Look what a little birdie brought me ;) - page 2.

RichBC

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Quote from: Mr. Kashif on June 06, 2016, 03:29:24 AM

Mr. jstefanop, can you just throw some light on how much these chips are costing you and what is the MOQ, please? It would really help us all.

Can't help you on price but I was told by BW that for sales of chips to individuals and third party integrators there was a minimum order of 1 petahash.

Rich

jstefanop

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Quote from: Mr. Kashif on June 06, 2016, 03:29:24 AM

Mr. jstefanop, can you just throw some light on how much these chips are costing you and what is the MOQ, please? It would really help us all.

I would love too...but thats the part I'm under NDA about. Im in some talk with a few people to see how I can get this off the ground...but with the s9 announcement there is not much room for offering a more "competitive" miner with these chips, especially from a third party.

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Quote from: Mr. Kashif on June 06, 2016, 03:29:24 AM

Mr. jstefanop, can you just throw some light on how much these chips are costing you and what is the MOQ, please? It would really help us all.

MOQ = minimum order quantity

Mr. Kashif

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Mr. jstefanop, can you just throw some light on how much these chips are costing you and what is the MOQ, please? It would really help us all.

spazzdla

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Definitely interested in a 100ish watt miner.

QuintLeo

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A board that would fit on the old Gridseed "80 blade" heatsink/fans setups would be nice - even a small one that needed 3-5 boards to fill the entire heatsink assembly would be nice.

Tons of those things around, and they were severely UNDERutilised on the old blade miners - probably good for 200 watts dissipation even pulled apart and used individually with any-old 92mm fan (the ones that came on them were pretty good flow for as quiet as they were).

in2tactics

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I like this idea. I would definitely be interested.

EnJoyThis

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I won't mind joining to club, but it should be a relatively cool and quiet design. Such small boxes are ideally for home miners who can't host a noisy and hot machine in their sitting- / bedroom.

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Quote from: jstefanop on May 31, 2016, 01:32:05 PM

Quote from: RichBC on May 31, 2016, 12:55:04 AM

Quote from: jstefanop on May 31, 2016, 12:17:13 AM

sorry was away for the weekend...and yes I am under NDA so I can't say much other than what is publicly available. Chips are indeed BW's latest 1402 14nm. About 50 GH a chip @ .1 w/gh.

So don't tell us anything that is covered by the NDA, just tell us what your plans are for the chips?

Rich

My plans involve discussing the deal with BW so thats the issue there. And the "deal" is a bit at odds with my plan for producing small affordable miners for you guys which is the problem currently.

I was going to stay away from stick miners since the high end of the stick miner range (for both compaq and my moonlander) was around 10W which cause a bit of headaches for USB powered devices/hubs...since most hubs can't provide that much clean power. The good thing about this chip is the high end is 5w, which would make it a prefect stick miner.

My "ideal" plan would be around a 4-5 chip "pod" miner ~200GH @ 20 watts (ridiculously small, think a 2x2x2 inch box) that could connect up to 10 of them on a single pcie power connector, and would have a separate controller box.

So essentially you would buy the pcie cable connector (or make one), the controller box, then add as many pods as you would like (up to 20 chained). So you would have miner "building blocks" and its up to the user how much they want to spend and how large to make the miner. Then lets say a new chips comes out, all you would have to do is swap out the board on the mini-pods for upgrades (same controller/powersetup and you would reuse the pod box/fan).

I'd throw some BTC in as well if a solid and workable plan is put forward

adaseb

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If this would be quiet/silent miner then I might be interested also.

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Quote from: jstefanop on May 31, 2016, 01:32:05 PM

My plans involve discussing the deal with BW so thats the issue there. And the "deal" is a bit at odds with my plan for producing small affordable miners for you guys which is the problem currently.
So essentially you would buy the pcie cable connector (or make one), the controller box, then add as many pods as you would like (up to 20 chained). So you would have miner "building blocks" and its up to the user how much they want to spend and how large to make the miner. Then lets say a new chips comes out, all you would have to do is swap out the board on the mini-pods for upgrades (same controller/powersetup and you would reuse the pod box/fan).

I am willing to contribute to a funding here as well

vapourminer

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what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?

i can toss a coin or two at this.

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Quote from: philipma1957 on May 31, 2016, 06:17:55 PM

I could spare a bitcoin or 2 if you need it to buy chips.

a small 5 chip miner works for me. does not need to be a stick.

2 more bitcoins here!

cloudnthings

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I'm keen to help any way I can. Getting something like this into all schools down under is my goal.

Sierra8561

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Quote from: philipma1957 on May 31, 2016, 06:17:55 PM

I could spare a bitcoin or 2 if you need it to buy chips.

a small 5 chip miner works for me. does not need to be a stick.

Even a 10-20 chip setup would be great. I'm all for chipping in. "no pun intended"

philipma1957

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I could spare a bitcoin or 2 if you need it to buy chips.

a small 5 chip miner works for me. does not need to be a stick.

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Ooh La La, C'est Zoom!

Quote from: jstefanop on May 31, 2016, 01:32:05 PM

My "ideal" plan would be around a 4-5 chip "pod" miner ~200GH @ 20 watts (ridiculously small, think a 2x2x2 inch box) that could connect up to 10 of them on a single pcie power connector, and would have a separate controller box.

If you can convince the powers that this is a great idea and get some built, I'm definitely interested. I can contribute a couple of BTC if that will help get this off the ground.

- zed

goodney

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Quote from: sidehack on May 31, 2016, 02:22:50 PM

We should definitely have a conversation. I'd like to know what I can do to help.

Exactly!

jstefanop: if the problem with the "deal" is a too-large-a-minimum-buy, then perhaps several of us can get together... thoughts?

-a[g

Sierra8561

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Quote from: sidehack on May 31, 2016, 02:22:50 PM

We should definitely have a conversation. I'd like to know what I can do to help.

I'm in to help financially or otherwise

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Quote from: jstefanop on May 31, 2016, 01:32:05 PM

Quote from: RichBC on May 31, 2016, 12:55:04 AM

Quote from: jstefanop on May 31, 2016, 12:17:13 AM

sorry was away for the weekend...and yes I am under NDA so I can't say much other than what is publicly available. Chips are indeed BW's latest 1402 14nm. About 50 GH a chip @ .1 w/gh.

So don't tell us anything that is covered by the NDA, just tell us what your plans are for the chips?

Rich

My plans involve discussing the deal with BW so thats the issue there. And the "deal" is a bit at odds with my plan for producing small affordable miners for you guys which is the problem currently.

I was going to stay away from stick miners since the high end of the stick miner range (for both compaq and my moonlander) was around 10W which cause a bit of headaches for USB powered devices/hubs...since most hubs can't provide that much clean power. The good thing about this chip is the high end is 5w, which would make it a prefect stick miner.

My "ideal" plan would be around a 4-5 chip "pod" miner ~200GH @ 20 watts (ridiculously small, think a 2x2x2 inch box) that could connect up to 10 of them on a single pcie power connector, and would have a separate controller box.

So essentially you would buy the pcie cable connector (or make one), the controller box, then add as many pods as you would like (up to 20 chained). So you would have miner "building blocks" and its up to the user how much they want to spend and how large to make the miner. Then lets say a new chips comes out, all you would have to do is swap out the board on the mini-pods for upgrades (same controller/powersetup and you would reuse the pod box/fan).

Nice plan. Ideally, controller box would be just pi, since almost everyone got at least one.

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