What's really, really crucial to bear in mind though is time.

Marcus is a freakin' wizard, amd a perfectionist, but Sam is keen to reign him in w.r.t. time and not loose sight of that. The goal IS September. ANY delays and you will be given evidence of any issues with respect to third parties, this is the area for contention with BFL, why are they not giving this? They have more than one PCB fabricator on case of one letting them down. I went through multiple scenarios of weak links and impressively they had answers.

Their 28nm chip is relatively uncomplicated in comparison to what they have done in the past, but it has to work first time and well. They may revise it in future, Marcus has an itch to do just that, but they have a promise of September to fulfill.

There are multiple future tweaks on the cards, there may even be liquid cooling options for those not housing in data centres. Though you risk invalidating warranty with DIY OC'ing.

Followed a few of your posts btceic - but this made me laugh

Gave up on that one a while ago.  Was running against 50BTC since they seemed to pay out fairly well.  Decided to try something different for a while. 

Besides, it looks like on average Eligius will net me more than I was getting through any of the others.

Hello, I am new to the whole bitcoin thing, and now with bitcoins being all over the news I figure I should get into it.  I just got my first wallet open and next paycheck I will buy my first coin.  In the mean time I figured I would post on here asking if anyone wanted to donate some bitcoins to my wallet, my wallet is very empty and it would be really nice if someone could give me a jump start, I will take anything, as I am not wealthy and anything is better then nothing.  So if you have any extra coins, or are extremely wealthy and want to help out a someone new in the bitcoin world, send some coins my way.  Thanks for any help
Send any donations to:
1FNuzt9W92aAQEf64MyAyK2cob8CxgPs87

Whatever the title should be this article is classic CNN click bait, little of substance, just using the bitcoin name to garner attention

Just wondering if anyone else is having problems seeing stats on Eligius.  The stats page for my address takes forever to load, then when it does finish, none of the graphs are there.

Just tried going to the Blocks stats page, and it's also slow to load.

Hmm, going back to just eligius.st loads fine.  Seems it is anything under eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats that is a problem.

I was thinking about 1 BTC, 500 mBTC, and 100 mBTC.  I could go smaller to 50 mBTC and 10 mBTC, but the cost would have to be much higher than the face value to make them viable.  On the 10 mBTC piece, I'd have to charge around 45mBTC per coin just to cover variable costs, and the final price would likely be much higher than that.  But, I am still looking at various coin minters - I may be able to find a lower cost minter.

So, I think it is a definite possibility to go down to at least 100 mBTC, and possibly 50 mBTC.  I don't know that 10 mBTC is practical at this point though.

Yup. Saturn bought and payed for. Just wish i had one of those sweet 1-500 spots.

I attended the openday today. Met bitcoinorama and a few others.
It was pretty informative, we got through allt the questions and then some. It's probably gonna take him a while to write up all the q&a's, and he should have an audio recording to help him out.
I got the same impression as the last crew. They seemed really confident to be able to get product out by september, multiple buffers and backups along the way. They couldnt understand how/why it could have gone so wrong for bfl.

Ahh that was it, I'll write you down on the reserve list; might call on that with the 12th miner ok?

3 shares left!

What was that offer again btceid?

Added to reserve list. 11 shares left.

We will try to get the 12th miner as well, you never know how far we can get in a few hours..

Time for dinner here, be back in an hour and a half..

Wrong topic title!! Should be "Meet the world's first Bitcoin baby"!!

Dr. C. Terence Lee, a fertility specialist based in Brea, Calif., flashes a photo of a beaming infant across a projection screen and announces: "This baby was bought with bitcoins."
No, this isn't a black-market deal brokered in the Internet's shadowy corners. The child was born thanks to a frozen embryo transfer cycle paid for with bitcoins. Lee says it's the first time he's aware of that anyone has paid for fertility treatments that way.

Why?

nope, they will have got own chips.