Topic: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator - page 12. (Read 73496 times)

I very rarely do any business that I need to worry about the trust here but keeping it green is important. I may PM some guys that never left me feedback and have that oversight corrected. Nice to see the riffraff off DT1, seeing good people with red was really a smear on the face of this forum.

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As was said, look at an archived snapshot and let us know what you find.

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Or someone that had given him trust was dropped from the default list.


Thanks for the link.

BTW, Momero hash has recwntly popped up so is there a secret bitstream?

It seems like releasing a keccak-only miner/bitstream would be relatively easy, since acorn-like devices were originally designed to perform the opening and closing keccak calculations for eth anyway.

Maybe a default trust member that gave you trust is now removed from the list? been changes to the default trust list

see:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5095156.0;topicseen

Nah, I think I do but no names will be named.

Its just funny that I get dropped for the first time by someone/multiples who had nothing to do with this. "This" being my defense of Sqrl labs customers.

I was dropped by someone/somepeople for commenting on this problem though. For sure. Crypto is becoming more corrupt than ever. And thats hard to do.

Sock puppets are afoot.

Do you know who dropped you?

Lol, my trust rating was halved in the last day or two once I started to complain about "Sqrl labs". After years of going up Im now going down by the day. Strange behavior on bitcointalk for sure. Pay to play?

Luckily I only bought one of these Acorns.... What a disaster this has become.  And they are still selling these on Amazon as a working product.  I'm just hoping that the miner is released or I can get a refund before SQRL goes belly up..

The main reason to buy these was for gpu boosting, so gpu miners could compete with fpga for a little bit longer.  Sure they can standalone mine too, but that wasn't the original purpose.  If you're going to standalone mine you should have just sold off your gpus and used that money to buy a real fpga.

not on anything but 1 coin at unimpressive numbers.

no GPU boosting like was promised.

by the time GPU boosting comes out, ETH will probably have switched to ProgPOW for the death blow of these things.

so, whats the story after 6months? acorns are mining or not?

Is anyone ITT interested in buying some never-used acorns at a mild discount?

they should definitely redo their website to include the "no gpu acceleration miner currently available." and redo their boost estimates as its been a while (maybe im wrong). but like eth is going progpow so the main reason most would of wanted the 101 will be gone. sure etc might stay on ethhash maybe but its main use case will be gone by the time anyone gets any serious returns on them unless the 101 can do well in other stuff.

i spent about a grand: couple 215+, a 101, a nest2g and nest4x. and it now seemed i backed the wrong horse. oh well, my bad. it was a risk that seemed reasonable even "building in" some arbitrary delay. the real delay exceeded my guess by a lot though.

im not saying these things are a write off, they may come through yet. unknown. but i sure wont buy anymore till the software is proven.

Well your wrong. He almost certainly would have allocated those coins to another device. Perhaps not that exact day, but in that general timeframe. Most people do buy gear in strict cycles, many based on credit cycles like the guy above. Damn straight he would have allocated that money towards something else. Something that would have made a lot more than zero dollars in six-nine months.

I never bought anything, but if I had I would have spent a lot more than $300. Almost everyone who bought from sqrrl was spending in the thousands as well. Its in defense of the company you continually call out people for "getting mad" and "complaining about a loss". Its a very legitimate complaint, people have the right to explain their frustration on a public forum dedicated to the product. Where else can they express their problems with non-working gear that people paid good money for and were basically lied to about.

They absolutely should not be selling more units until they work. Its super shady. And the fact is that people who bought back in June got zero use out of their unit before it went public in January, the next year. That is cause for complaint. Its just wrong.

A lot depends on how you manage your btc.  If you had cash and btc in your Coinbase account.

Sent the .123 btc and then purchased .123 btc with your Coinbase cash. You lock in the value at 6500 for the .123

Great if coin went up bad if coin went down.  I like to keep some cash and some btc on hand in Coinbase to help established what I spent in cash. Not what I spent in coin.

Lots of ways to have handled the btc cash purchase.

 I am six bucks ahead on this refund. I am lucky. I could even send in a cc and purchase one with a 30 day return window. But I don’t think i’ll bother buying this item.

Sad that another USA mining builder fucked up.😔

He has to justify to himself why he spent all that money on a doorstop.....

From what I can gather on the Discord channel, it seems GPUH has some different builds of the miner currently being tested by his developers and when there is a "sane" version available, it will be released.... when this happens, nobody knows.  SQRL reputation is slowly going down the drain.

The assumption is that if he didn't buy this unit he would have bought something else. At the same time for the same exchange rate. Its a fair and solid assumption. You have no reason to argue this. Why do you continually defend this company, even when you have no ground to stand on?

There are so many others out there in a similar situation. Credit stretched and expecting a return, within 365 days at the least. If they had known a more realistic timeframe on this project they would have never bought into it. Or simply waited. It was misleading at the least. Perhaps me using the word "con" was a bit strong. But this software delay is really inexcusable. Giving unrealistic software release dates that basically guide peoples buying decisions into purchasing is borderline outright lying to your customers.

If not for selling the hardware upfront, the delays would be acceptable.

But with no software yet still, and hardware selling in apparent unlimited quantities, it makes for a bad look indeed.

With an amazon storecard you can get e.g. 12 month interest free financing.  I took advantage of this when I first got into mining, buying thousands of dollars worth of gpus and other hardware without paying a cent, mining for six months or so and holding until the value of the crypto hits a good peak, then cashing out and paying off the hardware.  Really wish I had my cash right now instead of these paperweights, but if I had waited for them to be on Amazon at least I could have the paperweights AND cash for a while.  I think they're legit and facing actual issues slowing them down, not conning, but it's frustrating to take more of a risk and actually get less of a reward versus someone who waited around longer.

Man thats some cold shit phill.  But seriously I had the order screen open at one point in August but in the end I knew better of it. I had a feeling the software, not just the hardware, would be the issue and I was right. I also almost bought a BFL jalapeño back in 2013 too, but decided to wait till they had them in stock. Obviously this never happened. So this wouldn't be the only time waiting for finished hardware/software has paid off for me.

Hardware is often the easy part. Software for these things is really, really hard to get right and thats exactly why they needed to wait until they had it down to even start selling hardware. Smoke and mirrors is the name of the game here now. Gotta sell more units, forget that they don't even really work yet. "We will make the units you bought over 6 months ago work, soon." Probably sometime within the next... 2 Weeks^TM

Sock puppets afoot here and there defending the indefensible with this company. Discord? Why no updates on software progression here when they are the ones starting this thread. Im not joining a discord just to sift through the BS. There should be clear progressive updates on their website at least. Weekly updates, monthly at least, with real details on the progress being made and the challenges holding anything back. Real Timeframes.

This company is basically running a long con of sorts in my opinion.

Just because you receive something in your hand in return for money does not mean you haven't been duped.