Topic: [Closed] Bitfury miner group buy + hosting (with ESCROW) - page 7. (Read 37359 times)

Quick updates:

1) Bitfury burner: According to Fedex the package has now arrived in the UK. It looks like it's going to spend a lonely weekend in a Fedex warehouse though before we get it on Monday - don't they realise that time is of the essence ! Good progress anyway.

2) Bitfurystrikesback: Our starter kit order is now showing as "complete" on the BFSB site and they have generated a UPS shipping label for the package. This isn't with UPS yet though. It looks like this may also arrive next week.

So in terms of communication, we've got some group members who want to use email and some who want to use bitmessage. We're happy to do both (although I need to set up bitmessage this weekend). Please could group members who want to be contactable in case of forum downtime send us either an email address or bitmessage address (if you haven't done so already)? If you don't then we'll assume that you'll not panic if the forum goes dark and that you'll be happy with us just getting on with things in the background. Any group members who would like our email address please send a pm to request this.

Hopefully we'll be posting some un-boxing photos soon!

Good to hear.

And going back a bit, email is fine for me.

great news !

Good news, the bitburner fury is now in transit. Delivery estimate is Monday though .

Exciting news from punin (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3306875). This "could" include our starter kit, but in any case we're getting close.

im fine with regular email,

i have an email account i use for all online stuff anyways.

I would think that people that are worried about anonymity would have an anonymous email account and check it via TOR.

Thanks for your thoughts. Email is the obvious choice and, of course, is fine for us, but I appreciate that some people would like to protect their anonymity more than this. Ideally, we're looking for a single solution that everybody agrees on, which makes it easy for us to contact everybody at the same time. If this isn't possible, then we can use a couple (e.g. bitmessage + email) of approaches, but probably no more than this or it gets too unwieldy.

After a quick look over of bitmessage, it's something that I would have to install and configure and check from time to time. It seems to me that we would want to have a communications medium that everyone already has....such as email. I don't need to set up yet another account and have to check yet another source (facebook, twitter, linkedin, email, forum posts and then add bitmessage  on top of that).

Just my BTC.02

Hi All, just a quick update to let you know where things stand:

1) Bitfurystrikesback: These guys seem to be getting through their orders really well and they suggest that orders in the 600s and 700s should get done this week (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3294417). Since we have an early 700s order for the starter kit I hope that this will ship to us soon. Our H-boards are in the 900s and early 1000s, so we still have a wait for these.

2) Bitfury burner: This is not going so well . We still have no update from cryptx on when this will be shipped and although there is evidence on the cryptx thread that people are getting their bitfury burners, they don't seem to be coming out very quickly. I will let you know as soon as our fedex tracking details are updated and we know that the unit is on its way to us. The final thing to note about the bitfury burner is that the "hashrate protection" offered by cryptx looks like it will be active. There's no report of them hitting the 64GH/s target yet (50-55 seems to be the limit), so group members with shares in the bitfury burner should be getting partial refunds (we'll get 100 Euro back for the whole board). Again, I'll let you know as soon as we receive anything from cryptx regarding this.

3) Pools: I suggest that we use Eligius and Bitminter as two of the pools for the group (both have low, or no pool fees, merged namecoin mining and are not too big), but we need three really, so if anybody has another favourite pool then let me know (Slush is out for the moment, as it doesn't seem to work well with bitfury kit). We could try to get into GHash.IO, which is good for bitfury kit, but there's no merged mining and it's already very big, so joining it is not too helpful for the network.

4) We've had a couple of votes for staying in contact via bitmessage. I'd appreciate some feedback from other group members on this, as it would be much more convenient if we're all using the same method of communication in case the forum goes down again.

That's all for now!

+1 Bitmessage

Bitmessage looks interesting, I've not come across this before. Anybody else have any thoughts?

I believe setting up both a mailing list and a group in bitmessage would be more than enough .
much safer and better G+ and forum alone .

Hi All, welcome back after the blackout. I guess you only realise how important the forum is when you loose it!

In order to keep you all informed of any updates we really need to find another way to communicate in addition to the forum (we tried to start a discussion about this a while back https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3078989, but didn't get much of a response). It would be very useful to us, and to you I think, if group members could pm us with an email address that we can use to contact you. If you don't do this then please be aware that we have no way to contact you if the forum goes down again. If you pm us then we will send you an email address for jlsminingcorp so that you can contact us too. We're in the process of setting up a google+ group as well, so this may be a useful way to get updates, hashing videos etc. out there.

Now for some updates:

1) Bitfury burner: The FedEX notification that we received a week ago was apparently autogenerated when cryptx printed the shipping labels (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3267582), so as far as we know the bitfury burner has not shipped yet. This is very disappointing, but there are some reports of these boards arriving (e.g. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3290621), so I certainly hope that we're not far behind. I'll post an update as soon as I have one.

2) Bitfurystrikesback hashrate: Some good news on the October delivery H-boards. These have been "tweaked" and are now running at 30 GH/s+ out of the box (e.g. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-bitfury-asic-sales-in-eu-and-europe-250249), so we've had a free hashrate upgrade of 20% or so! Bitfurystrikesback seem to be working steadily through their order chain, so we're hoping that the group's starter kit will ship reasonably soon. Again, I'll post here as soon as we have any updates.

This just landed in my inbox. Looks like cryptx are bang on schedule with the bitfury burner (thanks guys!).

No news on hashrate yet, I guess we'll see in a couple of days!

Hi All, just a couple of quick updates:

John K has very kindly made the transfers that we requested to cover the costs of the bitfury burner and the VAT on component 2 (Bitfury 25GH/s H-board #1 (October delivery)). This means that the total cost for component 2 in the OP is now correct.

Bitfurystrikesback have now begun to ship october orders (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3247580). Although they have had some unexpected problems with hot capacitors, and sorting this out is causing them to ship a bit slower than expected, this is generally great news. They really do seem to be doing a great job. Fingers crossed our components may begin to come through soon . The interesting thing to note in punin's post is that when they open the shop again they will only be selling components that are on hand - no more pre-orders .

We now have things in place that should allow us to start mining as soon as the components arrive. In addition, we have a few "add-on" items that should be arriving next week that will hopefully make the GB run smoothly (spare RPi, spare SD cards, a watt meter (for power consumption at the wall) and a shiny new multimeter). The next job is to decide on some pools to use. We have a couple in mind already, based on the experiences of those with August delivery kit. We'll post a list of our thoughts when we've finished looking into this, but if you have any suggestions in the meantime then please post them here.

Hi manawenuz, no problem at all. The US reseller (megabigpower.com) have stated that they will now wait until they have kit in stock before taking new orders, so if bitfurystrikesback take a similar approach then it may be a while before we could order new kit anyway. This means that getting your BTC back is probably a good idea.

I'll pm John now and copy you in. I have been having problems getting in touch with him over the last few days (we need to move BTC around for the bitfury burner still), I know he gets very busy from time to time, so I do hope that it doesn't take too long for you to get the BTC back.

Sorry to change my mind  jlsminingcorp , is it possible for you to ask John K to refund my 1 BTC , i guess i need it for an upgrade in another GB.
thank you.

i guess my BTC can wait with John K for a little while so , i'll be waiting for updates , would be nice if you could pm me if there was any developments .

Hi All, so October delivery H-boards are now showing as "out of stock" from bitfurystrikesback. This is probably a good thing, as it means that they are being realistic about what they can delivery in their October batch. As such, we've paused the collection for the moment until we find out what bitfurystrikesback will be offering going forward in terms of both prices and estimated delivery. I'll post here when we have some news.

manawenuz, please could you let us know what you'd like to do with the 1 BTC that you just sent to the escrow account for the collection towards H-board #6? We can keep it in the escrow account until the collections open again (presumably for hardware with later delivery estimates) or we can ask John K to send you a refund. Just let us know.