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Topic: Butterfly Labs finally ship their first batch of Jalapenos (Read 7125 times)

newbie
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People who misuse the word Ponzi are a Ponzi

People who misuse the word Ponzi, to people who misuse the word word Ponzi, are the real Ponzi


You're logic is truly dazzling!
legendary
Activity: 1190
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They said "July" but they didnt say what year!



Touche sir. Well played.
hero member
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They said "July" but they didnt say what year!

sr. member
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\. even worse, they're liying about delivery time the whole time to get new users...

Gotta agree there. telling new customers ordering today will ship in july is uhhh.. wrong to put it simply.
mrb
legendary
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BFL is just taking money and promising, while they're 1 year late....

Why do you bend reality? They are 6 months late (Oct 2012 - Apr 2013), not 1 year.
legendary
Activity: 1190
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People who misuse the word Ponzi are a Ponzi

People who misuse the word Ponzi, to people who misuse the word word Ponzi, are the real Ponzi

Congrats, now you can feel like a 5 years old.

BFL is just taking money and promising, while they're 7 months late.... even worse, they're liying about delivery time the whole time to get new customers...
sr. member
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People who misuse the word Ponzi are a Ponzi
legendary
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They only ship them after they have mined with them for months Tongue

Why ship at all then? Same goes for their FPGA boxes. Nice conspiracy theory.


They ship a few ASIC system to prevent their angry customers from descend upon their office like a horde of angry locust Smiley

But seriously, they need to show some "progress" so people won't ask for a refund.  They also need to attract new capitals to continue their development.
The only capital they needed was the money to buy the ASIC wafer, which was obviously huge,  and the manufacturing machines, once that's done the business can pay for itself either from sales, or if sales drop off from mining themselves. Either way they have the potential to be successful.


Have you not read much lately?  They need more capital to re-design their Little Single, Single, mini-rig, meaning new PCB, new case, new power/cooling design, new packaging...  That's going to cost more time and money BFL can't afford if they still haven't ship anything...  So they ship a few to buy themselves a little bit more time and money.  They are not as dumb as some of you guys made them out to be.  They sure are good at stringing their poor customers along.

Sounds like Ponzi...
-ck
legendary
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Ruu \o/
Kano and I got ours today. Since Kano took photos I didn't see any need to myself:
http://www.kano-kun.net/?p=56

Shhh! We're busy coding...
legendary
Activity: 1190
Merit: 1000


Have you not read much lately?  They need more capital to re-design their Little Single, Single, mini-rig, meaning new PCB, new case, new power/cooling design, new packaging...  That's going to cost more time and money BFL can't afford if they still haven't ship anything...  So they ship a few to buy themselves a little bit more time and money.  They are not as dumb as some of you guys made them out to be.  They sure are good at stringing their poor customers along.
They could mine as much BTC as they need without having to "string their poor customers along".
But they couldn't mine that BTC without the capital for the wafer or specialized equipment to make the first mining rigs.

If they had large amounts of Jalapeno's or Singles working, they would be mining with them.
erk
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Have you not read much lately?  They need more capital to re-design their Little Single, Single, mini-rig, meaning new PCB, new case, new power/cooling design, new packaging...  That's going to cost more time and money BFL can't afford if they still haven't ship anything...  So they ship a few to buy themselves a little bit more time and money.  They are not as dumb as some of you guys made them out to be.  They sure are good at stringing their poor customers along.
They could mine as much BTC as they need without having to "string their poor customers along".
But they couldn't mine that BTC without the capital for the wafer or specialized equipment to make the first mining rigs.
full member
Activity: 185
Merit: 100
They only ship them after they have mined with them for months Tongue

Why ship at all then? Same goes for their FPGA boxes. Nice conspiracy theory.


They ship a few ASIC system to prevent their angry customers from descend upon their office like a horde of angry locust Smiley

But seriously, they need to show some "progress" so people won't ask for a refund.  They also need to attract new capitals to continue their development.
The only capital they needed was the money to buy the ASIC wafer, which was obviously huge,  and the manufacturing machines, once that's done the business can pay for itself either from sales, or if sales drop off from mining themselves. Either way they have the potential to be successful.


Have you not read much lately?  They need more capital to re-design their Little Single, Single, mini-rig, meaning new PCB, new case, new power/cooling design, new packaging...  That's going to cost more time and money BFL can't afford if they still haven't ship anything...  So they ship a few to buy themselves a little bit more time and money.  They are not as dumb as some of you guys made them out to be.  They sure are good at stringing their poor customers along.
sr. member
Activity: 252
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The swarm of locusts is more like a trickle of water from a leaking faucet:

"Monday 4/22 shipped 4 Jalapenos. 1 Customer and 3 developer units.

Tuesday 4/23 3 more to ship today to customers."

-BFL_Jody

 Huh So when did 400 units per day become 4 units per day Huh

 Cry will I never get my order... at least not before quantum mining devices come out  Shocked
hey which one are the quantum mining devices
erk
hero member
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Were any shipped today!?
BFL needs to make more faster  Roll Eyes

I agree, if they actually showed signs of reasonable delivery times, I might place an order.

Mind you that goes for most of the ASIC proposals on this forum, if I knew from peoples testimony that I placed and order today I would have it in my hand on such and such date approx, they would get my business.
legendary
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They wanted to ship some out to provide proof that they do have product.  They're still waiting on the new boards to arrive to begin mass assembly, including assembly of the singles.
full member
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Were any shipped today!?
BFL needs to make more faster  Roll Eyes
legendary
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Duelbits.com

 The price is another strange thing - 274$ a unit(150$ originally) is a rather low price for a custom build chip...


3$ is too expensive with their delivery records Wink
erk
hero member
Activity: 826
Merit: 500
They only ship them after they have mined with them for months Tongue

Why ship at all then? Same goes for their FPGA boxes. Nice conspiracy theory.


They ship a few ASIC system to prevent their angry customers from descend upon their office like a horde of angry locust Smiley

But seriously, they need to show some "progress" so people won't ask for a refund.  They also need to attract new capitals to continue their development.
The only capital they needed was the money to buy the ASIC wafer, which was obviously huge,  and the manufacturing machines, once that's done the business can pay for itself either from sales, or if sales drop off from mining themselves. Either way they have the potential to be successful.


full member
Activity: 185
Merit: 100
They only ship them after they have mined with them for months Tongue

Why ship at all then? Same goes for their FPGA boxes. Nice conspiracy theory.


They ship a few ASIC system to prevent their angry customers from descend upon their office like a horde of angry locust Smiley

But seriously, they need to show some "progress" so people won't ask for a refund.  They also need to attract new capitals to continue their development.
full member
Activity: 155
Merit: 100
I feel sorry for those people who have to deal with BFL, but this whole BFL fiasco is as good as it gets in terms of free entertainment.
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