ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It

[jimmothy]

Update

Some details of BE300:

Process: tsmc 28nm hpc

Package: fclga (5mm x 5mm)

Normal Mode:
    0.7v vdd
    6gh/s per chip
    8gh/s-12gh/s per chip for mass production
    0.343w/g on chip
    ~0.3w/g on chip for mass production

Low Power Mode:
    0.55v vdd
    4.5gh/s per chip
    6gh/s-9gh/s per chip for mass production
    0.225w/g on chip
    ~0.2w/g on chip for mass production

The schedule of BE300 producing: First batch production will be done next Feb.

Are there folks that happen to know more about this elaborate on this further? Other than just being a little more efficient than BE200, it doesn't seem like that great of an improvement for a die shrink (40nm -> 28nm). Please excuse my ignorance, I'm more of a biochemist and not familiar with the specifics of chip R&D.

0.2-0.343 w/gh is not "a little more efficient".

[hdbuck]

meh, does the bitmain U3s sold good? could it even compete with them? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=827356.0

Those require a power supply. A usb miner would definitely be more appealing for beginners/hobbyists.

well then, im not so sure its a good idea anyway. we are a little over beginners and usbminers.

[mrlupin]

My dividend finally turned up.

https://blockchain.info/tx/7a0fa53dbce2d1c29630ea4c037f119b9099fe3e6f459c11dc4eed30a9b09e12

Sending address: https://blockchain.info/address/1HgTJED7XEGy4vVwKa8kgefWqUB3VRX2mW

Looks like I got a special transaction all to myself so my email must have helped fix it. Thanks friedcat.

What email did you use to contact friedcat? I tried a PM via bitcointalk but I got no response.

fnnirvana@gmail.com - I didn't get a reply, still haven't even now, but apparently it does get read.

Yes that's the email address that notified me of share transfers too.

[mithrandi]

Those require a power supply. A usb miner would definitely be more appealing for beginners/hobbyists.

Frankly, beginners/hobbyists are just wasting their time if they're messing around with miners at this point. Of course, a market may exist for such a novelty item nonetheless, but...

[Rival]

Those require a power supply. A usb miner would definitely be more appealing for beginners/hobbyists.

Frankly, beginners/hobbyists are just wasting their time if they're messing around with miners at this point. Of course, a market may exist for such a novelty item nonetheless, but...

The fact that thousands of 333 Mhs USB miners still change hands on ebay each month should indicate that there is a large demand for usb miners.

[jdany]

Those require a power supply. A usb miner would definitely be more appealing for beginners/hobbyists.

Frankly, beginners/hobbyists are just wasting their time if they're messing around with miners at this point. Of course, a market may exist for such a novelty item nonetheless, but...

The fact that thousands of 333 Mhs USB miners still change hands on ebay each month should indicate that there is a large demand for usb miners.

I think someone said 30 billion USB slots will go unused, with nothing plugged into them, in 2015.
That's almost 4 USB slots for every man, woman, and child in the world.
Don't let this happen.  Think of the children.

[drasted]

Those require a power supply. A usb miner would definitely be more appealing for beginners/hobbyists.

Frankly, beginners/hobbyists are just wasting their time if they're messing around with miners at this point. Of course, a market may exist for such a novelty item nonetheless, but...

Same things were said when the asicminers old USB miners were being sold. And it was probably true. Didn't stop them from selling like crazy.

[Puppet]

Same things were said when the asicminers old USB miners were being sold. And it was probably true. Didn't stop them from selling like crazy.

By the time gen 4 USB sticks could reasonably be expected to ship, Id WAG difficulty to be above 80B.

2.5W/0.3J/GH= ~8GH wich would yield 0.0000501 BTC per day.

Last summer,  a USB block erupter mined  about two orders of magnitude more.

[Mabsark]

Well shit,

AMHash is cheaper per GHs over at Hashie, and you get 10 GHs free to sign-up

Of course it is. Unlike AMHash, Hashie is actually trying to sell AMHash contracts and their sales person isn't completely incompetent.

[jjdub7]

That Laxo Trade spammer is sending 1000 satoshis all the time, all over the place, and none of their tx failed. Some fountains send even lesser amounts.

I don't think that threshold thing happened here - more likely not all shares are connected to the right addresses yet. That's why this div was - to clear out the shareholding status. So, check your address, and if the div is not there, clear that out with FC.

Laxo is sending 10000 Satoshis as far as I know. What you remember is maybe from before the introduction of the dust threshold in 0.8.2? Faucets and fountains were mostly killed by this, see for example http://bitcoin.lift-institute.com/killing-the-dust/

https://blockchain.info/tx/b30679bf3c688ad8f8b674a25c33399be23234934a488c04b8666f9486c1e5f3
0.00001000 btc, september 2014, long after v0.8.2

many outputs like this, put in a single tx - same way AM sends out divs.

Interesting. I have no idea how they are able to do that - they shouldn't be. Thanks for this, I will investigate. Maybe they use their own miner?

@all others: sorry for going OT so much, will stop now.

If you mine your own blocks, you can ignore the isStandard() checks for transactions, I'm pretty sure (modded mining software - do some reading on luke-jr and Eligius, which accepts/pushes non-standard transactions as well).

That would also presumably be how friedcat has been bouncing transactions forward and backward in his wallet(s) to shuffle and subdivide the coins on the books.

[btcbot]

Well shit,

AMHash is cheaper per GHs over at Hashie, and you get 10 GHs free to sign-up

Just to clarify, you have to buy at least 20 GH to get that free 10 GH and it's Hashie's own Generation1 contract.  WTH, I am now the proud owner of 30 GH of AMHash/Hashie hashing power.  

 

[jjdub7]

Received my divs on my direct shares as well as on havelock.

Can you forward me the 'sending' address so that I might add them to the spreadsheet?  We are still missing proof of **edit** 178 shares.

btw. I've updated the spreadsheet with payments from a third address.

Known payment addresses for 11/24/2014 dividend
138F71yG3gqzhcYowSHw7Qmqos6X2GrRWt *new
115tTroRo3B9ZDQ6ATJGDCHcNEVbjJoZnF
1H7FpBV8huVmPvt5eRzszAkgnERH2FaWvq

1H7FpBV8huVmPvt5eRzszAkgnERH2FaWvq

Can everyone reach consensus that 3MkwFfGNQDve7vz1z6gUDVxkuQpcSV3Mz8 is most definitely an ASICMINER address now?  Where's stompysteve at?

[stompysteve]

Received my divs on my direct shares as well as on havelock.

Can you forward me the 'sending' address so that I might add them to the spreadsheet?  We are still missing proof of **edit** 178 shares.

btw. I've updated the spreadsheet with payments from a third address.

Known payment addresses for 11/24/2014 dividend
138F71yG3gqzhcYowSHw7Qmqos6X2GrRWt *new
115tTroRo3B9ZDQ6ATJGDCHcNEVbjJoZnF
1H7FpBV8huVmPvt5eRzszAkgnERH2FaWvq

1H7FpBV8huVmPvt5eRzszAkgnERH2FaWvq

Can everyone reach consensus that 3MkwFfGNQDve7vz1z6gUDVxkuQpcSV3Mz8 is most definitely an ASICMINER address now?  Where's stompysteve at?

I've been wanting to redo my wallet tracking post just been very busy, mostly lurking the past month I have some free time today maybe I'll check it out

[armedmilitia]

Good news everyone! After sending friedcat an email my div showed up. I'm rich, baby, I'm rich!

[kaerf]

Received my divs on my direct shares as well as on havelock.

Can you forward me the 'sending' address so that I might add them to the spreadsheet?  We are still missing proof of **edit** 178 shares.

btw. I've updated the spreadsheet with payments from a third address.

Known payment addresses for 11/24/2014 dividend
138F71yG3gqzhcYowSHw7Qmqos6X2GrRWt *new
115tTroRo3B9ZDQ6ATJGDCHcNEVbjJoZnF
1H7FpBV8huVmPvt5eRzszAkgnERH2FaWvq

1H7FpBV8huVmPvt5eRzszAkgnERH2FaWvq

Can everyone reach consensus that 3MkwFfGNQDve7vz1z6gUDVxkuQpcSV3Mz8 is most definitely an ASICMINER address now?  Where's stompysteve at?

If 3Mkw is theirs, then 3KBUuGko4H5ke7EVsq9B7PLK1c5Askdd7y is likely theirs as well

[drasted]

Received my divs on my direct shares as well as on havelock.

Can you forward me the 'sending' address so that I might add them to the spreadsheet?  We are still missing proof of **edit** 178 shares.

btw. I've updated the spreadsheet with payments from a third address.

Known payment addresses for 11/24/2014 dividend
138F71yG3gqzhcYowSHw7Qmqos6X2GrRWt *new
115tTroRo3B9ZDQ6ATJGDCHcNEVbjJoZnF
1H7FpBV8huVmPvt5eRzszAkgnERH2FaWvq

1H7FpBV8huVmPvt5eRzszAkgnERH2FaWvq

Can everyone reach consensus that 3MkwFfGNQDve7vz1z6gUDVxkuQpcSV3Mz8 is most definitely an ASICMINER address now?  Where's stompysteve at?

What's the relation between 3MkwFfGNQDve7vz1z6gUDVxkuQpcSV3Mz8 and these addresses? Honest question, I've just had a quick look but i can't see it show up in any transactions between them.

[jjdub7]

Received my divs on my direct shares as well as on havelock.

Can you forward me the 'sending' address so that I might add them to the spreadsheet?  We are still missing proof of **edit** 178 shares.

btw. I've updated the spreadsheet with payments from a third address.

Known payment addresses for 11/24/2014 dividend
138F71yG3gqzhcYowSHw7Qmqos6X2GrRWt *new
115tTroRo3B9ZDQ6ATJGDCHcNEVbjJoZnF
1H7FpBV8huVmPvt5eRzszAkgnERH2FaWvq

1H7FpBV8huVmPvt5eRzszAkgnERH2FaWvq

Can everyone reach consensus that 3MkwFfGNQDve7vz1z6gUDVxkuQpcSV3Mz8 is most definitely an ASICMINER address now?  Where's stompysteve at?

What's the relation between 3MkwFfGNQDve7vz1z6gUDVxkuQpcSV3Mz8 and these addresses? Honest question, I've just had a quick look but i can't see it show up in any transactions between them.

Try searching for my or others' previous posts here in the thread (search bar will narrow to this thread only).

In short, from what I've observed all the way back from tube sales and then later from mining inflows, it appears to be friedcat's main multisig address for storing funds, although AM has since split the wallet across many addresses.

[stompysteve]

Coming down to the line on the difficulty bet, was it between puppet and someone else? Gonna be a close one I had my money on a drop

[Puppet]

Not that close. Im taking bets now I will lose that bet

[raskul]

Not that close. Im taking bets now I will lose that bet

Haha
how much gave you at stake?