Topic: [Closed] Bitfury miner group buy + hosting (with ESCROW) - page 12. (Read 37368 times)

Two more please:

mistermint,2,1,1Dk7YG43rSPatnHNJjLAUzwamhf62b1Nsq

OK, 500 big ones heading over to your YAC wallet now - enjoy! Yes, it would be good if prices did pick up or I may finally have to turn the GPUs off - a sad day indeed .

Very generous, thanks. Perhaps all the alt-coin prices will pick up again.

YHXbezq9f78gKrmdsDbb2vsWPzGQWgRV7m

Hi All, if you haven't been watching the bitfurystrikesback thread then I thought that I would share the good news. Punin and his team have dispatched all of the August delivery miners and there are some great pictures and info being posted about the miners and their performance (e.g. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3050985). These guys have done a great job and their commitment to meeting their delivery estimates and performance is really encouraging for our October orders .

Hi Stinky_Pete, it's great to have your continued support, thanks for being part of the group. Things are changing rapidly in all bitcoin and altcoin areas at the moment, so let's keep the group informed, dynamic and responsive and see where the next few weeks take us.

If you want the YAC from the YACback fun and games from the last component by the way then send me a cryptsy deposit address or YAC wallet address and I'll send these over. I'll send double the promised amount to partially account for the nosedive in the YAC price that we've seen in recent days.

So, my August total was 5 shares in the end, not quite as much as I had hoped. The price of all my alt-coins has dropped dramatically in the past 2-3 days, so I won't be topping-up the shares fund with them, instead I'll carry them and my bitcoin change into September, and make the same pledge. My Jalapenos may arrive this month, but 10Gh/s extra isn't very much in the present circumstances, I may even sell them quickly on eBay and reinvest the proceeds  .

With so many unknowns it's difficult to predict how much I will mine in the next month, but with two large increases in the difficulty coming up I'm being cautious with my estimate ~ perhaps only 3 or 4 shares in September. Pretty much a guess though.

Hi, that's a good question, thanks for asking. We've committed in the OP to "choosing appropriate mining pools to minimise rejects, minimise pool fees (if appropriate) and maximise pool efficiency". Our primary focus will be to maximise the revenue from the miner for the group, but I do want to protect the network too, so we would try to use smaller pools or P2Pool if they look like competitive options. I'll look in detail nearer the time at how best to balance pool efficiency against pool fees and how merged mining for other coins would affect the profitability of the miner. I have no objection to merged mining, if it represents a better return for the group (although when I was merged mining with GPUs I didn't get much benefit from it). I'd be happy to take a vote on some options nearer the time - I perfer a democratic approach. Not sure how well P2Pool would work with the bitfury miners, but the nice thing about bitfury miners is that they have just started being delivered to the first customers, so in a week or so there will be lots of people to ask about details like P2Pool compatibility etc.

Don't worry about the YAC, that was a bit of fun for the last H-board collection. The YACBack offer has now closed. Apart from anything else the YAC price is taking a nosedive, so what little value there was is diminishing rapidly . Maybe we'll see a huge bounce back at some point .

What is your mining policy?

I would prefer the use of P2Pool and merged namecoin mining, but wouldn't want to impose that on the group.

If/when my Bitcoin node is up, you may want to add it to the list of manually selected nodes. Again it is not something I would want to impose on the group.

My head hurts after trying to figure out if I would be interested in even holding YACoin (what concerns me the most is the 1 minute block interval)

Hi All, so John was kind enough to place our order last night. A screenshot of the order on the bitfurystrikesback site can be found at (http://s13.postimg.org/e434vg2d3/hboard1.jpg). Strangely the VAT hasn't been added to this order, the site doesn't seem to be doing this properly any more, so we'll need to get in touch with Punin to sort this out. I'll update the numbers in the OP now and open the collection for the next component. Please could you let me know the YAC addresses that you'd like your YAC sent to

OK, great stuff . I've sent a pm to John K to ask him to order the next component and will update you all when this is done. I'll need YAC addresses from you once we've ordered to send you your YACBack - enjoy .

Now 0 / 11.17 shares remaining for next component (at current BTC rate shown in the OP)

Currently waiting for order to be paid from the escrow account. Please feel free to send contributions towards the next component, which will open officially when the previous order is submitted.

mistermint,2,1,1Dk7YG43rSPatnHNJjLAUzwamhf62b1Nsq

Get that H-board 2 bought! :-D

Now 2 / 11.17 shares remaining for next component (at current BTC rate shown in the OP)

GB now with YACback offer: 50 YAC per paid share in the next component will be given to the purchasers of those shares

YAC will be paid once the component is ordered and paid for. Only available for the next component (H-board #1).

jlsminingcorp,2,1,1NsVvGAYnK18s9bSvBJmeiQDb5oFDjGCn5

Yup, a few small problems, but sounding pretty good for the first production run. I must say, they seem to be dealing with the problems very well - they seem intent on delivering what they promised, by and large on time . I'm guessing that not all will be shipped by the end of the week, but they've done an awesome job so far. As you say, there are a few weeks for them to sort out any teething troubles with the boards before they ship ours too.

Yes, very good news, and builds confidence. It sounds like there are some QA problems, but they have time to sort the problems out and/or release a higher spec board. Looking forward to October.

So bitfurystrikesback.com have started shipping August delivery units today (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3018498). Even though they had some problems with their pcb fab a couple of weeks back they still look like they will meet their shipping estimates for the August batch. Congratulations to Punin and the team! This is a very positive sign for our October batch .

Now 4 / 11.17 shares remaining for next component (at current BTC rate shown in the OP)

GB now with YACback offer: 50 YAC per paid share in the next component will be given to the purchasers of those shares

YAC will be paid once the component is ordered and paid for. Only available for the next component (H-board #1).

Now 4 / 11.75 shares remaining for next component (at current BTC rate shown in the OP)

GB now with YACback offer: 50 YAC per paid share in the next component will be given to the purchasers of those shares

YAC will be paid once the component is ordered and paid for. Only available for the next component (H-board #1).

Stinky_Pete,2,1.00,1EysFQHn5s8MbFTBGvgHigDdQJV23emtJP

Shares this month: 5

Now 7 / 12.03 shares remaining for next component (at current BTC rate shown in the OP)

GB now with YACback offer: 50 YAC per paid share in the next component will be given to the purchasers of those shares

YAC will be paid once the component is ordered and paid for. Only available for the next component (H-board #1).