[ANN] US/North American Bitfury sales NEW STOCK ***NOW SHIPPING***

[allinvain]

Yeah I found the 180GH stand alone units to be stupidly simple to setup and very reliable once up and running. Bitfury units on the other hand (perhaps with the exception of v2.2 h-cards with the latest motherboard) are finicky and prone to errors and drops in hashrate. You have to spend a lot of time hand tuning the rigs and even then the cards could just mysteriously decide to crap out on you with SPI and MISO errors, etc.

Anyways, the conclusion is that currently antminers offer better value for the money. If you want the absolute most power efficient though you still have no choice but to go with bitfury rigs.

[klondike_bar]

Yeah I found the 180GH stand alone units to be stupidly simple to setup and very reliable once up and running. Bitfury units on the other hand (perhaps with the exception of v2.2 h-cards with the latest motherboard) are finicky and prone to errors and drops in hashrate. You have to spend a lot of time hand tuning the rigs and even then the cards could just mysteriously decide to crap out on you with SPI and MISO errors, etc.

Anyways, the conclusion is that currently antminers offer better value for the money. If you want the absolute most power efficient though you still have no choice but to go with bitfury rigs.

+1. If bitfury was the same $/GHash I would probably take an antminer, even at the expense of 2x the power use. The antminer is incredibly stable at 200GH (+/- 2%), is structurally sound (no wobbling cards or the M-board tipping over due to a heavy RPI/ethernet cord), and very easy to setup.

oh, and you wont be reformatting SD cards everytime you turn off the power

[bobcaticus]

We find that placing the rigs on their left side eliminates the wobble and keeps the power cords from tugging the m-boards over.


Dave marked the USBs down, and the sale price for the full / half / quarter rigs are still valid.  We are shipping daily, as we have everything in stock.

https://megabigpower.com/shop/

[salfter]

oh, and you wont be reformatting SD cards everytime you turn off the power

Shutting the rig down properly would keep that from happening.  I've never had an SD card get scrambled.

That said, I ordered one of the Antminer boxes yesterday.  I'd like to fill up my Bitfury rig (14 empty slots available), but the bang-for-the-buck just isn't there at current prices.  For BTC3, which would you pick: 180-200 GH/s for the Antminer S1 or 75-105 GH/s for three H-cards?  One option approximately doubles my total hashrate, while the other triples it.

[Xian01]

oh, and you wont be reformatting SD cards everytime you turn off the power

Shutting the rig down properly would keep that from happening.  I've never had an SD card get scrambled.

 Yep. "sudo shutdown -h now" every time with no problems so far. Additionally, I did blow a breaker and had one power off uncleanly that came back up uncorrupted, so YMMV I guess.

[allinvain]

We find that placing the rigs on their left side eliminates the wobble and keeps the power cords from tugging the m-boards over.


Dave marked the USBs down, and the sale price for the full / half / quarter rigs are still valid.  We are shipping daily, as we have everything in stock.

https://megabigpower.com/shop/

Although that's nice of you, I for one would wait until you guys are desperate for sales (not anytime soon it appears) before buying any additional h-cards/gear.

[Doff]

We find that placing the rigs on their left side eliminates the wobble and keeps the power cords from tugging the m-boards over.


Dave marked the USBs down, and the sale price for the full / half / quarter rigs are still valid.  We are shipping daily, as we have everything in stock.

https://megabigpower.com/shop/

No thanks.

[Keefe]

We find that placing the rigs on their left side eliminates the wobble and keeps the power cords from tugging the m-boards over.


Dave marked the USBs down, and the sale price for the full / half / quarter rigs are still valid.  We are shipping daily, as we have everything in stock.

https://megabigpower.com/shop/

It looks to me like many days you have no orders to ship, due to the prices.

[superduh]

strange business decisions. dave isn't selling much if any stock. AND while he's not selling anything the real value of the boards keeps dropping every week. the real prices will continue dropping so in the end he may have to liquidate his inventory at 100 per board where today he may get 300 for each one.

[Doff]

strange business decisions. dave isn't selling much if any stock. AND while he's not selling anything the real value of the boards keeps dropping every week. the real prices will continue dropping so in the end he may have to liquidate his inventory at 100 per board where today he may get 300 for each one.

Yeah, makes no sense. This will be the first time I think the diff is really going to skyrocket, Jan-Feb has a lot of hashpower coming online. I know its already gone up a lot but I think I see it going from 10PH to 40-50PH in the next 3 months.

[Ridicuss]

strange business decisions. dave isn't selling much if any stock. AND while he's not selling anything the real value of the boards keeps dropping every week. the real prices will continue dropping so in the end he may have to liquidate his inventory at 100 per board where today he may get 300 for each one.

I don't think Dave sets the price. I would say with the mine up, these selling are a very secondary goal if not tertiary. I would like to see a lower price as well but the only thing we can do is Buy or not. They are available for those that want them bad enough.

I just don't want them that bad.

[Syke]

strange business decisions. dave isn't selling much if any stock. AND while he's not selling anything the real value of the boards keeps dropping every week. the real prices will continue dropping so in the end he may have to liquidate his inventory at 100 per board where today he may get 300 for each one.

$300 sounds reasonable this week. How bout it Dave? Let them collect dust in the warehouse or sell them for $300? Their value sinks every day they sit unsold.

[xzempt]

im starting to think AntMiner is just ASICMiner using a new name

[Keefe]

strange business decisions. dave isn't selling much if any stock. AND while he's not selling anything the real value of the boards keeps dropping every week. the real prices will continue dropping so in the end he may have to liquidate his inventory at 100 per board where today he may get 300 for each one.

$300 sounds reasonable this week. How bout it Dave? Let them collect dust in the warehouse or sell them for $300? Their value sinks every day they sit unsold.

No need to go all the way to $300. Since the price of BTC has risen recently, I'll pay almost $500.

[xzempt]

Id actually conside the 100ghs kit,  if it were $1750 or so...     I can get 100ghs from bfl instock ready.to go for $1800ish...

[klondike_bar]

Id actually conside the 100ghs kit,  if it were $1750 or so...     I can get 100ghs from bfl instock ready.to go for $1800ish...

at about 7x the power consumption though

[xzempt]

Id actually conside the 100ghs kit,  if it were $1750 or so...     I can get 100ghs from bfl instock ready.to go for $1800ish...

at about 7x the power consumption though

Yea not really an issue for.me 

[klondike_bar]

Id actually conside the 100ghs kit,  if it were $1750 or so...     I can get 100ghs from bfl instock ready.to go for $1800ish...

at about 7x the power consumption though

Yea not really an issue for.me 

perhaps, but it seems like common sense. Come spring you will realise its going to become a very warm house into the summer

[allinvain]

A lot of the people that say power consumption is not an issue are hosting their mining gear in some sort of data center type conditions. I'd say though that these are in the minority.

[Taugeran]

A lot of the people that say power consumption is not an issue are hosting their mining gear in some sort of data center type conditions. I'd say though that these are in the minority.

meh. my bill is $0.025/KwH