Looking fake to me. No markings on chips ? No real incentive to develop real BTC mining product now. More like a scam it seems.
Why do they not submit proof ? Because they don't have proof for a scam. Simple.
This thread reminds me of a long thread on a car site, where most of the people said the car was a fake, and it turned out real. Lots of analysis of the pictures, including people who were CERTAIN that it was a photoshop job, with detailed graphical markups of the (perceived) problems in the pictures.
Forget about the product photos. The company's office address is fake and their business is not registered with the state. The scammer clearly has some electrical engineering knowledge and probably has access to a lab somewhere. He's clearly qualified to mock up a plausible looking product. But he can't fake an office or an entry in the state business database. It has already been proven that Butterfly Labs Inc. is not a real business! The photos are irrelevant!
So, I suppose it would not be pluasable at all for someone to want to enter a product into an 'underground' economy and keep his business, well, underground? ;p
Correct, it is not plausible that a someone making a complex, highly technical, and
legal product would choose to sell it exclusively to the 'underground' marketplace by announcing it on a public message board with a link to a public website.
Edit; and why is it when anyone argues that there really isn't sufficent evidence to yell 'SCAM' that everyone assumes we're fuggin retarded and being scammed? Just wanted to point out that I am far from being naive. But, I am open minded....
I haven't heard anyone argue that there's not sufficient evidence to show that it's a scam. Nobody has proposed any reasonable explanation for why Butterfly has a fake office address and is not registered in the state they claim to be doing business in. Those defending the "it's not a scam" position choose to ignore those facts and focus instead on the PCB photos.
I don't think anyone here is stupid or being willfully ignorant. But I do think there are people here who really want this product to be real and are willing to dismiss all evidence to the contrary.
It's the same mentality that drives people to buy lottery tickets, go to church, and vote Republican.
