65 nm Chips - [BFL ACCEPTED 100% ESCROW by John K.] - Group Buy #1 - Kernel32

CanaryInTheMine

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between a rock and a block!

Quote from: tvbcof on June 28, 2013, 11:42:08 PM

Quote from: CanaryInTheMine on June 26, 2013, 05:14:42 PM

I was at BFL today to drop off payment for my group buy's chips.
Company is legit, I met Dave and Jody, who by the way is super sweet and very nice, so please be nice to her!!!
People were there working away. I thought that the office space/location was very appropriate given the current growth/stage of BFL: not unnecessarily fancy and also not in a low cost location, just about right.

I wonder if giving them money made them 'super sweet and very nice'? Did Dave show you his knife?

no, he didn't... I was a suprise from what I've gathered... I think Inaba though I was bs'ing him when I PMed the day before stopping by but maybe not, dunno for sure.
Although I would have loved to see Dave's knife! I'm known to travel with several kinds of tools myself Grin

tvbcof

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Quote from: CanaryInTheMine on June 26, 2013, 05:14:42 PM

I was at BFL today to drop off payment for my group buy's chips.
Company is legit, I met Dave and Jody, who by the way is super sweet and very nice, so please be nice to her!!!
People were there working away. I thought that the office space/location was very appropriate given the current growth/stage of BFL: not unnecessarily fancy and also not in a low cost location, just about right.

I wonder if giving them money made them 'super sweet and very nice'? Did Dave show you his knife?

Lucko

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I wish they would answer mail more often... For example I still don't know how long will I have when I get a notice that I need to pay other 50%...

CanaryInTheMine

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between a rock and a block!

I was at BFL today to drop off payment for my group buy's chips.
Company is legit, I met Dave and Jody, who by the way is super sweet and very nice, so please be nice to her!!!
People were there working away. I thought that the office space/location was very appropriate given the current growth/stage of BFL: not unnecessarily fancy and also not in a low cost location, just about right.

KyrosKrane

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Keeping an eye on this. I'd be interested in plug-and-play miners, not individual chips.

Inaba

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Quote from: RandyFolds on June 22, 2013, 01:48:12 PM

Quote from: ziptie on June 22, 2013, 01:23:29 PM

Quote from: RandyFolds on June 13, 2013, 02:33:01 AM

The only bumping being done by BFL consists of white powder going into their noses, conveniently purchased from silkroad with all of your BTC. It's only a matter of time until josh goes out Scarface style.

Lol

This company seriously has gone off the deep end. One thing is for certain, their goal is to remain profitable as long as possible, do you think that can be achieved by flooding the market with ASICs? Nope.

It is likely that their highest achievable profit margin is splitting right now, unless some wild new tech is being developed by their assembly ninja in a super secret underground development facility. The source of all their shipping delays is likely their ceaseless work on the development of the Schwarzgerät, which will be installed in the mysterious jet black 1.5 petahash miner housed in an erotic Imipolex G case with serial number 00000.

God damn it, Randy. Who leaked our design documents to you? FFS. BTW, it's not jet black, it's matte black, for stealth.

RandyFolds

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Quote from: ziptie on June 22, 2013, 01:23:29 PM

Quote from: RandyFolds on June 13, 2013, 02:33:01 AM

The only bumping being done by BFL consists of white powder going into their noses, conveniently purchased from silkroad with all of your BTC. It's only a matter of time until josh goes out Scarface style.

Lol

This company seriously has gone off the deep end. One thing is for certain, their goal is to remain profitable as long as possible, do you think that can be achieved by flooding the market with ASICs? Nope.

It is likely that their highest achievable profit margin is splitting right now, unless some wild new tech is being developed by their assembly ninja in a super secret underground development facility. The source of all their shipping delays is likely their ceaseless work on the development of the Schwarzgerät, which will be installed in the mysterious jet black 1.5 petahash miner housed in an erotic Imipolex G case with serial number 00000.

ziptie

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Quote from: RandyFolds on June 13, 2013, 02:33:01 AM

The only bumping being done by BFL consists of white powder going into their noses, conveniently purchased from silkroad with all of your BTC. It's only a matter of time until josh goes out Scarface style.

Lol

This company seriously has gone off the deep end. One thing is for certain, their goal is to remain profitable as long as possible, do you think that can be achieved by flooding the market with ASICs? Nope.

nottm28

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watching (with 8 chip credits)

2weiX

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I have 32 codes that I would be willing to put forward to this groupbuy if there is a real chance (as in "100%") that there is a EU-based (preferred: burnin) assembly that provides "ready to run" rigs/boards/blades.

Lucko

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This supposed to be PCB schematics

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/announcements/3295-bitforce-sc-pcb-schematics.html

newmars

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thanks for sharing
will take a look

Quote from: piit79 on June 16, 2013, 11:37:33 AM

Quote from: Lucko on June 16, 2013, 11:29:26 AM

Quote from: CumpsD on June 16, 2013, 11:27:31 AM

Documentation.

Wasn't that published?

Quote from: Zubilica on June 16, 2013, 12:21:33 AM

Chip data.

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/announcements/3014-butterfly-labs-announces-bulk-chip-sales.html

I'm not registered so I can't download PDF... But I thought that was that...

Yes, I looked through the PDF and as far as I can tell it actually looks like a fairly detailed technical documentation with pinouts, level specifications and timings.

For those who aren't registered in BFL forums: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50609214/BFL%20SHA2%20Spec%20Rev2.2%20-%20Release-1.pdf

Lucko

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Quote from: piit79 on June 16, 2013, 11:37:33 AM

For those who aren't registered in BFL forums: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50609214/BFL%20SHA2%20Spec%20Rev2.2%20-%20Release-1.pdf

Thanks!

piit79

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Time for Plan ฿

Quote from: Lucko on June 16, 2013, 11:29:26 AM

Quote from: CumpsD on June 16, 2013, 11:27:31 AM

Documentation.

Wasn't that published?

Quote from: Zubilica on June 16, 2013, 12:21:33 AM

Chip data.

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/announcements/3014-butterfly-labs-announces-bulk-chip-sales.html

I'm not registered so I can't download PDF... But I thought that was that...

Yes, I looked through the PDF and as far as I can tell it actually looks like a fairly detailed technical documentation with pinouts, level specifications and timings.

For those who aren't registered in BFL forums: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50609214/BFL%20SHA2%20Spec%20Rev2.2%20-%20Release-1.pdf

Lucko

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Quote from: CumpsD on June 16, 2013, 11:27:31 AM

Quote from: Lucko on June 16, 2013, 10:53:48 AM

What are we still waiting for? I think that we have all we need. Well only chips are not with developers jet. All else has been meet... So could you open GB?

EDIT: Unless we have some guarantees that we will receive them first... Time is BTC

Documentation.

Wasn't that published?

Quote from: Zubilica on June 16, 2013, 12:21:33 AM

Chip data.

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/announcements/3014-butterfly-labs-announces-bulk-chip-sales.html

BFL SC firmware.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=235312.0;topicseen

Kaboom , this may work.

I'm not registered so I can't download PDF... But I thought that was that...

CumpsD

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Quote from: Lucko on June 16, 2013, 10:53:48 AM

What are we still waiting for? I think that we have all we need. Well only chips are not with developers jet. All else has been meet... So could you open GB?

EDIT: Unless we have some guarantees that we will receive them first... Time is BTC

Documentation.

Lucko

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What are we still waiting for? I think that we have all we need. Well only chips are not with developers jet. All else has been meet... So could you open GB?

EDIT: Unless we have some guarantees that we will receive them first... Time is BTC

phantastisch

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Quote from: Kernel32 on June 16, 2013, 08:50:19 AM

Quote from: flowdab on June 14, 2013, 01:50:21 PM

FWIW I've paid for an order of chips and have requested developer chips and reference docs. When I get those I will post the docs here and then send the chips to whichever dev's have the community's support and can put the time into actually producing an actual working board.

*Note - I don't want to hear how this is a stupid purchase. I've done my risk assessment and think this is a good commercial opportunity. If you disagree with that then please keep it to yourself.

flowdab, you took quite a risk, but it could pay off.

Until developers have sample chips/documentation and are sure they can design a working board (or at least one of the lead developers is) it's too risky for the majority of potential group buyers (including myself).

We'll see pretty soon whether BFL is really willing to deliver sample chips/docs or it was just marketing move to sell as much useless chips as possible. Speaking of useless chips...

Quote from: PuertoLibre on June 11, 2013, 10:37:58 PM

.......
I am worried that BFL is going to send us the defunct lot they are using right now instead of the brand new lot that will be baked at the Fab. I don't want yesterdays revision that has caused so many problems (let them deal with those). I want the latest revision fresh from the Fab.
......
Could you get in contact with BFL and clarify this point?

Although we should be able to find out what revision and quality the chips are during random hash test (prior to escrow release), this is still a very important matter to look into. Thank you for pointing this out. Let you know as soon as there is some reply from BFL.

Quote from: newmars on June 15, 2013, 07:14:07 PM

Credit program will be incorporated into the group buy?

I didn't discuss credit program options with Josh yet, but it should be incorporated. I see no obstacles there.

Thank you for the support guys. Stay tuned.

Well transfering credits should be no problem.

Kernel32

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If you can't do something smart,do something right

Quote from: flowdab on June 14, 2013, 01:50:21 PM

FWIW I've paid for an order of chips and have requested developer chips and reference docs. When I get those I will post the docs here and then send the chips to whichever dev's have the community's support and can put the time into actually producing an actual working board.

*Note - I don't want to hear how this is a stupid purchase. I've done my risk assessment and think this is a good commercial opportunity. If you disagree with that then please keep it to yourself.

flowdab, you took quite a risk, but it could pay off.

Until developers have sample chips/documentation and are sure they can design a working board (or at least one of the lead developers is) it's too risky for the majority of potential group buyers (including myself).

We'll see pretty soon whether BFL is really willing to deliver sample chips/docs or it was just marketing move to sell as much useless chips as possible. Speaking of useless chips...

Quote from: PuertoLibre on June 11, 2013, 10:37:58 PM

.......
I am worried that BFL is going to send us the defunct lot they are using right now instead of the brand new lot that will be baked at the Fab. I don't want yesterdays revision that has caused so many problems (let them deal with those). I want the latest revision fresh from the Fab.
......
Could you get in contact with BFL and clarify this point?

Although we should be able to find out what revision and quality the chips are during random hash test (prior to escrow release), this is still a very important matter to look into. Thank you for pointing this out. Let you know as soon as there is some reply from BFL.

Quote from: newmars on June 15, 2013, 07:14:07 PM

Credit program will be incorporated into the group buy?

I didn't discuss credit program options with Josh yet, but it should be incorporated. I see no obstacles there.

Thank you for the support guys. Stay tuned.

Wardan_reloadeD

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I have 32 credits for sale at 6btc. PM me.

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