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341  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BTCS Dumping SP35s for SP50s on: April 23, 2016, 07:25:32 PM
I was looking at their other eBay listing for a Square D breaker and noticed the following in the description:

Most of their electrical equipment was picked up from a datacenter that closed so that's probably what its referring to.
342  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: What was your worst Cryptocurrency investment ? on: April 23, 2016, 07:24:55 PM
Worst was likely B3 Avalon preorders. One was a scam, one devalued to maybe <40% and same with an additional module and some group shares.
343  Other / Meta / Re: [Suggestion] Dedicated sub-forum for Legendaries on: April 23, 2016, 12:19:12 AM
There is already the donators sub-forum which is essentially dead and I can't see a Legendaries sub-forum going any different. What might be interesting is a sub-forum for default trust. There are often issues which require discussion about inclusion or exclusion and at the moment the only way to communicate is to PM 10 people and spam everyone's inboxes when anyone replies. A sub-forum may organise this differently.

I think thats a good idea. It should be read only to everyone though to keep things transparent.

There are pros and cons for it being public. For example discussing CiTM in the public before he was overthrown got you disavowed from DT and negative trusted. People can be unwilling to speak out at their own risk and also propagates people using smurfs.
Well CITM (and those in his trust list) would have been able to see threads about CITM, so having a private DT sub would not have changed this.

That's true, maybe he wouldn't have tried to go out all guns blazing if he hadn't been called out publicly (several times).
344  Other / Meta / Re: [Suggestion] Dedicated sub-forum for Legendaries on: April 22, 2016, 06:35:32 PM
There is already the donators sub-forum which is essentially dead and I can't see a Legendaries sub-forum going any different. What might be interesting is a sub-forum for default trust. There are often issues which require discussion about inclusion or exclusion and at the moment the only way to communicate is to PM 10 people and spam everyone's inboxes when anyone replies. A sub-forum may organise this differently.

I think thats a good idea. It should be read only to everyone though to keep things transparent.

There are pros and cons for it being public. For example discussing CiTM in the public before he was overthrown got you disavowed from DT and negative trusted. People can be unwilling to speak out at their own risk and also propagates people using smurfs.
345  Other / Meta / Re: [Suggestion] Dedicated sub-forum for Legendaries on: April 22, 2016, 04:14:59 PM
There is already the donators sub-forum which is essentially dead and I can't see a Legendaries sub-forum going any different. What might be interesting is a sub-forum for default trust. There are often issues which require discussion about inclusion or exclusion and at the moment the only way to communicate is to PM 10 people and spam everyone's inboxes when anyone replies. A sub-forum may organise this differently.
346  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BTCS Dumping SP35s for SP50s on: April 22, 2016, 02:29:59 PM
The tagline of their latest auction reads: "Not many units left, don't miss out!". They sold 15 previously so they're not actually selling many.
15 is not that much, maybe they need the room for a smaller type of miner. Or they have less energy consuming.
Can it be so simple.

The number 15 might just be what they were willing to do as their "first round" of sales via Ebay. See how they go and then adjust the price (up or down) based on what happens with the first 15.

Bitmain has done this along with the S7, with each successive batch being lower priced (generally) than the previous one. The posting by scyth3 makes more sense in terms of numbers. 

With having a data center though already in contract... the big question is what do they do with spots?   If their goal is to sell all or a good amount will they leave empty? Seems like a dumb idea.  Will they buy other's machines... seems like it would be a big ego burster to do this.

I just don't see they are going to do next as I don't see SP50 being there when these ship out.  And I also don't see them wanting to have open spots where these miners were.

Maybe they have 15000 GPUs mining ETH.

If they have $3M to buy GPUs then sure but....
347  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BTCS Dumping SP35s for SP50s on: April 21, 2016, 05:41:37 PM
The tagline of their latest auction reads: "Not many units left, don't miss out!". They sold 15 previously so they're not actually selling many.
348  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BTCS Dumping SP35s for SP50s on: April 20, 2016, 10:25:17 PM
has anyone been able to run the SPxx series without the natively-included power supplies?  A while back i tried to put an Sp10 PSU in an SP3X and it just wouldn't recognize it or mine on that board. It would be neat if there was a way to run an undervolted Sp3x on a single PSU (the native one or an external) and liquidate the fancy internal PSUs

I've not seen anyone do that yet. SP10 might have different PSU pinout, but if it doesn't try setting the PSU setting to generic. I don't see you being able to run both hashboards off one PSU though as their power is segregated from each other.
349  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Avalon 6 Derping at 30C ambiant? on: April 20, 2016, 10:22:50 PM
Set a higher minimum fan speed to prevent it dropping low. They change fan speed quite often which is annoying so if you can set the minimum very near its normal rpm then the speed will be much flatter.
350  Other / Meta / Re: Beta of new forum software now officially open on: April 20, 2016, 11:43:32 AM
are the "+1" in the form of "i like" coming to agree fast on another poster?

Hopefully not, will still be abused by multi accounters to sway opinion.
351  Other / Meta / Re: Beta of new forum software now officially open on: April 19, 2016, 05:13:02 PM
Lol my guides are so mashed up: https://beta.bitcointalk.org/threads/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABI7IQ/posts

  • Font size command has changed which seems weird - every previous instance has pt but now it rejects pt.
  • Viewable width is ~60% of what it was.
  • Anchor command has gone.
  • Table commands seem the same but not working.
  • Thread and post numbering has changed from numerical to alpha which makes it very hard to tell chronological order and prevents easily swapping between versions.
  • Search seems to be doing nothing.
  • Very little user stats or information.
  • No post history of users.

I was trying to navigate to my Manufacturer trustworthiness guide but its probably page 20 by now and can't get there via link, history or changing URLs.
352  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [ANN] Spondoolies-Tech - carrier grade, data center ready mining rigs on: April 19, 2016, 03:12:07 PM
I personally suspect some big miners in china to regulate the market this way, and therefore keep the rest of the world outside of the mining business.

Miners would still make more money in a more competitive mining scene but with a higher BTC price. All your costs are fixed to $ but your income is BTC based.
353  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BTCS Dumping SP35s for SP50s on: April 17, 2016, 08:43:13 PM
[Your quote layers have messed up]

it all started in a home
If you're referring to Bitmain, it did not.


they all seem to forget that some Aug every day joe made them all rich the least they can do is sell to us.
That's entitlement not reality. Just like you can't walk into an Apple store and demand a new MacBook Pro for half price because you bought an Apple PC in 1997.


bitmain offered me a price i go to buy it then they jacked it up
You are free to accept or decline any offer at any time just as you did - and that's fine. Its not fine to receive an offer, accept the offer then bitch about the person you accepted the offer from because things didn't work out like you thought it would.


some times some of your comments make me think you sold out or some one is paying you to say some of that stuff other wise your ok with me but when you start up taking up for the big guys trust me they don't need it and will leave you standing unless your being paid to say the stuff you do.
I am not on anyone's books. I have also never sold out nor altered or censored my opinion in any way, ever. If I had I'd be a hell of a lot richer that's for sure.

My point of defending these 'big corporations' is that no one is on their side and its always their fault for everything apparently. The continued rhetoric on here is often "fuck Bitmain / big companies / corporations / capitalism / China / foreigners" and not only is it tiring but bigoted and contrary to all logic.
354  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [ANN] Spondoolies-Tech - carrier grade, data center ready mining rigs on: April 17, 2016, 05:46:00 PM
News article about a press release about a website with an embedded youtube video about a staged investor aimed interview.
355  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Bitmain Antminer S5 Setup [HD] on: April 17, 2016, 04:59:25 PM
One of my blades died and I took it out of the rig. When I power the seperate blade on I only get the 4 green LED lights on the bb and the red one. The blade LED does not turn on. I reseated all the cables, tried 3 different PSU's, tried different connection cables. The lights by the ethernet port don't turn on either. And holding in the reset button is unresponsive.

Anyone know what could be wrong with it. It was hashing 650Gh/s easily at a cool 58 degrees.

If I understood that correctly, you removed a blade and the remaining blade is mining fine. The blade you removed does not power on properly and the LED codes seem to suggest its dead.

If that is correct, then... yeah its dead and there's nothing we can do to help here. Keep mining as you are and dispose of / dismantle / play with the dead blade as you see fit.
356  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Bitmain Antminer S4 Setup [HD] on: April 17, 2016, 04:57:17 PM
I'm a little confused about the 16A requirement for the power cable.  Is this something that can be done at home with normal 3 prong US type outlets, or will I need an adapter/fuse/some other thing in order to use the S4?

If you're referring to a standard 15A 110V socket / circuit, then the S4 is not appropriate. 15A circuits are rating for 24/7 at just 12A. 12A @ 110V = 1,320W of power. 1,320W < 1,400W of the S4.

The cable requirement is just an additional requirement should you choose to ignore your circuit's rating (which you should not) in order for the cable to also not melt. Think of it this way - you'd think it weird if your microwave had the same cable thickness as your iPhone charger, right? Same sort of thing with the S4, its just bigger than most electronics in your house.
357  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BTCS Dumping SP35s for SP50s on: April 17, 2016, 04:52:59 PM
He made $0 so far, only profit is the value of the miner itself.
That is still profit, whether in $, btc, coconuts or miners.


And he was lucky because he had the PSUs already
PSUs are not consumed during mining, they are a required asset with a small depreciation cost.


Bitmain screwed him by offering the same miner at almost 1/4th the original cost and killed any decent resell value.
That's not Bitmain's fault at all - they offered him a price, he accepted the price and completed the transaction. Anything that happens past that date with further transactions are nothing to do with him.


Future miners will be the same unless we get more than one competitor.
Instead of bitching that a corporate entity is trying to make money, why don't we take a minute and thank Bitmain for selling to us peasants at all. If they went the Bitfury / any other large manufacturer route of going to VCs to raising a bazillion dollars in order to build private super farms with the latest gen, we'd all be bystanders to Bitcoin. There'd be no protocol voting, no slush voting, nothing.
358  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BTCS Dumping SP35s for SP50s on: April 17, 2016, 02:26:27 AM
now they have to sell it off to pay off everyone including the building/s if they own it/them.

They signed a long ass lease on the building with some sort of rent to buy clause IIRC. They're no where close to buying though, so they're currently in a long ass lease for a seemingly empty "data center".
359  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: ASIC manufactures ... who is who? on: April 15, 2016, 01:09:11 AM
I personally wouldn't trust a 1-fan design for cooling ~1400W of gear.

The ASICMiner Prisma used a much less efficient heatsink design to cool 1150W on one fan.

I would not characterize the Prisma as reliable or a commercial success, nor would I the S7 as having an efficient heatsink design, but whatever. Time will tell!

I said the S7 uses a comparatively better design than the Prisma which blew a lot of its air through the central core rather than the fins, as well as using bulk heatsinks rather than individual chips.
360  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: UK import duty? on: April 13, 2016, 12:23:45 AM
I usually find it works out to a total of around 25%

Its 20% + a flat £7-11 charge.
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