Hey all.
Sorry i've been kind of absent lately. I've had some real life things demanding my attention and have been hanging out for the Avalon stuff to get its bugs ironed out which has been unfortunately taking much longer than i would have hoped. In good news, this is now done and the Avalons are steaming ahead. A bit late in my opinion but its just been the best we can do considering all of the surrounding factors. I really would have loved to get this stuff to you sooner but thats just not the way things have gone. As it stands, the thumbs will be ready to roll in the next couple days and the 16s will be about 2 weeks. Thankfully the difficulty rises are slowing and the price looks to be heading up again so these things should still have some life in them. That said, no hard feelings if anyone decides to opt out on this one. Its a hard game this bitcoin hardware thing, it really is. But whatever, the boards will exist and i hope they find good homes. I'd much rather see them go to you guys than anywahere else.
Anyways, i am happy to announce that there is a new firmware available for the existing bitfury hardware which has some really cool features, including miniplane support (finally!), and per asic autotuning to get the most GH out of your hardware. I have it running on my boards now and it is nice and stable. Seems like most of the boards dropping out problems have been ironed out now too. Check it out here:
http://drillbitsystem.com/forum/index.php?topic=307.0I will keep everyone updated with the Avalon stuff as it comes.
Hope you are all well and that no one got too stung by the MT Gox debacle.
More soon.
Barntech