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Its neither...they had huge issues with yield and board problems. LTC diff being where it is is simply the extra ALT scrypt hash that jumped on straight LTC after halving.
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Is this miner the same thing as the Hashcoins Ares 256MHS miner? I have one of these and can't seem to get more than about 180MHS out of it. Thanks in advance.
After a little searching I came across this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=951075So yes this is an exact copy of an Alcheminer....I guess these guys had more resellers than I thought.. The updated firmware and bfgminer driver should run on that no issue. |
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Hello everyone, GenTarkin and I thank you for your support. We wanted to update you on major changes that only affect the free users. Nothing will change for premium paid users. We have been looking over the free downloads VS. premium sales, and it is very unbalanced in favor of the free version. It appears that a high percent of people are using the free version, and we have only received a few donations, in short its being abused. Our intention with the free version, is to help those that could not afford the premium, and maybe they could donate a little over time. We want to further accelerate this project and fund it further and bring you even more exciting features. In order to do this , we are forced to close access to the free version indefinitely. We apologize and we hope you understand. If you see the value in the work we do, then please show us your support by purchasing premium on Ebay or my site (in our signatures).
How this will be rolled out: The github project is now private, the README on the github repo will still have all changes & features , it will be updated as GenTarkin continues to develop. This does not mean the project is closed source however. If anyone requires it, the source can be made available. Per release info will eventually be migrated to the public placeolder as well (old Titan public repo of mine).
Also, for ALL current users(paid & free) ... the UPGRADE button on status page will no longer function. It will be removed from future releases. Releases will continue to be distributed as .bin upgrade files.
Gentarkin and Vegas.
Welcome to my world with the Jupiter firmware, although you already went more "commercial" than I did and even a few paid users would beat what I brought in.. The most frustrating thing for me was not the passive commitment (e.g., using the free vs. paid) but the explicit promises made to donate by dozens of people I helped (remote logins, etc.) and never did.. I could have called them out of the forums but I didn't thinking they would correct things, sadly over 95% never did... Most miners on this forum are some pretty bottom of the barrel people. Bunch of greedy stingy fucks who want everything for free, and believe that everything is owed to them. Eh not all of them...ive gotten a few nice donations from some of the AlcheMiner users that I did firmware fixes and bfgminer port for. Nothing like $200 you guys are charging, but enough to pay a few lunches  (come to think of it maybe I'm being too nice  |
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Is this miner the same thing as the Hashcoins Ares 256MHS miner? I have one of these and can't seem to get more than about 180MHS out of it. Thanks in advance.
The only reseller of the Alcheminers I know about is Mining Asics Technologies (MAT). If you have pics of the outside/hashboards ill let you know for sure. |
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I just don't see the point in this...
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is the price revealed ?? 100 btc is correct ?
More like 200 btc |
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Finished bfgminer driver for these PM me for more details!  |
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Sorry for rebooting an old thread, but where can you buy this stuff, I can't find any retailers in Canada, I haven't bothered to call 3M.
I have a total of about 5 liters worth between 7000/7100 (you can mix to get boiling teams between 35-60 C), if your interested. btw here is my experimental rig in operation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5-BaH8_SAk |
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What if we weren't looking to upgrade an old miner - just wanted some raw boards. What is necessary to hook them up to operate? I mean, do they have USB on them (since the Farmboy has USB out, I'm assuming they do), and what's the scoop with the driver software for them? I'm less interested in upgrading some sold miner, but it would be interesting to roll my own with a bunch of blades...
BTW; how hot do these run? I have a ton of 88's and 110's, and for the most part they run cool, but I bought two newer 110's a month or so ago and they run substantially hotter than before.
The boards are serially connected via a UART chain, So at the very least you would need a UART to USB converter (like an FTDI one), 3 pin UART cables, heatsinks, and case/fan. |
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I am sure inno isn't shady, they supply the chips for lketc and other 1TH chinese copycat miners.
Jstefanop how about the controller will existing zeus controller works with this ? Or can I buy a pi and load it with available firmware on litecointalk or bitcointalk ?
Yea all the existing stuff will work, you'll just need the new miner version for these to run. |
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ok as far as i understand the zeus replacement boards were going to be shipped along with the zeus volcanoes. they never arrived ( as far as i know ), otherwise we would see a massive diff increase in coins such as litecoin
these have nothing to do with zeus miner...they are from Innosilicon |
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I have a Blizzard X3, would these boards also update this device?
no they are for the larger ASICS |
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I think they are only selling big order to large private farms right now they have the technology edge for the moment and they are exploiting it
Their chips are having huge yield issues, I doubt they have sold any apart from the couple they made from their sample chips. The whole "batch 1 sold out" is a marketing gimmick. |
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Since you can calculate it by hand (pencil and paper linky link) So I've had the idea on making a bitcoin calculator from scratch, since ASIC companies make 100s or 1000s of the into their chips, I wanted to know what is required to make one. Basic idea was to slap some discrete logic together and have it calculate on the bitcoin network. home brew CPU style yo! The reason for this is to understand the hardware required to make a asic chip work, them maybe refine it, in the end, who knows, this may turn into another ASIC development. Hell, link me to some original posts asking the same thing, i cant seem to find anything.. or im blind.. There are plenty of CPU bitcoin "calculators" as you call it. You most likely don't even know this but bitcoin mining did start off on the CPU...oh and trust me you won't refine any ASIC better than the huge bitcoin companies pumping millions into ASIC dev :p |
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Upgrade boards for the old scrypt ZeusMiner hardware (as well as the rebranded miners sold by GAW) has been developed thats an easy drop in replacement. Innosilicon is behind the upgrade and it utilizes the A2 chip. This board can replace all boards in the ZeusMiner X2 X3 and X6 products (including the hurricane ones as well), as well as the equivalent GAW miner products. Im in talks with purchasing a large order of just the boards, as they won't sell small orders. So I'm seeing what kind of interests we can have for this, so far this is what pricing looks like. I already have about 100 boards committed between myself and members on litecointalk, and need about another 100 to green light this. Preliminary pricing will be $90 per board, which produces 15MH @150 W So lets say for a Thunder X3 which is a 4 board 28MH @1000W...upgrade would cost $360 and turn it into a 60MH @ 600w miner. I could probably get it down a bit more for a VERY large order (around 400 boards). I know zeusminer sold thousands of these units last summer, so maybe there is enough interest to order these boards so I can stop looking at these units collecting dust in my basement POST THE NUMBER OF BOARDS YOUR INTERESTED IN YOUR REPLY (if you don't know how many boards your unit has just open it up). Pics of the new boards below. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qxobyne4hgtjoi0/AAD6HU5Jkkgjr7XwliRe1bbZa?dl=0 |
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The farmboy A2 are actually some sort of partnership of whats left of zeusminer. They are taking all the old zeusminer hardware (cases, heatsinks, fans, cabling etc) and just slapping on new A2 based boards on them.
Im actually trying to get them to sell just boards so I can replace all my old zeus stuff. Got them down to $90 a board if I do a massive order, but thats still pricy for 15 MH per board.
So you end up paying $360 to "upgrade" vs $500 to buy a whole unit.
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Hard to see. And it is inside of a box. Was this a joke?
I'm guessing so since it's a cardboard box. Maybe should be in scam forum not mining as this gear has to be fake.
I don't know whats more hilarious this post or the OP. Kudos to the OP |
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This is the CGminer that I use with my Zeus miners. When you compile it, enable options scrypt and Zeus. This is an updated version and has extra-nonce subscription built in. I bet it works equally well with the farm boys. https://github.com/dmaxl/cgminerI doubt that. Even though they share the exact same UART coms the zeus chips and A2 chips on these are completely different. The serial commands needed to prepare the chips and send work to them are most likely not the same. Im sure there is the source code for the A2's somewhere that could be easily ported over to newer version of CGminer/bfgminer. |
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QA by Innosilicon, this batch of 60Mhs units are contract manufactured by previous Zeus manufacturer and can be used to directly replace Zesu if you own one since all non-PCB parts such as PSU, fans, cases, router, heat-sink is pretty much reusable from old Zeus miners. Note that PSU is external just like Zesu and any open market PC power supply (600W or above power supply with PCIe6+2 connector) will do it. The case and heat sink from new machines are reused from Zesu miners but QA qualified and don’t affect the performance. If you own a old Zesu, you can reuse all the parts except PCB as spares. If you want to buy our 110Mhs A2 Power Terminator unit with PSU in the case, the price now is 1K US per Unit.
Nevermind...guess I should have read their whole post |
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Very interesting! Someone at Innosilicon spent some time designing a new PCB for that form factor. Once again impressed with Innosilicon.
If only I had more power available I would be looking at some Farm Boys or some more A2 Mega Terminators. The comments from Toomim Brothers on the steel used for the Terminators is accurate. They are built like a tank...unnecessarily so.
I too think they should offer the A2 Mega Terminators without power supplies but due to their overly heavy construction I doubt it would save much on shipping.
Actually no....whats interesting about this design is that its and EXACT copy of Zeusminer hardware. It uses the same case design, exact same heatsinks, and even the power rails / design on the PCBs are an exact copy from the zeus board designs. If you look closely even the screw holes are in the same position. (this would be interesting for people that have zeus hardware and want to upgrade buy ordering just the blades). Pretty sure whoever is behind these new machines are whats left of the Zeus miner team (or Zeus Miner was simply a rebrand of early Inso tech).   |
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