Topic: [CLOSED] ASICMiner Prisma 1.4th/s - 1.47 BTC - page 20. (Read 49994 times)

Someone just created a new business model. Appliances that make you money.

Yes Susie, you can make us dinner with you new Bitcoin EZ-bake oven.

I need to get in on the ground floor of this.

Edit...
Just thought of another one. Bitcoin mining Airplanes. A lot of them provide wifi for passengers, those engines produce a lot of energy, and if they only mine while in the air, what could be better for a heatsink than a 300 mph wind? Crank them up on the ground to de-ice the wings.

Thank You for flying Bitcoin Air.

I think the trick would be to get manufacturers to agree on a standardized modular design. Something like the first rbox that could be easily plugged in to a variety of devices like space heaters, water heaters, etc... This would enable upgrade paths and open a new market for mining accesories.

thats entirely up to btc's price by then

not happening anytime soon. The cost difference between building a mining system into an appliance vs a basic metal heating element likely exceeds what will be mined in its lifespan. $500 computer wedged into the heater, that runs maybe 8-16hrs/day, or a $20 metal coil? Think you'll mine $480 worth of BTC?

+hazardous materials at disposal
+if you lose your internet, mining stops right? then what - no heat?

= ROI on electric bills. free energy for everyone. Bitcoin's end game. awesome.

there is money in space heaters.  the s-3 can be down clocked and undervolted you get  380 gh with  250 watts.  it will run quietly.  We have a few older developments with electric baseboard heat.  very costly to use.

so an s-3 will give the same heat per watt as the baseboard will give.

An undervolted downclocked r-box would work  90gh at 60-65 watts. or the new antminer u-4 or is it u-3 I forgot

I think that's definitely a possibility. If bitcoin prices don't start going up, I may be selling Block Erupter space heaters and dehydrators in 2015.

Didn't Gavin talk about something similar about a year ago?  He was saying that if/once bitcoin becomes popular and Moore's Law is reached or close, that people would buy a hot water heater, furnace, heater, etc with some ASIC chips built in to earn a few dozen satoshi.

I think that would be awesome. I'm already envisioning a tank-less water heater and hour long scolding hot showers. Powered by bitcoin.

I should have some listed on the site tomorrow.

I keep checking https://asicpuppy.com/magentoPuppy/index.php/asic-mining-hardware.html to see if the prismas are up yet and im guessing beings batch 6 is on hold it might be delayed on asicpuppy. Then I got an email from a site which I wont name and they have them up for 649.99 and they say Available for shipping 11/6 or refund available. Im guessing a bunch of them are on the way to the states id imagine? I wish I would have got in on batch one as I cant wait to get my hands on them.

Awesome videos. If you flipped the 24x boards over it might look cooler since they were designed to push heat through the pcb. You would get lots of tiny bubbles instead of the big eruptions through the mounting holes. It might not be more efficient, but I think it would be cooler to look at.  I want to build an immersion tank as well, but lack of funds is preventing me from doing so. I do have several design ideas though. I know it was a test tank, but if you added a second radiator to the fish tank in a V formation you would get better condensation. You don't want to use fans in the tank because the name of the game is less energy used to cool the miners. Wow, sorry for sounding like a prick. I've spent a lot of time researching and designing a few different versions. It's nice to see someone putting a system together. Yes, I am jealous.
Heating a house with miners can definitely happen. It got to a frigid 40 degrees here last night in north Florida. I have 6 S1's and 2 S3's, with a box fan and relocating 2 miners the coldest part of the house was 68. The room where most of the miners were was 82. My central heat isn't working right now, so that was the miners keeping it warm in the house. 

Per CrazyGuy "All remaining batches should be arriving next week. ASICMiner has asked me to hold off on placing a batch 6 order this weekend while they replenish stock. Any batch 6 orders to this point will be moved to batch 5, which should arrive next week. If you haven't sent me your label, please do so now.

I will have spare units for sale on ASICPuppy.net next week."

Why is the GB paused?

bobsaq3 and sidehack are spot on at stock/factory clock rates.
We prefer to allow a little more head room for OC'ing the Prisma's and hence have migrated to one DPS-1600BB per Prisma.
OC'ing a Prisma only makes financial sense if the cost per Kwh is low ($0.08/KWh or less).

Then there are the heat dissipation issues that come with filling a room/Data Center with OC'ed Prisma's.
Pursuant to that we are prototyping Open Bath Immersion (OBI) cooling using the 3M Novec Engineered Fluids in custom built polycarbonate immersion tanks.
With the ultimate goal of immersing 32 OC'ed Prisma hash boards, controlled by an RPi w/wireless, in an OBI tank powered by 5 DPS-2000's.
Power consumption should be ~10Kw per tank and dissipate ~32K BTU continuously, enough to heat the average American sized home in a Minnesota winter AND GET PAID TO DO IT.
The residual/excess heat could be used to heat a garage, heat a driveway, heat sidewalks, melt snow off of the roof, heat a pool/hot tub/fish pond, etc. . . . . . .

Our Youtube channel (PlanetCrypto) has some videos of our initial testing.

Initial testing of 24x Tube Erupter boards in a Walmart fishtank:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meOf0FJBkGA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_yfHJ8yoh8

A polycarbonate immersion tank with 2x Bitmain S3+ hash boards:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcb9TyQP5ZA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fStHV_Q-x7s

We no longer power the fan in the S3+ tank as it is not required for condensation.
The heat generated from the S3+ tank supplements the in-floor heat in our little DC.
We have laid PEX in the ground outside the DC as a place to dump excess heat in upcoming expanded systems.

When we get a 32 Prisma board system up and running we'll post some vid's on the channel.

We had a Prisma here to test for a day, and ran it just fine on 2x Dell 750
We have had 5x Tubes running on 2X DPS-2000BB in hosting for two months with no issues. A prisma pulls only slightly more power (20% max) than a Tube, so 2 per DPS-2000BB is well within the PSU's capabilities.