Topic: 📈 NastyFans: The Bitcoin Enthusiast Fan Club (est. 2012) - page 72. (Read 959523 times)

Wow lots of activity. Great to see Nasty not sitting still.

Merry Christmas everyone, and a Nasty™ New Year!

We apologise for the unexpected delays, we must say these were purely incidents out of our control. It has taken longer than expected for our design team/aggregators to complete its test solution. The test solution is used on all of our production wafers to test which chips are working and which are not; and using memory repair on the ones that are not. We have now managed to complete the test solution so the wafers that we have had waiting, we can instantly test, and forward for assembly into our systems. We do not want to guarantee a date at this time but it won’t be much longer as we have overcome the main complications that caused our delay and will carry on updating you as we progress through manufacturing.

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

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.

Your 28nm RMA has been approved. If your product was shipped to you within 30 days of your RMA request, a customer service representative will contact you by email within two business days to provide you with a return shipping label at no cost to you. Please do not proceed with shipment of your RMA until your RMA has been updated with further instructions.

Cool.

What did the email from BFL say?

Your 28nm RMA has been approved. If your product was shipped to you within 30 days of your RMA request, a customer service representative will contact you by email within two business days to provide you with a return shipping label at no cost to you. Please do not proceed with shipment of your RMA until your RMA has been updated with further instructions.

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'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!

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.