That looks great.

As TSMC recently announced a longer lead-time for 28nm production, please reaffirm everyone that you aren´t affected by this. (and maybe include a short description why)

Is this delay only for "new" orders, and your order was previously placed with them?

Link works fine for me, BTW congratulations on your first post!

Is it a reff link, or what is the problem?

Tax ID is typically provided by the importer, ie you, as you are the one paying import fees.

They want you to provide the number. Phone FedEx and tell them that you are importing it as a private person, and that it is a server (which it technically is, a bitcoin mining server).

Only 4000 left! Peta-mine is better than cex because of lower power cost and better energy efficiency, aswell as lower price / GH.

Oh, and reinvestment

It seems the first batch of IPO shares are going fast, so get in before they cost more

Tzortz what is the temp in your room?

Is it AC´d?

Thought i would post this here, in order to lighten up the mood and celebrate!



Now you can all bash me for my shitty gimp skills and everyone is happy!

At ~1,3 kw per sp10 you need 4435BTU cooling.

One of those posted units should do nicely for 1 sp10 (1450GH+), you should be able to overclock to maximum performance, airflow also seems okay.

http://www.lg.com/us/air-conditioners/lg-LW1213ER-window-air-conditioner
for three sp10.

It takes some hours to confirm the payment, you will get another email. (from robot@... or something)

If you chose payment via bitpay, it will only show payment pending when bitpay confirmed full funds arrived.

At these low hardware prices, what it really comes down to is power efficiency and (resulting) hosting costs.

In July/August you will spend the same amount of $ on the actual hardware as you do on power / year.

Therefore, i would advise everyone to carefully calculate their personal hosting costs, including power consumption, cooling and space.
Even when hosting at home, you pay for the space as the room hosting all your equipment will not be of use for much more than maybe storing heat-resistant items.

Okay, i agree that top level executives (and basically any executive) should be held accountable for decisions that cover up or enable criminal offences.

It is also very likely that Sonny will go back to Jail over all the allegations his company faces, especially when criminal charges will be proven correct.

I don´t think it is very likely that Josh will get a major punishment for all his false advertising and other disgusting things he did to the community and his customers, partly because he didn´t do it as a private person.

However, it is irrelevant wether somebody buys anything with his earned money. The charges will be applied no matter what.

We don´t live in an ideal world, and the justice system, especially in America, does work with a different set of rules concerning private persons and corporations, especially in times of high unemployment.


The thing that will hurt BFL most and is easily achieved is by demanding a refund and taking your money to a company worthy of your funds and profits, or just keep the money alltogether.
Consumers "vote" with every dollar spent on which company is doing the right thing.

What is the performance on these units?

Do they perform as advertised?

I certainly don´t think anyone associated with BFL represents Bitcoin in an acceptable (or representative) way.

However, if a top level employee of GM buys a house with his paycheck, you wouldn´t state that as criticism of the company, even though GM knew for 10 years that their cars were potential safety hazards, only recalling them now to fix the issues, after many cases of deaths caused by their lack of action.

That seems a bit harsh, it is equally likely that he just bought BTC 5 minutes before the transaction.

Nobody knows how much Josh is paid for his services to BFL. (Well somebody obviously does, but not the average consumer)

I agree that BFL has (had) the worst business practices and were breaking many laws, and have gone largely unpunished for it.
Time will tell how that pans out for them, as Wood law firm is currently persuing a case against BFL, and many more individuals have also filed lawsuits.

However, this is just a publicity stunt, which helps the bitcoin ecosystem as a whole, getting new people into Bitcoin.

I despise Josh like the next fellow bitcoin miner, but unless the corporation BFL bought the house, this really doens´t have too much to do with them.


Will BFL customers ever see a great return on their miners?

Unlikely, as they are priced around 3$/GH right now, and additional costs like PSUs etc. are not included.
Compare that with a 1,65$/GH Antminer S2, which includes everything, and you really can get double the bang for your buck, right now.

However, you are always free to demand a refund, which has to be granted by BFL, and they have recently done so several times.

While i agree on the statement of some price drop, i don´t think it will go down (another) 50% the next month.

However, by July we will definately see prices of 0,9$/GH or below, as new 0,5W/GH equipment will become available.

That whole assumption might be wrong if bitcoin price is at 1000$ by then, though XD

It is a problem with the parts used, the DC/DC is not very energy efficient, particularly when overclocked.

Good DC/DC components get 90% efficiency, these don´t.

Also, at 5.3GH/chip they run at 1w/GH at the wall.

However, that would only give 85GH/ board.

It is not a problem with the chip, but of implementation. Every chip will get terrible power efficiency when overclocked.

Shipping is directly from the Bitmain factory, and will go everywhere in the world.

Yes, that means to your country, too.

It is a bitcoin address created by Bitpay.

They rotate between several addresses.

Juan has no way of knowing which is currently used for which customer.

I don´t want to seam smug or anything but, how would they know if a machine was counterfeit?

Also, how can a machine be counterfeit, if it is shipped by the original producer?

Are you sure about the counterfeit thing?
My guess is that they don´t really get what it is, and if you tell them long enough that it is server equipment (which it technically is, it is a bitcoin mining server) they would let it through.

Personal assets aren´t safe if you go into liquidation, especially if you are found guilty of bad business practice, consumer fraud etc. (or if you payed yourself extraorbitant "wages" before the company went bankrupt)