What's the status of the cpu miner at the moment?

All files except the linux wallet zip stub seem to have been removed from http://www.maxcoin.co.uk/downloads/

 

No. Not from cgminer core team. They're focused on Bitcoin.
So it'll require someone doing a fork.
 

Good question. I just asked over on ozcoin's IRC channel. No reply yet.

So true.
I wasn't even aware anyone had bothered writing a nvidia one. Even more surprised it's getting maintenance love.

Go with what ever is ready on the 5th.

Get the GPU kinks ironed out asap. CPU & GPU are both fine, as they're generic multi-use hardware. ASIC hardware, not being readily available off the shelf, should be delayed as long as possible. 

"physical bitcoins"?

I'm just trying to imagine what cryptonium looks like.

Shipping Delays? Has there been a delay in the Avalon chip shipments that I don't know about?

BKKCoins is still refining his prototype. With at least one new version of the PCB layout to be made. Think there's still a window before BKKCoins becomes part of the critical path again, and start effecting shipping dates.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=190731.msg2603817#msg2603817

Yep, time will tell. It's my understanding that the K64 is on one card, containing the logic of 4 K16 plus overheads. Just wondered how
just-in-time Terrahash will be?

I'ld ship all chips I had as K16! Not hold back any, until the shipment of chip immediately before I thought the K64 was ready.

#707
2 x k16 = 32 chips

For the allocation of the first 10K & 20K of chips, I think only the chips on K16 boards should be considered.

I think K64 development lag will be at least a month. Draft CAD/CAM printer circuit board (PCB) designs don't exist in BKKCoins github repo https://github.com/bkkcoins/klondike/tree/master/kicad yet. His still actively refining the K16 prototype atm.

My two cents worth.

Hi amigaman

I think so. My understanding in the reason kanoi got a USB miner out of the first (Emerald) batch was to get hardware support into CGMiner, asap.

Cheers,
Gnoll110

Yer, I saw that. Hope it will spark some interest.

Give how late other vendors are on their own time-lines, one in the hand is worth half a dozen in the bush. And far more likely to recover capex, before difficult increases too much, as a lot who 'poo poo' the cost might think. Time will tell.
 

GPU's are the past, because of their power usage (Mh/J). With increasing hash rates, they'll be gone soon.

The unknowns are:
1/ how long it will take to get other ASIC chips stable and into working miner PCBs (USB, blade etc ) and
2/ then how long they'll be exxie specialist batch runs, like these, versus the big bulk runs @ < $50/300Mh/s (that everyone says those are 'really worth').

Only time will tell who was right.
I'm prepared to put some BTC on both.

Hi sexcoyote

The manufacture is selling these single chip (I think) ASIC USB miners in minimum orders of 300. This thread is an attempt to put together a buying group to get to the magic 300. QG has set a minimum order size of 4 to keep the shipping & handling per miner down.
 
Cheers

The way I read their blurb, is that these are ASIC chips, but not Avalon?

Hi QG

Thanks for trying to put this deal together.

The math I would propose is:

1.99 * 1.15 = 2.2885, lets call it 2.3BTC for the Device plus GST&Duty.
so a minimum of 4 would be
2.3 x 4 = 9.2BTC
9.2 + 0.5 S&H = 9.7BTC

Sure it looks dear, compared to the potential future. But it's an advance on GPU mining.

Nearly bought my last GPU last Saturday. With the announcement of these unitary USBs hitting the boards since, I'm sure glad I didn't buy. It's the logical next move for me, the first *small* incremental *now* move from GPUs into customs miners.  

Gnoll110

Update: As per IRC, please put me down for 6.

While using a high profile venue is good, isn't a casino the last place a serious attempt to demo & promote anything currency and finance related.

My 0.02 BTC worth.

Pool hopping will be good for everyone (I think).

It automates the manual reviews people should be doing of pool returns anyway.
It should speed up the movement of miners alway from pool owners that don't offer the best deals to miners.

In the financial markets, it's called arbitrage. Like automation in these markets it will produce some quirky results do to short term randomness. This could be an issue if everyone does it (this should happen long term). By then, hoppers should have setting to control testing frequency. Setting that to once every few days would fix these issues, while moving people to the pools with the best policies over time.

Its a tool, how people use it is up to them.

My 0,02 BTC worth.
Spoken by someone who's still trying to configure their first rig! (So I haven't actually used a hopper yet.)

There is a mirror of python-jsonrpc at...

https://github.com/bmjames/python-jsonrpc

m4dhatter: "I got that part figured out..."
What was the problem, by the way?

I've used the Sectio Aurea post. Got it running. (needs to be run from poclbm directory, not ~, in section .
I'm getting "Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 0 2", figure its firewall or password fun?

If Bitcoin fails, then the Golden Age of Mining was in the past. Obvious I know.

If it's a long term success, the Golden Age of Mining is still to come. Why?

The encryption computations needed will continue to grow. While the direct coins generated will step down, the fees should replace them or more, as usage increases.

Just my 0.02 BTC worth.

*delurking alert*

Hi All.

Find all the bit coin stuff interesting.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=36776.0 Creating a master database of honest traders

People talking about a master database.
Given bitcoin is distributed system, shouldn't any solution also try to be distributed too. Calculated from the transaction chain? Could the chain included optional extra info to enable this?

Just my 0.02BTCs worth!