[Announcement] Block Erupter USB - page 34.

mdude77

legendary

Activity: 1540

Merit: 1001

Quote from: markyminer on May 15, 2013, 03:47:50 PM

Quote from: mdude77 on May 15, 2013, 03:13:22 PM

Quote from: RoadStress on May 15, 2013, 03:09:27 PM

Quote from: Amph on May 15, 2013, 02:23:10 PM

i still don't understand why the price is so high

1 chip + 1 mini pcb + one usb connector = 2tbc, really?

it would have been much better if they were priced 0.50-1 btc, much honest price...

Why does it have to be honest?

This is the free market at its finest. If no one would buy it at this price... it wouldn't be this price.

M

Ohhh I think it will be dropping in price much sooner than ASM hoped! With you Yanks cheap and easy exit from BTC into Fiat shut off via Mt.Gox and Dwolla I think you might get a nasty lesson in just how important a route to Fiat is for the value of BTC.

Trust me I mine and hold BTC so I want the BTC/USD price as high as possible but I fear we may head back to $50 again in the next week.

M

If mtgox is that critical to bitcoin, then we have a problem, and an adjustment is in order.

M

markyminer

hero member

Activity: 532

Merit: 500

Quote from: mdude77 on May 15, 2013, 03:13:22 PM

Quote from: RoadStress on May 15, 2013, 03:09:27 PM

Quote from: Amph on May 15, 2013, 02:23:10 PM

i still don't understand why the price is so high

1 chip + 1 mini pcb + one usb connector = 2tbc, really?

it would have been much better if they were priced 0.50-1 btc, much honest price...

Why does it have to be honest?

This is the free market at its finest. If no one would buy it at this price... it wouldn't be this price.

M

Ohhh I think it will be dropping in price much sooner than ASM hoped! With you Yanks cheap and easy exit from BTC into Fiat shut off via Mt.Gox and Dwolla I think you might get a nasty lesson in just how important a route to Fiat is for the value of BTC.

Trust me I mine and hold BTC so I want the BTC/USD price as high as possible but I fear we may head back to $50 again in the next week.

M

mdude77

legendary

Activity: 1540

Merit: 1001

Quote from: RoadStress on May 15, 2013, 03:09:27 PM

Quote from: Amph on May 15, 2013, 02:23:10 PM

i still don't understand why the price is so high

1 chip + 1 mini pcb + one usb connector = 2tbc, really?

it would have been much better if they were priced 0.50-1 btc, much honest price...

Why does it have to be honest?

This is the free market at its finest. If no one would buy it at this price... it wouldn't be this price.

M

Xian01

legendary

Activity: 1652

Merit: 1067

Christian Antkow

Quote from: Amph on May 15, 2013, 02:23:10 PM

i still don't understand why the price is so high
1 chip + 1 mini pcb + one usb connector = 2tbc, really?

Look at it another way, where else are you going to get 300MH/s running on a USB stick @ ~500mA ?

RoadStress

legendary

Activity: 1904

Merit: 1007

Quote from: Amph on May 15, 2013, 02:23:10 PM

i still don't understand why the price is so high

1 chip + 1 mini pcb + one usb connector = 2tbc, really?

it would have been much better if they were priced 0.50-1 btc, much honest price...

Why does it have to be honest?

Amph

legendary

Activity: 3248

Merit: 1070

i still don't understand why the price is so high

1 chip + 1 mini pcb + one usb connector = 2tbc, really?

it would have been much better if they were priced 0.50-1 btc, much honest price...

CanaryInTheMine

donator

Activity: 2352

Merit: 1060

between a rock and a block!

USA based group buy still open, see my signature.

klondike_bar

legendary

Activity: 2128

Merit: 1005

ASIC Wannabe

Quote from: stepkrav on May 15, 2013, 09:57:19 AM

should i use a hub with external power? I will only have 2 USB on.

yes. each one of these will essentially max out the power of a traditional USB port (usually 500mA). A powered port is more reliable and sometimes pushes a higher mA if needed.

even so, batch 1 is reported to run at nearly 560mA according to the OP.

stepkrav

full member

Activity: 188

Merit: 100

should i use a hub with external power? I will only have 2 USB on.

augustocroppo

vip

Activity: 756

Merit: 504

Quote from: RubenLeFuck on May 13, 2013, 07:55:53 PM

Any EU buy group?
PM please.

See my signature!

HTML5 Gordon

full member

Activity: 184

Merit: 100

Quote from: Luke-Jr on May 15, 2013, 06:50:57 AM

Quote from: HTML5 Gordon on May 15, 2013, 06:10:23 AM

Quote from: Luke-Jr on May 15, 2013, 02:47:55 AM

Update: I let it run for a few hours without any external cooling besides my house's air conditioning. It basically went to all hardware errors. The good news is, within a few minutes of turning the fan on, it recovered to full hashrate with no hardware errors.

Does this mean running it without the heatsink as well?

The Emeralds didn't have a heatsink. The original context was someone asking why it needed one Wink

Ah, good to know. Thanks!

Luke-Jr

legendary

Activity: 2576

Merit: 1186

Quote from: HTML5 Gordon on May 15, 2013, 06:10:23 AM

Quote from: Luke-Jr on May 15, 2013, 02:47:55 AM

Update: I let it run for a few hours without any external cooling besides my house's air conditioning. It basically went to all hardware errors. The good news is, within a few minutes of turning the fan on, it recovered to full hashrate with no hardware errors.

Does this mean running it without the heatsink as well?

The Emeralds didn't have a heatsink. The original context was someone asking why it needed one Wink

HTML5 Gordon

full member

Activity: 184

Merit: 100

Quote from: Luke-Jr on May 15, 2013, 02:47:55 AM

Update: I let it run for a few hours without any external cooling besides my house's air conditioning. It basically went to all hardware errors. The good news is, within a few minutes of turning the fan on, it recovered to full hashrate with no hardware errors.

Does this mean running it without the heatsink as well?

Luke-Jr

legendary

Activity: 2576

Merit: 1186

Update: I let it run for a few hours without any external cooling besides my house's air conditioning. It basically went to all hardware errors. The good news is, within a few minutes of turning the fan on, it recovered to full hashrate with no hardware errors.

MineForeman.com

legendary

Activity: 896

Merit: 1000

Quote from: wladston on May 14, 2013, 08:42:56 PM

I live in Brazil and I'm interested in buying one or up to 4 of those. I'm still mining with a GPU in here.

There is an internation buy in for them here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/closed-group-buy-batch-one-asicminer-block-erupter-usb-international-201577

Neil

wladston

full member

Activity: 157

Merit: 102

Always remember to be awesome.

I live in Brazil and I'm interested in buying one or up to 4 of those. I'm still mining with a GPU in here.

ionstorm

sr. member

Activity: 266

Merit: 250

I'll buy these all day for 1-1.5 btc, in my opinion this is a perfect price point for profitability and would increase demand, due to the high price its obvious there is less sales that their could be. The volume of sales will compensate for the price cut.

Id however like to see a rev.2 of this or a new product that is the size of a roku or apple TV box with up to a GH/s.

I am a shareholder in asicminer and do agree that this product or a v.2 of this should be slightly lower to increase demand and profitability for asicminer

uhoh

hero member

Activity: 742

Merit: 500