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Re: Remove VOD from the Default Trust List - clear case of neg for calling out abuse
I don't have the time to review all internet flame wars, but I have only had good interactions with TECSHARE. If his allegations about trust are true, I support his recommended changes to this default trust list.
This is the most reasonable comment I found:
When you leave someone a negative rating claiming "X", "X" should be true.
This is the most reasonable comment I found:
When you leave someone a negative rating claiming "X", "X" should be true.
[WTS] KNC Nov Jupiter 750 GH/s + ANTMINER S1 180 GH/s MADISON WI - $300
- From Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Bitcoin and cash only, escrow fees paid by buyer
- Local pickup. Shipping paid by buyer
-- Can work out something if you live around Chicago
- $270 for just the Jupiter
- powered by 2 v850s (~$150 ea) and rosewill RBR1000-M (~$120). Can include @ MSRP x 70%
- New photos/screenshots can be distributed proving that they've been mining at 750GH/s and 180 GH/s, here's some old ones: http://thoughtcrook.wordpress.com/2013/11/30/kncminer-november-jupiter-review/
- Bitcoin and cash only, escrow fees paid by buyer
- Local pickup. Shipping paid by buyer
-- Can work out something if you live around Chicago
- $270 for just the Jupiter
- powered by 2 v850s (~$150 ea) and rosewill RBR1000-M (~$120). Can include @ MSRP x 70%
- New photos/screenshots can be distributed proving that they've been mining at 750GH/s and 180 GH/s, here's some old ones: http://thoughtcrook.wordpress.com/2013/11/30/kncminer-november-jupiter-review/
[WTS] KNC November Jupiter 750 GH/s $1700 OBO (Madison, Wisconsin, USA)
- From Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Bitcoin and cash only, escrow fees paid by buyer
- Additional $100 knocked off the price if you come get it in person.
- Domestic shipping free, International shipping paid by buyer.
- powered by 2 v850s. Will include for $150
- 750 GH/s @ the overclocked speed (1000 MHz)
- New photos/screenshots can be distributed proving that it's mining steadily at 750GH/s, here's some old ones: http://thoughtcrook.wordpress.com/2013/11/30/kncminer-november-jupiter-review/
Last time I posted something, I got some really stupid lowball offers. Please don't message me with an offer less than 80% of asking. I won't respond. I priced this based on clicking through a few of the new 1TH/s miner offers here (which have the same power performance). So I expect it to be fairly priced.
- Bitcoin and cash only, escrow fees paid by buyer
- Additional $100 knocked off the price if you come get it in person.
- Domestic shipping free, International shipping paid by buyer.
- powered by 2 v850s. Will include for $150
- 750 GH/s @ the overclocked speed (1000 MHz)
- New photos/screenshots can be distributed proving that it's mining steadily at 750GH/s, here's some old ones: http://thoughtcrook.wordpress.com/2013/11/30/kncminer-november-jupiter-review/
Last time I posted something, I got some really stupid lowball offers. Please don't message me with an offer less than 80% of asking. I won't respond. I priced this based on clicking through a few of the new 1TH/s miner offers here (which have the same power performance). So I expect it to be fairly priced.
I'm going to be there 3/6 (when I made travel arrangements, only the hackathon was scheduled for 3/5).
Looking forward to networking with some miners and remittance-focused developers. Also going to see as much of Cointerra as I can. See you all there!
Looking forward to networking with some miners and remittance-focused developers. Also going to see as much of Cointerra as I can. See you all there!
Re: CoinTerra announces its first ASIC - Hash-Rate greater than 500 GH/s
Hey guys,
I plan on visiting Cointerra next week. No real purpose, but I'll be in town. I've been keeping up on and off, but I'd like to get a concise summary of what they're doing and what they've done so far if anyone has a good article.
I can also ask and try to get answers on any current burning questions. (How much hashing power do you plan to put out? Is there any more help coming for your underspecced ASICs? etc.)
Link or PM me if you can help, thanks!
Thanks!
I plan on visiting Cointerra next week. No real purpose, but I'll be in town. I've been keeping up on and off, but I'd like to get a concise summary of what they're doing and what they've done so far if anyone has a good article.
I can also ask and try to get answers on any current burning questions. (How much hashing power do you plan to put out? Is there any more help coming for your underspecced ASICs? etc.)
Link or PM me if you can help, thanks!
Thanks!
I'm leaving for austin next week too. gonna visit the Texas Bitcoin conference, and combine it with SXSW as well!
I'm arriving in austin tuesday night, so perhaps i'll see you at the bitcoin conf? i will also drop into cointerra as well later that week, though I'm guessing they'll be at the show for most of it, as they're a sponsor.
i think your burning questions are worth asking, especially the ones about the future of the product lineup and when the full speed miners will ship, etc.
your question about how much they plan to put out... is a complex question, and whatever answer you get will depend on many factors... not least the price of bitcoin decides whether people are buying mining equipment and any bitcoin asic suppliers need customer demand to drive their sales... and also, needs the context of how much hardware the other suppliers will put out to be a useful piece of data.
Do you happen to know what percentage of the network is currently filled by the others? like knc, bfl etc? cointerra recently announced they're powering 1.7% of the network with their first 1000 systems sold. i wouldn't be surprised if knc powers more than 50% of the network currently.
one small piece of data... andreas (knc) was on a panel at the berlin bitcoin conference a couple of weeks ago and said they've done something like $88m in sales in the last 8 months (think he said the split was nearly half jupiters and bit more than half were neptune pre-orders).. which is incredibly impressive! from that revenue we can probably work backwards and figure out how many PH's they've sold (i think $40m of jupiters = 3-4 PH, and $48m in neptunes = 15-20 PH) and ... but we still won't know how many they plan to put out for the rest of this year (but I'm guessing 50 PH sounds about right).. but i suspect with knc's unblemished reputation they will sell significantly more PH's than cointerra ever could.
Ill be there as well, and my clients with CT's would like me to have a very nice chat with them... Glad im a native texan
Thanks for the replies. I won't be in Austin until 3/6 (When I scheduled how long before SXSW to come, TBC was only one day), so I plan on visiting CT on 3/7. This is, of course, dependent on what happens at the conference
See you all there!
Re: CoinTerra announces its first ASIC - Hash-Rate greater than 500 GH/s
Hey guys,
I plan on visiting Cointerra next week. No real purpose, but I'll be in town. I've been keeping up on and off, but I'd like to get a concise summary of what they're doing and what they've done so far if anyone has a good article.
I can also ask and try to get answers on any current burning questions. (How much hashing power do you plan to put out? Is there any more help coming for your underspecced ASICs? etc.)
Link or PM me if you can help, thanks!
Thanks!
I plan on visiting Cointerra next week. No real purpose, but I'll be in town. I've been keeping up on and off, but I'd like to get a concise summary of what they're doing and what they've done so far if anyone has a good article.
I can also ask and try to get answers on any current burning questions. (How much hashing power do you plan to put out? Is there any more help coming for your underspecced ASICs? etc.)
Link or PM me if you can help, thanks!
Thanks!
Dear KNC, if you read this,
Happy New Year!!!
You set a new standard and I am eternally grateful for all your hard work, your integrity and work ethics. Do not mind some people complaining, there will always be some. Majority of the customers, like myself can see the nobility of your company, following the legacy of brave Vikings. May your success continue in the new year!
Yours faithfully,
monsieur
Happy New Year!!!
You set a new standard and I am eternally grateful for all your hard work, your integrity and work ethics. Do not mind some people complaining, there will always be some. Majority of the customers, like myself can see the nobility of your company, following the legacy of brave Vikings. May your success continue in the new year!
Yours faithfully,
monsieur
+1
+1
I am grateful that the only company I trusted turned out to be the most trustworthy. Rooting for the Neptunes even though I didn't buy one.
A point of order: Conduct in this subforum
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=139380.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=139380.0
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If you feel you need to investigate a party that has scammed you, take it to the scam accusation sub-forum.
Making multiple threads about the same subject is spam.
Making multiple threads about the same subject is spam.
I am not a customer, but HashFast has lost my last bit of goodwill with this post. Even if this is against forum rules, that is for someone else to state and moderators to decide.
Go team sue-the-pants-off-HF. I only hope Uniquify doesn't get bad PR in the coming storm.
Re: [115 Th] 50BTC.com - PPS|Stratum+Vardiff|Port 80|QIWI,Yandex,Mobile,WM...
Some Updates:
They are all day long online but not Responding via E-Mail, Skype or Support Ticket. So there will be no possibility to recover the already mined BTC. I think they have been "gone".
So in my opinion this is a scam/fraud pool with a robber as owner.
I get them 48 hours to answer via one channel but nothing happened. I think everyone is a bit pissed now.
What is curious: one week ago skype showed them from russia, not it shows them from swiss. Maybe i will make a journey to them (it only takes 2-4 hours to get there) and talk to them face to face.
I don't like to go to any government, but it looks like the only solution to get something back (even when it is 50 % of what i've mined).
I already talked to a lawyer of the state and he confirmed that what they've done is fraud/robbery (he is a friend).
They are all day long online but not Responding via E-Mail, Skype or Support Ticket. So there will be no possibility to recover the already mined BTC. I think they have been "gone".
So in my opinion this is a scam/fraud pool with a robber as owner.
I get them 48 hours to answer via one channel but nothing happened. I think everyone is a bit pissed now.
What is curious: one week ago skype showed them from russia, not it shows them from swiss. Maybe i will make a journey to them (it only takes 2-4 hours to get there) and talk to them face to face.
I don't like to go to any government, but it looks like the only solution to get something back (even when it is 50 % of what i've mined).
I already talked to a lawyer of the state and he confirmed that what they've done is fraud/robbery (he is a friend).
Hello,
According to information that we have: Your account registration date is 02.16.2013
According to data that you have provided:
On the old system you had 3 workers:
Worker 1: 2 x AMD ATI Radeon 7950 GhZ Edition
Worker 2: 2 x AMD ATI Radeon 7970 GHZ Boost Edition
Worker 3: 6 x FPGA Miner with X6500 Rev 3
Worker 1 estimated speed = 1 Gh/s
Worker 2 estimated speed = 1.2 Gh/s
Worker 3 estimated speed = ~2.3 Gh/s
Sum = 4.5 Gh/s
Estimated speed is calculated based on https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison and http://store.fpgamining.com/products/x6500-rev3
Reward was calculated with http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator reward calculator.
Mining dates Difficulty Reward
02/16 - 02/18 3275465 1.4 BTC
02/18 - 03/01 3651012 7.5 BTC
03/01 - 03/14 4367876 7.2 BTC
03/14 - 03/24 4847647 5.3 BTC
03/24 - 04/05 6695826 3.7 BTC
04/05 - 04/17 7673000 3.4 BTC
04/17 - 04/30 8974296 3.1 BTC
04/30 - 05/12 10076293 2.8 BTC
05/12 - 05/25 11187257 2.6 BTC
05/25 - 06/05 12153412 2.1 BTC
06/05 - 06/16 15605633 1.6 BTC
06/16 - 06/29 19339258 1.5 BTC
06/29 - 07/11 21335329 1.25 BTC
07/11 - 07/22 26162876 1 BTC
07/22 - 08/03 31256961 0.86 BTC
08/03 - 08/13 37392766 0.67 BTC
08/13 - 08/24 50810339 0.48 BTC
08/24 - 09/04 65750060 0.34 BTC
09/04 - 09/14 86933018 0.26 BTC
09/14 - 09/25 112628549 0.22 BTC
09/25 - 10/06 148819200 0.16 BTC
10/06 - 10/16 189281249 0.12 BTC
Sum = 47.56 BTC
Thus, obviously based on this data your balance cant be 71 BTC, as you mentioned, even if you never withdraw your funds and all your workers were mining 24x7 without any downtime.
Currently were trying really hard to recover from the attack and develop a new stable and secure system. And instead of this were wasting our time on this blackmail.
Regards, 50BTC.com team
Just because this guy lied doesn't mean 50btc isn't running with the money. The first priority should be to restore funds over pool operations. This will bring back trust. It seems to me they don't want the trust. The most plausible explanation is they are stalling so the trail goes cold by pretending to be fixing things in good faith.
I had 1.08 btc on 50btc and this is how I see it.
Unfortunately it looks like HashFast is going to try to do everything in its power to avoid having to refund Batch 1 by shipping at the last possible moment before their "Deadline".
They should just issue Batch 1 refunds, ship batch 2. Give Batch 1 coupons to use to try and get "in line" again for whatever batch they are on (Even though I doubt people would even do that considering the types of individuals they have employed/defend on this forum).
Sadly the above is how businesses should be ran and instead they are ran with the full knowledge that only a handful of people will end up taking them to court and at the point they will just pay them off and have made a hefty profit.
HashFast initially seemed like a great company that was going to show the bitcoin space how businesses should operate, but it looks like that won't be the case.
They should just issue Batch 1 refunds, ship batch 2. Give Batch 1 coupons to use to try and get "in line" again for whatever batch they are on (Even though I doubt people would even do that considering the types of individuals they have employed/defend on this forum).
Sadly the above is how businesses should be ran and instead they are ran with the full knowledge that only a handful of people will end up taking them to court and at the point they will just pay them off and have made a hefty profit.
HashFast initially seemed like a great company that was going to show the bitcoin space how businesses should operate, but it looks like that won't be the case.
+1, or really any alternative to skirting legality.
I bought 2000 Gh/s for 5600 USD!? Yes or No??
thx for feedback
a baby jet is 400Gh not 2000
They're obviously including MPP (not that I agree with the tactic)
...
I also observed a funny phenomenon where the system slowly overclocks itself. Essentially the resistance on the h-cards at the R02 resistor lowers itself with time. Don't ask me how this happens, but it may be somehow the way I pencil modded them? I dunno, either way I'm hoping that it will remain stable for now.
Anyways, wrong thread for this discussion.
I also observed a funny phenomenon where the system slowly overclocks itself. Essentially the resistance on the h-cards at the R02 resistor lowers itself with time. Don't ask me how this happens, but it may be somehow the way I pencil modded them? I dunno, either way I'm hoping that it will remain stable for now.
Anyways, wrong thread for this discussion.
Yes, that's true!! The R02 resistor lowers itself with time. I guess the hot carbon sitting in that resistor becomes more "resisting" over time?? I've consistently seen this effect as well. I used HB pencil. A good experiment is to use H2 or harder pencil to see if it has the same or worse effect.
This is pretty odd, when carbon resistors age, the resistance *always* goes up (as in 1k resistor will become 1.1k). Weird.
Yeah it makes no sense to me either. I would expect as some of the carbon falls off essentially what should happen is seeing as how there are fewer carbon chains there the resistance should go UP and thus the cards should begin to slow down in hashing performance as the voltage drops. I guess there must be some other factor that I am not aware of. Maybe the extra heat is causing some of the solder around the resistor to change shape and perhaps causing more contact or some voodoo like that?
Anyways, I just hope that these babyjets don't start melting my PSU cables like the bitfury units.
Not to embarrass anyone, but I will have to say that you can't measure the passive resistance of a device that is on with a multimeter. It makes a lot of sense that the multimeter is measuring a slowly decreasing resistance when that happens. (Exceptions apply, but this is probably not the case here)
Re: CoinTerra announces its first ASIC - Hash-Rate greater than 500 GH/s
So I spoke with Cointerra today and apparently I really am one of the few idiots who didn't switch batches since apparently the December batch is now very small compared to the January batch. Guess I should have switched batches along with everyone else since the early January orders will be shipping immediately after the December batch is done. Doh.
did they say anything about expected shipping december batch?
Here is, in chronological order, everything I could find Cointerra saying about their "expected" "December" batch:
TerraMiner IV will ship in December this year
Systems expected to begin shipping to customers, Mid December.
We are indeed on track for our delivery times.
We are still very much on track for our presented delivery time.
we are indeed still on time table for our production.
The fabout of the first wafers is scheduled to occur on December 17th
Please not the last quote isn't from the main Cointerra account, which hasn't posted in weeks (despite the big news of no December shipping really needing an official announcement/explanation/OP update).
Thank you for this summary. As a Cointerra advocate (but not a customer), they are dropping into "does not meet expectations" territory fast. It seems unfair that you have to come to the forums to find out that anyone rational should switch their December order to January. With a fabout of December 17th, they will be hard pressed to deliver by the 31st (which would already be a very loose interpretation of their promises).
I guess a few weeks delay should have been expected. For PR purposes, they should definitely "overdeliver" in some aspect (perhaps hashrate) to make up for this.
Good to see the Neptunes sell out. I decided against purchasing one, I think I'll go for 3rd generation KNCs. Great company to deal with. A complete pleasure compared to some of the other nightmarish manufacturers out there.
Yeah, in hindsight I should have bought one with the previous customer discount and resold. I keep forgetting that many people out there are not as concerned with the return in bitcoins as I am.
I can not believe it, but I pluged this two ionisators in.
One on the left side of my jupiters and one on the right side of them.
I told you yesterday, that every of my miner is running at 671 Gh/s, but now after
one hour with this two ionisators all machines are working with 678 to 680 Gh/s.
You can call it how you want, but I believe that this two 20 Dollar things are doing an good job.
The next what I will do, is to place the two ionisators directly in front of the two fans of on jupiter.
I think :-One on the left side of my jupiters and one on the right side of them.
I told you yesterday, that every of my miner is running at 671 Gh/s, but now after
one hour with this two ionisators all machines are working with 678 to 680 Gh/s.
You can call it how you want, but I believe that this two 20 Dollar things are doing an good job.
The next what I will do, is to place the two ionisators directly in front of the two fans of on jupiter.
ioniser = static electricity generator.
static electric = bad for electronics. (things can go snap, crackle, pop!).
671 -> 678/680 GH/s = variance (because of short 1 hour test time).
blown up equipment = less competition = small increase in BTC generated if difficulty does not rise so fast or falls.
Just my 2'c worth.
The ioniser thing reeks of BS, mostly because I can't think of a scientific reason here. Perhaps they do a good job of regulating the power supply or somehow cooled down his ASICs. That being said, ionisers are usually encased so you don't touch them and there's a ground connection to connect the dust. Most likely won't be damaging electronics.
I was with Sam from KnC a few days ago
KnC's inability to tell a consistent story was one of the reasons I happily chose to not to business with them. They've clearly stated both before and after product production that it was a structured asic run, and their power results support it. Ultimately it doesn't matter if they used crackerjack boxes to make their masks, at the end what matters is the specs and they're a mixed story. I mean, sure, feel free to not care. But a 2x increase in operating cost, and thermal load is not "a few watts", especially for those of us not interested in a high risk gamble involving mining for a few months and then throwing the hardware out.By all means, be happy with their product they shipped a working device to many people mostly on time, better than a lot of other vendors, and many of those customers will be happy enough with a product that goes to the landfill before the bitfury and bitmain devices. Though in terms of feature size I don't see a reason to brag about 28nm when it doesn't achieve substantially better hashrate per U or hashrate per watt even close to multiple competing 55nm designs.
I am very happy with my KNC hardware, but I do have some questions for those who have been keeping up with KnC so I can properly evaluate their promises:
I assume the extra hashrate over the promise came from overclocking (400 -> 550) and overvolting (550 -> 650). Power consumption likewise had to increase at least linearly, but likely exponentially (
-> 600 -> 850).So if this is correct, what's the news on underclocking/undervolting firmware or tuning API?
Would you have egg on your face if after some min-maxing, machines can run and say... 800 MH/J? Or rather, at what efficiency would you have egg on your face?
There's a 1200+ page thread discussing KNC in great detail that answers all of questions. I know it's hard to find since it's been hiding way up at the top of the forum for several months. It's located here...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170332.0
A good place to start is page one. Enjoy!
Pointing me to unfiltered resources I already know about does not help. Please point me to where in the thread KnC has gone into detail about their clock speed and voltage choices on their ASICs. If they haven't, and no one has the scoop on it, that is also a sufficient answer.
If they have, point me to where KnC has said anything about releasing power saving firmware and tuning. I bet it's not in that thread either because it's not going to be relevant for at least a few months.
My last question is an opinion, so it's definitely not in the thread.
I was with Sam from KnC a few days ago
KnC's inability to tell a consistent story was one of the reasons I happily chose to not to business with them. They've clearly stated both before and after product production that it was a structured asic run, and their power results support it. Ultimately it doesn't matter if they used crackerjack boxes to make their masks, at the end what matters is the specs and they're a mixed story. I mean, sure, feel free to not care. But a 2x increase in operating cost, and thermal load is not "a few watts", especially for those of us not interested in a high risk gamble involving mining for a few months and then throwing the hardware out.By all means, be happy with their product they shipped a working device to many people mostly on time, better than a lot of other vendors, and many of those customers will be happy enough with a product that goes to the landfill before the bitfury and bitmain devices. Though in terms of feature size I don't see a reason to brag about 28nm when it doesn't achieve substantially better hashrate per U or hashrate per watt even close to multiple competing 55nm designs.
I am very happy with my KNC hardware, but I do have some questions for those who have been keeping up with KnC so I can properly evaluate their promises:
I assume the extra hashrate over the promise came from overclocking (400 -> 550) and overvolting (550 -> 650). Power consumption likewise had to increase at least linearly, but likely exponentially (
-> 600 -> 850).So if this is correct, what's the news on underclocking/undervolting firmware or tuning API?
Would you have egg on your face if after some min-maxing, machines can run and say... 800 MH/J? Or rather, at what efficiency would you have egg on your face?