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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: About those USB Block Eruptors
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on: December 17, 2013, 03:43:07 AM
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Hey guys, I just wanted to share my opinions on those USB block erupters you can buy on amazon for 50$. Most of them generate around 333mh/s. Here's where my opinion starts. These are completely stupid and absurd. Do the math, these will never ever pay themselves back. Why the hell would you buy some random USB thing that gets hot for over 50$, and then have it never ever pay for itself. Do the math. Right now they make about 16 cents per day. In theory, if the difficulty and price stayed the exact same, it would take 4 years to make that money back. Of course there is the difficulty changes, so in a year that will probably mine absolutely nothing, maybe less than a cent a day. This would never ever pay for itself, so my advice to the people that are thinking of buying this: STAY AWAY  Dam never seen a post like this before you must be a genius. |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BFL has Black Friday SALE!!! Be careful
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on: December 06, 2013, 12:16:05 AM
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I ordered a single last week for the hell of it after they said shipping form stock. I suspected it was a complete lie. I received the unit today to my complete and utter shock. This appears to be the only transaction I will not get raped on.
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BFL Monarch update
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on: November 14, 2013, 07:19:09 PM
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The writers of south park must have pre ordered....(from last nights episode)
Eric Cartman: Pre order doesn’t mean shit. Ok. When you pre order X your just committing to paying for something that some assholes in California haven’t even finished working on yet. You know what you get for pre ordering ?... A big dick in your mouth.
If it were only that bad...
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: I like BFL, DO YOU ???
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on: September 26, 2013, 04:37:36 PM
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Any positive/good reports on BFL    please Only leave Positive/good comments  please !) It will be a negative/bad reports on BFL......  bortaS bIr jablu'DI' reH QaQqu' nay |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BFL MiniRig Line:Concerned
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on: August 24, 2013, 08:11:06 PM
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In my opinion every mini rig that is shipped with a pay date later than the current single date is a stolen board from that production line (they use the same boards if I am not mistaken). Every single that is shipped ahead of the current 3rd mini rig ship date is stolen from that line.
They are absolutely not following their 1/3 shipping plan and they are just doing whatever the hell they feel to give the illusion of shipping faster or giving certain people benefits.
They way they are running this show is a completely retarded train wreck.
Furthermore their monarch line released last sat morning starts a whole new pay date regardless of your original pay date unlike current waiting line. The early numbers for that (people who supposedly will get the cards months before people who converted a day or two after the announcement) were sold out almost immediately..Gee I wonder who got the heads up on that....
wow, they stole for the mini from the singles while stealing for the singles from the mini? That means they stole from the mini for the mini!!!!!!!! You got it... taking boards form 6/23 MR orders so they can say they are shipping MR 7/28 orders (outside of first month). |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BFL MiniRig Line:Concerned
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on: August 24, 2013, 06:25:47 PM
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In my opinion every mini rig that is shipped with a pay date later than the current single date is a stolen board from that production line (they use the same boards if I am not mistaken). Every single that is shipped ahead of the current 3rd mini rig ship date is stolen from that line.
They are absolutely not following their 1/3 shipping plan and they are just doing whatever the hell they feel to give the illusion of shipping faster or giving certain people benefits.
They way they are running this show is a completely retarded train wreck.
Furthermore their monarch line released last sat morning starts a whole new pay date regardless of your original pay date unlike current waiting line. The early numbers for that (people who supposedly will get the cards months before people who converted a day or two after the announcement) were sold out almost immediately..Gee I wonder who got the heads up on that....
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Experimenting with Jalapeno firmware...
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on: August 14, 2013, 07:08:01 PM
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I've just connected my JTAG-ICE mkII to one of my singles.
The security-bit was also set on the singles, so after an erase there is no easy way back to the original firmware :-(
The interesting question is now, who is willing to take the risk first?
I've studied the sourcecode a little bit and found a lot of interesting places to play around.
I have been staring at the dragon I ordered a while back and contemplating. I am not really a trail blazer.. not in this circumstance anyway. I am a bit confused and from what Luke was saying on that other thread it seems like the dragon would not work for singles but since they use it for Jalas I am thinking that can't be right. Mine runs at 60 on the dot so I am thinking there is headroom. I read it again, maybe the dragon will not work comment is just for the "TUMPA" JTAG interface |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Experimenting with Jalapeno firmware...
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on: August 07, 2013, 07:17:36 PM
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So has anyone flashed a single yet? Mine stays at almost exactly 60GH even when I turn off the AC and let the ambient temp rise. Makes me think it is locked and there is headroom.
It seems silly to me that the firmware needs to be upgraded using an external device and all. As if they were going to get the firmware 100% perfect on the first try leaving everyone else SOL. Not looking to push it but if I did I would have it well cooled. Let's face it these devices have a limited useful lifetime like no other device.
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: X6500 Custom FPGA Miner
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on: July 29, 2013, 09:20:46 PM
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So now that difficulty is going through the roof and many of us either have ASICs or will soon have an ASIC, soon it will make little sense to continue mining BTC with x6500 boards. Once difficulty hits 100M then in my area a x6500 is only break even with electricity cost...
What do people plan on using their x6500 boards for? Are any specific alt coins compatible and worthwhile?
I am going to continue to mine with them for the foreseeable future, even when it goes against conventional “wisdom”. These devices take such a small amount of power to run that I will switch it over to solo mine and run a dedicated btc/tor Raspi node. This will be a form of Lotto approach, even if I don’t hit a block for many years oh well and if I do I will have virgin coin. If somebody comes out will a really good low power ASIC I may replace it but the current landscape will need to change and prices go down dramatically with availability way up (1year or so maybe less is my guess). I laugh at everyone who always thinks they are so smart with their profitability projections. If I listened to these geniuses I would not have been mining when BTC was under 0.50$ because people were saying the same thing back then. And the "ASIC is almost there" I'm reading here since end 2011... I assure you they are definitely here. Now with multiple chip makers with a working "recipe" (Avalon/BFL/Bitfurry?) it is going to be a race to the bottom. |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: X6500 Custom FPGA Miner
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on: July 29, 2013, 08:47:55 PM
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So now that difficulty is going through the roof and many of us either have ASICs or will soon have an ASIC, soon it will make little sense to continue mining BTC with x6500 boards. Once difficulty hits 100M then in my area a x6500 is only break even with electricity cost...
What do people plan on using their x6500 boards for? Are any specific alt coins compatible and worthwhile?
I am going to continue to mine with them for the foreseeable future, even when it goes against conventional “wisdom”. These devices take such a small amount of power to run that I will switch it over to solo mine and run a dedicated btc/tor Raspi node. This will be a form of Lotto approach, even if I don’t hit a block for many years oh well and if I do I will have virgin coin. If somebody comes out will a really good low power ASIC I may replace it but the current landscape will need to change and prices go down dramatically with availability way up (1year or so maybe less is my guess). I laugh at everyone who always thinks they are so smart with their profitability projections. If I listened to these geniuses I would not have been mining when BTC was under 0.50$ because people were saying the same thing back then. |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [ANN] US/North American Bitfury sales now open
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on: July 09, 2013, 04:04:31 PM
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So the Hboard is both a "Kit" and a "DIY"... Due to the weak ass description I am going to have to refund. I thought the price difference was just to get it in August. Instead the price was skyrocketing in October.
The price of ASIC miners is going to be pretty funny in a year.
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Other / Off-topic / Re: DIY Klondikes: Oil Submerged K16 / K64 Blade Configurations Discussion Thread
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on: July 02, 2013, 08:43:22 PM
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I have had a mineral oil setup for my FPGAs for over a year. Total wattage is ~65 and the temperature was OK @37-42c ish depending on ambient . Heat syncs are mandatory and so is forced convection (one fan to keep the oil moving) otherwise the hot oil seems to stay around the heat source and does not flow away like you would think because the oil is thick. I planned on reusing the setup for a BFL single but that won't be happening since they came nowhere close to their power goals. I may try building a new one just because I enjoyed building it. For the much higher wattage it would need a complete redesign and much more oil and more metal/glass/acrylic to transfer heat from the oil to outside the case. Unless you are doing it for fun it is not really worth the expenditure. Water blocks is probably the better route... but look nowhere as cool (or as silent).
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Ars Technica article on Butterfly Labs
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on: June 28, 2013, 10:37:55 PM
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Or... maybe there's just nothing to find and BFL isn't some sinister black box that some people so desperately and pathetically want it to be? Ever consider that option?
Some people so desperately want to find wrongdoing and maleficence somewhere, even where none exists, that they will believe anything. Any sort of rationality and intelligent thought was lost long ago.
The fact that super scammer, anti-semetic, racist like Bryan Micon is the best and most quoted person in the article should be indicative that there's not really anything sinister going on that isn't part of some mentally unbalanced persons tin foil hat conspiracy theory.
Get back in the kitchen and make me my pot pie Single |
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Economy / Computer hardware / Re: [WTS] XFX 7850 1GB
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on: May 23, 2013, 06:10:59 AM
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I never registered it, I registered the 5850 that this one replaced though. I don't know what kind of record keeping they do thought like if they have on record that they sent it to me as an RMA replacement. The original 5850 had double lifetime warranty, I really was not thinking of the warranty on this card though. I am not sure what the implications are on the replacement.
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Economy / Computer hardware / [WTS] XFX 7850 1GB
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on: May 23, 2013, 03:43:56 AM
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I have an XFX 7850 1Gig that was an RMA replacement for a thrashed 5850 (mined with). This card was plugged in and used for about a week (*no mining) as I had multiple RMAs coming back and this 7850 is one I decided I did not need. You can see I have done other transactions (mostly video cards) here successfully and I would prefer not to escrow (never have) but will if I have to. 120usd in btc (mtgox weighted average) shipped via USPS flat rate medium box promptly upon payment.  |
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