ATI is the brand who builds the gpu. Its sort of like saying a Intel/AMD custom build computer is different than a dell computer.  They are different but essentially the same.

I would suggest reading up on computers before getting deep into mining/btc/ltc

if they are shipping units its not a scam. They've shipped before, they will ship again. They have already started to ship.

As i said previously. The price increase was most likely due to them getting prepped to started shipping out batches.

With my high order number, i would suspect that i would get my unit within the year.

A single Jalapeno isn't going to make anyone rich unless your the single miner(the current asic miners on the framework already cuts a single jalapeno's profits).

5GH/s is nothing compared to what the network is producing.

I just want a unit to have low power consumption that gives me a better rate than a quad GPU setup.

Can't be a scam if yiy ship units already.

an unethical company? Sure! When you release your first batch amd then tell customers we are going to hold batch three and say we are just going to mine on our own.

Now the question remains, if you have a company that can produce asic units that smoke gpus to the point of gpu/cpu then we are forcing everyone yo switch to asic miners because that would be the only one that is effective.

I honestly don't believe that they raised the "prices cause they know how much people will be making".

The reason I don't believe it is because as more of the basically miners come online, the higher the difficulty. It will autobalance itself.

I think they increased to make more money(people will buy regardless of the price if they think they will get rich), also if I ran bfl , I would not have the preorder price the same as your retail price. The preorder price would be a discount to get people in on the unit. I hope this means they are getting ready to ship!

Also it could be that production cost have increased, inturn costing us more.

Yes true, however big companies like intel/amd wont really make a full push into mining because ASIC miners have one purpose and one purpose only. They wont risk spending money on the development of this just to find out that the market has crashed.

So I talked to a coworker of mine.

He's running three of BFL FGPA miners and has had them on for over 6 months and has yet to have an issue with them.

Their FPGA units were delayed as well so it gives me hope they will start shipping soon.

Anyone notice the price increase? If they are legit, im glad I got my order in before it went up!

If they are a scam, it makes me happy I got my order in before the price increase!

Just because i've got a low post count, and a new account doesn't mean i'm new to the forums. I've lurked this board for years, but never had a reason to post.

LOL! Thats an awesome photo!


Anyways, I purchased the jalapeno because my 6870 gives me a hash rate of about 260mhash and i want to be able to decrease the power consumption.

If you think about how this unit works and methods of decreasing your power consumption, the simple answer is a power timer and a laptop.

Regardless if you get a massive hash rate, the fact that you can drastically decrease your power consumption is all that really matters. Its not about how much you can get, its about how effective you are in mining. Precision IMO is everything.

Even if the unit comes late in the game, and the average hash rate is 200-300m/hash, the fact taht you no longer run a machine that hogs power is what really matters. Esp when you stick your laptop on a timer.

I completely agree, i didn't purchase a jalapeno to become rich but because I wanted to decrease my power consumption from my current setup (single HD 6870 yields a 267Mh/s).

I don’t profit from it when it runs, but my main reason is I believe in the bitcoin and feel this currency needs to survive and not fall. With a world relying more and more on the internet and being connected, I feel that bitcoins will become more of a recognized standard throughout time.

So the main reason for this purchase was to help a community I believed in, decrease my own cost of power consumption, and experiment.

This was mainly an experiment to see how the units work. I work in the IT industry and often like to see new hardware designs and learn about them, as you never know if you can figure out a use for this style of processor for something other than mining).

The reason i felt they weren't scammers was due to a forum post on this site:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=159700.0

The guy says he has 8 of them, and is selling them as he has better ones.

The question is how did he get 8 jalapeno units?

Due to paying with PayPal, and only spending 150$, its not a serious loss, and i have 45 days from yesterday to actually attempt to get a refund which is why i went through PayPal.

I bought a BFL's Jalapeno but was that a mistake?

Are they scammers?

IF you want to check a site that might be down, use:

www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com

It will be curious to see what happens in the near future.

The valuation of a BTC to USD is currently $141 per BTC. Just two days ago, this valuation was at $92 per BTC. If this bubble bursts, I will be quite interested to see how far it falls.

I'd suspect to see a valuation of drop close to $20-$40 per BTC at the high end of things.

So has the BFL's ever shipped a product? I've seen forum posts of people talking about their jalapeno that they are using(even seen photos)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=159700.0