Topic: BFL silent these past days? (Read 7091 times)

I see my comment and many others got deleted. Stuff like "box shifting", "people sitting around playing minecraft", "just a load of people moving boxes and sitting on offices", "9 months already", "video didn't show anyone using a solder iron or reflow unit", "at least we know the laser etching works" etc.

At least Tom has the decency to refund his customers instead of stringing his customer along like BFL is doing now.  What's worse is BFL taking on even more pre-orders... except for mini-rig, which is now out of stock..  How does something that was never in stock in the first place becomes out of stock?  I guess even in the fantasy-dream-world that is BFL, they ran out of fairy-dust to conjure up magical mini-rigs.

It's possible. I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt there. They actually took orders in June, so they were already lying saying good stuff then. Perhaps I'm just too nice to BFL.

not may?

i thought it was around may when we started hearing good things from them?

OBV.

Last official update: 3/29
JZ devoted today to flaming on the forums, not updating customers

silent --> huge unresolvable problems ...

For those that don't know, the image is a screen grab from the, Butterfly Labs Company Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSu5Yyc1bEM

The same amount of BTC are mined every day regardless of whether they're mined with ASICs or not and regardless of difficulty.  BFL (or any other ASIC vendor) delivering in quantity will increase the overall network hashrate and reduce the profitability of existing hardware, but it's not going to affect the overall supply of BTC or demand for them.

Unfortunately I did not pay money to hear things from BFL but to receive a product.

FTFY

We've been hearing good things about this project since last June.

We've been hearing something 'good' every week since January.

I suspect that we will continue to hear good things in all the following weeks from now.

I don't think we'll see any actual progress apart from more prototyping 

I am so stupid! I just realized why we didn't see 22+ people in the video. The film crew was only there for the first shift, thus two more videos are expected from Camp BFL, depicting the going-ons during the second and third shift.

Today's riddle:

What does Josh say first thing in the morning went he greets the assemblers?
Hola.
What is he thinking when he says it?
Hijos de puta.

Silence is Golden (for Avalon owners and ASICMiner share holders).

We will hear something this week I am predicting, and its likely to even have an effect on BTC price if the news is positive.

I don't think so. I finally received my refund, but the way Tom handled this project I doubt that we would have seen a working miner anytime soon.

Thanks for clearing that up

i really wish bfl didn't lie so much.

if they didn't have these "ship dates" then tom might not have given up and we might've been able to get a good product from him.

These guys really are a pair of clown shoes.

No-one knows.

The 5,000 chips they have on hand (suspected to be 4,000 now because wafer 2 is the one which returned the crappy power results) won't fill very many orders.  The next 6 wafers were supposed to be completed once testing was completed on the first 6 but no-one seems to be talking about when they'll be completed any more (it was supposed to be only a few weeks after the first 6 wafers were done).

Perhaps more importantly, no-one's talking about the bulk order for 63,000 chips - from which the majority of pre-orders were likely going to be filled.

This leaves a lot of uncertainty about when customers who ordered after August can expect delivery because it doesn't sound like they're going to have the chips on hand to fill those orders any time soon even if they can manage to get sub-spec units out to June/July pre-orders in the next month.

I think people who are hanging in hoping that BFL will ship "soon" are assuming that once they start shipping everything will be fine.  But BFL has actually said nothing recently which suggests that they have enough components on hand to fill anything except the very early pre-orders.  Those with orders placed after August really need to start asking questions about what's happening with the bulk chips because delivery of their orders could still be months away even if June/July orders get filled soon.

They should also know with absolute certainty by now how many of each unit they are going to produce from batch 1 (which affects the likelihood of a particular order being filled from batch 1 because of their stupid 1/3 shipping plan), but that's something else they're not disclosing.