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You can run it off any PC, and that's preferable anyway since the RPi is a piece of shit. Just plug in a USB cable. The sierras don't even have one so you have to run them via USB. Any instability still around is firmware related and remember it's still early days since release (even though release was late) but once my sierra is running it does not miss a beat.
Mine is happily hashing from an old mini PC desktop. Will try to resolve a driver conflict with Karin's help and get it hashing on the Mac mini later today.
Interestingly, after running overnight, this BJ seems a little off-spec. It's doing about 395-7 g/hash (running cgminer 3.11).
OTOH, my HW error rate is very low and with an ambient temp of 21c (70f) my processor temp is 69-70c. What did other people get for out of the box processor temps?
I guess I should experiment with overclocking next... I've seen 610 mentioned... other suggestions?
And sorry ckolivas, I didn't mean to suggest the Mac driver issue was your problem. It was intended merely as an observation.
And finally... why don't we try to move all this operational discussion over the the user's thread? I would still like a thread more focused on the company and its operations (and interesting cast of characters), like this one was before HF really started shipping.
In fact, I'm going to xpost over there.
Thanks. I'd also like to keep this thread focused on following HasFast activity, since they're not a big fan of communicating with us. Are there any batch one customers who haven't either 1) requested a refund 2) had equipment ship 3) been given tracking info?
Have any batch 2 customers received hardware?
I don't know if there is an equivelent body in USA, b
Welcome to Scamerica!!!
You can joke all you want with this, but on second thought it is rather odd consumers in the biggest consumer market in the world are not protected more from such a things. I understand freedom of trade, free markets, weak state, and all this stuff, but believe me this is close to impossible to happen anywhere else. We scream constantly to overblown state mechanisms in my country, and state bureaucracy blown out of proportions, but I'm pretty certain anywhere else this things would end by state clerks all over the HF back. It's also odd that scam of these proportions is not all over the media, they should love such a juicy stories. How often multi-million dollar scams are there in the USA for this to go unnoticed?
It's the bitcoin aspect that screws up consumer protections. If it wasn't present, there would be more obvious recourse to that kind of complaint, and they'd stand a better chance of success.
But, if you put yourself in the shoes of a bureaucrat, you're kind of "damned if you do, damned if you don't" here. The "community" is loud and clear that bitcoin does not want regulation, but the "community" also has problems with dishonest and incompetent hardware manufacturers. From the federal level, there is bascially a policy vacuum, because the feds haven't figured out if and how to deal with it, and they are kind of signalling 'hands off', like the "community" says it wants.
So if you wade into this as a low or mid-level bureaucrat of the sort that might typically try to enforce consumer protection laws, you're probably going to get your head chopped off and be accused of overreaching. And you are probably saying to yourself, "heh, those guys, so proud of their independence and insulting the government all the time, now look who's crying? ... why should I stick my neck out for them? Most of them say I'm irrelevant, until they run into @ssholes like BFL and Hashfast. Well, sorry fellas, it's time you grew up and gave us more respect. Here's a lesson for you."
Yea, I think certainly the 'no forced refunds' aspect is dangerous for consumers. That, coupled with the meteoric rise in BTC prices has meant there's a huge lure for unscrupulous people to get their scams in.
If enough of these scams go on and people will give up on bitcoin. It's just too easy to be ripped off.
What I find ironic about this (and everyone else who's complaining) is the fact that so many people cried for the longest time about BFL and about how "You are required to give refunds if you don't ship in 30 days, the FTC says so!!!!!!1!1!" (which is wrong, by the way, but whatever) - now that it's happening, the same people are crying about receiving "forced refunds."
So which is it, do you want forced refunds according to the commonly held misconception about the FTC or do you want your hardware? You can't have mutually exclusive results happening simultaneously.
inb4 "But this is different." ... It's not all that different than what BFL went through. We had engineering problems, HF is having engineering problems. I have no doubt Hashfast is working as fast as they can to get the product out the door and everyone at HF is having sleepless nights over it. I have no inside knowledge about it, obviously, but I can imagine what they are going through. Could/can they handle things better? Yes, absolutely, just like there are many things about the sequence of events that BFL could have done better about. Unfortunately, neither BFL nor Hashfast are large, multi-billion dollar corporations that have the resources to do that... we are a few people, bitcoin nerds mostly, trying to deliver a high demand product that grows exponentially before ones eyes.
I would believe that, except we haven't heard so much as a "still working hard" post ANYWHERE from them in TWO WEEKS.
I'd be happy to say the glass was half full, but it's hard to tell when HashFast took the glass to another room. We have no idea what's going on.
I am also a batch 4 customer, really kicking myself for ordering now, I went for the upgrade kit too.
I have been trying to get a refund and paid in Dollars exchanged from UK Stirling.
I modified their official refund and release form for a batch 4 customer.
I sent it to refunds@hashfast.com and Erin (customer support manager) acknowledged receipt but has not confirmed if I will actually get paid out. I have sent several emails asking but no reply.
It is really frustrating that you give what appeared to be a legit company your hard earned cash for a product that may never come and yet the don't even have the curtesy to reply to a few simple questions!! Rant over!
I have been trying to get a refund and paid in Dollars exchanged from UK Stirling.
I modified their official refund and release form for a batch 4 customer.
I sent it to refunds@hashfast.com and Erin (customer support manager) acknowledged receipt but has not confirmed if I will actually get paid out. I have sent several emails asking but no reply.
It is really frustrating that you give what appeared to be a legit company your hard earned cash for a product that may never come and yet the don't even have the curtesy to reply to a few simple questions!! Rant over!
When did you order batch#4?
I ordered 12/13/2014 FYI. Looks like I'm in the upper sixties in line in batch 4, based on my order number.
I'm new to the party. Ordered a BabyJet from Batch 4, found this forum as I was scouring the internet for any updates. Guess I should have looked harder before ordering...
Don't worry, I ordered a Monarch from BFL too, because what are the odds that both will be problematic...
By the looks of it, I may go back to not taking financial risk.
Don't worry, I ordered a Monarch from BFL too, because what are the odds that both will be problematic...
By the looks of it, I may go back to not taking financial risk.
They gave a guaranteed shipping date of no later than March 31. I didn't know at the time I ordered, that they already failed to come through with orders for batch 1 customers. Well, I knew there were delays, but I didn't understand the the significance entirely. I'll I can do is hope for the best and use it when it comes, assuming angry batch one customers don't sue them into bankruptcy...
I'm a HashFast customer, ordered a BabyJet batch 4. I'm only now becoming aware of the magnitude of HashFast. I joined the forum to communicate with other HashFast customers. Guess I should have joined the forum before ordering Huh? 
This is my first post.
This is my first post.