The KNCminer specs from there own data is Energy consumption: 1.6 W/Gh/s. the Bitfury is 1.0W/GH/s what's so hard about that to understand? The Bitfury is more energy efficient, though they both are pretty good.

Unfortunately with the bad source code and the forked chain TEK is going nowhere.

You are wasting your electricity mining this coin in the broken state.

Stop until it is fixed.

If I force peer with connect= commands in the conf, and only specify peers with the large block chain, the debug.log fills up with:

ERROR: CheckBlock() : bad block signature
ERROR: ProcessBlock() : CheckBlock FAILED


That looks like a problem.

If the only platform that gets the right block chain is windows then that is a major problem which requires urgent attention, as pools and exchanges tend to run linux back-ends.

Is the source on github bad?
I used the one from https://github.com/maxxine/tekcoin

Can't, I am running Linux and Mac not windows. Have to compile from source.

Done that a few times, still only hits the 18k block count and stops. I am using the version I compiled from the github source about a week ago. v0.1.3.0-g99999-TEK

I just downloaded the source again and compiled it, deleted the chain etc. and it speeds along until about height=18705 then starts spouting continuous messages about ORPHAN BLOCK and looses the plot.

I tried 75.111.65.232 it just gives connection timeout in the debug.log no problem pinging 75.111.65.232

Perhaps it's hit a connection limit or something?

I don't think BFL want to ship things, they have had almost 6mths since they got their wafers in hand, to smooth out production and shipping, it doesn't really seem to have improved. If someone was to place an order for a Jalapeno today, they wouldn't see it this year, which means it makes it hard for someone to predict how they were going to perform before April this year, because most people assumed that they would ship reasonably efficiently once production actually began. Their entire manufacturing and shipping could have been outsourced to someone faster easily since April, but they didn't want to.

It's an unusual coin with only one coin per block, I guess you always know how many coins are in circulation.

Not sure if it will get picked up by an exchange, needs to have a quorum of regular miners. etc.

Might be worth chatting to coinex.pw they do a few of the SHA256 alt-coins.


BTW. is the chain forked? I can only see about 18678 blocks of the supposed 24642

Can I have an IP for someone that's on the correct chain please?

All the ones in this thread so far are not helping atm.

I totally disagree, once you go above a certain size mining rig, you enter the realm of requiring aircon  and data center hosting, both of which rapidly chew into the profits. I believe the future of ASICs are in the multitude of small backyard non-aiircon setups.

It's highly unlikely that people who pre-order have done a mining feasibility calculation with realistic figures, this is what the vendors count on. Most miners have no idea if they are making a profit, you can tell by the number that dump their coins on the exchanges for less than it cost them time mine.

They are only power efficient when you under clock them at the standard 2GH/s per chip speed, the efficiency drops rapidly when you go faster.

Neither are free, gambling requires you put money down first, and ASICs require masses of electricity to farm a single Bitcoin.

Had a typo in the cgminer username that I was trying to mine with, and it says I am locked out of the multipool web site from too many failed attempts. How can that be if I had the username on the client wrong, how would it know who to lock out? It's cleared itself now, but for two days it was telling me to contact support!

It says JSON Auth failed, I checked for typos.

I just noticed that CHNcoin is being delisted. The Chinese devs have acrutally done some work on the coin about 2mths ago if you check the Github repository, it's mean to change the diff calculation and apply some patches from later Bitcoin code as well. There is also someone looking at forking the coin.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=192243.1580

Why would you waste money on a case? ROI is hard enough as it is.  An old shoebox or something.
 

That's kinda true, for a 518 page thread there is probably about 5 pages of on topic content. One of the most derailed ASIC threads I have seen.

So, it's 8 days an counting down for KNCminer to fulfill their first ship promise.

I wouldn't order a Monarch from BFL as it's will never make a positive ROI, however I am happy if other people order them, because that ties up their mining investment so they are not completing against me The money that people have tied up in BFL 65nm tech would have added many times the TH/s to the net hash rate if it had been used to buy other vendors gear which actually shipped. eg. ASICminer blades, Bitfury, and maybe even KNCminer which are due to ship in the next week or two. The $ per GH/s is a very large number when the unit hasn't shipped, never mind the advertised figure.

People should start thinking about the $ per day they unit makes, not the $ per GH/s.