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Can you give us a hint on when we can expect the first hosted miners to come online?

Cheers

For real?  If it's a locked box, you can't actually run the setup you need to for getting wireless working without hacking. I'm not as concerned about nefarious stuff as the fact that this is hardware, which can mess up, usb'd into hardware, which can mess up, that I'm all running locally.   On top of that, I've never purchased a miner where they told you that you needed a wired connection directly into the router unless the management was on-device, not device-through-cloud-web-interface.  If zen goes down (and don't say it won't, freaking Samsung had a worldwide network outage and I'm sure their centers are more redundant than zen), I can't change my pool or access my device whatsoever as far as we've heard.  Again, a case for local access.  On top of that, you can get stuff like UART errors if there is a usb problem, but that's a problem much easier fixed locally.  Or what if something happens mid-remote-update or I suddenly decide to move hardware and don't know the cloud is messing with my device and something bricks?  Another case where complete local access is a helper.

As far as the plug-n-play aspect, for what I'm seeing you will need to use a computer PSU to power these devices, which according to another friendly GAW-ite you can buy a jumper for since it won't be connected directly to a pc, so the devices themselves are not plug-n-play user friendly.  So saying that installing software and plugging this into a usb drive is too complicated but jumping a goddamn PSU isn't for the non-tech savvy, again, I question wtf you people are talking about.  

The problem is this is an 11th hour announcement that wasn't part of the hardware I originally purchased.  Shit, Zeus and/or GAW sat on the modified power numbers until they were getting ready to ship, that also doesn't provide much confidence because that is fraud.  Someone knew the power numbers were wrong, quite wrong, but no site updated while pre-orders that people generally price at Cost/Hash/Wattage were being made expecting a certain power draw, but if you're MASS PRODUCING THE HARDWARE you know the power draw already.

Copying this because their damn delete-bot is going to wipe it anyway, will repost so we can continue the conversation if they kill it.

New firmware working great, lots of extra power. But if I told what it was, it would not be a surprise now would it be?

It's a Raspberry Pi, so firstly if you don't want to use their image that relies on zenminer.com just flash another SD card with Scrypta or similar and use that, they've made it clear that won't be a problem. I understand that a 'closed' cloud based solution isn't for everyone but a lot of people who aren't IT sysadmins are going to be very pleased to have some that's plug-and-play and provides easy web-based management and updating. I really don't see how you can have a beef with this because before we knew about zenminer it was pretty much a given we'd have to run these off a Pi or a PC that we brewed ourselves anyway, so it seems like nothing but a bonus for those that don't want to do that without a downside for those that do?  

Secondly, as I'm sure you know, the Pi only comes with a wired ethernet port...I'm not sure why you're so concerned about attaching that directly to your router (or how that is more of a risk than wirelessly attaching it to the same router, if you're concerned their zenminer distro is doing something nefareous you can, as above, build you own image), but for $10 you can get a WiFi adapter for the Pi that works great. I've used this Edimax one in a ton of my totally non-mining related Pi projects without any problem at all.

http://www.amazon.com/Edimax-EW-7811Un-Wireless-Adapter-Wizard/dp/B003MTTJOY

As for your black box concern, you have physical access to the device so you will be able to get into the image to have a look around, there is no what they can lock you out of it. You can mount their SD card somewhere else, or likely just reset the root password in single user mode. Either way it's a non-issue. Run it or don't run it, that's your prerogative. I don't see the masses saying "oooh I can't run this playstation 4 on my network it's a proprietary black box', same difference, if you are the sort of person that knows enough to care about that then you've probably already got a gaming PC, the zenminer is aimed at ease of use for the majority.


You're just being picky really. How can you possibly 'lock' a pi. Just take the SD card out, put your own one in, and stop whining about it. Seriously.