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Topic: Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com - page 88. (Read 3049528 times)

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Despite all their announcements of new chips, their share of the network hashrate continues to drop. Down to 4%. If they had new chips, like they said they did months ago, they would have deployed them by now. If you run some numbers based on their cost of electricity, and estimates of their infrastructure costs and the cost of even a few employees in Sweden, they're barely making anything at all. I hope we get to see some more leaked financials, because they were in terrible shape last time we got a glimpse, bleeding almost $1 million a week. Throw in R&D on a new chip, and they've probably already blown through the $15 million they raised.

My only worry is that their bankruptcy will prevent them from paying backing the millions of dollars they stole from customers. I'd bet we never see another product form KNC again. Perhaps they will produce something, but I think they'll be long forgotten in another year or two.

Either way, hopefully they are buried by the end of the year.  Fuck KNC.
legendary
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these was that i am thinking  from  start

why donation for a firmware

0.75%

these is awful Angry Angry Angry Angry Angry
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Please here for your time and hard work Smiley
https://blockchain.info/tx-index/3d58af76148c35a9e1254421569df3c429398e0a20c1d9244dcfc2103bf75d1b
so you have 5 donors so far Smiley
cheers
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Hi GenTarkin,
I'll test your new image ,
I didn't donor yet because I didn't see better  performance for my miners , only  restarting soft and hard ,
so my mining power goes down, after installing your soft, but maybe I was doing something wrong
that's why I was asking earlier how to install(or copy )  yours newest files,
If you include all the changes in your newest image my miners should works better and more stable.
I respect your work and your time, and I'll donor at first time 0.5 BTC
in next post I'll send you TX
Cheers
legendary
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My latest release is on github:
v.96, img is included as well.
https://github.com/GenTarkin/Titan/releases/tag/v.96

link to img: https://github.com/GenTarkin/Titan/releases/download/v.96/titanSDshrink_brand_v96_don.img

NOTES:
Ive only had a total of 4 donors thus far, I know many more people use my firmware.
My firmware has features in it many Titan owners wished they had from day one.

Ive been thinking long and hard about what I feel is fair for the added features miners benefit from using my firmware. I think a little bit of time for miners to be sent to my pool is a fair setup. The initial asking time will be .75% donation rate per 24hrs(about 11mins a day). If I need to rethink this I shall.

Main features of my firmware are(in order of importance):

CONFIGURABLE DCDC OVERHEAT PROTECTION, your miners wont magically blow up due to DCDC's climbing up to high in temp(granted temps are configured below 100C). Dies will be invidiually clock down by 25mhz until they are below the DCDC temp threshold specified. Dies will be turned off if 100mhz is not cool enough.

PROPER DIE RESETS performed when dies go into a "dead" state while mining. First attempts a number of soft resets, if those attempts fail, bfgminer is stopped, affected cube powered down, powered up then bfgminer restarted. note: will not fix permanently damaged dies.
**Furthermore, if certain dies were issued nonstop soft resets via KNC's original code, because that will lead to a hard reset often using my code, there is a bypass_dies.conf file which manually can be edited for bypassing of checking die status entirely.

OPTION to switch between STOCK 5.1.0 BFGminer vs newer 5.2.0 BFGminer.

Added various meaningful webgui stats.

Finally, I will continue to develop & improve this firmware long as I have time and ideas keep rolling in. Also if there are bugs, they will be addressed. Please PM me on bitcointalk.org w/ questions or suggestions.
hero member
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They have at least 20 employees, so that's another $5000+ a day. Again, perhaps a lot more since Swedish employee costs are huge.
Not hugely relevant, but they are paying a % of employees in btc
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/21598/knc-miner-pays-30-employees-using-xapo-debit-cards/

If knc are only mining 144 BTC a day, the VC's who dropped $15million on them must be getting seriously itchy feet.

We saw kfc clearly pumping out BS newsletters and press releases about how great their neptune chip was, but them they quietly admitted their yields were shit. So yeah, their 16nm yields could also be very shit  Grin

They do have a massive stash of BTC, which of course is a dangling carrot to keep their investors hooked. If the price of BTC rocketed up like it has done in the past, their investors would be very happy.

However, as the price of BTC has been steady and low and as a lot of people are now thinking that the blockchain is the major innovation, not bitcoin, Scam Hole and his crooked friends could be in trouble.

You guys who are involved in the lawsuit - get on with it! These fuckers could be bankrupt and gone by Christmas Shocked Tongue
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If there production quality is as it has been in the past there yield of usable chips from tap out might be pretty poor. This may also be causing further delays in them actually getting working 16nm chips online

For sure. The bitcoin blockchain doesn't lie, so we know they're in trouble. They mine roughly 144 bitcoins a day, worth $33,000 a day. Electricity and overhead is eating up half of that, maybe much more. They have at least 20 employees, so that's another $5000+ a day. Again, perhaps a lot more since Swedish employee costs are huge. It wasn't long ago they also claimed to be adding a 50MW transformer, and if they did, its sitting idle. They're share of the network is roughly 8-10MW, which was just that first facility.
legendary
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If there production quality is as it has been in the past there yield of usable chips from tap out might be pretty poor. This may also be causing further delays in them actually getting working 16nm chips online
full member
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Obviously they use existing boards to remount new chips on

I would expect to see an increase in their hashrate if that was the case, which I don't.
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Obviously they use existing boards to remount new chips on , saving lots of money to fabricate new circuit boards.
Also other sigh to proven mining industrial was no more profitable.
Btw, looking forward to have good news regarding KNCMiner has something for us.
full member
Activity: 125
Merit: 100
Despite all their announcements of new chips, their share of the network hashrate continues to drop. Down to 4%. If they had new chips, like they said they did months ago, they would have deployed them by now. If you run some numbers based on their cost of electricity, and estimates of their infrastructure costs and the cost of even a few employees in Sweden, they're barely making anything at all. I hope we get to see some more leaked financials, because they were in terrible shape last time we got a glimpse, bleeding almost $1 million a week. Throw in R&D on a new chip, and they've probably already blown through the $15 million they raised.

My only worry is that their bankruptcy will prevent them from paying backing the millions of dollars they stole from customers. I'd bet we never see another product form KNC again. Perhaps they will produce something, but I think they'll be long forgotten in another year or two.
hero member
Activity: 686
Merit: 500
FUN > ROI
from their press release should we understand that they will not sell miners anymore?
They haven't in a long time, have they?

More to the point, though...
During the month of August we are winding down our very successful cloud hashing program during which more than 1500 international customers rented petahashes of Bitcoin transaction processing from our Clear Sky facilities in northern Sweden.

As our business is changing shape from selling hardware and letting hash power to focusing on supporting and processing transactions in the Bitcoin network
...they're shifting (further) away from consumers
legendary
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when new version come out
 Grin
sr. member
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yeah that did it, looks good  Smiley

I'll send you another .25 btc tomorrow, appreciate your hard work

no problem on the testing, any time

Awesome thanks a bunch man I really appreciate it =)

I was about to test out your 0.95 release but realized there is no compiled image. Do you mind compiling this one? I could set up a buildbot in the future to have it auto generated on a nightly basis.

Im keeping it private atm, deciding how to release it ... also its being tested.

Hmm, alrighty then.
legendary
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Merit: 1002
yeah that did it, looks good  Smiley

I'll send you another .25 btc tomorrow, appreciate your hard work

no problem on the testing, any time

Awesome thanks a bunch man I really appreciate it =)

I was about to test out your 0.95 release but realized there is no compiled image. Do you mind compiling this one? I could set up a buildbot in the future to have it auto generated on a nightly basis.

Im keeping it private atm, deciding how to release it ... also its being tested.
sr. member
Activity: 405
Merit: 250
yeah that did it, looks good  Smiley

I'll send you another .25 btc tomorrow, appreciate your hard work

no problem on the testing, any time

Awesome thanks a bunch man I really appreciate it =)

I was about to test out your 0.95 release but realized there is no compiled image. Do you mind compiling this one? I could set up a buildbot in the future to have it auto generated on a nightly basis.
legendary
Activity: 2450
Merit: 1002
yeah that did it, looks good  Smiley

I'll send you another .25 btc tomorrow, appreciate your hard work

no problem on the testing, any time

Awesome thanks a bunch man I really appreciate it =)
sr. member
Activity: 342
Merit: 250
yeah that did it, looks good  Smiley

I'll send you another .25 btc tomorrow, appreciate your hard work     (sent)

no problem on the testing, any time
legendary
Activity: 2450
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TXSteve ... do a latest git pull and run the update web gui script. Let me know how advanced page looks now and if it works for ya =)

ok, I'll do it now
hey it won't load bfgminer after the gitpull, or using latest img then git pull -- ran web gui update

am I missing something??

Ooops sorry! Forgot to add a renamed file to git, try another pull ... then go to advanced tab and test out switching versions around.

ok

I can get 5.2 to load but not 5.1

do I need to reboot? or just restart bfgminer? btw I tried both ways

Doh! Sorry bout that didnt realize the stock bfgminer binary wasnt getting uploaded either, ok now try another pull then test =)
Well, 5.1 still doesn't load but got an error msg  :|
/home/pi/bfgminer/bfgminer: error while loading shared libraries: libbase58.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Ok, let me add those too haha... Sorry man, should work after this =)
Screw it Ima just add every damn file from bfgminer_stock to the repo, it should work now =)
Try it... Sorry and thanks for testing!
sr. member
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TXSteve ... do a latest git pull and run the update web gui script. Let me know how advanced page looks now and if it works for ya =)

ok, I'll do it now
hey it won't load bfgminer after the gitpull, or using latest img then git pull -- ran web gui update

am I missing something??

Ooops sorry! Forgot to add a renamed file to git, try another pull ... then go to advanced tab and test out switching versions around.

ok

I can get 5.2 to load but not 5.1

do I need to reboot? or just restart bfgminer? btw I tried both ways

Doh! Sorry bout that didnt realize the stock bfgminer binary wasnt getting uploaded either, ok now try another pull then test =)
Well, 5.1 still doesn't load but got an error msg  :|
/home/pi/bfgminer/bfgminer: error while loading shared libraries: libbase58.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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