Topic: April 15 BFL ASIC update - page 2. (Read 8207 times)
Where do I sign up to the 'Disappointed with BFL' club?
Despite the crash in 2011 (which caused me to leave the forums with despondency) each year BTC has grown 1000% roughly. The recent run up was not healthy. Anybody who bought last year in the $2 to $6 range is doing well.
Unless you had all your bitcoins in a wallet at InstaWallet like some people I know, then you're pretty well fucked.
Short summary of the news: No BFL ASIC miner for customers anytime soon.
Short summary of the news: No BFL ASIC miner for customers anytime soon.
Yes, no bitcoin mining for me (in 2013? never?). With the current exchange rate trend it might be better to wait a little bit, push BFL to get my refund (writing more mails, open additional 'where is my refund' threads) and buy the BTC.
Short summary of the news: No BFL ASIC miner for customers anytime soon.
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Short summary of the news: No BFL ASIC miner for customers anytime soon.
Despite the crash in 2011 (which caused me to leave the forums with despondency) each year BTC has grown 1000% roughly. The recent run up was not healthy. Anybody who bought last year in the $2 to $6 range is doing well.
I had a fairly decent trailing stop strategy, but failed to monitor it when it crashed. Probably would have got out at just below $240. It would be nice if the exchanges offered dynamic stops - especially stops based on user defined algorithms. Would be even better if a company like Trade Station opened up a bitcoin trading platform and exchange. http://www.tradestation.com/
I'm sure it's a total coincidence that the first proper update from BFL for a couple of weeks is made on the same day that Avalon claim to have started ('slowly') shipping their second batch.
Despite the crash in 2011 (which caused me to leave the forums with despondency) each year BTC has grown 1000% roughly. The recent run up was not healthy. Anybody who bought last year in the $2 to $6 range is doing well.
Should've bought Avalon.
Almost 1 year from the date of initial preorder and all they can ship in "2 weeks" is a 4.5GH/s unit that would eat 20-30W? Would have been better buying a 7850 last year and mining with that for the last 10 months...
So glad I ordered a Batch 3 and got my refund from BFL.
Yeah, tell me about it. Or even better, just buying bitcoins. I wonder if buying and holding have worked from the very beginning, because the return on investment time is nearly a year on most stuff. Except for Avalon, anyone with them in hand has probably blown past their ROI's in the first month.
Why do people keep saying they are shipping? They aren't shipping anything to customers - Josh himself only ever said in his update (and you have to read carefully, which is something of a lost art) that they would ship out dev boards and Jalapeno dev units. Dev unit means a prototype that is used internally / semi internally; not a finished product.
Should've bought Avalon.
Almost 1 year from the date of initial preorder and all they can ship in "2 weeks" is a 4.5GH/s unit that would eat 20-30W? Would have been better buying a 7850 last year and mining with that for the last 10 months...
So glad I ordered a Batch 3 and got my refund from BFL.
1.You're not shipping yet.
2.You've missed your power mark of 1w/GH
3.You don't have a time frame for the new boards.
4.You can;t fit 1.5 TH into your cases you amassed.
5.You have interesting solutions (i.e. increase size of case?)
6.The "delay is strictly due to having to re-engineer the power system on the boards".
You mean the delay since...
October 2012?
November 2012?
December 2012?
January 2013?
February 2013?
March 2013?
Wow that wasn't much of an update at all. I think everyone here could have guessed all of those points Josh. LOL so fucking fail.
2.You've missed your power mark of 1w/GH
3.You don't have a time frame for the new boards.
4.You can;t fit 1.5 TH into your cases you amassed.
5.You have interesting solutions (i.e. increase size of case?)
6.The "delay is strictly due to having to re-engineer the power system on the boards".
You mean the delay since...
October 2012?
November 2012?
December 2012?
January 2013?
February 2013?
March 2013?
Wow that wasn't much of an update at all. I think everyone here could have guessed all of those points Josh. LOL so fucking fail.
Since Jalapenos seem to be the only product shipping this week - who knows how long until any Singles or other products - I wonder what this might do to the shipping strategy. 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 etc..
Should've bought Avalon.
Going to be requesting refund soon. These guys are shady as fuck.
Now thats nailing it down!
This means that they are either just lying out of their ass or are in way over their heads and are just making shit up as they go.
Haha, dude.. I want you to read this, it was posted by Josh last October.
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Attached are some more pictures of the Jalapeno. It's in one of it's prototype homes, but the design is changed and we are waiting on the updated box to be delivered now. However, the fundamental design will remain unchanged, just some cosmetic changes (laser etched top, no silver, etc...)
We are not going to make the first half of November shipping goal. Right now, I want to say fourth or fifth week of November, but lots of little issues have cropped up, pushing the shipping date out a bit here and there. To be on the safe side, I would estimate the end of November / beginning of December as a likely ship date. We've had some trouble sourcing the VFD screens for the Minirig SC; the wharehouse told us they had about 5x as many screens as they really have on hand, so we are coming up short. The good news is that we've come up with an alternate solution that is so full of awesome, I am going to save that for a later update. It is, however, necessitating a redesign of the Minirig SC case, though it won't really affect the timeline in any material fashion, as it's just one part that needs to be changed a bit to accommodate the new screen.
We are also still waiting on the HSF for the Single SC to show up - the factory has been a bit slow in that department, so that set things back a bit.
We expect the final chip versions to be in our hands in ~25 days, with final assembly and shipping to begin a few days after that.
We are not going to make the first half of November shipping goal. Right now, I want to say fourth or fifth week of November, but lots of little issues have cropped up, pushing the shipping date out a bit here and there. To be on the safe side, I would estimate the end of November / beginning of December as a likely ship date. We've had some trouble sourcing the VFD screens for the Minirig SC; the wharehouse told us they had about 5x as many screens as they really have on hand, so we are coming up short. The good news is that we've come up with an alternate solution that is so full of awesome, I am going to save that for a later update. It is, however, necessitating a redesign of the Minirig SC case, though it won't really affect the timeline in any material fashion, as it's just one part that needs to be changed a bit to accommodate the new screen.
We are also still waiting on the HSF for the Single SC to show up - the factory has been a bit slow in that department, so that set things back a bit.
We expect the final chip versions to be in our hands in ~25 days, with final assembly and shipping to begin a few days after that.
There are lies, large lies, and then there is BFL.
Looks like BFL is finally getting close to shipping something. At least the Jalapenos will start shipping as they can put a larger power supply on the thing and it's good to go. I wonder how many they plan to ship. The early units will be inferior in terms of energy usage but at least users will see something after BFL missed October 2012 to February 2013 shipping dates.
maybe they will ship out the asic miner, since the price of BC has now drop and no longer profitable to Josh to make used of this machines for his own mining?
All I can say is Fuck
What I find most troubling is that the previous update from over 2 weeks ago stated "We plan on shipping possibly by the end of next week" but today they claim "We've been working on getting the software and firmware nailed down" lol. This means that they are either just lying out of their ass or are in way over their heads and are just making shit up as they go. I really can't think of a third explanation so I'm really pondering canceling my pre-order and pray my batch #2 Avalon's come through...
Why are you pointing to only the latest example They have been saying "next week" for months.
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