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Disasters aside, BA did come good on the Minion, and they learned some important lessons in the process. A good reason to keep your Prosperos when you get them. It's a lot easier to manufacture and ship a lot of upgrade boards, than manufacture new machines. An easy way for BA to get some of their investment back quickly.
Can this guy get anymore thick? Certainly he has to work for BA because any other re seller dare not speak their name anymore. My favorite is where he said its a lot easier to manufacture and ship a lot of upgrade boards, than manufacture new machines. BULL SHIT!!!! So your saying that designing a new, 14NM CHIP AT THAT, and get a working board is easier than designing the case and plugging in a fan???!!!!?
What an idiot statement. And yes, I called you an idiot because that is the stupidest crap I have ever heard! I would be willing to bet that this, "next generation machine" will not have a case, or LCD, or any other bells and whistles, and you know why!!!! Because they don't fucking matter and should be easier than shit to get together! There is no way that getting a fully functioning chip and board is easier than getting nothing, which is the other components of a good working machine. And their investment back quickly! Do you know how much it costs to tape out a 28nm process, much less a 14nm node?Quote
I don't know much about chip manufacturing, other than basic principles. My eyes glazed over when I got the talk from BA engineers. Back in my days of electronics, it was single layer PCBs which looked like they had been hand etched, and resistors you could see with the naked eye. I had a resistor colour chart on the wall. Now you need a microscope, to even see some of these components.
Obviously not! BA doesn't have the money for another tape out of the current design, much less a smaller dimension that isn't even out for consumers yet! Why else would they solicit investors for their future projects? Unless their end goal is to hedge risk, in which case, they are already expecting their project to fail, which really isn't that surprising.Quote
Let's make something very clear: You, all customers combined, covered less than 40% of the expenses.
We, Black Arrow, have covered most part of this project. We only have 1.5T active mining (0.5 x X3, and 2 x X1.5). They are only to test if the design is stable and to fix software issues. We have always put our customers first!
Your expense? Really? It is our expense! You have paid us until February 28. That was the business plan and based on that we've priced your miner. Since then we are paying out of our pockets various mistakes made by us but mostly other companies. We have not given up and we got your miner out and it works faster than we've promised. If we were to give up you would have received back exactly what MtGox's clients got: nothing.
And what would you like us to do now? Get our PCB designers to assemble your miners and doing unqualified work? Or should we fire them after working 18 hours per day to fix a mistake that was not Black Arrow's? They made your miner a reality!
You said that you want cheaper hashing! We have listened and offered 14.4T in chips instead of 2T in miners.
You complained that you cannot do anything with the chips. We gave you the design: Here is a USB version without case, without copper pipes. It cannot get cheaper than this.
We, Black Arrow, have covered most part of this project. We only have 1.5T active mining (0.5 x X3, and 2 x X1.5). They are only to test if the design is stable and to fix software issues. We have always put our customers first!
Your expense? Really? It is our expense! You have paid us until February 28. That was the business plan and based on that we've priced your miner. Since then we are paying out of our pockets various mistakes made by us but mostly other companies. We have not given up and we got your miner out and it works faster than we've promised. If we were to give up you would have received back exactly what MtGox's clients got: nothing.
And what would you like us to do now? Get our PCB designers to assemble your miners and doing unqualified work? Or should we fire them after working 18 hours per day to fix a mistake that was not Black Arrow's? They made your miner a reality!
You said that you want cheaper hashing! We have listened and offered 14.4T in chips instead of 2T in miners.
You complained that you cannot do anything with the chips. We gave you the design: Here is a USB version without case, without copper pipes. It cannot get cheaper than this.
Check out this gem they posted back on their forums. Still not taking any responsibility are ya BA? All your customers faults and other companies. BULL SHIT you scammy pieces of shit. Grow up and understand that your word is worth less than BFL Josh's at this point. Your entire forum as well as this one is an ode to your death and destruction. I can't even find one customer going back multiple pages on either that is happy with the product/service provided by BA. Why do you continue to try to create projects? Your involvement in the crypto world is dead, no one wants you around and no one wants your attempt at over engineered mining devices. And now, we covered less than 40% of costs! Then why can't you refund shit? You don't even want your own product, so after using it for months, you force it upon your customers instead of giving refunds. Your lower than low and I hope your executives continue to be too depressed to read what their customers have to say about them, it will make it all more confusing for them when they inevitably die.
