GekkoScience is now dabbling with 16nm ASICs for new designs

[sidehack]

Made, or taken? Because some can see trading pumped shitcoins for something with real* value as "selling magic beans". If you're not creating value, you're taking it from somewhere else, hence why mining bitcoins and mining alts to trade for bitcoins are philosopically quite different.

*based on utility as a widely-accepted means of exchange for goods and services

Eyeboot does make pretty solid stick-minering hubs. All my test stations are Eyeboot hubs, and that's not a compensated endorsement. A few minutes of searching will turn up a number of other recommendations for the 10-port neighborhood. The most important thing to consider is total available power; secondary to that will be harder to verify, and that's the strength of the internal power wiring. USB2 versus USB3 will mostly be a matter of compatibility with your controller, because the sticks themselves are USB2 devices but operate at approximately zero bandwidth compared to the USB2 spec. Power is the limiting factor in most setups.

[sidehack]

ahem

http://www.kano.is/worker.php?a=1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr_newpac

Five sticks, same power draw as stock 2Pacs.

[avulsionist]

ahem

http://www.kano.is/worker.php?a=1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr_newpac

Five sticks, same power draw as stock 2Pacs.

Exciting!

[jsays]

ahem

http://www.kano.is/worker.php?a=1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr_newpac

Five sticks, same power draw as stock 2Pacs.

Yes please!

[minefarmbuy]

ahem

http://www.kano.is/worker.php?a=1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr_newpac

Five sticks, same power draw as stock 2Pacs.

WTF is this? I still haven't collected the pacs mfb bought. I'm upto 4 now though. Hopefully there mining and not in a fucking drawer somewhere. .. .

I would love to shout about preorder's after your own announcements. I wish we've moved more units since we listed but hopefully the Amazon algo is getting you more sales? or maybe my marketing is terrible. . .. or maybe just the market in general.

Still, some great numbers. Congratulations on the hard work.

[sidehack]

My only general sales outlet is a single eBay listing. If you see them anywhere else (including Amazon), or any eBay listing that's not my "factory direct" lot, it's a reseller. I'd guess upwards of 90% of 2Pacs were doled out by resellers.

The market in general is pretty bad. We were moving upwards of 400 per week (700 before Christmas) until about March when the bottom dropped out, and now I'm doing good to sell 200 a month. Not really surprising since, objectively, they're not that good anymore.

This stick isn't as good as I was hoping. The hashrates are great, but the new integrated controls package is taking too long to iron out the kinks so I rolled it back to a dummy stick like the 2Pac was, which means my guys can get back to manufacture instead of busywork and it buys more R&D time to work on controls. I haven't heard back from Innosilicon in about a week, hopefully it's just because they're busy doling out new gear, but I'm hoping to use their new chip on the next gen, with full instrumentation, before much longer.

No preorders though, at least not from me. I've only taken in preorders to raise money for an initial batch and that after prototypes were completely proven. I have the budget now so I won't start selling until they're stocked for shipping, which will be end of the month at best. There'll be an official announcement sometime.

[minefarmbuy]

Then someone has made it appear the sticks are sold by GS, unless amazon is warehousing them. We don't like our prices being beat unless it's by a manufacturer.

I'll keep an eye out the announcement, cause I know i'll want some myself.

[sidehack]

The one guy I know for sure that's selling fresh stock on Amazon is 419 Mining, and it's FBA so Amazon does warehouse.

[Wasd009]

All my test stations are Eyeboot hubs, and that's not a compensated endorsement. A few minutes of searching will turn up a number of other recommendations for the 10-port neighborhood. The most important thing to consider is total available power; secondary to that will be harder to verify, and that's the strength of the internal power wiring.

[irritant]

https://bitfury.com/hardware/asic

[HagssFIN]

https://bitfury.com/hardware/asic

^ Bitfury has a new ASIC chip coming. It is called Clarke.
https://youtu.be/r60CQPgl4Lw

Maybe mr. Niko Punin could still help this project with those new ASIC chips?

[sidehack]

That'd be more interesting if I hadn't just bought a buttload of samples from Innosilicon.

[wavelengthsf]

That'd be more interesting if I hadn't just bought a buttload of samples from Innosilicon.

Ooh - awesome news. Will be nice to see what comes out of the lab next.

[in2tactics]

That'd be more interesting if I hadn't just bought a buttload of samples from Innosilicon.

I am excited to see your next announcement.

[sidehack]

When irritant first linked the Bitfury update a couple days ago I wasn't too excited because MOQ in the order form was over 200k chips. Leastways that's what I saw. It's been brought to my attention that the bottom of the list is now 500 chips, which is attainable.

Plus they've made what looks to be a pretty great footprint available that'll ease some manufacturing and design.

Suddenly I am quite excited.

[HagssFIN]

Very cool.

Btw. I wonder if Niko Punin still works as the head of product development for Bitfury. He is no more listed as part of the team at the Bitfury website.
Edit: at least according to his LinkedIn profile, he is still working as the head of product development for Bitfury.
Maybe shoot him a message?

[minefarmbuy]

Nice sounds like someone is doing their job around here. I've been teasing the broker here about going grey and bald working on this. I think he's already getting lines to Bitfury, Bitwei has been hardest though even for just miner sales. Maybe Innosilicon will realize there is a market for chip sales and give this more attention. Or if there's a reorder it's much easier.

Can't wait to get the new GS stuff for photos again, and I can do another collection round I'm up to five 2pacs so far lol

[nuanicaj]

That'd be more interesting if I hadn't just bought a buttload of samples from Innosilicon.

Can't wait for your 16nm with the compensation.

[jstefanop]

When irritant first linked the Bitfury update a couple days ago I wasn't too excited because MOQ in the order form was over 200k chips. Leastways that's what I saw. It's been brought to my attention that the bottom of the list is now 500 chips, which is attainable.

Plus they've made what looks to be a pretty great footprint available that'll ease some manufacturing and design.

Suddenly I am quite excited.

Sadly their chipset and codebase is a bitch to work with. I have a working prototype but with what they are charging plus the current market not sure its worth making anything.

[sidehack]

Interesting. I'm still stuck in paperwork. The pricing I was given was the best per-chip and per-hash price I've seen in a couple years though.