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

[lightfoot]

Hm. Looks like a 12 volt power filtering cap. Kind of interesting, might make one of the chips noisy, but probably not enough to sink the board. Let's see what happens.

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[nonnakip]

Distribution 327911 is complete. nastyfans appreciates the donations. Thank you.

[OgNasty]

Live chat tomorrow at 12:30pm PST!  I'll post the link here prior to the chat.

[OgNasty]

Live chat link:  Chat Completed.

Starting in 22 minutes!

EDIT:  Thanks to those who attended.  Always great getting to converse with fans every month.

[ManeBjorn]

I am sorry I missed it today.  I am not doing very well and was stuck in bed heavily medicated all day.
Was it a productive one?

Live chat link:  Chat Completed.

Starting in 22 minutes!

EDIT:  Thanks to those who attended.  Always great getting to converse with fans every month.

[OgNasty]

I am sorry I missed it today.  I am not doing very well and was stuck in bed heavily medicated all day.
Was it a productive one?

We discussed a few things.  I am encouraging more pre-orders of the 5oz coin so we can get that minted.  I'm asking for opinions on whether or not we should ship our non-working Monarchs to lightfoot for repair.  The NastyShirt is still in the design phase.  I've started providing info to naypalm to begin working on another 3rd party NastyFans website.   I may begin relocating equipment to the NastyCenter this month.  The big one though is that nonnakip has stated it is a possibility for NastyPPS payouts to go live on NastyPool this month. 

[nonnakip]

Distribution 328999 is complete. nastyfans thanks the donators.

[nonnakip]

The namecoin domain nastyfans.bit was captured by domain hoarder "BM-2cVYvBU4832oj7LaTQu9u94D3HYBRrgfKe". I do not think anyone will care about this but I wanted to share.

I will create a new PGP key for nastyfans.org and revoke my nastyfans.bit key and resign all previous distribution lists.

I will post again with details of my new key after it is publicly available.

[ManeBjorn]

How did they "capture" it?
I am confused by that.
Are they not secure?

The namecoin domain nastyfans.bit was captured by domain hoarder "BM-2cVYvBU4832oj7LaTQu9u94D3HYBRrgfKe". I do not think anyone will care about this but I wanted to share.

I will create a new PGP key for nastyfans.org and revoke my nastyfans.bit key and resign all previous distribution lists.

I will post again with details of my new key after it is publicly available.

[nonnakip]

How did they "capture" it?
I am confused by that.
Are they not secure?

I allowed it to expire. I am confident I was the only person using it. And 1 year ago even I stopped using it. When I first registered the domain I thought the fans would like it. The opposite happened.

[ManeBjorn]

Ah ok.
That makes sense.  When you had said captured I was thinking it was something else.

How did they "capture" it?
I am confused by that.
Are they not secure?

I allowed it to expire. I am confident I was the only person using it. And 1 year ago even I stopped using it. When I first registered the domain I thought the fans would like it. The opposite happened.

[naypalm]

How did they "capture" it?
I am confused by that.
Are they not secure?

I allowed it to expire. I am confident I was the only person using it. And 1 year ago even I stopped using it. When I first registered the domain I thought the fans would like it. The opposite happened.

The same thing happened to my bitSE.bit domain. The increase in nmc hashrate made the expiration date sooner than I had written down. 

[Squirrel Dearing]

I'm not sure if this is enough to keep the unit from showing up to cgminer (my gut says "no"), but I am hoping for a bit of luck once it's replaced.

Just wondering, any news on the capacitor?

[NotLambchop]

I'm not sure if this is enough to keep the unit from showing up to cgminer (my gut says "no"), but I am hoping for a bit of luck once it's replaced.

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Just wondering, any news on the capacitor?

Protip:  If no junk pile--a trip to RadioShak, any form factor cap with leads (radial or axial) >6V >=470Mf, (should be a buck or two), a cheapy soldering iron and a roll of flux solder.  Trim leads/bend to fit solder pads/solder/a dab of silicone to keep the cap from rattling off, you're done.

[TookDk]

I'm not sure if this is enough to keep the unit from showing up to cgminer (my gut says "no"), but I am hoping for a bit of luck once it's replaced.

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Just wondering, any news on the capacitor?

Protip:  If no junk pile--a trip to RadioShak, any form factor cap with leads (radial or axial) >6V >=470Mf, (should be a buck or two), a cheapy soldering iron and a roll of flux solder.  Trim leads/bend to fit solder pads/solder/a dab of silicone to keep the cap from rattling off, you're done.

Protip: watch out for the capital letters, 6.3V, 470 Mega farad would be hard to find

[OgNasty]

Just wondering, any news on the capacitor?

Nothing positive.  I'm considering 2 options at the moment.  A) Recording a video of me going Office Space on the Prisma as a warning to others that AsicMiner is shipping incomplete miners and their support is absolute garbage.  B) Selling it to the highest bidder and taking whatever loss is necessary so that I don't ever have to see it again.

[NotLambchop]

I'm not sure if this is enough to keep the unit from showing up to cgminer (my gut says "no"), but I am hoping for a bit of luck once it's replaced.

...

Just wondering, any news on the capacitor?

Protip:  If no junk pile--a trip to RadioShak, any form factor cap with leads (radial or axial) >6V >=470Mf, (should be a buck or two), a cheapy soldering iron and a roll of flux solder.  Trim leads/bend to fit solder pads/solder/a dab of silicone to keep the cap from rattling off, you're done.

Protip: watch out for the capital letters, 6.3V, 470 Mega farad would be hard to find

Protip: Lowercase m makes it mf=millifarad=1000μF.  But even a 470 Megafarad cap, if someone managed to make one, would work fine.  Filters are filters, can't have too much

[nonnakip]

Distribution 330024 is complete. nastyfans says thank you to donators.

[TookDk]

Protip: Lowercase m makes it mf=millifarad=1000μF.  But even a 470 Megafarad cap, if someone managed to make one, would work fine.  Filters are filters, can't have too much

I am pretty sure it is a decoupling cap.
In that case, would it only work "fine" if the ESL is not too high.

[nonnakip]

The PPS-Engine for NastyPool is now running. For the next week I will be monitoring the system close and maybe make modifications if needed. From the NastyPool miners page you can see which miners already using PPS. NASTY MINING is one of them. There is also a link there to view live PPS statistics.

As a small bonus I decide to donate 0.0001 BTC to every PPS round payout. This will make sure that PPS miners always get some payout even if the PPS-collective never solves a single P2Pool share during the round.

If you want to participate in PPS testing then you only need to add -PPS to the end of your username (your Bitcoin address). The web interface records your payout share per P2Pool block solved. You will receive the total pending PPS payouts as part of the donation distribution.

Any miner with 10MH/s or more should be able to earn Bitcoin on NastyPool-PPS. This is not new fact for PPS-systems. But it is new for P2Pool.

If all is well I expect to have a official NastyPool-PPS announcement next week. I prepare a separate web site to talk about what NastyPool-PPS is and how to use it and FAQ.

Thank you OgNasty for supporting the testing of NastyPool-PPS.