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Steve
on 25/01/2020, 02:17:00 UTC


6xHD5870 sat on top of an old SC440 2x650W+305W PSU with 2x3 port PCIe switches - having problems getting all 6 working so I'll probably be split them up later today.

Chris.

Nice!  I'm interested to know if you can manage to get all 6 running from one mobo.  If you can close off the case (with slots for the PCIe wiring) and arrange the extra PSUs a bit better (so everything is blowing hot air in the same direction), you could pretty easily get all air flowing from front to rear and make a little home made setup to vent all the hot air away.  Did you do anything special such that all those cards aren't drawing power from the PCIe bus?
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Steve
on 25/01/2020, 02:17:00 UTC
Here are a couple pics of my rigs.  There are 3 4U machines in the rack (1 up high and 2 down below the printer).  I've taken the covers off the lower two to show a close up of those rigs.  The upper rig has a 6990 (about to have a second 6990) and the lower two machines are both dual 5970 rigs.


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Re: Looking for an open source online wallet
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Steve
on 26/06/2014, 01:35:46 UTC
It's still under heavy development, but you might want to look into this:
http://copay.io
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Re: 1,000,000 bits = 1 bitcoin. Future-proofing Bitcoin for common usage? VOTE
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Steve
on 02/05/2014, 19:10:18 UTC
We (BitPay) like moving to "bits" …Jeff has written a blog post articulating how we intend to make the transition if we feel there is a consensus to go in this direction.

http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/05/02/bitpay-bitcoin-and-where-to-put-that-decimal-point.html
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Re: Are any of you going to DragonCon 2013?
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Steve
on 31/08/2013, 02:16:01 UTC
i dont live far from dragoncon in atlanta i go every year
Awesome. Up for a meetup?

There's gonna be a shitload of Local Bitcoin meetups that's for sure  Shocked
Bitpay is in Atlanta. Maybe we could get them involved somehow too.
Bitcoin Panel is at 1pm tomorrow.
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Merits 1 from 1 user
Re: [ANN] txtool: Advanced transaction building
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Steve
on 04/07/2013, 01:29:10 UTC
⭐ Merited by ETFbitcoin (1)
For non-nodejs people, you should now be able to install this as follows:
a) install nodejs (from nodejs.org)
b) run: $ npm install -g txtool

After that, you should be able run txtool from the shell:
$ txtool

This installs the nodejs txtool package with all dependencies in your global nodejs environment and then creates a symlink to the executable in your $PATH (usually /usr/local/bin).
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Re: BFL Single Arrived today ... ~60Gh/s
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Steve
on 22/06/2013, 13:59:14 UTC
Was the single shipped with power supply unit?
No...I don't think they had power supplies in stock and gave me the option of taking delivery without the PSU (which I did).
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Re: BFL Single Arrived today ... ~60Gh/s
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Steve
on 22/06/2013, 12:07:32 UTC
How much are you going to sell it for?
It's not for sale.
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Re: BFL Single Arrived today ... ~60Gh/s
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Steve
on 22/06/2013, 00:38:32 UTC
Beautiful!  Glad to hear they are slowly but surely being shipped out.

Just wanted to ask if the noise created by the miner was audibly irritating.  Heard the Jalapeno was loud and wondering if I had better plan on placing my future single sc in the garage.  
I can't really tell because the noise of the computer I have it hooked up to is drowning it out.  It's being driven by an RPi, but I needed the computer for it's power supply...I also can't get an accurate power reading because of the power draw from the computer components also on the same power supply...when I have more time I'll get it on a standalone power supply.

Ok, I had to know...I disconnected all the computer components and plugged it into a kill-a-watt ...it's drawing about 280 watts.
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Re: BFL Single Arrived today ... ~60Gh/s
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Steve
on 22/06/2013, 00:04:04 UTC
Beautiful!  Glad to hear they are slowly but surely being shipped out.

Just wanted to ask if the noise created by the miner was audibly irritating.  Heard the Jalapeno was loud and wondering if I had better plan on placing my future single sc in the garage.  
I can't really tell because the noise of the computer I have it hooked up to is drowning it out.  It's being driven by an RPi, but I needed the computer for it's power supply...I also can't get an accurate power reading because of the power draw from the computer components also on the same power supply...when I have more time I'll get it on a standalone power supply.
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Re: BFL Single Arrived today ... ~60Gh/s
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Steve
on 21/06/2013, 23:51:11 UTC
Order date was the first day they started taking orders in late June last year.



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Re: ["WAIT LIST"] BFL SC Pre-Order Information
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Steve
on 21/06/2013, 21:53:18 UTC
Received my single today (in US) ...order #1653
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BFL Single Arrived today ... ~60Gh/s
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Steve
on 21/06/2013, 21:36:42 UTC
My BFL Single arrived today...it is now mining successfully with bfgminer-3.1.0 (I had to upgrade from 3.0.2 to get it to work). It is getting close to 60 Gh/s. It is being powered via two PCIe power connectors from a typical computer power supply and it's being driven by a Raspberry Pi (which is also driving a jalapeño).
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Re: The real cause of the "panic"
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Steve
on 11/04/2013, 04:03:19 UTC
Never sell a bitcoin for USD!! SPEND IT on things or service or commodities.
+1000 I've never understood the logic in selling bitcoins.

The logic resides in the fact that fiat currency is still very stable for the most part. Bitcoin hasn't been over the years. When it comes to finances people want some stability. If they can make some money through a bitcoin investment or they can cashout to prevent losing their entire investment you will have a hard time convincing people not to.
That isn't logic, it's normalcy bias.  Use bitcoins to buy things when you need to buy things, but for goodness sake don't trade it for an inferior form of money.  I fear that too many people new to bitcoin don't understand this simple concept and they're selling bitcoin out of fear that it might trade lower...or they want to lock in some gains.  Some people say that bitcoin can't go up in value forever...but in fact it can.  In fact, it's designed to go up in value forever over any sufficiently long timeframe so long as it's the best form of money in existence (which it is and will likely forever be).
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Re: The real cause of the "panic"
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Steve
on 11/04/2013, 03:42:29 UTC
Never sell a bitcoin for USD!! SPEND IT on things or service or commodities.
+1000 I've never understood the logic in selling bitcoins.
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Re: Jim Rickards endorses Bitcoin
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Steve
on 23/03/2013, 05:35:05 UTC
Very cool...I always like listening to his interviews.
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In Spain, The Bitcoin Run Has Started (Zero Hedge)
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Steve
on 21/03/2013, 01:21:54 UTC
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Re: I just joined the "one millionth of the bitcoin economy" club
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Steve
on 21/03/2013, 01:01:33 UTC
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Re: Maryland plate is now taken
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Steve
on 20/03/2013, 21:57:37 UTC
It would be fun to see how many Bitcoin autos you could get lined up in one location.
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Re: Dangerous precedents set on March 12 2013
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Steve
on 16/03/2013, 05:54:39 UTC
There is a market for securing transactions.  Markets consist of both consumers (bitcoin users) and suppliers (miners).  Miners could have decided to go to 0.8, but it's not clear to me that 0.7 still wouldn't have won out in the long run.  The consumers could have decided to stay on 0.7 and any miners still mining on 0.7 would have still been providing a transaction security service to those users.  If that service was adequate (blocks continued to be found at a reasonable pace), it's quite easy to imagine that as the 0.7 chain continued on, miners that had previously switched to 0.8 would realize that they weren't servicing a large population of users...they could have then made the rational decision to switch back to 0.7.  The 0.7 chain would slowly regain momentum, overtaking 0.8 and ultimately providing transaction security to the entire community of 0.7 and 0.8 users.  Those miners that had continued on the 0.8 fork would lose all their mining revenues.

Conversely, consumers, seeking the most secure service and seeing the mining community transitioning to 0.8 might have made the rational decision to incur the work of upgrading to 0.8.

The decision that miners made was to serve the largest pool of consumers of their services.  Targeting the largest market of users with your mining capacity is probably the best policy (and would likely ensure that you, as a miner, are on the block chain most likely to survive).