LIGHTNINGASIC LA100M,100MHS SCRYPT Miner, USD1999; LA1THS, USD1750.shipped out!

[juve4v]

Hardware mod that allows stable higher frequencies: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=519112

Wait! Don't we already have a cpuminer that is supposed to sw that?  

http://cryptomining-blog.com/1228-download-cpuminer-oc-edition-for-gridseed-5-chip-gc3355-asics

[Blazed]

Can we buy those PSU cables from you???  I would love to order some for my existing gridseeds

[FreeJack2k2]

This is great news, very happy to hear these issues are finally getting sorted out. The joys of early adoption So the USB hub that shipped with the systems doesn't need power from the wall? I hadn't tried it unplugged, just assumed with the number of ports and the power switch that it would only work under power.

Good news everyone! Stable firmware for LightningAsic controllers is underway, it should be ready for public in the coming week and it will be possible to upgrade (from v1, v2, v2.1..) by uploading it to the upload page. The firmware .bin will be released for public, but it is compatible only with LightningAsic controllers. Upgrading from factory Tp-link 703N will not work and it might brick your Tp-link, so don't even try!

It has some awesome features:

• Stripped, custom compiled OpenWrt (controller's OS) image optimized for size and speed
• Stability is heavily emphasized and guaranteed! No more random reboots or crashes
• Custom compiled cpuminer OC, frequency selectable up to 1200 MHz. We have tested it for 48 hours straight at 950 MHz (405 Kh/s) and without hardware errors! (see #1)
• Advanced miner monitoring and management
• Option to auto power cycle miners when one of the miners is stuck, this is done software wise and it has the same effect as unplugging, and plugging in the USB cable! (see #2)
• Up to 10 miners per controller, replacing the 32MB RAM chip with 64MB will double that figure
• 

note #1: depends on miner hardware
note #2: this will only work if the USB/hub is powered by the controller, you must not supply power to the USB hub.

BTC or dual mining is removed in the firmware for a multitude of reasons, BTC mining on GC3355 is unstable and wasteful.

If this doesn't want to make you pull out the LA controller out of the trash, I don't know what will...
For questions or feature requests, please PM me, not Jack.   Donations (1AMsjqzXQpRunxUmtn3xzQ5cMdhV7fmet2) are gladly accepted, and will be put towards improving the firmware even more.

[Andareed]

Hardware mod that allows stable higher frequencies: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=519112

Wait! Don't we already have a cpuminer that is supposed to sw that?  

http://cryptomining-blog.com/1228-download-cpuminer-oc-edition-for-gridseed-5-chip-gc3355-asics

You can set frequency sky-high, but you'll only hardware errors after some point (usually 850 MHz).

[MaTeZZ]

Well Jack, how about this:
I have ordered and paid for LA3M on Feb 11 and still nothing - well except promises, that you will ship or have shipped it. Every time I call DHL - nothing.

To your credit, you have shipped my previous order pretty fast, so I don't understand why the flip..

Anyway, Jack you owe me - ship me the LA3M or give full refund. Just take care of it asap please. I am tired hunting for you on Skype.

[juve4v]

Well Jack, how about this:
I have ordered and paid for LA3M on Feb 11 and still nothing - well except promises, that you will ship or have shipped it. Every time I call DHL - nothing.

To your credit, you have shipped my previous order pretty fast, so I don't understand why the flip..

Anyway, Jack you owe me - ship me the LA3M or give full refund. Just take care of it asap please. I am tired hunting for you on Skype.

I feel you man. I got sick and tired of how many mails I sent to Angela and Jack before they shipped  my order.
I would order again by paypal only.

[Flep182]

Well Jack, how about this:
I have ordered and paid for LA3M on Feb 11 and still nothing - well except promises, that you will ship or have shipped it. Every time I call DHL - nothing.

To your credit, you have shipped my previous order pretty fast, so I don't understand why the flip..

Anyway, Jack you owe me - ship me the LA3M or give full refund. Just take care of it asap please. I am tired hunting for you on Skype.

I feel you man. I got sick and tired of how many mails I sent to Angela and Jack before they shipped  my order.
I would order again by paypal only.

I just wouldn't order with them anymore. Unless that webshop is online including full tracking of the status of an order, plus significant lower prices

[stewmath]

I bought a single miner but i installed the vcp software, plugged in the miner but im seeing unrecognised device. Anyone else had this problem??

[automobile]

That can be both good and bad.  Good for the near term as the coins that do that will have their difficulty drop and preserve GPU mining longer.
Bad because the coins that don't may get a boost by suddenly having tons of Scrypt ASIC's mining and trading them.  Why is that bad?  It may devalue the other coins that forked.
No way to know until it happens.
I know they have been discussing it with litecoin.
The is scryptN but so far it is vertcoin and a couple clones.
It will be interesting to see how it all shakes out.

Plans are forming to hard fork some popular Scrypt coins to render Scrypt asics USELESS.  Do not buy Scrypt ASICS!!!!!  Don't even make them!

Who are they?!

[FreeJack2k2]

That can be both good and bad.  Good for the near term as the coins that do that will have their difficulty drop and preserve GPU mining longer.
Bad because the coins that don't may get a boost by suddenly having tons of Scrypt ASIC's mining and trading them.  Why is that bad?  It may devalue the other coins that forked.
No way to know until it happens.
I know they have been discussing it with litecoin.
The is scryptN but so far it is vertcoin and a couple clones.
It will be interesting to see how it all shakes out.

Plans are forming to hard fork some popular Scrypt coins to render Scrypt asics USELESS.  Do not buy Scrypt ASICS!!!!!  Don't even make them!

Who are they?!

The Litecoin developers are on record as saying they have no plans to fork or change their protocol to increase ASIC resistance and that was never a huge priority for them, to begin with. People want to slow the adoption of ASIC so their GPU rigs don't become obsolete, unfortunately if you've been watching the profitability of GPU mining over the last two months, it's in a nosedive. That's not because of difficulty, it's because of the instant dump mentality of the new herd of altcoin miners that started about 4-5 months ago and the Multipools. They're driving down the exchange rates on every major Scrypt coin by dumping every chance they get and the guys who've loaded up on Gridseed miners can dump at a lower price and still make a profit. So that exchange rate just keeps dropping and the result is, GPU miners are getting priced out. There's only so much money out there for buying crypto-currencies and there are way too many to choose from, so the market's very diluted.

So this imaginary "they" is conjured by GPU miners who don't want ASICs to continue to proliferate, because they can't profit from them anymore (probably didn't get a ROI since they bought them two months ago)...and are realizing that the stock they're putting in Adaptive-N coins isn't going to pay off for a LONG time, if it ever does. Welcome to Litecoin mining in 2011, Vertcoin miners.

Of course, the winds of change could hit at any minute and Bitcoin could head back above $1,000 which would then make GPU mining healthy and profitable across the board, again. But the "new breed" is primarily concerned with profit TODAY, not profit months from now.

[richmke]

The Litecoin developers are on record as saying they have no plans to fork or change their protocol to increase ASIC resistance and that was never a huge priority for them, to begin with. People want to slow the adoption of ASIC so their GPU rigs don't become obsolete, unfortunately if you've been watching the profitability of GPU mining over the last two months, it's in a nosedive. That's not because of difficulty, it's because of the instant dump mentality of the new herd of altcoin miners that started about 4-5 months ago and the Multipools. They're driving down the exchange rates on every major Scrypt coin by dumping every chance they get and the guys who've loaded up on Gridseed miners can dump at a lower price and still make a profit. So that exchange rate just keeps dropping and the result is, GPU miners are getting priced out. There's only so much money out there for buying crypto-currencies and there are way too many to choose from, so the market's very diluted.

The LTC/BTC ratio has been holding up quite well. The drop in profitability is because of the decline in BTC from its highs, but still well above where it was just 6 months ago. I saw someone post that profitability of LTC mining today is still higher than it was 1 year ago.

[ponch85]

any of you have experienced problems in the long run?
I Placed an order from 20pieces from HASHRA 

[stewmath]

i cant get mine to work

[dloganbill]

any of you have experienced problems in the long run?
I Placed an order from 20pieces from HASHRA 

I don't recommend them. I ordered through them because asiabtc was terribly slow at the time. Well, my experience with Hashra is no better and they aren't the cheapest anymore either. If I were to do it again, I would use Zoomhash.
Here is my situation:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=441296.msg5739762#msg5739762

[miter_myles]

any of you have experienced problems in the long run?
I Placed an order from 20pieces from HASHRA 

I don't recommend them. I ordered through them because asiabtc was terribly slow at the time. Well, my experience with Hashra is no better and they aren't the cheapest anymore either. If I were to do it again, I would use Zoomhash.
Here is my situation:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=441296.msg5739762#msg5739762

Concur 100% on the above - Hashra has been an absolute disaster on this end as well.

[asiabtc]

any of you have experienced problems in the long run?
I Placed an order from 20pieces from HASHRA 

I don't recommend them. I ordered through them because asiabtc was terribly slow at the time. Well, my experience with Hashra is no better and they aren't the cheapest anymore either. If I were to do it again, I would use Zoomhash.
Here is my situation:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=441296.msg5739762#msg5739762

Concur 100% on the above - Hashra has been an absolute disaster on this end as well.

we are fast shipment now. and with good hash speed. new web store will be online very soon.

[Ruben383]

any of you have experienced problems in the long run?
I Placed an order from 20pieces from HASHRA 

I don't recommend them. I ordered through them because asiabtc was terribly slow at the time. Well, my experience with Hashra is no better and they aren't the cheapest anymore either. If I were to do it again, I would use Zoomhash.
Here is my situation:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=441296.msg5739762#msg5739762

Concur 100% on the above - Hashra has been an absolute disaster on this end as well.

we are fast shipment now. and with good hash speed. new web store will be online very soon.

Have you released the new firmware for your LA controllers yet?

[sandor111]

any of you have experienced problems in the long run?
I Placed an order from 20pieces from HASHRA 

I don't recommend them. I ordered through them because asiabtc was terribly slow at the time. Well, my experience with Hashra is no better and they aren't the cheapest anymore either. If I were to do it again, I would use Zoomhash.
Here is my situation:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=441296.msg5739762#msg5739762

Concur 100% on the above - Hashra has been an absolute disaster on this end as well.

we are fast shipment now. and with good hash speed. new web store will be online very soon.

Have you released the new firmware for your LA controllers yet?

Don't ask him, that's my duty, but it should be released in 1-2 weeks

[Ruben383]

any of you have experienced problems in the long run?
I Placed an order from 20pieces from HASHRA 

I don't recommend them. I ordered through them because asiabtc was terribly slow at the time. Well, my experience with Hashra is no better and they aren't the cheapest anymore either. If I were to do it again, I would use Zoomhash.
Here is my situation:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=441296.msg5739762#msg5739762

Concur 100% on the above - Hashra has been an absolute disaster on this end as well.

we are fast shipment now. and with good hash speed. new web store will be online very soon.

Have you released the new firmware for your LA controllers yet?

Don't ask him, that's my duty, but it should be released in 1-2 weeks

You mean do not ask him on this forum. Because I have been communicating with Jack through my on private email and a few times on this forums PMing system. By coincidence I am expecting my second delivery from DHL today. I do not intentionally over step by bounds on this forum because some members, to put it nicely get very touchy on some matters, so being fairly new to this forum I did not know what part you play. But I thank you for your response.

[chanberg]

Don't ask him, that's my duty, but it should be released in 1-2 weeks

sigh was under the impression it would be this week!