Bitfury 16 nm chips and board design

[cryptotore]

Just want to say that I would be interested in a chip group buy if sidehack could make a miner with them.
I'm also interested in your hosting service, sidehack.

[sidehack]

I'm talking to some guys who could be on the A Team for design, since one person really can't do everything quickly or necessarily as best as it could be. As Phil's pointed out somewhere, with the crazy diff spikes and halving approaching, even a super-efficient miner might not break even unless the chips are not super expensive. The viability of the project depends at least as much on the actual chip price as it does on the ability to raise enough money for MOQ.

[Morguk]

Interested in this!

[MacEntyre]

Count me in for a certain number.

[Biodom]

punin was talking on some other thread that they will be allocating some chips to sidehack, which is good.

found the reference:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1150844.msg13831108#msg13831108

since price is unknown and it was a bottleneck, i wonder if something got cleared recently.
i also might be interested in chips buy/miners, but in modest numbers-would be nice to know if there will be a threshold of participation.

[sidehack]

It's not my job to say anything officially, but someone higher up the food chain has been working and it looks like Bitfury actually likes my project idea so it's looking more possible now that it'll actually happen. Got a lot of design and prototyping to do before anything's for sure, but it looks more possible. So that's pretty exciting. Don't ask me for details on the politics of anything, because I don't know. Like I said, someone higher up the food chain's doing the talking.

[valkir]

Great news!  Can wait to see that. Will for sure be Canadian Supplier with pleasure. 

[dunand]

Good news sidehack.

[philipma1957]

It's not my job to say anything officially, but someone higher up the food chain has been working and it looks like Bitfury actually likes my project idea so it's looking more possible now that it'll actually happen. Got a lot of design and prototyping to do before anything's for sure, but it looks more possible. So that's pretty exciting. Don't ask me for details on the politics of anything, because I don't know. Like I said, someone higher up the food chain's doing the talking.

good news as always I have 2 coins set aside for you when needed.

And I would love to run a new club using bitfury gear.

[bctmke]

It's not my job to say anything officially, but someone higher up the food chain has been working and it looks like Bitfury actually likes my project idea so it's looking more possible now that it'll actually happen. Got a lot of design and prototyping to do before anything's for sure, but it looks more possible. So that's pretty exciting. Don't ask me for details on the politics of anything, because I don't know. Like I said, someone higher up the food chain's doing the talking.

I'm definitely loving this and I'll be in for whatever comes of it.

[cryptotore]

Thank you Bitfury, sign me up sidehack!

[Vociferous]

Do you need degree level electronic engineering knowledge to build your own miner?

Also, I would be interested in investing, if there is profit to be made. I've been considering investing £10,000 into a mining farm, but this might seem a better idea.

Thanks

[Mitak]

As for every kind of engineering design :civil, mechanical, tooling, electric and electronic  a degree of knowledge is needed a formal degree is just a paper.
Great deal of experience and number of finished  projects in the field is what helps most

[toptek]

hm i may have a 1000 to 1100 i can put in .

[leowonderful]

It's not my job to say anything officially, but someone higher up the food chain has been working and it looks like Bitfury actually likes my project idea so it's looking more possible now that it'll actually happen. Got a lot of design and prototyping to do before anything's for sure, but it looks more possible. So that's pretty exciting. Don't ask me for details on the politics of anything, because I don't know. Like I said, someone higher up the food chain's doing the talking.

That's not surprising. Bitfury has always been fond of stickminers from the BPMC Red Fury to the Nano or Twin or Ice. Even the Hex-Fury! I just think it's weird how Bitfury just loves stickminers...

[sidehack]

Or more specifically, at the time stickminers were popular Bitfury was selling a good chip to anyone who would pay so a lot of independents made stickminers around them.

[Mitak]

There were great times with a lot of projects targeted to DIY and home miners

[bronxnua]

What's the numbers for a 48-chip refit giving you 4TH 240W wall down to 2.6TH 200W wall for, say, $600 all in? That could be possible with ASICs at about $8, which is really about the most I'd want to pay.

I would do that.. got two s1's coming just for that.  480 watt for 4TH

[tranzactionezlive]

Hi guys,

what's the status on the boards ?

I would probably like to join, need to find some s5's though .

[sidehack]

I'm almost done with an Avalon A3218-based proof of concept board layout. Kilo17 is the man with the plan as far as getting chips lined up, and a demonstration of this concept board was one step of that.