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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Official BITMINE CoinCraft series 28nm ASIC miners thread
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on: September 16, 2013, 10:05:33 PM
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Placed an order and immediately paid with BTC, but order status shows "on hold" and I've not received any e-mail confirming receipt of the coins (or a delivery date). Is this normal? I was assuming I'd get some automated acknowledgement of the coins arriving. Or is it all a manual process?
Okay, well my order went from 'on hold' to processing, which I guess is good. But how long should it take to receive the email with the ship date? roy |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [Poll] Burnins BitFury miner
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on: September 15, 2013, 09:50:19 PM
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You don't take into account us who have already paid these people money to make Avalon chip based miners and now are forced to take a 30% loss in converting our old orders to these new boards.
You weren't forced to take a loss. You could just supply chips to burnin as you agreed and he will assemble them into boards for you exactly as agreed. He is generously offering to refund you a proportion of the money that you spent on a non-refundable deal - and you are bitching that he is somehow in the wrong? roy |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Fanboys vs the ROIers... The Custom Hardware Divide!
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on: September 15, 2013, 08:43:53 PM
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to be honest, i am not against collectors and small miners who take mining as a hobby, but I am against that behavior because it gives the wrong attitude for manufacturers, they will overprice each product because of people like that.... nothing personal but i guess it is an open market and this is how it goes...
I don't think the problem is people who don't expect to ROI. The problem is all the people who placed large preorders expecting to make huge profits based on completely unrealistically low expectations of difficulty. The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of ASIC hardware ordered will never ROI. roy |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Fanboys vs the ROIers... The Custom Hardware Divide!
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on: September 15, 2013, 08:41:03 PM
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I'm actually very pleased that #3 is in the lead. Cheers to the sensible people! Wish I could be a little less enthusiastic about every damn device.
Hey, I probably should have voted #3, but I voted #1 to point out that I don't really think ROI is realistic. But I haven't been officially scammed yet. I did get a full refund from bASIC (thanks too MBP Dave!) and BFL did actually deliver my Little Single (which I sold 2 weeks later on Ebay for a tidy profit). And they haven't yet screwed me on the Monarch.
Hey, same here with the bASIC. Although I'm currently mining with my Single SC. Not sure I got it early enough to make a tidy profit on resale - but anyway.... mining with it is more fun :-) |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Fanboys vs the ROIers... The Custom Hardware Divide!
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on: September 15, 2013, 08:14:21 PM
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I think it's true that this forum is dominated by people who are obsessed with the idea that Bitcoin mining should be a guaranteed ROI, and rail against anyone who gets in the way of their God-given right to free money. Whatever you may think of YiFu and Avalon - I agree with this: I am tired of this toxic community malformed by greed.
I mine for fun. I hope the coins will cover most of the hardware costs, but I don't delude myself into thinking that ROI is particularly likely. Glad to see I'm not the only one. roy |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Bitburner Fury - now for sale
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on: September 15, 2013, 04:16:49 PM
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Paid by SEPA - says I have to send proof of payment within 24 hours - where do I send proof to? Can't find an e-mail address and the contact form doesn't seem to allow attachments.
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Official BITMINE CoinCraft series 28nm ASIC miners thread
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on: September 15, 2013, 02:14:14 PM
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Placed an order and immediately paid with BTC, but order status shows "on hold" and I've not received any e-mail confirming receipt of the coins (or a delivery date). Is this normal? I was assuming I'd get some automated acknowledgement of the coins arriving. Or is it all a manual process?
roy
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [Work in progess] Burnins Avalon Chip to mining board service
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on: September 14, 2013, 10:26:30 PM
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My Roadmap:
end of September to November - Bitfury 55nm
from early January 2014 - CoinTerra - 28nm
I'm interested in your take on the CoinTerra chips, burnin. Is there really any point doing a board based on them? Their quoted power usage per Gh/s is only marginally less than Bitfury, and it sounds like they're probably impractical without water cooling. Sounds like a lot of hassle for no clear gain over Bitfury? Or am I missing something? EDIT TO ADD: sure it's a shed load of GH/s per chip, but the power and cooling requirements mean your chip density is going to be much lower. By the time CoinTerra is shipping, Bitfury chips will undoubtedly have dropped in price substantially. I think a high density Bitfury design might be more interesting than a CoinTerra design... roy If CoinCraft pans out that seems rather more interesting than CoinTerra. Avoids the implausibly high TDP - and *way* better J/GH. Of course, always assuming they ship product in a timely manner, and that reality is anywhere near specs.... roy EDIT: Hmm, I guess I was confusing chip efficiency with system effeciency. Still, looks like one to watch: https://bitmine.ch/?page_id=863https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=294235.0And an obvious dig at CoinTerra: Do you think that fitting the highest possible number of hashing units into a single, 500+ GH/s silicon die is the best solution? We don’t. Real life experience have shown that the highest performance, lowest total system cost and greatest scalability are achieved by large arrays of small and cool ASICs. |
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Bitcoin / Group buys / Re: [Group Buy] Avalon ASIC Chips (SebastianJu) Batch 6 ordered (Closed)
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on: September 13, 2013, 11:48:29 PM
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Import company, iam and burnin are in germany, yes.
Was just slightly surprised about the customs delays for the chips in zefir's group buy reaching burnin (but Switzerland isn't even EEA, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised there are customs shipping to the EU). But once you have our chips - they will be with burnin quickly I think  |
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Bitcoin / Group buys / Re: [Group Buy] Avalon ASIC Chips (SebastianJu) Batch 6 ordered (Closed)
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on: September 13, 2013, 10:25:38 PM
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Any news on the chips itself?
Nothing yet. The import company is informed that a package might receive soon but i didnt get a shipping notice. But this might not be a problem since i got the tracking code for the last samples 5 minutes before the post man ringed with the package... And at least no customs between you and burnin (you're both in Germany, right?) roy |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [Work in progess] Burnins Avalon Chip to mining board service
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on: September 13, 2013, 09:40:15 PM
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My Roadmap:
end of September to November - Bitfury 55nm
from early January 2014 - CoinTerra - 28nm
I'm interested in your take on the CoinTerra chips, burnin. Is there really any point doing a board based on them? Their quoted power usage per Gh/s is only marginally less than Bitfury, and it sounds like they're probably impractical without water cooling. Sounds like a lot of hassle for no clear gain over Bitfury? Or am I missing something? EDIT TO ADD: sure it's a shed load of GH/s per chip, but the power and cooling requirements mean your chip density is going to be much lower. By the time CoinTerra is shipping, Bitfury chips will undoubtedly have dropped in price substantially. I think a high density Bitfury design might be more interesting than a CoinTerra design... roy |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BFL ASIC Firmware & Hardware, Understanding & Optimization
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on: September 13, 2013, 07:20:39 PM
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I'm happy to announce that my friend is producing this improved FAN PLATES and he is selling them on www.bitmit.net. His account name is wowo and I can confirm that wowe is the official manufacture of my fan plate design. Look on bitmit for 'FAN PLATE SET for BFL SINGLE'S'. I'm sure you will find it there. Just to say I bought a set of the fan plates on bitmit and am pleased with them. Apart from looking better, they do reduce the noise from the airflow. But don't expect too much of an overall noise reduction from this mod alone. At least on my unit, the fan motor/bearing noise is significantly louder than the airflow noise - and of course the improved fan plates won't do anything about that. @BTC-engineer: any progress on finding replacement fans that run quieter without compromising the airflow? roy |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [Work in progess] Burnins Avalon Chip to mining board service
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on: September 13, 2013, 08:54:15 AM
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My Roadmap:
end of September to November - Bitfury 55nm
from early January 2014 - CoinTerra - 28nm
Regarding the BitBurner XX -> Bitburner Fury process:
CryptX will provide the chips.
Migrated customers will be able to order before the public.
ETA of the boards: early October.
Hmm, that's almost enough to make me cancel my Bitburner XX order - if you're saying cancelling is the only way to get an early Bitburner Fury :-( Seems an odd way to reward those of us who decided to hang in there with you rather than bailing on the project EDIT TO ADD: How about allowing all existing customers early access, whether or not they choose to keep their Bitburner XX orders open? roy As far as I understand, ALL migrated customers (those that are actually in burnins database) get the chance to order an early version of BitFurry, so you don't need to cancel your previous order. Ah, that would make sense - I hope that's what it means.... (I took 'migrated customer' to mean customers who had migrated their order from a Bitburner XX to a Bitburner Fury - but I think your interpretation makes more sense.) And sorry, burnin, for jumping to conclusions here - you're doing a great job, and I'm looking forward to mining with your products. roy |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [Work in progess] Burnins Avalon Chip to mining board service
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on: September 13, 2013, 07:15:12 AM
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My Roadmap:
end of September to November - Bitfury 55nm
from early January 2014 - CoinTerra - 28nm
Regarding the BitBurner XX -> Bitburner Fury process:
CryptX will provide the chips.
Migrated customers will be able to order before the public.
ETA of the boards: early October.
Hmm, that's almost enough to make me cancel my Bitburner XX order - if you're saying cancelling is the only way to get an early Bitburner Fury :-( Seems an odd way to reward those of us who decided to hang in there with you rather than bailing on the project EDIT TO ADD: How about allowing all existing customers early access, whether or not they choose to keep their Bitburner XX orders open? roy |
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