The thing which will probably save you in the long run is ASICMINER is in China. Also, the fact ASICMiner is not a scam will help avoid attention, because nobody will be actively making noise about it. However, this is a huge risk for an ASICMINER investor and the costs of compliance only go up as they continue to operate outside of the law.

Please realize that the Federal Government has these contests so they can pick the best one to use for their own communication.

They don't have some sort of secret NSA super code which they don't share with the general public, because they don't believe in security though obscurity. When they have a need for absolute security they distribute one time pads.

If you live in a 3rd world country and have serious power quality issues meaning your expected life of plugging in a UPS or computer equipment is measured can be measured in months I would recommend the ferroresonant transformer above. Make sure it is sized correctly to your load, and you have a remote enclosure & seperate power circuit to run it into your house. These devices are very noisy but will provide the power your utility company should be providing.

For people in 1st world countries without the above issues I would recommend a good MOV surge suppressor only. No UPS.

1000w psu was used in this application

No. It is not.

Again, please see the american version.. http://www.amazon.com/Tripp-Lite-APS1250-Inverter-Charger/dp/B0007NOUBA/ref=pd_sim_sbs_e_1

Please note that this device simply dumps the utility line voltage onto your Avalon when utility line power is available. It is not a "UPS" in the sense most people understand it. It is simply a battery charger and a transfer switch. It provides no isolation and likely inadequate surge suppression.

Please keep in mind that you get what you pay for with power applications. The most important thing is to make sure you know what you are getting (please see reviews for the American Version).

Also it is designed for 50Hz 230V operation. Is this appropriate where you live?

I wouldn't do a UPS for a bitcoin miner or any other power using application. Its kind of like putting a drill press on a UPS so your factory can keep operating and you won't "lose money."

Here are the levels of protection are called and the terms you should use in specifying them. You need to know what you are doing so you are not robbed, for example buying a Monster Line Conditioner.

1) MOV protection - this is probably good enough for the Avalon device. Make sure you pay attention to the joule rating of the MOV and that the device has some indication that it has "blown."
2) Ferroresonant Transformer - In industrial settings where MTBF is a concern they will use something like a Sola Hevi-Duty Ferroresonant Transformer. You can probably find this as "leftovers" from an industrial application on ebay for pretty cheap.  Here is a product which can run 8 Avalons for only 5,000$. This is a bargain compared to the installation price of a UPS for an Avalon.
3) Complete electrical isolation - I guess you could install a bank of lead acid batteries and an inverter as you would in an application where people's lives would be in danger, there is a risk of massive financial losses, or you have made guarantees to customers they will not lose service. Hashing bitcoins doesn't really fit into any of those categories AFAIK.

The same reason GLBSE shut down in the first place after talking to a lawyer.

I'd suggest moving to Bitcoin mining temporarily because you aren't going to be able to mine NVC efficiently enough for it to be worth it. You can still mine TRC, PPC and FRC with p2pool IIRC all of these have p2pool set up and are not dependant on coinotron.

Maybe when you are solo mining your mining software doesn't stop working on a block if a new one is found? I think this feature is called "long poll." I'm not an expert Bitcoin miner, so I hope someone will verify this for me.

I think stratum is a bidirectional protocol so it's built to do this even better. Long polling is a bit of a hack of the Bitcoin client RPC interface. Stratum is a fresh start and designing the protocol to be more appropriate for what Bitcoin has become. RPC was fine when Bitcoin started but its no longer appropriate.

Ooops. This is why you do not guess out loud

I had forgotten about ASICMiner because of the disadvantageous and potentially illegal structure.

Thanks for all the numbers. Clearly artforz would never do anything like only using a portion of his miners on LTC and BTC. Inconceivable.

Jeff isn't in a position to say what he's actually thinking

Because the Avalon works best with BTCGuild?

And its highly likely this is one user who just switched on their Avalon ASICS?

Because this user is now up to 940 GH/s? Which is 14 avalon machines.

The real question is why does it bother you so much?

I wonder if Sunny King will talk to me about this without DDoSing me off the internet for 3 days? Like he did the last time?

Let's take another shot now that "NovaCoin" has released with the PPCoin difficulty algorithm.


The aboive is the code I used to get PPCoin difficulty on the Bitcoin blockchain. To reduce the amount of data I only printed it to the debug file once every 72 blocks and plotted the result with GNU Octave.

As you can see, your equation
is quite wrong. PPcoin uses the interblock spacing, not the hash rate, to determine its difficulty. In fact, its pretty impossible to know the exact hash rate of a cryptocurrency. Why would you think your own coin uses hash rate in the calculation?

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