Thanks Charles99 

Confirmed Refund of 1.404 BTC received.

Charles could you please refund my 2 Neptune Shares purchased 11-28-2013 (BTC at the time was $1000 according to my note)


My wallet address is:

1MDAnBAVjgcYFHbvUkups9pvcFcZFCUPYU

thank you for putting together this group buy.

thegoldbug

I pulled the cube apart, inspected and tightened the heat sink screws (just a little).  I swapped board 4 for board 6 (only the first 3 boards were hashing).

It's back online at LOW clock.  The first 3 boards are hashing well and board 4 has a few chips that are hashing and they are doing poorly, board 5 and 6 are all zeros for hashing but no boards are showing up as dead Xs.

Total hashing rate is 12,599.

I have to admit that my two cubes have been nothing but problems since day one.  Nice concept and good form factor but problems on the inside.

The problem cube (when it ran, it runs at 30-32 Gh/s) behaved the same (would run for 5 minutes to almost two days) in all locations and with a 750watt and a 650watt power supply.  It behaved the same if switched the pools, if I changed the IP, if I changed the clock, etc.


The cube without the drop-out problem is the one that hashes slowly all processors are showing okay (no Xs) but only the first three boards are showing any hashing.   I'll take it apart and reseat the boards and check the heatsink screws.

thanks

After experiencing weeks of one of my two cubes shutting down for no apparent reason (sometimes it would run from 15 minutes to 2 days) I broke out the soldering iron last night and jumped those two solder points.  The problematic cube has been hashing away without any issues for 16 hours and 18 minutes.  This appears to have solved the problem of it dropping out (just the top green light on).


I don't have any Android appliances and I did try different power supplies, move the cubes to different locations in the house and garage, changing the IP address, pulling and re-seating boards, updated the mining_proxy software, etc.  Nothing worked for long.

Now if I could only get my one cube running back around 30Gh/s instead of the 12-15Gh/s range.  It used to work okay (nothing better than 30Gh/s).  I wonder if I should break out the soldering iron and jumper it?  Comments?

thanks

I've done some more searching and this website gets me close to what I need.

https://blockchain.info/charts/market-price?timespan=1year&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address=

BTC values can be dumped to a CSV file that I should be able to do a look-up or join in Excel.

So,  does anyone have or know of an application or program that can look-up the value of a Bitcoin for a specified date and time?

I have a spreadsheet with lots of small transactions and I'm dreading manually querying bitcoin charts to record the average daily value.


thanks

What sort of HW error rate should I be seeing?  I have two AntMiners I just got up and running today, up time is 5+ hours and here is what each is showing:


#1)   Accepted 7507    Rejected 13   HW  2695  Utility 21   Discarded 852   Ave 179.18 Gh/s   Temp 48
#2)   Accepted 7917    Rejected 22   HW  3010  Utility 22   Discarded 966   Ave 178.59 Gh/s   Temp 46


Both are pointed at Eligius with a backup at BTCGuild and both are running at factory settings (no overclock).

thanks for your help

What sort of HW error rate should I be seeing?  I have two AntMiners I just got up and running today, up time is 5+ hours and here is what each is showing:


#1)   Accepted 7507    Rejected 13   HW  2695  Utility 21   Discarded 852   Ave 179.18 Gh/s   Temp 48
#2)   Accepted 7917    Rejected 22   HW  3010  Utility 22   Discarded 966   Ave 178.59 Gh/s   Temp 46


Both are pointed at Eligius with a backup at BTCGuild and both are running at factory settings (no overclock).

thanks for your help

Thanks.  I know have BTC guild and Eligius pools set up and working.

It seemed to work best for me if I used TAB to move to the next input box instead of the ENTER key.

I might have not been waiting long enough for Eligius to show any work also.

thanks again.

Thanks for the suggestion and motivation.

Believe it or not that was not straightforward either.    I did another reset to prove again that it would mine on the original settings.

After multiple entries I did finally get it to mine on BTC Guild.  Something is very strange with those input panels.....

I would still like to see someones setting for eligius or slushes pool so I have some backups.

thanks again.

I just got two AntMiner S1s today.  One had a capacitor broken off but it was in the box.  I'm going to try and solder it on later today.


My problem is that no what what combination of my two pools I enter, the miner won't mine on them.  If I do a factory reset (press the button), the miner will mine on/using Bitmain's accounts (and I'm sure they would appreciate that).

I've spent the last two hours looking at websites and I cant figure out what I'm doing wrong.

The miner was beeping and I found that means it was not connecting to the pools. 

The miner is currently not beeping so I don't know what that means because it currently is also not mining.

Is there anything wrong with these two pool entries?

stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334

Or

stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333


thanks

Charles,

Will you send all of us in the group buy an email saying when the miners arrive and start hashing?

That way we all don't have to keep checking this thread each day.

thanks

thegoldbug

My account was almost to the minimum payout amount when the site was hacked so that means I lost almost 0.1 BTC.

Or was the minimum payout 0.01 ?   I don't remember.

thegoldbug

It turns out my cubes did not like being pointed at the same proxy.  This morning I did some more testing and put them both back on single proxies (like I had been running) and that appears to have solved the hashing problems I was having.  Doesn't make much sense to me given how fast a machine the single proxy was running on (dual quad core desktop).  Putting a second proxy on an old slow dual core laptop seems to do the trick.  I'm guessing my internal network or traffic could have something to do with it.

One of the boards still is not hashing at full capacity so I'm going to start up a proxy on a 3rd machine and try point that cube at the new proxy.

I did try the -nm option when I was running only 1 proxy and that didn't help (the work difficulty dropped to a 1 from around 22).

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Just started up a new proxy on a 3rd computer and pointed my slower cube at it and that seems to have resolved the problem.  I'm not sure what is going on since prior to last night I was running both cubes through the same switch to two different proxies on two different machines.  I put pointed both cubes at my desktop so I could take my laptop with me for the holidays.  Now both proxies are on different computers routed through different switches to my cable modem and both are hashing as expected.  I've got no more time for investigating right now.

thegoldbug

I've just had both labels come off my cubes so I took off the fan and removed the labels.  One of the fans was dragging on the label and I had to shut it down.  Prior to the shutdowns, both cubes were running well on high clock.

 Now I can't either cube to use more than 3 boards properly.  I've taken each apart and reseated all the boards, took apart and shuffled the boards and cycled the power, cycled the clocks, reset them and I'm about to pull my hair out.

I've never seen anything so finicky/touchy as these bloody cubes. 

My advice is if yours are running reasonably well just leave them alone.

Hello!

My one miner finally arrived, the website still says my order is processing.


It was extremely well packed and included two extra PCI power cables - very nice detail.

It's seem strange that the power pins next to the micro usb port won't power the fan.

SSB,

I just ordered 2 more Cubes and one 49 port USB hub.

For purchase of Two ASCIMiner Cubes, 1 49 port USB hub & shipping (0.75 +0.75 +2x(0.026) + 0.11) = 1.662

TX: d336ccfc14df6461ca268304b859dc9dab515d06e9f4e9c9e7632bca2dac9593-000

They are in the shape (sort of) of the computer console in the original Star Trek series 'ready room'.

Just missing the small "floppy disk type" cards they inserted.  Oh wait, they are serially locking the machines so that sort of fits.


By the way, 2,700 watts (dual power supplies) !!!  


I don't think my wiring will handle that along with everything else I have powered on.

I've been to a few buildings in London and metro area and most of them didn't seem like they could handle more than a tea pot.

Watch for the first building fires to determine who in the UK purchased one.

I did think about putting all 25 of them into my shopping basket this morning to see if it would lock them up to keep others from being scammed.

My reward values (BTC) have been "stuck" at the same values for the last 8 hours or so. 
My values were changing before the website went down for maintenance.  I've logged out and logged back in but they still remain the same.

I have two "cubes" running using two proxies and they seem to be hashing just fine.

Suggestions?

thanks