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[Mindsync Miner]

Pix!  Let's see if BitcoinTalk craps on all of these.  Or my webserver....

......

grnbrg.

Thanks for that grnbrg.
I tipped you today's dividend payment. Thanks much.

[fractal02]

This weeks payout is only 2.5-3 days worth of mining as a payout was made on Wed.

Next week will be a full 7 with a hopefully chunky bonus!!!

Mined BTC: 2.14294572
Per Contract: 0.00001215

Thank you LabRat

With the new Asic Scrypt Era, do you consider Scrypt Altcoins ? Or for LRM it's only BTC focus ? 

[ICantThinkOfaName]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YnYihk2iWoxyD4fYMhwDbeVaQJRjBU_NVARqMXUIOd4

Updated with this weeks divs.

[Lab_Rat]

This weeks payout is only 2.5-3 days worth of mining as a payout was made on Wed.

Next week will be a full 7 with a hopefully chunky bonus!!!

Mined BTC: 2.14294572
Per Contract: 0.00001215

Thank you LabRat

With the new Asic Scrypt Era, do you consider Scrypt Altcoins ? Or for LRM it's only BTC focus ? 

I have looked at a few and I'm considering getting some to try out and pointing them at the Multi-pool and converting to BTC for payouts.  This may happen soon, but right now I have a lot I've been working on so I want to catch my breath for a week or two.

June 1-8 I will have limited cell service if any, but I will be back early June 8th and everything should go as normal while I'm gone.

[cvokey]

You might want to look into spondoolies-tech for hardware they deliver their sp-10 from stock (mine took 3 days from order to door) and they have very good power usage.
only down fall is they are loud as hell
http://www.spondoolies-tech.com/

[MaxwellsDemon]

You might want to look into spondoolies-tech for hardware they deliver their sp-10 from stock (mine took 3 days from order to door) and they have very good power usage.
only down fall is they are loud as hell
http://www.spondoolies-tech.com/

+1
They are rapidly gaining reputation as the most reliable manufacturer in the space right now. 

[grnbrg]

Pix!  Let's see if BitcoinTalk craps on all of these.  Or my webserver....

Thanks for that grnbrg.
I tipped you today's dividend payment. Thanks much.

Thanks!  Appreciated!


grnbrg.

[Mindsync Miner]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YnYihk2iWoxyD4fYMhwDbeVaQJRjBU_NVARqMXUIOd4

Updated with this weeks divs.

Also thanks. Posted a small tip to you.

[DodSno]

Pix!  Let's see if BitcoinTalk craps on all of these.  Or my webserver....

......

grnbrg.

Thanks for that grnbrg.
I tipped you today's dividend payment. Thanks much.

Good idea, I just did the same. Thanks for the effort grnbrg and thanks for the update LR.

[mOomOo]

All in all, about what you'd expect from a data centre (or two) built fast and cheap.  Wire shelving, box fans, piles of power supply boxes stacked in the corners.  Netbooks and network gear strewn about.  Reasonably tame snarls of CAT-5 spaghetti.    What I was surprised by was the electrical stuff, which was all done "correctly" -- conduit for the cables, everything well attached, nothing warm to the touch.  Lab_Rat indicated it had all been cleared by the building inspectors, and it looked it.

Not too exciting to look at pictures, but here they are!
grnbrg.

Is it just me... or was anyone else expecting to see a "data center" when looking at these pics?  All I see is someone's spare room or even living room?   It doesn't really bother me too much as providing it doesn't burn down it will still produce the same hash output...   But, calling it a data center makes it seem like it is in a building designed for computers with racks, secure access (theft resistance?), fire suppressant systems, proper power backups, resilient internet connections, all humidity and climate controlled... you get the idea.
To me it just looks like a decent setup in someone's house, flat or apartment.  (I like the giant fans behind each wire rack!, were they turned on?  Or just there in case of air-con failure?)

[levi]

Is it just me... or was anyone else expecting to see a "data center" when looking at these pics?  All I see is someone's spare room or even living room?   It doesn't really bother me too much as providing it doesn't burn down it will still produce the same hash output...   But, calling it a data center makes it seem like it is in a building designed for computers with racks, secure access (theft resistance?), fire suppressant systems, proper power backups, resilient internet connections, all humidity and climate controlled... you get the idea.
To me it just looks like a decent setup in someone's house, flat or apartment.  (I like the giant fans behind each wire rack!, were they turned on?  Or just there in case of air-con failure?)

yeah, not quire what I was expecting. A data center with carpeted floors?

I mean, if it works, it works. Also, pretty amazed by how little hardware there is. It makes sense based on our hash-rate and the hardware types, I just had a picture in my mind of them spanning a larger amount of space.

Not saying anything negative, just wasn't what I pictured.

[tar_meneldur]

I find it humorous that LostDutchman slammed LRM's contract partly on the basis of grammar and misspellings,while the organization he puts in his sig (that leads to Quickstopcorporationshop.com) has a bunch of this on their webpage.  Does he criticize them as well?

Creative spellings:
"cyrpto"?  "siginificantly"?  "ecorporation"?

Interesting grammar:
"It my own assets"
"a corporation is a separate legal entitities"
And the best of all: "in order to preserve the insulation from liability".  Wow. Can insulation be sued?

[LostDutchman]

I find it humorous that LostDutchman slammed LRM's contract partly on the basis of grammar and misspellings,while the organization he puts in his sig (that leads to Quickstopcorporationshop.com) has a bunch of this on their webpage.  Does he criticize them as well?

Creative spellings:
"cyrpto"?  "siginificantly"?  "ecorporation"?

Interesting grammar:
"It my own assets"
"a corporation is a separate legal entitities"
And the best of all: "in order to preserve the insulation from liability".  Wow. Can insulation be sued?

Yeah, my webguy sometimes isn't much for proper English but I will fix it.

Thanks for pointing out the errors and you have a good day, OK?

[grnbrg]

Is it just me... or was anyone else expecting to see a "data center" when looking at these pics?  All I see is someone's spare room or even living room?   It doesn't really bother me too much as providing it doesn't burn down it will still produce the same hash output...   But, calling it a data center makes it seem like it is in a building designed for computers with racks, secure access (theft resistance?), fire suppressant systems, proper power backups, resilient internet connections, all humidity and climate controlled... you get the idea.
To me it just looks like a decent setup in someone's house, flat or apartment.  (I like the giant fans behind each wire rack!, were they turned on?  Or just there in case of air-con failure?)

The locations are pretty nondescript from the outside -- industrial(ish) strip mall spaces.  A "real" datacentre (with "a building designed for computers with racks, secure access (theft resistance?), fire suppressant systems, proper power backups, resilient internet connections, all humidity and climate controlled) would run in the millions and take a lot of time to build.  You can rent space from established operators, but the power requirements for mining are absurd when compared to general server operations.  Operating in rented rack space in an established DC host would likely (and I'm pulling a number out of my arse, here) increase monthly costs by a factor of 10.

I didn't post the pictures I took of the AC units (and I only have pictures of the interior blowers, as I didn't take exterior pictures for obvious reasons) because they're even more boring than the hardware pictures.  But there is significant cooling that was added to each of the two locations.  And there was a *lot* of Bitfury hardware, although it may be hard to judge.  There is also an out-of-state DC that I didn't get to see that has a lot of the newer hardware.

So, for my part, not really too surprised.



grnbrg.

[mOomOo]

Is it just me... or was anyone else expecting to see a "data center" when looking at these pics?  All I see is someone's spare room or even living room?   It doesn't really bother me too much as providing it doesn't burn down it will still produce the same hash output...   But, calling it a data center makes it seem like it is in a building designed for computers with racks, secure access (theft resistance?), fire suppressant systems, proper power backups, resilient internet connections, all humidity and climate controlled... you get the idea.
To me it just looks like a decent setup in someone's house, flat or apartment.  (I like the giant fans behind each wire rack!, were they turned on?  Or just there in case of air-con failure?)

The locations are pretty nondescript from the outside -- industrial(ish) strip mall spaces.  A "real" datacentre (with "a building designed for computers with racks, secure access (theft resistance?), fire suppressant systems, proper power backups, resilient internet connections, all humidity and climate controlled) would run in the millions and take a lot of time to build.  You can rent space from established operators, but the power requirements for mining are absurd when compared to general server operations.  Operating in rented rack space in an established DC host would likely (and I'm pulling a number out of my arse, here) increase monthly costs by a factor of 10.

I didn't post the pictures I took of the AC units (and I only have pictures of the interior blowers, as I didn't take exterior pictures for obvious reasons) because they're even more boring than the hardware pictures.  But there is significant cooling that was added to each of the two locations.  And there was a *lot* of Bitfury hardware, although it may be hard to judge.  There is also an out-of-state DC that I didn't get to see that has a lot of the newer hardware.

So, for my part, not really too surprised.
grnbrg.

I wasn't expecting Labrat to build a data center...  And as I said, as long as it works it makes no difference to me.  But the fact that it had been called a "datacantre" made the picture in my head significantly different to what the photo's showed and I obviously made the wrong assumption he was renting rack space.
(Perhaps my idea of a data center is different to others, so as a brief explanation I am an IT consultant that deals with small to medium businesses from around 10 to 600 PC's.  This has allowed me to work in a number of small and large data centers and numerous small business server rooms.  Small business server rooms can range from downright crappy to quite elaborate, however all data centers I have worked in have at least visually looked quite similar with rows of server racks and the above mentioned fit outs.)

[CumpsD]

(Perhaps my idea of a data center is different to others, so as a brief explanation I am an IT consultant that deals with small to medium businesses from around 10 to 600 PC's.  This has allowed me to work in a number of small and large data centers and numerous small business server rooms.  Small business server rooms can range from downright crappy to quite elaborate, however all data centers I have worked in have at least visually looked quite similar with rows of server racks and the above mentioned fit outs.)

Nope, your idea of a DC is pretty much the general population's idea of one

[ICantThinkOfaName]

(Perhaps my idea of a data center is different to others, so as a brief explanation I am an IT consultant that deals with small to medium businesses from around 10 to 600 PC's.  This has allowed me to work in a number of small and large data centers and numerous small business server rooms.  Small business server rooms can range from downright crappy to quite elaborate, however all data centers I have worked in have at least visually looked quite similar with rows of server racks and the above mentioned fit outs.)

Nope, your idea of a DC is pretty much the general population's idea of one

I think the carpet helps mask the tiny screams of agony from all the hardware every time the difficulty goes up...

[maqifrnswa]

Two news stories from today involving bitcoin security offerings and hosted mining companies:
"Eric Voorhees Faces $50,000 Fine Over Unauthorized Securities Sale"
http://www.coindesk.com/sec-eric-voorhees-deal-unauthorized-securities-sales/

"Missouri Secretary of State Halts Mining Business Over ‘Deceptive Tactics'"
http://www.coindesk.com/missouri-secretary-state-halts-mining-business-deceptive-tactics/

LRM is not close to being as bad as those two (Voorhees blatantly had an IPO of an unregistered security; VMC was intentionally deceptive); I think LRM doesn't have to worry about this stuff. It's close, but it should fall on the "safe" side.

[bigdude]

LabRat ... can we please be listed on Havelock!

[Doff]

LabRat ... can we please be listed on Havelock!

LabRat ... can we please be listed period!