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Right now you have a golden ticket to be among the very first to purchase one of our miners, come and register an account today
for someone who wants to buy a mars right now for 2800$, has to wait in line behind others?
At the time, everyone was calling KnCMiner a scam. I had a good feeling about them and looked past the shitty website and bad English. As a result, I took a $0 risk signed up to pre-order. If they had taken money (like BFL) people would have had a fit. Now, you're crying about it?
KnCMiner is doing things right... unlike the folks over at BFL.
And I'm happy to have my Golden Ticket. :-)
He's crying about being another 'late to the party', that wants to 'throw money at it'.
What KNC has done has given people time to perform due diligence at no cost to themselves, by taking the time to inform themselves whilst they prepared their evidence and proof of concept. This allowed those interested that can't just 'throw money at things' to save up so the network can be fairly distributed to those paying attention and decentralised from 'money throwers'. The entire point of Bitcoin.
BTW the FPGA is not overpriced. FPGAs cost more than ASICs. Considerably more, but they allow you to refine the design as they are programmable. The final design is basically then produced as an ASIC, which is cheaper to produce, but has a greater initial non recurring engineering cost. From then on in it's chips for pennies or a handful of dollars each.
Yes, how dare someone who wants to financially support a company be allowed to do so! The horror!
By the way, this little company called "Avalon" did exactly what you're describing. Back them up with money and trust them -- get a unit for 1300$. Wait until it's proven out, pay ~$10,000.
Whatever though, it's their prerogative. Just doesn't make much sense. Reward with no risk?
Still not clear how the preorders for mars work. that email is for jupiter, but mars comes out first.
