[Group Buy#1] Avalon ASICs CHIPS! Using JohnK as escrow! FINISHED!

[Bicknellski]

Put this out again...

Looking for 4 or 36 chips at original cost and transferred within the group to anyone needing a quick payout.

Do this through JohnK escrow and Ragin will confirm transfer to my total and BTC then released.

PM me.

[ektwr]

Are there any other batches for avalon chips so far?
Where i can get 18 or 20 chips i want?
I can help either to PCB assembly if anyone interest it

[Todamont]

ragingazn, any updates on PCB design on your end?

There is this company in California... maybe.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=198489.0

Also, if anyone has 10 chips they want to transfer to me, please PM.

[bigbeninlondon]

Avalon Reference for chips:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=200668.0

[dserrano5]

As agreed with ecliptic via PM, this is a quick public message to state that I'm selling my 320 chips to him for 25.619 BTC. He is now expected to send that amount to 1G2EVPuQedeyq66iQSSSsssh1hMNQMBPe9 and post the txid here.

[ecliptic]

Sent 25.619 BTC to dserrano5 at 1G2EVPuQedeyq66iQSSSsssh1hMNQMBPe9

TXID : fc53e0de8b751a02d0a0c38277dbda45bb1294e435823847d41180b6370a1544

[ragingazn628]

ragingazn, any updates on PCB design on your end?

There is this company in California... maybe.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=198489.0

Also, if anyone has 10 chips they want to transfer to me, please PM.

I think I will be buying Klondike as a last resort as well. I already talked to him about buying a mass order hopefully I can get first in line!

[Todamont]

Raginzazn, can you add enough boards on your order to Klondike to cover mounting my 70 chips? Would be nice to just have mine ride along with yours until the last shipping step, if possible. I can pay / tip you for letting my chips ride on your order. Cheers~

[edit] Ok, looks like Klondike is just putting together and shipping PCB boards, but not doing the final chip mounting in a reflow oven... I'm looking at the reference design myself now, might go with my own favorite PCB assembly house. Has anyone started working with their own PCB assemblers on this yet?

[bigbeninlondon]

Raginzazn, can you add enough boards on your order to Klondike to cover mounting my 70 chips? Would be nice to just have mine ride along with yours until the last shipping step, if possible. I can pay / tip you for letting my chips ride on your order. Cheers~

+1

Also, if we go Klondike, I'll have 4 chips left over after one board.  I want to obtain another 12 to get two boards.  Anyone here need to part and parcel some of their chips out?

[bigbeninlondon]

[edit] Ok, looks like Klondike is just putting together and shipping PCB boards, but not doing the final chip mounting in a reflow oven... I'm looking at the reference design myself now, might go with my own favorite PCB assembly house. Has anyone started working with their own PCB assemblers on this yet?

Yea, I think we desperately need someone to put together something to turn these chips into a final product.  Burnin is doing great work but he's in Germany, and that sucks.  I would put it together but I don't really know anything about electrical engineering or where to go to get PCBs + parts assembled.

[Egon]

I would also consider a P&P group buy based on Klondike.

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@ragingazn628

How are you going to deal with fractional chips? They sum up to 15 chips. I guess you could round down the number of chips and count the price of fractional chips towards shipping costs. Remaining 15 chips could be sold to someone in the group.

[Todamont]

    Just waiting for new PCB updates on the Kicad stuff from BkkCoins in the "Klondike" thread. It looks like he's only made the partial plans for the 16-chip board available to the public so far. I have some experience with designing PCBs using Kicad, but I'm not sure I am at the level where I could improve upon BkkCoin's design. I'm competent enough to spot any obvious issues pertaining to electrical limits or signal propagation. Maybe we can convince him to release the 64-chip board PCB files to us under a licensing deal.  

    There's also the reference board from Avalon. It supports 10-chips per blade, as I understand, but I don't have Altium to look at the schematics. It also requires an FPGA on-board as a controller for each blade and that drives the cost up, but it is a known working design from Yifu so there's that.

There's an established PCB house in California that claims they will match or beat any quote on assembled PCBs in the USA, but it's still only economical if enough people pool together to buy 50-100+ boards...

[nebiz]

@ragingazn628

How are you going to deal with fractional chips? They sum up to 15 chips. I guess you could round down the number of chips and count the price of fractional chips towards shipping costs. Remaining 15 chips could be sold to someone in the group.

Also the developer chips that are shipping early must be disbursed and no doubt count towards the 780 chip total.

[erschiessen]

@ragingazn628

How are you going to deal with fractional chips? They sum up to 15 chips. I guess you could round down the number of chips and count the price of fractional chips towards shipping costs. Remaining 15 chips could be sold to someone in the group.

Also the developer chips that are shipping early must be disbursed and no doubt count towards the 780 chip total.

I would think that they would NOT be included.
A 10k chip purchase, and can't get a couple dozen gratis?

[nebiz]

@ragingazn628

How are you going to deal with fractional chips? They sum up to 15 chips. I guess you could round down the number of chips and count the price of fractional chips towards shipping costs. Remaining 15 chips could be sold to someone in the group.

Also the developer chips that are shipping early must be disbursed and no doubt count towards the 780 chip total.

I would think that they would NOT be included.
A 10k chip purchase, and can't get a couple dozen gratis?

This is a critical point for people getting their expected share, it seems relevant to consider it.

[John (John K.)]

@ragingazn628

How are you going to deal with fractional chips? They sum up to 15 chips. I guess you could round down the number of chips and count the price of fractional chips towards shipping costs. Remaining 15 chips could be sold to someone in the group.

Also the developer chips that are shipping early must be disbursed and no doubt count towards the 780 chip total.

I would think that they would NOT be included.
A 10k chip purchase, and can't get a couple dozen gratis?

This is a critical point for people getting their expected share, it seems relevant to consider it.

I was under the impression that the dev chips were gratis.

[Bicknellski]

The Gratis Chips...

1. We should all vote on it.


I personally think it is best if we as a group spread these chips directly to developers with promising DIY open source designs.

What do others think?

[erschiessen]

The Gratis Chips...

1. We should all vote on it.


I personally think it is best if we as a group spread these chips directly to developers with promising DIY open source designs.

What do others think?

I agree.

[JahPowerBit]

I hereby declare that I have traded 8 chips to Lailoken. I no longer have the rights to these 8 chips ordered in this thread.

Thanks,
JahPowerBit