I paid for my August order! Which currently sits in Dave's Datacenter hashing away.
good for you!
Funny how you make an accusation and fail to apologize when you are wrong!
The real pain is having my BFL order that was placed 14 months ago finally get shipped today only fulfilling 1/3 of the order.
OUCH!
What does that have to do with anything in this discussion? I'm still waiting for 2 more orders from BFL and got piss poor performing units from them.
Dave's choice to host devices for those that have yet to receive their order for free is not the best choice in your opinion. Factor that he is using btc guild and that it may not be the best use of the hardware has also been expressed.
I can see your point of view. Indeed it may seem the simple choice would be to deliver those devices and be done with it.
However I think what Dave is doing is attempting to appease both the customer you/me and the shareholders for who this hardware was originally intended.
I would not be surprised if those that still have not gotten their equipment will not get extra ontop of the BTC that is being mined via Dave's free hosting
option. dictated solution.
I think his choice to point that hardware at btcguild.com was the best option as they have the best support network 24/7, I would like to note that I am also pointing my units at btc guild and have gained 18% more bitcoin doing so the last 24 hours then normal) The reason is simple. It gives the most accurate reading and has by far managed the private anti DOS network to maximize the uptime of that hardware.
Finally as to the issue with cgminer and this particular use of the bit fury chips. I have spoken with ckolivas and informed him that I would provide access to one of the units for his testing.
However he mentioned that at this time the GPIO is not conducive to the uniformity and standardization that cgminer is about. At this time it seems best to wait until punin or others incorporates a usb controller of sorts for this product so we can bypass the raspberry pi.
Again I am sure that Dave will do everything possible to make sure we get the best ROI given the situation at hand.
From past experiences in other emergency situations like this, when you are in the thick of the issue expending all your energy and time to resolve problems day in and day out, you are bound to make choices that may not seem to be the best solution from an onlooker not on the ground. It may very well be a bad choice in customer relations while attempting to please the shareholder.
However given the track record I would not be surprised those with late orders get further compensation in one form or another.
Edit: In the spirit of disclosure I do not hold any investments with any public centralized mining operations at this time. This includes, and not limited to, 100TH, ASICminer, and LabRat data processing.
The main issues as I see them, is that he lied, he said they ran out of M boards, they ran out because he allocated them to his mine, he lied when he said all purchased equipment for August would be delivered prior to building up his mine, the last ~50 rigs he built according to his own admission were yesterday. Knowing full well he had 53 orders outstanding.
Then he came up with that lame "I'll mine for you until I get your equipment in and shipped" knowing that he would generate 16x the income for his mine by not shipping out the equipment as he originally stated because he knew there would be more delays in getting v2 M-Boards. He ignored my questions and emails with regards to what was going to happen.
He got caught taking resources and redirecting them to make his own profit at our expense.
I said it before:
Dave, you were doing so well! What happened?