I just read Josh's posts and see he stated we are using grade D... I thought I heard B... my fault.
Here's a legitimate question: BFL had that PCB rev with the power resistors on it to characterize the DC/DC regulation on their board
months ago. Tell me, what the fuck exactly were they doing with that board to have made it this far only to realize "Oh, shit. There's not enough copper in the power planes to handle all this current!"? This is an even greater WTF moment when you consider the fact that Josh claims the BFL 28nm chip has come in
under the expected power draw.
What kind of shitty Engineers is BFL employing or contracting that you continue to have these elementary problems? Surely you have the answers since you're an employee of that trainwreck
Let me try this again. BFL is stalling as long as possible to ship to their customers using whatever excuses they can. 4 or 5 batches (maybe more) of chips have already been sent to BFL and turned into pcb where upon miners whether you want to call them monarchs or not were made and shipped to the various hosting companies that Sonny has a vested interest in. That explains the difficulty hike for the past months somewhat.
BUT for sake of argument let's pretend that what I say and know is not true. That means BFL only recieved 1-2 batches of chips at most. None on pcb yet except for test units. More chips are on order or on their way. The Monarchs are obsolete as we speak but are at least a month away or more to be shipped to the first customers. That means that all the industrial customers will get theirs next if BFL is playing fair and going by gueue position and the cloud hosting customers will play fair and will accept their Monarchs in the order that they ordered recieving millions of dollars worth of miners that also won't ROI even if they receive them today and are hashing in the next hour.
Now these industrial customers are pretty smart cookies otherwise they wouldn't have ordered from BFL in the first place unless they knew something you normal customers do not and were at least given some sort of guarantee. Since the cloud hosting companies have yet to complain on record about BFL what do you think the truth is?
28nm miners may or may not have been made at the plant that Bruce and I worked but many many parts were shipped there and immediately put in vans to go to BFL other assembling building. I don't know where but always assumed that Bruce did. I'm sure they didn't want no paper trail from shipping companies dropping off parts at the other facility. It is so easy to have another shop set up to build miners with other employees with one lead guy overseeing the operation. It's those miners that the industrial customers received and are happily hashing away either using Luke's or Kano's code to do it or have some other providing the code for the filmware.
What BFL wants everybody to believe is that the Monarch is not ready yet and NOBODY has received anything from them based on 28nm chips stating that it's ready when it's ready. And that everybody connected with
http://www.coinware.io/ are happy campers knowing that they to have to wait with Greg Bachrach not even considering suing BFL like he did HashFast for basically the same delays of product because they have product and are hashing away nicely for themselves with selling some contracts on the side for good measure.
I may not have gotten my fact points out clearly but clearly anybody with a brain can see what is truly happening here unless they are in denial or lying their butts off.