NastyFans: The Bitcoin Enthusiast Fan Club (est. 2012)

[OgNasty]

Could you share a little on the future plans for Nasty?

I don't want to spoil the fun, but I can tell you that nonnakip and I have been discussing something new and exciting that will further separate us from the pack and reward seat owners while also acting as a massive fundraiser.  Rest assured that there is definitely at least one more rabbit waiting to get pulled out of the hat.  Right now however, the focus is on implementing the pool interface with nastyfans.org and knocking some website features off the todo list while we await our next-gen ASICs and repay our debts.  I'm also hoping that our physical NastyFans seats start becoming more popular once they are in the hands of fans and encourage potential new fans to take a look at what we're doing and join us on our pool.

Some other things that are being considered...

• NastyFans online shop with more products than just our 3 silver coins
• Ability to pawn seats for goods
• Mining subcontractors who will "mine to own" on our pool with our old equipment
• Donation Re-Investment Program
• Buy order alerts

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[Equilux]

Could you share a little on the future plans for Nasty?

I don't want to spoil the fun, but I can tell you that nonnakip and I have been discussing something new and exciting that will further separate us from the pack and reward seat owners while also acting as a massive fundraiser.  Rest assured that there is definitely at least one more rabbit waiting to get pulled out of the hat.  Right now however, the focus is on implementing the pool interface with nastyfans.org and knocking some website features off the todo list while we await our next-gen ASICs and repay our debts.  I'm also hoping that our physical NastyFans seats start becoming more popular once they are in the hands of fans and encourage potential new fans to take a look at what we're doing and join us on our pool.

Some other things that are being considered...

• NastyFans online shop with more products than just our 3 silver coins
• Ability to pawn seats for goods
• Mining subcontractors who will "mine to own" on our pool with our old equipment
• Donation Re-Investment Program
• Buy order alerts

That does sound very promising I must say! Keep up the good work!

[smooth]

Could you share a little on the future plans for Nasty?

I don't want to spoil the fun, but I can tell you that nonnakip and I have been discussing something new and exciting that will further separate us from the pack and reward seat owners while also acting as a massive fundraiser.  Rest assured that there is definitely at least one more rabbit waiting to get pulled out of the hat.  Right now however, the focus is on implementing the pool interface with nastyfans.org and knocking some website features off the todo list while we await our next-gen ASICs and repay our debts.  I'm also hoping that our physical NastyFans seats start becoming more popular once they are in the hands of fans and encourage potential new fans to take a look at what we're doing and join us on our pool.

Some other things that are being considered...

• NastyFans online shop with more products than just our 3 silver coins
• Ability to pawn seats for goods
• Mining subcontractors who will "mine to own" on our pool with our old equipment
• Donation Re-Investment Program
• Buy order alerts

Awesome!

Any idea when the physical seats are going to ship? Was hoping to use them as xmas gifts...

[OgNasty]

Any idea when the physical seats are going to ship? Was hoping to use them as xmas gifts...

The US orders have already shipped. Should be arriving in mailboxes in the next 48-72 hours.

If there are any problems or concerns of any kind, please contact me.

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Any idea when the physical seats are going to ship? Was hoping to use them as xmas gifts...

The US orders have already shipped. Should be arriving in mailboxes in the next 48-72 hours.

If there are any problems or concerns of any kind, please contact me.

More awesome!

[smooth]

The web interface has new feature in account settings: donation payout threshold

Tried setting this to 0.01, when the page reloads it shows 0.00000001

[nonnakip]

The web interface has new feature in account settings: donation payout threshold

Tried setting this to 0.01, when the page reloads it shows 0.00000001

Thank you for reporting. Problem fixed.

[OgNasty]

We had a bit of excitement today.  One of our BFL power supplies burst into flames.  No harm done as I had a spare power supply on hand and was home to extinguish the flames relatively quickly.  This is actually the 3rd dead Butterfly Labs power supply I have now, so I've contacted them to RMA the dead units before they release their next-gen equipment and stop supporting their old hardware.

[plasticAiredale]

We had a bit of excitement today.  One of our BFL power supplies burst into flames.  No harm done as I had a spare power supply on hand and was home to extinguish the flames relatively quickly.  This is actually the 3rd dead Butterfly Labs power supply I have now, so I've contacted them to RMA the dead units before they release their next-gen equipment and stop supporting their old hardware.

   Glad everything is okay. Fires in the house are scary.

[Yogafan00000]

We had a bit of excitement today.  One of our BFL power supplies burst into flames.  No harm done as I had a spare power supply on hand and was home to extinguish the flames relatively quickly.  This is actually the 3rd dead Butterfly Labs power supply I have now, so I've contacted them to RMA the dead units before they release their next-gen equipment and stop supporting their old hardware.

   Glad everything is okay. Fires in the house are scary.

Jebus! I've got a couple of these things sitting in my basement! Should I be worried?

[Yogafan00000]

We should probably refund our portion of this guy's mistake.  It seems the decent thing to do. (If we haven't already.)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=372725.msg3985766#msg3985766

Someone was nice enough to do the calculations of the refund amounts here.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.msg4011536#msg4011536

[plasticAiredale]

Jebus! I've got a couple of these things sitting in my basement! Should I be worried?

Well you may want to take some precautions I would guess. I have a program I wrote monitoring cgminer and the pool to make sure cgminer is running and producing hashes. It will restart cgminer if needed, and also email after a certain amount of time if I'm not mining. So I have a little bit of warning should it burst into flames, but if I'm a couple hours away from home at the time, I can't really do anything about it.

In the past when it would happen I would just assume I lost power at home, now I'm going to worry it's burning down 

[Yogafan00000]

Jebus! I've got a couple of these things sitting in my basement! Should I be worried?

Well you may want to take some precautions I would guess. I have a program I wrote monitoring cgminer and the pool to make sure cgminer is running and producing hashes. It will restart cgminer if needed, and also email after a certain amount of time if I'm not mining. So I have a little bit of warning should it burst into flames, but if I'm a couple hours away from home at the time, I can't really do anything about it.

In the past when it would happen I would just assume I lost power at home, now I'm going to worry it's burning down  

Yup, the BFL gear is so flaky, I have a combination of scripts & software to automatically restart everything every 2 hours.  Even with that, I have to give it all a kick every week or so.  In contrast, my BitFury gear is rock solid, I almost forget I have it running.

I'm going to get a Corsair ax760 PSU (as recommended) to replace the BFL PSU's.

It's $200, expensive, I know, but at least I'll be able to sleep.

[nonnakip]

We should probably refund our portion of this guy's mistake.  It seems the decent thing to do. (If we haven't already.)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=372725.msg3985766#msg3985766

Someone was nice enough to do the calculations of the refund amounts here.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.msg4011536#msg4011536

The 0.08252801 BTC distributed with last distribution. I guess I pull it from the next distribution. I handle this as accidental donation and refund it with next distribution.

[OgNasty]

Jebus! I've got a couple of these things sitting in my basement! Should I be worried?

Well you may want to take some precautions I would guess. I have a program I wrote monitoring cgminer and the pool to make sure cgminer is running and producing hashes. It will restart cgminer if needed, and also email after a certain amount of time if I'm not mining. So I have a little bit of warning should it burst into flames, but if I'm a couple hours away from home at the time, I can't really do anything about it.

In the past when it would happen I would just assume I lost power at home, now I'm going to worry it's burning down  

Yup, the BFL gear is so flaky, I have a combination of scripts & software to automatically restart everything every 2 hours.  Even with that, I have to give it all a kick every week or so.  In contrast, my BitFury gear is rock solid, I almost forget I have it running.

I'm going to get a Corsair ax760 PSU (as recommended) to replace the BFL PSU's.

It's $200, expensive, I know, but at least I'll be able to sleep.

The precaution that saved my house from burning down was simply to not have it sitting on something flammable.  All my miners and PSUs are resting on some sort of metal.  That being said, there were signs this was coming.  The PSU had shut off on it's own a couple times in the days leading up to the fire and was becoming noticeably hotter than the others.  I was actually very surprised and a bit impressed to see that the miner was mining away at full speed while the PSU was in flames.

[Squirrel Dearing]

I was actually very surprised and a bit impressed to see that the miner was mining away at full speed while the PSU was in flames.

Nice!

[plasticAiredale]

I was actually very surprised and a bit impressed to see that the miner was mining away at full speed while the PSU was in flames.

I went ahead and updated the logo for you 

[OgNasty]

I went ahead and updated the logo for you 

Hot logo addition.  You're on fire.   

[Yogafan00000]

I went ahead and updated the logo for you 

ha! I lol'd.

OGNasty, be sure to check your smoke alarms regularly! Only you can prevent mine fires!

[OgNasty]

OGNasty, be sure to check your smoke alarms regularly! Only you can prevent mine fires!

That actually isn't a bad idea.  I wonder if there's an easy way to rig a smoke alarm to a circuit breaker...