Topic: Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com - page 845. (Read 3050071 times)

Uh.

10 btc purchased at $100/ea = $1,000 my cost.

1 Neptune = $10,000USD, which at the time of availability, would've been 10btc.

10 btc sent to KNC = $1,000 my cost.

What are you missing about this?

Not really, since KNC still puts the price in USD prices and still requires bitcoin. A company truly accepting bitcoin doesn't look at the USD worth at all. Trust me, weather BTC was $10 or $1000 you still would have had to pay $10k.

But... and here's the kicker... KNC will be shipping only Jupiters (no Saturns)from stock or with a very short build time.  Remember, no one else will be shipping orders made today until March/April at the soonest.  Therefore KNC will be pricing accordingly, easily double your $4000 guesstimate.

Uh.

10 btc purchased at $100/ea = $1,000 my cost.

1 Neptune = $10,000USD, which at the time of availability, would've been 10btc.

10 btc sent to KNC = $1,000 my cost.

What are you missing about this?

Not really, since KNC still puts the price in USD prices and still requires bitcoin. A company truly accepting bitcoin doesn't look at the USD worth at all. Trust me, weather BTC was $10 or $1000 you still would have had to pay $10k.

I was thinking today.. I wish I'd had the spare funds a few months back to buy in when it was $100/btc.

Neptune would've cost me a grand ...

This is one reason why I enjoy the possibilities with bitcoin. Sure, the value fluctuates, but that can create some great opportunities for those already in it.

The ramping of current on the 12v line isn't theory but said by the tech rep from the VRM manufacturer.  When one of two engineers designing a switching-servo-amplifier that I was breadboarding as a technician around 1977 designed the then novel switching scheme while our US company was a division of Kollmorgen, he having gotten his degree from Brooklyn Poly Tech,  the triangle wave which to a comparitor input would see a lowered DC voltage on the other comparitor leg (that voltage the feedback) until the top of the triangle wave was encountered at which point the output would swing from one rail to the other for the duration of the interception.  When the lower voltage (feedback) would reach the triangle wave and the output swing from say zero to full voltage, the controlled voltage would increase raising the feedback voltage level above the triangle.  Typically to maintain an output voltage at some current the comparitor would have the feedback level at some stable level intercepting the triangle wave producing a square wave with the necessary duty cycle.

The triangle wave was produced with a current source charging a capacitor then discharging the capacitor.  Voltage charging a capacitor happens at a changing rate over five time constants.  Current charging a capacitor, or current discharging a capacitor,  will result in a non-curving slope; charge/discharge will give a triangle wave, not an approximation like if you only use the first time constant but a linear charge and discharge.  

That up-ramp of current on the 12v line would follow a straight line, a non-curving slope.  That rise would be dictated by a voltage produced elsewhere by a current source charging a capacitor, that would not  be a filter capacitor.  

There would be an internal filter capacitor on the 3.3v line.

My theory is that the up ramp for the current would be perhaps between 0v and 1v produced using the 3.3v rail because the 3.3v rail would have established itself before the 5 volt rail or the 12 volt rail, and that with no load on the 3.3v rail, e.g. no motherboard in place and a jumper on the motherboard plug, the up-ramp charged capacitor might not be brought back to 0 volts but remain at 1 volt or the full current condition.

Let's be honest - the only reason knc are doing 20nm is to justify the ridiculous price.

Anyone have any idea why all my Jupiters change their IP addresses even though they are setup for static.
I set them all like this and a few hours later a random miner get a different IP, I change it back, then another miner gets a different IP and so on.

Let's be honest - the only reason knc are doing 20nm is to justify the ridiculous price.

That's a VERY good point.