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Re: Reviewing the Halong Mining DragonMint T1, a 10nm SHA-256 Miner
by
intron
on 15/04/2018, 10:40:49 UTC
⭐ Merited by 2112 (1)
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Measure the DC voltage (if any) between the individual heat-sinks; while operating, but open, with additional external desktop fan providing additional cooling.

I'll try to accommodate this. Unit wasn't friendly with me when I had the fans disconnected or even connected, will try a workaround.

You can probe just a few random heat sinks while
all boards are normally mounted in the frame. If it
is anything else but 0V, we can run some calculations.

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Re: Reviewing the Halong Mining DragonMint T1, a 10nm SHA-256 Miner
by
intron
on 13/04/2018, 14:38:51 UTC
There is a huge inductor on the PCB so it looks like
there is a DC/DC converter on board. Can you read
the chip number of the chips that are directly under
this inductor on the other side of the PCB?

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Board Armory
Re: 0.96.4 RC1
by
intron
on 04/10/2017, 15:51:03 UTC
Just installed 0.96.3.99 (noasm version) on Kubuntu and running core 0.15.
Imported my old Armory wallet files and the balances show up as 0.0.

Any pointers how I can fix this?

Wait until both bitcoin-core and armory are fully synced. Check the lower right corner of armory for status (offline, online, synced until what block).

Ente

Armory signaled 'Armory is online!' while bitcoin-core was still syncing.
That made me confused, looks like all is fine now.
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Re: 0.96.4 RC1
by
intron
on 03/10/2017, 23:44:31 UTC
Just installed 0.96.3.99 (noasm version) on Kubuntu and running core 0.15.
Imported my old Armory wallet files and the balances show up as 0.0.

Any pointers how I can fix this?
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Re: Bitfury: "16nm... sales to public start shortly"
by
intron
on 15/02/2017, 16:19:06 UTC
I could sell you a bunch of these ancient beauties, unfortunately use and value might be restricted to antiques markets, or/and (* squints at your username *) collectors Wink



They where once at €350 a piece. Some people paid over BTC300 for a 400GH Miner Full Kit (August Delivery) Smiley.

[ANN] Bitfury ASIC sales in EU and Europe


note the v1.2 and connector type (that is a collectors item)

:-)
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Re: Bitfury: "16nm... sales to public start shortly"
by
intron
on 11/02/2016, 10:32:12 UTC
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Board Service Announcements
Re: [ANN] Bitfury ASIC sales in EU and Europe
by
intron
on 19/12/2015, 23:38:29 UTC
I would not be surprised to see thier in-house hardware operating with 48VDC power supplies for density
--
Or rectified mains;)
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Re: GekkoScience BM1384 Project Development Discussion
by
intron
on 27/06/2015, 23:33:44 UTC
... Makes me wish I had a longer hub so I could run all 11 functional sticks together and get slightly more sex appeal out of it...

A bit like so you mean? Wink

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=523063.msg6720329#msg6720329

Good luck with your design:)
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Board Project Development
Re: - Nickels & Dimes - a low-cost btc payment device -
by
intron
on 01/06/2015, 00:27:58 UTC
Just a proof of principle, playing around a bit:)
Gotcha - would be a neat little addition to ad-hoc point-of-sale terminals without the cost overhead of full-blown bank-sanctioned ones.

And it can do micropayments. Try paying half cent
for something using a normal terminal;)

Hi, this is really cool but.....

What can you actually get for half a cent nowadays?
In fact, can you actually get chewing gum with 50 cent nowadays?

Make it nine Euro cents then for a popsicle;)



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Re: SFARDS: “Speaking IMHO”- The Best Miner is…contest, 1 BTC for winner!
by
intron
on 11/05/2015, 12:06:24 UTC
Try to operate the ASICs in a 'string' like the bitfury chips,
and then get rid of the DC/DC converters.
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Board Project Development
Re: - Nickels & Dimes - a low-cost btc payment device -
by
intron
on 27/04/2015, 11:02:43 UTC
Just a proof of principle, playing around a bit:)
Gotcha - would be a neat little addition to ad-hoc point-of-sale terminals without the cost overhead of full-blown bank-sanctioned ones.

And it can do micropayments. Try paying half cent
for something using a normal terminal;)

Hi, this is really cool but.....

What can you actually get for half a cent nowadays?
In fact, can you actually get chewing gum with 50 cent nowadays?

Some juice to charge your mobile phone, or some
drinking water, or some air to inflate a tire etc:)

It could be a method of making really small
payments in the physical world.
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Re: - Nickels & Dimes - a low-cost btc payment device -
by
intron
on 26/04/2015, 19:54:42 UTC
Just a proof of principle, playing around a bit:)
Gotcha - would be a neat little addition to ad-hoc point-of-sale terminals without the cost overhead of full-blown bank-sanctioned ones.

And it can do micropayments. Try paying half cent
for something using a normal terminal;)
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Re: - Nickels & Dimes - a low-cost btc payment device -
by
intron
on 26/04/2015, 19:43:43 UTC
True - I was just thinking that because you need the vertical height for the bluetooth module anyway, one might as well stack, a la: http://i.imgur.com/gDrh7r4.png
--
I see now. When the performance of the NFC antenna
is not degraded it could be done I guess.

And it's WiFi btw, not bluetooth:)

Regardless, though - very neat Smiley  Just a design for now, or planning sales?
--
Just a proof of principle, playing around a bit:)
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Re: - Nickels & Dimes - a low-cost btc payment device -
by
intron
on 26/04/2015, 15:41:58 UTC
Very neat.  If the board antenna +chip can be moved up, that would make for a tidy package to build a case around Smiley

The board measures 34x74 mm, think a case can be tidy enough:)
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- Nickels & Dimes - a low-cost btc payment device -
by
intron
on 26/04/2015, 14:26:45 UTC
Made this, a small and low-cost btc payment device:




It has WiFi to connect to the internet and NFC to
communicate with a user with a mobile phone. It
can be used to handle small payments and to perform
a simple task when a payment is received. Cost price
can be well below USD 10.
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Re: [ANN] Spondoolies-Tech - carrier grade, data center ready mining rigs
by
intron
on 31/03/2015, 19:46:53 UTC
On Intel D54250WYK NUC with 16 GB of RAM, we're getting about 100 TH/s.
--
Wink


Do you only get 50 TH/s with 8GB or RAM?   Smiley
No. The SAT Solver RAM requirement is exponential.

So it's more then 50 TH/s with 8GB of RAM then?
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Re: [ANN] Spondoolies-Tech - carrier grade, data center ready mining rigs
by
intron
on 31/03/2015, 19:41:31 UTC
On Intel D54250WYK NUC with 16 GB of RAM, we're getting about 100 TH/s.
--
Wink
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Board Mining speculation
Re: - negative diff hike -
by
intron
on 02/12/2014, 23:59:15 UTC
And here we go:

Dec 02 2014    40,007,470,271    -0.73%    286,384,627 GH/s

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Board Mining speculation
Re: - negative diff hike -
by
intron
on 27/11/2014, 14:42:24 UTC
Estimated Next Difficulty:    40,248,405,371 (-0.13%)

I never saw this before:)
The difficulty declined twice last year, one of which was ~this time.

With those two exceptions there was only one other time that the difficulty decreased in the history of bitcoin, although it did stay the same for several months (at "1") in the very early days of mining.
^Had to correct this.
I counted 18 times that the diff decreased on adjustment, just some of that:
8 times in august - november 2011,
4 times in april - may 2012
2 times in december 2012
and once in january 2013


I wasn't around at that time, so I never saw this before;)


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Re: - negative diff hike -
by
intron
on 25/11/2014, 21:25:08 UTC
Estimated Next Difficulty:    40,248,405,371 (-0.13%)

I never saw this before:)

Estimated Next Difficulty:    39,891,564,019 (-1.01%)


Estimated Next Difficulty:    39,621,045,932 (-1.68%)
I'm seeing this:
7.47 days left until -2.83% growth

Estimated Next Difficulty:    39,465,146,903 (-2.07%)

Taken from https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

(Down boy, down!...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKfbSHW9uGA&t=1m29s Smiley