Topic: 📈 NastyFans: The Bitcoin Enthusiast Fan Club (est. 2012) - page 72. (Read 958993 times)

I say go for it..

Lightfoot has been unable to restore full functionality to our Monarchs and wants to do some "destructive testing" because it is "more fun anyway."    For this reason, he has offered to purchase us a Spondoolies SP20 in exchange for taking ownership of the 2-700GH/s and 1-300GH/s Monarchs that are currently in his possession.  Before agreeing, I wanted to give fans an opportunity to chime in their opinions on this offer.

If you are unfamiliar with Spondoolies, they recently gave me a SP20 to review.  You can read my review of it here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/review-14-spondoolies-sp20-901021

Lightfoot is going above and beyond what was expected here.  He's doing a great thing for NastyMining and I love it when community members step up to help support the project.

Great job so far.  I've been really impressed with how quickly the NastyPoP Ticker updates for new miners.  I can't wait to start seeing some more NastyPool stats added to the nasty.json feed.

Hurray! I am out of business!

Although I have got one of the 700's running at 50% power on your nastyfans blog along with the 300, I would recommend RMAing these two as well and sending me the shipping label. I can send them back with a polite little note explaining why they look kinda weird.

Glad to hear that BFL is doing right. Really glad to hear actually. Now I need to figure out what to do with my life. Maybe take up trap shooting or something.

Distribution 334995 is complete. Thanks to all nastyfans donators.

After 4 full weeks of NastyPoP we start to see some nice data. One goal of NastyPoP is to reduce P2Pool payouts variation due to miner luck. Here is a NastyPoP miner payout summary of the first full 4 distribution windows:

window1 - 0.00006154 BTC per GH/s
window2 - 0.00007928 BTC per GH/s
window3 - 0.00007316 BTC per GH/s
window4 - 0.00007712 BTC per GH/s

"per GH/s" means "per 604,800,000,000,000 hashes for that window"

I will watch this statistic close in the future. It shows how good NastyPoP maintains a stable payout.

It said:

Cool.

What did the email from BFL say?

I just received an email from Butterflylabs about 2 of our RMA requests.  That gives me hope that we may actually be able to get our miners fixed and previous debtholders might finally get their payouts.  This would be a huge step towards mending the past and looking to the future in my opinion.

I think it is best to return that POS...I am sure down the road it will just die again or cause a fire. AM did not put a date for returns, so hash it a few weeks and send it back  

Cassius from Bitscan.com contacted me and nonnakip in order to write a follow-up piece on all things Nasty.  Many thanks to Cassius and Bitscan.com for the coverage.

I have the Prisma up and running on NastyPool with all 4 functioning boards.  It is using the name Prisma-PoP if anyone wanted to see how these Prisma's perform on P2Pool.  I'm a bit underwhelmed so far, but will give it time to normalize.  No word on an end date for the Prisma return policy yet.  I will keep my eye out for that, but figured we should try to recover some losses before sending it back if possible.

Looks like you might get the chance to RMA soon.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/judge-lifts-federal-control-of-butterfly-labs-but-keeps-a-cautious-eye/


Get the refund and save it for the next wave of products coming out in Q1.

I've been spending a lot (too many hours) of my time trying to keep our mining operation functional.  It appears today I lost the battle with another Monarch.  The radiator has started leaking, which is pretty much the end.  I'm going to play around with it to see if I can seal it myself and get it functioning again.  If I can't, the best bet may be to wait for BFL to start accepting RMAs again.  On that subject, lightfoot has received our Monarchs for repair and has already gotten one of them functioning (it had a "destroyed" radiator).

I received the replacement Prisma boards from ASICMINER.  1 of the 3 replacements was bad, but I have found someone locally who is returning their good boards for a refund and we are meeting later to make a bad/good swap.  I am fairly confident that I will be able to get it working once I have confirmed good boards.  That brings us to the question, do we want to keep the Prisma if it is working, or do we want to send it back and get our refund?  We'll end up losing about 0.2 BTC if we return it, but may never mine enough to make it worth keeping so I'm open to opinions on the subject.  I will update on this when I get it operating correctly.  Perhaps at that time a poll will be in order, as there is no end date on returning the Prisma yet.

The Nasty T-Shirts arrived yesterday and they're awesome.  They came out better than I had hoped and are probably the most high quality T-Shirt I have in my closet.  I lowered the price to the absolute lowest I can ship them without losing money, so grab one today and help support the cause!

We still have 12 pre-orders for the 5oz coins remaining.  I have 3 people who say they're waiting to order until we get closer to having 20, so if you're on the fence, jump in and lets get this project going!

Distribution 334040 is complete. nastyfans thanks the donators.

Finally, a block ! 

Good timing! current value is almost twice that with news about the new chip tests.


I should be able to pre order the 5oz soon. Mainly for the free shirt

I've opened a thread for those who may want to purchase a "Stay Nasty" T-shirt and weren't looking to take advantage of the FREE T-SHIRT offer for pre-ordering a 5oz coin.  You can view the thread here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/wts-stay-nasty-bitcoin-t-shirts-ron-burgundy-meets-guy-fawkes-888762

Shirts are priced at $14 shipped in the US and include a $5 donation to NastyFans!

*nod* Acknowledged.

Terms of repair are that Ognasty and/or Nastymining donates the amount they would have paid me for the repairs to a local food bank of your choice. I'll get to work on them when they come in and post the status and fun pics over in the hacking monarchs thread.

While that seems like an eternity for a Bitcoin entity to stick around without being hacked or disappearing, I look forward to remembering these as the early days.  

I've finally decided to quit waiting around for BFL and have sent our non-functioning Monarchs to lightfoot for repair.  I've also disassembled our Prisma to send the non-functioning boards to CanaryInTheMine to have them replaced, and have applied for compensation through ASICMINER.  

2 years ago nastyfans auction opens. I post some fun facts about the second year of nastyfans...

• 1,033 seats sold on the auction (total of 32.72873 BTC)
• 60 seats minted
• 63.17070876 BTC donated to nastyfans
• 1 seat accepting donations received 0.00129089 BTC
• 7 fanclub polls executed
• 3 articles about NASTY MINING and NastyPool and nastyfans written
• started monthly live web chat sessions with OgNasty
• created nastyfans.uberbills.com: shows details of all minted seats
• created P2Pool proxy: reduces P2Pool node distractions and provides IPv6 access to P2Pool
• created custom NastyPool stats page
• held mining contest for NASTY MINING 2-year anniversary
• helped NASTY MINING eliminate all debt
• created nastyfans promotional video
• created NastyPoP: weekly PPS-like payouts for P2Pool miners of all sizes
• NastyPool solved a Bitcoin block

There are many things still in planning. It will be fun to see the list in December 2015.

I thank the fans for making this fanclub so much fun to be with!