Thank for the update. It's seems easily forgotten that behind our mining robots are simple human beings, pushing boundaries and making ideas happen. Rockminer was never going to be an overnight success financially but with some time and experience i really look forward to watching rockminer grow.
Great work so far team and don't feel embarrassed to come and address your shareholders, even with bad news, the truth is we invested in your idea belief and enthusiasm. I look forward to sharing the ride with you.
Topic: ROCKMINER ASIC miner official thread - page 28. (Read 199721 times)
Wow, what an awesome group! I think we are moving from the Dark Ages of mining and these new strong willed and team driven companies are the communities bright future. Thanks, and keep processing.
Reputation is a wonderful thing. It seems worthless but actually worth the most.
Biggest take away after meeting Rockxie in Hong Kong was that reputation was the most important thing to him and his team. I am glad to see that even in tough times this remains the cornerstone of their business. Looking forward to 2015 I can only imagine what you will bring to the market will still be successful even as others have started to turn away from the fabrication of miners.
Thank you for the post Rockxie. Keep up the hard work! add oil! 
Do you guys have any plans to release a new improved R-box? They are a great product for newbies and sell well too.
Do you guys have any plans to release a new improved R-box? They are a great product for newbies and sell well too.
+1
Thank you for the post Rockxie. Keep up the hard work! add oil!
Do you guys have any plans to release a new improved R-box? They are a great product for newbies and sell well too.
Do you guys have any plans to release a new improved R-box? They are a great product for newbies and sell well too.
Running FREQ 300 right now and rejects/HWE combined are less than 5% and pushing 450 Gh/s poolside!
Not to mention a few degrees cooler and quieter!
Not to mention a few degrees cooler and quieter!
Quieter! How?
Sorry for the delayed reply, I just fished ALL my thread sub notifications from my spam box and added the forum address to my contacts to prevent that from happening again.
Well, since the chips FREQ is down @300, they are running cooler...and the stock fan is set to PWM, so it bumps down RPM and is less noisy than running @FREQ 320
Still running strong, although the R-Pi does reboot every once in awhile, back up to 23hrs
448 Gh/s avg, only 2.17% rejects (client side) and 430 Gh/s pool side
On the other hand...my 3x BTCGarden units together only avg 903 Gh/s (client side) and 854 Gh/s (pool side)
My rk-Boxes have been running great, I did have to replace one of the plugin pcb boards a few days ago, but other than that it's been good. I do keep the firmware on the pi's up to date. Mine are batch ones so of course we did a lot when they first came in to make them stable.
what FW you running now? Maybe your custom CGMiner build perhaps?
We Have Been Working Hard.
--Remarks by Rockxie after releasing ROCKMINER's financial report
1. Time is fleeting./Days wear on like years.
The terms above describe two extreme time experiences. But they are my most vivid feelings, and also the raw portrayal of our team life in the past six months.
Time is fleeting. August is coming in a blink. But what we have done never seem to reach our expectation. There are too many things waiting for us to finish, to improve. Bitcoin industry develops so fast that we can not catch up the top of the wave although we did our best.
Days wear on like years. Although only a few months since we started to produce miner, we felt that we have struggled for many years in this industry.Things happened in these months are a lot more than things we went through in past a few years. In the past few months, our entire team completed a magnificent transformation from pure rookies to professionals in other people's eyes. At the beginning, we didn't even understand the basic principles of mining, but now, we have made own mining rig! R & D, design, production, sales, each of these links is not easy. There are a lot of traps and obstacles in each of those links which could possibly make our painstaking efforts into nothing.
2. Rapid Market Change
Huge profits period of miner industry may be faster than any other traditional industries. Last year, the miner industry was with abnormal huge profits. I predicted that there would certainly be a lot of people swarming into this industry. But I was still optimistic to think that the situation would not be too bad. I supposed the worst situation would be like consumer electronics industries, there would always be a certain profit margin left for miner producers. Thus, once ASICMINER announced its intention to transit to focus on chips only, I set up a team and came to Shenzhen, starting a bitter miner production career.
There is always a gap between reality and ideal. Cruelty of miner industry this year is beyond everyone's expectation. Except a handful of miner producers who survived, most of the new entrants have encountered unprecedented challenges. Survival of the fittest. No idea how many boats were overturned in this storm with no dregs remaining.
3. Always keep in mind that personal credit can not be squandered!
Reputation is a wonderful thing. It seems worthless but actually worth the most.
We were all deeply moved by your trust without reservation, feeling the great responsibility at the same time. After all, it's not a simple thing just taking money from investors. We have to use the money in a right way. Once you live up the trust people gave to you, you basically lost all credibility which means you can not play in this circle any more.
When we lament the fierce competition and that it is not easy to make money, we feel lucky as well because we are still alive.
The most important reason we could survive in the storm was the support from you all when we initiated the company. To be honest, I was a little perturbed when we initiated the IPO. Though many friends told me that the company valuation could be higher, we decided to make a relatively reasonable figure.
The great success of IPO was beyond our expectation, All the 20% IPO shares were directly bought by a couple of big shareholders before the IPO officially started. Then we had to come up with 5% extra shares for public seckilling. I'll never forget the day when the seckilling time counted down, the designated blockchain wallet started constant beeping. Until several minutes later, still many friends sent money in...
13 seconds! In such an extremely short time, our IPO had completed which created an unprecedented record. More than five hundred BTC were sent into our wallet after the 5% shares were sold out. We did a lot of work to return all these bitcoins by original route manually.
Many friends who are not in Bitcoin circle might not understand why we can complete one million U.S. dollars level venture financing in ten seconds just by virtue of a bitcoin wallet address?
This is the Bitcoin world - a crazy world, a world based on trust, a world traditional industry people can never understand.
4. Fight to survive!
We basically knew nothing at the beginning. No experience of miner producing. But we believed that as long as we did our best to get down to work, we wouldn't be any worse than others and would be rewarded. A slow sparrow should make an early start. We didn't have experience, so we paid more time and efforts. It was not exaggerated that we wrote in our financial report that we worked seven days a week, more than twelve hours a day, that was for real, real sweatshop!
Because lacking of experience, we made many detours. Especially without any direct reference of solutions, everything had to be explored on our own. The R&D of hardware industry is very costy. Every time of PCB sampling meant inputting at least tens of thousands yuan. In order to make a satisfactory solution, we made at least eight PCB samples with four solutions. There was a teary story behind each time of sampling which couldn't be concluded in a few words. I will write it down later to share with you when i have time.
Every time of sampling cost not only money but also time which was even greater cost. It usually took at least one week for sampling. Sometimes even 10 days if there's a holiday. Coupled with the analysis of the problem, troubleshooting, it took half a month to complete a cycle. This was why it took so long for our miner coming into market.
Of course, the concept of "long" here is relative. In the view of people from the traditional industries, this is absolutely not long at all but amazingly fast. Because we actually launched four products in only three months. We were very, very efficient compared with traditional hardware electronics industry.
Although our financial report didn't look very good, personally i think our team did a very good job. I am very proud of our entire team!
So far as we know, there are only 3 miner producers who used AM Gen.3 chips and developed own hardware and software solutions then put into massive production: BTCGarden, Hashratio(ZhaoDong team) and our ROCKMINER. Among these three, only us is completely new entrant. BTCGarden has been set up from the first half of last year, they even successfully taped out a type of 130nm chip and completed massive production. Hashratio had been in secret development and successfully taped out a 55nm chip. Although the chips hasn't been massive produced into miners by multiple reasons, they still accumulated precious experience. Plus technical giant Kevin Pan worked for them before, it was not surprising that Hashratio was the first one who had solution and done massive production.
But we were completely new, everything started from zero, from rookie status. We were not embarrassed to tell you that we were mocked by some miner producer who considered us dead meat because we were all green hands. And now, we are still alive, while never heard any news from them any more.
Although we have not been able to reach the best in many ways, there is a lot of space to upgrade, I am proud of our entire team! Something seemed impossible, but we did it! We occupied a place in such a brutal miner industry!
Many friends gave us feedback, asking why we remained silent all the time with no information release. I admit that this is something we have not done good enough. Mainly because we were too busy. Although it didn't take much time to release updates, sometimes announcing one news can inevitably lead to another, we didn't have staff in charge of PR or operation yet. Most of the time, we had to do it by any one of us who could spare some time. Another reason, we felt embarrassed to update, after all the data on our financial report is not ideal, far behind our expectation. Bitcoin industry is changing so fast. Changes always run faster than plans. By now I can only say that in the future we will try to maintain the openness of information. A certain person would be specially in charge of this once we recruit a right one.
Talking about recruitment, all i have to say is to sigh...it was so damn hard! The perception of social opinion right now towards Bitcoin is not very welcoming, coupled with our company is now located at a very remote countryside in Shenzhen, it is not easy to look for people who would like to come and work with us.
The main reason that our financial report doesn't look good is our input for prophase R & D was too much. We paid a lot of tuition. However, we have basically grown now, still need to pay tuition inevitably, but it's going to be less and less. I firmly believe that we have already gone through the toughest period. Please also give us a little more time. We did not slack off, did not take your money to splurge. We are doing the work.
Hereby, i would like to make a brief introduction of my team. At the beginning of our team establishment, i was the 'senior' insider of Bitcoin circle, the other team members were basically newcomers in the industry. But we fight in different positions of our team based on great enthusiasm and mutual trust.
Because each of us is convinced that this is our career, we fight for the same goal. We felt a great sense of accomplishment and responsibility after the successful IPO. Hereby I want to thank everyone in the team, no matter you just shortly stayed or still with us all along, no one ever had ax to grind. We all followed the principle that a gentleman only acquire his wealth in a legitimate way. This is what i'm proud of them. Everyone in the team paid a big price for the company. Quitting their last job, 'abandoning' family to come to Songgang, Shenzhen, a total remote place where it's extremely hard to get a cab. And stayed here for several months, days and nights, really tough time.
For the first a few months, we co-founders were totally working with zero wage. Only until recent two months, we just started to get some basic wage because everyone still has a family to support, has bills to pay.
No matter how, we certainly will do everything based on company's long-term development and give priority for interests of IPO pubic shareholders, which is also the reason why only external shareholders get dividends this time. Please have faith in us, we were and are working hard and will work harder.
5. Careers
We want to take the opportunity to recruit. Now we still need embedded software engineer, web developer, hardware engineers. If you are with technical background, having faith in the Bitcoin industry and our company, willing to throw yourself in and fight together with us, hardworking and can tolerate working overtime, please send your resume to me: rockxie # rockminer.com
--Remarks by Rockxie after releasing ROCKMINER's financial report
1. Time is fleeting./Days wear on like years.
The terms above describe two extreme time experiences. But they are my most vivid feelings, and also the raw portrayal of our team life in the past six months.
Time is fleeting. August is coming in a blink. But what we have done never seem to reach our expectation. There are too many things waiting for us to finish, to improve. Bitcoin industry develops so fast that we can not catch up the top of the wave although we did our best.
Days wear on like years. Although only a few months since we started to produce miner, we felt that we have struggled for many years in this industry.Things happened in these months are a lot more than things we went through in past a few years. In the past few months, our entire team completed a magnificent transformation from pure rookies to professionals in other people's eyes. At the beginning, we didn't even understand the basic principles of mining, but now, we have made own mining rig! R & D, design, production, sales, each of these links is not easy. There are a lot of traps and obstacles in each of those links which could possibly make our painstaking efforts into nothing.
2. Rapid Market Change
Huge profits period of miner industry may be faster than any other traditional industries. Last year, the miner industry was with abnormal huge profits. I predicted that there would certainly be a lot of people swarming into this industry. But I was still optimistic to think that the situation would not be too bad. I supposed the worst situation would be like consumer electronics industries, there would always be a certain profit margin left for miner producers. Thus, once ASICMINER announced its intention to transit to focus on chips only, I set up a team and came to Shenzhen, starting a bitter miner production career.
There is always a gap between reality and ideal. Cruelty of miner industry this year is beyond everyone's expectation. Except a handful of miner producers who survived, most of the new entrants have encountered unprecedented challenges. Survival of the fittest. No idea how many boats were overturned in this storm with no dregs remaining.
3. Always keep in mind that personal credit can not be squandered!
Reputation is a wonderful thing. It seems worthless but actually worth the most.
We were all deeply moved by your trust without reservation, feeling the great responsibility at the same time. After all, it's not a simple thing just taking money from investors. We have to use the money in a right way. Once you live up the trust people gave to you, you basically lost all credibility which means you can not play in this circle any more.
When we lament the fierce competition and that it is not easy to make money, we feel lucky as well because we are still alive.
The most important reason we could survive in the storm was the support from you all when we initiated the company. To be honest, I was a little perturbed when we initiated the IPO. Though many friends told me that the company valuation could be higher, we decided to make a relatively reasonable figure.
The great success of IPO was beyond our expectation, All the 20% IPO shares were directly bought by a couple of big shareholders before the IPO officially started. Then we had to come up with 5% extra shares for public seckilling. I'll never forget the day when the seckilling time counted down, the designated blockchain wallet started constant beeping. Until several minutes later, still many friends sent money in...
13 seconds! In such an extremely short time, our IPO had completed which created an unprecedented record. More than five hundred BTC were sent into our wallet after the 5% shares were sold out. We did a lot of work to return all these bitcoins by original route manually.
Many friends who are not in Bitcoin circle might not understand why we can complete one million U.S. dollars level venture financing in ten seconds just by virtue of a bitcoin wallet address?
This is the Bitcoin world - a crazy world, a world based on trust, a world traditional industry people can never understand.
4. Fight to survive!
We basically knew nothing at the beginning. No experience of miner producing. But we believed that as long as we did our best to get down to work, we wouldn't be any worse than others and would be rewarded. A slow sparrow should make an early start. We didn't have experience, so we paid more time and efforts. It was not exaggerated that we wrote in our financial report that we worked seven days a week, more than twelve hours a day, that was for real, real sweatshop!
Because lacking of experience, we made many detours. Especially without any direct reference of solutions, everything had to be explored on our own. The R&D of hardware industry is very costy. Every time of PCB sampling meant inputting at least tens of thousands yuan. In order to make a satisfactory solution, we made at least eight PCB samples with four solutions. There was a teary story behind each time of sampling which couldn't be concluded in a few words. I will write it down later to share with you when i have time.
Every time of sampling cost not only money but also time which was even greater cost. It usually took at least one week for sampling. Sometimes even 10 days if there's a holiday. Coupled with the analysis of the problem, troubleshooting, it took half a month to complete a cycle. This was why it took so long for our miner coming into market.
Of course, the concept of "long" here is relative. In the view of people from the traditional industries, this is absolutely not long at all but amazingly fast. Because we actually launched four products in only three months. We were very, very efficient compared with traditional hardware electronics industry.
Although our financial report didn't look very good, personally i think our team did a very good job. I am very proud of our entire team!
So far as we know, there are only 3 miner producers who used AM Gen.3 chips and developed own hardware and software solutions then put into massive production: BTCGarden, Hashratio(ZhaoDong team) and our ROCKMINER. Among these three, only us is completely new entrant. BTCGarden has been set up from the first half of last year, they even successfully taped out a type of 130nm chip and completed massive production. Hashratio had been in secret development and successfully taped out a 55nm chip. Although the chips hasn't been massive produced into miners by multiple reasons, they still accumulated precious experience. Plus technical giant Kevin Pan worked for them before, it was not surprising that Hashratio was the first one who had solution and done massive production.
But we were completely new, everything started from zero, from rookie status. We were not embarrassed to tell you that we were mocked by some miner producer who considered us dead meat because we were all green hands. And now, we are still alive, while never heard any news from them any more.
Although we have not been able to reach the best in many ways, there is a lot of space to upgrade, I am proud of our entire team! Something seemed impossible, but we did it! We occupied a place in such a brutal miner industry!
Many friends gave us feedback, asking why we remained silent all the time with no information release. I admit that this is something we have not done good enough. Mainly because we were too busy. Although it didn't take much time to release updates, sometimes announcing one news can inevitably lead to another, we didn't have staff in charge of PR or operation yet. Most of the time, we had to do it by any one of us who could spare some time. Another reason, we felt embarrassed to update, after all the data on our financial report is not ideal, far behind our expectation. Bitcoin industry is changing so fast. Changes always run faster than plans. By now I can only say that in the future we will try to maintain the openness of information. A certain person would be specially in charge of this once we recruit a right one.
Talking about recruitment, all i have to say is to sigh...it was so damn hard! The perception of social opinion right now towards Bitcoin is not very welcoming, coupled with our company is now located at a very remote countryside in Shenzhen, it is not easy to look for people who would like to come and work with us.
The main reason that our financial report doesn't look good is our input for prophase R & D was too much. We paid a lot of tuition. However, we have basically grown now, still need to pay tuition inevitably, but it's going to be less and less. I firmly believe that we have already gone through the toughest period. Please also give us a little more time. We did not slack off, did not take your money to splurge. We are doing the work.
Hereby, i would like to make a brief introduction of my team. At the beginning of our team establishment, i was the 'senior' insider of Bitcoin circle, the other team members were basically newcomers in the industry. But we fight in different positions of our team based on great enthusiasm and mutual trust.
Because each of us is convinced that this is our career, we fight for the same goal. We felt a great sense of accomplishment and responsibility after the successful IPO. Hereby I want to thank everyone in the team, no matter you just shortly stayed or still with us all along, no one ever had ax to grind. We all followed the principle that a gentleman only acquire his wealth in a legitimate way. This is what i'm proud of them. Everyone in the team paid a big price for the company. Quitting their last job, 'abandoning' family to come to Songgang, Shenzhen, a total remote place where it's extremely hard to get a cab. And stayed here for several months, days and nights, really tough time.
For the first a few months, we co-founders were totally working with zero wage. Only until recent two months, we just started to get some basic wage because everyone still has a family to support, has bills to pay.
No matter how, we certainly will do everything based on company's long-term development and give priority for interests of IPO pubic shareholders, which is also the reason why only external shareholders get dividends this time. Please have faith in us, we were and are working hard and will work harder.
5. Careers
We want to take the opportunity to recruit. Now we still need embedded software engineer, web developer, hardware engineers. If you are with technical background, having faith in the Bitcoin industry and our company, willing to throw yourself in and fight together with us, hardworking and can tolerate working overtime, please send your resume to me: rockxie # rockminer.com
I was able to interview Alex of Rockminer and really enjoyed it.
I though I would share a bit here with you all. I really like the great community support that has grown with Rockminer and other small companies that are starting out.
This quote from Alex shows just how much Bitcoin is influencing peoples lives and allow them to move into Bitcoin related fields. It is amazing to see our industry grow.
Thanks Alex and Rockminer. I appreciate your time.
http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/bitcoin-asic-miner-company-rockminer-community-success/2014/08/01
I though I would share a bit here with you all. I really like the great community support that has grown with Rockminer and other small companies that are starting out.
This quote from Alex shows just how much Bitcoin is influencing peoples lives and allow them to move into Bitcoin related fields. It is amazing to see our industry grow.
Thanks Alex and Rockminer. I appreciate your time.
Quote
How has Bitcoin changed your life?
I am totally participating in BITCOIN now, and I left from former company 6 months ago, which was an NGO focusing on policies and economics research.
I am totally participating in BITCOIN now, and I left from former company 6 months ago, which was an NGO focusing on policies and economics research.
http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/bitcoin-asic-miner-company-rockminer-community-success/2014/08/01
I use this one: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000292DO0
Needs some "modding" (3-pin connector). Includes double-sided tape and fits nicely next to the fan on the Rocket.
Needs some "modding" (3-pin connector). Includes double-sided tape and fits nicely next to the fan on the Rocket.
"Please note that you must not use the FANMATE 2 in conjunction with any 12 volt fan having a power consumption in excess of 6 watts, or 0.5 amps."
How are you handling this?
RK box fansare 1.1 amps
It's probably underrated. Doesn't even get warm. If it dies a premature death I'll let you know
I use this one: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000292DO0
Needs some "modding" (3-pin connector). Includes double-sided tape and fits nicely next to the fan on the Rocket.
Needs some "modding" (3-pin connector). Includes double-sided tape and fits nicely next to the fan on the Rocket.
"Please note that you must not use the FANMATE 2 in conjunction with any 12 volt fan having a power consumption in excess of 6 watts, or 0.5 amps."
How are you handling this?
RK box fansare 1.1 amps
I use this one: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000292DO0
Needs some "modding" (3-pin connector). Includes double-sided tape and fits nicely next to the fan on the Rocket.
Needs some "modding" (3-pin connector). Includes double-sided tape and fits nicely next to the fan on the Rocket.
I did the same. I run the fan at approx 85-90%, and a lot of the fan noise seems to come from the last 10-15% so it is quite a bit quieter.
How are you guys controlling the fan speeds? I had to use a fan controller because as you mentioned those last 10-15% offer only more noise than they do cooling performance.
I also had to ditch the rock OS due to constant restarts, with a raspberry pi and cgminer 4.4.2 this thing will run for days without a reboot
I did the same. I run the fan at approx 85-90%, and a lot of the fan noise seems to come from the last 10-15% so it is quite a bit quieter.
How are you guys controlling the fan speeds? I had to use a fan controller because as you mentioned those last 10-15% offer only more noise than they do cooling performance.
I also had to ditch the rock OS due to constant restarts, with a raspberry pi and cgminer 4.4.2 this thing will run for days without a reboot
How can I regulate fan without Raspberry? I uninstall R., because it likes reboots and plug usb cable directly to MB.
and plug usb cable directly to MB.
Damm, I knew that and forgot.
Thanks Guys
Thanks Guys
I did the same. I run the fan at approx 85-90%, and a lot of the fan noise seems to come from the last 10-15% so it is quite a bit quieter.
Running FREQ 300 right now and rejects/HWE combined are less than 5% and pushing 450 Gh/s poolside!
Not to mention a few degrees cooler and quieter!
Not to mention a few degrees cooler and quieter!
Quieter! How?
[/quote: I installed a manual fan control on my RK-Boxes that is working well to dramatically reduce the fan noise and still keep the blades cool. Highly reccomended if the Rocket Boxes are in your house. I just lowered fan speed and monitored during the hotest times of the day to get right setting for quiet cooling. I have not had to adjust fan speed since installed and adjusted. Here is the link of the ones I'm using:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004LL8KF6?cache=8dd22ea26140667f1737f48c0bd46cbe&pi=SX200_QL40&qid=1404945076&sr=8-1#ref=mp_s_a_1_1
Note: plastic guide on the end of the fan controller wires must be shaved down to fit on the miner. I used a knife, takes about 5 seconds, works well.
was runing 7 R-box at one go on my PC and whenever i do that i would surely encounter this. Frustrating.
Can anyone help me to solve this ?
Can anyone help me to solve this ?
Does anyone here have the same issue as me ? and how do you solve this ? come on people..
replace the usb cables and/or usb hubs
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