[CLOSED] R9: BLACK ARROW Bullet Run w Bitfury Chips! 40% off + HOST + UPS +Bonus

[bobsag3]

Rolla, MO, United States    10/31/2013    7:45 A.M.   Out For Delivery
10/31/2013    7:38 A.M.   Arrival Scan

Awesome. Does this mean most likely you will start mining for us today? When  will shares be paid out? Scheduled date?

Thx!

Ill do my best to get them up today, but certainly by tomorrow morning.

[alh]

When I saw the above tracking info for Rolla, MO. I just started to laugh. I attended the University of Missouri - Rolla (UMR) many years ago. Prior to it's joining the University of Missouri system, it had been called the "Missouri School of Mines" (aka MSM). I think it's only appropriate that a "Bitcoin Mining" operation is in such close proximity to MSM. Something tells me that the Geology Department won't be adding "Bitcoin Mining 101" to the curriculum any time soon. 

Best of luck Bob in your setup of R9.

[high110]

How can we see stats on how the miners perform? How often are payments made? 

[thomas_s]

How can we see stats on how the miners perform? How often are payments made? 

We will likely add another Round page to the website which will display a total. Payments will also probably be made every 2 weeks (the 1st and 15th is working for R5/6 so I'd like to go with that).

[DyslexicZombei]

When I saw the above tracking info for Rolla, MO. I just started to laugh. I attended the University of Missouri - Rolla (UMR) many years ago. Prior to it's joining the University of Missouri system, it had been called the "Missouri School of Mines" (aka MSM). I think it's only appropriate that a "Bitcoin Mining" operation is in such close proximity to MSM. Something tells me that the Geology Department won't be adding "Bitcoin Mining 101" to the curriculum any time soon.  

Best of luck Bob in your setup of R9.

Cool! It's a small world after all. I heard that in a song somewhere.  
oil

Funny that you would mention geography. A funny thing is our newest vetted co-op GB Coordinator, our 6th, isn't even registered here yet but is a VP of his own small but active oil company in Texas. He likes gold/silver and sees BTC as both digital gold and a good hedge. If even oil money is starting to show up in Bitcoin I'd say our little BTC is starting to grow up.  

I have an update: some good news, bad news.

Bad: He's still working out the chaining of the miners. This is important because he only has so many Pis. We're also seeing a little under performance as far as hashrate but kano is working on the cgminer chainminer integration so we should see improvements on that. Such is life on the bleeding edge of a bullet run.

Good: Since bobsag3 is basically Good Guy Bob he's going to make sure that to add a board to our 20 board stack to get our min. hashrate to 8.34GH/s as promised while software issues are worked on. He also managed to stack 6 boards, so far, even with the issues he's seeing.

Bobsag's busy as heck but I'll post some pics he shared with me as soon as I upload them to my cloud photos.

[DyslexicZombei]

Latest pics:

Unboxing
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll87/SurfSkateKauai/c6c0691a-6c27-4ead-8647-2da4b9a91778.jpg
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll87/SurfSkateKauai/f41e6ac6-274e-42af-b4ca-e2fdcf56d3b6.jpg

chainminer screenshot, 96 chips: http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll87/SurfSkateKauai/96chips1.png

6 board stack, working: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r77umsa7eoo7x58/Photo%20Nov%2001%2C%202%2003%2000%20PM.jpg
chainminer screenshot from this stack (slight under performance which should be improved by native chainminer support): http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll87/SurfSkateKauai/ScreenShot2013-11-01at15835PM.png

I realized that I'm a little bummed that they're underperforming, but sometimes things don't always work out with initial implementations. But on the bright side this was guaranteed to be shipping by Nov. 1 and we're fortunate to have already received it! kano has been shipped a simultaneous shipment so he'll hopefully be able to tweak some improvements while he adds native BA support to chainminer.

Group Buyers are going to be compensated for any under performance of the 8.34 GH/s mark per share that was promised.

[DyslexicZombei]

Gents and ladies, a Saturday, 11/2 update:

- Bob's been having problems chaining the miners beyond a certain point which has limited his ability to stack miners as he only has so many Pis to go around. He seems to have gotten past much of the earlier issues but can't stack more than 6 at the moment (the goal was 10 boards per Pi)
- He's blown a few Pis and a couple of PSUs during his testing.
- He's currently up to almost 1 TH (our target is 3.2 - 4 TH, combined from all 4 Rounds
- He's currently short Pis due to them failing,and his overnight shipment of a bunch of extras from Amazon is stuck at UPS till Monday
- We've learned a lot too: Bullet Runs can be messy, best to have waaay more supplies than you think you needed

- Because I promised optimistically that the boards would be running by now, we're going to make up the hashrate difference based on the following schedule:

Rounds 9/10 should be up to 1TH today, the target is 1.68 - 2TH/s: This pool has just started mining, but there's no dashboards set up yet. When mining deposits appear they're heading to this Black Arrow Bullet Run wallet address: https://blockchain.info/address/1JazVMG7E47ceaTnwbGzeGsrAQeURniwZV

For calculation purposes - Since yesterday, Nov.1, for daily coins expected to be mined I'll be using www.bitcoinx.com as a calculator for lost hashrate compensation calculations unless someone else has a better suggestion.

Rounds 11/12 should be running by the end of the day in Missouri by Monday evening: If hashrate is less than the promised 1.68 TH/s for R11/12 by Tuesday morning, then the same calculations listed above for lost hashrate calculations still apply.


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We'd rather take a small hit and keep our co-op members happy, then to have upset co-op members due to the delays. With this in mind, Bobsag3 is adding 3 extra boards per GB (instead of 1 extra) in order to improve hashrate and make up for lost mining power for each Group Buy Round.

If this extra hashrate still doesn't compensate for lost time/hashrate at the end of the mining period, then bobsag3 and the DZ MC will be compensating you directly.

[bobsag3]

Just dropping in for a quick second, Im still alive.

Current stats (Still speeding up)[BTCGuild Leaderboard]
207   286808   931.30 GH/s

EDIT:
158   286808   1,194.96 GH/s

[DyslexicZombei]

Just dropping in for a quick second, Im still alive.

Current stats (Still speeding up)[BTCGuild Leaderboard]
207   286808   931.30 GH/s

Great news!

We're actually at 1.2 TH+ and climbing. He can still do 12-14 more boards before Monday.

Hubs are resetting the power strips but so far, so good. Knocking on wood...

BTW, we can now watch the hashrate remotely here via the link below. Thank you Thomas!

http://www.dzminercoop.com/?page_id=302

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Also, all rounds have now been combined for easier accounting and as a bonus to Round 11 and 12 customers. 

This doesn't effect Round 9 and 10 Group Buyer payouts in any way, but it does allow Round 11 and 12 paid customers earlier hashrate access!

[thomas_s]

Just dropping in for a quick second, Im still alive.

Current stats (Still speeding up)[BTCGuild Leaderboard]
207   286808   931.30 GH/s

Great news!

We're actually at 1.2 TH+ and climbing. He can still do 12-14 more boards before Monday.

Hubs are resetting the power strips but so far, so good. Knocking on wood...

BTW, we can now watch the hashrate remotely here via the link below. Thank you Thomas!

http://www.dzminercoop.com/?page_id=302

==

Also, all rounds have now been combined for easier accounting and as a bonus to Round 11 and 12 customers. 

This doesn't effect Round 9 and 10 Group Buyer payouts in any way, but it does allow Round 11 and 12 paid customers earlier hashrate access!

Instead of having to compensate R11/12 its easier to just compensate everyone equally.

[philipma1957]

Just dropping in for a quick second, Im still alive.

Current stats (Still speeding up)[BTCGuild Leaderboard]
207   286808   931.30 GH/s

Great news!

We're actually at 1.2 TH+ and climbing. He can still do 12-14 more boards before Monday.

Hubs are resetting the power strips but so far, so good. Knocking on wood...

BTW, we can now watch the hashrate remotely here via the link below. Thank you Thomas!

http://www.dzminercoop.com/?page_id=302

==

Also, all rounds have now been combined for easier accounting and as a bonus to Round 11 and 12 customers. 

This doesn't effect Round 9 and 10 Group Buyer payouts in any way, but it does allow Round 11 and 12 paid customers earlier hashrate access!

Instead of having to compensate R11/12 its easier to just compensate everyone equally.

My shares are spread across 9-10-11-12 even though most are in 9 and the money has sat longer in the coop's hand then my later share in r 12 I do not mind.


some math 9-10-11-12  should be 400 shares at least 8.34 gh each   grand total of 3.336 th  and we are at 1.2 th so  we are hashing at
35%
  fast ballpark number and I just finished a big meal and a lot of wine so my math could be bad.  Still want to thank you for getting it up and running on time even if it is at 35%

[bobsag3]

Up to 1.5thash now, Still have at least 6 more boards I can turn on, if I can get this dam Pi to work.

[thomas_s]

Up to 1.5thash now, Still have at least 6 more boards I can turn on, if I can get this dam Pi to work.

My pi?

And yes I have some equip down there and I'm letting Bobsag3 use it for the GB to get our hashing up.

[wontons]

How many pi do you need?  I may be able to send you some for credit toward R13  .  Anyway, LMK

[bobsag3]

How many pi do you need?  I may be able to send you some for credit toward R13  .  Anyway, LMK

I have plenty- they are just sitting at a UPS depot because they didnt feel like delivering them on friday.

Minerhosting_BitfuryTest   1,707.37 GH/s

We are now @ 2 full GB speed

[thomas_s]

I feel dumb I've had this posted for about half an hour or so and forgot to put in a link its messy but look in the url field for what miner it is

http://www.dzminercoop.com/?page_id=470

[philipma1957]

so we are up to about 2th  and should be at 3.4th correct?

this chart shows 3 miners

http://www.dzminercoop.com/?page_id=302


miner 1 = 1688  gh  that is full speed

miner 2 =  0             what would be full speed? 1680?


miner 3 = 400 gh    what would be full speed?

[thomas_s]

so we are up to about 2th  and should be at 3.4th correct?

this chart shows 3 miners

http://www.dzminercoop.com/?page_id=302


miner 1 = 1688  gh  that is full speed

miner 2 =  0             what would be full speed? 1680?


miner 3 = 400 gh    what would be full speed?

Just different miner names on BTCguilds web api

[testerx]

Are missing raspberry pis still the problem?

[philipma1957]

are we still at  a reduced speed  2.1 th

 out of 3.4-4.2  correct?