Beautiful! And you got serial 0001 - A collectible!

Well I was trying to get a new post written up for another thread, but it is a lot harder than I thought. The main problem I have now is that with 12 cards installed, only 11 are shown in lspci

Anyways, I finally took a deep breath and dove into the wiring of the PSU, and I can say I am pretty proud of the result:

Is there some other metric that can be shown instead then, so that we can see when a share is invalid or not submitted due to throttle? HW stands for Hardware, as far as I can guess, so maybe you can have TH for throttle, and/or ER for error. I don't know whether they need different commands to detect or what, but EasyMiner shows separate counters for error rates and throttle instances.

I GOT MINE TODAY TOO!! Just a little late - arrived 5/29/2012 in Columbus, Ohio.

Nothing, except money. Do you have a few million dollars at hand to make it work? And furthermore, there is exactly one entity outside of Intel itself that is allowed to use Intel's fabs - Achronix. And Intel has stated that they are using less then 1% of the fab capacity. EDIT: Bad info. It would need a shit ton of money though.


Valid question. BFL made it sound like they would limit sales to large entities, but I don't know how they would verify that for sure.


There is no guarantee of a POW change any time soon, at least not within the profitability window of these devices, I should think. By that time if it ever happens, the equipment will be paid for and a new design could be created. As of currently, SHA256 is NOT in any way vulnerable or in need of replacement.

There are also many ways that they can be very good. And do tell about the monopoly - who are you going to call, anyway? It's an absurdity to state that they would have a monopoly for very long at all, when the cost of entry into the "monopoly" is only a few million dollars.

The thing that people are missing is that ASICs have a high initial cost, but once that is paid off they are absolutely dirt cheap to make and therefore sell. It is a technology that WILL be accessible to the masses.

EDIT: And if you want to nit-pick, the existing BFL offering is already an ASIC... albeit a reprogrammable one.

I have auto withdrawal enabled, so any deposit into my Dwolla account will be pushed directly to my bank. I logged in and checked, and there is no indication that the withdrawal is suspended, or that it will be late, so I am going to delay sending anything until after the estimated time of arrival shown in the withdrawal details. Will let everyone know how it goes.

Likely would be offset, not laser. Maybe the curing lamps aren't up to snuff.

Don't beat off to it for too long, you might go blind and won't be able to read the second edition.

Well KickSat won't work for this. You can run your own code, but only very limited C code. And, they will be fired into low altitude orbit and will burn up after a few weeks.

Proof is usually a good idea, in another thread please.

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Speak for yourself, troll. You've never seen his rigs. GPUMAX enables those with hashpower to rape those that need hashpower.

I'd tend to agree. I've seen cgminer report over 70 degrees with no throttling, but it still won't run the fastest firmware. I wonder what could make the discrepancy so large.

That would be 1Gh per GPU, which I would tend to question because most systems of that nature use slow nVidia GPUs. But they could easily band together with other banks and things to get the same result.

Shooped, I can tell by the pixels.

One wonders how many of these claims are fraudulent.

So? If you have the infrastructure to support it, you too could invest in an AMD-based solution. The "NRE" in that case would be the implementation of a suitable location, cooling, and base platforms. Kind of like what DMC is doing.

Instead of spending million(s?) on ASIC fabs, you could instead fill an entire warehouse with video cards and cooling equipment, and still be ahead of many miners - even those with FPGAs.

AMD is the only video card manufacturer that matters, and nvidia is a far away second.

BFL is working on this ASIC as well as several competitors: OpenBitASIC, which will publish its designs under GPL once they are up and running; LargeCoin, who are making a structured ASIC platform; Vladimir, who is creating a set of ASICs of his own design that won't be sold to the public; and possibly others that have not announced themselves.