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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] FutureBit Project Apollo: Bringing ASIC Mining Back to the Home Miner!
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on: September 04, 2018, 03:48:16 PM
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Great to see a small efficient unit being produced.
Likewise - I have a moonlander2 - it is the only machine I won't have to relocate due to excessive noise when my wife gets back from her trip.
100 Watt units make absolutely great small space heaters. Gblades were great for keeping mold from damp places but they just became too uneconomic to run..
They are also ideal for mining small odd-ball coins networks as a larger miner just pushes up the difficulty.
Smaller miners keep their value better than larger ones as it is more for hobby mining rather than for profit.
I wish I had done some more unprofitable mining because while I was mining some shitcoins for twice their costs they shot up from 10 sat to 200 sat during the December crypto mania. (Buying the on the market would have pushed the price up - so mining wasn't that uneconomical)
I think the people that are complaining about the ROI don't realize that these units are ideal for hobby miners.
Yea, unfortunately most people here are large farmers that don't care about the features I built into this miner. The core audience for these are people that are interested in crypto but have never mined and/or want to run one on their desk.
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Economy / Computer hardware / Re: [PRE-ORDER] FutureBit Apollo LTC Official Order Thread
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on: September 03, 2018, 03:31:22 PM
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So happy with the MLD's quality that I've just ordered 2 of these, probably pass the MLD's on to a mate/sell em on ebay. The discount code essentially got me half price shipping Should've done this yesterday as I have quite a high order number. How many units are you expecting to ship in october? Its a very small run...figured id start production for all the people wanting something new, and then can ramp up if market recovers.
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] FutureBit Project Apollo: Bringing ASIC Mining Back to the Home Miner!
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on: September 02, 2018, 07:24:10 PM
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I just placed my order. I am excited to see this hardware However, discount option has not been greatly coordinated. I am USB moonlander user, none of the shops I purchased from have told me anything about discount available. And If I would ask them it could take days to get my discount coupon from them. By that time, preorder sales could have been closed. That's why i decided to buy it now. If I prove to you that I purchased Moonlanders, can you generate for me double discount coupon for my second Apollo? I purchased first one without any discount, because I wanted to be in pre-orders, but now I want one more:) Yea just shoot me a PM with your receipts etc. Please keep this type of stuff in the order thread though.
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Economy / Computer hardware / Re: [PRE-ORDER] FutureBit Apollo LTC Official Order Thread
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on: September 02, 2018, 07:20:23 PM
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1.0 W/MH or 1.6 W/MH Runs quiet or runs like a jet engine Wifi...no wifi Yea direct apples to apples comparison there Jet Engine? I run my L3+ DC @250MH with both fans only 8% speed. That is pretty silent. I can even set the speed to 6% and still have a cool miner. It is a nice small -overpriced- miner, but I don't think you've invented the wheel here Good luck with your sales btw. Its only over-priced when you look at the current crypto bear market and bitmain dumping L3's at a loss to get rid of inventory. This is actually under-priced, and I'm selling at nearly break-even. Why do you think Bitmain has not released any new miners? Because they know they can't charge 1k+ for them and would lose money. I made a risk and could have held this miner and not released it in this market, but I'm about getting as many people onboard mining as possible, and this platform is a long term investment. Sure not many people especially farm miners will find value in it, but thats not who this is made for. But thats how it goes in these markets...when Litecoin goes back to 200 next year people will complain why everyone is scalping these for 500+
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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on: September 02, 2018, 04:06:31 PM
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I welcome more options and competition, but not when you blatantly copy my design and work. All that offers to consumers is a crappy knockoff that no one wants. Go build one that has two chips serially chained on it and offer something new to customers...oh wait you wouldn't know how to do that unless you copy my design first. Oh you do did the exact same thing with sidehack and his bitcoin miner...keep doing this and you'll see how this community reacts to people like you (as you have found out already).
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] FutureBit Project Apollo: Bringing ASIC Mining Back to the Home Miner!
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on: September 01, 2018, 11:04:31 PM
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I was psyched to see this announcement, but I had been hoping for the PayPal option you normally have on your website. However, I can understand why it is not an option with it being a pre-order and all.
Yea Paypal unfortunately has a two week policy for shipping out pre-orders, so unfortunately crypto is the only way to handle pre-orders. Either way id rather do ALL commerce with crypto since this is what were all here for Its pretty easy to open a coinbase account and get some crypto these days.
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Economy / Computer hardware / Re: [PRE-ORDER] FutureBit Apollo LTC Official Order Thread
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on: September 01, 2018, 10:34:54 PM
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It looks like the discount is just 1x 25$ off, not per unit. I brought 6x Moonlander 2, does the discount not apply PER unit?
Edit: I want to buy 2x Apollo units
Unfortunately have no way to verify number of units, also trying to limit the number of orders per person this time around so only one discount is being applied.
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] FutureBit Project Apollo: Bringing ASIC Mining Back to the Home Miner!
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on: September 01, 2018, 09:34:48 PM
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Are these going to be another pumper item/scalped?
Its hard for me to rationalize why these would be usable other than the fact they are 1/5th a L3+. So if you cant manage a L3+ at 800-900 watts for $170-250 with PSU(ebay), you can manage a Apollo for $270 with no PSU and 140MH? at 150-200 watts?
The key to the argument would be how well the Apollo overclocks and electric use there after. If you can get like 180-200MH out of them at like 1MH a Watt power usage then it DOES make sense to me. cause then you could undercut the power usage of a L3+
Whats the Max you can push these is the question?
Im taking control of orders for batch one, and limiting the number that can be ordered per person. No one will have large numbers they can try and resell at a much higher cost. Obviously can't control what people do that buys these but everyone has an equal chance to pick these up at the pre-order price. If your comparing these with an L3 its the wrong comparison. These are not made for people that can run an L3. If you have under 8 cent power and can run L3s in your home/mine or whatever then obviously go for them. Now if you have never mined with an ASIC miner before (other than USB miners), or can only put this in your house/apartment/office and have more than 10cent power these make perfect sense in ECO mode, since 100MH at 100 watts is still profitable with higher power costs, and beats an L3 in efficiency by 60%
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Economy / Computer hardware / Re: [Batch 1 IN STOCK!] TTBIT SCRYPT MINER 2 Official Order Thread
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on: September 01, 2018, 05:14:53 PM
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Nice..ripped off my design, copied code, and didn’t even bother to change text in my threads?
Anyone considering these Id watch out...its most likely a scam.
not a scam at all, we are willing to send free sample for someone to test to prove it please stop fudding guy No FUD what did you expect on here for people to embrace your knockoff low quality copy? I have no problem with competition, but you could have come up with an original design and your own write-up instead of outright stealing my countless hours of work. I have to give you credit though, your reverse engineering is quiet good To bad these will probably burn up with that shitty heatsink/parts.
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Economy / Computer hardware / Re: [PRE-ORDER] FutureBit Apollo LTC Official Order Thread
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on: September 01, 2018, 04:57:19 PM
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Nice work Dude !
Hopefully i can catch one .
If they work as good as the Moonlander2 Units then they will be Rock and work like Beasts !
Guess we can use the same Software as for the Moonlanders2 or can we just handle it with a Browser interface via Ip ?
Update : Just read the Presale info and all clear now ! Sounds nice !
Regards Lafu
This unit has its own controller, no software needed everything is controlled through a web interface. I’ll have more info/pic/instructions when the interface is finalized this month.
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Economy / Computer hardware / Re: [PRE-ORDER] FutureBit Apollo LTC Official Order Thread
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on: September 01, 2018, 04:53:32 PM
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It’s NOT sold out - the page has been set up ready. It will change to available/in stock at 6pm EST.
Yea sorry, site still needs a lot of work...it’s not sold out yet and sales haven’t started. It will go live at 6PM EST. Only payment option will be crypto payments through Coinbase commerce. So BTC ETH LTC BCH and ETC.
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