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

[OgNasty]

Quote below regarding a change in compensation for our script miner order.

Greetings Miners!

After long consideration, lengthy negotiations with our vendors/partners and downright demands being placed from our side in light of competitiveness within the market we have decided to further cut our profit margins and are extraordinary pleased to announce that we will be packing more hash power into your batch 1 devices (whilst scaling power accordingly so not to worry on that front):

The new hash rates are as follows:

90Mh/s => Minimum 250Mh/s

This does not come with some compromise however and after taking your feedback into consideration we know that hash rate and power is your main point of concern when it comes to our miners. This is a "you can't have everything" situation: hash rate + fancy features. As a result of this decision we *are* able to upgrade your devices but as we're going more "back to basics" with the miners and the following features will have to be removed from the units to save both costs, space and speed up the manufacturing process:

- The Viper’s will no longer have LCD displays.

- Wi-Fi functionality will be dropped.

- WebGUI will not be included; the miners will run through a wired USB and ethernet connection fully supporting standard mining software.

As for the free cloud hashing, this will of course no longer be offered as the new hash rates make the cloud redundant for now; we currently have one of the most if not the most competitive offer on this market considering we are still on track for July with the same price.

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[Squirrel Dearing]

Quote below regarding a change in compensation for our script miner order.

Greetings Miners!

After long consideration, lengthy negotiations with our vendors/partners and downright demands being placed from our side in light of competitiveness within the market we have decided to further cut our profit margins and are extraordinary pleased to announce that we will be packing more hash power into your batch 1 devices (whilst scaling power accordingly so not to worry on that front):

The new hash rates are as follows:

90Mh/s => Minimum 250Mh/s

This does not come with some compromise however and after taking your feedback into consideration we know that hash rate and power is your main point of concern when it comes to our miners. This is a "you can't have everything" situation: hash rate + fancy features. As a result of this decision we *are* able to upgrade your devices but as we're going more "back to basics" with the miners and the following features will have to be removed from the units to save both costs, space and speed up the manufacturing process:

- The Viper’s will no longer have LCD displays.

- Wi-Fi functionality will be dropped.

- WebGUI will not be included; the miners will run through a wired USB and ethernet connection fully supporting standard mining software.

As for the free cloud hashing, this will of course no longer be offered as the new hash rates make the cloud redundant for now; we currently have one of the most if not the most competitive offer on this market considering we are still on track for July with the same price.

Well, cool - I don't care much for bells and whistles - just more to break..

[Squirrel Dearing]

I really hope I don't loose power tonight - nasty storm going through right now.. Some traffic lights near me are out already..

[silverfuture]

Seems like higher hashrate is better compensation than cloud mining and lcd, gui, and wifi are nice but not necessary.

@ Squirrel Dearing   There's no storm like a NASTY storm, brace yourself!   

[JimiQ84]

Well, I don't know what's going on.. Tonight I got an email from BFL which said they expect to ship within a week or so..

As usual with BFL, time will tell..

Squirrel, you were quoting a post from BFL that was more than a month old.  They've shown they have a working product and are expected to begin shipments next week.

Where is Monarch?

[Squirrel Dearing]

@ Squirrel Dearing   There's no storm like a NASTY storm, brace yourself!   

LOL, I didn't even realize I did that!  Good news is that my power held out! Must not have been a NASTY storm afterall!

[kroneko]

Well, I don't know what's going on.. Tonight I got an email from BFL which said they expect to ship within a week or so..

As usual with BFL, time will tell..

Squirrel, you were quoting a post from BFL that was more than a month old.  They've shown they have a working product and are expected to begin shipments next week.

Where is Monarch?

Two weeks!!! Nah seriously good question - at this point I'm thinking BFL works on Valve Time - rest assured it'll arrive, just when - got me!

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time

[Blazed]

Well, I don't know what's going on.. Tonight I got an email from BFL which said they expect to ship within a week or so..

As usual with BFL, time will tell..

Squirrel, you were quoting a post from BFL that was more than a month old.  They've shown they have a working product and are expected to begin shipments next week.

Where is Monarch?

I would guess maybe end of June if lucky or start of July.

[MilkyLep]

August or September for a completed order.   Make that October.

Just my personal guess.

[OgNasty]

Where is Monarch?

Here's today's BFL update:

Engineering work continues on the Monarchs. We have a stable 600 GH/s board hashing currently, without any major issues.

Over the past week, we have been diagnosing an issue with heat on the boards and finally located the culprit. With the Imperial class product, the board begins to overheat without extended cooling measures. The board was originally designed for 350w. At 600 GH/s, the board works as designed, since the power usage and current is within the design parameters. In the Imperial class boards, the power and current requirements are substantially more than it was designed for. There is a common copper power plane in one of the layers of the board which is inadequate to carry the amount of current required. As such, it starts to heat up the board to unacceptable levels and would shorten it's life. Because of this, we have to create a new revision of the board that will have a much more robust copper plane that will allow 4x the amount of current as the current plane, while letting the board run much cooler. These new revision boards are in the manufacturing process right now and we expect them to come out of manufacturing around 6 - 9 of June.

In the meantime, we have a number of the 600 GH/s boards available and they are being prepped for deployment. I have proposed that to get the hashing power out to customers as fast as possible, we offer Mining By the Gigahash to the customers that have orders in the queue, in order date sequence. We will supply each user with hashing power for each card ordered. Customers that receive the MBGH wouldl have use of the hashrate until their revised 1 TH cards are ready to ship. This will allow our customers to start hashing right away while we wait on the revised boards to make their way through manufacturing, packaging and shipping. We are looking into the feasibility of this and whether or not we can deploy the cards in enough time to make this effective, as it entails quite a bit of work on our end to make sure this goes smoothly, works properly and everyone gets what they are suppose to.

[ManeBjorn]

So they are going to ship out just a few to try and quell the angry customers while making another excuse for an extended delay yet again.
Sounds and looks familiar.
I am not surprised.

Where is Monarch?

Here's today's BFL update:

Engineering work continues on the Monarchs. We have a stable 600 GH/s board hashing currently, without any major issues.

Over the past week, we have been diagnosing an issue with heat on the boards and finally located the culprit. With the Imperial class product, the board begins to overheat without extended cooling measures. The board was originally designed for 350w. At 600 GH/s, the board works as designed, since the power usage and current is within the design parameters. In the Imperial class boards, the power and current requirements are substantially more than it was designed for. There is a common copper power plane in one of the layers of the board which is inadequate to carry the amount of current required. As such, it starts to heat up the board to unacceptable levels and would shorten it's life. Because of this, we have to create a new revision of the board that will have a much more robust copper plane that will allow 4x the amount of current as the current plane, while letting the board run much cooler. These new revision boards are in the manufacturing process right now and we expect them to come out of manufacturing around 6 - 9 of June.

In the meantime, we have a number of the 600 GH/s boards available and they are being prepped for deployment. I have proposed that to get the hashing power out to customers as fast as possible, we offer Mining By the Gigahash to the customers that have orders in the queue, in order date sequence. We will supply each user with hashing power for each card ordered. Customers that receive the MBGH wouldl have use of the hashrate until their revised 1 TH cards are ready to ship. This will allow our customers to start hashing right away while we wait on the revised boards to make their way through manufacturing, packaging and shipping. We are looking into the feasibility of this and whether or not we can deploy the cards in enough time to make this effective, as it entails quite a bit of work on our end to make sure this goes smoothly, works properly and everyone gets what they are suppose to.

[ManeBjorn]

An update on the hosted BFL Single.
It ate a 2nd power supply last night.  I was able to pick up a new one while I was in Syracuse today for a Dr's appointment.
It is back online.

[OgNasty]

So they are going to ship out just a few to try and quell the angry customers while making another excuse for an extended delay yet again.
Sounds and looks familiar.
I am not surprised.

No, they are hoping to get enough working cards to start providing cloud hashing for us until our units ship.  It is unfortunate that they are still revising the boards, but I noticed that I had several different revisions of the original single boards as well.  It is good that they are resolving everything before shipping this time and keeping the underperforming boards for their cloud hashing project.

An update on the hosted BFL Single.
It ate a 2nd power supply last night.  I was able to pick up a new one while I was in Syracuse today for a Dr's appointment.
It is back online.

Damn, that sucks.  I hope something didn't happen to it during shipping that is making it run through PSUs. 

[ManeBjorn]

I will not comment on BFL anymore I found out too much disturbing stuff about them recently to be impartial anymore and I do not want to be dragged into the impending shit storm.

I am glad I sold the other one I purchased not long after I got it.  Fingers crossed.  I will do a tear down when I have not just had a 6 hr round trip to my surgeons.  I am beat right now.

Could be worse.

I hope BFL follows through on the hashing.

So they are going to ship out just a few to try and quell the angry customers while making another excuse for an extended delay yet again.
Sounds and looks familiar.
I am not surprised.

No, they are hoping to get enough working cards to start providing cloud hashing for us until our units ship.  It is unfortunate that they are still revising the boards, but I noticed that I had several different revisions of the original single boards as well.  It is good that they are resolving everything before shipping this time and keeping the underperforming boards for their cloud hashing project.

An update on the hosted BFL Single.
It ate a 2nd power supply last night.  I was able to pick up a new one while I was in Syracuse today for a Dr's appointment.
It is back online.

Damn, that sucks.  I hope something didn't happen to it during shipping that is making it run through PSUs. 

[OgNasty]

Anyone have any recommendations for a time to have a live chat on Sunday?

Some things I want to discuss:

• Fan Operating Plan Update
• Electrical Circuit Upgrades
• Mining Equipment Order Status
• Quarterly Reports
• Nasty Mining's 2nd Birthday

[ManeBjorn]

Ways to Market the pool to get more miners interested.

Anyone have any recommendations for a time to have a live chat on Sunday?

Some things I want to discuss:

• Fan Operating Plan Update
• Electrical Circuit Upgrades
• Mining Equipment Order Status
• Quarterly Reports
• Nasty Mining's 2nd Birthday

[nonnakip]

Distribution 303370 is complete. Thank you donators.

[OgNasty]

Live chat to be held June 1st @ 11:00AM PST.  Link to be posted in this thread.

[Squirrel Dearing]

Below are screenshots from our p2pool node showing the status of our fan operators for the month of May.  Thank you all.  I have sent numerous messages to babsag3 about why he hasn't been able to get his unit back online, but he is no longer responding to me.  

My pleasure to help out - you have been paying for the electricity for far too long!  Just hope that you start paying for more electricity again soon! (bfl order!!)

[OgNasty]

NASTY JUNE 1st - 11:00AM PST - LIVE CHAT LINK:
THANKS TO THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED!

NASTY MINING CURRENT ORDERS UPDATE:


Alpha Technologies: Waiting on chips to begin testing/assembling miners.  Expected to ship in July.

Black Arrow: Claims to have shipped first X1 miner to a customer.  Also claims to be receiving a revised board for the X3 in the next 2 days.  Expected to ship in June.

Butterfly Labs: Has working prototype of 600GH/s miner.  Waiting on revised boards for both Imperial and standard Monarchs.  Claims to be receiving revised boards in the next few days.  Expected to ship in June.


ELECTRICAL CAPACITY UPGRADE:
We previously had a maximum capacity of 80amps available to our mining operation.  Last week I upgraded our 3x20amp circuits to 6x20amp circuits and also prepared an emergency circuit to be easily accessible in case of a need.  We now have 160amps available and easily accessible for our mining operation.

CURRENT ELECTRICAL CAPACITY:
6x20amp circuits in mining closet
1x20amp circuit in mining room
1x20amp emergency circuit


It is worth noting that for the first month, Nasty Pool has surpassed Nasty Mining in average hashrate.

NASTY MINING AVERAGE MONTHLY HASHRATE:
1.42TH/s

NASTY POOL AVERAGE MONTHLY HASHRATE:
1.56TH/s

Below are screenshots from our p2pool node showing the status of our fan operators for the month of May.  Thank you all.  I have sent numerous messages to babsag3 about why he hasn't been able to get his unit back online, but he is no longer responding to me.