Topic: Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com - page 27. (Read 3049521 times)

I understood that the lawyer want another payment from all participants in the case lol . This is expensive as shit!!

I prefer to solo mine at  http://ltc.tbdice.org/index.htm
It's LTC merged mining with DOGE.
That way you keep what you kill.
M-

Guys I used a few different pools, and as it turns out prohashing pays out the best by far. I am not affiliated with any of the pools, just my personal experience.

Vegas

I know I am late to this party, but in that article there seemed to be a direction that is focused on the idea that Knc used customer funds to stand up their own data center and mine... Making money before shipping miners to customers... Not to be the devils advocate here, but if they did that it likely would not be deemed illegal... Them filling customer orders late at the customers expense also probably wouldn't be deemed illegal in the end.  Slimy, unethical, and bordering on criminal yes.... but in todays world will they be held accountable for these actions?  I kind of doubt it.  That is the bad part with not working with known proven entities and the mining community is just full of these "companies" that really don't have a proven track record nor should they have any trust.  Sadly that is what we are left to deal with if we want mining gear. :-(

Shipping defective product, not honoring warranties etc surely they would be found liable to compensate customers for that.  I haven't read the court case so I don't know what it encompasses, but I hope that it doesn't get dismissed due to broad claims that largely are not enforceable. 

You can kinda get thru the above with 'google translate'

also on the above link don't miss this link either ...seems KNC has some 'issues' and laid off a bunch of folk this is at the end of the article

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdigital.di.se%2Fartikel%2Fknc-miner-stams-pa-miljonbelopp&edit-text=


likely KNC is playing the Butterfly Labs 'long game' drag this all out.....let the KNC corporation take the fall and pay the fines and go bankrupt. Because a corporation the
assets of others like Sam Cole and the IPO money in their DATA HALL operation would NOT be effected..IF they were smart enough to set it up that way?

They are EVIL so they will probably wiggle out of this EVEN if they lost the court case.

What is annoying to me is once this class action is done that's it...unless you were in on this class action you get zip...no such class actions will be allowed ..it will be settled
completely (or so I seem to remember)

IS ANYONE on here IN this class action? IF so can you talk about it?


Anyway thanks for the links

Just read this - http://digital.di.se/artikel/knc-miner-stams-pa-miljonbelopp 

sorry if reposting..

I can confirm this. Thanks vegasguy!


To my client previous customers which are on this list:
I was not given amount of original copies purchased. So, in order to be eligible for more than 1 free copy of the new firmware you will still have to supply proof of purchase of more than 1 originally.
As of this point, everyone on the original client base list who didnt already receive their free upgrades, now is eligble for 1 free full copy upgrade to newest release.

Please pm/email me via my site: http://gentarkincustomtitan.pcriot.com letting me know your original email and that u are in need of 1 free upgrade. Furthermore create an account on my site w/ original email used.

Guys I have turned over the database of names of everyone that purchased the firmware from my site www.bitcoinlasvegas.net or Ebay. If you purchased the firmware from either of these sites and you are currently not running his v1.04 then kindly PM Gentarkin , and he will help you as he can now confirm your payment using the email you used. Please state the email address you used in your pm to him, as that is how he will verify you.

Vegas

https://thepihut.com/blogs/raspberry-pi-tutorials/16982376-updating-raspbian-on-your-microsd-for-the-raspberry-pi-2

According to this, step 3 ... *should* work....

It would be awesome to see Tarkins titan firmware running on a pi2.

Vegas

But IF someone made such a BBB to Titan cube mod YOU could maybe incorp a version of such? (or likely you'd need a machine to muck with to do so for this)

anyway if such a firmware fix by Lightfoot or someone else existed...I'm pretty sure I could spare you a 75 buck Jupiter controller and my ONE die working cube)

heh (ducks)


but yeah the Unicorn has to exist first ...I did not point such out..but damn the equip would be common (or at least 1 titan test units at that point imho)

whatever.....frigging dreaming...but again the thought of a KNC 2013 Mercury BBB Board at a big 112.4mh to BTC back in the day...just has a certain

EVIL appeal to me running even ONE Titan cube.....but again .this is due to the numerous LIES by KNC on such being IMPOSSIBLE and your Unicorn Titan

Software....which in its present form is SO beyond what KNC denied they could do .is beyond belief at this point in time.

Anyway....off to other 'windmills' I guess

When it comes to myself, all hardware mods are outta my hands. I dont have access to a titan physically. Hence why I can only offer software/firmware improvements =-(

i have that spare raspberry pi clone jupiter/titan with the clone bridge up ..it only has 1 working die cube and the 2nd full cube on it

I could try a apt-get update and apt-get upgrade (i think that his how the work in tandem...and think this order is correct) and see what happens on a REGULAR Raspberry Pi B+ 512mb

unless that screws the pooch too....

and again if anyone wants just to see if it works or not ( not like a lot of risk)

Or maybe someone has done this and knows as to whether it actually does anything of note I'd have no way to tell would have to follow directions for those who would want to poke into it after the fact (assuming it upgraded etc)


but I have a knc 2.00 8gb Sandisk Class 10 SD  laying around here I could nuke to try

(then again others may have done this with NO effect)

let me what some of you think (Lightfoot gen tarkin..others with more knowledge then myself)

Update: Does not work. Pi keeps auto-restarting, probably one of the daemons is down. Will play with it tomorrow. Meantime amazon, ebay, everyone still has 1.2 Rpis.

C

The fpga code doesn't need to be recompiled, either fpga loader will load the fpga code for titan or neptune as needed.

Try taking a normal pi and running an update on it. If people really want me to do this I'll do it for the hell of it as I have a Rpi2.

Edit: Running now. Will take forever, what the hell.

C

Most likely not. My firmware upgrade makes as little changes as possible to the underlying linux due to licensing. I could add a button that would perform apt-get upgrade for users but... this is extremely risky for users to perform on their own w/ little or no linux knowledge.

My understanding is that code for Rpi2 would have to be recompiled in order to run it.  We can't recompile the Titan code because it contains proprietary blobs which are used to run the FPGA on the controller.  Those blobs were not released by KNC because they did not own them, thus did not have the authority to release the source code.  Thus we're screwed.

I wonder if this is something Tarkin can add?

Vegas

Yes.

:-)

The problem with the Pi2 is that the CPU type is not supported in the boot loader/IPL code that was on the last version of the 2.0 Titan firmware. I wonder if you can do an apt-get upgrade/update on a rpi, then boot it on a rpi2.

THat might be the best way to go. Or you can still buy a rpi 1.2 B unit.

C

Well as far as I know (Lightfoot should jump in on this) is (again I know zip) you trace the leads on a Titan bridge pin to pin that the bridge connects to the Raspberry Pi B+ 512mb and thru to the 4/6 port Neptune board or whatever. Again Spagetti Wire pin to pin what the titan bridge board connects to via the titan bridge arrangement (clone of such or otherwise)

The only catch is (I heard) that the Titan Bridge Board has a 'tiny' CLOCK chip it needs in this Titan Bridge arrangement. TOO tiny (even if we knew what it was for brand) to kinda sorta hack into some kinda of protoboard pin to pin Spaghetti arrangement. If was not for knowing WHAT the chip IS (proper type/brand/model etc) and IF there was a LARGER equivalent clock chip (if that is what it is) that a person could solder or connect in the proper circuit.spaghetti lead pin to pin .matching the titan bridge....Well hell I would have tried this already using the Raspberry Pi protoboard below. Stumped by this supposed clock chip and the how to on below.

(I have a Saturn 4 port board laying around here and the protoboads (see links below) are not imho that expensive....for such a mad scientist experiment)

Image of the Raspberry Pi protoboard ...Spaghetti like hack a person could attempt ...if again the chip in the Titan bridge board is REALLY a clock chip and you could find a larger equiv to put in the setup properly with the protoboard below say.

protoboard w/leads in use



leads you can use on such



below is some of the above for sale you would need

http://www.ebay.com/itm/65pcs-Male-to-Male-Solderless-Breadboard-Jumper-Cable-Leads-Wires-For-Arduino-/281997702604?hash=item41a85f75cc:g:D~sAAOSwGYVXCHQa

heh a whole $1.99 usd above for 65 leads with free shipping LOL

or the protoboard price below

ASSUMING the one below works free shipping $14.80 usd

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Prototype-Shield-for-Raspberry-Pi-Mode-B-512M-ARM-Micro-Controller-Breadboard-/252199608549?hash=item3ab844a0e5:g:NgsAAOSwbdpWYoH~


hell toss in the supposed larger equivalent clock chip that's less then $20  bucks ...assuming a guy had directions on how to do this (which I am clueless on)

Again the 'tracing of the pins" would be a pain...but the small supposed tiny clock chip (if that is what it is) has me stumped....don't need the LCD lights imho from
the daughter board imho.

THE OTHER MORE ELEGANT OPTION IS ANOTHER Qberty clone Bridge run...but damn that was/is spendy

We need to get a bit more the 10 folk and contact Qberty again say for a run of cloned Titan Bridge Boards (last run was 10 boards....) BUT man at 0.5 BTC or at $423 BTC or equivalent
price of $211.75 for such a hack ....on top of ALREADY having a Neptune/Jupiter/Saturn/Mercury 4/6 port  board laying about (they go for $100 bucks on ebay) way over the top if you don't have a proper 4/6 port card you can mod laying about.

It is just too steep if you can get a complete Titan Board for around 250 to 300 usd on BTC talk  maybe a bit more on Ebay.

But the daughter board arrangement thru Qberty is the more elegant solution...I just don't see a way to make them cheap enough to be worth it anymore (unless you are repairing a previous burnt bridge on your already owned and broke titan controller) he had (again from what I could tell) a heck of a time getting a run of 10 boards out ..and he kept 3 for his own fixes.

Anyway just my thoughts......it seems SO CLOSE to workable in my feeble attempts to grasp such. All I know for sure is my clone Titan Bridge to Neptune hack .hell with the LCD from Neptune Card left on ...ACTS like a perfect Titan Controller board.....so with 1 Jupiter 4 port controller and 1 Saturn 4 port controller laying around mocking me...thus my
attempt at a cost effective work around.


Now I hope someone makes this all moot with a BBB to titan cube direct firmware fix.....shoot down the above on that at any time I would be the first in line.

anyway so it goes