If this contains a virtual device inside the card, we can "hack" it and add Bitcoin, piggy backing on a Mastercard. If the manufacturing fuse is blown then the software becomes read-only. It cannot then be reprogrammed. There already are credit card sized devices with LCD and buttons. What do you mean "Virtual"? Probably confused virtual with digital. There is always a way... and it usually something a 12 yr old can figure out. |
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Aren't you forgetting that the BFL SC and bASIC are going to need a PC of some sort, which is going to add at least another 100 watts?
The avalon is a complete standalone unit.
No, I didn't forget that. The blog post does state my assumptions most clearly. I didn't know that Avalon was stand alone - and that will make a difference. Thanks for letting me know. Do you have a link to confirm this? It's always been advertised as such http://store.avalon-asic.com/http://forum.bitsyn.com/viewtopic.php?id=5Avalon self-contained unit >= 60GH/s guaranteed.
pre-order price: $1,299.
note: host PC NOT required. LAN/WIFI connection required. |
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I am not in the habit of giving six plus month loans interest free.
Anyway... I was not the first to gpu mine and i still did just fine. Asic will be no different.
It was a serious question though. Many did calcs based on getting in on 50 btc reward time frame which is quickly slipping away. Now it seems we have 25 block reward and price that is flat for future asic miners. Getting hardware first is becoming uber critcal for quick roi. If all ship in same time frame you essentially swapped gpu for asic with no quick roi as diff will adjust oh so fast instead of slower ramp up due to just bfl hardware coming first.
Tons of people preorder MMO's and video games all the time way before release date, so it's not unheard of for that to happen. As for RoI, anyone that calculated RoI and assumed the 50 BTC rewards for anything more than 1 difficulty level is an idjit. All my RoI calculations were done assuming 25x to 50x difficulty increase/reward drop calculations. When you preorder a video game or pretty much anything they don't charge you until it ships.They may charge a initial deposit of a couple dollars are most. |
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Yep, as above if you don't specify scrypt in the command line or the .conf it'll just be rejected blocks/shares.
Your hash rate should be very very low too. If you are seeing more than 1 mhash or 1000khash it's wrong, unless you have serious power. 10gh on btc is only 10mh on litecoin.
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Sorry to see you go, I loved this pool in the beginning.
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Aren't you forgetting that the BFL SC and bASIC are going to need a PC of some sort, which is going to add at least another 100 watts?
The avalon is a complete standalone unit.
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That's mostly my fault. I had to drop because of the storm and other issues. I'm the only regular big time miner so I'm sure the pool is suffering when it can't get enough work. I'm sorry, I'll return when I can.
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Do these ship from china?
Yes |
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I'm running Win7 64bit with 12gb of RAM and a 3 core 3.0ghz processor and P2Pool is always losing connection to bitcoind. What can I do to keep bitcoin running properly?
Open task manager and drop bitcoin priority to below normal. |
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If panic, panic first.
What if shipment is delayed to Jan 1013? Feb? March? And many, many people want refunds. Will BFL be able do this? My bet is: No. They don't have that amount of money left ...
Their official policy is pretty clear: Payments made for pre-orders of ASIC based products now under development should be considered non-refundable.
So far, few people have been requesting refunds. That's going to change as more and more delays happen. Well given OP's avatar we all know he's a plant  |
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yey just 2 blocks in 1 minute wtf? shut the hell up p2pminers are unionized, if they hear you talking about luck they'll take the week off. |
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Heh.. if you say so!
well hurry up and build a working asic so we will all know already. Stop farking off in the forums and start soldering or cursing at someone in mandarin  |
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That would not be true. EMC, BTCguild, Slush and Eligius are all ready and waiting for ASIC.
No one knows if they are ready because no one has a working asic to test. The BFL singles had issues with pools and clients when they first came out. They still don't work well with p2pool because of how the bitstream works. Asic are basically just hardcoded fpga, but faster. No one really knows yet exactly what hiccups there will be, but I think for the first few weeks after they hit it's going to be very interesting and very bumpy. The majority of the asics save the japalepeno? are going to be multithreaded or appear as a multi gpu/asic device, so each device is going to request several works at once and return several at once, hundreds or thousands of times faster than now. Even with stratum and nrolltime allowing the miner to save requesting and generate it's own work, they have to go back up to a pool and get confirmed. It's going to be interesting |
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The sad thing is, BFL's eggs are all in one basket. They are counting in just in time manufacturing. One hiccup, one parts vendor shortage or significant delay or a chip respin because it was rushed and they are SOL.
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How are you controlling your clocks? Flash modding or afterburner or cgminer or ?
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Why would the pools disappear?
If someone mines with a single gpu now and has 1/10000th of the total networkspeed and gets a asic and still has a 1/10000th of the total networkspeed, it's still a good idea to use a pool.
All the major pools now won't support an ASIC. There has to be major changes for them to support ASIC. Especially at the beginning when ASIC are returning easy work extremely fast. Even with stratum there's going to be major bandwidth problems in the beginning. |
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Open up gpuz and look at all the gpu temps on the sensor tab. Not just the "main" one. I'll bet you have a hot spot on part of the core somewhere where the thermal paste is migrating. I've had mine report the temp at 55 and had a hot spot that was 87 .
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I have a feeling this weekend is going to be a nightmare.
Do we really have to go through this every month end? People sell to pay bills. It's like fucking bitcoin PMS. If you are smart you buy now and sell around the 12th. |
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Heh, your single digit prediction might just come true
I think there's a really good chance of it. It all depends on what happens in the next few weeks, I think. And, really, it turns on whether there's a strong move up. If there isn't soon, then I think the weight of this weekly crossover will depress the price for several months. The wild card is the reward change, but I'm of the opinion that if anything it will negatively affect price.QFT. Especially when all these new asic miners, who now get half of what people are used to, want a ROI of their hardware. They spent millions of dollars.. and do we really think they are all going to horde btc? Nope. They want their USD back ASAP. Then maybe they will horde btc again. If I spent 5K on asic hardware.. i know I would want my USD back. At that point it is not a hobby but a business. the asics were bought with hoarded bitcoins. I bought my asics with coins I mined 2 years ago before the first boom. I still have plenty left and I plan to sit on them, if I sold them 2 years ago i could've bought a pizza, now I can buy a house. Most people are aware of that, so unless something bad happens that causes everyone to drop their positions and stop hoarding, the market is going to be tight. |
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