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legendary
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Thank CJ, I will expect your public apology when the ASICs ship.  Or are we going to hear crickets from you, too, when the time comes and you slink back to your hole and hide?

Now that October is almost over, are you polishing an apology of your own for promising October shipments and failing to meet it?
legendary
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I'd love to just send out the first batch with your new manufacturing equipment, but the PnP machine we are getting is a newer model than our PnP expert (Ninja lady, if you're wondering) is familiar with, so we want to get the first batch done from the current place while we gear up and start cranking out our stuff.  We are changing only one step at a time to identify any problem areas we might encounter in the manufacturing process.

Since the ASICs are all new products, sharing essentially none of the components, boards, anything from the FPGAs, we have to be pretty stringent and careful on every single step.
hero member
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Fair enough.
legendary
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As stated elsewhere, our first batch is going to be manufactured by the current pick and place house(s) we use.
legendary
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Thank CJ, I will expect your public apology when the ASICs ship.  Or are we going to hear crickets from you, too, when the time comes and you slink back to your hole and hide?

There are very few people who are on my ignore list.  He's one of them.  That "ignore" button in the left column profile area comes in handy Wink

hero member
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So, wait, this new manufacturing facility is necessitated by the ASICs production, I would guess. And you're talking about contracts, so it is not rented yet.

And you expect to ship in what? 3 weeks?
legendary
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Thank CJ, I will expect your public apology when the ASICs ship.  Or are we going to hear crickets from you, too, when the time comes and you slink back to your hole and hide?
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Seriously Inaba, thats fucking pathetic. Your just as bad as those lying thieving assholes down in D.C. when confronted about corruption in government, the first words that always come out of their mouths is lame line about ufo's and tinfoil hats.

Is that all you can do? Every single thread, no matter the topic, same re-usable tactic.
legendary
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Because we are setting up our new manufacturing facility, I am not giving out the address until the contracts are finalized.
hero member
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Inaba/BFL Josh, can we get a confirmation of BFL's address of operations? I mean you started this thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bfl-requests-input-112543 offering to fly people in to take a look at the operation, so I don't think my request is unreasonable.

Enmaku, instead of complaining about trolls perhaps you know this information?

Sorry, it wasn't discussed.
sr. member
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Inaba/BFL Josh, can we get a confirmation of BFL's address of operations? I mean you started this thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bfl-requests-input-112543 offering to fly people in to take a look at the operation, so I don't think my request is unreasonable.

Enmaku, instead of complaining about trolls perhaps you know this information?
hero member
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Welcome to the life man... La Vida Loca indeed. 

You can literally hand someone an FPGA and tell them to go do whatever they want with it and they will still believe it doesn't exit.  Franky1 et al are perfect examples... they literally have the entire device available to them to test in whatever fashion they want, but they *still* maintain it's not real.  It's absolutely mind boggling.  You just have to give in at some point and let the tinfoil hats rage until they are exhausted, because their whole Raison d'être is to complain and be contrarian just because they can.

I only engage with them because and when I enjoy it.  I love baiting people like Reese into situations where they start contradicting themselves or showing exceptional hypocrisy, it's kind of a past time of mine.  If you don't enjoy it, it will wear you down really fast.

Yeah, these guys are the very definition of "vocal minority" - I actually had to completely replace the "comments" functionality on my site with something that supported user voting and IP banning just for the handful of crazies surrounding the two posts in which I've dared to mention BFL. I want to encourage conversation about my posts but for a while there I was thinking of renaming the "Comments" header to "The Bridge" 'cause the whole area under it was infested with trolls.

I'd be lying if I said the personal attacks didn't sting a bit, but once you manage to filter out the vocal minority, reception has been good and now that I'm prepared for the onslaught, I'd absolutely post something controversial again. Comments are back open on that post, by the way, go ahead and bring the crazy - I'll have the banhammer warmed up and waiting for you the moment things get personal. I'm all for freedom of speech but that doesn't mean I have to let you insult me in my own house. Grin
legendary
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Welcome to the life man... La Vida Loca indeed. 

You can literally hand someone an FPGA and tell them to go do whatever they want with it and they will still believe it doesn't exit.  Franky1 et al are perfect examples... they literally have the entire device available to them to test in whatever fashion they want, but they *still* maintain it's not real.  It's absolutely mind boggling.  You just have to give in at some point and let the tinfoil hats rage until they are exhausted, because their whole Raison d'être is to complain and be contrarian just because they can.

I only engage with them because and when I enjoy it.  I love baiting people like Reese into situations where they start contradicting themselves or showing exceptional hypocrisy, it's kind of a past time of mine.  If you don't enjoy it, it will wear you down really fast.


hero member
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Bruno... it's all your error, not just "that one."



Hah, brilliant.

Dude, I think I'm starting to know what it must have been like to be you in the days before you worked for BFL - you know, after you went down to verify the FPGA product existed and the accusations started flying?

I'm actually thinking of having some BFL business cards printed for myself with the title "Paid Shill" to hand out when I meet Bitcoiners so I should probably thank the trolls for giving me such an awesome ice breaker. Grin
legendary
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Bruno... it's all your error, not just "that one."  You know what's messed up, though?  Even though I have disliked all your pointless posts and I think you are ditzy as hell, I've left you alone because you haven't bothered me, accused me of anything or been an ass to me for no particular reason.  You've stuck to your own nooks and crannies and for the most part, I think they've been in the appropriate places, unlike much of what other people post in various forums here.

So I question why you are now trying to lambast me on the forums for imaginary ties to people who were in high school ten years after I was slogging through the jungles of Panama, toting and M16 and a serious case of monkey butt. You are trying to disclose my personal information (which is readily available anyway, but you seem unable to find) publicly, without my consent only to satisfy your own ego and need for attention.  It's truly sad.



hero member
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Our call was on Saturday, Sept 22, 2012 5:26PM Pacific and lasted 2 hours 19 minutes.

Satisfied?

Probably not. Let the conspiracy theories continue.

This one is my error. I thought the three hour Skype conversation was the one Josh was in reference to yesterday morning to Sonny. The interview with Sonny via Skype for the interview article is a completely different interview, of which that interview is the subject of this thread: So I got an interview with Sonny Vleisides from BFL...

BTW, did Sonny Vleisides happened to mention who Sonny K of BF Labs Inc. is during said interview?

~Bruno~

Nope, he seemed to be way more interested in addressing the two big matters at hand which were a) the whole "mail fraud" thing and b) accusations that the ASIC line didn't exist and he was gonna run with the money.
legendary
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Our call was on Saturday, Sept 22, 2012 5:26PM Pacific and lasted 2 hours 19 minutes.

Satisfied?

Probably not. Let the conspiracy theories continue.

This one is my error. I thought the three hour Skype conversation was the one Josh was in reference to yesterday morning to Sonny. The interview with Sonny via Skype for the interview article is a completely different interview, of which that interview is the subject of this thread: So I got an interview with Sonny Vleisides from BFL...

BTW, did Sonny Vleisides happened to mention who Sonny K of BF Labs Inc. is during said interview?

~Bruno~
legendary
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That's a corporate registration. They are rarely in the same state where the actual business resides, and are typically set up in states with best tax laws and lowest annual fees.
As for the business, check the address. On good street view, you can actually see their names on the side of the building where they do their thing.

Do you have a link for this street view of their address of operations? Their business name is visible?

This is probably the place you're referring to, dunno if it's their actual place of business / factory / offices:







Imgur album: http://imgur.com/a/y5Djk



Note: Since their address is simply a P.O Box, this could very well be the wrong location.

If so, perhaps Inaba could be so kind as to post a Google Maps link to the actual place of business?

Inaba had some trouble finding their place of business himself last year, before he joined BFL, as you can see:

Quote from: Inaba
So I just walked across the street to closer inspect it.  Zaina is 25 Walnut Ste 105 and the Lofts are just 25 Walnut.  

Here's a couple pictures.  There is no way into the lofts without an access card and it does not look in any way, shape or form setup for any business.  No intercom on the outside, etc...

Zaina dose not serve FPGA's, for bitcoin or otherwise.





https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.597832


So yeah, Inaba went in person to the Google Maps location on http://www.butterflylabs.com/contact/ and found a Mediterranean Restaurant.

Kinda funny! Smiley
legendary
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That's a corporate registration. They are rarely in the same state where the actual business resides, and are typically set up in states with best tax laws and lowest annual fees.
As for the business, check the address. On good street view, you can actually see their names on the side of the building where they do their thing.

Do you have a link for this street view of their address of operations? Their business name is visible?

Not offhand. It's in one of the other two BFL related threads. I'm on a tablet, so can't browse them quickly, but a screenshot was posted right to the thread.
sr. member
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That's a corporate registration. They are rarely in the same state where the actual business resides, and are typically set up in states with best tax laws and lowest annual fees.
As for the business, check the address. On good street view, you can actually see their names on the side of the building where they do their thing.

Do you have a link for this street view of their address of operations? Their business name is visible?
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