Bitfury - Mining Lighbulb

[TheRealSteve]

Impressive growth to BitFury pool in the last week

In a graph-y graph - click for large, but basically the crimson river going up up up is them:

[Guy Corem]

Impressive growth to BitFury pool in the last week

In a graph-y graph - click for large, but basically the crimson river going up up up is them:

Good visualization.

[CanaryInTheMine]

Impressive growth to BitFury pool in the last week

In a graph-y graph - click for large, but basically the crimson river going up up up is them:

I believe Bitfury won't be dumping their mined btc as it has been done as of late by other large mining operations.  This should increase btc price steadily (less sell supply).

[Guy Corem]

Impressive growth to BitFury pool in the last week

In a graph-y graph - click for large, but basically the crimson river going up up up is them:

I believe Bitfury won't be dumping their mined btc as it has been done as of late by other large mining operations.  This should increase btc price steadily (less sell supply).

Why?

There were repeating rumors from multiple sources regarding massive liquidation by BitFury 8 months ago on the exchanges.
I know from first hand, not rumors, that they're selling a lot OTC.

[dogie]

Impressive growth to BitFury pool in the last week

In a graph-y graph - click for large, but basically the crimson river going up up up is them:

Where are you pulling the data for that from?

[TheRealSteve]

Where are you pulling the data for that from?

Combination of Blocktrail.com and my own parser (second opinion / catching any strays, recording some additional info - e.g. the block size vote indicators as of late)

[Guy Corem]

Where are you pulling the data for that from?

Combination of Blocktrail.com and my own parser (second opinion / catching any strays, recording some additional info - e.g. the block size vote indicators as of late)

Can you publish it online (Azure free tier?) and change Y axis to PH/s estimation ?

[dogie]

Where are you pulling the data for that from?

Combination of Blocktrail.com and my own parser (second opinion / catching any strays, recording some additional info - e.g. the block size vote indicators as of late)

Can you publish it online (Azure free tier?) and change Y axis to PH/s estimation ?

If I get the data I'll see if there is a way to represent it even better, I feel like a data day.

[TheRealSteve]

Can you publish it online (Azure free tier?) and change Y axis to PH/s estimation ?

Nah, it's really not in any web-friendly sort of language, with charting done manually in either LibreOffice or OpenOffice, depending on which one vexes me least after respective updates   This sort of thing is best left to either organofcorti (though I guess he's sticking to weekly statistics for a reason), or any of the existing live services (who choose pie charts for a reason, presumably).  As for Ph/s estimation.. I could, but I'm not a fan of it.  While it's interesting to see some big numbers, in terms of pools' relative statistics, absolute Ph/s is somewhat moot every difficulty adjustment.  Number of blocks solved / %, to me, made more sense.

If I get the data I'll see if there is a way to represent it even better, I feel like a data day.

Have at it - though I can't give you the data as per Blocktrail's terms, their API is extremely easy to use - there's plenty of others.  The pool discrimination factors are something else - see organofcorti's blog, latest block count, comments section for some pointers.

Anyway, we're hijacking Bitfury's thread - back to their pool performance (Iceland - 2:1 - Georgia), Tbilisi relief, and/or lightbulbs?

[Guy Corem]

Someone sent me the following: http://www.leaguelineup.com/pantherpride/images/School_logo_Transparent.png
(Edit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ay5yz/bitfury_or_panther_pride_logo_looks_suspiciously/)

btw, BitFury CTO (Valery Nebesny) finally revealed his face: http://www.bitfury.org/team

[TheRealSteve]

Someone sent me the following: [...]
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ay5yz/bitfury_or_panther_pride_logo_looks_suspiciously/

Given that HS logo was around back in 2012 2011 even and BitFury's slightly more humble beginnings, I wouldn't be surprised if it were a template or nabbed.  If it turns out it was nabbed, maybe they can sponsor the team

btw, BitFury CTO (Valery Nebesny) finally revealed his face: http://www.bitfury.org/team

Well, they did cancel Top Gear, after all

Meanwhile:

organofcorti's block maker stats page isn't up yet, and I haven't adjusted mine to account for some minor findings

[Guy Corem]

...
Well, they did cancel Top Gear, after all

Meanwhile:

organofcorti's block maker stats page isn't up yet, and I haven't adjusted mine to account for some minor findings

Thanks for the updated graph. You really need to automate it ...

[RoadStress]

Someone sent me the following: http://www.leaguelineup.com/pantherpride/images/School_logo_Transparent.png
(Edit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ay5yz/bitfury_or_panther_pride_logo_looks_suspiciously/)

btw, BitFury CTO (Valery Nebesny) finally revealed his face: http://www.bitfury.org/team

Good find! Self-taught chip designer, not a self-taught logo designer

[TheRealSteve]

Good find! Self-taught chip designer, not a self-taught logo designer

Just to point out from the reddit thread as well - seems this logo's been used (mostly by sports teams) since the late naughties (are we still calling the 00's that?  Wait.. 00.. *checks spondoolies logo*) and probably before that.  You'd have to get lucky to find the original designer, but at this point it's so watered down that I'm not sure it's little more than trivia.

Thanks for the updated graph. You really need to automate it ...

I thought dogie was going to plan something?

I was working on some data gathering, but considering there's a lot that's not technically on the block chain, that's a lot of work in days with far too few hours
As a further aside, this bit of news got lost in the Tblisi flood & aftermath:
http://cbw.ge/technology/bitfury-group-developing-modern-technologies-in-georgia/
( Follow-up to http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150601006854/en/BitFury-Acquiring-Privatized-Land-Plot-Republic-Georgia#.VYrLRvmqpBd )

[TheRealSteve]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3bv70j/bitlamp_prototype_tested_in_odessa/

[alh]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3bv70j/bitlamp_prototype_tested_in_odessa/

Short summary of the above:

Configured via a Web interface in terms of pool, as well as the light bulb parameters (e.g. color, brightness, etc). Looks kinda like a "Party Bulb" with multiple colors and such. The example showed 2.6 GH/s. No mention of power consumption. Supposedly available at the retail level late in 2015. No mention of price or geography for retail sales.

[-droid-]

seems pretty interesting, convert houses to these, switch your office out, etc.. low hash rate but it adds up and for a lightbulb you cant expect much

[sidehack]

2.6GH - is that one of their old chips?

[Finksy]

So the bulb, the PCB, chip and heatsink, controller board, wifi dongle, all for 2.6GH/s.  Brilliant.

[TheRealSteve]

2.6GH - is that one of their old chips?

Might as well be.. who would notice, really?   I suppose they can't really do much with the demonstration pieces at these events, otherwise I'm surprised that nobody plopped the dome off to take a peek underneath.

So the bulb, the PCB, chip and heatsink, controller board, wifi dongle, all for 2.6GH/s.  Brilliant.

Half of these things are already in smart LED bulbs available for cheap anyway.  Find one that has the bare minimum required to tell the chip what to hash and can get result data back from it, and all you have to add is the ASIC.


'guess it's been another week-ish, so:

BitFury still on the rise.