HashFast launches sales of the Baby Jet

[Simon Barber]

Hi Everyone,

HashFast is launching sales of the Baby Jet.

Here are details:

System Specs
 - 1 HashFast Golden Nonce (GN) Chip
 - Hashing Output: 400 Gigahash/s at nominal clock speed
 - Under 350 watt power draw^*
 - Efficient liquid cooling

Chip Specs
 - 28nm custom ASIC
 - Power Consumption: significantly less than 1.0 W/GH at nominal clock speed
 - Designed to be underclocked for greater efficiency – better than 0.5 W/GH^*
 - Designed to be overclocked for greater performance  - better than 500GH/s^**

Logistics
 - We are selling 550 Baby Jet units for $5,600 each

 - Shipments begin: October 20^th-30^th, in order of purchase
 - Payments to be made in BTC with the help of BitPay

 - Order sequence to be posted publicly, sans private information
 - Weekly production updates will be sent to the email address attached to each order

The online shop is here:
https://www.hashfast.com/shop

We are very excited about this launch. A lot of talented people have been working very hard for a long time to make this happen.

 - HashFast Team

* Real silicon power consumption may vary from simulation results by plus or minus 20%
** May require improved power supplies in the chassis

[erk]

Any plans on smaller units for us poor folk?

[gateway]

Awesome guys! Can't wait to have this mining in my server room!

[gateway]

Any plans on smaller units for us poor folk?

Thats the poor folk edition

[gateway]

The link you sent also says:

Designed to be underclocked for greater efficiency – better than 0.5 W/GH*
Designed to be overclocked for greater performance  - better than 500GH/s**

Please tell us what exactly we need to buy so we can overclock it.

I would assume any of the standard water cooling systems out their, If I had to guess

[Vagnavs]

Only BTC for payment. how about credit card?

[Simon Barber]

Designed to be underclocked for greater efficiency – better than 0.5 W/GH*
Designed to be overclocked for greater performance  - better than 500GH/s**

Please tell us what exactly we need to buy so we can overclock it.

We are still working on the power supply design. We hope to include a supply that will allow significant overclocking with the box, but we don't want to over promise, so we are keeping our specifications conservative.

[minternj]

So power consumption variance is +-20%, can we infer the same with hash rate then? Since usually more power  means more heat to dissipate.

[JHenderson]

BitPay Payment seems broken.

[Simon Barber]

So power consumption variance is +-20%, can we infer the same with hash rate then? Since usually more power  means more heat to dissipate.

Most commonly the power consumption of real silicon comes in better (lower) than the predictions from the Apache Redhawk tool we are using. The cooling system in the Baby Jet is massively over engineered, to give some margin, and to support overclocking.

[HashFast]

BitPay Payment seems broken.

I believe there are just a lot of people in line, please be patient.

John

[Simon Barber]

BitPay Payment seems broken.

We are having some trouble with BitPay right now. If you get an error, try the payment link a second time - this seems to fix it.

[gateway]

BitPay Payment seems broken.

yea another friend of mine reported that as well.. bitpay fail!

[gateway]

BitPay Payment seems broken.

I believe there are just a lot of people in line, please be patient.

John

Give me a jingle..

[JHenderson]

Error creating bitpay invoice. Please try again or try another payment method.

[Bogart]

- 1 HashFast Golden Nonce (GN) Chip
 - Under 350 watt power draw^*

Doesn't removing ~250W TDP from one single chip die seem like a significant engineering challenge?

What's the core voltage on that bad boy?  Sounds like you'd need to be supplying it with at least a couple hundred amps...

[HashFast]

Error creating bitpay invoice. Please try again or try another payment method.

I'll hit you up privately.

John

[hchc]

There is no much room in the pricing. If they are >4 weeks late (i.e. deliver late Nov) you are not gonna ROI. If they deliver on time, you will profit ~6k. This is with current difficulty slope and $/btc.

[Bitcoinorama]

Is there hosting? This is water cooled.

[SgtSpike]

How does anyone know this isn't a scam?  Endorsed by cypherdoc, ok.  But beyond that?

Simon, assuming you're not out to steal people's money (which, truthfully, I don't think you are, but I don't know you're not), what about your ability to deliver?  What if something goes wrong with the design?  It consumes more electricity than expected... ok, now what?  Does it mean a delay of several months for your customers while you re-engineer everything?  Or the chip just flat out doesn't work because of some overlooked hardware bug.  How long will it take to correct it?  Or you can't find a 28nm fab to squeeze you into their schedule.  What will you do?