Just got this in my inbox from Avalon:
"Lots things to update.
1. We are currently investigating on the three or so shipments that have shown up badly damaged to the customers. They do no appear to be simple delivery damage: they are not dents but some corners of some of the units have been snapped off. It takes a great amount of force to snap 3mm aluminum that's been bolted down with 0.9mm screws in a box with foam padding. We are not ruling out the possibility of sabotage.
This makes me think they never shipped anything heavy around the world before. Out of 300 units (I don't know that there are this manym this is just the number I saw) packed the way I saw them I would expect between 5-20 of them to be damaged. In future, when receiving an Avalon package, if there is any rattling sound coming from inside, open the package in front of DHL/EMS and inspect the inside, if there is damage immediately return the package to the sender. The receiver must submit the complaint so us, the shipper can receive this information from DHL/EMS and we can investigate.
Do not worry, even if DHL/EMS does not compensate for the damages, once you send the damaged unit back, we will send you a replacement free of charge.
This is not practical for many reasons. The box is not light enough where the average person is going to be able to 'shake it around'. Drivers do not normally wait for packages to be inspected unless the box is mangled but more importantly one would NOT WANT TO RETURN the item if one thought it might work or could be quickly fixed. There are thousands at stake here. If one of the blades was bad, one would still want to keep it and just return the bad part. |
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Got my letter today.  |
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Definitely will buy some. Do you have any 1x to 16x extenders though? I can only find ones from Hong Kong  I am importing 50 of them, they will not arrive for 5-10 days. |
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You do realize that 10kilowatts of heat dissipation in any home is very dangerous right? Your only option with a 10kilowatt heat profile is to have dedicated monitoring and a server grade rack.
So a 5kilowatt home clothes dryer is half 'very dangerous'? A 10kw residential load is very unusual, but so long as it is a modern house with 200A service and the heat is vented outside though the practical limit for a load is more like 5000W due to plug/breaker/wire pricing issues. A 6-30R plug would be the way to go. It can do 6600W peak, taken to 80% it is 5200W. |
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For those that want to verify and have a Linux/BSD OS:
In .bitcoin/blocks do strings -20 blk00053.dat | less
It's a few pages down.
There is also a file encoded in hex in blk00052.dat (unrelated to the CP links in blk00053.dat) and there is lots of spam in many blk*.dat.
Personally I think this needs to be fixed, I don't feel comfortable having CP links, Bernanke/Sassaman, or Luke-Jr's prayers on my computer.
Which pool is responsible for blk00053.dat? |
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My primary issue with most payment schemes are that they punish users when they have punish miners who have downtime --- more than they reward miners who don't have downtime. Which is why I only mine on pure pps or prop pools. Keep in mind DGM pays all miners fairly, whether you mine part time or full time at the pool. Full time miners don't get rewarded at the expense of part timer miners who get punished. Everyone gets the share of reward due them for the mining work contributed. DGM is also non-hoppable. Prop pools are hoppable, and PPS pools have a high risk of pool bankrupcy. As I said, I don't agree that DGM pays all miners fairly. It by design excludes pool hoppers from fair payments for hashes generated. I really do not understand this idea that hopping somehow hurts other miners on the pool or damages the pool somehow. The only exception to this would the pool being unable to handle the increased traffic and it amounting to a ddos attack that prevented other miners from getting work - I think stratum has gone a long way to mitigate this as a concern. as for pps pools having a risk of the pool going broke... yes, I understand that... I'm not denying that DGM is less risky for the pool. I'm simply not seeing the advantage of it as a miner. It is to the advantage of the NON hopping miner to mine on a DGM pool. Of course if you are a hopper, you are welcome as well.  |
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For breakfast I prefer s.o.s. though only have it once a month.
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have matthew agree to a deal with me. if he does i will start paying people back. simple huh?
He has agreed to deal with you if you keep your word and pay everyone back first. You already agreed to pay everyone back. You just have not done it. End of story. Quit trolling these forums and man up. |
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I think the 1.35 billion people in China are going to start to be more of a driver of bitcoin then the USA in 2014.
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Yeah, the heat might still be enough to fry some eggs, too  The single is still 25GHs is it? If so you would expect it to be around or under 150watts. My toaster is about 1,000 watts, so I would think you would be waiting quite a while for that toast to pop. 150watt is about the power consumption of a reasonable video card for mining, which can get away with a muffin fan to exhaust the warm air. It will be interested to see what the power consumption is on 25GHs worth of these Avalon chips lots of DIY people are mad keen on in the other threads. An easy bake oven is only 100 watts Interestingly so is a 100 watt light bulb. Coincidence? |
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Im mostly a front end designer (html/jquery) however i have experience working with api's, but im not a hardcore SQL/PHP type developer, can anyone recommend a cart from the following bitpay compatible list that isnt too difficult to implement and has a strong support community? - WordPress
- Magento
- WHMCS
- WooCommerce
- Ecwid
- OpenCart
- Zen Cart
- VirtueMart
- PrestaShop
- Drupal Ubercart
I am happy with Opencart for my shop but Zencart has a larger userbase. I hear good things about Magneto as well. |
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Hi there, I'm interested in buying your GPU's. Please tell me more about shipping costs to Poland or Netherlands.
I cannot ship anywhere outside North America, it simply costs too much. Ok, tell me how expensive is it to send this package ? I am not the OP, just from experience shipping video cards worldwide. About $85 express mail (3-5 days THEY say) and $71 priority mail (6-11 days THEY say). That is no insurance. International mailing rates from the USA increased a whole bunch early this year. |
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It is the transformer for the power company or building not you.
I had this happen to me once where one side of my panel was like that and the other fine. It was happening to my neighbors too.
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As the price if BTC has risen I may be willing to go lower though others are attempting to sell well north of 100btc.
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Offered $400 worth of bitcoin at day of shipping escrowed for 5 Ghs model. Made a deal, but would not reserve it for me until I paid and would sell to someone else if they paid before me. But my offer holds.
Please feel free to let me know when order is ready and we can begin escrow service.
Thanks
Something is not right. Why would ANYONE take $400 for an early order once the items are shipping? Maybe cash in pocket now, but not money only if they ship, when they ship. I could rephrase that: Why would anyone turn down doubling their money now vs. working for a couple months to MAYBE get it? That preorder cost $179. If I could double my money, I'd cash out half of my purchases, too, if I had any, insuring I broke even before hashing a single block. The problem is with this transaction is that it does NOT double the money now nor does it add any certainty for the seller. He is trading off the profit without offloading the risk. |
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