Hi All, OK some bad news I'm afraid.
www.bitfurystrikesback.com is showing the 25GH/s miner as out of stock (in fact all of the summer delivery kit seems to be out of stock). I think that the US resale site pretty much bought everything up in a day when they opened on Sunday.
So, we need to decide what to do now. My suggestion would be to continue collecting for an October delivery 25GH/s mining starter kit with some H-boards to add to this (also for October delivery) depending on how much we collect. However, I've still not had a reply from bitfurystrikesback.com about whether they will be offering this (I'll start pestering their thread now)! Another option would be to collect for a 400 GH/s miner for October delivery, although this is more expensive (7500 Euro + VAT), so will take longer before we are ready to buy. One final option that comes to mind is that we could collect for a number of H-boards (for October delivery, 350 Euro + VAT each) and look into options for somebody to build a master board for us to connect them to. I've a possibility in mind for this last option and will get in touch with them now about this.
Please post your thoughts on this. You are, of course, completely free to withdraw your pledges. Just post or send me a message if you'd like to do this.
The good news is that John K. has just sent the escrow contract and setup the escrow account (see above).
I would suggest that nobody sends coins quite yet, until we have an agreed strategy for moving forward. Please send your thoughts on the above ASAP. I will explicitly post in this thread when I start the 24 hour pledge payment countdown - the clock is not ticking yet!