Who likes pod miners?

[AJRGale]

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It's some kind of scam alt coin, and not relevant to this thread, Mr. Bounty collector. If it isn't Bitcoin it doesn't belong here.

meh, I just reported it to mods, I'm just ignoring it. probably spammed it in others across this board. just checked, nope.

[ZedZedNova]

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It's some kind of scam alt coin, and not relevant to this thread, Mr. Bounty collector. If it isn't Bitcoin it doesn't belong here.

meh, I just reported it to mods, I'm just ignoring it. probably spammed it in others across this board. just checked, nope.

Yah, I did the same.

[Namrok]

Got mine!  Have them up and running on the same Pi 3B board as 5 2Pacs.  I backed everything down to stock for now to see if the USB bus gets congested, but so far so good.  The 2pacs are all humming along at ~11Gh/s (plugged into a 7-Port Superpbag USB hub), and the pair of pods I got are churning out their ~66Gh/s (plugged directly into the Pi 3B).  One of them is churning out more HW errors than all the others.  Up to 8 of them in about an hour or so, which isn't outrageous.  That aside, so far so good!

[QuintLeo]

Terminus shipping = finally get to put some serious time in on 14/16nm based project?

[sidehack]

Test boards arrived this morning.

[qctechno]

Test boards arrived this morning.

Populated with BitFury chips ? 

[sidehack]

No, bare PCBs.

[HagssFIN]

Any news from Niko Punin from Bitfury if they are still able to sell some BF16BTC8162 chips for your project?
I've heard that their sales are pretty much full booked at the moment.

[goodney]

@sidehack... I get the impression that your new boards are using a chip other than Bitfury. Can you share what chip you are using?

[sunk818]

Any news from Niko Punin from Bitfury if they are still able to sell some BF16BTC8162 chips for your project?
I've heard that their sales are pretty much full booked at the moment.

Can you explain Bitfury chip vs Bitmain BM1384 chip? I don't know about the chips... Is Bitfury chips more energy efficient, so higher hashrates for less watts? Does the thinner chips help with this?

[QuintLeo]

BM1384 is the chip Bitmain used in the S5 - 2 generations old now and VERY low efficiency compared to current chips/miners (though tuneable for better than the S5 itself managed).

[HagssFIN]

Can you explain Bitfury chip vs Bitmain BM1384 chip?  Is Bitfury chips more energy efficient, so higher hashrates for less watts?

Yes.

Bitfury BF16BTC8162
Link: http://bitfury.com/products#16nm-asic

[sunk818]

Cool! I'd love a 1 TH/s pod miner. I'm getting around 280 GH/s with my set up now.

Can you explain Bitfury chip vs Bitmain BM1384 chip?  Is Bitfury chips more energy efficient, so higher hashrates for less watts?

Yes.

Bitfury BF16BTC8162
Link: http://bitfury.com/products#16nm-asic

[sidehack]

So, announcement.

Terminus pods are still available and in stock. 2Pacs and power supply boards (both DPS800/Common-Slot and Dell 750W) are also in stock.

However, starting here directly, Laura will no longer be acting as a sales rep.

That job, though mutually beneficial, was created for her in order to help meet her needs. She's recently found a great job doing what she loves so the necessity is no longer present, and that job is taking up a fair amount of time and energy so she's no longer able to keep up with the flood of emails.

If you started an order with Laura, she'll see it through to the end. But any new orders need to go through sales@gekkoscience.com instead.

Laura gladly took on and handled well what I consider to be the worst part of business, so if you get the chance to drop her a line, make sure you say thanks for all her work and wish her good luck in the future.

[TheNerdyType]

I received my two Terminus 808 miners yesterday. One is hooked to a computer PSU and the other connected to a 12v brick I had laying around.

They ran happily overnight with default settings. Yay! Today I'm experimenting with settings. I also expect to ditch the brick and run both off the PSU once I get another PCIe cable.

Thanks, sidehack, for your innovation and perseverance in getting these to market at a reasonable price. Your support is also appreciated and curmudgeonly responses are entertaining.

The Nerdy Type

[HagssFIN]

https://hotmine.io/catalog/8

Hotmine has the Bitfury BF8162C16 chip listed for sale at $9USD per piece.

[Morguk]

Anyone in the EU ordered these yet? Got denied and asked to wait for Bitshopper..

[AWHY]

Anyone in the EU ordered these yet? Got denied and asked to wait for Bitshopper..

Same, wanted to order one but was asked to wait for Bitshopper.

[sunk818]

Now with 10nm chips from Samsung being used on Halong Miners, I wonder if those chips will be available for use by @sidehack.

Cool! I'd love a 1 TH/s pod miner. I'm getting around 280 GH/s with my set up now.

Can you explain Bitfury chip vs Bitmain BM1384 chip?  Is Bitfury chips more energy efficient, so higher hashrates for less watts?

Yes.

Bitfury BF16BTC8162
Link: http://bitfury.com/products#16nm-asic

[lok8nusa]

How effective is the cooling when you get above 200MHZ? Do you need external fan or at what point do you need extra cooling to be used?

I have two Terminus that have been running @ 250 MHz for over two months, non-stop, averaging 98.6 MH/s each. No additional cooling.

Mine on!!!