KnCMiner Super Jupiter Bitcoin Mining ASICs Are Arriving In Pieces
J-J's broken KnCMiner Super Jupiter. KnCMiner has started shipping a 3 TH/s Bitcoin mining box, the largest single Bitcoin ASIC miner in existence at the moment. The unfortunate part, though, is that none of these KnCMiner Super Jupiters arrived at their destination in one piece. KnCMiner has responded promptly on their forum, promising to ship new, properly constructed, units to affected customers, free of charge. KnCMiner also emphasized that customers needing to RMA their Super Jupiter would not have to pay return shipping on the existing $10,000 “machine” that was shipped to them; they....
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Buyers of digital currency mining hardware developer KnCMiner's modified Jupiter mining product are reporting serious problems with shipments. The company originally offered the 'Super Jupiter' as a replacement for customers that didn't want to wait to receive the company's next-generation Neptune line of miners. Disgruntled customers took to the company's forum to voice their frustrations, with some reporting what appeared to be broken or incorrectly constructed components, including fans and heat sinks. Others said that some of the ASICs arrived malfunctioning or simply not working. In....
Here's a short but interesting video posted by Engadget that features Alex Lawn of KnCMiner discussing their super-powerful Jupiter bitcoin miner, which is capable of 600GH/s. It's not too in-depth, but we felt it was worth the share.
KnCMiner is offering a bonus speed increase to customers awaiting delivery of its Jupiter bitcoin mining rig. The company said the Jupiter bitcoin mining rig will mine at a significantly higher rate than the 400 GH/s its customers are expecting. "We will not down clock our chips to 400[GH/s], we will release all our machines with the greatest hashing power we can. So yes, the rumors are true - Jupiter will be greater than 400[GH/s] by a significant margin as a free gift from us to all our loyal customers," the KnCMiner team's statement reads. Sam Cole, co-founder of KnCMiner, said the....
KnCMiner has finished production of its Jupiter bitcoin mining rigs and has started shipping to customers. The Sweden-based company revealed in a YouTube video that the Jupiter will mine at over 550 GH/s with a theoretical limit of around 576 GH/s, which is considerably higher than the 400 GH/s promised back in July. In the video, KnCMiner co-founders Sam Cole and Marcus Erlandsson show off the Jupiter rig in action and demonstrate its hashing power. "It has been a long summer and to have predicted our own deadline from five months out and hit it with 45 minutes to spare just proves how....