What an honor! Literally just switched to this pool to test out a new proxy... guess we'll be staying for a while!!

Hi,

We are looking to pick up new or used S9i/j ASIC's or better. We are a registered corporation, payment will be made upon receipt and confirmation of working order.

Check out our website for more information on us www.upstreamdata.ca

Cheers

What does MMR stand for?

We fit these units with a cellular modem, which is what we are currently mining on. For mining managed by Upstream, our service area has adequate cell coverage. If you purchase and wish to manage it yourself, you can easily integrate any internet package.

Hey all, I apologize for not updating this recently, we've been extremely busy launching this new company.

I've started a new thread here, now that we are commercializing this product:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2817007.new#new

Locking this thread, thanks for your interest.

-Upstream

Hi all,

We have built, field tested and are now ramping up to take orders / offer hosting for our new product, the HashGen. You can see more detail / brochures on this product here: www.upstreamdata.ca & make sure to follow us on twitter @UpstreamDataInc.

The HashGen is not just another miner-in-a-box, we offer a solution to solve a serious problem in the oil and gas industry. Wherever oil is produced, natural gas and methane is also produced as a byproduct (casing gas / solution gas / process release / etc). In many cases this methane cannot feasibly be brought to market because the cost and liability associated with pipelines or power infrastructure does not offer a ROI, not to mention the volumes of gas can fluctuate and decrease rapidly. In such cases the oil producer will either flare or vent the methane to atmosphere, i.e. waste the energy.

That's where Upstream Data comes in. We have designed the HashGen to be portable and plug and play. Each unit consists of both a power plant (natural gas genset) and hashing datacenter. We are currently building HashGens capable of 75 kW mining load and we can go as high as 110 kW with the right genset. We are also in the process of designing much larger, more power dense units.

We are not just selling this product to oil companies, we are planning to offer it to anybody under a managed-mining agreement. Whoever buys and owns the HashGen is eligible to be paid for all power generated for the life of the unit (building should last 20+ years, genset needs to be rebuilt every 4-5 years). Upstream will manage the HashGens for our customers for a fee, monitoring them 24/7 to ensure maximum up-time and moving them to new facilities as needed. We will also make sure they are maxed out with miners to maximize revenue to the owner. The unit is completely plug-and-play and just needs to be tied into any source of gas, the entire process takes less than 2 hours to disconnect from one site and reconnect to another (not including travel time).

Please see the website for information on how to get involved.

We had another topic going on this here (since locked), with some build pics linked:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2222871.0;topicseen

This thread can be used to discuss / ask questions. Thanks for your interest.

Haha, dealing with drunk construction workers can't be fun.

Is your power hydro electricity or coal based?

Yes I have boards that do not even show up on the miner status screen. For example it will say Chain 6, Chain 7 but no Chain 8

Are you sure about this? I have 30 antminers I just ordered, have maybe 4 or 5 bad boards that I'm prepping to send to Bitmainwarranty, and I've tried switching the cables and PCI-e's to no avail.

GM 5.7L V8 running a 66 kW stamford gen

We also looked into a microturbine, but the costs (capital and maintenance) did not really compare to the genset I'm using.

I'll have a nice update soon, with more details on our source. I spent 14 hours today commissioning the unit and trouble shooting bugs in our programming. More of that tomorrow. Once I get her purring along I will update with some nice pics.

PS our power cost is $0 at the moment

Ten-four!!

Programming the controller today, should hopefully have the mine installed on Friday. I'll post pictures this wknd if all goes well 

How can I easily calculate how far we are to our expected % progress in finding a block? Is it based on one of the stats on CKpool.org/pool?

Forum member Sidehack may have some PSU's available for sale

I doubt I'll ever discuss costs, but it isn't exactly rocket science to price something similar out yourselves. Also, since this is really a prototype I have a lot of optimization to do for the next one. I'd expect I could get costs down by at least 25%.

More important that capital cost is operating cost, that's my major concern. Gensets require maintenance and must be checked regularly etc. Mining doesn't work if operating costs are like $0.10 / kWh or greater, I'd be crushed when the bear market returns.

Yeah this particular genset is a 5.7L GM, pretty common for natural gas.

Cost is a secret

Bitcoin twitter is a lot of fun, I don't use any other social media though (unless Reddit is considered social media), just Twitter bitcoin feeds. Get into it

You're close re the capped off gas well, more on that soon when I tie it in 

https://i.imgur.com/7nRa1p6.png

Power plant almost plumbed in. Hopefully electrical is completed by the end of this weekend & ready for testing. Will show more electrical pictures later.