Topic: Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com - page 15. (Read 3049520 times)

'qberty' your clone titan bridges that you sent me do not work, they don't even let a new raspberry pi with titan firework in it to power up connected through usb.
Don't accuse people that they lie.
I spent 0.4 btc for two new heavy duty titan bridges and I got from you 2 non working.
Follow the laws and replace them or refund
Your China fabric that cloned mess it up, we will not pay for their mistake and your lies that were working.
I am want my money back or 2 bridges that are working.

Sorry if my view has any weight it was NOT sold. I've known him for 3 years and was just on the phone with him. He is pissed off.

Just an FYI for those on here. The only way to prove your account was hacked is IF you have a bitcoin address on the profile and still have your
private keys. They will only accept an account is hacked and act on it if you can send them proof via signature using the private keys and the btc
address on the profile. Thus getting hacked is pretty common on here. Getting you account back without jumping through the above hoop is what
is hard. He did not have such a BTC address listed, so that Phoneix1969 account is now moot.

Anyway for those on here...even if you never use the BTC address you put under your profile..make a  quick btc address with private key on a paper wallet
and stuff it someplace...the only way to get back a hacked account is to prove it with a signature using the private keys with your profile liste btc address

anyway live and learn. Guess my temp wallet shall stay forever on my profile now lol

It was not hacked you sold it. Just admit it already.

yo searing wassuup !

letting everyone know my account Phoenix1969 was hacked.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15860143

Unicorn Herd bagged!

KNC 400mh 5 cube NOS (legit I got 6 ..two at home and 4 hosting with Maxumark) in hand.

here is the thread in market place.

So if my rep on here is worth anything check it out. (Then again it is unicorns if you think I've lost it I understand)

link (with my post #2 on thread for more info)

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15757580

Again contact Maxumark not me. I'm just spreading the word. I have met the man spent last week at his house. It is legit for whatever my word is worth on here


good luck

Searing

edit: sorry guys we bagged NONE on the 2nd batch auction  I think one guy here on bitcointalk got 10 of them ...but the whales kept bidding for all 160 units so no joy.

We are keeping the original batch 1 ones we got by dumb luck but had hoped to get some people in this 2nd auction to mess with knc recouping the miners to mine
again (imho) and our not all to whales... now that daddy (sam cole) took the data hall away...my view continues to be we were bidding against knc insiders who wanted
to move the stuff to a new data hall but got caught up with the bankruptcy...thus imho again the super secret way they did these auctions......( I mean this is their sales
thread and they posted zip)...1st auction closed bid ..suddenly 2nd auction open bid so they can see your bid and crush you ....whale wise..I mean really ...do they think
they are fooling anyone imho? Not to mention opening this up on this thread etc and less secret would have got the IPO boys Sam Cole screwed more money...but KNC
is letting them hold the bag on the bitcoin big data farm..so what is a few Titans?

In our defense on the bid on the 1st batch we won...we asked a tech question via the old tech email ..got thru and was told an auction was coming for 24 new
nos 400mh knc titans within 2 days..did we want to bid (all from a NON knc email account) yeah right..it took them 2 weeks after we stumbled in and bid 1900 each
with shipping  and WON for us to actually believe it was true...and that was only after venting the bankruptcy attorney after venting another Swedish law firm to say the KNC law firm doing this bankruptcy was legit...the 2nd auction they changed the rules to OPEN bids seen by all..much easier to crush us small fry when they know your last bid

ie ....whales ...... whatcha gonna do? We kinda STILL expected a box of rocks..the stunned surprise of (if badly made) new and in the box ...I still find stupefying...

Anyway again my view is (some of our supposed stuff is not new..and looking at 20% damage rate and or broke/put together badly.....5 titans I think it is came with no thermal pads etc
and they used incorrect cheap ass thermal paste ..so all cubes will have to be re-done).

That was first batch supposedly new stuff (banged out by temps is seems) the ..2nd batch folk who won (if not knc getting their hoard back)
is gonna be worse in this is mostly going to be in my view used imho.

...anyway we can deal with a kindergarten re-do all project with mostly NEW stuff so not an issue....but damn they still don't know
how to ship stuff and also I guess they used temp workers from the snapped screws and lack of paste due to knc having no workers for the last 1.5 years or so.

Anyway salvageable at our end ..but who ever got most of auction #2 is in for a shock (the guy that got 10 I already told him what to expect) and will have
to do a complete re-do or you will be in the sh*t imho..might pay for some of you to see if some of this stuff comes up here or on ebay but be aware they probably
will be moving the crap units ie leftovers of such.

Well sometimes you ask about something else ...and you just fall into stuff.....dumb and lucky...pretty much my only consistent trait since 2013 with crypto

Anyway we went to Mordor and bested Sargon and got New Knc Titans ON TIME (the only ones ever) with the usual shipping/mnfg problems....So from my point of
view I'm still mining and making a profit and KNC is now toast..I WIN so FU Sam Cole...heh ..who'da thunk it

But the stress of venting this stuff as legit and going to KNC Mordor sucked...KNC Sargon is scary as hell wire xfer wise....we musta been out of our mind ..it worked..but 20/20 hindsight I mean really?
Its like you tripped into a pond of alligators and got out unharmed...so you are kinda relieved..but still wondering where your head was at.....we are kinda shaking our heads about the whole enterprise in that light. On the other hand using google maps and other tricks to check out the bankruptcy firm...I can navigate in Sweden quite well as a perk

Sheesh. Anyway with the Ebay corp dump of 1 300mh new Titan this Summer for 1750 and 6 more new 5 cube at 1900 ...the rest of the year I'm gonna look both ways
on streets and be extra careful..obviously any luck I had this year has all been used up escaping knc Modor and knc Sargon's all seeing eye.

again what kinda frigging crypto hi-test kool aid did I drink in 2013 to even attempt the above ..irregardless of the success.....damn I got unicorn hunting issues.

It is KNC (KNC we do evil well) (tm knc) .....anyway hopefully I'm scared straight now on this win ...and can move on ....

That was pretty crazy. Solo mining XPY on a Titan and as much nicehash as possible … nuts ...

Nice to see something positive in this thread every once in a while.     I look over and see my two Day 1 Jupiters purring away and think about how long they have been running. When they turned on, BTC was in the $100-$200 range...  all the way up past 1000 and back down again...   the hash rate exploded and we see jumps each 2 weeks that are much larger than 100% of the hash rate back then.   Some of us took some major risks with KNC and i feel it worked out in many ways.    Serious hiccups with Neptune orders and delays,   I got refunds for items that didn't get shipped, had controllers replaced on warantee,  got extra cloud hashing when they were not performing as well as the physical miners,  got BTC for the delays after cloud didn't turn on until after physical jupiters were delivered...  etc.

This whole story plays out in a short period of time and to think what KNC has to go through to get where they are.   We all took many risks and emotions got crazy from time to time.

Thanks KNC.   You prolly don't follow this thread but it has been fun.

Indeed, for those of us who prior and just after their arrival of machines thought that it was a huge $10,000 black hole, it has turned out to be the best piece of mining equipment for both profit and longevity that I have owned.

The big profit came from holding all the litecoins it made and then dumping them during the run up before the litecoin halving, but even here in the UK with our ridiculous energy costs it's still making me about $12.50 a day, not a lot but considering the lifespan of all the other machines I have owned that is impressive.

There is a lot of animosity towards KNC, but every machine I bought from them made me a profit, and that is based on BTC Received - BTC Price Paid - Electricity, whilst other machines from Bitmain/Spondoolies etc have been profitable they have relied on BTC received when sold to make them so, or things like the insane profits during the Paycoin XPY bubble.

Still went bump. Good ridence!

Scumbags

Magic unicorn ... yeahp, thats a lil bit how I feel bout the Titan lol!
It was well beyond its time as far as performance / power usage efficiency goes. Not to mention even noise level!
Sure, they may have cheaped on things quite a bit but ... it works a long as you treat it right and maintain it. Also, them cutting corners on firmware ... allowed much room for improvement .. hence all the things I've been able to improve upon the software side, which has been a really fun and rewarding project!

It sill amazes me that a chip giant like innosilicon ... failed miserably w/ meeting their specs on the A4!!! ... KNC nailed it for the Titan!! Not to mention the die shrink or 2 between them... even more props to KNC!
Now only if KNC had an on die temp thermistor LOL!
If KNC had designed the PCB's better .. Id even bet the ASIC itself could be clocked considerably higher.
Anyways, eitherway, the Titan is amazing for what it is at this point in time =)

I'm fortunate I bought one when I did, it was kinda a spur of the moment purchase from a mining buddy. LOL!

Not going to do it. They're actually not bad, just could use some tweaks in V2.0 to never really fail.

They fell into an interesting niche: Everyone else who tried to make a scrypt ASIC pretty much imploded out of the gate. I still think it's the very dynamic power requirements of the cores, unlike SHA things are all over the planet in there and the competing and interlaced power requirements causes your control circuits to ring, fall over, etc.

But for whatever reason they stumbled on the magic unicorn.

Reminds me of the vault breaker days lol.


Not great ? Who cares. The Titan will probably turn out to be the miner with the longest period of profitability ever.
Seriously, how long did you make money with your AntMiner S1 … 9 machines ? Jupiter or Neptune ?

The quest for perfection has been the bane of miner manufactures forever. The key is to get something that works to market as quickly as possible. I think, for example, that  SP Tech probably died because they over engineered their products.

Hm. Given that they taped out last year, are taking pre-orders, and still aren't shipping (and doing big promotions) I think things will be the same for awhile.

Too bad KNC didn't do another run of Titans. With real reconfigurations of a few key problem points they would have been great. But they're not.

I would try analyzing your problem via a process of elimination. You could have a cabling problem, a controller problem, a cube problem, a power supply problem or a combination of any of these.

I'd try taking 1 controller that you know works with a set of cables that you know works, and a psu you know that works and attach a single cube (one at a time) to the controller to find out if it works. Once you have done this and characterized your cubes as working/not working, try taking a working cube and a working cable and psu and attach it to a new controller, once in each position. This will let you identify which controllers are suspect.

Working thru this methodology should give you some clarity into what is working and what isn't. When you've done that, you'll know which controllers, cubes and cables are good and which are bad and you can analyze the faults further.

The key is to eliminate as many variables in your testing as possible.

Well, i did some test, i tried to change the controller (i have 19 cubes), tried the "official 2.0 KNC controller software" and repaste the 2 cubes with issues and one went back to live (only with repaste); the other one not. I have 4 Titans, and the issued cubes were from diferent titans. Now, there are some more cubes with same issue; some dies are not responding with same "Die flagged for bypass[...]", but now from 3 different titan sets. What is happening??? Some one now anything more?

I'm worried with all the cubes...

EDIT: I forgot; the miners are rebooting every some time, and i don't know why (and the crontap is empty)

Why thank you General. You are a gentleman and a scholar.

When considering the profitability of scrypt mining you must also, of course, take into consideration all the little side opportunities presented, like XPY, GAME and others which were briefly (but handsomely).

Mining scrypt with Titans is profitable. Capital costs amortized over the lifetime of the miner are less of a factor than many assume. Operating costs (electricity) is what matters most. I'd expect that most Titan owners have recovered their initial investment by now and are earning 30% a year on their capital with potential for improvement.

True that!
Although, scrypt hashrate has increased a decent amount past few weeks(perhaps A4's or perhaps the ASICs which coinhop are comin back on litecoin chain). When A4 indeed does come out mass quantities, Titans will be worth a lot less ... not because they are more effecient(by a bit) but because the sheer hashrate which will be introduced.
And
LTC has been on a steady price decline(vs BTC) the last year. So ... who knows...

In the end, crypto / mining is all a gamble anyways =)

Well, that sounds like it should be true, but it isn't. No one knows what is going to happen to LTC difficulty and prices in the future. Titans have been profitable from day 1, and will probably continue to be. Mining with a Titan is still probably the most cost effective way of generating BTC income via mining and the Titan lifecycle looks set to beat any other mining equipment past, present or future.

You'll get ALOT more from Ebay though 

Folks here know exactly what their worth 

I''ve decided to offer my KNC Titan for sale.

Mining is going to take a back seat while I  focus on finishing my trading engine and asset management software. PM me for details if you are looking for extra cubes or a whole system with dual EVGA 1300s. Its a good one. BTC accepted and escrow is ok.

Would be nice to sell here instead of on ebay.