Topic: [CLOSED] Blue Fury USB Miner, 0.90 or less per unit (Dabs) Philippines/Asia (Read 21589 times)

this is the new "successor" to the red/blue fury;



https://www.eyeboot.com/gekkoscience-2pac-bitcoin-miner.html

I'm sure I have a red fury somewhere in a drawer. I'm a bit of a pack rat but If I find it - what would you like to know?

Hello.
Just came across this posts about the blue-, red-, ...fury USB miners. And I'm a bit curious if this miners are still in use? It's a kind of personal interest 

From what I remember, there was only one or two runs of this blue fury. So my guess or estimate of a few hundred is close. I'd have to ask the other guys (if they're still around), but you can probably do a little research from the OP and the links to other threads.

So mine was 50, OutCast's was 500+, ssinc was 500+, Maidak was 120+, bobsag was about 50 too. So between 1200 to 1400 units total. Then ... stuff happened, and other colors popped out.

I believe he was asking how many blue furies overall are out there in total. Does anyone know?

A few hundred maybe (maybe a couple thousand), but only less than 50 passed through my hands. The others went to other parts of the world. And then there are other "colors", blue fury, green fury, red fury ... due to slightly different versions, and colors of the heatsinks and pcbs.

I believe the best sticks out now are from Gekko Science, but I'm not sure. No stick is profitable. These were for educational purposes.

Dabs, do you remember total number of Blue Furies you have made?

Sorry, no more miners or hubs.

sir AVAIL PA BA

Thanks! BTW, I got a 49 port USB hub (without power supply). It needs a new owner, someone PM if interested. Never been used.

 

good job Dabs, after all the drama...i think you and your team (everyone involved from production to distribution) did pretty well after everything was said and done. Thanks a bunch, it was fun!

Oh yah...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=54791

Compensation received, thanks very much for organising this Dabs, have a great weekend 

https://blockchain.info/tx/9b3ab86773c0fd7931523170633fd8b030f2d0d25a1ef83c5eb51bf682cd4504
Confirmed !

Compensation sent to the addresses requested or to the original addresses. That's it. I'm gone. Poof!

I will offline this weekend starting tonight, so ... any issues / complaints / donations / violent reactions .. I will see it next week.

I'm sending out the compensation tomorrow. Please wait for it. 0.05 per unit. See the 2nd post. I will send it back to the same address that was used to pay.

Also posted here for easier reference:

Confirmed Unit Orders:

If you want it sent elsewhere, please reply or PM me with a bitcoin signed message containing the address where you want it sent to.

Thanks all.

I got the compensation. It is 0.05 per unit.

Please reply if you would like to receive it. (If you don't reply, can I have it?) hehehe.

Okay, seriously, I can send it back to the address you used to buy, which is posted on the 2nd post of this thread. Or you can specify a different bitcoin address by signing a bitcoin message using that address, to have your compensation sent to another address.

If you can't or don't know how to sign, then ... we'll figure something out, but I don't want to send your coins to the wrong address.

For those with defective units, you can PM and we'll work something out, although I appeal to Beastlymac, it would make sense to have them replaced with you, if there are only 1 or 2 units, rather than passing through me. (quadruples the shipping and the time.)

I never got a chance to test them before I shipped them out. The day I got them, they went out. (That also means, I did not mine with your units.)

I also got the exact number of units I ordered (which you ordered). In fact I didn't get everything, but that was sorted out. I do not have any extra units.

Anyway, I am marking this batch and group buy closed now. If there will be future runs, I will post a new thread. Have fun with your miners. FedEx is now my favorite courier. (They always have been.)

Got my miners today - Thanks Dabs!

I too am having an issue with under-performing units.  The fastest is 2.1 GH/s the others are all below 2 GH/s   Hopefully a spare unit or firmware update will fix these!
Also what's happening with the compensation for delays?  Has that been announced yet?

Well, I hope that everyone who ordered their Blue Furies will soon have their full allocation and then we can look to rectifying the small number of under-performing units that might need replacing. I can quite understand that due to limited numbers being available initially, it was impractical to send additional units to cover under-performing units however from what I can tell reading across the threads on this forum, BPMC have done a great job of getting the units out to purchasers in the last week and have commenced the compensation discussions and the replacement of sub-par units.

It took me a while to get my Blue Furies running alongside my Block Erupters, but that's how it goes with new tech and as I commented on the Blue Fury Support Thread, I think most people would prefer to have teething problems with the units in-hand, rather than slick instructions but no units delivered:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3514708

(there's also a pic of my rig there )

At this stage I'm running two instances of BFGMiner, the one on the left in the picture below is for Block Erupters, the one on the right is for the Blue Furies and if you can take a look at BFM 4 you'll see that its hashing performance hasn't smoothed out over time and remains anchored at 0.5 GH/s:





Some of the other Furies which were hashing at 1.8 - 1.9 GH/s but seem to have edged above 2 GH/s after being run in for 36 hours. Although the rough average of 2.1 GH/s is lower than the anticipated 2.2 - 2.7 GH/s that the Furies were advertised to perform at, there's a realistic possibility that future firmware updates will be able to increase their performance, however it's clear that BFM 4 with 75% hardware errors operating at 0.5 GH/s is a faulty unit and a replacement will be required please.


I hope everyone else who has received their Furies now has them hashing away and they are bringing a smile to your face. With a bit of luck we'll be able to tweak them further to increase their performance but even running at 2.1 GH/s, they are still far superior to the Block Erupters running at 333 MH/s, so I'd like to thank Dabs and all at BPMC for their excellent work. It's great to have the units in hand flashing away

Thanks again!