Update: For everyone contacting FPGA.Land asking that your orders be transferred over to mineority. If your orders from the fpga.land store are not showing up in the mineority store, don't worry. We'll get it sorted out on our end. In addition, I will be on site to help make sure everyone's orders from the multiple portals are put together and everything everyone ordered gets correctly shipped. If you would like to order a water block or qsfp cables for your BCU-1525 you can do so on the mineority store here: https://store.mineority.io/sqrl/ -- Any orders for waterblocks or qsfp28 cables will be attached with your fpga.land orders  Note: We still have cards for sale that are in batch 1. It is expected that cards ordered now for batch 1 would be delivered by the end of October. If you haven't purchased a BCU-1525 but would like to you can order one at the mineority store by following the URL below. If any units remain after we fulfill our paypal obligations, we will re-open paypal sales for batch 1 units. https://store.mineority.io/sqrl/bcu1525/
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You were refunded on the same day as the majority of other refunds. It had nothing to do with your complaints.
@senseless, Who is this majority and how are they better then those who has not been refunded yet? Why hasn't I been refunded although it has been over a month since the official inquiry? I paid in fiat, 3 months ago, requested a refund around 40 days ago. Still nothing. Same thing with the purchase at SQRL, I have been waiting for the same time. Are there any preferences who gets refunded first? What are those? Moreover, now we are getting closer to the deadline when you will start shipping and has not seen refunds yet. But the idea of refund due to delay is to get the money back well in advance of delayed fulfillment. It is not about requesting a refund for fun and waiting together with those who waits for actual shippment. 60-70% of refunds that have been requested have been sent. Keep in mind, the funds for your board were sent to Xilinx. Xilinx hasn't sent us any funds back for the refunds. There is no preference to which store gets refunded first, the queue is the same and the order is based on the order requested. We are expecting to fulfill the remaining refunds in the next 7-14 days. Can you send me a PM with your order number? I'll let you know where on the refund queue you're sitting. |
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UPDATE:
I'm currently operating our lyra2z design with 75W power consumption for 40Mh/s at 0.785v and No bad shares. It looks like we should be able to push this up to 70-80Mh/s (But will require a fair bit of work on our end, timeline unknown). In addition, I've noticed that a 7-8c decrease in inductor temperature (at 60-90c temperature ranges) translates to roughly a 5% decrease in power consumption. The colder the fpga and surrounding components are the less power they use and the harder you can push them. Novec, chilled water loops, and other exotic cooling are becoming more interesting by the day.
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I'm going to bed. You can wait til tomorrow Senseless. Nice handle by the way. lol
Are you still sleeping? Care to share how did you get the refund? I PM'd Senseless and he didn't respond. Ask him. I got the refund because I complained. You were refunded on the same day as the majority of other refunds. It had nothing to do with your complaints. |
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Research, research, research.... Watch frrom the 4 minute on.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOfD0GvQE4wVoskcoin calls out 1 of these people behind this thread/buy ''may'' be unethical. He actually compares these people to Bitconnect. Says her name is, ''Kristy-Leigh Minehan''. How many companies can 1 person have time for? -FPGA Land -Mineority -Oh God Girl...ETHlargement -Acorn -Now Bitcoin Interest? Who on this forum has 5 jobs and are passionate about them all? Haven't seen her promoting the original 1525 order. Seems like they have moved on. Hope everyone who wants refunds on their 1525, 3 grand order get it. They are getting close to their deadline... Research=Knowledge. FPGALand is a joint venture with SQRL and Allmine. I'm majority owner of Allmine. The Acorn is a SQRL product. If you get such basic facts wrong, what else did you get wrong? |
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I'm happy for you, but when do you expect to pay me back? You changed the status of my order but I received nothing from you.
nope. Im on the spreadsheet apparently, so at least there seems to be a list of sorts
69% of crypto refunds have been sent out. 50% of wire / check refunds have been sent out. Dimouze, you're 5th on the list. |
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Update:
Our pre-production BCU-1525 units shipped from Xilinx today. Volume production to follow; Current expectations are to start shipping volume units in early Oct. Additional shipping updates expected to follow once we have more information on exact shipping dates. We're hopeful we'll be able to ship all orders before the end of October.
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BTCAnother newly developed FPGA Miner is here! I got a new FPGA miner. It's based on four Altera FPGA. (Arria 10 10AX066K4F4013SG) Hardware is fully tested and functional. I have yet tested it with bitstream. Here is the picture: https://imgur.com/a/qotLRcUI am hoping the community can show me how to write bitstream and mining software for it. After it is fully tested, I am planning to manufacture and sell it within North America only for now thru a website. Depending on the response, I will fabricate around 20 to 100 pieces in total for the first batch. Price: I have not fully done calculating the BOM and PCB cost yet. I think it might be between $2000 to $3500 (to be confirmed). Hasing rate and power draw: I expect it will be lesser power consumption compare to the VCU1525 and has about the same hashrate ( to be tested) I am hoping I can help out a bit in the mining community by producing a more accessible hardware to our community. what next... My next step is hoping I can create an FPGA miner based on Xilinx FPGA and the retail price target of $300 to $1000 (feasible?) The A10 will be no where near the same hashrate as a 9p. Maybe half if you're lucky. |
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#2) This was a group buy with Xilinx supplying the products. The delay in shipping was due to component acquisition problems on Xilinx's end.
---Don't shift blame. You should have had a back-up plan. Own your mistakes.
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---I did buy the Xilinx product you offered. I mine with GPU's for a living. Sold a lot of GPU's to get this product in August. Now sitting on my hands, wondering if you are going to
pay my lost wages after 8/31? Whitefire advertised $20-$50 per day...
Rest of your points aside, seems like you want them to own their mistakes AND yours. "You should have a back up plan". Whether or not they broke the law or plan to break it, if this is your living and you took a huge risk by buying a bunch of hardware from a bunch of anonymous people online? If you were to get scammed, the legal responsibility is their's OF COURSE, but not your loss of income; they didn't tell you to sell part of your income to buy their product. That was the risk you chose to take, and if you don't have a back up plan that's on you, not them, just like if they don't make delivery or refund people in the legally defined reasonable amount of time, that's on them. (Not defending or attacking either you or them, just pointing out a flaw in logic) Finally, someone with a brain. I respect your opinion. Never blamed anyone for selling my GPU's, however Whitefire told me he is trying to sell all his, because FPGA is the way. They are all related...guilty by association. Got my refund. Just had to throw a fit to get it. And yes, I want someone to man up and say sorry, I apologize. How did you get your refund? I'm still waiting for details! |
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To everyone that's reading, I had to beg for my refund for 2 weeks. They lied and said I would have it last week.
You still have yet to PM me any of your info. Troll (I say troll because, if you wanted support, you would have PM'd me -- It seems getting your issue resolved isn't your goal). |
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I will try to address everyone.
First and foremost, how is Federal Law = FUD?
Now, I will address Senseless. I didn't ignore your points, but I will answer them now.
#1) Many people have working FPGA, including me.
---Of course you do, you are part of the bulk order. If someone helps put together a 5,000 unit bulk order worth millions, of course Xilinx will send you a demo or two.
Are you saying some people from batch 1 have received their 1525?
#2) This was a group buy with Xilinx supplying the products. The delay in shipping was due to component acquisition problems on Xilinx's end.
---Don't shift blame. You should have had a back-up plan. Own your mistakes.
#3) Refunds are being processed. It will take time.
---That's good, but there are deadlines by law. I'm not pulling my information out of thin air. Federal law is Federal law.
#4) The sales for the CVP-13 board was another group buy for bittware hardware. (bittware is doing the production / fabrication there)
---Are you saying you/David/Zetheron/Mineority are not involved in this bulk order?
#5) The lyra2z bitstream we've developed will be released when boards are shipped. We're actively mining on our (ONE) prototype / development unit
---Whitefire said that a much more profitable bitstream would be available Aug. 11th if I recall correctly. Where is it?
---Sorry if your competitor bought your components. That is not our fault. Again, don't shift blame and have a back-up plan.
---I did buy the Xilinx product you offered. I mine with GPU's for a living. Sold a lot of GPU's to get this product in August. Now sitting on my hands, wondering if you are going to
pay my lost wages after 8/31? Whitefire advertised $20-$50 per day...
---Don't work for Bitmain. Just an American trying to buy American, but got screwed. I have the receipt if you want to see it.
---Not 1 person from your outfit has taken ownership and just apologized.
On to GPUhoarder.
---You are absolutely right. You have 26 days to deliver the 1525 without any FTC repercussions.
---Yes, referring to the CVP order. Christian from Bittware said $5,000 max with all the bells and whistles. He actually said probably less with a large group buy.
If you are breaking even or losing money on this endeavor, god bless you and your 4%, 24/7 dev fee on all units. Thousands of dollars a day to pay your programmers,
accountants, taxes, etc.
---Yes anger. Bottom line you didn't deliver, and no one is man enough to take responsibility.
To Elder.
---Threats to censor negative online reviews/feedback are prohibited by the FTC. Look it up.
Let's go by the law, not FUD fella's...
Please PM me your order number and associated details for confirmation. I'll get your refund out to you ASAP. I don't want you as a customer. The FUD is in your delivery, in making the assumption that refunds weren't being given and that we haven't been diligent in our handling of the operations. I think you're making incorrect assumptions about how things are operating. Whitefire is completely independent from the BCU sales. His bitstreams and releases are his prerogative. It would be like if you were angry at AMD because claymore was late / delayed in releasing software. The only bitstreams we talked about on the sales page were lyra2z and cn7, We're (Allmine) working on the lyra2z and gpuhoarder (SQRL) is working on the cn7. We (allmine) are also working on additional bitstreams that will be announced in the future. Any other bitstreams other than those allmine or sqrl have advertised are completely independent of the BCU and associated sales. I'm well aware of the law of refund sales. Take note that my account is from 2011. You're talking to someone who had significant purchases with BFL, bAsic, hashfast and others. With regards to the apology, I guess if a tree falls in the woods and you don't hear it, it didn't happen? It seems a lack of information surrounds a lot of your posts. I know I've apologized at least once in discord. Edit: You should look up the salary for a phd EE with a decade+ of RTL experience. Assuming that all 5000 fpga are mining on our (allmine) bitstreams. The 4% fee would barely cover continued development for our small team. There won't even be enough boards for any profit until after batch 2. |
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So you ignore the points in my reply to you and continue with more FUD? The reason for an estimated shipping date is because with this scale of production shipments will be rolling. We're not going to process and get 5000 boards out the door in a single day. They're also not going to all be produced in a single day (assembly, etc). There has been one delay due to components required to build the boards (with evidence indicating possible nefarious intent (competitor buying up components)). Refunds are being processed. As far as I'm aware we have no refund requests older than 30 days. I've been refunding people for at least 3 weeks. I've processed quite a few -- I have no doubt people are getting refunds because I'm sending them out. That's why you, a lone troll, who's probably not even a customer is complaining. Maybe I should take a tip out of your book (or foxnews' book)... Who is this coinking7 guy? Does he work for bitmain? I don't know. Some are saying there are a lot of trolls on the forum. Are they funded by bitmain? Did bitmain buy up the components for the board? I don't know. First, all our components are bought up, now there are trolls trying to get people to complain to the FTC.... COINCIDENCE? I don't know. Maybe coinking7 works for fox news? Just speculation, but his troll style is direct from their playbook. I don't know. |
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In addition to the refund units we still have one large mine who ordered 665 boards and never paid for them. If you didn't get a chance to purchase in the first round there will be a large number of units available. I'll set the maximum order qty at 4 to give everyone a chance to purchase enough for chaining. In other news, we're still hard at work on bitstreams. We've had some trouble with the lyra2z but we're slowly moving forward. We received some positive results this week indicating it may be possible to operate the engine as fast as 350mhz without any overclock. This would work out to a hashrate around 35Mh/s on lyra2z (8,8,8 -- not zcoin). We've also begun work on the PHI2 engine. Based on our lyra2z work it appears we should be able to achieve hashrates in the 100-150MH/s range. Is Xilinx to ship partial BCUs, but do you know how many concrete it will be? Also, are shipments given priority in the order number? If I want for a refund from where can I apply? Also, in case of refund in crypto, will it be refunded at the current price?  1) We should have more information soon; it's still unclear at this point. 2) I discussed this briefly with David. We could fulfill all the small orders (1-8 units) and then some. We were also discussing a lottery. It's a moot point until we know if we will receive partial fulfillment. 3) If you ordered from fpga.land you can send an email to sales@fpga.land to request a refund if you wish. 4) All orders are in USD. If you request a crypto refund you will be sent crypto at USD conversion rate at the time of the refund. (Yes) it s been more than 2 weeks since I contacted you to get a refund of 2 VCU 1525 because the delivery time is too long and I still have nothing. When will you refund? We've been processing refunds as fast as we can. We do have a large volume of them and as a group buy we did send all funds to Xilinx. We have a purchase for crypto pending that will be used to refund all of the crypto orders and bank orders who have requested crypto refund. |
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They took in 15 million from ''batch 1'', and still nobody has a working FPGA. They said I would get my refund this week, and LIED.
Taking £15M in interest free loan and investing it in something with a reasonable yield sounds like a pretty good business model. #5) The lyra2z bitstream we've developed will be released when boards are shipped. We're actively mining on our (ONE) prototype / development unit.
But these bitstreams could be used for testing by everyone using AWS as 1525 FPGAs are available there. It may not be profitable, and it may get people banned, but it would prove the concept definitively. If these are ready, why have they not been made available? If you're for real, maybe you should read the first 30 pages of this thread. Just the fact that you think amazon would 'ban us' for using their fpga for mining shows how little you know. Somewhere around page 5 or 10 on this thread I talk about my amazon fpga mining experience. There's already code anyone can compile to mine on amazon. Looking through your post history seems like a troll alternate account. Please stop trolling. |
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Just got an email and I am speechless!
''Our long-awaited FPGA board for cryptocurrency mining is available to order, with expected November delivery for the first batch. Sales are through SQRL.'' From BITTWARE.
This Squirrel company can't even get their 1st batch out from Xilinx! They flat out lied to me/us and said that I/we would be refunded for the 1525. Guess what? NO refund, and now they are putting out a more expensive pre-order together to screw more people over??? Nice Ponzi huh?
Wake up! They took in 15 million from ''batch 1'', and still nobody has a working FPGA. They said I would get my refund this week, and LIED.
Don't even get me started on bitstreams and deadlines. Where are they?
The people behind this should receive jail-time, and very well might. Any lawyers on here?
You can't just take people's money for months and then not deliver.........
#1) Many people have working FPGA, including me. #2) This was a group buy with Xilinx supplying the products. The delay in shipping was due to component acquisition problems on Xilinx's end. #3) Refunds are being processed. It will take time. #4) The sales for the CVP-13 board was another group buy for bittware hardware. (bittware is doing the production / fabrication there) #5) The lyra2z bitstream we've developed will be released when boards are shipped. We're actively mining on our (ONE) prototype / development unit. http://zergpool.com/?address=1JWWCkVKHtDrxQicFkLS2JrwCMbb4nWuFs^ 1 FPGA at 40Mh/s lyra2z. I'm expecting even more from the fully modified BCU-1525. 60Mh/s or more seems plausible. Back in the days some may still remember Butterfly Lab , this guys was taking peoples preorders and no refund policy so people who prerecorded from them was forced to wait many months for delivery, Butterfly Lab doesn't exist anymore but history repeat itself . People have to be careful ordering FPGAs the demand is high and the waiting time in some cases could be months.
BFL was designing their own asic. These FPGA chips are already designed and in mass production. The delay is a problem getting the PCB built, not any problem with the chips as was the case with BFL. |
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When are you releasing the BitStream?
Once the cards start shipping. Possibly sooner for people who have VCU-1525 units. |
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Do you think there will be many multi-card (or too-big-for-BCU) bitstreams? It seems like it's gonna be hard for those 2-card combos to beat 2 individual cards hashing solo. Plow funds into BCUs first as long as they're available - with CVP's as a backup?
Multi-card bitstreams are difficult to develop, and to be honest I'm not even sure they are scaleable to large farms. You need to load a different bitstream into each card, then create a config file on the PC which tells the PC which cards are connected together, and obviously if one card goes down or fails, both cards are down because they cannot calculate a hash result on their own. It does have potential for really high profits for the small-scale miner, but I doubt a 200 FPGA farm would bother with multi-card bitstreams, especially if you need 4 or 8 cards daisy chained together. Again, with 8 cards daisy chained, if something goes wrong with 1 card, then the whole rig is down. We make the NR104 which is quad fpga into an rack mount 100% super modified which beats hands down the sqlabs bcu1525 which we call NR1525M, here is the thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4957557.0Over-priced, with outlandish claims of value and ROI to boot. Try to answer the real questions in your thread rather than deleting them. Until then, scam alert. ...and video of a box running fans is joke right? Ha! I'm glad somebody noticed! He keeps deleting my posts in his thread when I'm calling him out, hilarious. While they spam my thread and other's threads with their sales. |
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This PDF you linked is a bit... "too much technical talk"... but from what I get they're describing this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_XPoint which is around some time now (the PDF you shared is from a year ago). I know Intel is using this technology but it's veeeery expensive and I can't see it being used for mining anytime soon. I didn't know Micron has something similar too though, thanks for that! In any case, this is not an FPGA-specific feature. It's a technology; and since Micron is in collaboration with Nvidia, if this technology becomes mainstream then expect to see this kind of memory implemented it in RTX 2180ti or something. HMC lost it's battle to HBM2. Micron discontinued the HMC as far as I know. HMC isn't the best for mining but isn't the worst either. Last I checked the older model HMC stock was about $500 a unit. If those could be picked up for $50 a unit it would be worth it. The older micron HMC is only using 16Gbit/s per pin pair - With the newer communications methods it's possible to get 4x that bandwidth per pin-pair (we'd be talking 1Tbit/s bandwidth instead of 250Gbit/s bandwidth). If they made a new version of the HMC using the updated communications methods / protocols and the device was relatively low cost for 4-8GByte units ($250) -- We'd have something that was really interesting to add on the FPGA. Just to ELI5 this for you guys, this is 3d memory (3d is the next iteration in the industry), IOw it is stacked and just like in the old days where Rambus lost to ddr it is not always the fastest product that wins but the most cost effective.  Well it's not always the most cost effective either as monopolies are capable of pushing whatever they want and crushing far superior products. But thats just a side effect of the system we live in. Neat, they did make a unit with 32Gb serdes. Guess they never entered mass production? Or is that just HMC working group specification? No one actually made it? |
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This PDF you linked is a bit... "too much technical talk"... but from what I get they're describing this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_XPoint which is around some time now (the PDF you shared is from a year ago). I know Intel is using this technology but it's veeeery expensive and I can't see it being used for mining anytime soon. I didn't know Micron has something similar too though, thanks for that! In any case, this is not an FPGA-specific feature. It's a technology; and since Micron is in collaboration with Nvidia, if this technology becomes mainstream then expect to see this kind of memory implemented it in RTX 2180ti or something. HMC lost it's battle to HBM2. Micron discontinued the HMC as far as I know. HMC isn't the best for mining but isn't the worst either. Last I checked the older model HMC stock was about $500 a unit. If those could be picked up for $50 a unit it would be worth it. The older micron HMC is only using 16Gbit/s per pin pair - With the newer communications methods it's possible to get 4x that bandwidth per pin-pair (we'd be talking 1Tbit/s bandwidth instead of 250Gbit/s bandwidth). If they made a new version of the HMC using the updated communications methods / protocols and the device was relatively low cost for 4-8GByte units ($250) -- We'd have something that was really interesting to add on the FPGA. |
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UPDATE:
We achieved 41Mh/s at 225W of power usage on Lyra2z today. The board operated for approximately 20 minutes before shutdown occurred. As reported by whitefire and others, the BMC disables the board when temperature exceeds configured shutdown temperatures. We were operating on a completely unmodified VCU-1525; it has no upgraded cooling or components like the BCU-1525 will have. We are confident enough in the hashrate now to report 40Mh/s as the shipped hashrate for lyra2z. There is still some room for some improvement and we may be able to achieve up to 60Mh/s.
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