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vapourminer

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what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?

Quote from: em_zet on February 27, 2023, 03:58:16 PM

Quote from: em_zet on September 07, 2020, 05:24:20 PM

today is seven years since i received my first jalapeno.

i still have it (in the box) and bitcoins too... profit Cheesy

https://imgur.com/a/XtOJQwZ

https://imgur.com/a/8U2qRGA

maybe 1.5 years ago i sold some bitcoins. now, i have my own home. incredible story. Wink

im embarred to admit but i had bfl stuff:

fpga single - the only bfl product that made profit in btc as well as fiat, mainly bedause they were so behind on the SC asics that were to replace them that the fpga single ran way longer.. and at profit.. if the the SC series had come out on time the fpga would of lost both btc and fiat wise.

jalapeno - i had one of the very 1st batch. mainly because it was one of the very 1st (confirmed by joshie) it only lost (slightly) in btc but it did profit in fiat.

SC single - lost both in fiat and btc.

so no matter how you slice it, i would have had more btc if i never bought bfl product, aside from the fpga and that was because bfl screwed up in the SC introduction.

tldr: fuck bfl

edit for nightmare fuel.. what if bfl had become bitmain. dear Lord what a disaster for Bitcoin if that timeline had happened.

em_zet

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Quote from: em_zet on September 07, 2020, 05:24:20 PM

today is seven years since i received my first jalapeno.

i still have it (in the box) and bitcoins too... profit Cheesy

https://imgur.com/a/XtOJQwZ

https://imgur.com/a/8U2qRGA

maybe 1.5 years ago i sold some bitcoins. now, i have my own home. incredible story. Wink

KonstantinosM

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Quote from: WinMar on June 07, 2018, 08:03:33 AM

I still have one of their miners. I think it will be worth something someday as a collectible. A nostalgic reminder albeit an unpleasant one for most people of the golden age of bitcoin mining.

I threw my Little Single in the trash a while ago.

It's funny I ordered in october and thought I'd have it in before the first bitcoin halving. 10 months later I got it and mined a bunch of bitcoin, I also mined a few different altcoins just for fun.

I actually spent 0.5 Bitcoin on an $100 Amazon gift card.

em_zet

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today is seven years since i received my first jalapeno.

i still have it (in the box) and bitcoins too... profit Cheesy

https://imgur.com/a/XtOJQwZ

https://imgur.com/a/8U2qRGA

WinMar

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I still have one of their miners. I think it will be worth something someday as a collectible. A nostalgic reminder albeit an unpleasant one for most people of the golden age of bitcoin mining.

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Quote from: BitcoinBarrel on February 02, 2017, 04:03:43 PM

The whole Butterfly labs ordeal was the biggest joke. I remember the few people that did receive their rigs were practically ducktaped together, pieces broken or flimsy. It should be a lesson never to pre-order anything.

Unfortunately today unless you're buying a miner that is in stock or from a third-party you're still buying a pre-order. This is the case with pretty much every single major miner manufacturer. Avoiding preorders is difficult, but if you wish to do so only pre-order from trusted companies like Bitmain and Avalon / Whatsminer that have actually delivered their products and are reputable companies.

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Quote from: bitcoinvest on February 04, 2017, 02:41:30 PM

I ordered some of their miners back at that time.... they told me in 3-4 months i would have them.
After that and many chats, emails, skype they told me i need wait more... at that time i asked for refund on some of the miners.
And as i paid in BTC to buy they told me i can have refund in USD - EUR only.... before you say this is normal i need inform you in terms of use of website etc there was not written something like that. in the meantime the price of Bitcoin was going up... i believe those people keep the miners they made and mined bitcoin for them, they keep those bitcoin safe and at some point they send out... but in the meantime they stole our Bitcoin or Dollar, Euro etc.... and had a win-win situation for them.. with the USD etc they made arrangement with FCT and run away with BTC.

From my experience ALL the companies that had Exchange, miners etc at that point was not thinking how to make money in legal and normal way, they was thinking how they can rip off all of us.... For example see MtGox, with both i lost about all my BTC at that time....

I remember at that time i filled complain at FCT website and NO RESPONSE AT ALL!!!

Shame, I had quite a different experience with them. I was waiting on a order for 2 miners, and with all the delays I figured it would be best to back out. They told me strictly that they would only do a refund in BTC, and since I had made the order the price had gone down quite a bit so the refund I got back was worth 1 btc more.

Butterfly labs went under a month or so later.

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Quote from: cozk on December 16, 2017, 12:23:13 AM

What happened to alphatech and their VIPER scrypt asics lol

Curious

Alphatech went bust without producing a single ASIC. Last anyone heard was they were being sued for non delivery. I think the owners got indited too.

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Quote from: rngkll on June 09, 2017, 09:44:13 PM

Quote from: bitcoinvest on February 05, 2017, 03:31:40 PM

They maybe started with good purpose but after a while the see all the orders falling like rain and most of them in BTC, of course the run away with BTC in pocket in my personal opinion..

Totally agreed, I owned two Butterfly Labs miners and they worked fine, at the start they seemed totally legit. Probably some bad decisions and greedy people let the company rot from the inside.

Agreed my mate got the jalapeno very very early on and they where quite well made he still has the not my in anymore but still working. If I remember something happens they either got find or a supplier had problems then someone in the company was using it as his piggy bank and everything went down from there, it's a real shame could have been such a good company too

cozk

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What happened to alphatech and their VIPER scrypt asics lol

Curious

rngkll

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Quote from: bitcoinvest on February 05, 2017, 03:31:40 PM

They maybe started with good purpose but after a while the see all the orders falling like rain and most of them in BTC, of course the run away with BTC in pocket in my personal opinion..

Totally agreed, I owned two Butterfly Labs miners and they worked fine, at the start they seemed totally legit. Probably some bad decisions and greedy people let the company rot from the inside.

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I can't recall the name of this man from Butterfly that when i pressed them many with email after email he spoke me on Skype. We had more that 3 calls that he convinced me to wait and he will from me about 3-4 months. After that i can't forget when he changed his Skype picture, he was holding a cigar next to beach and had a face of "this is life".... the time that he not send any order out...And when i asked after that the refund and cancel the order as he failed to deliver inside the promised date, i said you know i paid you with BTC and i want Back BTC. He says me that can't happen... I can only refund you in today rate of BTC on the price you bought. At that point i said i paid with BTC and i want back the amount i paid since NOWHERE in policy is written that. And he answered me ok it's our mistake we will write it soon....

They maybe started with good purpose but after a while the see all the orders falling like rain and most of them in BTC, of course the run away with BTC in pocket in my personal opinion..

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I guess the butterfly labs flew away. They scams a lot of people https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/46g46o/butterfly_labs_gets_away_10m_scam_ftc_says_sfyl/
Afaik this butterfly labs already shut down for about 2 years ago because of operating like a scam. They've scammed $10 million from their clients. They should be jailed in prison.

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Quote from: maku on February 02, 2017, 04:46:53 PM

Butterfly Lavs turned out to be fraud company, deceiving their customers. As usuall BFL started as great startup and ended as the target of a federal investigation.
Pieces of hardware clients ordered were delayed or never delivered. In January 2016 company was still taking orders and failed to deliver. I think they are completely gone now.

What happened to the people who started it? Did they go to prison like they should? Im also confused if they started the company to scam people from the start or were they really legit and later became a scam because of mismanagement of the company.

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I remember with all the hype surrounding the "money printing press from Butterfly labs"
I was so very tempted to preorder ,but then the shipping to my country would have taken for too long and
then the ones who have the orders in que started to sell them en masse I smelt scam and oh boy,how correct was I in my assumption
not sure if they settled with FTC because they would never be able to produce enough equipment to sell for almost 40 mil

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I ordered some of their miners back at that time.... they told me in 3-4 months i would have them.
After that and many chats, emails, skype they told me i need wait more... at that time i asked for refund on some of the miners.
And as i paid in BTC to buy they told me i can have refund in USD - EUR only.... before you say this is normal i need inform you in terms of use of website etc there was not written something like that. in the meantime the price of Bitcoin was going up... i believe those people keep the miners they made and mined bitcoin for them, they keep those bitcoin safe and at some point they send out... but in the meantime they stole our Bitcoin or Dollar, Euro etc.... and had a win-win situation for them.. with the USD etc they made arrangement with FCT and run away with BTC.

From my experience ALL the companies that had Exchange, miners etc at that point was not thinking how to make money in legal and normal way, they was thinking how they can rip off all of us.... For example see MtGox, with both i lost about all my BTC at that time....

I remember at that time i filled complain at FCT website and NO RESPONSE AT ALL!!!

maku

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Butterfly Lavs turned out to be fraud company, deceiving their customers. As usuall BFL started as great startup and ended as the target of a federal investigation.
Pieces of hardware clients ordered were delayed or never delivered. In January 2016 company was still taking orders and failed to deliver. I think they are completely gone now.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/bitcoin-startup-butterfly-labs-settles-with-ftc-for-38-6m-but-it-cant-pay/

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The whole Butterfly labs ordeal was the biggest joke. I remember the few people that did receive their rigs were practically ducktaped together, pieces broken or flimsy. It should be a lesson never to pre-order anything.

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Same thing happened to me. I lost 2100.

Eotnak

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FTC shut them down, then let them open back up to make enough money to settle with them. FTC gets $38.6M, meanwhile people like me are out thousands of dollars for pre-ordering their equipment that wasn't delivered until it was obsolete.

For a while, I was taking phone interviews with FTC lawyers until I realized they weren't going to do shit for me. I stopped answering the phone. FTC gets millions of dollars of money from people like me "for the people" Angry

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