Topic: [CLOSED] R11:BLACK ARROW Bullet Run w Bitfury. 40% off. $123=8-10GH Nov. 1 (Read 19530 times)

Hey Phil,

bobsag3 tells me that we just reached min. hashrate for R9-12 this week.

Also, copy/pasta from other threads:

To simplify things and reduce clutter we're locking R9-12 and moving discussions to this new mega thread:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/black-arrow-r9-12-threads-dz-miners-co-op-plz-move-s-and-discussion-here-328996

Thanks! See you there!

 an update


so we are up to about 2th  and should be at 3.4th correct?

this chart shows 3 miners

http://www.dzminercoop.com/?page_id=302


miner 1 = 1688  gh  that is full speed

miner 2 =  0             what would be full speed? 1680?


miner 3 = 400 gh    what would be full speed?

I feel dumb I've had this posted for about half an hour or so and forgot to put in a link its messy but look in the url field for what miner it is

http://www.dzminercoop.com/?page_id=470

Great news! 1.2TH/s+ and climbing. 12-14 more boards can be set up before Monday.

We can now watch the hashrate remotely here via the link below. Thank you Thomas!

http://www.dzminercoop.com/?page_id=302

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Also, all rounds have now been combined for easier accounting and as a bonus to Round 11 and 12 customers. 

This doesn't effect Round 9 and 10 Group Buyer payouts in any way, but it does allow Round 11 and 12 paid customers earlier hashrate access!



bobsag3: needs his own forum meme as Good Guy Bobsag3.

Gents and ladies, a Saturday, 11/2 update:

- Bob's been having problems chaining the miners beyond a certain point which has limited his ability to stack miners as he only has so many Pis to go around. He seems to have gotten past much of the earlier issues but can't stack more than 6 at the moment (the goal was 10 boards per Pi)
- He's blown a few Pis and a couple of PSUs during his testing.
- He's currently up to almost 1 TH (our target is 3.2 - 4 TH, combined from all 4 Rounds
- He's currently short Pis due to them failing,and his overnight shipment of a bunch of extras from Amazon is stuck at UPS till Monday
- We've learned a lot too: Bullet Runs can be messy, best to have waaay more supplies than you think you needed

- Because I promised optimistically that the boards would be running by now, we're going to make up the hashrate difference based on the following schedule:

Rounds 9/10 should be up to 1TH today, the target is 1.68 - 2TH/s: This pool has just started mining, but there's no dashboards set up yet. When mining deposits appear they're heading to this Black Arrow Bullet Run wallet address: https://blockchain.info/address/1JazVMG7E47ceaTnwbGzeGsrAQeURniwZV

For calculation purposes - Since yesterday, Nov.1, for daily coins expected to be mined I'll be using www.bitcoinx.com as a calculator for lost hashrate compensation calculations unless someone else has a better suggestion.

Rounds 11/12 should be running by the end of the day in Missouri by Monday evening: If hashrate is less than the promised 1.68 TH/s for R11/12 by Tuesday morning, then the same calculations listed above for lost hashrate calculations still apply.


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We'd rather take a small hit and keep our co-op members happy, then to have upset co-op members due to the delays. With this in mind, Bobsag3 is adding 3 extra boards per GB (instead of 1 extra) in order to improve hashrate and make up for lost mining power for each Group Buy Round.

If this extra hashrate still doesn't compensate for lost time/hashrate at the end of the mining period, then bobsag3 and the DZ MC will be compensating you directly.

I think you have a fairly proven model here and would encourage to stick with it.

I like the way it has been working the past couple weeks for rounds 5 & 6, so I agree it is the way to go.

When everything is ready there will be a page similar to the R5 / R6, I also like the payout method used in R5/6 on the 1st and 15th of the month, the payout sizes are a nice sized chunk not small bitcents each, remember the less times we have to do payouts the less we have to pay in fee's.

Anyone elses thoughts.

R5
http://www.dzminercoop.com/?page_id=124

R6
http://www.dzminercoop.com/?page_id=135

Where is the best place to track performance of these shares and how do you plan to handle payouts exactly? Will there be a URL to pool stats or anything like that?

Good luck working out the kinks!

You're welcome! Most of the hard work's at the moment is being done by bobsag3, so let's all give him a virtual pat on the back.  

Latest pics:

Unboxing
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll87/SurfSkateKauai/c6c0691a-6c27-4ead-8647-2da4b9a91778.jpg
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll87/SurfSkateKauai/f41e6ac6-274e-42af-b4ca-e2fdcf56d3b6.jpg

chainminer screenshot, 96 chips: http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll87/SurfSkateKauai/96chips1.png

6 board stack, working: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r77umsa7eoo7x58/Photo%20Nov%2001%2C%202%2003%2000%20PM.jpg
chainminer screenshot from this stack (slight under performance which should be improved by native chainminer support): http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll87/SurfSkateKauai/ScreenShot2013-11-01at15835PM.png

I realized that I'm a little bummed that they're underperforming, but sometimes things don't always work out with initial implementations. But on the bright side this was guaranteed to be shipping by Nov. 1 and we're fortunate to have already received it! kano has been shipped a simultaneous shipment so he'll hopefully be able to tweak some improvements while he adds native BA support to chainminer.

Group Buyers are going to be compensated for any under performance of the 8.34 GH/s mark per share that was promised.

Thanks for the update DZ!

We know you are working hard Bobsag3, Keep up the hard work buddy!

M

Hi Etienne,

Sorry to hear that. We're all about trying to save you guys money. BTC is still so young there's tons of volatility between exchanges.
We use Bitstamp as the rate we go with because it seems like all of our mfgs. we've bought from so far priced their product at this rate.


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I have an update: some good news, bad news.

Bad: He's still working out the chaining of the miners. This is important because he only has so many Pis. We're also seeing a little under performance as far as hashrate but kano is working on the cgminer chainminer integration so we should see improvements on that. Such is life on the bleeding edge of a bullet run.

Good: Since bobsag3 is basically Good Guy Bob he's going to make sure that to add a board to our 20 board stack to get our min. hashrate to 8.34GH/s as promised while software issues are worked on. He also managed to stack 6 boards, so far, even with the issues he's seeing.

Bobsag's busy as heck but I'll post some pics he shared with me as soon as I upload them to my cloud photos.

Paid for my 4 shares! (#394)

There was a 20$ usd difference from current coinbase price and price from the site. Is that normal?
Thanks

Darn I thought R11 would start hashing the same day as R10, guess the R10 beat R11 slightly.

No worries, somehow somewhere I have 10 shares worth of hashing   Just was curious what is where.

Hey madpoet,

Sorry, about the confusion. bobsag3 cleared some of it. I have to apologize about the ordering process. Here's why it's all janky:

- Our site currently uses free tools that aren't very old or well developed at the moment as far as the intricacies of e-commerce, IMO.
- Double or phantom orders can still occur with this current site (essentially our beta site) due to nonpayment of orders entered. That means a Round could show as out of stock, even when it's really not.
- Because of this, and since this is all the same Bullet Run with ample stock at the moment, we set up stock with backorders allowed, so that people wouldn't be locked out of making an order due to double or phantom orders.

We're in talks with two good programmers to redesign and relaunch our site. We're even going pro and will be launching a for-profit (but still cheapest) cloudhashing arm of our operations. Please PM us if you're interested.

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BTW, R11 is CLOSED.

R12 is already halfway sold out, but backorders are allowed. Please move new conversations/orders/questions to the R12 thread. Mahalo!

They will all end up pretty much the same, Just that R9's and R10's boards are out for delivery, the rest of the boards are coming either late tonight or tomorrow. 

Well, I also snagged a few more but guessing they will be rolled to R12.  Confusing   Is there a sheet anywhere we can see what we have where?  I think I now have them in R10, R11, and R12!

I'm Back!

40 Shares through website

Thomas, I will PM you with a payment address later today.

Thanks for the patience guys.

M

TXID c6025e48cbaea656704d9f571244cf27597358d08cf9a5d54fd9f31c7a68a25a

Payout address  1CRFooiDryeH4BpcPtPoRn7MmhLYTmkuP3

edit: added payout and txid

Order 380 1 share.

I'm in!