Topic: Them BFL Cowboys - page 3. (Read 14436 times)

"The process to bring a brand new ASIC to life is not as simple as turning it on. The fact that some people BFL thinks it is, is an indicator that they have never actually done so. There is a lot of testing, poking, prodding and debugging that needs to happen to get a chip up and running and if someone BFL tells you differently, they are incorrect, plain and simple."
BFL Update 03-25-2013

(From Twitter BFL_News) Well, some good news. They think they've found the problem with the test rig (...) new hardware for the test rig and that should get us what we need by early to mid next week.

The lack of progress updates from BFL is a little concerning.  They've had three full working days to test their chips since the last update. 

The lack of progress updates from BFL is a little concerning.  They've had three full working days to test their chips since the last update. 

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/announcements/692-bfl-asic-status-2.html

No news is usually bad news in terms of delays. 

Surely, they're not planning on playing the Hacked card.

Are Josh, Sonny & Luke Jr. already in Mexico? Or the Cayman Islands? Or are the unbelievers starting to gain the upper hand in BFL forums lala land?

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/

Good news, and some not too good news. First the good news: The units are almost ready to be shipped, albeit a tad late, but you'll be pleasantly surprised with their performance.

Now the not too good news, which isn't as bad as our competition's lack of communication, or like being stuck in some muck a hundred feet below street level.

You've probably notice that as of late our sites have been going offline quite frequently. The causes were due to DDoS attacts by unknowns, but we're pretty sure we know who in China is behind it. Long story short, we got hacked last night. To be clear, none of our assets were stolen, which is a tremendous blessing. Thank you, Zeus.

But, and I say this with much regret, all the ordering information is now missing. What does this mean? Well, in layman's terms, all the ordering information is now missing.

You're probably now asking yourself why we didn't have backups. Honest Abe, that is what we were exactly doing late last night, but it was during another DDoS attact that sidetracked us, when the files were deleted.

We're pretty sure there wasn't enough time for the hackers to save the files before deleting them, but to be on the safe side we are asking all users to log in and change their passwords when we get back online, hopefully within the next 48 hours.

As always, I'll be providing regular updates as they become available.

The following is our projected timeline to resolve this issue:

First 24 Hours:

• Post this good news, not so good news post.
• Take a break.
• After eating pizza, me and the engineers descend to the lab like a swarm of locus.
• Take pictures of idle equipment.
• Point fingers at the problem, making sure no mirrors are present.

Final 24 Hours:

• Post that no updates are available.
• Enjoy second anniversary party, eating chicken and Raspberry Pi.

As you well enough know from past hacks, though ours is in no way that severe, it'll take time to reconstruct all the ordering information, but with the help of BitPay's records, the task at hand shouldn't take too long.

Our biggest concern is that somebody doesn't receive a 1,500 GH/S BITCOIN MINER when, in fact, they only ordered a coffee warmer.

In closing, BFL sincerely apologizes for this delay, and there was no way to prepare for it short of backing up our systems of which I've proven we were in the process of doing prior to the deleting of files by them sorry ass HACKERS.

BFL_Just Joshin'

Them BFL Cowboy's have time to put up ad's on Google's ad network, yet they can't ship out my SC Singles? Come on now...

My answer: No!

Hey! I said save me smoothie!

Not Berate me

Hey genius,

How's that BFL shipping in February bet going for you? Enjoying taking it in the pipe? Lol

In terms of Old West themes, I find 'Fritos Banditos' more fitting.  Or "All hat and no cattle."

I pity the saps who gave these jokers hundreds of BTC 6 or 8 months ago and still have yet to perform a single hash while the exchange rate has gone past $40.