ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread

[suchmoon]

Seems as if Bitmaintech took over snowball.io and is offering now cloud mining... don't know, though, if this is good....

Yep...:

Sept 1 2014 ..."BITMAIN is announcing the acquisition of Hsahnest.com – a cloud hash platform which was originally named Snowball Exchange (Snowball.io)." ...

Nasty changes are coming into the Crypto-world...IMHO...

ZiG

BTC will be centralized by these factories
by the time, they'll mining for themselves, then BTC will dead like LTC (pillaged and killed) 

LTC is dead not because of mining but because it has a woefully incompetent dev/marketing team and no real use. BTC has a substantial economy behind it (as in "you can buy and sell stuff for BTC"), LTC doesn't. Big farm mining may kill garage mining, but it won't kill BTC.

[crazyates]

BTC will be centralized by these factories
by the time, they'll mining for themselves, then BTC will dead like LTC (pillaged and killed) 

LTC is dead not because of mining but because it has a woefully incompetent dev/marketing team and no real use. BTC has a substantial economy behind it (as in "you can buy and sell stuff for BTC"), LTC doesn't. Big farm mining may kill garage mining, but it won't kill BTC.

Exactly. It may kill the hobbyist miner, but in some ways, it actually encourages adoption. The more businesses/corporations that move to BTC, the more usable it is as a currency. Stop complaining that your space heater doesn't give you free money, and go out and use BTC as the currency that it is.

[Meech]

Looks like no S4 but a L1 hashing scrypt, eeeek!   https://bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020140830074550960Um75pnzg06E3

[crazyates]

Looks like no S4 but a L1 hashing scrypt, eeeek!   https://bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020140830074550960Um75pnzg06E3

WTF?

[MoreBloodWine]

Even if it is a scrypt device, until we have system details and a price point we don't know if it will be a good or bad thing.

[Gogreen]

Even if it is a scrypt device, until we have system details and a price point we don't know if it will be a good or bad thing.

a scrypt miner to mine what? You got to be kidding right? If the configuration is good like s3. Maybe just maybe I would get one. 

[crazyates]

The only reason Scrypt took off in the first place is because people with dozens if not hundreds of GPUs wanted to have something to do. There was never any actual chance of it taking off, and being adopted/used. Now, all the scrypt coins are almost insignificant, and all these scrypt asics are pointless, at least IMO.

But that's besides the point. This thread is for S3 units, not L1 or any other speculative discussions.

[Gogreen]

Anybody gotten their B8 tracking number?  

[ftoole]

Anybody gotten their B8 tracking number?  

No. THey aren't set to ship till September 20th or before.

[Rabinovitch]

Rabi,

With all my due respect...you sounds like a little retarded...

Just kidding...

ZiG

Well... Funny.

Right until you'll do the same mistake. Then it will be my turn to laugh, but I will not. 

[edgar]

Pics or it didn't happen.

PCI-e power connectors are keyed so they only fit one way. If it was possible, we'd have read dozens of stories just like this over the past year.

Unless you have gorilla-strength and are able to force square pegs into round holes, then it's impossible.

I know, I know. It sounds increbible...  

i did it twice last year, and was stunned it was possible AND that it didnt explode/destroy my hardware.

but i do have gorilla powers.

i think its down to how much 'give' is in a particular connector, but it definitely is possible.

i imagine more people have managed it but kept it to themselves for fear of ridicule.

and i am yet to see a PSU connector with 'round' holes


fuck the haters, i say - let them cry themselves to sleep don't cry

[buy4crypto]

Can anyone help me out with a quick question.

For those of us running older firmware versions, Do I just add in manually the 243 freq through putty to be able to use that?

[allcoinminer]

Can anyone help me out with a quick question.

For those of us running older firmware versions, Do I just add in manually the 243 freq through putty to be able to use that?

Yes add the values to the file /etc/config/asic-freq via putty or any other SSH and restart the miner.

[buy4crypto]

Can anyone help me out with a quick question.

For those of us running older firmware versions, Do I just add in manually the 243 freq through putty to be able to use that?

Yes add the values to the file /etc/config/asic-freq via putty or any other SSH and restart the miner.

When you say add in the file. I bring up putty, log into my miner go into /etc config/asic-freq and then add in the 3 lines that create the 243 freq?

Thanks for the help!

[allcoinminer]

Can anyone help me out with a quick question.

For those of us running older firmware versions, Do I just add in manually the 243 freq through putty to be able to use that?

Yes add the values to the file /etc/config/asic-freq via putty or any other SSH and restart the miner.

When you say add in the file. I bring up putty, log into my miner and then add in the 3 lines that create the 243 freq?

Thanks for the help!

Exactly. But don't forget to comment out your current frequency in the file.

[buy4crypto]

Exactly. But don't forget to comment out your current frequency in the file.

Thx. I figured this much, but didn't want to go changing files on a hunch.

[allcoinminer]

Thx. I figured this much, but didn't want to go changing files on a hunch.

Any more directions required?

[buy4crypto]

Any more directions required?

That looks like it worked. Thank you for the help.

[BITMAIN]

BITMAIN announces Cloud Hash Platform-HASHNEST.COM, here it is https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=765128.msg8620903#msg8620903

 

[edonkey]

I just noticed that cgminer on one of my batch 3 S3 units restarted. It had been running for nearly 8 days. It appears that only cgminer restarted, not the entire unit (which has an uptime of 20 days currently).

This has never happened before. I've typically run these units for weeks on end, especially after I worked out the config that I want to use. I haven't changed pools recently either.

I've poked around in the logs but can't find any reason for the cgminer restart. I guess I could ignore this since it's basically harmless at the moment. It came up and is hashing away.

But I would like to understand why it restarted. Does anyone have suggestions for debugging this? Maybe there are logs that are available from ssh and not the web GUI that might help?