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Topic: BitPay processes $1 million bitcoin order for Butterfly Labs (Read 2553 times)

legendary
Activity: 1974
Merit: 1003
did josh just fooled some1 ?  Shocked
sr. member
Activity: 297
Merit: 250
Oh no, there goes a portion of my money...
full member
Activity: 167
Merit: 100
Maybe with all that money just arriving, BFL will be able to build those Jalapenos people ordered months ago?  Still waiting for my worthless paperweight to arrive, only 6 months late...

Now they can also process refunds and comply with FTC rules.
sr. member
Activity: 392
Merit: 250
Thats a lot of pre-order. And they uses Bitcoin so they are doomed....
hero member
Activity: 1246
Merit: 501
Maybe with all that money just arriving, BFL will be able to build those Jalapenos people ordered months ago?  Still waiting for my worthless paperweight to arrive, only 6 months late...
legendary
Activity: 1456
Merit: 1018
HoneybadgerOfMoney.com Weed4bitcoin.com
lmao....frankenmint says "womp womp!"  Someone forgot to do their due diligence homework  Roll Eyes
full member
Activity: 1050
Merit: 110
Either BFL cashing out some coin, or they suckered some poor fool.  Or maybe, all of BFL's so called regular customs just got the shaft big time as a big order like that is going to get special treatment at the cost of smaller orders.

I'm sure BFL is liquidating some of the massive bitcoins they've mined...  Think about it - BTC is hovering at a premium right now.  Its what I would do.



But why pay Bitpay the commission ?

They could sell the mined coins on exchange and nobody would notice
well, if this is indeed a conspiracy, it would make sense to use bitpay, it looks legit, AKA they dont have to explain a random 1m bank transfer. and they get free publicity.
full member
Activity: 120
Merit: 100
Some rich guy heard about a bitcoin, heard you could buy computers that make them and saw they were worth $200 per BTC. Then went and googled 'bitcoin mining hardware' and BFL was the first site that came up, looks legit. Hit order thinking he will make the money the bitcoinx profit calculator says he will.

Obviously has no idea what difficulty is, how it works or anything about BFL and what a joke of a company they are.
full member
Activity: 152
Merit: 100
Either BFL cashing out some coin, or they suckered some poor fool.  Or maybe, all of BFL's so called regular customs just got the shaft big time as a big order like that is going to get special treatment at the cost of smaller orders.

I'm sure BFL is liquidating some of the massive bitcoins they've mined...  Think about it - BTC is hovering at a premium right now.  Its what I would do.



But why pay Bitpay the commission ?

They could sell the mined coins on exchange and nobody would notice
sr. member
Activity: 462
Merit: 250
Free World
This is actually a good news...

IT MEANS THAT IF BFL FAILS TO DELIVER..

IT IS 100% that THIS PERSON WILL KNOCKDOWN BFL TO GROUND... WITH MULTIPLE LAWSUITS...

I REALLY HOPE BFL FAILS AGAIN AND THIS INVESTOR FILES A 5million LAWSUIT...
hero member
Activity: 784
Merit: 1000
$1 million preorder from BFL, thats big investment. Hopefully the investor knows what he is doing, it sounds very scary to me, but at least we will have more secure Bitcoin next year.

Good luck  Wink

Why do people keep saying this?  "more secure, more secure"

A Government could easily buy or pay to develop their own ASIC's.
newbie
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Merit: 0
Either BFL cashing out some coin, or they suckered some poor fool.  Or maybe, all of BFL's so called regular customs just got the shaft big time as a big order like that is going to get special treatment at the cost of smaller orders.

I'm sure BFL is liquidating some of the massive bitcoins they've mined...  Think about it - BTC is hovering at a premium right now.  Its what I would do.

If someone was going to pay BFL a million dollars for hardware, they wouldn't do it through a third party payment processor, lol.  They would have a meeting, agree on terms, sign contracts, and pay them - either BTC or fiat - directly.  This makes no sense except for BFL turning their bitcoins into dollas, while generating some good publicity while they are at it.

No matter what the btctalk community may think of BFL - they are not idiots over there.  They are actually very good at the things they are good at.  And where they suck, they suck (customer service, mainly).  I understand the optimism, the thought 'nothing at this point can go wrong', all of the little things that get in the way of producing something for the first time...  But i dont understand how they could be so unapologetic about it.  Wouldnt have cost them a dime to just have been nice this whole time, instead of being the way theyve been.
newbie
Activity: 7
Merit: 0
good news for who? Any one know what date the order went through?
sure hope my upgrade order went through first or it's game over! goodby every penny spent.
they need to shut down their pre-order system now or they will continue to screw a lot more people.
Bfl should adress how this will affect small purchases and be honest for once.

after a while when the difficulty is too great for the masses I wonder if these big buyers are going to be the only ones controlling all the miners.  Bfl selling orders that large goes against the whole vision of what the system was so pose to be. Very decentralized. I'm sure bfl isn't the only one with large orders. I'm a libertarian so I do support free market actios but here we go towards the centralization of mining.

I guess I can find the purchase date on BlockChain later. cant on the iPhone
the search box jumps around as new transactions go through.
full member
Activity: 158
Merit: 100
$1 million preorder from BFL, thats big investment. Hopefully the investor knows what he is doing, it sounds very scary to me, but at least we will have more secure Bitcoin next year.

Good luck  Wink
legendary
Activity: 3878
Merit: 1193
Excellent! That's more bitcoins for me! That's a whole lot of hashpower that won't come online anytime soon.
full member
Activity: 239
Merit: 250
Either BFL cashing out some coin, or they suckered some poor fool.  Or maybe, all of BFL's so called regular customers just got the shaft big time as a big order like that is going to get special treatment at the cost of smaller orders.
legendary
Activity: 1652
Merit: 1067
Christian Antkow
Congrats to Bitpay for the commission.

Condolences to the purchaser.
legendary
Activity: 1190
Merit: 1001
Good news for BITPAY. Bad news for the buyer, he won't be really happy after he realises BFL won't deliver soon... or maybe they will deliver fast this time, just to be sure he don't get angry. (leaving normal buyer in the backorder for extra time)
full member
Activity: 211
Merit: 100
Stunning amount... for one order.  Who is still buying from BFL?!

http://www.coindesk.com/bitpay-processes-1-million-bitcoin-order-butterfly-labs/
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