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Seems BFL are responding with a Monarch prototype.
it does not take a lot to make a prototype board for demo purposes if you don't show the ASIC chip more smoke and mirrors.
That's right, exactly like the smoke and mirrors boards KNCminer were showing photos of until two days ago when we saw the first chips. If you look at the picture, there is a lot on that BFL board, a Cyclone FPGA, an Altmel 32uc3, it's no toy. |
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October 02, 2013, 11:19:38 AM |
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"...and there's a worthwhile reason for pulling an allnighter.  " Curious about that  I will say that the guy in that video packaging that miner hasnt packaged a lot yet. Im sure he will get better at it in the coming week Yeah, I realized that as well. The person acted clumsy, as he never had did that before. Notice that there is one part of the box which says "THIS SIDE UP". The person could not figure out how to leave that part visible when closing the box. By the way, I noticed something out of usual coming from the metal case:  What could be that? Perhaps a power connector? |
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October 02, 2013, 11:20:54 AM |
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Also P2pool are notorious for viruses....
This is nonsense. p2p file sharing networks are. p2pool is not. |
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October 02, 2013, 11:22:42 AM |
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"...and there's a worthwhile reason for pulling an allnighter. " Curious about that I will say that the guy in that video packaging that miner hasnt packaged a lot yet. Im sure he will get better at it in the coming week Yeah, I realized that as well. The person acted clumsy, as he never had did that before. Notice that there is one part of the box which says "THIS SIDE UP". The person could not figure out how to leave that part visible when closing the box. By the way, I noticed something out of usual coming from the metal case: What could be that? Perhaps a power connector? yep |
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October 02, 2013, 11:25:50 AM |
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Wonder how that "Fabulous PCB Jewelry" sale @ BFL is going? I'll never forget the day Jody posted that... lol
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October 02, 2013, 11:28:43 AM |
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October 02, 2013, 11:30:07 AM |
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Seems BFL are responding with a Monarch prototype.
it does not take a lot to make a prototype board for demo purposes if you don't show the ASIC chip more smoke and mirrors.
That's right, exactly like the smoke and mirrors boards KNCminer were showing photos of until two days ago when we saw the first chips. If you look at the picture, there is a lot on that BFL board, a Cyclone FPGA, an Altmel 32uc3, it's no toy. Have you seen the No 1 definition of BFL in urban dictionary? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BFL  Seriously, who would order from them when if you google their name the words "scam" and "new customers beware" etc come up on the first page? |
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October 02, 2013, 11:31:25 AM |
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Seems BFL are responding with a Monarch prototype.
it does not take a lot to make a prototype board for demo purposes if you don't show the ASIC chip more smoke and mirrors.
That's right, exactly like the smoke and mirrors boards KNCminer were showing photos of until two days ago when we saw the first chips. If you look at the picture, there is a lot on that BFL board, a Cyclone FPGA, an Altmel 32uc3, it's no toy. Have you seen the No 1 definition of BFL in urban dictionary? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BFL just voted up...lol, thx |
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October 02, 2013, 11:35:01 AM |
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just voted up...lol, thx
To bad, just 1 +1 (but wil do +2 on my ipad ) |
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October 02, 2013, 11:37:13 AM |
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Seems BFL are responding with a Monarch prototype.
it does not take a lot to make a prototype board for demo purposes if you don't show the ASIC chip more smoke and mirrors.
That's right, exactly like the smoke and mirrors boards KNCminer were showing photos of until two days ago when we saw the first chips. If you look at the picture, there is a lot on that BFL board, a Cyclone FPGA, an Altmel 32uc3, it's no toy. I bow to your expertise and hope you are correct in your assessment in that I have one of these beasts coming... at least that is more encouraging news then what I thought Searing |
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October 02, 2013, 11:38:38 AM |
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Also P2pool are notorious for viruses....
This is nonsense. p2p file sharing networks are. p2pool is not. i used p2p only for alt-coins sometimes and they looked like being corrupted and payouts were to small in the longrun. are those p2p for btc legit? any known payout issues or is it just harder to setup? and no merged mining i guess? |
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October 02, 2013, 11:39:29 AM |
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I bow to your expertise and hope you are correct in your assessment in that I have one of these beasts coming...
at least that is more encouraging news then what I thought
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You've ordered from BFL? Considering the awful reputation that have, terrible track record, screwing over their customers - why? I am curious to know why that wouldn't put you off. |
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October 02, 2013, 11:42:03 AM |
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I bow to your expertise and hope you are correct in your assessment in that I have one of these beasts coming...
at least that is more encouraging news then what I thought
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You've ordered from BFL? Considering the awful reputation that have, terrible track record, screwing over their customers - why? I am curious to know why that wouldn't put you off. That's an easy one... loose all or forced upgrade at least restores a CHANCE of profitability flip a coin |
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October 02, 2013, 11:47:29 AM |
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October 02, 2013, 11:49:30 AM |
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October 02, 2013, 11:51:23 AM |
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Also P2pool are notorious for viruses....
This is nonsense. p2p file sharing networks are. p2pool is not. i used p2p only for alt-coins sometimes and they looked like being corrupted and payouts were to small in the longrun. are those p2p for btc legit? any known payout issues or is it just harder to setup? and no merged mining i guess? Merged mining is a big reason to use p2pool. It is really really simple to do merged mining with it, in fact I think it is the easiest way to do your own merged mining at home. You can pick which coins you want to merge, so you can get all the coins the public pools leave out. Also the real p2pool has always been fine, no virus or trojan yet from there. I would not be surprised if lots of the clonecoin versions people keep hacking up have all kinds of problems, could have wallet-stealers or anything. If you want good safe code wait for the people who are adapting it for various altcoins to get their pulls accepted into the mainline repo, that way you can be reasonably sure their code actually made sense enough to include into the mainstream distribution. -MarkM- |
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October 02, 2013, 11:56:05 AM |
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"...and there's a worthwhile reason for pulling an allnighter. " Curious about that I will say that the guy in that video packaging that miner hasnt packaged a lot yet. Im sure he will get better at it in the coming week Yeah, I realized that as well. The person acted clumsy, as he never had did that before. Notice that there is one part of the box which says "THIS SIDE UP". The person could not figure out how to leave that part visible when closing the box. By the way, I noticed something out of usual coming from the metal case:  What could be that? Perhaps a power connector? Absolutely. Had never done that before, also labels are meant to be; one on each side. Also have had no sleep and been stuck in this facility for three days whilst my clothing holidays in the hotel. On top of which I'm still reading negative crap and whinging for updates, whilst I personally multitask, packing the sodding boxes and keep you lot updated. But...it appears I'm getting better at least...  |
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October 02, 2013, 11:59:41 AM |
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We will contact you per email as soon as your order is ready with the details for pickup.
Starting the production lines did not go as smoothly as they did expect.
meeeh, I don't think that they will start shipping todat.( It doesn't look like they will ship this week at all. AFAIK they are still working on debugging (+25% hardware error, right?), webinterface, etc. - as soon as they have gone through these processes they should implement everything on hundreds (if not thousands) of machines, pack them up, etc. People in here daydream and think that you can take the very first version of a bleeding edge piece of hardware directly from the production line, pack it up and send it up to thousands of customers in just one day, without any kind of testing/debugging. Wishful thinking and day dreaming all over this forum... I wonder if the debugging will be applied via firmware though. I doubt they can make hardware changes at this point. Maybe they ship and say a new firmware will arrive? Chancy... |
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October 02, 2013, 12:00:33 PM |
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Absolutely. Had never done that before, also labels are meant to be; one on each side. ... packing the sodding boxes and keep you lot updated.
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