Topic: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator (Read 73507 times)

A looong time ago the support sayed me this :


https://mega.nz/file/SVQCWbhS#K9P2SKN3e5KEEYp3GCojJx6ISauXafOGFYDc3ZRXRxw


Lie ? Truth ? I don't know


I just re-sent them a mail to check things go on.

at the end ethereum mining with fk33 is reality. let us give to Caesar what is to Caesar.

I made 10k in to 2k but learned alot along the way. Bought bcu1525s with hosting which went south.... Then paid more to swap to FK33s. Which was just a repeat of the acorn saga. I do think sqrl and David really honestly believe they can do what they hope. And kodus for trying. If they deliberately went in to scam I don't know but regardless lots of people lost big time.

Like many other scams, it happened when people had more money than sense. They came and story told a nice fairy tale, greedy people believed and that was it. Well, we can't say is a total scam because people got the product even though it does not work as promised. I predicted this to be a partial scam back in 2018, there is no gpu acceleration on a third party product, if there was then nvidia and amd would have done already to boost their gpus. So all in all this was all a fairy tale hehe

I think legal action is the best way forward.  Why keep letting these scammers get away with this shit.  The work is on fire because so many get rewarded for bad behaviour. Why let this cat go on to run his bs on the next group.  He/she needs to take the hit as well.  Here is where you have a leg to stand on.  He/she says they will not sell preorders until the board/software is tested.  It’s obvious now this was all lies.  Let us not be lazy now.  I hope I need not do the google searching for you as well.  There are plenty lawyers that will handle this case. 


“ I won’t post exact per algorithm stats or performance until I can do final testing of the actual boards to be shipped with the release hardware/heatsink/thermal management pieces in place, at which point I’ll accept pre-orders. This device requires quite a bit of testing to cover the list of common GPUs, PCIe configurations, and supported algorithms. I have no desire to sell anyone anything not useful to them, or to push a board at all, let alone one based on 3D renders, prototype parts pictures, or choppy YouTube videos, so I believe this full set of data along with final product pictures and overview must be published before I will take any preorders. I am sorry if that tests your patience.”

Br
Doug

Hey, I am an FPGA developer and have bought some used SQRL acorns.
They are a great platform for PCIe FPGA development.

If anyone has some extra hardware, I would be interested in talking.

I would be interested in:
Acorns 215+
Acornnest x4
BCU1525
Forest Kitten 33

Thanks!

I also have too many Acorns.

The question is what is the best way forward? I think legal action is a dead end dumpster fire.

The best approach is the "this is the hand you've been dealt approach". I will outline some possible +EV possibilities.

1) Some sort of group buy action for services revolving around the most profitable/useful mining bitstream for the acorn. The developer to be paid in acorns from us.

2) Some sort of numerical accelerator application. If you recall, the original IBM PC's were sold with an empty socket for an add on numerical co-processor chip (which was as large as the CPU chip). Would an acorn plus software have any use in scene rendering applications?

3) Could a FPGA dev kit have any use for the acorn guts?

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/acorn-m2-fpga-based-gpu-accelerator-considering-legal-action-5218222

everyone who agrees with this please tell your story and present evidence there.

Thanks!

Just bump this thread with a link when you get to it.

That is going to be a ton of copy & paste activity, but I will start soon!

Open a thread here

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0

And post your evidence and then start a tag against them and it will get support.

Thats how we root out scammers here and warn the community for future reference.

I never said they did not work but the software they did provide is a far cry from what they advertised. GPU assist is the only reason I bought "Acorn's."
I ran my "Acorn's" for about a year and only received about $5 using bitstreams provided by "Sqrl"s."
Their customer service is a joke!

I asked a question and jharris answered.  I bought hardware too...and while assist never came to light, mining software was made and all the FPGA's I purchased from SQRL are mining away a year plus now.  Both Acorns and BCU.  Not a sockpuppet just a miner.

miner29 <<-- Translation == sockpuppet

Veiled ad hominen attempt fail.

I did buy some Acorns on the first release. I actually had some correspondence with Brian K. in customer support.
They respond by talking in circles and don't seem to care about the end user. Simply put, they lied to anyone who bought products.
If the damn software was not available as they promised, it should have never been advertised that way!
I requested a refund and was told to get in line:


'Squirrels Research Hardware [email protected] via freshdesk.com
Nov 25, 2019, 3:00 PM
to me

Hi Josh,

I understand that you're upset. What I can do for you is place your request in the refund queue. These will be handled in order, and judged on a case by case basis. When we have the funds to start fulfilling refunds we will be in touch to let you know the progress of your request.



Thanka
Brian K.
SQRL Customer Support
On Mon, Nov 25 at 2:43 PM , Josh Harris <**********@mail.com> wrote:
At the time the refund was offered I still had faith that Squirrels could deliver on some very specific software that was widely advertised and made to look like it was available. I know the mining software is in an intellectual property dispute right now and that is where I lost the faith. There are others in the same camp as myself and I think I will encourage them to contact Federal and local agencies to investigate false advertising over state lines. I refuse to be jerked around any longer.

Thanks for your understanding."

Did you even buy anything from Sqrl?

I am surprised there has not been any state or federal investigation into "Squirrls."

-Mail/Wire Fraud
-False advertising
-Crossing state lines in reference to the above

At any rate they need to be brought into a court of law to explain themselves under oath and under cross examination!