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Topic: Black Arrow 28nm 100Ghash Bitcoin ASIC from $0.49/GH/s - page 294. (Read 787053 times)

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Been like this all day.  At least the last 7 hours.
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Sorry, the store is temporarily closed for maintenance.
We expect to reopen within 1 hour (19:00 HK, 11:00 London, 05:00 Wyoming)

Ok, but it's been more than an hour. Did someone forget to take the sign down? Tongue
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On a possible fun note... The site is offline right now. Hopefully for an update? Regardless I have to agree with the statements that they are not obligated to provide detailed updates. Still it would be nice to know if they still anticipate Feb 24 as "the date." However nothing has happened to make me think otherwise. All this worry from people is self manufactured stress at this point in time. People are throwing in Cointerra as proof of this or that but in all reality Cointerra's production time frames really have no indication as to what we should expect from Black Arrow. I will just hang in and pass final judgement on Black Arrow on their ability to deliver the product they are building. 

At this point the company that does the best at delivering their gear as close to specs as possible and as on time as possible will become a leader in the industry for future gear. KNC has delivered, CoinTerra is delivering.. if Black Arrow can deliver on time then I think they will be at the top of the charts.
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Ha, you all should see Alpha Technology updates. They would put Cointerra releases to shame.
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Even if they do end up shipping on schedule, I don't think I'd buy from them again unless they offer a really good repeat buyer incentive. Simply because of the terrible customer experience..constantly checking here or on ecointalk to see if there has been a new forum post and nothing.. while Cointerra spoils their customers with high resolution pictures and detailed descriptions on what's going on every week.
seriously?
all that matters is when we get our devices and if they do what they promised us.
anything else is just marketing and wont earn you more BTC.

Exactly !!!!!!   Cheesy

I'd rather just have my units just show up unexpectedly  Grin

BA has the ONLY 100GH units you can buy for $375,EVERYONE else set the entry level WAY TO HIGH dollarwise...so I'll buy more as I earn BTC,until I reach my goal of hashrate  Wink
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There's something seriously wrong when blackarrow is online and checking the forums, but hasn't provided any updates in nearly two months.

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I'll remind everyone of this post on Feb 25 (or sooner if they announce their delays) when BA is officially late.
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Even if they do end up shipping on schedule, I don't think I'd buy from them again unless they offer a really good repeat buyer incentive. Simply because of the terrible customer experience..constantly checking here or on ecointalk to see if there has been a new forum post and nothing.. while Cointerra spoils their customers with high resolution pictures and detailed descriptions on what's going on every week.
seriously?
all that matters is when we get our devices and if they do what they promised us.
anything else is just marketing and wont earn you more BTC.
Yes, seriously. Why wouldn't I buy from Cointerra next time? They're actually manufactured in the US and they care more about their customers while BA just gives me stress and anxiety and uncertainty. We have yet to see an actual picture of even the damn cases. The only thing we've seen are the heatsinks.
so for you marketing is more important thant the device they will create. fine, u lost me...
enjoy being a consumer and dreaming of marketing/advertisement (sarcasm).
legendary
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Even if they do end up shipping on schedule, I don't think I'd buy from them again unless they offer a really good repeat buyer incentive. Simply because of the terrible customer experience..constantly checking here or on ecointalk to see if there has been a new forum post and nothing.. while Cointerra spoils their customers with high resolution pictures and detailed descriptions on what's going on every week.

Would you rather have a product on time and within promised spec (remains to be seen of course, but still plausible for BA), or a month late and 20% below spec, but with high res pictures along the way?
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Even if they do end up shipping on schedule, I don't think I'd buy from them again unless they offer a really good repeat buyer incentive. Simply because of the terrible customer experience..constantly checking here or on ecointalk to see if there has been a new forum post and nothing.. while Cointerra spoils their customers with high resolution pictures and detailed descriptions on what's going on every week.
seriously?
all that matters is when we get our devices and if they do what they promised us.
anything else is just marketing and wont earn you more BTC.
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So it doesn't look like they will be shipping end on Feb?

Short answer, we don't know.  The only updates that have been given in the last month have been updates along the lines of, "we are on schedule or slightly ahead", but even these have run out in the past 2 to 3 weeks or so.

So, we could very possibly be on schedule, but not be being given any updates and the units will ship on time and everyone will be happy and praise BA for being awesome, etc.
or...
eventually BA will say that they are behind schedule and everyone will be really upset and mad that they waited so long to do so and pledge to never buy from them again and seek legal action, etc.

But I think that about sums up where the customers are at this point.

Yea pretty much. Its a hurry up and wait type situation rite now.
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So it doesn't look like they will be shipping end on Feb?
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And im on batch #2 via logicethos, hope BA will surprise us with anything good!
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I guess BA is aiming for a surprise delivery? lol


That would be nice! Smiley
I'm pretty much "all in" with BA right now.  I'm not freaking out yet, but definitely starting to stress a little.

Me 2, but I sent them my reseller application nearly a month ago and can't even get an answer on that yet. Sad
Hope to get some updates soon.
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I guess BA is aiming for a surprise delivery? lol


That would be nice! Smiley
I'm pretty much "all in" with BA right now.  I'm not freaking out yet, but definitely starting to stress a little.
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I guess BA is aiming for a surprise delivery? lol
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Yeah, cointerra is the best out there for giving updates. Blackarrow should model after them. Cointerra has not shipped yet right?

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http://cointerra.com/pr-cointerra-begins-shipment-terraminer-iv-worlds-fastest-bitcoin-miner/

These guys are using the same foundry as Black Arrow, interesting read re tapeout time and chip speeds.
So assuming BA taped out on Jan 3, 49 days after that would be Feb 21. Hopefully this is really the case.

Considering cointerra only got ~1,6 th/s from their chips, will BA have the same problem?
In retrospect, Cointerra was pretty aggresive.  128GHs per die, 4 dies in a package?  I think they'll get there eventually, but I think BlackArrow actually took the right approach by going a bit slower and a bit more parallel.  They may be late, but I bet we'll get pretty close to what they advertised.
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I have 7 x r17 batch 1 shares with dzcoop for sale. These are for dzcoop's first Prospero x3 group buy via bobsag3, blackarrow's us reseller. PM me or post bid here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4810490
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http://cointerra.com/pr-cointerra-begins-shipment-terraminer-iv-worlds-fastest-bitcoin-miner/

These guys are using the same foundry as Black Arrow, interesting read re tapeout time and chip speeds.
So assuming BA taped out on Jan 3, 49 days after that would be Feb 21. Hopefully this is really the case.

Considering cointerra only got ~1,6 th/s from their chips, will BA have the same problem?
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http://cointerra.com/pr-cointerra-begins-shipment-terraminer-iv-worlds-fastest-bitcoin-miner/

These guys are using the same foundry as Black Arrow, interesting read re tapeout time and chip speeds.
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