they will package the impossible into a PCI/e GPU styled and sized device.
yeah, i noticed the pic of a gpu-like looking card. what is that all about?
Topic: {BFL} Why The Monarch Might Just Work - page 6. (Read 5994 times)
yeah, i noticed the pic of a gpu-like looking card. what is that all about?
It will work in keeping wishful BFL customers from filing complaints.
It will work in bringing in lots of BTC.
It will work to make them rich as they skip the country once Sonny's parole ends in a month.
Dumb fuckers here are actually dumber than the elderly dupes that Sonny fucked to earn the only thing that he has earned in his life... a felony conviction (via guilty plea).
I find it difficult to believe.
BFL didn't rake enough suckers with chips to run for the border... so they 'created' 28nm technology that up until a couple of weeks ago said was IMPOSSIBLE.
They have not only made the impossible possible in Two WeeksTM - they will package the impossible into a PCI/e GPU styled and sized device.
And there are dumb fuckers that are dumb enough to fall for it?
Sock-puppets, the only explanation.
It will work in bringing in lots of BTC.
It will work to make them rich as they skip the country once Sonny's parole ends in a month.
Dumb fuckers here are actually dumber than the elderly dupes that Sonny fucked to earn the only thing that he has earned in his life... a felony conviction (via guilty plea).
I find it difficult to believe.
BFL didn't rake enough suckers with chips to run for the border... so they 'created' 28nm technology that up until a couple of weeks ago said was IMPOSSIBLE.
They have not only made the impossible possible in Two WeeksTM - they will package the impossible into a PCI/e GPU styled and sized device.
And there are dumb fuckers that are dumb enough to fall for it?
Sock-puppets, the only explanation.
beat me, beat me, please.
How can you believe a word they say, after everything? Stockholm?
I agree with the TL;DR consensus from the other threads.
The only people I see going for this are people who are locked in with their non-ROI 2012 and 2013 orders hoping to move up the line (like this poor soul OP).
Which is exactly what BFL intends... clear up the backlog... get them off the old backlog onto the new back log and by some time (possibly).
How can you believe a word they say, after everything? Stockholm?
At this time, there's an extreme amount of hatred towards BFL, orders that were ordered a year ago still have not arrived, etc.
I'm going to play the other end of story. I converted an order I had into a Monarch, perhaps a bit reluctantly.
Right now, they are in the tapeout process, so they are making some good progress.
The important point, however, is that this device has a few key differences from their previous product production runs. First, a large supply issue for BFL this round was the power supplies. This card doesn't need a power supply, and instead relies on a user-supplied PSU. They already have drivers made, and will likely only need to tweak their existing software to support the new architecture. They have more production employees right now than they ever had before, and they've worked through the kinks of ASIC production before, and at least have a bit of knowledge going into this second round that they were lacking when they were going into the first round.
If you have an order from 2013, it may make sense for you to upgrade. By the time those devices arrive, they may be fairly useless. Assuming a 50% growth rate per month until the end of the year, if you receive your 60GH/s ASIC in early October, it's very likely that, especially for the devices you paid $2,500 for, you will never see that money fully returned by the device. The monarch is still a wildcard, and in the event that it goes correctly, converting your current order to a Monarch, especially if you don't have to pay much extra money to cover the bridge, will likely be beneficial. However, if the monarch is late, and all the other ASIC companies like KnCMiner, HashFast, xCrowd(.co.uk), Bitfury, etc. deliver on time and in spec, then the monarch will be essentially useless.
I'm not saying to buy one, but if they actually do ship by the end of the year, you heard it here first. If they don't, just quietly forget this thread.
Edit: Not a sock puppet. I don't love BFL. I simply see it as my best option at this point, and think they might be capable of meeting my expectations.
I'm going to play the other end of story. I converted an order I had into a Monarch, perhaps a bit reluctantly.
Right now, they are in the tapeout process, so they are making some good progress.
The important point, however, is that this device has a few key differences from their previous product production runs. First, a large supply issue for BFL this round was the power supplies. This card doesn't need a power supply, and instead relies on a user-supplied PSU. They already have drivers made, and will likely only need to tweak their existing software to support the new architecture. They have more production employees right now than they ever had before, and they've worked through the kinks of ASIC production before, and at least have a bit of knowledge going into this second round that they were lacking when they were going into the first round.
If you have an order from 2013, it may make sense for you to upgrade. By the time those devices arrive, they may be fairly useless. Assuming a 50% growth rate per month until the end of the year, if you receive your 60GH/s ASIC in early October, it's very likely that, especially for the devices you paid $2,500 for, you will never see that money fully returned by the device. The monarch is still a wildcard, and in the event that it goes correctly, converting your current order to a Monarch, especially if you don't have to pay much extra money to cover the bridge, will likely be beneficial. However, if the monarch is late, and all the other ASIC companies like KnCMiner, HashFast, xCrowd(.co.uk), Bitfury, etc. deliver on time and in spec, then the monarch will be essentially useless.
I'm not saying to buy one, but if they actually do ship by the end of the year, you heard it here first. If they don't, just quietly forget this thread.
Edit: Not a sock puppet. I don't love BFL. I simply see it as my best option at this point, and think they might be capable of meeting my expectations.
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