Hi everyone!
I'm selling BTCGarden based ASIC miners here in the US. I'm planning to sell these through
starfire-x.com, which I've been working on. Everything is ready to go, and I'd like to do a "test run" of a few orders to see how everything goes, my plan is to sell 10-20 as a test run before the 'official' launch. (I have tested the payment system, I just need to test the actual process of printing out mailing labels and shipping them.)
Right now, you buy hashrate on cex.io at a rate of about 0.0455 BTC/Gh/s. Megabigpower.com does have miners for sale in stock as well, but, if you want to spend less then $1,600 the best deal you can get is a 25Gh/s USB miner for $140. That comes out to about 0.066BTC/Gh/s, assuming about $850/bitcoin.
(On the other hand, they apparently just lowered their prices *today* for their larger equipment, so if you want to spend thousands of dollars or multiple bitcoins, you can get a pretty good deal.)
While I think the price is pretty reasonable, may move it up and down depending on how demand is. But for the test run I want to get a few orders shipped on Monday, so,
I'm offering a fairly big instant rebate – 0.132 bitcoins, or 33% off -- on up to two blades per customer. That comes out to 0.03BTC/Gh/s. With the rebate the total cost for the blades is.
To get the rebate, just post how many you ordered along with either the address you sent the bitcoin too, or the transaction id, and of course the bitcoin address you want me to send your rebate too. (you can also PM me with those details if you want more privacy). I'll post when the rebate deal is over, but you can still get it so long as you place your before that point in time. There are a couple of key points to keep in mind:
One, you don't need to connect them to a backplain or even to a host computer over USB. All you need is a spare Ethernet port (although you do need to run a getwork proxy server at this point, as you would an ASICMiner blade. )
the 8.5Gh/s rate is what I actually measured connecting a single blade to eligius.st. The actual internal hashrate is up to 11-12Gh/s, but it's unfortunately slowed down by the getwork protocol. Implementing a more efficient mining protocol on the firmware could potentially speed things up by up to 25%.
Additionally, I've done some modification of the firmware to make them easier to setup. The configuration server is setup to listen on port 80 (so you just need to type the ip address into your browser to get to it), and the LED lights are used to indicate when it's working and when it's having network issues. I've also fixed a few bugs that could make it difficult to access the config page in some circumstances, making it much more reliable.
I have a detailed setup guide at hereI'm still working on the overall design of the website, but everything has been ready to go as far as actually taking orders for a few days, and not letting people order at this point is probably a bad idea
Some pics (these are blades that I have setup and mining right now - I tried to get some that showed the LEDs)
Let me know what you guys think.
