ASICMiner USB group buy- orders closed, pay for extra!

[arklan]

That looks like an ancient power supply in the front.

I might change it to an ATX psu later, depends if I can find one in my stash that is more efficient.

It was originally from a 3Com 24 port 10mbps network hub

woah.

[Xian01]

It was originally from a 3Com 24 port 10mbps network hub

 You win the MacGyver award for today. Impressive.

[doubledave]

Finally got my Erupters today, thanks Arklan


Hashing away 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1181169/P101017466.jpg

I see a Raspberry Pi in the background with a heatsink attached, 5 USB blockerupters, a basic stamp 2, a dangerous looking power supply (maybe dangerous only if you have young kids or pets in the room), and some device with a big fan on it that I can't identify.

[Photon939]

The device with the heatpipes is a BFL Jalapeno and it's an Arduino nano (although I do have a basic stamp 2 floating around somewhere)

The block erupters and Jalapeno are both running on the raspi, getting 6.7 Ghash/s

[John (John K.)]

Rating added, and held data deleted!

Awesome work Arklan!

[arklan]

Rating added, and held data deleted!

Awesome work Arklan!

thanks.

[LazyOtto]

arklan, torusJKL still does not show as shipped.

What is the story there, please?

[arklan]

arklan, torusJKL still does not show as shipped.

What is the story there, please?

was waiting on him for an address. it's shipped now, but i haven't updated the spreadsheet to reflect that.

i'll do so now.

[aahzmundus]

YEAY my miners arrived today!


And now I have a trove of information to go back through to get mine working.  Looks like there were lots of updates to software so maybe I will have no issues at all!

[Rant2112]

Rating added

Can someone explain what this means?

Thanks.

[arklan]

Rating added

Can someone explain what this means?

Thanks.

look at the lower left of your, any any, post. there was an addition to the forum a short while ago allowing for "trust" ratings.

[Adrian-x]

OP Updated

If you reach the total volume of 1,000 USB sticks, price is dropped to 0.89 each. We will also pay back the price difference of all your historic transaction (timeline started from the 0.99 pricing) of USB sticks. For example, if you bought more than 1,000 sticks, 500 for 1.99 and 500 for 0.99, the new price will be 0.89, and we will pay you the price difference for the 0.99 USB sticks, that is (0.99-0.89)*500=50BTC.[/b]

Sorry for the original ambiguation before that misled some customers that the price difference we pay back is 1.0BTC. What we expected to say is for the price difference based on both new prices.

If you didn't know friedcat has a deal for all those early adopters of the USB Block Erupter.
I guess it is only available to arklan if he organises another group buy.

[PeZ]

In a few weeks it'll be 0.6 BTC.   

[bigbeninlondon]

OP Updated

If you reach the total volume of 1,000 USB sticks, price is dropped to 0.89 each. We will also pay back the price difference of all your historic transaction (timeline started from the 0.99 pricing) of USB sticks. For example, if you bought more than 1,000 sticks, 500 for 1.99 and 500 for 0.99, the new price will be 0.89, and we will pay you the price difference for the 0.99 USB sticks, that is (0.99-0.89)*500=50BTC.[/b]

Sorry for the original ambiguation before that misled some customers that the price difference we pay back is 1.0BTC. What we expected to say is for the price difference based on both new prices.

If you didn't know friedcat has a deal for all those early adopters of the USB Block Erupter.
I guess it is only available to arklan if he organises another group buy.

How would this work?  For his group buy, they'll refund the difference from the original group buy as a credit towards a new buy?  We should definitely research this!  I'll participate. 

[Adrian-x]

I think I will wait until a balance between difficulty, price and ASIC saturation occurs before buying anything new.

But for what it is worth:

OP Updated

If you reach the total volume of 1,000 USB sticks, price is dropped to 0.89 each. We will also pay back the price difference of all your historic transaction (timeline started from the 0.99 pricing) of USB sticks. For example, if you bought more than 1,000 sticks, 500 for 1.99 and 500 for 0.99, the new price will be 0.89, and we will pay you the price difference for the 0.99 USB sticks, that is (0.99-0.89)*500=50BTC.

Sorry for the original ambiguation before that misled some customers that the price difference we pay back is 1.0BTC. What we expected to say is for the price difference based on both new prices.

Think what he means is he'll sell you another 500 for BTC495.  So once you buy, you can tell him you've got 1000 total and he should refund back BTC50.  So your order total for the 500 will end up costing BTC445.  The .89 pricing applies only to the usbs bought since the .99 price change.

Clear as mud to me and for everyone else.   

[bigbeninlondon]

I think I will wait until a balance between difficulty, price and ASIC saturation occurs before buying anything new.

But for what it is worth:

OP Updated

If you reach the total volume of 1,000 USB sticks, price is dropped to 0.89 each. We will also pay back the price difference of all your historic transaction (timeline started from the 0.99 pricing) of USB sticks. For example, if you bought more than 1,000 sticks, 500 for 1.99 and 500 for 0.99, the new price will be 0.89, and we will pay you the price difference for the 0.99 USB sticks, that is (0.99-0.89)*500=50BTC.

Sorry for the original ambiguation before that misled some customers that the price difference we pay back is 1.0BTC. What we expected to say is for the price difference based on both new prices.

Think what he means is he'll sell you another 500 for BTC495.  So once you buy, you can tell him you've got 1000 total and he should refund back BTC50.  So your order total for the 500 will end up costing BTC445.  The .89 pricing applies only to the usbs bought since the .99 price change.

Clear as mud to me and for everyone else.   

Looks like the .99 is being reduced to .89, but the 1.99 is left static.  First comers, sorry about your luck.

[tvbcof]

OP Updated

If you reach the total volume of 1,000 USB sticks, price is dropped to 0.89 each. We will also pay back the price difference of all your historic transaction (timeline started from the 0.99 pricing) of USB sticks. For example, if you bought more than 1,000 sticks, 500 for 1.99 and 500 for 0.99, the new price will be 0.89, and we will pay you the price difference for the 0.99 USB sticks, that is (0.99-0.89)*500=50BTC.[/b]

Sorry for the original ambiguation before that misled some customers that the price difference we pay back is 1.0BTC. What we expected to say is for the price difference based on both new prices.

If you didn't know friedcat has a deal for all those early adopters of the USB Block Erupter.
I guess it is only available to arklan if he organises another group buy.

John K. forked over the money to Friedcat.  I would say that he just got a pretty nice little pay-day.  What think ye, John K.?

Anyone could have seen this price drop coming as soon as the BKK drawings were released given the very high price.  I specifically suggested that Friedcat drop his prices before the first delivery do avoid the complexity (to lazy to dig up the post right now.)

If this at least some of this windfall makes it's way back to the wallets from which the BTC originated I'll be shocked even given Arklan's and John K.'s historic level of fairness and attention.

[arklan]

OP Updated

If you reach the total volume of 1,000 USB sticks, price is dropped to 0.89 each. We will also pay back the price difference of all your historic transaction (timeline started from the 0.99 pricing) of USB sticks. For example, if you bought more than 1,000 sticks, 500 for 1.99 and 500 for 0.99, the new price will be 0.89, and we will pay you the price difference for the 0.99 USB sticks, that is (0.99-0.89)*500=50BTC.[/b]

Sorry for the original ambiguation before that misled some customers that the price difference we pay back is 1.0BTC. What we expected to say is for the price difference based on both new prices.

If you didn't know friedcat has a deal for all those early adopters of the USB Block Erupter.
I guess it is only available to arklan if he organises another group buy.

John K. forked over the money to Friedcat.  I would say that he just got a pretty nice little pay-day.  What think ye, John K.?

Anyone could have seen this price drop coming as soon as the BKK drawings were released given the very high price.  I specifically suggested that Friedcat drop his prices before the first delivery do avoid the complexity (to lazy to dig up the post right now.)

If this at least some of this windfall makes it's way back to the wallets from which the BTC originated I'll be shocked even given Arklan's and John K.'s historic level of fairness and attention.

considering i have no intention of running another group buy (real world obligations...) unfortunately, there will be no windfall from this group buy.

[tvbcof]

John K. forked over the money to Friedcat.  I would say that he just got a pretty nice little pay-day.  What think ye, John K.?

Anyone could have seen this price drop coming as soon as the BKK drawings were released given the very high price.  I specifically suggested that Friedcat drop his prices before the first delivery do avoid the complexity (to lazy to dig up the post right now.)

If this at least some of this windfall makes it's way back to the wallets from which the BTC originated I'll be shocked even given Arklan's and John K.'s historic level of fairness and attention.

considering i have no intention of running another group buy (real world obligations...) unfortunately, there will be no windfall from this group buy.

Actually I was mis-reading this.  I thought Friedcat was simply refunding the overpay for historic orders.  Silly me (though not silly enough to pay 4 to 8 times what they are possibly worth do run a (very cool) USB-based mining farm.)

I've yet to plug my single device into a USB port.  Not worth the hassle to me.

It does seem logically like John K. is authorized to leverage the price break on behalf of future group-buy efforts, and it would be right for him to do so.  Unless there were a three-way deal between Friedcat, John K., and Arklan, Friedcat got the funds from John K.  If that is true and/or John K. decides to leverage this, he has my blessing.  Some percentage of a kick-back on the basis of my wallet funding the savings would not be rejected but nor is it expected (on my part.)

[arklan]

John K. forked over the money to Friedcat.  I would say that he just got a pretty nice little pay-day.  What think ye, John K.?

Anyone could have seen this price drop coming as soon as the BKK drawings were released given the very high price.  I specifically suggested that Friedcat drop his prices before the first delivery do avoid the complexity (to lazy to dig up the post right now.)

If this at least some of this windfall makes it's way back to the wallets from which the BTC originated I'll be shocked even given Arklan's and John K.'s historic level of fairness and attention.

considering i have no intention of running another group buy (real world obligations...) unfortunately, there will be no windfall from this group buy.

Actually I was mis-reading this.  I thought Friedcat was simply refunding the overpay for historic orders.  Silly me (though not silly enough to pay 4 to 8 times what they are possibly worth do run a (very cool) USB-based mining farm.)

I've yet to plug my single device into a USB port.  Not worth the hassle to me.

It does seem logically like John K. is authorized to leverage the price break on behalf of future group-buy efforts, and it would be right for him to do so.  Unless there were a three-way deal between Friedcat, John K., and Arklan, Friedcat got the funds from John K.  If that is true and/or John K. decides to leverage this, he has my blessing.  Some percentage of a kick-back on the basis of my wallet funding the savings would not be rejected but nor is it expected (on my part.)

i'd have no problem with john doing so... god knows he's over the 1000 minimum...