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Bitcoin / Group buys / Re: [Group Buy] Avalon ASIC chips, Philippines (Dabs) Asia
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on: May 07, 2013, 08:06:41 AM
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Merger not happening soon.
But for some good news.
The guy in Thailand has some estimates now on his board design and possible pricing.
Klondike 1 - $16
Klondike 16 - $35
Klondike 64 - $100
So you could order 16 chips at 1.38 BTC or 32 chips at 2.75 BTC and get the board and parts from BkkCoins and have a 4 GH/s or 9 GH/s miner.
PSST.... you need to marry chips to board. Power supply, fans and heatsinks... few more bucks and some skills. The more I look at the DIY idea the less comfortable I am unless you have the right EQUIPMENT. Start reading the how to do reflow etc... there is some excellent info on BKKcoins thread on this. Best bet especially if you are ordering in larger numbers find an SMT / PCB fab house near you. |
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Bitcoin / Group buys / Re: [Group Buy#1] Avalon ASICs CHIPS! Using JohnK as escrow! FINISHED!
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on: May 07, 2013, 08:00:18 AM
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If anyone is looking to sell a few chips to me and transfer that over on paper to Ragin I might need a few more chips...
I might need either 4 or 36 more chips.
PM me if you want to sell and I hope we can rearrange this Ragin and JohnK. I have 540 chips currently need 4 more to populate 2 more complete Klondike 16s or 36 more to populate one more complete Klondike 64.
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5124
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [WTS] 500+ Avalon Chips - any amount
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on: May 07, 2013, 07:45:50 AM
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I might need 4 more to top out 2 of the BKKcoins 16 chip klondike boards.
Do you have any left?
Escrow with John K?
And I have bought in the same group buy so can we just transfer 4 chips from your order to mine and save the shipping? I will pay you chip at group buy price.
I might be interested in a total of 36 chips if we can escrow and do a paper transfer of chips to me directly and avoid the chips being sent from Ragin to you then to me. Let me via PM if that is agreeable.
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5125
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: 10 chips avalon module board fired up, help! <3 picture uploaded>
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on: May 07, 2013, 04:02:34 AM
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Or I can offer to fix it for free if you want it back... I can cover shipping costs. I would be interested to study the board in my hands out of pure curiosity. Email me at m.bevand at gmail.com
Also, the people recommending you a higher wattage PSU are wrong. A 3-module non-overclocked Avalon draws only 500W @ DC (12V + 5V + 3.3V). A 650W PSU is plenty enough (~77% load).
+1 Love the people in this community! |
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5126
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: 10 chips avalon module board fired up, help! <3 picture uploaded>
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on: May 07, 2013, 04:00:41 AM
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I suppose that you could fix this by yourself, it is very easy to get such components at electronic shops. Or you sell the chips and make BTC right away  He ought to sell it to a developer. I am sure they would love to take an early look at one of the modules to get a headstart on the open equipment version. P.S. Whatever you do, don't sell it to anyone at BFL. They will reverse engineer the Advanced ASIC technology from the Chinese people.   We can pool some money together and send it to BKKCoins... he is the one on the cutting edge of an open source Avalon DIY PCB... can we make an offer? Damn, the Avalon components are worth something even when they break down. Might as well be solid gold. Well the chips are... I would rather he gets it fixed and keeps hashing... but damn it be nice to get some of these chips in designers hands today. The DIY avalon will be the way we the people can keep pace with larger entities who are building larger and larger farms. I hope you can take your module in and get it fix OP... I am sure you can find someone to do that but if you can't let us help you scavenge it for the DIY Avlaon community out there. |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: 10 chips avalon module board fired up, help! <3 picture uploaded>
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on: May 07, 2013, 02:14:35 AM
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I suppose that you could fix this by yourself, it is very easy to get such components at electronic shops. Or you sell the chips and make BTC right away He ought to sell it to a developer. I am sure they would love to take an early look at one of the modules to get a headstart on the open equipment version. P.S. Whatever you do, don't sell it to anyone at BFL. They will reverse engineer the Advanced ASIC technology from the Chinese people. We can pool some money together and send it to BKKCoins... he is the one on the cutting edge of an open source Avalon DIY PCB... can we make an offer? |
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5128
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BFL Downgraded my shipping?! or The 'WHY ARE WE WAITING' Song
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on: May 07, 2013, 02:00:25 AM
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Why are we waiting,
Could be masturbating,
Oh, why are we waiting,
So fuck-ing long.
Why are we waiting,
Could be fornicating,
Oh, why are we waiting?
Oh, why are we waiting?
Oh, why are we waiting,
So fucking long!
(repeat until beer BFL rig arrrives) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci77llH0hy4I think BFL customers may want to start the song and everyone can join in. Or post your version to YouTube and let BFL know that it is unacceptable to be waiting... waiting oh so long. Feel free to change the words and put your own spin on it. We don't wait for BEER why should we wait on BFL? |
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5129
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BFL Downgraded my shipping?!
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on: May 06, 2013, 03:32:50 PM
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Putting everything else a side. I would really like to know why some SC singles cost 10% more to ship express while others cost 20% more. I realize that 90-95% of the additional charge has nothing to do with actual shipping expenses being passed to the customer. I still don't see how shipping of identical products could very in price by hundreds of dollars...
"Price gouging is a pejorative term referring to a situation in which a seller prices goods or commodities much higher than is considered reasonable or fair." See BFL. |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Klondike - 16 chip ASIC Open Source Board - Preliminary
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on: May 06, 2013, 03:05:53 PM
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Could be off the rack / shelf alternative laying around in some warehouses in China. Might be worth a look. I have sent out a number of emails on this already. Have heard from one supplier... but would need to ask BKK on what holes required and what sort of mounting arrangement as well. Certainly a lot of people can provide a basic aluminum extruded 10 x 10 heat sink to specifications. That might be just about the easiest part to find I think.
I was also looking at vga after market heatsinks for gpu's with built in fans but again depends on what is possible for mounting and are fans really required?
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5131
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BFL Wafer Broke?
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on: May 06, 2013, 02:20:50 PM
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... Sure you got your free device...have you thanked all the preorder customers that been subsidized so that you could get it before most everyone else?  Well the software driver I wrote is the fastest and best software for mining on the device ... that everyone can have for free  Yeah we can both word it however we like. I thank you very much for the software, but it doesn't do any of us any good without anything to run it on. Checkmate! |
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Bitcoin / Group buys / Re: [Group Buy#1] Avalon ASICs CHIPS! Using JohnK as escrow! FINISHED!
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on: May 06, 2013, 08:02:09 AM
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Burnin just posted that he'll be opening up orders in the next week. Do we have any updates on the plans for US PCB development?
Raginazn says he's got something in the works. If that doesn't work out, though, I may look at producing Bkkcoins' PCBs here on the west coast. I'm also considering ordering plain PCBs from Burnin and having them assembled here once the chips arrive. (In that case I'd be taking a bet that the PCBs arrive faster than the chips, though.) Are BKKcoin's PCBs the ones with 16 chips on them? What happens if I have 20 chips? Anyone gonna copy the little USB dongles being bantered about? You can get two 10 x 10 PCB from BKK and put 10 and 10 or 8 and 12.... that is the option. Go to the KLONDIKE thread for BKKcoins idea. For Burin I think he was thinking double density so 20 on his board might be possible. Check his thread as well. |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BFL Downgraded my shipping?!
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on: May 06, 2013, 08:00:53 AM
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*Drops mic*
*Throws hands in the air*
*Walks off stage*
Unless someone has proof on an invoice or in writing somewhere that they were supposed to get Express shipping and it is not being honored...then I will have to say Inaba has the clear "Win". Hes right when he says they don't have to offer any Express Shipping. *Priority* is not *Express*. Never has been, never will be.LOL but the glaring fact is that Priority is not Standard either. Mhmmmmmmm thats true, So where does this leave us now? paying $258 to ship one single sc a few states away is where it leaves us. i don't really care what the shipping offers are called, they're too damned high. "Price gouging is a pejorative term referring to a situation in which a seller prices goods or commodities much higher than is considered reasonable or fair." See BFL. |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Klondike - 16 chip ASIC Open Source Board - Preliminary
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on: May 06, 2013, 03:11:21 AM
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If you do the heatsink correctly there would be no need to go to higher temp components. Having at look at the therms on the Avalon miner you can see that most of the heat is at the chip and is under 62C + the surrounding board reaches 55C + maybe? If you have the vias designed properly and with what BKKcoins has designed already I don't think we will have issues I hope.   |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BFL Wafer Broke?
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on: May 05, 2013, 05:16:56 PM
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Kano,
I think getting the press to shine the light on the dark shadowy corners of BFL will reveal some interesting truths that BFL does not want the public to know.
Whether or not they actually ever deliver a device is beside the point. All of the inexcusable delays and promises that were broken on many levels warrants a press/media outlet to waltz over to BFL and bring their camera crew.
Have to agree. BFL should be accountable for both words and actions. If the actions (building a 65nm Bitcoin hashing device) are hard - that's one thing. Words. Lies. Willful misrepresentation? That's another. +1 Lies and willful misrepresentation has been shown by BFL and again anyone that continues to defend this outfit pretty much has no integrity. |
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Economy / Auctions / Re: X6500 "Reject" Grab Bag Auction
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on: May 05, 2013, 09:55:14 AM
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Correction 36 vs 4.... and say you get 50 bucks per chip? I don't think 5BTC for 4 chips is what I will be doing. But go ahead start another thread might be someone interested. Can we focus on the bids again?
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