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[leadnor]

Hey leadnor,

as I see this, the boards will be overclockable and people will probably need heatsinks to Run these boards then and cool them accordingly.

If you are interested I could do case design or heatsink design for this project, please contact me for details.

@cscape and intron
great work guys!


Foofighter

Awesome Foofighter. we will defn have a look into this. If we can get the current 3gh/s chips OC'd cleanly and safely. it would be awesome.

[leadnor]

Lets open this up to the community once again

Do you want us to ship with casings. Or our naked units that you can OC yourself and add extra cooling extra by yourselves?
Remember the naked units will run cooler the way they are.


We could even give you 2 options to have casings or naked?

What do you think? 

let me know

[crazyearner]

any arangemtns to do local pick up and what options are they going to be besides bitcoin or is this to be btc only

[leadnor]

any arangemtns to do local pick up and what options are they going to be besides bitcoin or is this to be btc only

Hi

Yes there will be local pickups. As soon as we receive the test chips from bitfury with the control chips, we will even make the test units available to the community so that can see we have it up and running here in South Africa and not just in the UK.

We are finalizing our bitpay account. then fiat would also be accepted on special circumstance. We want to try and keep everything in BTC as much as possible, to keep the btc flow going. But yeah

Plus a few more surprises for the South Africa community as well after the first few batches are sold. We are busy working toward getting BTC accepted as payment in South Africa in a lot of the biggest chain stores. That is our main goal. TO get BTC accepted as payment in South Africa

[crazyearner]

any arangemtns to do local pick up and what options are they going to be besides bitcoin or is this to be btc only

Hi

Yes there will be local pickups. As soon as we receive the test chips from bitfury with the control chips, we will even make the test units available to the community so that can see we have it up and running here in South Africa and not just in the UK.

We are finalizing our bitpay account. then fiat would also be accepted on special circumstance. We want to try and keep everything in BTC as much as possible, to keep the btc flow going. But yeah

Plus a few more surprises for the South Africa community as well after the first few batches are sold. We are busy working toward getting BTC accepted as payment in South Africa in a lot of the biggest chain stores. That is our main goal. TO get BTC accepted as payment in South Africa

So you are planning to do sales from within the UK then?

[nexus99]

I will keep an eye on you guys. Hoping that you can be cost competitive with the 400 GH/S units from other providers.

[WinterParker]

Prices are okay but it seems, like a bit especially if we are looking at Oct or later for delivery.

[AcidRaZor]

With the difficulty expected to be around 200mil by the time you guys ship; the only way you'd be able to break even on a unit is if you buy the 400GH/s one. Unfortunately I don't see the price for a BTC to go up any time soon to compensate for the slower rate due to difficulty. Unfortunately I don't have the money for a 400GH/s unit

[Foofighter]

you have to consider that this boards can be fully oced, so dont calculate with non oced specs

[leadnor]

hahaha yeah maybe we should OC the boards from the start

At least we are using the new SHash boards from Cscape. So OCing will be a lot easier Things are going great guys. Once again thanks for all the support

[leadnor]

Oh another "plus"  S-HASH boards have on-board networking, a 50Amp power supply and is easier to Overclock

lets hope we can get a lot more than the 50GH/s out of them while testing

1 PCB = 48-50GH/s So yeah.

[AcidRaZor]

So by how much can a 50GH/s unit be overclocked for?

[leadnor]

We are still busy with the tests. Waiting on the new test chips to arrive now so that we can continue, and actually push a few units to the limit.

[crazyearner]

We are still busy with the tests. Waiting on the new test chips to arrive now so that we can continue, and actually push a few units to the limit.

Nice too see tests are been made I have 1 question in regards to the pre orders.

I have seen a jump in the 400GH price by 20BTC why has this gone up in price when prices where less than this befor?

Also instead of paying via site after submit or however you have done it can it be arranged for pay on collect ?

[dogie]

If you want me to verify a prototype once its up and running, send it my way and let me know what baby food it likes. I'm sure my clients would be interested.

[leadnor]

If you want me to verify a prototype once its up and running, send it my way and let me know what baby food it likes. I'm sure my clients would be interested.

hahahaha

@crazyearner, Bitfury increased his price per chip. And also we are including quite a lot more with these boards. Including the SHash design which is overclockable instead of the current bitfury design that is out there.

You can pay when you collect sure. But the chances of us actually having any left in stock is extremely low. People pay now if they want to reserve the stock and reserve a unit, so that when it comes. They dont have to wait in a long queue like BFL etc. As we ship out all the units after they have been manufactured and assembled. Whereas if we do it piece by piece. We order one unit. ship that unit. order another etc. the lead times are extremely long.

So if we have any units left in stock. Then you are more than welcome to pay and collect.

Its like ordering a brand new Ferrari, The chances of the dealers ever having anything in stock is very slim so you put in your order so that when they do have. you get it asap

I hope I made sense there. Otherwise let me know and I will try rephrase, havent had much sleep the past few days. making sure everything is in order takes its toll hehe

[leadnor]

We received a case design from a member of the community which looks amazing. Will ask him to put the design on the thread for you guys to see.

[leadnor]

Intron is also busy testing the USB miners. aka 2 bitfury chips on a usb chip. awesome

[AcidRaZor]

With the estimated difficulty rising from 54mil to almost 67mil in the last week I seriously doubt any of this would be viable anymore

[navidos]

is your site down?