My Vega 56 does 47 MH/s on eth...thats a little over 50 bucks a month. Even at 2200 on cryptonight it does not come close to that, so not sure why people would mine that over eth.

Two 570's still does more in eth and costs less than a single vega. The only argument for Vega at this point is its slightly better Perf/watt, since even two rigs of 570s will cost less and produce more than a rig of vegas.

Take a screenshot please, what Windows version are you running?

yes

I’m not, the two batches were done because initial demand was really high, I have now caught up and making them based on monthly demand to keep retailers stocked. They are in stock at all distributors.

Yep, and its actually the nano PCB AMD never used on this thing. Made a post about it on reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/88jypl/confirmed_sapphire_vega_pulse_is_vega_nano/

FYI Got back into doing some GPU tinkering, picked up the Saphire Vega 56 pulse...this is a neat little card. I have it at 47 MH stable on eth right now.

 

Today I have a special announcement. Thank you for everyone that bought a Moonlander 2, I am finally enabling ASICBOOST for everyone! Simply add "--enable_boost 1" at the end of the Moonlander config file, and your hashrate will double!

Sorry for not sharing this sooner, but we had to secretly mine double the speed to recoup all our dev costs 

Why do you have to ruin the fun so early...I was hoping I could be entertained for a little longer.

hahah this is awesome

haha looks like bitmain is finally starting to squirm a little after extracting billions from everyone. They are issuing coupons and dropping prices like crazy. Just got a bunch of $350 coupons this morning.

Hopefully they will be stuck with a shit ton of excess stock, and get screwed with 100's of millions in 7-10nm chips for bitcoin and 16nm for Litecoin that they wont be able to sell at the crazy prices they were hoping for this summer.

The numbers are not related unfortunately. The sticker on the back is the actual serial number, and what bfgminer shows is the UUID coded in the hardware. For some reason how the UUID is generated the last digits are sometimes the same, but the first 10 digits or so are always unique to each stick. You can match these first few digits to each serial number on the back. 

Thats not formatted correctly, you have another pool listed in the password input (-p), you should have your password in there, then "-o" for the second pool URL.

Thats not how ASICs work...the "firmware" is etched into the silicon. Once the ASIC is made for a particular algorithm thats ALL it can do and there is no way to change it.

The only exception to this is if bitmain started building their own FPGAs, which would be way slower than ASICs, but much more energy efficient than GPUs, and almost as flexible as GPUs in changing the algorithm.

Of course like others have stated, there is no reason for them to offer a flexible FPGA style miner, when they can just pump out new ASICs for every new algorithm. They have become so good at it they can bring a new algorithm to silicon in a few months it seems.

Yes those are Batch 2 units. Batch 1 had no silkscreen on the back, while batch 2 have the silkscreen with the FutureBit logo on it.

That there is the main issue with most of these hubs. They have HORRIBLE 5v regulation. As soon as you turn one Moonlander on you see voltage drop to 4.5 or lower. Most of the generic hubs you can't do much about, but at least these style high power hubs come with a 5v PSU that can be adjusted for the non faint of heart.

You can open up the eyeboot style hubs and inside you'll find the PSU, that has some sort of pot/adjustment screw for output voltage. The moonlanders themselves can handle up to 5.25v on the input, so lets say the hub is dropping from 5v to 4.5v when you start it up, you could set it to 5.25-5.5 on startup, so it drops to around 5v. A .5v increase will reduce current draw by 10% (so you can run existing sticks 10% faster, or add 10% more sticks per hub).

If you do this make sure you don't keep the stick idle for too long, as anything above 5.25v could damage the UART chip.

Thats fine, unfortunately the inductors used in Batch 1 were more prone to have the inductor casing crack from thermal stress during reflow. This is purely cosmetic though and has no effect on performance (as you can see inside it an inductor is just a wound up copper coil, as long as that coil is not damaged its fine).

Speaking of non support related activity, I wanted to post this for a while and this reminded me.

So theoretically speaking with all the moonlander 2 hashing out there now, there should have been several blocks found by Moonlander 2s...and I'm sure one or two of those blocks are from solo people.

Definitely post up and let us know if you hit the jackpot and got 25 LTC out of a single moonlander 2. That would be a cool story!

Moonlanders have UIDs as well. Just press "M" while its running, then select the device number you want, and it will show its ID under serial number. You can then match the last couple digits to the actual serial number sticker on each device.

Next update will also have enable/disable functions implemented, so that will be another way to quickly check which is which since toggling enable/disable will cause the LEDs to flash.

I wish I could understand bitmain logic...

"Hey lets make a siacoin miner that will make $50 day profit after everyone plugs them in and charge 2,500 for them"

...2 months later

"Hey lets make a Monero miner that will possibly make $50 a day after everyone plugs them in IF they don't fork and charge 12,000 for them"