The component overhead of USB miners is still a problem.

1 MCU, 1 DCDC, 1 USB-to-UART chip, for each 2 chips, is so much cost to take.

If we make a 8 to 9 chip USB miner (about 40G), DCDC cost can be saved. But USB2.0 does
not have enough watt capability to power it.

Hard to tell what is going on but assuming the payout address keeps accumulating at this rate till next Wednesday it will be a significant dividend
One can dream since payouts tended to be on Wednesday
Until then we have to wait for FC to say something.

Do I remember correctly that user 67117 on BTCguild is ASICMINER user ID?
This user is currently mining with 277TH...

Also, it only appears he has gone back to the self-mining plan because the OEM deals have failed to bring in the buyers. Doesn't sound great to me, more like "last resort".

First of all there is nothing being delayed. Why spread lies? My July SP30 was shipped by SP-Tech on 30 July. As for all the August orders since it's just 3rd August I don't see how can they be delayed. Nobody complained about any delay so stop spreading lies.

I am not stressed at all about FC. I am just stating my opinion. Actually I'm quite relaxed about the announcement because I know that AM doesn't have 30M$ for their big deployment so there is nothing to worry about.

Please tell me what do you think that is the deployment cost per Gh for AM excluding chips that are already paid.

This is going to be incredible! But has someone though about the possibility that revealing FC's identity may be a bad thing? We could be disappointed! What if it turns out to be, say, Mark Karpeles?

Per
https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty
Hashrate in middle of July was roughly 100,000,000 GH/s, today it is closer to 140,000,000.  Obviously that is not all Friedcat, but we can reasonably assume he has maybe half or so of that increase.


Below is quick math, someone please check.

Friedcat had roughly 30,000 TH/s deployed with each blade doing ~10 GH/s in the middle of 2013.

That is roughly 3,000,000 blades with 32 chips per blade or 96,000,000 chips (not sure if thats right, seems high).

Someone check that math (its gotta be wrong) before we look at the hashrate of deploying that many chips with current gen chips.

We're working on another deal that we're trying to get to ship today.  This time ~10.2(TH/s) which hashes at =<11.2kW for a total price all in for everything < $10.6k.  So a little bit cheaper on the (GH/s)/$ than the most recent purchase.  We are working with these - http://www.edentech.org.cn - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=680423.0  If we complete this move then this will take us up to 27.7(TH/s)@29.3kW of which we currently need to pay a flat rate hosting cost of $0.14USD per kWh.  So this would mean that we're now getting 22.6(TH/s) for roughly the price of 9(TH/s) of Neptune refunds that we would have received those units about three weeks ago at the earliest.  While the last network difficulty change was 3.08% and the next one due later today is expected to be =<8%.  So if you adjust the 9(TH/s) loss by those two difficutly changes than that'd be roughly the same as 10.01(TH/s) needed to compensate.  While the Neptune's are 25% more power efficient than our rigs we are getting over 125% more relative hashrate.  Adjusted for the difficulty changes since we'd have theoretically possibly received the Neptune's.  While this move would leave BTC87.56 in the wallet for future moves.  Although we still have a $25.7k commitment to AlphaT for their currently quoted 1(GH/s) of Scrypt ASIC's.  We feel that if they don't upgrade that hashrate or unless the BTC price starts to rise dramatically.  Then we may possibly renegade on that current deal in doing so losing our BTC12.00 30% deposit in the process.  We'd currently have to pay them another BTC42.71 if we feel we can at least easily ROI on that then we'll go through with it.  On a brighter note AlphaT should have an official update on shipping today.  So if they can offer us a big enough carrot then we'd go through with the final payment.

Yes that was for a deposit...leaving me with all the risk and then some.  The gear is not worth those prices unless I bought direct, but even then why would I franchise?  I do not wish to buy shares in AM just to run gear for them...oh well.  I guess if you already own shares in AM the franchise might be worth it, but definitely not to a non investor.

Squirrel, you were quoting a post from BFL that was more than a month old.  They've shown they have a working product and are expected to begin shipments next week.

So it seems that old Blades are in Stock again for around 0.85BTC (yxt shop for example).
There will be some BTC from hardware sales for the next divs Yaaaay!

One miner has already been moved to Bitparking pool and a second will be moved over soon.  Leaving us with one on OGnasty's 0% fee P2Pool node.

I do my own tracking, and unknown is only about 80 blocks per week. A good deal of it uses the same gen address, so it's unlikely that ghash would use that if they were being tricky.



Because whoever it is that is doing the tracking your referring to isn't using all possible data. I'm using coinbase sigs, known gen addresses, and pool websites (where available). You put it all together and you get better tracking than blockchain.info.

For example I can track Deepbit properly, and also bitparking and some others that confuse blockchain.info. It also means that if an unknown has used the same gen address for a long time, I can track that too. There are known unknowns (gen address and nothing else) and unknown unknowns (no coinbase sig and no record of gen address being used more than once). In total, all unknowns rarely get as high at 10%, although this may have changed recently.

Once I finish the current upgrade I'll post more accurate block stats somewhere.

The only people left are the people waiting for Gen3. Current divs are irrelevant to them. But yeah, if the tapeout announcement is good and on time, that will further boost the price for sure. I don't really care because I'm not selling, but it looks nice on my spreadsheet

Agreed.  I mined at Slush's from I began mining, but I left for good when things started going a bit wrong - wonky payments and the likes.  It's a shame, it was a good pool.

Divs in already - really???

I don't get this part. Does it mean that once 0.1BTC dividends per share have been given, there won't be more dividends?