Topic: High Efficiency FPGA & ASIC Bitcoin Mining Devices https://BTCFPGA.com - page 68. (Read 218478 times)

PM sent.

Would you mind answering my PM's? Or should I send it per email once more?

Is it still possible to add a new order to an old order (say new order is #800, old order #500, so both get shipped when you reach #500) ?

edit: another question comes up to me. Although you won't give me any numbers, im curious. On what temperature will those asics be stable? I saw fpgas starting to throttle down when they hit 50°C, i also saw graphic cards work on 90°C for hours with no harm. I once managed to run my cpu around 100°C for quite some time, solid stuff back then.

Any infos about your cooling system? Maybe the mounting?

Well if your not going to pre-order - you would have to wait until all pre-orders are filled before I could sell you one.

Other than that I have no problem with local pickup, and encourage it for bigger orders.

Pulsed Media

The argument between myself and Inaba was yesterday morning.

We already Got passed that bro. Water under the bridge.

I never realized I was this close to an influential BTC person , unfortunately I dont think I can take the time off of my full time position to help out.

Any chance of being able to pick up a unit, locally with cash in hand, once they are ready?

273 being mine!
was wondering how high was my order, was hoping to be first to order bASIC

EDIT: Yeah were a bit late to the party, i usually catch up now and then and just got angered by the continuous drama (AGAIN). I hate seeing it, i'm here for information, not drama

Tom, damn I gotta say this - you certainly keep me impressed with being helpful and letting people know what is going on.

unlike ...

FFS GUYS!
Stop the stupid drama already, that is so freakishly unprofessional it's unimaginable!

Makes me want to stay away from BTCFPGA Products, a little from BFL products too! Guys, time to grow up and even try to act like professionals. just try even.

Cablepair: If you feel that strongly, open a lawsuit for slander, or vice-versa but keep the drama off the public.

I'm sick and tired of seeing this drama wasting space in every 2nd thread, and makes me want to keep off the forums all together and just forget about products of EITHER company for being so unprofessional.

Inaba: You might be posting as Inaba, but we all know you work for BFL, you are *ALWAYS* representing BFL. Act like it. Otherwise you are going to loss significant business for BFL. We had this happen, we had a dramatic character in our team and we lost a deal which had a potential for more than 7k € PROFIT PER month as a direct result.

Both: Ignore each other completely if you must, or ignore the remarks. Just try to act professional.

*END OF RANT*

miter_myles I should get to your email today, also anyone else out there who has ordered through Google wallet and is expecting shipment of the bASIC unit or anything else ordered through my web site and your Google Wallet order does not mesh with your order status on my site - please email me today so I can get this corrected in our system.

Google's callback API was not playing nice with our database or our web site and this is why I stopped supporting them and I need to manually fix these orders.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention

I completed my first order via Google Wallet.. also have an email in the queue requesting the order number or to have it appear on the order history page.  I would imagine other people may have done the google wallet route as well due to the non-secure website ordering which has now been addressed/implemented.  

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/giving-away-a-free-840mhs-modminer-quad-fpga-miner-every-week-in-october-114454
was hoping to play in the 2nd round - thread is locked -no posting there

Good luck to all in the 1st round
Graet

I thought I had explained this before, but it's OK - please let me clarify.


When I originally announced the bASIC we were just testing a preliminary prototype and I really had no idea of the response we would get to it or how nicely the product itself would develop.

I was thinking of the volume I was currently handling with the ModMiner Quad - and based those very small and I admit very ignorant numbers on that. Basically I was not planning to expand my operation but considering the volume of sales we have been able to achieve - I am in the process of expanding my operation significantly.

Batches of 30-50 every 5-10 days is about the maximum I could handle by myself and that's why I quoted that. The assembly house that actually produces the boards can handle whatever quantity I need at whatever rate I need them made at, I could literally have 1000 ModMiner Quads made by them in 24 hours (it would not be cheap) but this demonstrates their capacity.  


However everything is changed now including changing some things about the design that make it much easier and faster to get out the door than the ModMiner Quad, and I am upgrading my operation quite a bit to handle the increased demand.

What has changed?

(a) The ModMiner quad goes through a lot of steps that take time
- The PCB boards are fabricated in one place in china
- The FPGA Chips are purchased from another place
- Everything is shipped to me and then
- Everything is shipped to the assembly house
- I purchase some final parts and have them shipped here
- Everything gets nearly assembled and shipped here
- I put them together and test them, package them up myself and ship them out myself
- All while trying to handle support issues, customer service and the logistics of the whole thing

So with the bASIC I decided to streamline a lot of these things, for one I have a very good relationship with the place that assembles the ModMinerQuad and they have taken over a lot more responsibility with this project:
- Their engineers are designing the final production board
- The PCB's will be fabricated by them
- The Boards will be assembled by them to completion


Then final boards will be shipped to me


And here is where I have made another change and upgraded my operation:

I have also leased a 2500 square foot office space / store front which I am in the process of moving into and will be hiring full time employees to help when the bASIC units ship out, their duties will include  opening up boxes from the assembly house - loading firmware - testing for 24 hours - boxing them back up and shipping them out to customers.

I was going to wait and announce this later this week but now seems like a fitting time:

If anyone lives in the Central/Northern NY area (has experience enough and time to do this job efficiently/effectively) and would like to apply for a job please call me any time to arrange an appointment (seriously)

when the bASIC units come in from the assembly house you will get a lot of overtime - we will probably need about 5 people working 8-12 hours a day, 6 days a week.

Also this place will also be open to the public during daytime hours - however it wont be very exciting until that first shipment of assembled boards comes in.


with the ModMiner Quad I did everything myself - but the bASIC has an incredibly higher demand there is no possible way I could handle this kind of volume by myself - but I will be assembling an experienced and hardworking team - hopefully at least partially from this community. If you want to get paid in Bitcoins that will be a big plus!



I know the order numbers are in the 900's already but they are high for a couple of reasons.

For one thing the order numbers started back in May selling the ModMiner quad which had some reasonable success. We also have sold other products on the site from time to time.

The other major factor that makes the order numbers keep jumping is because of failed payments and abandoned orders. People will try a credit card that does not work over and over again, every day people get on the site add products to their shopping cart - register an account and then inexplicably abandon their order. Some people even do this with fake names and obviously fake information - for what purpose I have no idea.


In case anyone is interested - Just looking over the numbers - we have sold approximately 400 bASIC units since 09/03/2012

This is about twice the amount of ModMiner Quads that were shipped between May-August 2012

other interesting facts:

The very first bASIC order is #266, the next one in line after that is #269 and then #273

MRB: there are 25 orders between #273 and your #338


Hope I was able to provide enough information.

If anyone ever has any specific inquires I encourage you to call me anytime

thanks
Tom
BTCFPGA.com

Just for reference, I ordered the first day the bASIC was announced, and am order #338. So the first bASIC may be in the late 200s or early 300s. It would be nice if Tom could tell us exactly...

I'm order 400-something and I think I got in pretty early.  I've been trying to get that info from BTCFPGA to no avail.  I understand they are quite busy. I'm looking forward to a reply to my email in due course.

My original order is in the 400's so.. not sure?

Tom, is this Order #853 number just the number of ASIC orders? Or did the bASIC orders not start counting at 1?

I ask because it was almost a month ago, but you posted this here:


Lets give you the benefit of the doubt and say you ship Dec 1st, and ship 25 orders/week. The time to fulfill those 850 orders would be 34 weeks. Now obv that's unacceptable. Can you clarify?

A lot of people are emailing me because on my website it says "Pending" in the status of your paid for item, and this is causing some confusion.

Pending meant that your item was paid for but has not shipped yet.

At any rate to halt any confusion caused by this I have changed the status of pending orders to "Confirmed"

I hope this clears up any confusion.

Also - I tried to answer as many emails and Pm's as I could today - I have to put my kids to bed, grab a beer and then pass the F*** out. (damn its been a long day and im tired)

I will be back at all of this tomorrow and thank all of you so much for your support, if you have not received an email response from me please continue to be patient (thank you) I should get to the remaining emails in the morning.

Also guys always feel free to call me at (315) 514-0269 I am usually available during normal business hours, and if I dont answer on the first try best thing to do would be to wait an hour or so and try again. I always answer the phone when I am available.


(wife just stuck her head in the office "TOM ITS 10 O'CLOCK!)

lol I guess that's my queue!

I am off for the day - also good luck to everyone that entered to win a ModMiner Quad!

Tell me about it Graet. I am so happy I did not fully commit to the BFL hype. I got something small so I would know for sure when to start expecting drastic changes in difficulty.