Today I received 51x USB Block Erupters which I assume correlates to paying 51.5BTC in the second blade auction. Appreciating the gesture from friedcat/AsicMiner

I'm not super interested in investing time/cost to get these running or handling individual sales, if anyone is looking to batch buy..

You need enough positive and negative wires to safely meet the boards power requirements. People are combining multiple black/yellow wires in parallel because typically single cables from an ATX PSU aren't of a sufficient gauge to carry the current that the board demands. Too much current down one wire means the wire gets hot and.. perhaps bad times.

I don't understand why the OP has 4 black and 2 yellow, there's no benefit to running additional wires on only one side of the supply.

One of the first round auction winners had an 'issue' when spreading inputs across the two terminals, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvAFBWHGw58.

While good intentioned and with some useful information regarding vertical mounting and cooling, there's a lot of misinformation around how to most safely power these boards across this thread and others. Detail the specifics of your proposed configuration and ask questions if in doubt. Above all, be safe - wires feeling too "warm" (think would you feel safe with a mains extension lead at that temperature) may suggest something that isn't suitable to be run 24/7 for months on end as these blades inevitably will be.

I didn't intend to scaremonger, honest!

These are 10A fuses.

Is it really necessary to loop back both terminals like this? I thought friedcat had said these were for chaining boards (ie. are connected already on the PCB). My plan was to use a 6 pin PCIe connector from an ATX PSU and simply twist the three wires together to connect just one +ve and -ve input.

I reckon you'll be fine with this PSU 

Paid, fdc693dc9fc6b2a79731383435a8b94e6f6c608e6df0c039f1e6de97db21f91a

Be sure to check the actual rating on the rails. If going with an ATX PSU you're probably better off using the PCIe or CPU connectors which typically have a dedicated or at least high-powered rail. Assuming this board needs 80w and connecting a disk/peripheral rail off a cheapo 150w PSU could well end in trouble.

Well played Caesium

Agreed, many kudos to John K for handling the undoubtedly hectic logistics.

You wouldn't be liable for watching BBC content (on Youtube for example), but the uploader could possibly be.. like most copyright stuff it's only the distribution that's naughty, not the consumption.

Wondering whether an IRC channel might make sense for future auctions?

raise 1@51.5

I dunno, that seems pretty clear cut..

BBC Online Terms of Use 3.2.3 (d):
"you may not, and you may not assist anyone to, or attempt to[..], copy, reproduce, lend, hire,[..] broadcast, distribute,[..] transmit or otherwise use in any way BBC Online Services and/or BBC Content in whole or in part"

1@45

Getting mighty rich in here, but I'll take a punt.

Hmm.. there is Ufasoft Coin, not sure how widely used/mature/safe it is.

Fairly sure nothing like this currently exists.

From the rules: "Do not post trade offers that are obviously illegal in most of the first-world countries." 

Liking the design, great job OP 

bitcoind getinfo - is the block count higher than the block number including a transaction to your address?

I'd suggest replacing your wallet.dat with a recent backup. You do have a backup, right?

Bump!