Topic: Klondike - 16 chip ASIC Open Source Board - Preliminary - page 7. (Read 435376 times)

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jasinlee - shame on you!

If he wanted to disappear so "conveniently" as you claim - just to remind you that he had already achieved that. However he seemed to have something that you don't - he had the b*lls to come back and be honest. I know a lot of people that have gone through what he goes now and I know how easy it is NOT. Plus, the work he did (note - for free!) more than deserved our help.

His work will continue to live in the future. How about yours?

Unfortunately in the bitcoin world 3 months are the equivalent of "eternity". If you're out for that long you may as well start from scratch. So, I don't expect him to continue to throw more work at this project as it was over not due to his absence - if you're gonna look for some blame you should start with Avalon.

There are people that lost way much more than you. When you see them complaining then eventually you can come back and try again.
Until then please do yourself a favor and STFU and stop posting that nonsense and the defamatory crap.

You have absolutely no couth at all leave the guy alone.

Nice work, let us know when you have a price and we can plug a psu in to it.

Ok, everyone bkkcoins is a nice guy and did not screw anyone with disappearing and then getting hurt conveniently.

Bicknellski on the other hand, approached myself and several other members of our group that were doing open source work which we recently released btw. He pitched his company and involvement as if he was going to help the community like we were working toward at the time. Then he started telling us we had to pay into the coop, and that we were going to get rich off these boards, run it like a group buy, and suddenly he was the group leader (not sure when that happened since he joined after about 4 other people). Then he got a hold of the designs we had given to one of the engineers (what did we care we were going to OS it anyway). Then he tells us he is going to use the design in the boards he will be selling.

This is around the time I started to say this was not kosher, and incidentally when he got belligerent over defending bkkcoins (who I only pointed out could Potentially be pulling a fast one) and apparently still has butthurt over myself calling him greedy, rude, and a huge jerk.

Do whatever you want. Just stop smearing his name just like you were before. Unless you have evidence he lied you should just shut your mouth.

Are you really going to do this? Should I go ahead and pastebin it all now and be done with it?

Dude. You need to get control.

Slandering people is not "control". If you have evidence he is lying about this then post it. Otherwise just leave the guy be already as he has contributed months of his life to this project give him some respect. Just amazes me you have to drag his name through the mud like this. Senseless.

I would recommend that you control your outbursts, you really do not want to start a public argument over your off forum butthurt.

Give the guy the benefit of the doubt or give us evidence to the contrary. If you have something to say and have evidence then say it otherwise step off.

I would like to comment that zipiju has done excellent work on the klondike project to date, he knows what he is doing and you are in good hands. If what bkkcoins claims is true, its terrible it went down that way, but we cannot believe everything we read.

The knowledge gained was in this thread.  As well, others on other threads (which escape me right now) have mentioned the same things.  For my point I must say there were bad things that happened with Chris that were unfortunate.  I wish him well and am glad Zipiju picked up the heavy load.

H@shKraker

I've heard this before. It's terrible when a catastrophic health event happens. Even more so when lots of people are depending on that person, and they have no way of knowing what happened. I've been in the situation before of coming back after health issues to a few months of emails saying "Where are you" etc.

Just out of curiosity, how did you hear what happened? Was is documented here on the forum somewhere? Is there anything he needs that we could help with? I've followed this thread since the beginning and it's been amazing, despite the setback. If BkkCoins needs help of some kind, I'll do what I can...

Folks,

BKKcoins has a closed head injury that resulted from a motorcycle accident.  He's probably relearning how to walk again while slobbering on himself right now.  For my money I say we support Zipiju and be done with it.

H@shKraker

Good luck with that. I donated funds to him during the project. I also ordered quite a few items.

I emailed several times saying that he could keep EVERYTHING if he would just send the 3 PIC chips and to picngo boards. No response.

Hola folks,

If you are US Domestic (or otherwise and you like dealing with customs on your own) I've already sent the BOM and GERBERs off to a US board house.  I've used this particular full assembly PCB production outfit many times before and they do very high quality work.  I've received a quote of full assembly production for a full reel run of Avalon ASIC chips.  What this means is is that if you REALLY wan to do home production knock yourself out.  However, if you'd rather have a US board production house do the work then i can point you in the right direction.  I've used these guys before and they cut me a solid deal.  If you'd like I can put you in contact with them and, if your trust score is high enough and/or if Uncle Scrooge or Crazy Guy knows you and will vouch for you, I'll vouch for you too and they'll give you the cherry deal they gave me on a full reel production run.

In addition to this I'm putting together a couple of deals where the other side of the deal supplies the chips, I fund the production, firmware load, testing and hashing verification and I ship back to the person who provides the reel half of the boards produced.  The turn time is 5 - 7 weeks from the time the production house gets the ASIC reel ... although they usually turn in about 4 weeks.  If you're interested in that PM me and we can start to get to know each other.  Again, you must be verified by the parties I mentioned above OR have a reasonable bitcointalk.org trust score before I'll entertain doing business with you.

One final note, MANY, MANY, MANY thanks Zipiju for your efforts on this.

H@shKraker

since 98% are smd; a tape would be better

It would be cool if you could convince sparkfun or similar to do it.  It seems like too many parts to order and stick in individual baggies for a regular Joe.

i'm happy to provide a kit option ; all the parts ; solder stencil etc ; in a group-buy way ... best would be that we can adjust pricing by total quantity ordered; it should be pre-funded in order to be sure that we get the sharpest price and don't have people bailing in & out the buy.

people who fund first at eg. 50 pcs will get a refund if we hit a 100 target, etc .. etc

last but not least, since we are looking into opensource and hardwork of some people; we should tip/fund/support the community! 

i'm located in Belgium, Europe ; shipping to EU would be easy.  For the AMERICAS i think it is best to have somebody that would take that part of the world.

anybody else idea's and thoughts about this ? 

I'd go for a kit including everything except the PIC programmer.  While it would be nice to have it as a separate line item option I've already got a PIC programmer so I'd just need the parts for this specific project.  I'm thinking it could be useful for someone who, for example, is used to AVR's and isn't set up to program a PIC.

Man, a kit would be fantastic.  I could practice my SMD soldering skills without worrying about sourcing individual parts or getting a PCB fabricated.  This would be ideal.