FPGA Mining Contract

[fizzisist]

What's happening? No dividends, no news, no hashrate?

Thanks for the heads up! Looks like the host machine went down 2 days ago and I didn't notice! 

I'll do the accounting today and see if this week's dividends should be boosted a little to make up for it.

Sorry, everyone!

You mean to say you're running a GLBSE listed mining op. without monitoring ?

Mmmh.

Well, uptime is usually counted in months so I've stopped checking on it obsessively, if that's what you mean. I believe the last time it went down was March 28th. Still, I really should set up a script to email me when the hashrate is below normal for a few hours. I'll look into that.

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[fizzisist]

You mean to say you're running a GLBSE listed mining op. without monitoring ?

Mmmh.

Well, uptime is usually counted in months so I've stopped checking on it obsessively, if that's what you mean.

Not what I mean.

Monitoring, as in: you receive a notification when the hashrate does down.

Many pools have that feature (via an API).

Yeah, the only problem with that is that MPBM is constantly balancing over the pools, so an email from one pool isn't necessarily useful. I should be able to set that up on my own end, though, just never got around to doing it.

[fizzisist]

Dividends have been paid for the week of 7/16!

Dividends paid to 6000 shares: 8.76200486 BTC
Dividends per share: 0.00146033 BTC

Because of the downtime, I kicked in a few BTC of my own to make up for it. Sorry, and thanks for understanding!

[m3sSh3aD]

I have not checked this a while cause when i went put the key in a new computer it was on V2 as opposed to V1.

CAn anyone guide me how to sort this out. The instructions back then were very vague

Tanks in advance

[ZodiacDragon84]

I have not checked this a while cause when i went put the key in a new computer it was on V2 as opposed to V1.

CAn anyone guide me how to sort this out. The instructions back then were very vague

Tanks in advance

Talk to GLBSE support, and they can get you set up! Or look for Dr. Nefario when he is online here, and chat him up on it.

[ZodiacDragon84]

Why the tank on the contract price? this is a great buy!

[fizzisist]

Dividends have been paid for the week of 7/23!

Dividends paid to 6000 shares: 8.45786052 BTC
Dividends per share: 0.00140964 BTC

[fizzisist]

Dividends have been paid for the week of 7/30!

Dividends paid to 6000 shares: 8.93586778 BTC
Dividends per share: 0.00148931 BTC

[fizzisist]

Dividends have been paid for the week of 8/6!

Dividends paid to 6000 shares: 6.96897667 BTC
Dividends per share: 0.00116150 BTC

[fizzisist]

Dividends have been paid for the week of 8/13!

Dividends paid to 6000 shares: 7.84586201 BTC
Dividends per share: 0.00130764 BTC

Sorry for being late this week! It took forever to get the coins deposited at GLBSE because they were upgrading their bitcoin client, but I finally got them all in.

[JimRogers]

Thanks fizz.

Keep up the good work.

[fizzisist]

Dividends have been paid for the week of 8/20!

Dividends paid to 6000 shares: 7.41319913 BTC
Dividends per share: 0.00123553 BTC

[fizzisist]

what happens when ASIC arrives, whats the future plan for this FPGA contract

I personally don't believe this will happen for a very long time. Though, if it does, I will look into selling the boards or FPGAs for some other purpose. For example, these boards can be used for Nokia unlocking, vanity address generation, or some other cracking purposes. If none of those are economically viable, the FPGAs can be scrapped and used in another project. All proceeds from those sales would be distributed according to the liquidation clause of the contract:

"...in the event of liquidation, all revenue from sales of the hardware will be paid to shareholders."

[ZodiacDragon84]

what happens when ASIC arrives, whats the future plan for this FPGA contract

I'm more concerned about quantum computing...then what do we do?!?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer

(Sorry, had to throw a touch of satire in there )

[qxzn]

Fizz, I really appreciate the timely updates. And the coins!

Would it be possible for you to also send updates to an opt-in email list? I don't check bitcointalk all that often and their notifications stop working as soon as I don't follow up (read: click) on one of them.

I would also be happy to have the option to subscribe to an rss feed somewhere.

[fizzisist]

Fizz, I really appreciate the timely updates. And the coins!

Would it be possible for you to also send updates to an opt-in email list? I don't check bitcointalk all that often and their notifications stop working as soon as I don't follow up (read: click) on one of them.

I would also be happy to have the option to subscribe to an rss feed somewhere.

Actually, we have both a mailing list and an RSS feed already (available at contract.fpgamining.com) but I'd mainly intended it for major announcements like new motions, not weekly reports. I could certainly start posting these there, too, though. Would you guys like that? Or, would it just be more spam in your inbox/news reader?

[qxzn]

Actually, we have both a mailing list and an RSS feed already (available at contract.fpgamining.com) but I'd mainly intended it for major announcements like new motions, not weekly reports. I could certainly start posting these there, too, though. Would you guys like that? Or, would it just be more spam in your inbox/news reader?

Either/both of these would be great, as far as I'm concerned.

[ZodiacDragon84]

I would Concur on the Weekly RSS feed

[k3t3r]

Links:
FPGA.contract Page
GLBSE Forum Thread
FPGAMining.com
X6500 FPGA Miner Thread
Asset Contract
GLBSE Market Charts

Some of these links are dead and most importantly the link to GLBSE contract page.

[ZodiacDragon84]

Links:
GLBSE Forum Thread
Asset Contract
GLBSE Market Charts

Some of these links are dead and most importantly the link to GLBSE contract page.

I just tested, the above links, and the 3 that are GLBSE 1.0 related I believe are dead. Perhaps the links need to be updated to link to the GLBSE 2.0 Server?