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Topic: ANTMINER S2 Discussion and Support Thread - page 157. (Read 355820 times)
S1's made it from Alaska to Kentucky for Today's delivery, S2 says Tuesday, but I doubt that..
And yes my Brain is just fine, GPU mining SUCKED!! burning 3KW to earn $15.00 a day, verses ASIC burning 3KW to earn $75.00 a day. Maybe my brain is wired wrong but I thought more money was the idea?
Flight UPS77 http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UPS77 Come on Tuesday!
Yes, it sucked. But if you were in it for the long-term you held onto those coins and that $15 turned into a lot more.And yes my Brain is just fine, GPU mining SUCKED!! burning 3KW to earn $15.00 a day, verses ASIC burning 3KW to earn $75.00 a day. Maybe my brain is wired wrong but I thought more money was the idea?
Flight UPS77 http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UPS77 Come on Tuesday!
Huge data centers have higher costs because they have to pay for rent and maintenance. The electricity discount rates wash out because they have to run more power for the cooling.
The only advantage is if you sleep with a asic manufacturer and get chips or machines at close to wholesale cost before anyone else.
Actually, data center costs are all to do with location.
If you do as KNC have done and build your data centre on the edge of the arctic circle then there is unlimited free cooling by just opening the door.
They also built it next door to a hydro-electric dam, so plenty of cheap green electricity too.
And they rented an existing building, not built it from scratch, so start-up costs were kept low and operation start-up time was minimised.
Needless to say they made the ASIC mining machines at cost price and are now minting their own money big time.
Sadly with the cost of the S2's I can't afford to do the same thing.
I guess Bitmain doesn't want to move to Sweden either.
Yeah they built the dc with mostly the Neptune pre-order money.
Bitmain is ok, they can build and manufacture the asic equipment faster and probably cheaper. Just from late Nov to March they pushed out 6-8 PH
wow, long thread, wont lie skipped to the end- so where is the best price on a 1th/s miner kinda interested
These guys have them for sale right now, and the price definitely right!
Plus they have excellent customer support from my experience buying gear from them:
http://www.gawminers.com/gaw-miners-1t-bitcoin-asic-miner/
thanks that is exactly the info i was looking for
Please no more GAW trolling we have enough clutter put it in right thread please
care to expand on this matter? is GAW good or bad? i see they even have a discount going on for S2, are they assumably in-stock?
S1's made it from Alaska to Kentucky for Today's delivery, S2 says Tuesday, but I doubt that..
And yes my Brain is just fine, GPU mining SUCKED!! burning 3KW to earn $15.00 a day, verses ASIC burning 3KW to earn $75.00 a day. Maybe my brain is wired wrong but I thought more money was the idea?
Flight UPS77 http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UPS77 Come on Tuesday!
Yes, it sucked. But if you were in it for the long-term you held onto those coins and that $15 turned into a lot more.And yes my Brain is just fine, GPU mining SUCKED!! burning 3KW to earn $15.00 a day, verses ASIC burning 3KW to earn $75.00 a day. Maybe my brain is wired wrong but I thought more money was the idea?
Flight UPS77 http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UPS77 Come on Tuesday!
Huge data centers have higher costs because they have to pay for rent and maintenance. The electricity discount rates wash out because they have to run more power for the cooling.
The only advantage is if you sleep with a asic manufacturer and get chips or machines at close to wholesale cost before anyone else.
Actually, data center costs are all to do with location.
If you do as KNC have done and build your data centre on the edge of the arctic circle then there is unlimited free cooling by just opening the door.
They also built it next door to a hydro-electric dam, so plenty of cheap green electricity too.
And they rented an existing building, not built it from scratch, so start-up costs were kept low and operation start-up time was minimised.
Needless to say they made the ASIC mining machines at cost price and are now minting their own money big time.
Sadly with the cost of the S2's I can't afford to do the same thing.
I guess Bitmain doesn't want to move to Sweden either.
wow, long thread, wont lie skipped to the end- so where is the best price on a 1th/s miner kinda interested
These guys have them for sale right now, and the price definitely right!
Plus they have excellent customer support from my experience buying gear from them:
http://www.gawminers.com/gaw-miners-1t-bitcoin-asic-miner/
thanks that is exactly the info i was looking for
Please no more GAW trolling we have enough clutter put it in right thread please
S1's made it from Alaska to Kentucky for Today's delivery, S2 says Tuesday, but I doubt that..
And yes my Brain is just fine, GPU mining SUCKED!! burning 3KW to earn $15.00 a day, verses ASIC burning 3KW to earn $75.00 a day. Maybe my brain is wired wrong but I thought more money was the idea?
Flight UPS77 http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UPS77 Come on Tuesday!
And yes my Brain is just fine, GPU mining SUCKED!! burning 3KW to earn $15.00 a day, verses ASIC burning 3KW to earn $75.00 a day. Maybe my brain is wired wrong but I thought more money was the idea?
Flight UPS77 http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UPS77 Come on Tuesday!
Yes, it sucked. But if you were in it for the long-term you held onto those coins and that $15 turned into a lot more.
Yes they did! Because we all spent a boat load of monies on ASIC, which assisted in increasing the price of BTC. Had we stayed with GPU/FPGA, BTC may only be worth $50 right now. DO I think HUGE data center mines suck, well sure in the short term, but if/when they do fall on their faces because that is how Satoshi designed the coin, there should be plenty of cheap hardware and at least a plateauing of difficulty, so hopefully long term these ASIC data centers become blessings.
Huge data centers have higher costs because they have to pay for rent and maintenance. The electricity discount rates wash out because they have to run more power for the cooling.
The only advantage is if you sleep with a asic manufacturer and get chips or machines at close to wholesale cost before anyone else.
S1's made it from Alaska to Kentucky for Today's delivery, S2 says Tuesday, but I doubt that..
And yes my Brain is just fine, GPU mining SUCKED!! burning 3KW to earn $15.00 a day, verses ASIC burning 3KW to earn $75.00 a day. Maybe my brain is wired wrong but I thought more money was the idea?
Flight UPS77 http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UPS77 Come on Tuesday!
And yes my Brain is just fine, GPU mining SUCKED!! burning 3KW to earn $15.00 a day, verses ASIC burning 3KW to earn $75.00 a day. Maybe my brain is wired wrong but I thought more money was the idea?
Flight UPS77 http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UPS77 Come on Tuesday!
Yes, it sucked. But if you were in it for the long-term you held onto those coins and that $15 turned into a lot more.
Yes they did! Because we all spent a boat load of monies on ASIC, which assisted in increasing the price of BTC. Had we stayed with GPU/FPGA, BTC may only be worth $50 right now. DO I think HUGE data center mines suck, well sure in the short term, but if/when they do fall on their faces because that is how Satoshi designed the coin, there should be plenty of cheap hardware and at least a plateauing of difficulty, so hopefully long term these ASIC data centers become blessings.
wow, long thread, wont lie skipped to the end- so where is the best price on a 1th/s miner kinda interested
These guys have them for sale right now, and the price definitely right!
Plus they have excellent customer support from my experience buying gear from them:
http://www.gawminers.com/gaw-miners-1t-bitcoin-asic-miner/
thanks that is exactly the info i was looking for
For those following my saga.
I had a call via Juan from HolyScot.....
Thanks Scott
Didnt work yesterday but today I put everything out of the BBB including the network cord. The only think I did different today was pull the on the BBB IE a tug and pull out the net cable....pull out the SD.
Put it all back together and it booted up.
Added back half the blades at a time and whallla....back over 1 TH
I still think this is too touchy for the premium paid.....for this we could have had a dragon at 25% less.
Anyone shopping and looking at miners...... I have yet to have bitmain do anything for me for any of the their fubars.
Me if i shop again it will be the Dragon for 25% less.
Do yourself a favor buy S1 instead and underclock them later you will get 40% more hashing power for same BTC
This thing is a future mouse trap
I had a call via Juan from HolyScot.....
Thanks Scott
Didnt work yesterday but today I put everything out of the BBB including the network cord. The only think I did different today was pull the on the BBB IE a tug and pull out the net cable....pull out the SD.
Put it all back together and it booted up.
Added back half the blades at a time and whallla....back over 1 TH
I still think this is too touchy for the premium paid.....for this we could have had a dragon at 25% less.
Anyone shopping and looking at miners...... I have yet to have bitmain do anything for me for any of the their fubars.
Me if i shop again it will be the Dragon for 25% less.
Do yourself a favor buy S1 instead and underclock them later you will get 40% more hashing power for same BTC
This thing is a future mouse trap
S1's made it from Alaska to Kentucky for Today's delivery, S2 says Tuesday, but I doubt that..
And yes my Brain is just fine, GPU mining SUCKED!! burning 3KW to earn $15.00 a day, verses ASIC burning 3KW to earn $75.00 a day. Maybe my brain is wired wrong but I thought more money was the idea?
Flight UPS77 http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UPS77 Come on Tuesday!
And yes my Brain is just fine, GPU mining SUCKED!! burning 3KW to earn $15.00 a day, verses ASIC burning 3KW to earn $75.00 a day. Maybe my brain is wired wrong but I thought more money was the idea?
Flight UPS77 http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UPS77 Come on Tuesday!
Yes, it sucked. But if you were in it for the long-term you held onto those coins and that $15 turned into a lot more.
Just point the tar from miner menu.
Im in Australia and ETA is Thursday...
Im a newb with this Bitmain mining hardware and i want to avoid making a huge paperweight of it and losing BTC and shipping costs back to china etc. I would really appreciate if someone who has successfully upgraded the firmware on the S2 could advise what the upgrade procedure is. Ive read the manual and seems pretty straight forward enough:
1. download latest firmware initramfs.bin.SD-20140410.tar
2. extract the file inside then just point the miner to the extracted files location and wait ?
I had someone who i PM'd tell me not to extract the file and just point the miner to the TAR file, but i suspect him to be an evil troll wanting me to brick my unit. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Im a newb with this Bitmain mining hardware and i want to avoid making a huge paperweight of it and losing BTC and shipping costs back to china etc. I would really appreciate if someone who has successfully upgraded the firmware on the S2 could advise what the upgrade procedure is. Ive read the manual and seems pretty straight forward enough:
1. download latest firmware initramfs.bin.SD-20140410.tar
2. extract the file inside then just point the miner to the extracted files location and wait ?
I had someone who i PM'd tell me not to extract the file and just point the miner to the TAR file, but i suspect him to be an evil troll wanting me to brick my unit. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Just download, and upload from miner menu.
That's all.
Thanks El Gabo, I think you mean to just point it to the TAR without extracting the internal file ?, The main question in there i needed clarification on was do i extract the file within the TAR and point it to that, or just point it to the TAR file without extracting ? Sorry to keep dragging this up.
S1's made it from Alaska to Kentucky for Today's delivery, S2 says Tuesday, but I doubt that..
And yes my Brain is just fine, GPU mining SUCKED!! burning 3KW to earn $15.00 a day, verses ASIC burning 3KW to earn $75.00 a day. Maybe my brain is wired wrong but I thought more money was the idea?
Flight UPS77 http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UPS77 Come on Tuesday!
And yes my Brain is just fine, GPU mining SUCKED!! burning 3KW to earn $15.00 a day, verses ASIC burning 3KW to earn $75.00 a day. Maybe my brain is wired wrong but I thought more money was the idea?
Flight UPS77 http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UPS77 Come on Tuesday!
Im in Australia and ETA is Thursday...
Im a newb with this Bitmain mining hardware and i want to avoid making a huge paperweight of it and losing BTC and shipping costs back to china etc. I would really appreciate if someone who has successfully upgraded the firmware on the S2 could advise what the upgrade procedure is. Ive read the manual and seems pretty straight forward enough:
1. download latest firmware initramfs.bin.SD-20140410.tar
2. extract the file inside then just point the miner to the extracted files location and wait ?
I had someone who i PM'd tell me not to extract the file and just point the miner to the TAR file, but i suspect him to be an evil troll wanting me to brick my unit. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Im a newb with this Bitmain mining hardware and i want to avoid making a huge paperweight of it and losing BTC and shipping costs back to china etc. I would really appreciate if someone who has successfully upgraded the firmware on the S2 could advise what the upgrade procedure is. Ive read the manual and seems pretty straight forward enough:
1. download latest firmware initramfs.bin.SD-20140410.tar
2. extract the file inside then just point the miner to the extracted files location and wait ?
I had someone who i PM'd tell me not to extract the file and just point the miner to the TAR file, but i suspect him to be an evil troll wanting me to brick my unit. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Just download, and upload from miner menu.
That's all.
Im in Australia and ETA is Thursday...
Im a newb with this Bitmain mining hardware and i want to avoid making a huge paperweight of it and losing BTC and shipping costs back to china etc. I would really appreciate if someone who has successfully upgraded the firmware on the S2 could advise what the upgrade procedure is. Ive read the manual and seems pretty straight forward enough:
1. download latest firmware initramfs.bin.SD-20140410.tar
2. extract the file inside then just point the miner to the extracted files location and wait ?
I had someone who i PM'd tell me not to extract the file and just point the miner to the TAR file, but i suspect him to be an evil troll wanting me to brick my unit. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Im a newb with this Bitmain mining hardware and i want to avoid making a huge paperweight of it and losing BTC and shipping costs back to china etc. I would really appreciate if someone who has successfully upgraded the firmware on the S2 could advise what the upgrade procedure is. Ive read the manual and seems pretty straight forward enough:
1. download latest firmware initramfs.bin.SD-20140410.tar
2. extract the file inside then just point the miner to the extracted files location and wait ?
I had someone who i PM'd tell me not to extract the file and just point the miner to the TAR file, but i suspect him to be an evil troll wanting me to brick my unit. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My order came from Alaska to Kentucky. Right now Kentucky has a storm blowing through. Hopefully it passes before your miner gets to the US.
UPS is finally showing an update... Export scan Shenzhen 5:37pm. I wonder if Tuesday delivery is still a possibility?
Depends where you are located and what the weather is like.Here is the info from one of my orders:
Quote
Shenzhen, China 03/13/2014 7:11 P.M. Departure Scan
Abilene, TX, United States 03/14/2014 12:09 P.M. Delivered
Abilene, TX, United States 03/14/2014 12:09 P.M. Delivered
If you are in the US, then it will make it if there are no delays.
In the southwest US as well. Fingers crossed.
UPS is finally showing an update... Export scan Shenzhen 5:37pm. I wonder if Tuesday delivery is still a possibility?
Depends where you are located and what the weather is like.Here is the info from one of my orders:
Quote
Shenzhen, China 03/13/2014 7:11 P.M. Departure Scan
Abilene, TX, United States 03/14/2014 12:09 P.M. Delivered
Abilene, TX, United States 03/14/2014 12:09 P.M. Delivered
If you are in the US, then it will make it if there are no delays.
UPS is finally showing an update... Export scan Shenzhen 5:37pm. I wonder if Tuesday delivery is still a possibility?
ASIC doesn't bring anything good for Bitcoin anyway. Bitcoin was way more decentralised when it was limited to CPU/GPU.
Yeah let's all go back to 1.50W per 1MH/s, oh yeah WE were truly cooking then, EH?? Phunk that GPU mining is for R-TARDS! or people without blood circulation..
You probably have a very effective blood circulation but it is no help without a brain.
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