocking opportunity we are looking at over 10TH/s and under 12TH/s for the whole first batch and sixfold for the second.

We have to make clear that that we have said was that our fab considers <1/3 failed rate as OK and they won't take responsibility, which is their bottom line. The reality is that our yield rate also >95%. The whole number of chips were less than what we expected was caused by the MLM typed process used for making our masks utilizes less area than a full mask.

1. No surprising things has come up. The real hold up is that we are meeting the delay of the assembly service which is an automated process which is practically hard to "push".
2. Because we have made many adjustments on the heat solution during the last few weeks and negated many as improper ones for bulk-ordering. They are done in parallel with the first the (mass) packaging of chips and then the (mass) production of pcbs so this was not the part that wasted time.
3. Yes. But we ordered them after the physical tests are done.

The current status is that in estimation we will be delayed by about 2 weeks in total compared to what we projected when the chips arrive. That is early Feb, before the CNY vacation comes. The next "real" milestone worth announcing is that we start hashing in our workshop, but before that we will also keep you updated.

No, not ready yet. Whenever they are ready we couldn't wait till a "regular" update time to announce it...

We are sorry to shareholders that we are now >2-month delayed against the original plan. (Late Dec. against Late Oct. to get the chips, plus 4-5 weeks against 2-3 weeks to fully deploy). The status are resulted in by a mix of our optimistic projection, our conservative action and our un-developed relation in the electric manufacturing field. Thanks again for all shareholders' patience and we will keep the track of deploying, and improve our timeline with the lessons of this time in our later products.