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Topic: 📈 NastyFans: The Bitcoin Enthusiast Fan Club (est. 2012) - page 155. (Read 959381 times)

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I just noticed this now, but, how is it that 2000+ new seats were added between 2013-04-26 and 2013-05-03?

2013-05-03 19:30:30   0.00027138   9608   234376 [transaction]    
2013-04-26 19:22:10   0.00040435   7574   233291 [transaction]    

There are 25,000 total seats and they will eventually all be receiving donations.  They are being released to the market in a way that continues to increase the MH/s per seat as more equipment comes online in order to provide steady growth for existing seats.  With the number of seats and ordered equipment, an increase to 24MH/s per seat is the current expectation.  You can track our hashing power per seat on the OP, or by viewing the below image.

HASHING POWER:

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I just noticed this now, but, how is it that 2000+ new seats were added between 2013-04-26 and 2013-05-03?

2013-05-03 19:30:30   0.00027138   9608   234376 [transaction]    
2013-04-26 19:22:10   0.00040435   7574   233291 [transaction]    
legendary
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Distribution 238923 is complete. Thank you donators.

Yes, Thank you. (Just felt like I should say this more often)

Hunger for ASIC is getting big.

Indeed. - I'm starving  Tongue


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Distribution 238923 is complete. Thank you donators.

Hunger for ASIC is getting big.
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Og, do you know if your jalapeno is eligible for the 2 GH/s upgrade BFL is now offering? Hopefully its just a firmware update and yours is capable of having it applied to it.

I don't know, but I'll keep my eyes and ears open.  If faster firmware becomes available I'll definitely test it out.
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Og, do you know if your jalapeno is eligible for the 2 GH/s upgrade BFL is now offering? Hopefully its just a firmware update and yours is capable of having it applied to it.
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I only purchased some the other day, however it states I have no voting rights under the poll section.

The number of votes is assigned when a poll begins. When the next poll begins you will have votes for your seats at that time.

Thank you
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I only purchased some the other day, however it states I have no voting rights under the poll section.

The number of votes is assigned when a poll begins. When the next poll begins you will have votes for your seats at that time.
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'Panic' buying 'inferior' hashing products when they first came available would have been a great investment as they would have recouped themselves and then some... just saying....

But I am happy that you keep having faith in BFL.... 10 months onward...

Ouch!  Now that's just mean.  LOL.   Cheesy

You don't have to be Young Jeezy to know that "Scared money don't make no money!"
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Regardless how soon BFL will start shipping, if we want to stay competitative and keep expanding, using the current funds to buy other ASICs seems to me like the best idea. Because ordering from BFL now would put us in the back of line and even with the most optimistic estimates those orders would be shipped in a couple of months at best.

Agreed for the most part. The K16 would be reasonable for a limited expansion, all else being relatively equal. 100Gh/s capacity would cost ~40-50 BTC total.

Ordering new BFL units would result in lengthy delays before receipt. Others are overpriced and based on current designs. In order to be competitive rather than struggling to keep up, it would be wise to hold some funds for the next generation of hardware - being first to order <32nm devices could provide a major lead.

In addition, with the amount of current-gen hardware due to enter service, difficulty will increase; as will price. Coin holdings offset device depreciation.

Other than that, BFL is shipping.

So does anyone have tabs on next-gen devices? No Cryonics pie in the sky dreams.
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OG, have you looked into doing a group buy for avalon ASIC chips? Buying the ASICminer block erupters is a huge ripoff, but these chips aren't too pricey in a group buy. A user named Steamboat on here has a really nice looking group buy, and also has a company sourced to produce the Klondike 16 open source PCB.

it is only ~ 1.376 BTC for 16 chips for one of the K16 boards. Each board would give 4.5GHash. The cost for the PCB and other necessities is about 100$ each

Link to the group buy is here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/liquid-synergy-designs-inc-asic-mining-hardware-192916

He is already on his fourth group buy batch for the chips. I bought some for myself, but seeing as I just bought some seats for your fan-group, I thought you might have interest. Tongue

If it's only 1.376 BTC plus assembly expenses for 4.5 Ghps that would be a fair price en quite competative. I think it would be a good cause for the current BTC holdings, and with no need to sacrifice BFL orders. I do share TradeFortress's opinion that BFL won't be delivering "very soon", since they have been "very close" for a couple of weeks already, but they keep running in to (unforseen) problems.

Regardless how soon BFL will start shipping, if we want to stay competitative and keep expanding, using the current funds to buy other ASICs seems to me like the best idea. Because ordering from BFL now would put us in the back of line and even with the most optimistic estimates those orders would be shipped in a couple of months at best.

So any ASIC in that pricerange that can provebly be shipped "very soon" seems like a good bet, wether or not this is is sooner than BFL or not.

Don't those chips use something like 10X the power as BFL's equipment per GH/s?  Last time I checked (admittedly has been a while), I determined that there is a good chance those chips won't even be profitable once BFL ships their backlog and difficulty/price adjusts to the new reality.  I have no interest in buying equipment for this operation that will be useless in less than a year.  There are others chasing hash rates for quick gains, we are in this for the long haul and are in a great position to benefit from the 600GH/s that has already been ordered.  I've also been in contact with BFL and there is a better than average chance we will be sending in some of our singles later this week...  Just be patient a little longer. The ASIC race is just beginning.  Panic buying inferior equipment now will almost certainly prove to be a bad investment once more products enter the market.

'Panic' buying 'inferior' hashing products when they first came available would have been a great investment as they would have recouped themselves and then some... just saying....

But I am happy that you keep having faith in BFL.... 10 months onward...
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OG, have you looked into doing a group buy for avalon ASIC chips? Buying the ASICminer block erupters is a huge ripoff, but these chips aren't too pricey in a group buy. A user named Steamboat on here has a really nice looking group buy, and also has a company sourced to produce the Klondike 16 open source PCB.

it is only ~ 1.376 BTC for 16 chips for one of the K16 boards. Each board would give 4.5GHash. The cost for the PCB and other necessities is about 100$ each

Link to the group buy is here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/liquid-synergy-designs-inc-asic-mining-hardware-192916

He is already on his fourth group buy batch for the chips. I bought some for myself, but seeing as I just bought some seats for your fan-group, I thought you might have interest. Tongue

If it's only 1.376 BTC plus assembly expenses for 4.5 Ghps that would be a fair price en quite competative. I think it would be a good cause for the current BTC holdings, and with no need to sacrifice BFL orders. I do share TradeFortress's opinion that BFL won't be delivering "very soon", since they have been "very close" for a couple of weeks already, but they keep running in to (unforseen) problems.

Regardless how soon BFL will start shipping, if we want to stay competitative and keep expanding, using the current funds to buy other ASICs seems to me like the best idea. Because ordering from BFL now would put us in the back of line and even with the most optimistic estimates those orders would be shipped in a couple of months at best.

So any ASIC in that pricerange that can provebly be shipped "very soon" seems like a good bet, wether or not this is is sooner than BFL or not.

Don't those chips use something like 10X the power as BFL's equipment per GH/s?  Last time I checked (admittedly has been a while), I determined that there is a good chance those chips won't even be profitable once BFL ships their backlog and difficulty/price adjusts to the new reality.  I have no interest in buying equipment for this operation that will be useless in less than a year.  There are others chasing hash rates for quick gains, we are in this for the long haul and are in a great position to benefit from the 600GH/s that has already been ordered.  I've also been in contact with BFL and there is a better than average chance we will be sending in some of our singles later this week...  Just be patient a little longer. The ASIC race is just beginning.  Panic buying inferior equipment now will almost certainly prove to be a bad investment once more products enter the market.
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Silly question...
However; How many shares must an individual own to allow voting rights?

Thank you

Every share you own counts for one vote Smiley

Thank you, I though that would be the case.
I only purchased some the other day, however it states I have no voting rights under the poll section.
sr. member
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Silly question...
However; How many shares must an individual own to allow voting rights?

Thank you

Every share you own counts for one vote Smiley
sr. member
Activity: 283
Merit: 250
Silly question...
However; How many shares must an individual own to allow voting rights?

Thank you
sr. member
Activity: 353
Merit: 251
OG, have you looked into doing a group buy for avalon ASIC chips? Buying the ASICminer block erupters is a huge ripoff, but these chips aren't too pricey in a group buy. A user named Steamboat on here has a really nice looking group buy, and also has a company sourced to produce the Klondike 16 open source PCB.

it is only ~ 1.376 BTC for 16 chips for one of the K16 boards. Each board would give 4.5GHash. The cost for the PCB and other necessities is about 100$ each

Link to the group buy is here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/liquid-synergy-designs-inc-asic-mining-hardware-192916

He is already on his fourth group buy batch for the chips. I bought some for myself, but seeing as I just bought some seats for your fan-group, I thought you might have interest. Tongue

If it's only 1.376 BTC plus assembly expenses for 4.5 Ghps that would be a fair price en quite competative. I think it would be a good cause for the current BTC holdings, and with no need to sacrifice BFL orders. I do share TradeFortress's opinion that BFL won't be delivering "very soon", since they have been "very close" for a couple of weeks already, but they keep running in to (unforseen) problems.

Regardless how soon BFL will start shipping, if we want to stay competitative and keep expanding, using the current funds to buy other ASICs seems to me like the best idea. Because ordering from BFL now would put us in the back of line and even with the most optimistic estimates those orders would be shipped in a couple of months at best.

So any ASIC in that pricerange that can provebly be shipped "very soon" seems like a good bet, wether or not this is is sooner than BFL or not.
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Ok even if we got all the ordered ASICs next week I would be skeptical about our mining power per share a month later. What concerns me is our ability to prevent declining mining power per share because of difficulty. It's just my healthy constructive pessimism  Wink  Hopefully I am very wrong
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We will not have BFL ASICs "very soon", we might have it in 2 months or so but not very soon.

I disagree and repeat that we will have more BFL ASICs very soon.

OK, let us see who is right. Smiley
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Both AVALON and ASICMINER and\or their 'subcontractors'  can beat any offer  BFL makes in the future. Of course they will promise stockpiles of miners and zillions of THash  for few bucks which will be delivered very soon. Is there really no alternatives to increase our mining power ?
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