"Any existing hardware". I am sure you don't know all existing hardware using Bitfury chips, so your "produces only tiny amounts of traffic" is wrong.
You are right when only looking at one OneStringMiner board, doing 32GH/s, but what about 384 of them in a cluster ? Do you now see why it would be beneficial ?

Given the fact that you don't react on my small code changes, I may assume they are correct ?

Can you please leave the WASP and its members out of your eruptions ? Last time I looked at the member list, there were 55.

The WPC, not WASP, members are wiser than you are. Staying silent is the best way to stop your shitstorm of nonsense.

You're an idiot to even think this. And Bick is a member, just like all the others and has no special role. He is not the project leader. He is more active than others though.

Wrong, there are 55 members. God is not involved in here, and please try to show some dignity. Every civilised person in the world writes God with a capital G. And while you are at it, try to use a spell checker when writing your texts.

Wrong, there is nothing for Bick to be ashamed of. He is a kind a person that can't stand wrong doing(or worse) from others and has a need to voice his opinion.

I do not refuse to say a word, it was just not worth it. So I am breaking my own stance here to say something. This whole mud slinging is leading to nothing. People should do what they promise and use decent business practices.

Nonsense, Bick has a strong aversion against wrongdoing and needs to voice his opinion when he sees it.

You got your reply, now can you please stop posting all this nonsense ?

You could go for the DIY route and make a nice offer in my fire sale: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=495536.0

Fire sale:
This is the fire sale of the remaining boards.
I have about 40 tested boards ready to be shipped and enough untested ones.
This is the deal: PM me an offer(including shipment) in BTC for any number of DIY/DIY0/DIY1 and/or DIY2 and your complete address and I will get back to you whether or not your offer is acceptable. Shipment will be by FedEx on the next working day at the latest, unless you order more than 50 boards, of which testing will take me a bit longer. If you are in a hurry, you can also make an offer for untested boards.

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It's probably a language thing, but if you become a member of a group that requires a membership to be paid, you pay that membership if you want to become a member.
I became a member of that group, so it was normal for me to pay.

I am also a member of the bitcoin community here on bitcointalk, but that membership has nothing to do with me being a member of the WPC nor has it anything to do with paying for the membership.

What Bick means is that the WPC is not collecting money from the bitcoin community for a pre-order scam or whatever else scams that are going on here. And I am not pointing to anyone, although I had my issues with some.
The WPC has collected money for the membership, something that has been agreed on by all members.

If you want to communicate any more about this subject, please open another thread. I don't want to pollute this thread any more than I already did.

You can call Bick whatever you like, but don't get personal with the other members of the WPC.
We are not slaves, we joined and paid the membership fee voluntarily.

Bitmaintech isn't the only company that delivers from stock and they also had some problems.

So, if I understand you correctly I need to make the following changes to driver-bitfury.c :

   sprintf(buf, "target ffffffff\n");
into
   sprintf(buf, "target %08lx\n",(0xffffffff/pool_difficulty));

      ret = (double)0xffffffff * nonce_rate;
into
      ret = (double)(0xffffffff/pool_difficulty) * nonce_rate;

      info->nonces++;
(occurs twice) into
      info->nonces += pool_difficulty;

I do understand that I also need to take into account that more than one OneStringMiner could be connected and that they could be mining on different difficulty, but normal use will be one or more connected miners mining on the same pool on the same account and hence the same difficulty.

I also understand that if you change it for one device, you will be asked/want to change it for all.
To me it looks like a valuable change, given the waste of traffic that now occurs.

I have a rather technical question about using cgminer with Bitfury based hardware (The OneStringMiner boards I am selling).
In driver-bitfury.c, the target that is sent to the boards is always ffffffff, no matter what the difficulty is on the pool.
I think the value of ffffffff corresponds to a difficulty of 2.
If the pool is set or gets to a higher difficulty, a lot of shares are thrown away because they are above target.
This means a lot of useless traffic between the boards and the host computer running cgminer.

In order to prevent this, I changed the above mentioned ffffffff to 0fffffff to lower the number of shares that are thrown away. A simple trick with a drawback, the speeds shown by cgminer is now incorrect. Not a big issue, but it would be nice if the values would be correct.
Also 0fffffff corresponds with a fixed pool difficulty. It would be better if this would be changed automatically when the pool sets a new difficulty.

Of course, the speed that I see on the pool is correct, because that's calculated by the pool software.

What's the best way to improve this ?

We lowered the prices again:

The prices as of June 10th, excluding shipment:

Product		#boards		GH/s		outside EU price in $		price including VAT inside EU		price excluding VAT for business owners
DIY		1		25+		$89.72		€79.28		€65.52
DIY0		1		25+		$124.14		€116.60		€96.36
DIY1		1		30+		$131.96		€130.61		€107.94
DIY2		2		60+		$261.76		€245.11		€202.57

Discount:
When ordering more than one, you will get the following discounts:
1-3 - list price
4-9 5% discount
10-25 7.5% discount
26-100 10% discount
These discounts are for one order and to one shipment address.

Payment options:
- SEPA or international bank transfer
- BTC
- Paypal, alas we have to charge an extra 7.5%; Paypal is just too expensive for small businesses.

All prices EXCLUDE shipping.

How do you see this, please spell it out.

I meant a small user base amongst the OneStringMiner users.

I tried those --set options, no difference.

At first just two -o -u -p pairs, then I added the options you mention which didn't make much change.
It could be because I am using a newer (never released) version of the firmware.

My problem is this: I have done pre-orders before only to later see that the company used a big part of my payment to invest in their own mining farm, hurting me by increasing the network difficulty and lowering the amount of mBTC that I generate. So I "digged my own grave" by ordering from them and not being part of their profit rewards.

(They also promised they would never mine with their own equipment, yeah right).

Reward my order and payment by keeping me informed about the progress(no BS or lies), sending me a great product when it is ready and make me an investor with the benefits that come with that. That's how I would do a pre-order nowadays in bitcoin land.

You're asking for us to be investors, why not give us the benefits of investors in return ?

My asking price was based on you wanting to buy one, I am asking ~4 BTC per machine.

You're missing the fact that I started my calculation with what I paid for 2 units, and then later divide by 2.
You are offering me 35% of what I paid, which is too low IMHO.
I am asking ~4 BTC.

Thanks for your offer.
The GBP/BTC value of the pre-order is 3270/~8.5.
I think 1.5/4.25, ~35% is too low.

Small correction, LukeJr is the developer of bfgminer, I am the seller of the OneStringMiner boards.

I tried version 4.0.0 from github, but get Unknown jobid errors and very low hashrate.
I can only advise to use cgminer.
(It is my fault that Luke can't fix this, I need to get in touch with him again).