Quote from: Dice on March 22, 2014, 05:05:54 PM

Hi Will,

How are the stabilization of chips going? I've been closely monitoring the ozcoin top 20 and i see we are slowly reducing the hashing power there? Is this a result of moving hashing power to a different pool/service (which one?) or are we experiencing some dreaded bad chips again?

Also more importantly we'd all like to know whats the status with HashFast, things are rather grim because of their delays, have any advancements made on this front?

Also you mentioned a week or more back that the faulty units were sent back to HashFast. Have new units been delivered to replace the faulty ones?

We'd all appreciate some more news.

Hi

Stabilization and RMA is ongoing. Hashfast has been very accommodating with our requirements on both fronts.

We've currently in the middle of a solo mining test, using the new gbt cgminer upgrade work which we initiated (see: https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/f113a25ff79a171240512b3791da1fb64f50b14c). We started early live testing on Thursday, and the test started in full on Saturday night (CET) and has been running for about 30.5 hours now. Block rewards are sent here:
https://blockchain.info/address/12ej4RUwoszmQoKYyFg6Ej27L82xhFS5Ao
(2 blocks solved at the time of this writing, both of which were found within 12h of the switch). We'll keep a close eye on everything over at least the next 72h and decide where to go from there.

As always, the minestate monitor (https://www.icedrill.io/minestate) is unaffected by pool/target switching.

We've left ~10Th @ ozcoin for the moment. Just to be clear: Graet and Blaksmith have been a huge help throughout all of this stabilization work @ #cgminer-dev. The decision has nothing to do with "moving away from" and everything to do with "moving towards" the new target.

We started mining from a 2nd location as the current one is starting to approach its power/cooling limits, though we do have the option for limited (minimal setup cost) expansion there. New/alternate DC selection is ongoing and we're making good progress on that front. We'll be deploying a small hosting agreement (contract executed) into the new location over the coming days.

Will