Topic: Re: Black Arrow 28nm 100Ghash Bitcoin ASIC from $0.49/GH/s - page 11. (Read 96804 times)

It's probably their code/hardware reverse engineered

I'd like to see Slush review tear one of these apart. Any chance?

Good grief, is like watching cockroaches crawl out after nuclear war.  I cannot believe these pieces of shit are launching another product after the shit show with the miners.  And where did the money come from for this?  They cried poor on refunds.  They cried poor on their price matching promise.  And in the meantime they've been developing this.  It's a never-ending stream of lies and bullshit from this company.

Anyone that buys anything from these people that would store bitcoin or interface with their own computer needs their head examined.  These people are criminals that stole millions from people.  Nothing I can think of would stop them from stealing BTC or using that device to steal your personal information from your computer. 

Black Arrow as a business and the user BlackArrow, aka Alex Sovu, simply cannot be trusted at all.  They have proven nothing if not that.

On top of that, aren't these the same security wizards that claim to have had a ton of bitcoin stolen?

It's like watching a comedy show with these moronic assholes.

The X1 won't burn.... it won't mine much either so pretty much it's a useless pile of shit.... Which is pretty much like its maker

Oh damn i had a feeling this was going to be the answer.  No i wouldn't have bought anything from them but i figured if someone had some in hand and it was cheap so oh well no big deal.  I was so hopeful cause the noise and size and power consumption.

And fire huh.  Mines the one with the screen and didn't look like the same form factor as the burnt one in the pic i saw, maybe mine will be ok until i can turn it off tomorrow morning?

That's fucking hilarious.  Hey blackarrow, you lying cocksucker, maybe if your miners weren't such pieces of shit or if you'd kept the promises made on delivery dates, price matching or anything else people might have some bitcoin to store.  As a result of your total fail on your miners your last customers lost their asses and have no need for a bitcoin storage device.

 I suggest you shove these up your ass.  I'd pay 40 bucks to watch that, asshole.

Hey man, I got one of these from someone as well (never give any money to Blackarrow personally, it will be gone forever and you will get nothing back) and it does the exact same thing.  It will run for 15 mins to an hour then stop.  The only fix I found was to go into settings on the actual unit and go to device and change the restart times per hour to 10 (or any other number) but this only fixes it for a couple of days, then it starts having the same problem as before.

The reason this is happening is really simple.  BlackArrow is a scam company run by the most despicable people on this planet.  Seriously, these are the type of people who commit credit card fraud and screw hard working good people out of their money.  Even their original company made credit card scanners that were explicitly used to steal credit card info.

Moral of the story, go buy a unit from Bitmain or Spondoolies Tech.  Either company will deliver a superior product, with better power ratings, and you will find that the owners and employees actually care about their customers and want to develop a relationship with those they sell to, instead of just stealing as much money as they can.  Also, the reason you can't find any information about this issue is that 1) The units usually catch fire before they get to this point 2) BA hasn't shipped enough units for others to find a fix 3)BA doesn't care enough to answer the questions, like this one, that has been asked before to their tech support (which is probably some idiot or even the owner himself who can't tell his own ass from a bitcoin miner).

Hello,
 
I am having an issue with my x1.  Hopefully this is an easy fix.
 
I bought this off a very trusted user on the forum.  He had a bunch of then new in box and i bought one for what i think is a nice price.  I had heard of black arrow but never really looked in to the products before.  I get it and it's def new and in the box and i hook it up and right when i log in it asks me to do a software update and i did.  Next time it booted up it did a check for update and it says it is up to date with the latest.  Good.
 
I get the pool configured for eligius and all is well, I'm thinking well this thing is great!  i can't hear it, its not sucking power like its going out of style, i want more of these.  then the problem...  CGMiner slow to respond... retying...  Uh oh cgminer crashed.  i hit reboot, all good. check back in a lil bit.  cgminer crashed, hit reboot.  at this point i realized this is going to be an hourly thing.

I don't know why cgminer is crashing, under powered?  chip problems?  pool problems?  is there something wrong with my unit?  can someone please help me, i really want to be able to run this thing and if i can get it working properly i think I'm going to want more of these.  i searched for "prospero x1 cgminer crash" and didn't find a ton of people having the same issues.  Im wondering if its just mine.
 
below is an image of my eligius chart so you can see how often cgminer crashes.  eventually i check back in on it and restart.

"A claim of defamation is defeated if the defendant proves that the statement was true. "

Compensation was only a ploy to prevent you from taking action against them for not refunding after having taken your order under plainly fraudulent pretenses. Their current ploy to accomplish the same thing is to scare you into taking delivery or else your product will be disposed of after a certain deadline, so compensation is simply never going to happen, even though compensation is just a rewording of their price matching promise. This is straight out of the AMT / Josh Zipkin playbook, delivering whatever to the customer whenever, regardless of what it is or whether it's even functional, to muddy the waters for any potential legal action.

So...
For all the people who crowdsourced this company, and the over 100 times BA has said "Oh no there WILL be some kind of compensation!! (to be announced)" over and over. As it seems they have money to develop new products out the yang, where is *some kind* of payback for buying their $5000.00 paperweights?

Have they threatened to sue you yet via UK law for libel?

They use a two-pronged approach. The first involves soliciting money for a product that is purportedly already available or will be available soon.

The second, subsequent step, is "we have your money. Fuck you."

I'm not a mod/admin, but given that people can set up their own - unmoderated if they so wish - thread in parallel to any official thread, I'd say the bar for such measures should be pretty high.  Given that several of the largest recent threads have devolved into trollfests complete with meme-y pictures, I certainly can't blame anyone from starting an official thread as self-moderated - complete with the 'power corrupts' aspect.

Back semi-on-topic:
Seems their chip did better than their hardware.  As for the device itself - seems to be getting more common that companies are branching out to things other than the mining side.  I think BitFury also mentioned in an interview that they'd make some sort of portable device.  Though in BitFury's case, I think they're taking a very long term strategy view.  Not sure what Black Arrow's angle is.

Already deleting things from that new thread. lol.  Why haven't their self moderation privileges been taken away yet?

yes, because their first product went so well and had no issues what so ever with devices that didn't even hold bitcoin, someone would have to be mighty stupid to buy something from them that actually actually stored bitcoins on it.

Well, they're trying something new:
eWallet (Bitcoin hardware wallet) is now available

The last email I received was spam from XBTec after BA sold their customer database, these Romanian scumbags are liars and thieves.

You guys are so full of shit you can't open your mouths without it spraying all over the place.

Still waiting for my order/refund paid in November of 2013.