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

[rammy2k2]

BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU ARE CONTACTING SKYPE SUPPORT , THERE IS A SCAMMER USING ALMOST SAME NAME !

OFFICIAL SKYPE SUPPORT IS : lightningasic@gmail.com

SCAMMER IS USING : lightningasicgmail.com@gmail.com

Thanks,
but additionally I sent PM to asiabtc - no answer, this skype user (lightningasic@gmail.com) looks like email address, then I sent (without return error message - like user do not exists) email with question - no answer.
This really looks like a SCAMM. In case, if I made conversation via Skype with somebody who is scammer, why asiabtc is not answering any of my messages what I have sent as PM or email?

That post wasnt for u , was to warn all members.
I posted before, maybe u didnt readed, Why did u wrote email when thats Skype support ?

[Kapz786]

Im just gonna ask this every few days sorry if its annoying but when will the new firmware be released.

[Xell]

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?!

Well the Spaincoin hardfork yesterday moved that coin very easily from Scrypt to Nfactor and of course the price soared....

[Mr. Jinx]

Im just gonna ask this every few days sorry if its annoying but when will the new firmware be released.

I currently have two Lightningasic controllers: v1 and v2.
The v2 firmware is even worse! The web interface is extreme slow, the hashrates are much lower compared to v1 firmware, and the miners still go dead every now and then.
However there is nothing wrong with the miners. Connecting a raspberry pi and cgminer/bfgminer gives much better results.
So I'm very disappointed with these controllers.

[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?!

Well the Spaincoin hardfork yesterday moved that coin very easily from Scrypt to Nfactor and of course the price soared....

Just wait until people realize that there are ASICs that have been announced that allow modification of parameters to support Adaptive-N and Scrypt-Jane, too.

[ManeBjorn]

I know have been watching as a couple people almost have them mining vertcoin by working on the firmware.

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?!

Well the Spaincoin hardfork yesterday moved that coin very easily from Scrypt to Nfactor and of course the price soared....

Just wait until people realize that there are ASICs that have been announced that allow modification of parameters to support Adaptive-N and Scrypt-Jane, too.

[Xell]

I know have been watching as a couple people almost have them mining vertcoin by working on the firmware.

The point about adaptive NFactor is that it doesnt matter if you get your ASIC working on vertcoin. Because the hardware requirements change over time, so even if you get your ASIC working today, it won't work when the hardware requirements (through the value of 'N') changes.

Not only that, but 'almost working' is another way of saying 'not working' and I doubt these current scrypt units (which are purportedly modified SHA-256 ASIC chips) will ever mine any vertcoin effectively, even if you could get them to work (which I also doubt).

[freddyfarnsworth]

I know have been watching as a couple people almost have them mining vertcoin by working on the firmware.

The point about adaptive NFactor is that it doesnt matter if you get your ASIC working on vertcoin. Because the hardware requirements change over time, so even if you get your ASIC working today, it won't work when the hardware requirements (through the value of 'N') changes.

Not only that, but 'almost working' is another way of saying 'not working' and I doubt these current scrypt units (which are purportedly modified SHA-256 ASIC chips) will ever mine any vertcoin effectively, even if you could get them to work (which I also doubt).

Every time I hear/see this type of statement, my mind says "he must be working or have interest in GPU manufacture" they are for games...

[Xell]

Every time I hear/see this type of statement, my mind says "he must be working or have interest in GPU manufacture" they are for games...

I am a GPU miner, I don't mind admitting that. But I think there is more time spent making GPUs good for mining than you realise. It's no accident that there is such a discrepancy between AMD & Intel.

They maybe marketed for games, but they are used in lots of applications. Not only mining - I do a lot of fluid dynamics simulation in my research, and GPUs are much more efficient at these kinds of parallel computations than MPI-based programmes. In molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, use of GPU can speed up computation time by a factor of ~100.

The point is, that yes okay vertcoin isn't 100% ASIC resistant, but it is resistant to the current ASICs & the methodology used to build them. And GPUs have long been developed primarily for applications other than gaming (e.g Nvidia Tesla M2090 which is not at all for gaming - although it's also not much good for mining). The fact the the calculations in graphics are similar to other kinds of calculations is not surprising, and gaming is mainstream - mining and maths computation isn't. So it goes without saying the manufacturers target the biggest audience, not least because those minority audiences are probably intelligent enough to work out for themselves what will and won't work well.

[Kapz786]

Im just gonna ask this every few days sorry if its annoying but when will the new firmware be released.

I currently have two Lightningasic controllers: v1 and v2.
The v2 firmware is even worse! The web interface is extreme slow, the hashrates are much lower compared to v1 firmware, and the miners still go dead every now and then.
However there is nothing wrong with the miners. Connecting a raspberry pi and cgminer/bfgminer gives much better results.
So I'm very disappointed with these controllers.

I also have both firmware and like you said haven't really noticed much difference. I must say the pool seems to have a big part in results with this controller. I played around with a few and the one im on now I get at least a couple of hours before a restart - at least they restart on there own and don't require an unplug of the usb hub.

[Loreto]

it seems to be not profitable at all. Or i do smth wrong in calc?

[mazedk]

it seems to be not profitable at all. Or i do smth wrong in calc?

Depends on the way LTC evolves in terms of price in the comming months/years.

But its the same with all coin-related investments.. its a gamble.

[asiabtc]

miners can work at 1050mhz now. and developing scrypt only firmware.

[ManeBjorn]

I should have qualified that with.
They have them mining Vertcoin just not at top speed yet.
Yet adaptive N will change and either the firmware will have to be remade or eventually the ASIC's do not make it.  It is fine either way and so much fun to watch evolve and be part of both sides.

I know have been watching as a couple people almost have them mining vertcoin by working on the firmware.

The point about adaptive NFactor is that it doesnt matter if you get your ASIC working on vertcoin. Because the hardware requirements change over time, so even if you get your ASIC working today, it won't work when the hardware requirements (through the value of 'N') changes.

Not only that, but 'almost working' is another way of saying 'not working' and I doubt these current scrypt units (which are purportedly modified SHA-256 ASIC chips) will ever mine any vertcoin effectively, even if you could get them to work (which I also doubt).

[ManeBjorn]

Wow that is great news!!

miners can work at 1050mhz now. and developing scrypt only firmware.

[soothaa]

Still no 12MHs unit?

[serpiente12]

Wow that is great news!!

miners can work at 1050mhz now. and developing scrypt only firmware.

How do you get that option in dashboard ? i can only see 900mhz, do i need to update/change controller or is it coming as an option with the scrypt only software?

[mazedk]

Wow that is great news!!

miners can work at 1050mhz now. and developing scrypt only firmware.

How do you get that option in dashboard ? i can only see 900mhz, do i need to update/change controller or is it coming as an option with the scrypt only software?

I think he means that they are currently developing the firmware for the higher hashrates.

[chanberg]

i'll believe the new firmware when i see it... Been promised a new firmware since inception of my units a month ago... But definitely not complaining, units run good on version 1

[dishwara]

anyone know why a RED led in wiibox controller blinking?