Topic: ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It - page 814. (Read 3917468 times)

Shareholder list update:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtqphFCP56ordGVCakJxSU90MlB4MlBkZENya25pS2c

That's because last 6h and 12h hours charts are based on the same data as the dotted line..  

_{*I hope you know the 6h or 12h average doesn't have to be (and probably isn't) the ACTUAL hashrate,
but the calculated hashrate based on the blocks found in that particular timeframe.}

also the Last 6 and Last 12 hours charts are nice :-) (around 80 TH/s)

Nice!

regarding the USB miners and their price drop, previous buyers of mine can order at .175 per unit. more info here:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/asicminer-usb-group-buy-orders-closed-pay-for-extra-195052

far more interested in info new blades and hardware franchising than on orphan blocks / lack of transactions.

Thanks for asking that I have been curious about it

The day bitcoin ASIC companies become a religion.

You're either TPE or not. Simple.

Nice. Information feels good.

Glad to see this concern is being addressed.

OFFICIAL UPDATE

The topic of the orphaned blocks and low tx fees in AM blocks was recently addressed by the board.

Friedcat is aware of the problem and Bitfountain is working to solve it. In the meantime, it is a negligible but necessary loss.

It is not as simple as it might seem. The problem comes from peering and poor bandwidth/internet connectivity in China and software optimizations used to deal with the situation. Companies like Amazon(.cn) also suffer from these problems in China. It isn't necessarily a problem caused by the Great Firewall itself.

Thank you,

~TAT

Thanks for your "posit", very in-depth and intelligent.

Allow me to posit a conspiracy...

We do know that AM was the target of the DDoS attacks that were patched recently in bitcoin-qt. So, clearly AM's mining operation is in someone's crosshairs. It's entirely possible that there is a shadowy pool-level collision to preferentially ignore/delay acknowledgment of AM blocks, or perhaps some new form of network attack that disadvantages propagation of AM blocks. That could explain the orphan rate, and AMs use of new IPs and the lack of tagging.  

A few pages back, people were complaining about the orphan rate and number of transactions per block of AM mined blocks compared to others. Perhaps he's establishing new pools and VPN's closer to where the "action" is in order to see if that solves that issue? And if its a new pool, he might not have completely configured it yet.

If I (in the US) send coins to someone else, I assume that my wallet broadcasts it through its connections and those connections relay it to miners somewhere. Could it have been that most of the BTC transactions are occuring in the US and EU and wallets were just relaying to the closest nodes and mining pools (lowest latency, perhaps?) and that's why we have been seeing so few fees and so many more orphans with AM than anywhere else? And if that was the issue, wouldnt the remedy be to have nodes situated in areas where latency would be lower (fewer hops between wallets and pools) in hope of capturing more of that? Not to mention that every block is a race, so if we're even a couple nanoseconds behind getting our block included, then it becomes an orphan?

Point is, we've all been noticing issues as of late, doubtless that friedcat isn't. Perhaps he's attempting to geographically disperse his mining power and operating it through different pools, and simply not stamping new blocks with the ASICMiner stamp?

is this for the USBs?

+1 This is where it all begins for AM

Keep up the good work guys.

Nice PR, how many units went out in the most recent shipment?

Please define rocky periods. Down and uptrends for dividends is to be expected simply due to changes in the time preferences for operational cash.

8/1/13
Hi,

We will have a one-week time of inventory shortage. Please let the purchasers know. Thanks very much.

ps: All existing orders are executed and shipped. Don't worry.

Best regards,

friedcat

Passing this along from friedcat.

Sincerely,
SilentSonicBoom