Topic: Bitfury - Mining Lighbulb - page 4. (Read 15519 times)
If they can build them slightly better than the competition, but also slightly cheaper than the competition, such that they end up with the same shelf price and power consumption even with the miner running, they might get more sales on gimmick alone and people won't realize they're paying more than they should to get a bitnickel per year.
It will be interesting to find out how it prices out, and where they try and sell them, both geographically and which merchants.
Just think, you can hand them out to your family members at Christmas!!!
You do realise they will make less bitcoin than they cost to run in electricity for most people if not everyone?Just think, you can hand them out to your family members at Christmas!!!
(who doesn't make someone else pay for their electricity)
... ignoring the possible extra cost of also having to buy one ...
It will be interesting to find out how it prices out, and where they try and sell them, both geographically and which merchants.
Just think, you can hand them out to your family members at Christmas!!!
Just think, you can hand them out to your family members at Christmas!!!
It has half of the components of a smart LED bulb.
Who the hell even spends their money on this useless crap anyways? And That's still not justification to putting mining chip(s) in them, especially to -as Kano pointed out- likely provide no positive return for the consumer.
The only way this will fly in the mainstream crowd is if they market these as smart bulbs and give them away to customers for free, and have them locked to their own pool.
Who the hell even spends their money on this useless crap anyways? And That's still not justification to putting mining chip(s) in them, especially to -as Kano pointed out- likely provide no positive return for the consumer.
The only way this will fly in the mainstream crowd is if they market these as smart bulbs and give them away to customers for free, and have them locked to their own pool.
Short summary of the above:
Configured via a Web interface in terms of pool, as well as the light bulb parameters (e.g. color, brightness, etc). Looks kinda like a "Party Bulb" with multiple colors and such. The example showed 2.6 GH/s. No mention of power consumption. Supposedly available at the retail level late in 2015. No mention of price or geography for retail sales.
i.e. make money for Bitfury, lose money for everyone else.
Oh, where have I seen this happen before ... ... ...
Yeah I think Phillips has the wifi bulbs that adjust color based on the TV show you watch
So the bulb, the PCB, chip and heatsink, controller board, wifi dongle, all for 2.6GH/s. Brilliant.
Half of these things are already in smart LED bulbs available for cheap anyway. Find one that has the bare minimum required to tell the chip what to hash and can get result data back from it, and all you have to add is the ASIC.exactly.. lot of stuff out already it seems
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=wifi+led+light+bulb+review
So the bulb, the PCB, chip and heatsink, controller board, wifi dongle, all for 2.6GH/s. Brilliant.
Actually I think the brilliance is adjustable!!!
Just couldn't resist the pun, though I completely agree.........
2.6GH - is that one of their old chips?
Might as well be.. who would notice, really? I suppose they can't really do much with the demonstration pieces at these events, otherwise I'm surprised that nobody plopped the dome off to take a peek underneath.So the bulb, the PCB, chip and heatsink, controller board, wifi dongle, all for 2.6GH/s. Brilliant.
Half of these things are already in smart LED bulbs available for cheap anyway. Find one that has the bare minimum required to tell the chip what to hash and can get result data back from it, and all you have to add is the ASIC.'guess it's been another week-ish, so:
BitFury still on the rise.
So the bulb, the PCB, chip and heatsink, controller board, wifi dongle, all for 2.6GH/s. Brilliant.
2.6GH - is that one of their old chips?
seems pretty interesting, convert houses to these, switch your office out, etc.. low hash rate but it adds up and for a lightbulb you cant expect much
Short summary of the above:
Configured via a Web interface in terms of pool, as well as the light bulb parameters (e.g. color, brightness, etc). Looks kinda like a "Party Bulb" with multiple colors and such. The example showed 2.6 GH/s. No mention of power consumption. Supposedly available at the retail level late in 2015. No mention of price or geography for retail sales.
Good find! Self-taught chip designer, not a self-taught logo designer
Just to point out from the reddit thread as well - seems this logo's been used (mostly by sports teams) since the late naughties (are we still calling the 00's that? Wait.. 00.. *checks spondoolies logo*) and probably before that. You'd have to get lucky to find the original designer, but at this point it's so watered down that I'm not sure it's little more than trivia.Thanks for the updated graph. You really need to automate it ...
I thought dogie was going to plan something? I was working on some data gathering, but considering there's a lot that's not technically on the block chain, that's a lot of work in days with far too few hours
As a further aside, this bit of news got lost in the Tblisi flood & aftermath:
http://cbw.ge/technology/bitfury-group-developing-modern-technologies-in-georgia/
( Follow-up to http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150601006854/en/BitFury-Acquiring-Privatized-Land-Plot-Republic-Georgia#.VYrLRvmqpBd )
Someone sent me the following: http://www.leaguelineup.com/pantherpride/images/School_logo_Transparent.png
(Edit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ay5yz/bitfury_or_panther_pride_logo_looks_suspiciously/)
btw, BitFury CTO (Valery Nebesny) finally revealed his face: http://www.bitfury.org/team
(Edit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ay5yz/bitfury_or_panther_pride_logo_looks_suspiciously/)
btw, BitFury CTO (Valery Nebesny) finally revealed his face: http://www.bitfury.org/team
Good find! Self-taught chip designer, not a self-taught logo designer
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Well, they did cancel Top Gear, after all
Well, they did cancel Top Gear, after all
Meanwhile:
organofcorti's block maker stats page isn't up yet, and I haven't adjusted mine to account for some minor findings
Thanks for the updated graph. You really need to automate it ... 
organofcorti's block maker stats page isn't up yet, and I haven't adjusted mine to account for some minor findings
Someone sent me the following: [...]
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ay5yz/bitfury_or_panther_pride_logo_looks_suspiciously/
Given that HS logo was around back in http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ay5yz/bitfury_or_panther_pride_logo_looks_suspiciously/
btw, BitFury CTO (Valery Nebesny) finally revealed his face: http://www.bitfury.org/team
Well, they did cancel Top Gear, after all Meanwhile:
organofcorti's block maker stats page isn't up yet, and I haven't adjusted mine to account for some minor findings
Someone sent me the following: http://www.leaguelineup.com/pantherpride/images/School_logo_Transparent.png
(Edit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ay5yz/bitfury_or_panther_pride_logo_looks_suspiciously/)
btw, BitFury CTO (Valery Nebesny) finally revealed his face: http://www.bitfury.org/team
(Edit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ay5yz/bitfury_or_panther_pride_logo_looks_suspiciously/)
btw, BitFury CTO (Valery Nebesny) finally revealed his face: http://www.bitfury.org/team
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