Whatcha talkin' 'bout willis? We've never been over $100 so how can it be support?

Resistance at $94, but it will break soon IMO.

If you need the fiat, then ya gotta sell some, but I wouldn't sell any more BTC than I had to.

I'm a LTC bull as well, sure seems like they're here to stay.

Hey thanks man! Just tryin' not to step on too many economic landmines.

Yeah, it's a little cramped working within the confines of their product lines, but I've found some gems. I needed a new AIO color laser and my old server was in need of retirement. They have respectable prices on 2P G34 boards and opty 63xx, so I assembled a cheapskate 24 core w/ 64GB of ram.

I disagree, and find it easy to do so. One could mine profitably with Radeon 48xx GPUs at this difficulty & exchange rate.



...but short away fellas.

Nobody has exact numbers on this save BFL and they're intentionally vague. The best we have is a voluntary list located here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89685.0

At strategic points during the last month or so when I felt we were heading for a downturn(usually Thursday nights) I simply bought some toys at the bitcoinstore. At first I would look at the price after I bought and shake my head, but now I just play with the gear I got and feel good about supporting the BTC economy. Feels a whole lot better than selling for garbage fiat and if the price had tanked I'd be patting myself on the back for exchanging the coins for gear.

Love the action this weekend. Feels like we're building a nice base here above $90.

Because it's less expensive than not lying and many people still mistakenly give their words some credence.

If Avalon got too greedy...then why did it sell out? Avalon did it right, they designed a product they could actually deliver and now they're going to refine it. They've made it very clear who the real amateurs are in this market.

Meh. I ordered a batch 3 Avalon for my mining company and I believe it was 100% the right decision. BFL's latest paper release doesn't concern me in the least. They have one wafer of faulty chips that took them months to construct, assuming of course anything they say is true. ASICMiner has recently been discussing shipping ASIC hardware due to the complete lack of competition, so suddenly BFL is ready to ship? Nah, they're just trying to remain relevant. What's the latest...two more weeks is it? The people that should be nervous are the ones that sent $30,000 to BFL for a 1500Gh @ 1500w minirig last summer. How the heck is that supposed to work? It's a little past being able to chargeback on that and if you paid in BTC you sent them what 5000 of them? Ouch, good luck ever breaking even on that deal.

IOW...just two moar weeks!

886.78 BTC in traffic in the last 24h?!? Is that right?

They cannot ship what they do not have. Even if they commenced shipping on Monday(not a chance), they could only fill a tiny number of orders with the few chips they have on hand. Then they'd have to wait for the fab to finish their few remaining first batch wafers, which would still need to be bumped and packaged. Although BFL is vague about how many orders they have, I doubt even their larger 3rd batch of chips would cover an order placed today.

The chances are clearly zero. By their own admissions have one wafer of inconsistently performing chips after all these months.

This has always been my model for our company. We tack on ASIC hashing power via pre-orders when it makes sense while building our reserves for large purchase(s) when time to delivery is reduced and with it the risk of the unknown. If I had any confidence at all that BFL could deliver even two 750Gh "little" minirig SCs in a reasonable time frame I'd consider it an option, but it sounds like they're having inconsistent chip results. In retrospect a larger batch 2 Avalon order would have been justified, but that was anything but clear at the time.

If Avalon is able to begin shipping in just a few weeks time then we could potentially have an ASIC hashing for us next month. Thanks for the input gents.

Sounds more likely that a single will turn into two little singles.

Not for nothing. That decision could very well make Josh's gear more valuable.

Sweet. Copper or zinc?

Worst case power consumption is now apparently 195w for a single SC. More than 3x advertised. Do these people ever tell the truth?

Scarier still is that Josh's worst case estimates often turn out to be the nearer to best case.

Meh...null and void as Josh couldn't spell that day.

Did you sign a contract that said you'd suspend your common sense? Surely you can see the mining profitability charts at blockchain? An ASIC in hand right this second is worth it's weight in silver, there's no telling what the future will bring, but right now the most important factor in ordering is obviously *WHEN*.